Reviews (page 2 of 15)
Don’t know that I had to listen to three White Stripes albums before I died. I always wondered why Meg gets a bad rap as a drummer. Well now I know. Every song starts out with an interesting guitar element and then wham here comes what sounds like a six-year-old wailing on the drums. She is really underserved by the album engineer here. Bonus was u expectedly encountering the Napoleon Dynamite opening credits song.
614/1089 - Wasn't huge on the other two on this list but this one had some catchy songs and a nice distorted grittiness to the sound. High 3 low 4 for me and definitely my favorite White Stripes album from the list.
Well I really hope their other stuff is better than this because I really wanted to like them.
Энергичный, сырой и предельно прямолинейный гаражный рок, в котором минималистичная форма сочетается с яркими мелодиями и нервной, экспрессивной манерой исполнения. Альбом обладает цельным звучанием и несколькими действительно сильными композициями, но постоянная напористость Джека Уайта со временем может начать утомлять, а его эмоциональная подача — казаться несколько навязчивой.
cute!!
A really fun piece of garage rock revival from the early 2000s. To be perfectly honest, I pretty much prefer something like this compared to how more processed The White Stripes would end up becoming, even though "Seven Nation Army" is an absolute banger. Jack White's wails pair perfectly with the wall of feedback and distorted garage punk riffs he pumps out as well as Meg White's basic but very emotive drumming. In a way she kind of reminds me a lot of Paul Ledney from Profanatica, as while they aren't technical drummers in the slightest, they play with such attitude and energy that really can't be emulated by anyone else. The softer moments like on "We're Going to Be Friends" also feel extremely natural with this stripped back sound, as you really focus on the story that Jack White reminisces on here, playing in your head as if it's happening right in front of you.
I only knew Fell In Love With a Girl which is good. The rest of this is mostly whatever
Some of the tunes were just not pleasing to the ear
Ja. Rock. Dat is eigenlijk de review. The White Stripes zijn echt de posterchild van ECHTE ROCK N ROLL IS NIET DOOOOOOOD voor mij. Samen met Queens of the Stone Age ofzoiets. Tuurlijk; Seven Nation Army, super bekend enzo. Maar ik heb toch ergens het idee dat Jack White solo iets meer mijn ding is, het word een stuk meer bluesy dan. Merk dat dit album voor mij eigenlijk grotendeels hetzelfde nummer is. Je kan maar zo vaak een harde gitaar er op knallen met een matige drummer op de achtergrond voor het allemaal hetzelfde klinkt voor mij. Ok ze proberen iets anders op We're going to be friends, maar dat pakt nou ook weer niet geweldig uit. Het is een lief liedje, daar niet van, maar ook weer niet heel bijzonder. Dit is wel echt mijn minst favoriete Jack White affiliated album, vond Get Behind me Satan dan een stuk sterker, vooral experimenteler, en Elephant heeft natuurlijk de grote hit die je al snel een sterretje extra bezorgd. FAVO: Geen idee, denk dat ene nummer met die distorted harde gitaar en matige drums terwijl Jack simpele teksten 'zingt'
It was pretty typical for this group.
YOU NEED A BASS PLAYER
It starts as an easy 5 but I think it ends up being just a bit too long and just a bit too long since the best songs. A very high 4.
JL : 2, I Can Learn
This was my third White Stripes album. I gave the previous two 3 stars, but looking back I'm not sure I liked them even that much. I think it's just that I thought I "should" rate them higher than a 2. I'm now at the point in this project (#443) that I don't care about such things and I'm rarely giving more stars than I think a record deserves. With all of that, this was fine. I don't like Jack White's voice and I find most of the songs musically just meh. The only song I kinda liked was The Same Boy You've Always Known, but I didn't even save it to a playlist so I didn't like it that much. This will get the 2 star rating it deserved.
8/10
oh look more white stripes
Very generic rock album
was alright i jammed
Overrated 3/5
The sound was very raw, but even though I thought I might not enjoy it, it was actually pleasant enough.
Masterpiece. One of the gifts that rock gave us on early 2000s. I’d say that this is white stripes at its best
Un classico, j'écoute pas assez souvent les White Stripes
Chouette
Assez générique
Absolute magic amazing album not one song I cam say was not needed or out of order. As good as an album as they come. Zepplin merges with the Beatles with a touch of the who's raw power chords. Masterpiece
best jack white work of his career
So many great songs
Had been a long time since I heard this one, great songs. Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground/Hotel Yorba/Fell in Love with a Girl… all incredible.
garagey but felt very underdeveloped, the second track genuinely sucks
Wow.. I forgot how good this was! How can 2 people make such noise?!
This is what they used to call garage rock Good stuff
I can totally understand the perspective some people have as it pertains to this band having multiple albums on the list. I love blues rock, I love the white stripes. To me it’s just shit I throw on when I wanna rock out. Sure they have some songs that resonate with me lyrically. But for the most part, I come to this band for jamming out. Jack white isn’t some insane lyricist. A lot of these garage rock/blues rock revival bands are VERY repetitive. A lot of them feel like compilations of tracks rather than a cohesive album with any sort of journey. (We’re looking at you Hives) the white stripes aren’t any exception to that. I could do with just having one Stripes album on the list. I think elephant encapsulated them perfectly. I’m not sure this record adds anything to that, but it’s also not bad. Just have some fun man, enjoy the jamming and quit acting like fantano.
The hits on here are great but can we move on good albums are not allowed to be on here
The first two albums were so different from anything that was coming out at the time. Groundbreaking and showed what two instruments and on voice could do.
This is way, way better than I expected. This rocks.
A pretty great blues rock album with some great punchy songs and a few slower paced.
Interesting guitar sounds that borrow from garage rock, blues and country. But the disjointed drumming is a put-off.
They are too many songs, and therefore feels a bit unfocused. There is a sound, and ambition but its not for me absolutely cause it feels deliberately scattered
Except for the song “we’re gonna be friends” I rushed through this album quick. Not it for me.
