Get Behind Me Satan

Some of the artists with repeat albums on this list leave me wondering why we need all of them. The previous album from The White Stripes (White Blood Cells) and Get Behind Me Satan are pretty different, so I can see how they both coexist here. There’s a lot of piano, some always welcome Marimba, and less a 70s rock vibe than that previous album. Both albums, though, are quite great! Glad to have heard them both!

Meg White is such an underrated drummer; she is the unmistakeable sound of The White Stripes.

No write up in the book as it's been removed. Makes sense, two white stripes albums still in there is excessive, three would be insane. My interest was also waning considerably by this point also. The single, opener track was decent though. For a 45 minutes long album this somehow way outstays it's welcome. So many jobbing blues jam songs. Tbh I don't think I would give any white stripes album more than 6.5/10, I'm always bored partway through.

Jack White is one of my absolute favorites. The verses have such a unique groove to them that only he can provide with his guitar and vocals. The string of four songs: My Doorbell, Forever For Her (Is Over For Me), Little Ghost, and The Denial Twist is one of my favorite sets of any album of all time. Every time I’ve heard “My Doorbell” over the past 15 years, it constantly plays on repeat in my head. Great song, great album, great band.

That was such a great listen. I had forgotten I had a healthy White Stripes phase while I was living in Nashville, which was also the same time Jack White was living there. Once, he came into J.Alexander's (it was the flagship restaurant & lots of celebrities liked it for some reason) and dude was dressed head to toe in a crushed purple velvet pimp suit complete with pimp hat & cane. It's surreal & bad ass. He was nice as hell, too. I once ate one of his onion rings...a big deal for me since he was my top crush at the time. This album, along with Meg White's drumming, is solid 2000s rock. Meg deserves far more credit than she gets. Girlfriend is talented as hell, and Jack ain't bad either. My favorites are Blue Orchid & My Doorbell, and I like the mix of garage, blues, and pop. I'm so glad this popped up. I was also a big fan of their album, Icky Thump, so I'm taking this as a reminder to revisit their catalog. 4.5 stars.

The facial hair situation on this album freaks me out but it doesn't detracting from the quality tunes

Great rock album. 5 stars.

I wouldn’t consider anything by the White Stripes as being something that you must hear before you die.

i'm a white stripes fan, but this album is comfortably their shittest album. started to believe his own hype didn't he. it's like he just forgot to bother actually writing any songs so just jabbed at his guitar and when he wasn't doing that he was fucking around on a marimba. nonsense album.

Take this hollow sounding crap from me. I can't take this disgusting greasy rat looking incel seriously.

Their most complete album, and arguably their best. Which is interesting since I'm always excited when they put their stamp on cover songs, and this is all original material. At times it sounds like their White Album, which I guess stays with their whole color scheme. One also gets the feeling Meg had just about had enough of Jack's shit. That tends to happen when you're forced to hang around with your ex-husband after trying to convince the world you were brother and sister.

Excellent! So, so good. It’s my exact style of indie WITH A MARIMBA FOR GOD’S SAKE! ARGQHQ Fave songs: all of them tbh

There is no way this is objectively their best album, but it's probably my favorite. It's weird and so different from everything else that it's obviously a bit of a passion project, and that comes across. Not everybody can pull this kind of nonsense off. Best track: My Doorbell

Our last White Stripes album was White Blood Cells, which was about 650 albums ago. It seems I had to really work to appreciate that one, but certainly did in the end. This one came across as a favorite right away. Its varied styles held my interest all through, and I think it's brilliant.

I was debating to give either 1 or 2, but it got worse as it went on. His voice sounds very congested with a bubble in his throat that he’s had for days. I am not a fan. Of the music either- got too radical in a bad way.

I was very deeply into this record. From the more headbanger-ish tracks to the more acoustic tracks.

I just love the sound of this band and the variety of styles on this album. Lots of great songs.

If it takes listening to a thousand albums to find out I like bands I didn’t think I would, that can only be a good thing.

