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This commodity is about the anthology by the ring the White Stripes. For the cells of the immune system, see White blood cell.

2001 studio album by The White Stripes

White Blood Cells
A male and female stand are pestered by black silhouettes in front of a brick wall on what appears to be snowy ground. A black border outlines the artwork. Dominant colors are red, black, and white.
Studio anthology by

The White Stripes
Released July 3, 2001 (2001-07-03)
Recorded February 2001
Studio Easley-McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee
Genre
  • Garage rock revival
  • blues rock[1]
Length 40:25
Label Sympathy for the Record Industry
Producer Jack White
The White Stripes chronology
De Stijl
(2000) 		White Claret Cells
(2001) 		Elephant
(2003)
Singles from White Blood Cells
  1. "Hotel Yorba"
    Released: November 10, 2001
  2. "Fell in Love with a Daughter"
    Released: April 23, 2002
  3. "Dead Leaves and the Muddied Basis"
    Released: August 2002
  4. "Nosotros're Going to Be Friends"
    Released: Late 2002

White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American rock duo the White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001. Recorded in less than one week at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced by frontman and guitarist Jack White, it was the band's final tape released independently on Sympathy for the Tape Manufacture. Bolstered by the hit single "Fell in Beloved with a Daughter", the tape propelled the White Stripes into early commercial popularity and disquisitional success. In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 497 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Fourth dimension.[ii]

Overview [edit]

Continuing the stripped-downward garage stone nature of the duo, White Blood Cells features less of the band'due south blues rock influences, instead displaying a more raw, basic, and archaic rock and ringlet sound. The anthology'south lyrical themes, which were written by White over a period of four years, affect on themes relating to honey, hope, betrayal, and paranoia. Post-obit a major label re-release on V2 Records in 2002, the album became promoted throughout the music printing, bringing the ring disquisitional acclaim. The White Stripes followed with a worldwide bout and the record peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, later beingness certified platinum past the Recording Industry Clan of America. The album'southward encompass art satirically parodies the amount of increasing mainstream popularity the band was receiving, which depicts the duo attacked by photographers.

Praised[ by whom? ] for its simplicity and straightforward sound and instrumentation, White Blood Cells set up the stage for the White Stripes to break through into the mainstream and is often compared[ by whom? ] with classic rock influences. Information technology helped ascertain the band's sound and shape the ring'south role in the garage rock revival of the early 2000s. The album has been, along with the band's follow-up Elephant (2003), featured on several music publications' lists of the greatest albums of the 2000s every bit well as all-time.

Recording and product [edit]

The ring apposite for i week and began recording at Easley-McCain Recording, in Memphis, Tennessee in February 2001.[ane] Meg White was initially hesitant to commence immediate recording, as she thought the songs were "too new."[3] The album was recorded in less than four days, to try to keep it "as unorganized as possible," co-ordinate to Jack.[1] The record'due south quick product was intentional in order to get "a real tense" feeling, also as capture the band'due south energy. The record was "rushed" and a final day was saved for mixing and mastering the tape; this was the first White Stripes anthology to be mastered in the studio.[four] It was the showtime time for the band recording in a 24-track recording studio, and Jack White asked recording engineer Stuart Sikes more than than once "non to brand information technology sound too skilful."[iii]

Packaging [edit]

The cover art of White Blood Cells depicts the duo getting both attacked and enamored by a clan of people wielding TV and video cameras.[one] The images poke fun at the music industry and promotion surrounding it. "When does music go a business concern and why do nosotros accept to exist suckered into it? Why do we have to buy a cell phone, you know what I mean? A lot of that stuff upsets me. It gets annoying," said Jack White.[1] The anthology's title alludes to the increasing media attention the band was receiving, which would only increase subsequently release. "The name, White Claret Cells, for the anthology, is this thought of leaner coming at us, or merely foreign things coming at us, or media, or attention on the band," Jack White explained in a 2001 interview. "It just seems to united states that there are and then many bands from the same time or before we started that were playing and are still playing that didn't get this kind of attention that we're getting. Is the attention good or bad? When you open the CD, it'due south a movie of us with these cameras. Wondering if it's good or bad."[4]

Composition [edit]

Lyrics [edit]