Genuinely such a hit or miss album for me, the vibes switched a lot and I only really enjoyed 4-5 of the total songs. I saved the ones I liked but I wouldn’t play this album front to back often
Not my cup of tea, very boring.
Love The White Stripes. I can probably recite most of this album from front to back, it’s my favorite of theirs easily and I’ve listened to it countless times. The band really pulled out something unique here and found a sound that is so identifiably their own. Dead Leaves, Hotel Yorba, Fell In Love With a Girl, Union Forever, Same Boy, Offend in Every Way, the list goes on. Without reciting the entire tracklist just know that this is top notch stuff.
If I'm not actively in the process of listening to The White Stripes, I forget how goddamned great they are. This is another masterpiece from them.
I'm not huge on The White Stripes, but I can recognize this is a cut above their other albums. I think Jack White is a bit overrated, because he doesn't really do much creative or super standout with his guitar playing. I get that it is sort of a revival thing, but it still could have been much more interesting. Some of the guitar tones are great, the energy on songs like Fell in Love with a Girl is fantastic and crazy addictive. This whole album in general can be described in one word: energetic. Even when the songs run a bit derivative, the fiery passion carries them. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Hotel Yerba, I Can't Wait, The Union Forever are all bangers that are among the best White Stripes songs. I also love We Are Going to Be Friends, very cute song that works well despite being a bit outside of their usual sound palette. The album is nice, certainly enjoyable despite some weird detours and not being the most original. I enjoy it more than Elephant.
Ah the White Stripes, a band my husband has made me listen to countless times.
Boring
Love — totally predictable I would
An odd mix of fun, angsty, a bit white-knighty in many of the lyrics; maybe that's reflective of 2001. Overall, not hard to listen to, but nothing there compelling to revisit. Somgs saved to Liked: 0
11/10 No notes ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Didn't really feel like listening to this, so I got into it today with a negative energy. And... it was actually really nice! For the first part at least. This Protector is a fine closer to a somewhat boring second half. But the hits are hits!
I'm into guitar, so some riffs are solid — "The Union Forever" has genuinely good riffs. The singer though, can't say I'm particularly a fan, sounds like the typical screamy-type vocal I've heard before. Album overall wasn't amazing, but decent enough, a few tracks stood out and that's what matters most — "We're Going to Be Friends" was the standout, nice pleasant sound to it. Giving it more credit mostly for the riffs, since a couple tracks I'd genuinely use in a film if I had to.
Ugh, I really can't listen to all of this as the White Stripes really set my teeth on edge. I'm having quite a good day and I'm not going to ruin it with this record. A begrudging nod to Hotel Yorba and Fell in Love with a Girl, which I can't help but like. The rest of it is gigantically overrated, and incredibly hard to listen to, never mind actually enjoy.
If this album lost 4 or 5 songs I think it would be I infinitely better. It feels at times like being cool is important which inevitably is a failure of cool. However, there are some really great moments in this slightly rambling album. I think we're going to be friends is a particular standout. This track is probably the best thing on what is probably their best album.
Favorite songs: The union forever, Fell in love with a girl
Good variety. And Friends is one of the best songs ever.
Already finding that there are a few albums where I go against the grain. This is one of them even though I like White Stripes quite a bit. Elephant will get a high rating if it’s on the list (I figure it has to be.) There’s no denying their ability to deliver hits. There are some banger songs beginning with Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, which I’d put up at the top of Jack White’s entire career. The album tracks didn’t do as much for me on this re-listen.
The one white stripes song I know I really like, so I have some optimism for this album. Really guitar to open. Good vocals/lyrics. Good guitar again on hotel Yoruba. Lyrics are a little goofy. Finding harder grabs me from the first chord. Piano and guitar work so well together. Good enough vocals. Much better vocals on fell in love. Good guitar again. Little room is interesting. Good interlude I guess. Cool guitar on union forever. Vocals are eh. More talking than singing. Too slow. Much better writing on the same boy you’ve always known. Simple but effective guitar. Good song. I think I’ve heard we’re going to be friends before. Great writing/story telling. Again another simple but effective backing track. Love the guitar on offend in every way. Really cool song. Smell a rat is a nice change of pace. Much louder. Good drums and guitar. Not a ton going on lyrically. I like aluminum a lot actually. Highlights the strengths of this band. Awesome guitar. Guitar solo on I can’t wait is really good, rest of it is just eh. Better writing and vocals on now Mary. Guitar works so well with the vocals on I can learn. Maybe the best guitar riff so far. This protector is a nice closer. Good piano. Almost acts as a slow fade out. Needed this to wrap things up. Cool album. Not life changing, but no terrible songs. Would listen again. 3.3/5 stars.
3,1/5
Great memories associated with this record, first 4 tracks explode out the speakers, just great stuff. First half is raw, rockets by and it's hard to dislike anything. Basically perfect for what it is. Second half of the album just slightly dips a bit on a couple of tunes and drags the score down from perfect. This is a great record and after 25 years it's aging well. 9/10
I’ve heard one song on the album before. Sonically not for me though
A staple of early 2000s rock. It might not be totally my style (hence the 4 not 5 stars) but I recognize that this is a good album. I got some late Beatles vibes in some of the songs. Ironically for a gay man my favorite track was “I fell in love with a girl”.
Good album
One of the better Stripes records. Still a bit plain for me, but there’s too many classics here not to enjoy it.
Pretty damn close to being the perfect album
Do I like this album very much? I have a lego set of the white stripes inspired by the "Fell in love with a girl" video.
Is Meg White a good drummer? I don't know. Does this album slap? Hell yes. What would it sound like with Buddy Rich back there? God only knows. 12 keepers in 16 (75%). 1 banger (6%). 4 stars.
3.5 This is good and fine, but there’s A LOT of White Stripes/ Jack White on this list and he’s made a career on kinda making the same type of music his whole career. It’s not bad, mind you. But for me, it’s far from my favorite type of music.
Wow maybe my expectations were kind of high, but this was one of my most disappointing albums so far. All the songs here sounded the same and I am not a fan of Jack White's vocals.
