Elephant

Meh

The Hardest Button to Button was pretty good. Nice riffs on Acorns and Hypnotize. Second half better.

Known before: some songs Standouts: 1. Seven Nation Army 7. You've Got Her in Your Pocket 5.0

Obviously Seven Nation Army stands out here. But I didn't expect the rest of the album to be sort of mid and forgettable.

1. 7 nation army - 1.5 2. black math - 1 3. therez no home for you here - 1 4. dont knouu uuhat to do uuith myzelf - 1 5. in the cold night - 1.5 6. i uuant to be the boy - 1 7. youve got her in your pocket - 1 8. ball and bizcuit - 1.5 9. the hardezt button to button - 1 10. little acornz - 1 11. hypnotize - 1 12. the air near my fingerz - 1 13. girl you have no faith in medicine - 1.5 14. itz true that uue love one another - 1

Seven Nation Army is good :)

A couple of good tracks but this has really aged poorly, student lyrics, monotone music

Seven Nation Army. Too rocky

Even though "Seven Nation Army" is a done-to-death song, it still somehow is a track that is *very* hard to get sick of. The rest of the album unfortunately stands in it's shadow, but the rest is fine. Not much that stood out, but nothing bad either

Meh. Alguna canción chula, pero ya está.

Heard before: some First off, this sounds GREAT. The guitars are 1,000 feet tall, and the drums are just about as deep. But it leaves me struggling with my Jack White conundrum. I just don't connect with his scuzzy faux-bluesman persona at all. Tough to explain; I like Jon Spencer, Nick Cave, Tom Waits - any number of modern arch-blues dudes - but there's something about Jack. By the time I get to the pretty good guitar solo on the 13th track, I can barely pay attention. But man, the guitars on Ball and Biscuit sound so good. Shame the song is so dull. Top tracks: There's No Home For You Here, Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine, In The Cold Cold Night

Fine. Sometimes I felt like it could be timeless and then other times I felt very much it was from the early 2000s and sounded very similar to Weezer and Cake.

Jack White förstod inte the Beatles

Listened to 3/4s of it to be honest but was surprisingly disappointed after Seven Nation Army

'Seven Nation Army' and 13 others. White Stripes lack of bass always annoyed me, amusing that their biggest hit has a a fake bass on it. Bass is best, why doesn't everyone know this yet?

Most of this is that sleepy almost formless rock that ends up being mostly a let down. 7 Nation army is the stand out on the album.

Ohhh Jeremy Corbyn. repeat to fade. I don't know what it is about the White Stripes, they're plainly quite good, but even at the time when I liked them, I never loved them, and I've never felt the desire to stick any of their records on in the intervening 20 years or so, even the couple I bought. Also, the big songs here were absolutely played to buggery everywhere, and the rest is kind of meh blues rock noodlings. I drifted in and out listening to this again now, mostly bored. Started as a 3, managed to work its way down to a 2. I'm noticing a theme in this project, maybe its the blues rock that doesn't do it for me. I like the blues. Shit, the cover version here just killed Burt Bacharach. Confirmed 2.

Might be residual gripes from when it was everywhere and overhyped, but I still have a hard time listening to this.

I like the production of the album. Most of the songs have a good hook, but I don't like the singing on most of the songs. The cover version of I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself is an abomination. Favorite song: Seven Nation Army.

Overrated

On first listen, kind of annoyed me a bit and wasn't really the vibe at the time, but I stuck it on the day after and didn't mind it. You really do have to be in the mood. I can appreciate why the album is raved about, it's a really cohesive set of songs, no track really feeling like filler, with punchy stripped back rock/blues production. However, it does begin to feel a bit samey after a while and I was looking forward to the album finishing at about the 40min mark. Aside from the famous tracks, I really liked The Air Near My Fingers. I would probably listen to this album again, but would need to be in the mood. I do however think it deserves a place in the 1001, mostly due to the quality of the album, but it isn't really for me. All in all, not a bad album, but relative to the other albums in the 1001, not a particularly high scorer.

mostly forgettable bluesy garage rock

Middle of the road for me

Meg White can't drum and the production sounds like shit, but not even in an interesting punk sort of way. It's also fucking boring.

Kinda classy but feels repetitive. Maybe I’m just tired tho.