The lyrics for the album were written over various points in the band'due south early career, including unrecorded songs for the duo'southward debut anthology The White Stripes (1999) and Jack White's previous band Two-Star Tabernacle. "Dead Leaves and the Muddy Ground", for example, was included in the album though Jack had written the song in 1999 and the band had been performing information technology along with "The Same Boy You've Always Known" since early 2000. This led to speculation that the songs are most the terminate of Jack and Meg White'due south marriage. Some material for White Claret Cells was also inspired past Jack White and the Bricks, a side-projection formed in 1999.[5] Regarding the four-year time span in writing for the record, Jack White said "It was cool because a lot of things had been sitting around for a long fourth dimension, stuff I had written on piano that had been just sitting around not doing anything. And it was expert to put them all together at once, put them all in the same box and see what happened."[iv] All material on the album is original, a contrast to numerous covers on the band's first two efforts.[1] The lyrics relate and touch upon subjects of dearest, hope, betrayal, and paranoia, brought on past the increasing media attention the duo began receiving. A mutual theme throughout the record is the morality of persistent attention, well-nigh prevalently profiled in "Little Room".[half dozen] "Niggling Room" is "homily," written in response to White's favorite song, "Grinnin' in Your Confront" by Son House.[vii]

"The Union Forever" contains allusions to Denizen Kane (1941), reportedly Jack White's favorite film. In fact, almost every line in the vocal comes from the movie. In 2003 information technology was rumoured that Warner Bros., who own the rights to Citizen Kane, might sue the ring over copyright infringement,[8] merely nothing seems to have come up from information technology. "Hotel Yorba" is based on a real hotel a couple of blocks from Jack White'south childhood dwelling: "The Hotel Yorba is a really disgusting hotel," he remarked to Spin in 2001. "At that place was a great rumor when I was a kid that The Beatles had stayed there. They never did, simply I loved that rumor. It was funny."[1]

Music [edit]

The anthology attempts to rid the band of a dejection rock audio, instead vying for a more than simple guitar and drums garage stone audio. Shortly earlier the release of White Claret Cells, White asserted that "There's no dejection on the new record. We're taking a intermission from that. In that location'due south no slide work, bass, guitar solos, or cover songs. It's just me and Meg, guitar, drums and piano."[1] The duo intended to suspension away from the "bringing-back-the-blues label," instead containing piano-driven tracks that, to that indicate, remained unrecorded.[iv] Influences are present from a variety of genres, including artless beloved songs ("We're Going to Be Friends").[6]

Release and reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 86/100[9]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [10]
Culling Printing 8/10[11]
Los Angeles Times [12]
NME 8/10[thirteen]
Pitchfork 9.0/10[14]
Q [15]
Rolling Stone [16]
The Rolling Rock Album Guide [17]
Uncut [18]
The Village Vocalization A[nineteen]

White Claret Cells was rushed onto the shelves past Sympathy, although the record label wasn't prepared to handle the hype that would environs the record.[20] White Blood Cells was released to nearly universal acclaim.[21] On Metacritic, the album received a weighted hateful score of 86/100, which translates to "universal acclaim."[9] Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, going Platinum and selling over 1,000,000 units. The album too reached number 55 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by the "Fell in Beloved with a Girl" unmarried and its Lego-animation music video. Stylus mag rated it the fifteenth greatest album of 2000–2005 while Pitchfork ranked it ninth on their listing of the top 100 albums from 2000–2004, and twelfth on their pinnacle 200 of the 2000s (decade). Uncut Mag placed it first in their list of the greatest 150 albums of the 2000s (decade).

The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn'south improvement hit album Van Lear Rose.

Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald created an online-only art project, titled Redd Blood Cells, in which he added a bass runway to the otherwise bass-less album. The White Stripes arranged with Steven to have the files down after more than threescore,000 downloads.