Musically so good
Mildly above average garage rock
Not really my style, I didn’t really listen to it that much, but from my 3 listens, nothing really popped off. It does have some great instrumentals but overall the songs seem too similar with one another. Maybe I should give it a few more listens and let it seap in.
Inte i samma klass som Elephant, men jävlar vad det suger till ibland. Precist slammer, fantastisk sång! Solklar fyra.
I am loath to not give White Stripes 5 stars but it’s simply not as good as Elephant to me. Considered a 5 just for FILWAG though
Naw, not for me, they have that one song, but wasn't here
c00l dood I get distracted listening in segments then my memory gets fuzzy
This album was good. I enjoyed it, some songs more than others, but didn't fall in love with it. This isn't my go-to flavor of rock, but I respect it and what Jack White does.
I love The White Stripes! Guy at work forced me to try them in 2001 and when I heard "Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground" and that angy guitar I was hooked long term! Throw in "Hotel Yorba", "I'm Finding It Harder To Be a Gentleman", the huge hit "Fell In Love With A Girl" (some great covers out there), "Little Room", "The Same Boy..." and "We're Going To Be Friends" and you have a solid album. Songs like "Expecting" & "Aluminum" are awful, and tracks like "I Can't Wait", "Now Mary", "I Can Learn" and "Offend In Every Way" just miss the mark, they feel incomplete or unnecessary. This is a good album, but not a great album! 3.4 stars.
Hearing how Jack White has evolved and elevated and comparing that to this album from my college days is interesting.
It’s ok - never been a big fan
More than the sum of its parts, but some of those parts are rough. Was considering a four on first listen as I liked it more than anticipated, but on second listen I realize I will never return to this.
Really my style
This is probably a personal problem, but I think the best song on rock albums is usually the folkiest one, and this album is no exception. And not just because it's in Napoleon Dynamite.
Some great rock music
Gritty, stripped down, thumping. 10/10
I really enjoyed the style of this album. One thing I've learned from 1001 Albums is that just because you don't like one album from a band, doesn't mean you won't like another one of their albums.
Liked 11 songs out of 16 on the first listen and no song was bad in my standard.
4# Mostly just generic rock music. Love the energy but I know quite a few local high school bands who sound better than this. Idk if every album on this 1001 album list even needs to be listened to before you die. Or wait, perhaps I have to get used to garage rock. Oh well, guess I have another album to return to one day.
Didn’t do anything for me
Never a band I got super into but they’re fine!
8/10
Great album, let down a bit by being too long, and it's not hard to find a handful of tracks to cut that would have lifted this to a new level. Probably missed a bit now because seven nation army towers over everything and draws a lot of attention to elephant, but this still has some great tracks that hold up well
Recording this in less than a week is crazy.
If you dont like this, you are either lying or just simply dont like Rock or guitar rock. Sure, it feels a bit weaker on the back end, but so raw, bluesy, riffs for days and to me a timeless sound of youthful rock energy.
There are a lot of good tracks on this album. Many songs that I know but wouldn't have been able to tell you that they were The White Stripes. "We're Going to Be Friends" is definitely my favorite. I am partial to this more folk-y sound.
Decent album that has inspired arguably one of the worst cliches of whiny white boy rock music. But maybe that's just my music-industry shool PTSD.... thanks a lot Belmont Birdcage....
Didn't like at first. ባት ዝ
better than elephant
Pas mal. Pop Rock dont je suis pas fan. La batteuse est cool quand même
I'd forgotten about Fell In Love... isn't that a crime?
The white stripes were never my thing but I can't help but give them credit for making albums with songs that sound wildly different using only two instruments. There's a lot of range here given the restricted palette. Credit where it is due. I still don't quite care for it but I understand why they received some accolades and why other folks like it.
7/10, Some classics on here that i actually love but never knew they made.
3,5
Great album.
Not listened to this in years and I had remembered it as my favourite of the White Stripe albums on this list. However I think I prefer the later albums as this feels a bit baggy & bloated (even though its only 40mins) and aside from Fell in Love with A Girl - none of the songs really grabbed me. Maybe Im having a bad day but I just found it annoying rather than rocking - Little room in particular annoyed me.
White Blood Cells Another great nostalgilisten, along with Is This It and Gold this is a pure recorded onto minidisc album. Indeed if I was still listening to cassettes on my walkman in 2001/02 this would have been on one side and Is This It on the other. Elephant is great, but is essentially a more polished version of what's on here, so the fuzzed up and thumping, rough cornered directness of this in comparison is great, and for a consciously backwards looking record it still sounds fresh and exciting. I don’t think there is a weak track really. But one minor criticism is that, despite it being a nice 40 minutes, it feels like 16 tracks is two or three too many. Expecting and Aluminium feel like similar exercises and I Can Learn, relative to the rest of the tracks, feels slightly forgettable. But outside that it is of course stellar, particularly the first half with Dead Leaves, Hotel Yorba, I’m Finding it Harder and Fell in Love with a Girl making a brilliant opening four songs. Little Room, The Union Forever and The Same Boy make another excellent run to finish the first side. Then We’re Going to Be Friends, Offend in Every Way and I Think I Smell a Rat open the second side brilliantly and I absolutely love This Protector, a kind of Exile influenced gospely bluesy track. Obviously blues, punk and classic rock are the touchstones, but it struck me that there are some clear Nirvana influences, I Can’t Wait’s opening guitar feels very Kurt Cobain, and there is a slight grunge-iness to some of the guitar sound throughout. Easily a 5, a brilliant album that reminds me of brilliant times. 🔴⚪🔴⚪🔴 Playlist submission: The Same Boy You’ve Always Known
A rollicking effort, honing the grit and two-piece sound of their first two albums; but still more elementary than Elephant, if that's possible. The album never quite keeps the momentum of the opening five tracks which is a magnificent run, from Elephant-worthy 'Dead Leaves', country-rock smasher 'Hotel Yorba', groovy 'I'm Finding it Harder to Be a Gentleman' and garage-rock exemplar 'Fell in Love With a Girl', which takes rock back to the very elemental building blocks of three chords and boy meets girl story. In amongst the second-half rockers, there are tracks that feel like they're working their way up to Elephant-levels of greatness (e.g. 'Expecting'); and casually tossed off ditties like 'Little Room'; and perhaps a couple that could've been b-sides ('I Can't Wait'). Then there's 'Union Forever', a macabre highlight with Black Sabbath undertones. Elephant is still my preference with its slashing guitar solos, which don't feature here, but this isn't far behind.
