Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes

Pros: incredible musical variety - total commitment to the songs
Cons: it won't please listeners looking for consistency

Talk about great albums long enough and certain common elements are bound to pop up eventually. Maybe they've got a wonderful sense of poetry to the lyrics. Perhaps it's a radical new sound that inspires a legion of followers. It could be a rich, ...

Pros: OK, rock press...you got me...I'm sucked in now.
Cons: How much extra money could it possibly have cost to print the damn lyrics?

Dear Jack, It's been really hard for me these past few days, considering I've been trying really hard NOT to like you. I mean, not that you're not a talented musician or a great songwriter, but, well, sometimes you just come off as a) a major a*shole ...

Pros: A whole buncha great songs...
Cons: Not completely consistent, but who cares!?

There’s a cozy nook in my heart for local bands. So few ever make it big, and when The White Stripes swaggered to the top of charts around the world it was pleasantly welcome surprise. The White Stripes rise to fame began some time in the late 1990’ ...

Pros: Another excellent album with some different sounds thrown into the mix
Cons: Passive Manipulation

After releasing what became pretty much everyone's album of the year for 2003, the White Stripes surely knew how tall an order following up their smash hit Elephant would be. Nevertheless, they rose to the occasion and did exactly what ...

Pros: The Dynamic Rock Duo from Detroit
Cons: More of them was all that I needed

I surely did not realize how much I loved The White Stripes, until It was revealed that another c.d. was to be released by them. My anticipation grew, like a little boy who is told that he is about to go to Disneyland. Giddiness I tell ya. I ...

Pros: Good vocals, most lyrics, cool title and cover, cohesive quality, Decent instrumentals
Cons: Repetitive lyrics on some tracks, underdeveloped tracks

The White Stripes leapt out of obscurity with their album "Elephant," powered by the amazing single "Seven Nation Army." "Seven Nation Army" had an impressive video and was a direct, pounding song that refused to be denied, making it ideal to take a ...

Pros: Grand, inventive, cinematic, and VIVIDLY executed.
Cons: So much so that their reality may be called into question.

You're hearing it here first, my little BLOGOSPHERICAL OBJECTS: THE WHITE STRIPES, darlings of the current rock intelligentsia, religious figures of hipsters worldwide, and the so-called saviours of blues-based garage rock are NOT a REAL BAND ! ! ...

Pros: extremely diverse and different, almost chaotic in musical nature
Cons: a bit too silly and/or pretentious at times, a couple of duds

You can be forgiven if you didn't know The White Stripes released a new album. Promotion has been light for Get Behind Me Satan, the band's fifth record, and the follow-up to the massively successful (both commercially and critically) ...

Pros: Musically flexible and adventurous; "Take Take Take," "As Ugly as I Seem," "Red Rain"
Cons: May prove a disappointment for fans expecting more incessant, hammering rock

Okay, I'm not going to lie. On first listen GET BEHIND ME SATAN, the fifth album by Detroit blues rock romper stompers The White Stripes, seems to collapse as a follow up to noisy masterpiece "Elephant." With a louche, misleading title seemingly designed ...

Pros: Everything.
Cons: Can be a difficult listen.

Please disregard the text of this review. My views on music have changed in recent months. I recall that when the White Stripes had released their fourth LP, El ephant, I thought to myself, "Okay, they've kept ...

Pros: It's bigger than you are.
Cons: You're smaller than it is.

(Just last week, Ali--our reporter in the field--visited Satan to try and get an interview on the supposed insult behind the title of the White Stripes' new album, Get Behind Me Satan. While she couldn't get an interview because he was ...

Pros: Great songs, extremely well-written, Jack White is pure perfection, wonderful melodies...
Cons: ...a few dull tracks, but they don't bring the album down (read review)

The White Stripes have definitely gained a lot of attention in the past years. The rock duo (composed of guitarist/pianist/songwriter/l ead vocalist, Jack White and ex-wife/drummer Meg White) has seen numerous hit songs (Fell In ...

Pros: Thump several thump tracks thump that are thump undeniably thump intricate and thump interesting
Cons: Too much watered-down, sparse melodic boredom and thumping percussiveness

If for nothing else, The White Stripes will go down in history as a band that proved it was possible to work any degree of musical cohesion with a meager two members and no apparent bass. This survival-against-all-odds scenario means that the ...

Pros: It's so impossibly/unpredictably/truthfully/ loud and outspoken you can't avoid it once you hear it.
Cons: Jack White sounds like a little black boy sometimes (Not really a con. But interesting.)

You've got to personify your evil. This one time I was at Mcdonalds, and this dear old lady cut in line, thinking I was busy staring at the menu when really truly I was waiting to get my liquid lard injected into my bloodstream. And so I stood up on the ...

Pros: Like nothing you've ever heard before, from anyone.
Cons: Like nothing you've ever heard before, from anyone.

The White Stripes are ridiculous. Honestly. You break through with a cheesy pop song that runs under 2 minutes (Fell in Love With a Girl), and then achieve critical and popular super-stardom with your followup (Elephant) and it's lead single ...