Too moody for me

Nope. Hey - like what you want obviously - but this whole idea that "back to basics / simple and primitive / low-fi / raw" is some sort of ROCK PURITY that counters and surpasses anything else that has more art, thought, creativity, melody, and <gasp> a goddamn bass line is utter shit and insulting. I hate this. ...ok....upon a bit more subjective reflection and listening...am boosting to 2 stars. Having been subjected to the grating banality of Seven Nation Army for years I was ready to give this 0 stars if possible but there's actually more melody in here than I'd thought or expected. e.g. "I Want To Be The Boy..." and "You've Got Her In Your Pocket" were pretty nice - I'd really like to have heard these with a full (better?) band. But overall the lack of bass gives the entire production a hollowness that's impossible to listen to; the drumming is terribly pedestrian and sloppy, and the low-fi aesthetic is something I would be surprised I'd ever rate higher than a 2. So...yay I guess for Jack White's talent - and/but I like the Ranconteurs infinitely more than this band... 3/10 2 stars.

not particularly note worthy outside of 7na 2.5

Not my thing, but Ball and Biscuit is incredible.

First song was goodest rest is fine I guess

Bit of a nostalgia trip in this one. This is one of those albums that does what it does very well. Feels like a dumbed-down Cramps / Pussy Galore / Hasil Adkins, but Jack White clearly managed to capture the zeitgeist of the time with these tunes. As Seven Nation Army’s ubiquity attests. Another on I drifted off from after a few tracks, but catchy in places.

Interesting sound. Nothing special here for me.

Mja, ik heb deze hype nooit begrepen. Seven Nation Army heeft een coole riff, maar heb ik te vaak gehoord. Overige nummers vind ik soms niet om aan te horen.

Best Song: Hypnotize. A song that leans forward the whole way. Worst Song: You've Got Her in Your Pocket. No one is here for attempts at a ballad. Really disrupts the punchy, staccato flow. Overall: Not as good as I expected/remembered. For such a raw production style, I expected more passion and intensity in the lyrics and the pacing.

I don't know if the White Stripes' 2001 album White Blood Cells is on the list, but it should be because it's infinitely better than Elephant. This album is ok, there are some good songs on it, but too much it just dissolves into blues jams (which tbh, seems to be a hallmark of the 1001 albums list...). I also want to add, when "Seven Nation Army" was released every review noted that the iconic bass line was not played on a bass, rather Jack White revved up his guitar. Also, I was in a convenience store in Manchester in 2003 and an Australian couple got into an argument when the guy refused to buy the CD for the girl and he wouldn't agree that "I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart" was an adorable song title.

🎶

Some bangers like the Seven Nation Army. But the other songs just didn't land Rating: 4/10

Not impressed with the album

Very different group….

Oh right, these guys have more songs than Seven Nation Army. I actually liked this one back when it came out and I was 12 or 13. Now I can't really say the same anymore. It's very noisy and dissonant and really just not all that interesting. I do still like Seven Nation Army and I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart was a nice one too and Hypnotize was decent too. But in general I found myself hoping this album would end a lot sooner.

Far suonare la batteria a tua sorella sarebbe stata un'idea geniale.. Se fosse stata in grado di suonarla un po' meglio! Secondo me, Jack White, hai delle idee anche molto fighe, ma non vengono valorizzate dal contesto alternativo che hai voluto costruire coinvolgendo tua sorella. Poi probabilmente avrai voluto far colpo su un altro tipo di pubblico.. Musicalmente però non me la sento di premiarti. Se vinciamo pure i mondiali però: "Poppoopoppopooo!"

Not a top 1000 in my ears

just flat out boring, i wanted to fall asleep since track 4. Not the energy i was expecting by starting with seven nation army. First few tracks did not do it for me, just not my vibe. Towards the last part of the album i started to get a little into it but still just not a fan of the white stripes.

meh. Dreadful drumming.

Its ok

Meh. Nothing offensive here, with a couple of fun tracks. The overall production is surprisingly good for garage rock. I particularly like "In the Cold, Cold Night". The intro to "Little Acorns" is hilarious - I had to look to see if I had accidentally opened a video that was playing in a different browser window. I mostly don't like Jack's voice and the thrashing guitars and hyper-aggressive drums get old after a few tracks. I wouldn't necessarily skip any tracks that popped up and might even like them better in isolation, but whole album of one after another was too much and I wouldn't buy this album for my collection.

This was the album where I started to feel like this White Stripes thing was kind of a one-trick pony. Or at least it was like they covered a corner of the music world that was too specific for me? And so three albums in I was like "Yeah, this is about as much as I need of this." Some good songs on here, to be sure. But the charm started wearing off here for me.