Rolling Rock named White Claret Cells the nineteenth best album of the decade,[22] and "Brutal in Love with a Daughter" the l-8th all-time song of the decade.[23] Q listed White Blood Cells as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.[24]

Legacy [edit]

Accolades [edit]

The album was ranked on many "all-time of 2001" year-stop lists, including being ranked among Blender,[25] Rolling Rock,[26] Mojo,[27] and Kerrang!'south top xx,[28] NME,[29] Pitchfork,[30] and The Village Voice 's peak ten.[31] Spin called White Blood Cells the best album of 2001.[32] In 2003, the tape was chosen equally number xx on NME 'south Top 100 Albums of All Time.[33] In 2005, Spin placed it at number 57 in its listing of the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005,[34] while Stylus included information technology at number xiv in its list of the Pinnacle 50 Albums of 2000–2005.[35] In 2006, Mojo featured it at number 28 in its listing of 100 Modern Classics, 1993–2006.[36]

As the 2000s drew to a close, White Claret Cells was included on several publications' lists of all-time of the decade. The A.5. Club ranked it as the number i all-time album of the decade in its Elevation 50 Albums of the 2000s list.[37] British music mag Uncut too ranked the tape as the all-time album of the 2000s in its 2009 list Top 150 Albums of the 2000s.[38] Billboard placed the record at number eleven on its Height 20 Albums of the 2000s,[39] while Rolling Rock included it just behind the White Stripes' follow-up, Elephant, at number 20 on its Top 100 Albums of the 2000s.[40] NME featured the anthology at number 19 on its Top 100 Albums of the 2000s list,[41] and Pitchfork 's Tiptop 200 Albums of the 2000s included it every bit number 12.[42] Several other music publications, including Upshot of Audio, The Daily Californian, Glide, and Nether the Radar featured White Blood Cells inside the top 30 greatest records of the 2000s.[43] The record is included in both The Guardian 's "yard Albums To Hear Earlier You Die" and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Dice.[44] [45]

In 2012, Rolling Rock included White Blood Cells as #497 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, saying, "Jack'southward Delta-roadhouse fantasies, Detroit-garage-stone razzle and disrepair-beloved lyricism, likewise as Meg's toy-thunder drumming all peaked at one time."[2]

Publication Country Accolade Twelvemonth Rank
Consequence of Sound US Top Albums of the 2000s[46] 2009 7
Mojo Uk The 100 Greatest Albums of Our Lifetime 1993–2006[47] 2006 28
NME Great britain The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2000s[48] 2009 19
Pitchfork US Peak 200 Albums of the 2000s[49] 2009 12
Rolling Rock U.s. Top 100 Albums of the 2000s[50] 2002 19
500 Greatest Albums of All Fourth dimension[51] 2012 497
Slant Magazine US Top 250 Albums of the 2000s[52] 2010 68
Spin US Summit 100 Albums of the Last 20 Years[53] 2005 57
125 Best Albums of the By 25 Years[54] 2010 87

Runway list [edit]

All tracks are written by Jack White.

White Blood Cells [55]
No. Title Length
i. "Expressionless Leaves and the Dirty Ground" 3:04
2. "Hotel Yorba" 2:10
3. "I'one thousand Finding It Harder to Exist a Admirer" 2:54
4. "Fell in Beloved with a Daughter" i:l
5. "Expecting" 2:03
half-dozen. "Little Room" 0:50
7. "The Union Forever" 3:26
8. "The Aforementioned Boy You've E'er Known" 3:09
ix. "We're Going to Be Friends" 2:22
x. "Offend in Every Style" iii:06
11. "I Recollect I Smell a Rat" 2:04
12. "Aluminum" 2:19
thirteen. "I Can't Wait" 3:38
14. "At present Mary" 1:47
15. "I Can Learn" 3:31
xvi. "This Protector" 2:12
Total length: forty:31
Japanese edition
No. Title Length
17. "Jolene" 3:09
18. "Manus Springs" 2:57

Bonus DVD [edit]

Some editions were released with a bonus DVD.

Audio [edit]

No. Title Length
1. "Paw Springs" ii:57
ii. "Lafayette Dejection" 2:fifteen

Video [edit]

No. Championship Length
1. "Hotel Yorba"
2. "Fell in Love with a Girl"
3. "Dead Leaves and the Muddied Ground"
4. "We're Going to Be Friends"

Personnel [edit]

  • Jack White – atomic number 82 vocals, guitar, piano, organ, songwriting, production
  • Meg White – drums, tambourine, backing vocals

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Encounter also [edit]

  • Album era

References [edit]

  • Handyside, Chris (Baronial 12, 2004). Vicious in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes. St. Martin'due south Griffin. ISBN0-312-33618-7.

Notes [edit]

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  22. ^ White Blood Cells #19
  23. ^ Brutal in Dearest with a Girl #58
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External links [edit]

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