The White Stripes - Redd Blood Cells
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Album Review
Release date: 12 August 2002
The White Stripes : White Blood Cells
Detroit 'siblings' play the blues
As nu-metal bands proliferate at a rate that usually requires a visit from Rentokil, the unconverted could feel swamped by the tide of unhealthy mental filth rising up the charts. It's an unprecedented cosmic kindness, then, that for every band squawking at their parents like ungainly chicks demanding worms, America should be producing an equal volume of excellent guitar bands who...
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- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
- Hotel Yorba
- I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentlemen
- Fell in Love With a Girl
- Expecting
- Little Room
- The Union Forever
- The Same Boy You've Always Known
- We're Going to Be Friends
- Offend in Every Way
- I Think I Smell a Rat
- Aluminium
- I Can't Wait
- Now Mary
- I Can Learn
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The White Stripes - Redd Blood Cells: Wikipedia Album Entry
In the summer of 2002, Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald came up with the idea to do an art experiment by adding bass tracks to 2 White Stripes songs and sharing them with Redd Kross fans via the internet. The overwhelmingly positive response inspired him to record bass tracks over the otherwise bass-less White Stripes album; White Blood Cells. After more than 60,000 downloads, The White Stripes arranged with Steven to take the files down, although it can still be found on various file-sharing networks under the name "Redd Blood Cells"
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