Everyone knows seven nation army, but after hundreds of listens I'm tired of the song, and the rest of the songs on this album flop. Shame but I'm not a fan.

bar seven nation army, a huge disappointment

Damals wie heute lässt mich das ganze Konzept kalt. Damals, weil lieber im Postrock versunken, heut irgendwie drauf gefreut und dann doch recht ausgeblichen vorgefunden. Das Genie Jack Whites erkenne ich leider nicht, aber vielleicht ist er einfach der guitarists‘ guitarist. Beginn krachgeil, Abschluss charmant-quirky. Dazwischen ist mehr Material als erwartet, aber haften bleibt nicht viel. Es ist referenziell, ausgebufft, smart und straight durch den Rock‘n‘Roll Garten gepflügt, aromatisch aber wie Holland Tomaten. Durchwachsene 2.2

Zum Kartons und Möbel auspacken nicht geeignet. Klingt weder nach der Rettung des Rocks für mich, noch ist/war Meg White die neue Maureen Tucker. Kurz: hat mich nicht überzeugt.

I don’t know - maybe I just wasn’t in the mood, but holy crap this record felt like it was about six hours long. I had the band’s album that came out before this one and remember liking it quite a bit at the time. Now I’m wondering if that will still be the case or if we all got collectively seduced by their entire aesthetic in the early 2000s, and were way too forgiving of the actual songs themselves? Because with all that hype in the rear view there’s not much on here that’s doing anything for me in 2021. I’ll just listen to “We’re Going to Be Friends.” If Jack White ever makes a record that’s just variations on that one song, I’ll be on it like white on stripes. Until then…

i know seven nation army and icky thump. that’s about it.

Best album by one of the most overrated bands ever

Weird stuff

If i could change my rating for kiwanuka from a 1 to a 2 I would. I thought it was bad, this is bad. This is so bad if I could rate half stars I would

pretty bad, only one or two standout songs, the rest were very similar or bad

Sekava ja huono, kuulostaa niinkun soittimilla olis vaan soitettu ja laulettu päällekkäin mitä sattuu

No

No

garbage

No.

boring also

no me gustó mucho la verdad

The worst abum ever, made me wanna throw up. I haaaate that stupid song

fuck you Jack White

Meh!

good/ the last few songs not my cup of tea

There's not really anything that I like about this album. The fuzzy screeching guitar work

El grupo mas sobrevalorado del siglo XXI. Y eso que la competencia es bestial. Él pasa por ser un ídolo de la guitarra... Para cagarse encima. A duras penas afina de vez en cuando cantando. Sinceramente, me ha dado pereza escucharlo.

I listened but didn't really enjoy it.

Hopplöst trist musik med sporadisk hårdrocksdist. Enda behållningen är låten som Meg sjunger och sista spåret, den sistnämnda uppfattar i alla fall jag som ett humornummer

One boring album this. Seven nation army is too played out and was never that interesting to start off with. Jack whites voice is sub smashing pumpkins and thats hardly a brag. Just a real grind to listen to from beginning to end. Avoid

I did like 2 songs but the rests were silly or just noise.

Sucks.

Ick.

Not for me. I can't devalue how classic and beloved the album is however sounds dated and mostly boring personally. Not much to comment on.

Why?

One start for Seven Nation Army.

This wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" Can't forgive them for butchering that.

Except for seven nation army non of the songs catch me or even seem very good. The style of the album just isn't something I enjoyed.

The White Stripes are kind of an anomaly to me. Apparently they're an acclaimed act and apparently this is one of the best albums of the 2000s, yet I never run into anyone who claims to be a huge fan of the band, and I've never been recommended any of their music. I'll chalk it up to them simply being outside my sphere of interest. Pretty unremarkable stuff all around, but it's at the very least listenable. The gimmicky nature of the band makes for some pretty banging music videos, at the very least. Update: I somehow appreciate this much less on my second listen than I did on my first lol

Liked Song Seven Nation Army

Maybe the most boring band in all rock music. I absolutely cannot stand them. Just an awful awful band.

This one was not for me. I'm definitely not a fan of Jack's vocals. The lyrics, I don't care for.

Seven nation army, but so yelley

An ok album, not my cup of tea, but someone else’s.