Good album! Songs I know but didn’t know they made
Consistently good White Stripes album. "Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground", "Fell in Love With a Girl", and "We're Going to be Friends" have always been and remain my top picks for this one.
[Gordon Ramsay voice] Delicious. Finally, some good fucking music. The White Stripes right before fame hit them, this was a very fun listen. Garage rock at its finest, the production is deceptively simple (just a guitar, drums, and an occasional piano, no bass to be found here), but they get so much sound out of so little, it’s quite impressive. They are playing with a ton of styles throughout the album: indie, heavy-blues rock, neat little ballads, and a bit of grunge. There wasn’t a track I disliked on this record, and I think I enjoyed this one more than their huge follow-up Elephant, which I gave a strong 4/5. I think I gotta do it: The White Stripes climb the whole dang mountain and will be my twenty-fourth 5/5
honestly, full of bangers
뭔가 보컬 에단 요크같당 ㅎㅎ 그냥 무난무난한 밴드 사운드…
One of the best of White Stripes
2.8, it was a good album i just didn’t find too many songs that appealed to me
Fun, but I can never quite place the white stripes. No biggie
Classic early White Stripes! Not my favorite album of theirs but I love the raw power sound and what seems like some artistic experimentation.
Cool album, nice rock blues, electric guitar, and imaginative melodies. 4/5.
Хорошо.
This is the second White Stripes album I’ve listened to. “White Blood Cells” was pretty good. My favourite track on it is “The Same Boy You’ve Always Known” I have no idea why it wasn’t a single on “White Blood Cells”. Unfortunately, the album has some let downs like “Fell in Love With a Girl”, which felt like a generic indie rock song. 3 stars for “White Blood Cells”.
Cool lyrics, pretty sad though
I've been too generous with my 4s, this album is fine but I don't like it enough for that. Lyrics and guitar didn't feel special on most tracks, few highlights bring it up
Really dug this when it came out. It's still pretty good.
Lovelovelove yes this is that good good. Thank you stripey folk
Album kinda rocks, got some grooves 4.5
There are a small handful of acts over the history of recorded music that you could argue influenced the musical zeitgeist in a real and meaningful way. The Beatleses and the Madonnas of the world. Where the general trajectory of the mass is actually adjusted because of their work. I would argue: The White Stripes belong on that list. This isn't about quality, but about influence. I look back at the Stripes as spearheading a stripped-down do-it-yourselfness that has enabled and inspired a sea of amateur artists to try at a time when the democratization of music was just starting to glimmer in the online multiverse. Of course most of those average tryers both failed and sucked. But that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. As to quality, The White Stripes were adventurous and the mileage over their career varies accordingly, but they did have a zenith, and White Blood Cells/Elephant was it. It helps that the lyrics on this album are bonkers. Love this album and it rocked my house real loud after work today.
The whole album is peppered with great songs. If you hate on Meg and her drumming, you are a person of detestable spiritual qualities.
Yo this is sick!
The White Stripes’ distinctive sound and Jack White’s vocals made them one of my favorite bands of the 21st century, garage rock at its finest.
Album filled with killer tracks.
Music is decent, lyrics are fine, but his singing still sounds to me like a bunch of howler monkeys in a bad mood. Sorry Jack. You seem really cool but your singing just isn’t my jam.
They're a one hit wonder turns out
I like, labai raw garsas.
Really liked this! I've listened to the White Stripes before, but never anything from this album. Really stripped back, kinda almost blues rock, but still super clean. I love two piece bands that sound bigger than they are. I was so sure they were brother and sister growing up hahaha so googling them and seeing they dates was a shock for a sec. Respect Jack for taking Megs last name, a real one for sure, bet they've never been involved in any kind of scandal!
Probably my least fav White Stripes album, but that's not saying much. I still love the majority of it. I Think I Smell a Rat always was one of my favorites and it stood out above the rest on this listen. 4.5/5
Spot on.
an ok album
This album sucks. It's not fun. It's not interesting. It's not clever. It's dull. It sounds like shit. Jack White tries out different sounds on his guitar while Meg White stretches herself to the limit for the same song over and over again in different clothes. The lyrics are universally fucking insipid and the high point, Fell In Love With a Girl, just does not hit the same as it did in 2001 when I was just discovering my own taste. Turns out the Michel Gondry video was doing all the heavy lifting. This album's deficiencies are innumerable and all-encompassing. I hope to never listen to this again.
Vrai son punk rock du debut des années 2000. Il y a des morceaux très fun. Certains des premiers vraiment sympa. (j'en suis au 7e). We're going to be friends, je l'ai joué à la guitare avant de la connaitre. Provoque toujours quelque chose de spécial, "Walk with me, Suzy Lee" ; "That you and I will walk together again I can tell that we are going to be friends". À réécouter, plusieurs choses que j'ai adoré, d'autres méritent une seconde écoute.
Pač, I love The White Stripes. Ful basic sounding, slišiš not tud njune kasnejše zadeve, ampak men niti slučajno dolgočasno alpa kj. Vsak komad ma neki zanimivga. Od mal manj znanih bi izpostavila "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "The Union Forever", "Offend in Every Way", "Aluminum". "I Can't Wait" zveni zelo "Heart-Shaped Box".
Massive fan of this album already. Happily listen to anytime. Wouldn’t say it’s one of the best albums of all time but it’s simple, always drives forward, and sounds great.
Overall Rating - 3.73/5 (7.47/10). Really good early 2000s punk-like music. Once again, Jack and Meg White impress.