There were not a lot of really exciting proper rock and roll bands in the 2000s, and so the White Stripes were a breath of fresh fucking air. You could argue that they are the last twitch of a dying corpse, looking backwards to the roots of rock in blues and country, with their two-piece line up, technical limitations, love of constraint and fetishization of cheap guitars and analogue technology. But it rocked, which is more than can be said of nearly anyone else working the genre in the past 25 years. And I really dug it! I like a ropey band playing as if their lives depend on it, and the rough-edged charm of the White Stripes really did it for me. But, five albums in and following the massive success of Elephant, they could either crank out a series of carbon copies. Instead, Jack and Meg decided to switch things up a bit by making a largely piano-based album. this seems like a shame, given that Jack White is a pretty exciting guitar player. And I curse the person responsible for leaving a fucking marimba in the studio where he could see it -- that was a terrible idea! I read that they wanted to keep things "spontaneous" by setting a very short recording sessions and not bringing much in the way of developed material, developing songs on the spot in only a few takes. And it fucking shows; these are like demos of proper songs. But demos that are too long. I mean, tell me honestly, the 2-minute songs here are far more compelling than the 4-minute versions here. I don't think any of these songs have enough in them to support a 4-minute running time. I don't mind the loose playing or the rough sound quality or a quick-and-dirty recording ethos, but the songs need to be a bit more developed. Don't get me wrong, there are some strong songs here -- Blue Orchid, Mr Doorbell, Denial Twist, Instinct Blues (with a judicious edit), red Rain, I'm Lonely -- but there are a lot of bloated filler tracks and borderline novelty songs, too. I really like the Stripes, but this feels like their least essential album. I think this is a failed attempt to reinvent their sound. Jack White had backed himself into an artistic corner. This really the beginning of the end for the White Stripes as a unit. I don't think the scale of their success sat well with them; Jack White retreated into playing a character, and Meg just retreated. But I would still rather listen to this than almost any other album from this list released this century. 3.5 stars, rounding down because it could have been better, with just a bit more thought and work.

Blue Orchid is the type of catchy and rocking song I want and enjoy from The White Stripes. The rest is not. Pretty solid 2.

A few good singles, but the rest isn't particularly interesting as an album

Favourites: • Blue Orchid

Great!

Jack white is cool

Outstanding

Great songs (3)

Probably my 4th or 5th choice of a White Stripes album for this list. Is it good? Yes. Does it need to be on this list when there are for sure 3, maybe 4 better White Strips records? No.

Get Behind Me Satan I listened to White Blood Cells and Elephant a shit ton, and although I still bought this and Icky Thump, my interest had dwindled by then and I didn’t ever really get into either of those albums, aside from Blue Orchid and My Doorbell on here. Love the riff on Blue Orchid though, very White Stripes but it also sounds a little different from Elephant, a little more shiny and robotic perhaps, in the way Elephant sounded a little different and more polished after White Blood Cells (which sounded different from De Stijl etc etc). My Doorbell is great of course as well, I love the melody matching the piano. I guess I wasn’t that into the album back in 2005 due to not really liking stuff like The Nurse, but I quite like its non-typical WS calypso marimba riff and slightly idiosyncratic and creepy feel. In fact that behind closed doors old-timey spookiness permeates the whole album, maybe it’s the focus on piano throughout, with the contrasting tropical sounding marimba accenting the ominous feel in an off kilter way, that gives it a nicely unusual feel. In fact I like a lot of the songs on here, particularly the first half, from Blue Orchid to White Moon. Forever for Her is superb, a lovely ballad with a very delicate melody, nicely picked out by the marimba and augmented by Meg’s cymbal thrash. And White Moon is also excellent, the mournful piano really does have some spooky moonlight atmospherics. There are perhaps a couple of tracks in the second half that don’t work as well for me, Instinct Blues and Red Rain are a little too close to a bit of aimless thrash and a kind of unnecessary throwback to their first album or two, although the slide is pretty nice on Red Rain. It really picks up though with the vaguely familiar but great As Ugly As I Seem and the fantastic piano led country-blues of I’m Lonely. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed this and appreciated it far more than I did 20 years ago, it’s a nice little side step from WBC and Elephant, exploring different sounds and structures while expanding on the country and country blues elements they’ve always had and adding a bit more Appalachian spookiness. Perhaps a bit uneven and a track or two too long, but it’s a simple and enjoyable 4 from me. 😈😈😈😈 Playlist submission: Forever for Her

Not their best work but solid WS album nonetheless. 8/10

Such a great album. Loved the move towards more piano heavy songs. 4/5

The White Stripes at their best.

