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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Great!

Jack white is cool

Outstanding

Great songs (3)

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.

Favourites: • Blue Orchid

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.

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.

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

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.

Dope

Love this album, easily their best IMO.

I LOVED it <3

Great!

Perfekt harmonisk grimhed.

❤️🎸Jack & Meg 🥁🖤 Endnu et fanstastisk album af De Hvi’e Striver. Albummet bygger fint videre fra forgængeren. Jack hiver endnu flere instrumenter ind. Men basen er stadig garagerocken. Meg ligger som sædvanligt så ultra præcist og lækkert på trommerne. Det kan godt være Jack er en magiker med sin guitar, men Meg skal absolut ikke undervurderes som slagtøjsspiller. Pænt godt gået når man “bare” skulle lære at spille simple rytmer, så ægtemanden kunne tage fokus med sin strengeleg. Standout tracks: - Blue Orchid - My Doorbell - Forever For Her - The Denial Twist - Instinct Blues - Take, Take, Take - I’m Lonely

I'm thinkin' about my doorbell When you gonna ring it, and when you gonna ring it Great album. 5/5

"The Denial Twist" always has me making the most unacceptable John Mayer guitar faces from the first note. Love it.

Quality

Just so fun!

Okay, I'm a White Stripes convert.

Incredible. So many bangers. Maintains a consistent tone/sound/feel throughout the album without every song sounding the same.

Fantastic and underrated White Stripes album

Blue Orchid is my favorite White Stripes' song. Great start to an album. The Nurse is a great album track. My Doorbell is another great song. This album is a great introduction to the White Stripes; well produced, whimsical, accessible but also representative of their larger body of work in a lot of ways. This album has the feeling of some Led Zeppelin's more humorous songs, like Gallows Pole. Little Ghost is really catchy. Blue Orchid, My Doorbell and The Denial Twist were the singles and it is hard to argue with those choices. Meg White's singing on Passive Manipulation has a Nico-like quality to it. I would describe this album as "playful", even by Jack White standards. This is a great album from start to finish. The singles are amazing and the album tracks are great too. It's hard to pick a song that isn't good or misses.

The White Stripes evolve, but still keep it in the garage.

I liked it a lot.

I’ve always loved the creative freedom in White Stripes albums. The only constraints are that it’s gotta be played live by the two members in the band. These songs aren’t over analyzed or over produced. They’re recorded as they’re realized. All the excitement of a newly written song is captured and presented to the listener. Jack and Meg always defied convention and just went in whatever direction the creative winds took them. This is all very inspiring to me. It took a road trip listen to this album back in 2008 for me to fully appreciate this album. It feels more like watching a documentary on the process of two highly creative individuals rather than listening to a collection of songs. Despite all of that these songs are great and stick in your head instantly.

Instant five for me, and I'm sure I mentioned it in one of the other White Stripes reviews, but I think this may be my favorite of their albums. Such a fun degree of variety on display here. You get the heavy rock, plus some more folksy tunes, and then a few that kind of defy category, like "The Nurse," one of my fav White Stripes songs ever. I remember hearing it for the first time in high school when an English teacher was playing it for us and making comparisons to Macbeth or Hamlet or something and all I cared about was the guitar screaming to get out. Jack White is one of my favorite guitarists ever, such a unique style and so much soul. "Instinct Blues" is a great showcase of that, the guitar sounds like drunk person just meandering and sputtering out random notes, suddenly forced to sober up and belt out the appropriate riffs. Anybody who can make an instrument sound alive and with its own will contrary to the player is a wizard. Favorite tracks: The Nurse, Instinct Blues, Blue Orchid, The Denial Twist, Little Ghost, Passive Manipulation, My Doorbell, Forever For Her, Take Take Take, Red Rain. Album art: Another entry in the red/white/black saga. They committed to it well. Jack and Meg standing back to back, sort of reaching out to each other. Meg is holding a white apple, I have no idea what Jack is holding. Which one of them is Satan? 5/5

This should have been their last album

Loved it

The really unique thing about the White Stripes is their willingness to allow space in their songs. They are able to create powerful songs without a wall of sound behind the vocals on every track. Leaning into the piano instead of a heavy electric guitar for so much of this album was also an interesting choice, and in my opinion one that paid off well.