Трошки кантрі трошки еее бля емо, емо кантрі, во. Хриплий твінк співає якусь глуху попсу. Нот зет бед, десь 2.7
Its sooo basic and bland. The drumming is god-awful. But somehow there is a charm to this... but not much.
Great, a little raw and grungy. Early works
It didn't grab me as much as the other stuff of theirs that's been on the list, but it was cool. Shades of Pixies in some of the tracks, I thought.
I feel like Seven Nation Army has ruined the White Stripes for me. While I was thankful that song wasn't on this album, and there were a couple decent songs, it had a hard time getting better than mid for me. We're Going to Be Friends reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite, so that prevents this from dipping below a 3.
I’ve enjoyed Jack White’s solo work this decade and I was excited to go back and hear The White Stripes early work. This was, simply, no different, I enjoy everything about their sound and Jack’s performances, remarkably consistent from album to album and here from song to song. I actually recognized a couple of these, We’re Going to Be Friends, for one, though it is a bit of an odd fit here I must admit. The quality is undeniable from front to back, though, even if it’s bite-sized without many huge standouts. I think I’ll listen to most if not all of their material at some point. 1 listen Favorite Track: Fell In Love With a Girl
Great guitar play. Took a while to appreciate the songs, the vocalist. Eventually just let this album play on repeat.
Four stars, a solid bit of fun.
All time classic album.
i just dont get it, 2 stars
Altro disco capolavoro con altri brani capolavori.
Bien.
Fellinlovewithagirlll
Sounded whiny. first song baited me into think it'd be more rock/punk, but the rest was whiny
This album annoyed me. I was happy when it ended.
probably added an extra star because the cover looks like the indonesian flag. liked it! i think
Inspelat på tre dagar! I sin helhet en häftig platta med några av deras bästa låtar. Jävligt coolt och mänskligt sound, men en del (framförallt andra halvan) känns halvfärdigt och lite spretigt.
Rock songs.
One of the best American rock bands of the last 30 years. This album is a classic of the garage rock revival.
I don't think this album should be in this list. Apart from a couple songs, it is quite boring and hasn't aged well.
I like the lack of instruments at parts. Just guitar and drums sounds really good with the production used. Short and sweet songs that convey a lot and rock. inspo for greyhound
This band is the minimal intervention wine of rock. A man, his guitar, lots if different amps and effects pedals, his piano and a drummer who hates fills. I cant decide if it’s great or just average. I get the need to bash the shit out of the cymbals to fill out the sound. Another way would be to have a bass player, keyboards, etc. as i got to the end i decided there is an undeniable charm to this album. I couldnt tell if meg speeds up because of jack’s playing or visa versa. I suspect it is hom as she’s pretty metronomic and doesnt have rolls or fills that usually speed up a drummers tempo.
Great rock n roll. I love the nod to Paul McCartney's "granny music" in the middle there. I don't know if it sticks for me or not. I'll have to listen to it some 20 times more. 3.5/5
The somewhat sloppy sound, and clearly blues inspired but extremely raw.
I was going to say that the white stripes sound like a black sabbath cover band until i realized that ive seen a black sabbath cover band live and the singer sounded exactly like Jack White. And cmon, if you asked me when i thought this album was released, i would’ve said 1975 at the latest.
It's probably my favourite White Stripes album but do I love it? No. It has some great songs (Dead Leaves, Offend, Protector) but also some annoying and less good ones (Little Room). I maintain that the White Stripes are not in the top 3 Jack White projects.
Yes, give me 12 more of these
This is fantastic for the most part. I think all the way up to I think I smell a rat it is easily 5/5. After that it drops off a bit, some of the others are good, but not quite the same level... However dead leaves, yorba, fell in love, same boy and gonna be friends are so good. I'm tempted to just give it 5 and enjoy the weekend experimentation in the lesser tracks.
Love their raw, early records. I think they challenged themselves not to do blues based music on this one, and it paid off.
Classic rock album, with some a bit softer songs, which works for me. I'm going to listen to some songs for a while. Overall, it is good starter, not every song is for everybody but I think that it is a well written and composed album.
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2,5 maybe
9/10 So much energy, rawness and to drawer song writing. Rock music that does the basics with the bare minimum to make something that rises above almost everything else.
White Stripes Underrated. Favs: I'm Finding It Harder To Be a Gentleman, Fell In Love With a Girl
7.5/10 Cool music Some songs more pallettable than others.
Great standard rock album
I listened to the first 2 songs and was so not into it… skipped the rest. Sorry Jack White
Что я только что прослушал?.. 40 минут невнятного, скучного и раздражающего шума
It seemed like a breath of fresh air at the time, but now, just brash and over-familiar. Still, fair play for riding that wave of popularity.
Didn't like all the song, some of them I will be listening to again. Not sure if the vote is lower because I do not having the full historical reference of this music, or it's not higher because I wasn't a teen in those days (I wasn't even born, can't have nostalgia from back then).
Time to recognize something. This album saw a lot of play in my car in the mid 90s and I loved it. I also think Jack White is amazingly talented particularly live (see SNL performance in 2000). But listening today I didn’t think this album was all that great. There are several really good songs and a lot of meh around it. That seems true most of his work. Ball and Bisquit came on after and I thought why can’t they all be like this? Sadly, 3/5
eu gosto deles. esse álbum em especial tem músicas épicas e músicas tanto faz, mas eu diria que as épicas fazem o álbum valer.
Not every album needs to be lavishly produced. The simple and raw sound works very well for this album.
pretty solid. I really liked 'fell in love with a girl' and 'the union forever'
Good enough for three stars. ★★★
Led Zeppelin vs Cobain energy
Kind of bland and generic, but was fairly short, which I appreciate.
I think that we are going to be friends !
Really enjoyed. Simple beats and chords, but in a great way. Very artsy yet beautifully simple
Pivotal post-grunge pioneers. Took the angst from the 90’s and repackaged it for the 2000’s. Elements of folk harmonies, delta blues melodies, and garage band fuzziness. Jack White is a master songwriter and a virtuoso on the guitar…I just don’t know who told him he could sing.
