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Encyclopedia > Elephant (album)
Elephant
Studio album by The White Stripes
Released April 1, 2003
Recorded November 2001, April 2002
Genre Garage rock, blues-rock
Length 49:56
Label V2 Records (U.S.)
XL Recordings (Europe)
Producer Jack White, Liam Watson
Professional reviews
The White Stripes chronology
White Blood Cells
(2001)		 Elephant
(2003)		 Get Behind Me Satan
(2005)

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Contents

Background and production

Album

The White Stripes recorded Elephant in two weeks during 2002 in London's Toe Rag Studios. Jack White produced the album with deliberately antiquated equipment, including an eight-track tape machine and pre-1960s recording gear.[1] Toe Rag Studios are located in Hackney, London, UK. Owned and run by producer Liam Watson. ...


Cover art

The album has been released with at least six different versions of the front cover—different covers for the CD and LP editions in the U.S., the UK and elsewhere.[2] To give an example, on the U.S. CD edition Meg White is sitting on the left of a circus travel trunk and Jack is sitting on the right holding a cricket bat over the ground, while on the UK CD edition the cricket bat touches the ground and the image is mirrored so that their positions on the amplifier are reversed. Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ...


In an interview with Q Magazine in 2007, Jack White said, "If you study the picture carefully, Meg and I are elephant ears in a head-on elephant. But it's a side view of an elephant, too, with the tusks leading of either side." He went on to say, "I wanted people to be staring at this album cover and then maybe two years later, having stared at it for the 500th time, to say, 'Hey, it's an elephant!'"


Reception

The White Stripes had been gaining momentum with their previous three albums and were generally lauded in critical circles. Upon its release, critical response to this album was overwhelmingly positive, and many critics hailed it as the one of the defining events of the 2000s garage rock revival.[1]Uncut magazine remarked that "Elephant is where the tabloid phenomenon of summer 2001 prove they are no flash in the pan by making a truly phenomenal record."[3] David Fridge (with Rolling Stone) called it "a work of pulverizing perfection," adding, "It will be one of the best things you hear all year."[1] and All Music Guide said the album "overflows with quality".[4] Critics also commented on the development of the band. NME noted that "The eloquence, barbarism, tenderness and sweat-drenched vitality of Elephant make it the most fully-realised White Stripes album yet."[5] PopMatters said the album cemented "their evolution from Blind Willie McTell cover band with a pop sensibility to full-fledged, honest-to-goodness rock 'n' roll gods."[6] The album enjoys a metacritic rating of 92.[7] Negative critique, though rare, was centered around the "gimmicks" that surround the music, most notably, the White Stripes' insistence on being called siblings. "So maybe it's time to drop the enigmatic charade," Lorraine Ali (with Newsweek) pleaded, although she concluded, Elephant still sounds great."[8] The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ...


The album debuted at #1 in the United Kingdom and reached #6 on the Billboard Album Charts in the United States. The album won Grammys for Best Alternative Album and Best Rock Song ("Seven Nation Army"). In 2003, the album was ranked number 390 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was also placed thirty-ninth in the UK's Channel 4's 100 Greatest Albums of all time.[9] In December 2003, NME magazine made it their Album of the Year. It has been suggested that Billboard be merged into this article or section. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Seven Nation Army is the first track on the album Elephant by American rock band The White Stripes. ... This article is about the magazine. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ...


Track listing

All songs written by Jack White, except where noted. kicks ass --clayton kicks ass hard! ...

  1. "Seven Nation Army" – 3:51
  2. "Black Math" – 3:03
  3. "There's No Home for You Here" – 3:43
  4. "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:46
  5. "In the Cold, Cold Night" – 2:58
  6. "I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart" – 3:20
  7. "You've Got Her in Your Pocket" – 3:39
  8. "Ball and Biscuit" – 7:19
  9. "The Hardest Button to Button" – 3:32
  10. "Little Acorns" (Mort Crim, J. White) – 4:09
  11. "Hypnotize" – 1:48
  12. "The Air Near My Fingers" – 3:40
  13. "Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" – 3:17
  14. "Well It's True That We Love One Another" – 2:42
^  a:  The song was inspired by the monologue, although Jack did not seek out the recording of Crim. It was on a tape Ben Blackwell gave him to record on, the piano at the beginning of the song was improvised by Jack not knowing the monologue was on the other side of the tape. After discovering the monologue was also on the tape, Jack wrote the song.
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Samples

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Personnel

kicks ass --clayton kicks ass hard! ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... Megan Martha White (born December 10, 1974 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan) is best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ...

Additional personnel

Mort Crim is a former broadcast journalist and evangelical preacher. ... Holly Golightly (born Holly Golightly Smith) is an English singer-songwriter. ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Fridge, David (April 17, 2003), "Living Color". Rolling Stone. (920): 102
  2. ^ The White Stripes official website, index to album artwork including covers, page 1 of 3. Page retrieved 21 June 2007.
  3. ^ Byline unknown (May 2003), "Elephant". Uncut. volume unknown: 94
  4. ^ Phares, Heather (2003)."Review" AllMusic.com. Retrieved September 11, [2007]
  5. ^ Author unknown (2003). Elephant MetaCritic.com. Retrieved September 11, 2007
  6. ^ Alves, Tim (April 4, 2003). The White Stripes: Elephant" PopMatters.com. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
  7. ^ [http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/whitestripes/elephant?q=elephant Elephant ] Metacritic.com. Retrieved September 11, 2007.
  8. ^ Ali, Lorraine (April 14, 2003), "The Second Coming". Newsweek. 141 (15):57
  9. ^ (2003). 100 Greatest Albums Channel4.com. Retrieved September 11, 2007

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The White Stripes
Jack White | Meg White
Discography
Albums: The White Stripes | De Stijl | White Blood Cells | Elephant | Get Behind Me Satan | Icky Thump
EPs: Walking with a Ghost
Singles: "Let's Shake Hands" | "Lafayette Blues" | "The Big Three Killed My Baby" | "Hand Springs" | "Hello Operator" | "Lord, Send Me an Angel" | "Party of Special Things to Do" | "Hotel Yorba" | "Fell in Love with a Girl" | "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" | "We're Going to Be Friends" |
"Red Death at 6:14" | "Candy Cane Children" | "Seven Nation Army" | "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" | "The Hardest Button to Button" | "There's No Home for You Here" | "Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)" | "Blue Orchid" | "My Doorbell" | "The Denial Twist" | "Icky Thump" | "Rag and Bone" | "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)"
DVDs: Candy Coloured Blues (unofficial) | Under Blackpool Lights
Other projects: Aluminium
Related articles
Sympathy for the Record Industry | Third Man Records | Ian Montone | The Upholsterers | The Go | The Raconteurs

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White Stripes: Elephant (2003): Reviews (778 words)
Elephant overflows with quality -- it's full of tight songwriting, sharp, witty lyrics, and judiciously used basses and tumbling keyboard melodies that enhance the band's powerful simplicity.
Elephant is a startlingly dark and consistent record, incorporating frequencies never before heard on a White Stripes album.
Elephant isn't one of those albums that'll change your life, or your tastes, or even the face of your music collection -- it's just a strong and consistent collection of powerful rock songs.
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