The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
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Album Review
Release date: 15 April 2003
White Stripes : De Stijl
Two-piece brother and sister band kick up fine rock'n'roll ruckus
Easing into its fourth decade, rock'n'roll, seems to have picked up something of a middle-aged spread; saddled down with extraneous string sections, unnecessary guitar solos, and all manner of luxurious nonsense stealing the fleet-footed funk from its once lithe shuffle. Here's the antidote. The White Stripes number singer/guitarist Jack White and his drummer sister Meg....
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- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
- Hotel Yorba
- I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman
- 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 - White Blood Cells: Wikipedia Album Entry
White Blood Cells is the third album by american garage rock band The White Stripes, released in 2001.
Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, going Gold and selling over 500,000 units. The album also reached number 55 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by the Fell in Love With a Girl single and its Lego-animation music video. Stylus magazine rated it the fifteenth greatest album of 2000-2005 while Pitchfork Media ranked it ninth on their list of the top 100 albums from 2000-2004.
The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack White and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's comeback hit album Van Lear Rose.
Redd Kross bassist Steven McDonald created an online-only art project, titled Redd Blood Cells, in which he added a bass track to the otherwise bass-less album. The White Stripes arranged with Steven to take the files down after more than 60,000 downloads.
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The White Stripes - White Blood Cells Lyrics
The White Stripes - Fell in Love with a girl Lyrics
Fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
but sometimes these feelings
The White Stripes - I Can Learn Lyrics
I wish we
were stuck up a tree
then we'd know
it's nicer below
The White Stripes - Now Mary Lyrics
Now Mary
can't you find a way
to bring me down?
The White Stripes - I Can't Wait Lyrics
I can't wait till you try to come back girl
when things they don't work out for you
who do you think you're messing with girl
what do you think you're trying to do?
The White Stripes - I Think I Smell A Rat Lyrics
Oh I think I smell a rat
I think I smell a rat
all you little kids
seem to think you know
The White Stripes - Offend In Every Way Lyrics
I'm patient of this plan
as humble as I can
I'll wait another day
before I turn awaya
The White Stripes - The Same Boy You've Always Known Lyrics
You fell down of course
and then you got up of course
and you started over
forgot my name of course
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The White Stripes - The Union Forever Lyrics
It can't be love
For there is no true love
It can't be love
For there is no true love
The White Stripes - Little Room Lyrics
Well you're in your little room
and you're working on something good
but if it's really good
you're gonna need a bigger room
The White Stripes - Expecting Lyrics
Your mouth said this never
but your fingers have shown me
that your head is so clever
you claim that you own me
The White Stripes - I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman Lyrics
Well I'm finding it harder
to be a gentleman every day
all the manners that I've been taught
have slowly died away
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The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground Lyrics
Dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound
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The White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends Lyrics
Fall is here, hear the yell
Back to school, ring the bell
Brand new shoes, walking blues
Climb the fence, books and pens
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba Lyrics
I was watching
with one eye on the other side
I had fifteen people telling me to move
I got moving on my mind
The White Stripes - This Protector Lyrics
(I never thought that I had to be
this protector
So many thoughts inside my head
a strange collector)