Overall a good listen
Banger album. Love the white stripes
Very very good, stunning vocals from a young jack white
I was rather into the White Stripes when they hit the big time, but time has not been too kind, at least not to my ears. Still loving Fell in Love with a Girl, that's my standout, but despite the nice riffwork and occasional power bass, I didn't feel it as much as I used to. And can we have a word about Jack's voice? Don't strain yourself lad, you'll do yourself a mischief. Um, 2 stars, a disappointing reunion.
Rock and roll!
I love this album
It's fine, not my favourite but completely passable and catchy pop rock. Drumming is great though.
A banging start to this album, and to my return to the generator. Let's see how it goes. Sciffle sounding 2 song. I like the electric piano and lead guitar on track 3. My favorite so far. 4 and 5 are punky. Little room is an unnecessary interlude. The darkness of the union forever is very nice. 8 is another good song. 9 is charming and naive. 10 is great 11 less 12 not very good. Shapeless. Last two songs are good. Overall, I can't say I enjoyed this album as a whole. Something about the white stripes doesn't click to me yet. The slopiness doesn't hit in the right place for me. It wasn't a punishment to listen to, but also not seeing myself coming back to it. 2.4
This album started out great, but the second half just fell a bit flat for me.
Enjoyed this! Had heard a couple of songs from it before, but never the whole album.
Solid and abrasive. I get why people hate it. I don't.
Really good, I hate Jack White but this is undeniably a great album
I liked this. His voice is a wee bit grating at times but overall it doesn’t bother me enough to hurt my enjoyment of this album. It is a little samey by the end but maybe I’m just not a discerning enough listener
Very solid album. Jack White was on one in the early 2000s
I've somehow never listened to a White Stripes album before. Obviously I've heard the hits but for some reason nothing ever clicked enough for me to check out their catalog. I think Jack White's voice isn't what I want it to be but, I'll be damned if I wasn't tapping my toes throughout. Solid album that I'll be adding to my collection
I will unapologetically argue that this is the last good White Stripes record. In fact this album is an absolute ripper, and with DeStijil and their S/T is an astounding run for a band's first three albums. This record came out around the time mix CD's were falling out of fashion, but I guarantee that I Fell In Love With A Girl made it on more than one while I was wooing young women. Did it work? Obviously not. Does this record still rip? Obviously. 4.5*
The white stripes aren't a new band to me at all and I have heart a lot of these songs before. They make really good music and the only thing I really don't like are the part when they create feedback sounds, it just feels unmercenary and doesn't add anything. The distorted guitars gives you the feeling they are looking for without hurting your ears.
If there was a 3.5 star I would rate it at that, there is only 3 songs that was good
I knew already that I wouldn't like this very much. I really think The White Stripes are boring as fuck - first song is actually great though. The riff rules and I like that the guitar is out of tune. But the lyrics???? God damn they're not good. I think Ty Segall did this sound better years later, though Jack's riffs are pretty good until he starts singing the worst most nothing lyrics ever - don't enjoy his voice either. Seems like a solid fella though. Doesn't take away from the fact that I do not like this! This app paused bc i waited so long to listen- i was dreading it lmao. Overall, rock music is so damn boring sometimes, brother. Also the song where he blatantly rips off all apologies lmfao
spare me please, I AM BEGGING
I don't know if it was the mastering on the version I was listening to or what, but it felt like it should have been much more dynamic than it was. I'll revisit this with a different version in the future, but aside from a few highlights this wasn't doing it for me
When this came out I remember thinking "this is really cool". But..i never felt the need to listen beyond the radio singles and I don't think I missed much. It's weird to think they were the aughts. A lot of it blends together. Still a 4.. the singles were the hits for a reason.
I remember liking them a lot more!
I remember liking this when it came out, but never listen to it anymore. It's impressive for only 2 band members, but rather simplistic for the same reason. And I realize I really don't like Jack White's voice; it's all screech on this record. It makes sense that "Fell in Love with a Girl" was their breakout hit because the speed and power obscures these drawbacks, but many of the songs here are much slower and highlight the lack of instrumental harmonies and untrained vocals.
This was a really fun album. Kind of a single tone/sound on it, but they really did something with it. Not sure I will revisit it, but I'm glad I heard it!
Not as consistently great as Elephant. But better than anything he’s done after.
Good album
It was ok, eventually I kind of grow tired of his scratchy voice
Un álbum bien elaborado Tiene momentos suaves, momentos de angustia, momentos de fuerza y potencia, y uno que otro momento de catarsis, eso lo hace posicionarse como un disco muy bien balanceado Tiene joyas escondidas como Offend in Every Way, y otras bien populares como Fell In Love with a Girl, o We're Going To Be Friends Jack White tiene una voz versátil, a pesar de tener estilo marcado pasa esos momentos que comenté anteriormente bastante bien Instrumentalmente se ve que para este momento ya tienen un estilo sumamente marcado Mucho mejor que el de Get Behind la verdad
pretty solid record overall, not many outstanding tracks to me at first time listening but songs make sense within the album
makes me wanna go 2001
me pareció todo el álbum muy igual, pero no me disgusto eso. lo escucharia de nuevo solo si no necesito estar concentrada en la música
I like the guitar but I don't really enjoy his voice
wasn’t moved. didn’t like the sound at all and only recognized We’re Gonna Be Friends, which sticks out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the album. expected to like it more because i really like alternative stuff but it wasn’t memorable.
Didn’t stand out too much to me. Some of the songs were pretty nice
had a better opinion of The White Stripes when they were a band I kind of knew and was pretty sure I liked. Increased familiarity has not been to their benefit. to be fair I do think this is a good version of what it is. I just don't particularly like what it is.
Critics love this for its "raw, stripped-down garage-rock energy, which revitalized rock at a time of digital over-production." um. ya, no. They didn't revitalize anything. It IS raw and stripped down, though. For the most part, it's a fresh-sounding record. It's the alterno parts and sound that I don't like. The upbeat rockers are mostly really good.