Not my style

Nothing special …. same old, same old …. Quite boring really 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not for me, very basic

Boring, sucks

Muy fome, ni siquiera el hit del álbum es emocionante o hace sentir algo tbh. Mi favorita fue "In the cold, cold night", pero no la escucharía por gusto. Ya que no se pueden poner medias estrellas, dejo mi registro acá. 1 1/2 estrellas

blum...blum blum blum blum blam... blam... alkaa albumi, ja samalla vitutus.. PASKAA!!!!! ei voi muuta sanoa kun 0/5!!"Elephant is elemental music, painted in primary colors. There is no shading to speak of. The instrumentation is unadorned aside from a little distortion here, a little reverb or echo there." elefantti lephants are sacred animals to Hindus. It is the living incarnation of one of their most important gods: Ganesh, an elephant-headed deity who rides atop a tiny mouse. hä? ball and biscuit

Heard this and not fussed.

simply put, i did not enjoy listening to this album at all.

Hard to set aside the edgy beginner guitar lesson associations and hear in its context. Ultimately, beyond some pretty catchy guitar on the big hits it’s not a brilliant listen. Appreciate its simplicity and do think White’s character is fun but ultimately didn’t really enjoy listening. Maybe in a different mood. Feel like the good tracks have enough in them to fill a car advert and the other tracks are just kind of odd.

This... isn't that great. Seven Nation Army is a good song, but the rest of the album is just.. more of it and not as good. This album is just kind of sonically annoying.

-Ah, yes, THIS song- -If this album is on here because of THIS song I'm going to be sorely upset -That's.....THAT'S how it ends? What a disappointment. -Black Math - this riff is fun I guess. -Where the heck did that changeup come from? Out of nowhere. -Alright now this riff is wearing down. -TNHFYH wants to be garage Queen so badly. What's with the spoken verses? At least it's different. Still not my jam. I don't mind a fade out, but that fadeout happened too fast. oh my god this album is fifty minutes long -IJDKWTDWM opens promising. I like this softer tone. Very good use of soft verse, heavy chorus. Yeah I like this song a lot more. The little doodle in the bridge is nice. But it ends out of nowhere. I'm noticing a pattern. -ITCCN - okay, a Meg song. Nice vocals. Rather simplistic song structure that I'm not a fan of. I can appreciate that the production chops are here on this album. -IWTBTBWWYMH ehhhhhhh. -YGHIYP I can do without every song starting with the title. I like the softer acoustics though. -Ball and Biscuit - more expectedness out of TWS. This is a nothing song for me. -Hypnotize is admittedly pretty catchy in its riffs. But god this album is just grating. WITTWLA - HOW IS THIS DAMN ALBUM STILL GOING. There aren't even that many songs. 14 isn't a lot esp for 2005. -One star. This was a miserable experience for the most part.

Otroligt ojämn ljudkvalitet, fruktansvärd separation. Dålig mixning. De snabbare låtarna låter lite som Wolfmother fast om de vore begränsade av undermålig musikaliska och teknisk förmåga. Hade inte varit med på listan utan Seven Nation Army, 100% lightning in a bottle, objektivt en brilliant låt. De lugnare låtarna har ett genuint bra utförande men lider extremt mycket av separationsproblemen. För ett album släppt 2003 så måste musikprodden ha varit ett gymnasiearbete av någons syskon. Kvinnans röst sticker ut med häftig dynamik. Akustiska gitarren låter rätt bra på "You've got her in your pocket" men tyvärr kombinerad med att sången är inspelat på ett Game Boy Color. Alla låtar hittills förutom första låter som "ROCK THE SONG (TM)", de mesta känna oinspererat och "lab-grown" för att spelas på radiostationen: "ROCK STATION". Känns som musik för amerikanska 16åringar som tycker plånbokskedjor är coola. Jag får någon känsla att texterna är skrivna helt frånskilt och separat från musiken och därför måste tvingas in i melodierna genom att höja och sänka sångtempot vilket bidrar till ett ryckigt och amatörmässigt intryck. Kommer inte ihåg en enda refräng utöver första. Har samma kulturella arv som 'frosted tips' va lite cool ett kort tag men är nu mest en meme. Wannabe punkverisionen av Wolfmother/The Hives med ljudkvalitet och mix lika skakig som mitt studieresultat årskurs 1.

Huh? Didn’t know what to expect. Don’t know what to say. Nothing I liked. Their story is interesting to read but wasn’t inspired by their work.

Seven nation army

Favourite track: 9-The Hardest Button to Button

Aye

Forgot that I liked this album.

eww