Brilliant

Some decent songs. Its a white stripes album, sounds pretty much like every other one. One thing I'd like to say is that meg white absolutely stole a living in the industry, she cannot drum and her singing voice is just awful. Thank god she knew jack!

I assume there are other white stripes albums on this list? This seems like one of their less essential ones? Still decent though I guess

Blue Orchid is good, but the next few songs sound like filler dross that could have been on their last album. Then it picks up and becomes a pretty catchy blues-infused rock album. It's better than White Blood Cells, and it has some genuinely good songs. Yet again, I wish I could rate in half stars, but I think This one deserves a 3.

Quite an average album from The White Stripes. Their crazy garage rock image was replaced by quirky garage drum and vocal, which was pretty fun, but not for the whole record. You can just listen to "Doorbell" 12 times or so, and I would have the same effect as listening to Get Behind Me Satan. I think I might mix a song or two into my daily listening list, but probably I won't come back to this album anytime soon.

I like My Doorbell, but that doesn't mean the album needs multiple songs with the same piano rhythm and this is coming from someone who loves piano rock. Multiple songs sound like they got inspired by classics, but failed to do anything interesting with it. Overall, this was quite boring.

This is a White Stripes record, there are others like it, but this one has marimbas.

Not quite the heights of White Blood Cells or Elephant, but an okay effort that has a bit of shit filler. Shouldn't be on this list. Are they husband and wife or married though, the creepy incestuous weirdos.

Listen. I respect the hell out of Jack White as a talent, but he joins the ranks of John Mayer and Dave Grohl where I just don't like their music. And a lot of it for me is Jack White's vocals, feels like a tin can on my ear. Overall, this album was pretty simplistic. Some intriguing arrangements but overall a snooze cruise for me.

en tarvinnut tätä tänään en tarvinnut tätä tänään, eilen lähti moderaattoreille viestinvilutusta että huomiselle jotain kivaa, huomiselle jotain hyvää ottivat ilmeisesti semmoisena vittuiluna että lätkäytti tämmöstä EI USKALLETA ENÄÄN YY VEESEEN PISTÄÄ POSTIA... tämä parivaljakko huhuillut vilkuillut pitkin projektia pikku pirulaiset alkaa pikku. hiljaan. vituttaan. tämä. as ugly as i seem

The White Stripes trade their post punk revival sound for blues. I quite like it. 9/10

An easy 5/5 for me and maybe The White Stripes most interesting work? A little of everything on here. White Moon was really soft and lovely. Little Ghost brought on the bluegrass. The Denial Twist sounds like a lot of what Jack would make years later. As Ugly As I Seem is now my favorite stripes song. So real. Lovely 44 mins

I was not familiar with this White Stripes album, but wow, what an extraordinary journey.

Instant 5, I grew up on this album and will always love it.

Bewildered

Great album. Simple can often be better.

Yeah, I'm already a White Stripes fan. This five star rating is, naturally, biased as hell.

All time classic.

A classic that aged like a fine wine

Epic

Just pleasantly surprised song after song.

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Niet echt wat ik verwachtte bij de White Stripes, maar het is wel echt goed. Een paar nummers die wat saai zijn, maar het merendeel is wel echt lekker

Definitely my favorite WS album and one of my favorite albums period.

5/10

I’ve been on a very heavy Jack White kick for a while so I’m absolutely in the mood for this album. I was planning on doing a full album run eventually so it’s cool to be back to this one. A lot of good songs and just weird music but I’m here for it. Alternatively my review can be summarized as: MORE FODDER FOR MY JACK WHITE PLAYLIST ;)

Great stuff

I actually loved this

The White Striped made a series of very good album in which they displayed a great ability to synthesise something exciting from influences from blues, heavy 60s/70s blues and other styles without seeming too derivative. Personally I don't think this is their best, but definitely a great album.