Awesome!!

The album has a really fun energy to it, and I'm disappointed in myself for not having listened to the whole thing when it came out.

I liked this a LOT more than I thought I would. I last heard this album a long time ago and I didn't realize just how well it hangs together. Just good minimalist rock and roll. Unexpected bangers: Little Ghost, Passive Manipulation, As Ugly As I Seem

bloody good

Longtime favorite album - love seeing this on the list!

Jack white rocks

Geweldig album! Vette rockende nummers, lekkere bluesy nummers, en prachtige rustige tracks. Divers en toch overduidelijk White Stripes.

Original and fresh!

Amazing album. Had much more chill songs than I expected

I couldn’t be happier that this album is on here. It very much changed my life. White Blood Cells and Elephant made me a White Stripes fan, but this one kickstarted my Jack White obsession and opened the doors to looking at music in an entirely different way. I don’t care if other people view it as inferior to the rest of their catalog; I love every single second of it. 5+/5

Husband and Wife team with amazing guitar and drums.

Loved the pure RAWK of white stripes when they came out. But for some reason I got obsessed with Doorbell and Denial Twist and the greater piano influence on this one. And this is really an album where Meg White's subdued 'Ringo' role really shines.

Not their best album, but they’re all great.

Not a bad song on the album. I liked My Doorbell, Little Ghost, Take, Take, Take and I’m lonely (But I ain’t that lonely yet). Take, Take, Take seemed like a fun commentary on parasocial interactions. I’m lonely was just a fantastic way to end the album. It really built and hit hard, even teared up a bit.

I try not to give 5s to albums that I listen to for the first time, as I need to live with with an album longer than that to love it, but holy shit, this album fucks. No skips whatsoever and most songs I outright fuck with heavy. Not sure if I’ll feel the same later, but damn this album feels great.

Love this band. Probably their most eclectic album. I managed to get tickets today to see Jack White in a few days so I think this was a good sign.

i love this album, definitely the kinda music that i enjoy listening to and i would definitely listen to it again

4/5 for being awesome album. Extra star because I’ve listened to it before.

Jack White is a master at less is more. Sometimes the best or catchiest music is the simplest and it feels like he studied a lot of classic blues to come up with this formula. I like the shift in their sound for this record away from a mostly guitar driven approach, which is opposite to how I would normally feel being a big guitar fan, but it works to make this album sound like something new and exciting.

I used to think this was the worst White Stripes album (still incredible, but not on level with their other work). I’ve matured since then and realized this is a generational talent

I love The White Stripes. They are one of my favorite bands. I have previously listened to two of their other albums. Today was my first time listening to Get Behind Me Satan. Now, although it isn't their best, that doesn't mean that it isn't good. This album was really solid and entertaining. My favorite will always be Blue Orchid. Nothing can beat it.

oh hell yeah!! I Haven't ever listened to a whole White Stripes album. I really like these guys though. I like their music, their album art, the way they look etc. 5 stars

Sure it's a bit different, but it still sounds just like the White Stripes. Only one song I didn't really like, a whole bunch that I did, and an overall great sound. And 'Blue Orchid' rocks 🤟

White Stripes are great. White Orchid is one of their best.

They didn't make any bad albums. This one is a great one.

Loved this one when it was new, and again now. Jack is a genius.

This is one of the formative albums in my life so I'm probably a bit biased as I listened to this so much when it was released

Great band. This is first time hearing this album in its entirety and while it has some down moments I’m rounding up to 5. Best to listen through while reading the lyrics…