White Blood Cells (album)


 * This article is about The White Stripes' album. See White blood cell for the biological definition.

White Blood Cells is the third album by American rock band The White Stripes, released in 2001.

The band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells eventually reached #61 on the Billboard 200, going gold and selling over 900,000 units. The album also reached #58 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by "Fell in Love with a Girl" and its use of Lego animation in its Michel Gondry-directed music video. Stylus Magazine rated it the 15th greatest album of 2000-2005.

The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, instigating 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.

Track listing
All songs written by The White Stripes.


 * 1) "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" – 3:04
 * 2) "Hotel Yorba" – 2:10
 * 3) "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman" – 2:54
 * 4) "Fell in Love with a Girl" – 1:50
 * 5) "Expecting" – 2:03
 * 6) "Little Room" – 0:50
 * 7) *Only White Stripes song to not use guitar, piano, or any other instrument of Jack's.
 * 8) "The Union Forever" – 3:26
 * 9) *Many lyrics are lines of dialog from the 1941 Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. No credit was given in the liner notes.
 * 10) "The Same Boy You've Always Known" – 3:09
 * 11) "We're Going to Be Friends" – 2:22
 * 12) "Offend in Every Way" – 3:06
 * 13) "I Think I Smell a Rat" – 2:04
 * 14) "Aluminum" – 2:19
 * 15) *Only White Stripes song characterized as nearly instrumental, though it does feature some wordless vocals.
 * 16) "I Can't Wait" – 3:38
 * 17) "Now Mary" – 1:47
 * 18) "I Can Learn" – 3:31
 * 19) "This Protector" – 2:10

Credits

 * Jack White – guitar, piano, vocals
 * Meg White – drums, background vocals

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