White Blood Cells
Studio album by The White Stripes
Released	July 3, 2001
Recorded	February 2001
Genre	Alternative rock Garage rock revival
Length	40:25
Label	Sympathy for the Record Industry V2 (2002 re-release)
Producer	Jack White
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (9.0/10) link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone link Tiny Mix Tapes link
The White Stripes chronology
De Stijl (2000) White Blood Cells (2001) Elephant (2003)

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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 Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Fell in Love with a Girl is the second single released from The White Stripes third album White Blood Cells. ... For other uses, see Lego (disambiguation). ... This article is about the online music and film magazine. ... Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ...

The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's comeback hit album Van Lear Rose. Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1934) is an American country singer-songwriter and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s and overall is revered as a country icon. ... kicks ass --clayton kicks ass hard! ... 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. ... Van Lear Rose is a Loretta Lynn album produced by rock star Jack White; the album was initially intended as a musical experiment, blending the styles of country singer/songwriter Lynn and producer White, who wrote one track, sings a duet with Lynn on another, and performs on the whole...

Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane 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. Redd Kross, a rock band from Hawthorne, California had their roots in 1978 in a band called The Tourists begun by Jeff and Steve McDonald while the brothers were still in middle school. ... Steven Shane McDonald (born May 24, 1967) was the bass player in the Los Angeles alternative rock/power pop band Redd Kross in the 1980s and 1990s. ...

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. "The Union Forever" – 3:26
8. "The Same Boy You've Always Known" – 3:09
9. "We're Going to Be Friends" – 2:22
10. "Offend in Every Way" – 3:06
11. "I Think I Smell a Rat" – 2:04
12. "Aluminum" – 2:19
13. "I Can't Wait" – 3:38
14. "Now Mary" – 1:47
15. "I Can Learn" – 3:31
16. "This Protector" – 2:12

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Samples

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Singles

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Personnel

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