5 stars fer sher

Great duo always a fan 5 stars

The exploration on this album is very interesting, a band that is confident in its powers and that their fans will take the journey with them. The production is stunning, garage rock has never sounded better.

Two in a row for the stripes. Also excellent album

Ashamed I hadn’t listened to this before

Great album. I bought this when it wa was released the first time. I think it was overplayed (everywhere) at the time and I got a bit bored of the white stripes. Good to be reminded of them.

brings back teenage memories

Perfection.

Ez jóó

I liked it! Especially Nurse. Silly thing to say, but it feels very White Stripes.

This one came out when I was in my early 20s while I was at law school. I wore this album out. One of my favorite albums...period. Starts off on fire...and stays that way the entire album. Saw them in concern in Detroit about a year after it came out and it's still one of the best concerts I've ever been to. A+++++++

Nikad mi ne bi naumpalo da odslušam njihov cijeli album. Zanimljivo je. Potpuno drugačije od svega. Definitivno je vrijedilo odslušati i slušat će se opet.

simple well writen music 9.5 out of 10

Heard it a 100 times before. Top 4 Stripes albums!

Brilliance!

I miss the White Stripes

I love The White Stripes and this is another album that I know so well it's hard for me to review. It's not as consistent as Elephant or Icky Thump but I still love it. Their music leans heavily on rhythm which I really enjoy.

<3 it.

Nice

The White Stripes go weird. Another chapter in the making of Jack White as a top tier musician and arguably their strongest album. The mix of odd instrumentation and yet being still steeped in thie history of Americana and blues just adds another layer to this album's greatness. Best Tracks: Blue Orchid; My Doorbell; I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)

While it's probably not the "best" White Stripes album, it is definitely my favorite. Hearing this album takes me back to such a specific time in my life. I was 14, in the throes of my "emo" music phase. The emo music took a brief backseat that summer when one weekend this album and X&Y by Coldplay came out, I remember buying both at the same time. My mom was a schoolteacher, so every summer my brother and I would go up to her school with her and help her prepare her classroom or just wander around the empty school (which was always so fun). This album served as the soundtrack for a good chunk of this summer, and I even got my mom into it (she particularly liked My Doorbell and would do a super annoying voice and dance to the song, I think of her every time I hear it now). Just a special album to me. Easy 5 stars.

лучше чем прошлый, оч атмосферный рок того времени

Great love the sound

I got my stomp on commuting to work with this in my ears. I was joyfully moshing people out the way and waving as I bounced through the train station barriers. Why are all these grumpy commuters frowning? Turn those friends upside down guys, it's White Stripes Monday, you know.

what's not to love about this oddball

I've listened to this album dozens of times even before participating in the 1001 albums... Added to Library: TRUE The range of different styles and variety of sounds Meg and Jack can make is, quite frankly, astounding. Blue Orchid opens the album so aggressively; every time I hear those first few seconds I get so hyped up, and then the next song, The Nurse shifts gears and is using a marimba or some other type of xylophon, and feels... Tropical almost. I think my favorite song(s) though are Passive Manipulation and Take Take Take. Especially TTT, where you have this escalating scenario of Jack's "needs" and expectations when he meets Rita Hayworth. He can't get enough and boils down the entire experience to one word. TAKE. Edit: Increased to 5. I can listen to the White Stripes until time ends, and this is one of my favorite albums.

Wasn't sure we needed yet another White Stripes album on here, but this is great. Clever lyrics without being too clever for their own good. Catchy tunes too. Had a couple of lulls here and there but overall I just really dug it.

10/10, no notes.

They rock the hardest.

Fun!

