Favourites 4ever
30 April 2024
THE WHITE STRIPES (1997–2011 – 6 albums)
with their terrifically 1991 earworm HOTEL YORBA
from their 3rd LP Wild Blood Cells
“Well, it’s one, two, three, four
Take the elevator at the Hotel Yorba
I’ll be glad to see you later
All they got inside is vacancy”
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Remarkable albums from the past…
‘White Blood Cells’ by THE WHITE STRIPES
Released: 3 July 2001
PITCHFORK review: “White Blood Cells doesn’t veer far from the formula of past White Stripes records; all are tense, sparse and jagged. But it’s here that they’ve finally come into their own, where Jack and Meg White finally seem not only comfortable with the path they’ve chosen, but practiced, precise and able to convey the deepest sentiment in a single bound. It’s hard to know at this point in the game where they’ll head from here, but what matters is right now. And right now, I want to listen to this album again.”
Score: 9/10 – full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME says: Pure, stripped-to-the-bone, mind-boggling blues rock extravaganza. Their first step to world fame.
THREE TOP TRACKS: Hotel Yorba / We’re Going To Be Friends / I Think I Smell Rat
* HOTEL YORBA
* WE’RE GOING TO BE FRIENDS
* I THINK I SMELL A RAT
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First gig in Belgium – AB club in Brussels in 2001 – great souvenir