I’ve listened to this album multiple times since I was a teenager. No notes. Still good
Somehow never really been a fan, bu this is almost flawless, top to bottom. I accidentally saw them in the fall of 1998 with about 6 other people. Amazing memory. Happy to have Jack living here in Nashville. He’s a genius and a joy.
Great album. Was actually anticipating giving it 5 stars when it came up. As I listened this time, I do feel the album weakened in the back half. The front half of this album is loaded with all-time classics.
it's raw and energetic. jack white seems to be at his best with limitations. i would say this is the second best white stripes album ("elephant" is the best). my jack white trajectory: he's cool > "elephant" > these last white stripe albums have a handful of good tunes > raconteurs is cool > all your vinyl stuff is pretentious and i like vinyl > ignoring solo records > enjoying his political stances > reviewing his album on 1,001
Such a refreshing sound after the sludgy 90s and every song has incredible energy and an actual melody. Jack White already showing his weird predilection for being simultaneously a little boy and also an adult living in the 1940s. Surprising range considering their "stripped down" reputation too - they limit the number of layers in each song but they're not so regimented as to record the same song over and over.
haha er singt nonig soo suuber uf dem aber ich lieb wie raw s ganze isch. alles tönt gad igsteckt und los. huere cool. aso ischs mega nöd de jack isch perfektionist. aber suuuper. we're going to be freinds isch suuuper cute. ich ha irgendwie immer mega gern wenn white stripes tasteinstrument spieled. this protector isch suuuper nice. ich find s het chlii z wenig hooks uf dem album und s isch chli a mir verbii aber ich lieb ihren sound halt. vieri.
de rohi sound wos hend welle falltmer sicher au uuf, will ich drüber glese han aber finds würkli na cool! d songs selber sind momentan alli chli ah mier verbii mann und us irgeme grund sött mier we're gonna be friends mega gfalle, es het ein herzige text und isch so samft aber ich han de song iwie immer chli nervig gfunde ICH WEISS NÖD WISO oke ich hans weniger nervig gfunde als ich in erinnerig gha han I think I smell a rat isch geil! die herte gitarre mitem ride isch fuuunn de nächsti song findi denn defür richtig obnoxious joa ich weiss nöd, ich find cool was d meg und de jack mached aber es holt mich eifach selte ab :(
me encanto
hotel yorba sounded nice on first listen it pmo now. Fell in Love With a Girl turbo banger and the live version is funny. Couple good songs and great vibe on this album, but its not one that I see myself revisiting.
Reminds me of good times back in my teens, solid album
Couple of great songs, and a lot of meh for me
I know there's only two of them, but god I wish they'd mixed some bass into these tunes
Awesome
Always creative and fun to listen to!
it's good, has the proper garage rock sound Will I listen to again: 87%
"i think i smell a rat" is so bafflingly millenial OH MY GOD,, simillar levels of whiteness as hot fuss by the killers. most of the tracks r fine, they SOUND fine but something about it makes me wanna claw my ears off. , the vocals at the start were really killing me,, feels super bland
When the longest song is 3:38 hard to say it wore out it's welcome. I found myself at time wishing for more. Great album for driving home in the country at night. Added 3 songs to playlists (once I got home). In other situations probably would have given it a 4 but today a 5. Favourite song: "Hotel Yorba"
DUN DUN-DUN-DUN DUN-DUN DUN, nevermind, that's on a different album. He sounds like he's on the verge of tears most of the time! Makes me want to check in with him and ask if everything is fine. This really didn't need 16 tracks, did it? The instrumentals—for the most part—are fine and fun and energetic but I just can't really get behind the vocalist. Next time, just hire Julian Casablancas and let him do it. The writing is less than stellar too (I'm totally fine with steering clear of unnecessary complexity, but, come on, "I Think I Smell a Rat" solely consists of the rhymes rat-at-rat-bat-rat-at-rat-mat-rat). I think "Aluminum" was my favorite track on here. I love the vision they had for that one, very mathy. It was also the only instrumental, go figure.
Great but why not their first album?
peaaaaaaaaaaakkk
Kind of lumpy. It's all pretty good, but there are some absolute stand-out brilliant bits (mostly the singles) and some that fall shorter. The styles are also pretty erratic. Doesn't flow as an album as much as I'd like. Fell in love with a girl triggers in me a difficult reaction due to it feeling so much like that generic garage rock indie sound from the time.. And yet it's just a brilliant bit of music.
I get that The White Stripes was a huge band in the early 2000’s.. I just never saw the appeal. The album is okay, but they seem overrated.
Awesome!
eu gostei, mas acho as musicas bem repetitivas, batida e cordas acabam ficando monótonas
Strong 4, borderline 5.
Decent Rock Record. So well produced it feels like the precursor to imagine dragons and boom clap rock music. Can't blame them for it because this is solid but it didn't really hook me like I wanted it to.
Im not a white stripes person though I recognize that they were doing something different enough and sounding rock and roll enough to differentiate themselves from the pop music of the day. Somehow they became so popular that they spawned a lot of imitators, or at least people trying to build on the unproduced simplistic style they have. I have it in for bad drummers. Meg White is a horrible drummer. You don’t have to play difficult stuff to be a drummer, but you have to be in time. Meg White is never in time. It’s so grating to hear in anything other than the fast songs, because everything just catches up in those. She’s a half beat off in the bridges of “I can smell a rat”, she’s all over the place in “Aluminum”, it’s just not that hard to have a metronome in your ear. This goes on too long for me with not enough variety. It’s fun for 10 minutes and quickly wears out its welcome. That said it’s easy to tune out, and I do like that they, as a group, kept guitar rock relevant, so I can’t in good conscience give them a 2. It’s a 2.5 but I’ll round up.
Liked this one, enjoyed Hotel Yorba and You and Me are Gonna Be Friends, felt it tailed off a bit
Really solid, great guitar, not quite got the highs of elephant
Alright; a few good songs in there
The White Stripes are always a joy. Not sure I'm a Jack White fan but he's a generational talent and had lightning in a bottle when he played with Meg.