The second huge surprise for me. This one is even bigger than New Order's Technique. In the morning I open the two albums that need to be listened to and usually I always go with the individual album first, then the group album (I have second project too, with a group of 25+ people). But this morning I could barely get out of bed, I think every bone in my body ached. And when I saw Satan in the title of this album, I thought only satanic music left and I could jump in front of a moving bus (I didn't even read what the whole title actually meant, which was because I wasn't well at all). So I listened to the group album first, and left this one for later. And I think I couldn't have chosen better! I, like everyone else, know The White Stripes from their anthem Seven Nation Army and a few other songs, including Blue Orchid, but they all follow more or less the same sound: guitar-heavy, with an indie garage rock revival sound, which leans more towards alternative than classic. I expected to hear something like that here, but boy, oh, boy... This is more colorful than the fucking flag of the LGBTQksduhdusad+ population! Here I heard pop, I heard country, I heard hard rock, I heard blues, a lot of experimentation... And not a little bit in every song, but literally every song is like from a a separate genre: there are pop piano ballads (White Moon) and other soft pop-rock (I'm Lonely But I Ain't That Lonely Yet, My Doorbell), and country (Little Ghost), and blues (Instinct Blues), and of course, the well-known alternative rock sound of the Whites (Blue Orchid, which I already said was the only one I knew from here)... This is an album in which the heavy electric guitar riffs that they are famous for are replaced with piano, so you will find several songs in which you can't even hear the sound of the guitar, and in those in which you will recognize it, it is an acoustic guitar. And what struck me especially strongly: they play with percussion like no one I have ever heard before. So, in every song it seems like there is some new, strange drum and rattle. I heard xylophones and metallophones, rattles like a bottle full of sand, some strange percussion that sounded like he was tapping on the plastic chair he was sitting on, even a tambourine in one song, and in another - the sound of cutlery in a drawer in a semi-dark room. :P And all of that, all of this colorfulness is brought together by the lucid voice of Jack White and the incredible Meg White on drums. And Rita Hayworth in the lyrics, of course. :P The sound is far more melodic than anything you've heard from them before, except for a song from this album, of course. There was another album before that I criticized for not sounding like a coherent whole. Well, this is a completely different level then, but I enjoyed every fucking second of it! Favorite songs: of course Blue Orchid, the jingle My Doorbell Which I believe will be ringing in my head for a long time, I'm Lonely But I Ain't That Lonely Yet, Instinct Blues, As Ugly As I Seem, but most of all Forever For Her (Is Over For Me) which instantly entered every one of my favorites lists on Spotify! If I had listened to any of these songs yesterday (except Blue Orchid), it would never have occurred to me that it was from TWS. I'm currently playing the album for the third time tonight! And who knows how many more times I'll listen to it, because I didn't expect such a refreshing experience at all! Without hesitation, 5/5!

Gave me a new appreciation for them. Only had heard their pop hits. Great album, great lyrics.

Great surprise, maybe my favourite from this list so far.

White stripes have never stuck in my regular rotation. Blue orchid might be my favourite ws songs. Got everything that makes them good.

I've always liked The White Stripes, but I never thought one of their albums would blow me away. Every song is its own unique adventure, and both Jack White, and his wife Meg White are on point with every instrument, and lyric. A true 2000s Rock 'N Roll masterpiece. Favorite Track: "My Doorbell". (For the first time, I'm giving an album five stars the day after I gave an album one star).

Best Stripes album. Pinnacle of the 2000's

Jack White is genius

Classic, was in regular rotation when I was a teenager

I feel like I just had White Blood Cells, which I gave a 5 because I didn't know if there were any other WS albums on the list. But now I remember I like GBMS even more. My 2000s bias might be showing again. But it's hard to give less than 5 stars to albums you loved growing up. And this is genuinely a great album. I always kind of chuckled at anyone ranting about how Meg was a terrible drummer. Together, she and Jack created something so unique, and these songs just wouldn't hit the same if they were too rhythmically perfect. And when they play, they are in tune with and energized by each other. Why would you change a single thing? I wonder if Elephant or Icky Thump are on the list, because those would be my other choices. But anyway, love White Stripes, love this album, happy Sunday.

I ended up downloading a couple of songs from this album. Loved the uniqueness of it.