White Blood Cells by The White Stripes

Pros: Fast, fun, and fabulous pop-rock tracks.
Cons: Songs are often far too short.

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Pros: well crafted songs
Cons: Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Little Room

Wow, my titles today have just gone from decent to cheesy to just plain Bruce Campbell like. Well, here we are, the last in my mini series of reviews on all the "garage band revival" bands that have broken through to the mainstream. I started...

Pros: Excellent lyrics and arrangements
Cons: Vocals can be whiny, some similarity of crunchy guitar style

Jack and Meg White are The White Stripes, a group whose third album, White Blood Cells has garnered attention for a bursting ball of energy called Fell In Love With a Girl. Generally, I won’t buy a record for only one song, but I did. You...

Pros: An Excellent Breakthrough Release from the White Stripes.
Cons: None.

With a current new wave of garage rock-revivalists giving rock a kick-in-the-*ss to the already stale and bland neo-grunge rock sounds of Nickelback and Crud along with tiresome nu-metal sound of Linkin Park and Adema, there is reason to celebrate...

Pros: Some very high quality songs.
Cons: A few low points as well.

For some reason it took me a while to get into the White Stripes. I liked The Hives Veni Vidi Vicious quite a bit and The Strokes album was worth the $12 or so I spent on it, even though the disc did not live up to all the hype surrounding it. Yet I...

Pros: Retains some of that good ol' White Strips sound.
Cons: Much more modernized.

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Pros: Very fine bare-bones garage-boogie.
Cons: "Aluminium," "We're Going to Be Friends," "Little Room," and John Entwhistle died.

The White Stripes are your new favorite band!

At least that's what the critics tell me. I forget where I heard first about their 2001 album White Blood Cells, but methinks it was on some manner of amazon.com best-of list. Anyway, seeing...

Pros: Brilliant, stripped-down rock music.
Cons: Aluminium

I bought this album on the basis of one song. Now, I know what you’re thinking. It was “Fell In Love With A Girl”, right? Well, no actually. I liked that song, but the one that convinced me to give the album a shot was the wonderful “Dead...

Pros: edgy, melodic, original, not too reliant on one aspect of their talent
Cons: little vocal harmony, lack of instrumental variety

When 'Fell in Love With a Girl,' the first single from this album came out, I didn't know a single person who didn't love it...until the radio stations started playing it ten times a day. In a way, this is a good reflection of the entire album: there's...

Pros: Skilled songwriting, Simple yet engaging musical arrangements, Raw sound, and best of all, it's different!
Cons: Some of the songs don't quite fit in

Initially, the idea of an alleged brother and sister playing gothic garage rock armed with only a drum set and an electric guitar may not seem that appealing. However, this Detroit based rock couplet find a way to make it work. With intriguing song...

Pros: teeming with refreshing energy
Cons: couple tracks on the disc that fall slightly off-the-mark

Technically, Jack and Meg White aren't really doing anything musically that hasn't been done before. Their rough style of playing garage-style rock with a touch of dirty blues is something that's been going on for probably 30 years or more, but...

Pros: Simple, streamlined, raw!
Cons: Some people find the pros that I mentioned a con.

When I was a growing up, bands like Husker Du, the Feelies, and the Meat Puppets had me reeling in the pure bliss of rock and roll when I was still too young to understand the meaning of it all. As I went into my teens, along came bands like Pavement,...

Pros: usually good vocals, usually good lyrics
Cons: some awful songs, album undermined by excessive minimalism

First I fell in love with the sexy punk of "Fell in Love With a Girl". It had an energy and abandon that was a breath of fresh air. Then I found myself digging "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", with its classic-rock inluence and epic riffs. It's...

Pros: The first half of the album ROCKS
Cons: The second half doesn't

Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground - This beat makes my head bob. I love it. His voice is just shaky e ...

Pros: 1 good song, 2 okay ones
Cons: 13 bad songs

I was hooked by 'Fell In Love With A Girl', a fast, bouncy pseudo-punk sogn that left me gagging to hear more. This track is blatantly the best song on this album; although crude, it posseses an unplacable charm that made me listen to it time and time...