I mean it's alright... mid as f...
Really enjoyed this. I like the White Stripes but I've not listened to them much. Hopefully that'll continue as I can tick off more if their albums and not just listen to Elephant!
'salright
Genuinely infuriating stuff. Some of the songs are bangers. Some of the songs are terrible. The vocals are consistently shit.
16 songs and a run time of 40 minutes kept this album interesting and super listenable.
not my thing for sure but i like the guitar parts. this seems like a really classical rock album despite being made in 2001 of all years. the main issue with this album is how boring and samey all the tracks sound like.
It’s got all manner of different sounds. Jack White knows how to throw an album together
This is easily my favorite White Stripes album, and as such I've listened to it many times over the years, especially the faultless initial stretch of five songs from "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" to "Expected". I have good memories of driving around aimlessly with my sister in the car with this in the CD player. I still think it's great musically, but I've never liked Jack White's lyrics; they give a surface impression of telling a story but end up aimless and incoherent without compelling enough details to latch onto. If I'm honest, his lyrics also reflect such a deeply heterosexual male posturing of machismo that I find alienating and unrelateable (hate this term, but it's true, and relevant for music that's intended to be entertainment rather than art). "Seven Nation Army" isn't on this album, but I think that song in particular really harms their legacy in a way and makes it odd to try and remember how this album felt and sounded in its time. That song has been so overplayed at this point, even being piped into sports stadiums as background music for crowds of hundreds of tipsy, beleaguered sports fans. I think it's hard for a band to recover any sense of mystique when a song of theirs gets so enormously popular, especially with a band like this where so much of their appeal comes from a certain charming amateurishness which gets lost when they get to the sports-stadium level.
This is my 8th album. This is the second time i have had to listen to jack white's voice. i am so tired of jack white Half of the songs are just weird about women or are overt whiny incel shit AND it doesn't even sound good Jack White is such a freak
true birth of a legendary band
Kind of annoying
I really don't like the white stripes
I was so excited to find a White Stripes song I actually like and then it ended up being only good song on the album. I'm just gonna address the biggest thing that bugs me about this, what the hell is the album cover supposed to be? It looks like seven shadow people threatening the Whites, but neither of them are really conveying any emotion other than "ugh" and one of the shadow people like he's proposing to Jack White. It's a pretty decent representation of the album, to be fair. I pretty often found myself making that same faces as both of the Whites at a good few points and I'm about as confused by the music as I am by the cover. It just sounds so empty and unappealing.
quality garage rock despite the character of jack white's voice. pretty cool that they made this album right after they divorced, very fleetwood mac.
Couple good songs on here especially toward the end but it’s not my cup of tea I would say. Definitely can see why people enjoy it but it’s not for me.
It's ok but I don't care for their sound over a full album, never have.
It was okay
The best White Stripes album that I've heard so far
God I love the White Stripes. Jack and Meg have so much chemistry and their style of playing beautifully complement each other. This is not my favorite White Stripes record since it does have some personal skips like the Rat song and Aluminum, but it is arguably the "most" White Stripes album and a great first introduction to the band. The most basic elements, like the distinctive guitar, the understated drums, and just pure rock energy are done so well without needing the more serious dive that other White Stripes material does.
Some songs i really liked, others not so much
I prefer this to jack's solo stuff. very basic but some good tracks
Pretty, pretty good.
The first album I've had which I've listened to in full before. One of my favourites by them. A band I wish I'd seen live.
yessssss!!!
Hard edgy electrified punk blues that sounds massive but lacks a little when it comes to groove. It doesn’t seem to get into your hips, it doesn’t have the boogie. It’s angular. It has a lack of curves. I enjoyed it.
Just a great rock album. 4/5
A classic.
I’m deficient in angst right now which I feel is a necessary supplement to fully enjoy this album. Many of the songs felt like the could be the backing track to a ‘gritty’, supernatural, young-adult film or series from the mid 2000’s - which I intend as a compliment. I just couldn’t get into it - will give it another listen when next suitably stroppy. Fave songs - aluminium, I can’t wait, this protector, fell in love with a girl
Fell in love w a girl is sick (in a good way) ME QUEDE EN EXPECTATIONS OK I PROMISE THAT I'LL LISTEN TO IT PROPERLY *I misspelled the name, it was Expecting LMAO anyway, WTF WITH I think I smell a rat?!?!? WHO CALLS A SONG THAT Now Mary... dope I can learn???? nice build up FINISHED!! hmmmm I think 3
Wasn't the worst thing ever, it didn't interest or spark anything in me either though. Wasn't something I would put on in the background too, just not my thing, it felt empty and like it was missing something. Would maybe sound better if I had better attachments to it but I'm a bum modern 17 year old girl. Don't expect much from me
Decent, but a little bit juvenile for me
Fun album, don’t see this as better than elephant tho
classic elder millennial fodder. sang along to most of this in the car. 3.5 mostly for nostalgia
knew more songs than expected! was anticipating this being more abrasive than it was. I feel like I liked it an average amount, but this dataset is warping my internal scale. 4.
I didn't realize I knew a few of these, presumably from mtv
Dober 👍🏼
Great record, maybe *the* White Stripes record next to Elephant.
leuke ontdekking
Love this album. I've heard it many times before. 4/5
Jack and Meg are probably the best duo to come out of rock music in this era. Nothing on this album sounds extraordinary or "special". It's just good regardless. Technical skill and the ability to produce a range of sounds is paired with great album structure and the ability to create songs that make you feel good while also sounding good.
3.5 for White Blood Cells. There are some definite bangers on here. I love that the album is filled with mostly short songs, that get in, make their point and get out. no mindless noodling. I appreciate the garage rock sound a lot, but there's a point where it gets exhausting, and I found that a bit after the album's true gem, "We're Going to be Friends", that it was starting to wear on me. There is some very raw, unfiltered and good blues rock hidden down in this album, and it's worth listening to many times. Standouts: The Same Boy You've Always Known I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman The Union Forever
Goed uitgevoerd garage rock revival