The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
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Track List: Get Behind Me Satan
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- Blue OrchidDownload & Buy
- The NurseDownload & Buy
- My DoorbellDownload & Buy
- Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)Download & Buy
- Little GhostDownload & Buy
- The Denial TwistDownload & Buy
- White MoonDownload & Buy
- Instinct BluesDownload & Buy
- Passive ManipulationDownload & Buy
- Take, Take, TakeDownload & Buy
- As Ugly As I SeemDownload & Buy
- Red RainDownload & Buy
- I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
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Album Details: Get Behind Me Satan
- Release Date:
- 06/07/2005
- Label:
- V2
- UPC:
- 638812725622
User Reviews: Get Behind Me Satan
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Won't dissapoint!
, June 7, 2005Reviewer: rod s - See all rod s's reviews -
'Get Behind Me Satan'
, October 10, 2006Pros: none
Cons: none
Tempted as I am to do a song-by-song analysis,instead I'd like to 'paint' a general impression.
The album was recorded in only a couple of weeks and sounds like it...but I mean that in the best way possible: it is refreshing in it's lack of studio polish/gimmickery, in it's cohesiveness (although variety is definitely present), the experimentations (Jack doing a whole song in a drippy, near incomprehensible falsetto?), clever lyrics and it has the vibrance of a performance recorded live but with the convenience of a recording studio, so it's without the annoying whistles, hoots and hollers that mar most live records.
Imagine going over a friend's house, but that friend happens to be talented musician and gifted songwriter who wants to share some tunes with you--but he's a little nervous; he's worked hard enough to get his material right but not hard enough to start hating it yet.
This album sounds like that.
Jack White (lead singer/guitarist/ ...pianist) bookends the album alone (fittingly, I suppose) with Loretta Lynn's "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)", quite nicely, and kicks it up a notch (along with drummer/vocalist Meg White) on the way there with tracks like "Denial Twist", "Little Ghost" (kinda funny; not a fave of mine, though) and lead single "Blue Orchid", which sounds like a young, bratty Prince embracing his rock side over his funk one.
There are enough instant classics on The White Stripes' 'Get Behind Me Satan' to merit the price of admission.
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Pro Reviews: Get Behind Me Satan
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews According to Jack White, Get Behind Me Satan deals with "characters and the ideal of truth," but in truth, the album is just as much about what people expect from the White Stripes and what they themselves want to deliver. Advance publicity for the album stated that it was written on piano, marimba, and acoustic guitar, suggesting that it was going to be a quiet retreat to the band's little room after the big sound, and bigger success, of Elephant. Then "Blue Orchid," Get Behind Me Satan's lead single, arrived. A devilish slice of discometal with heavily processed, nearly robotic riffs, the song was thrilling, but also oddly perfunctory; it felt almost like a caricature of their strippeddown but hardhitting rock. As the opening track for Get Behind Me Satan, "Blue Orchid" is more than a little perverse, as though the White Stripes are giving their audience the required rock single before getting back to that little room, locking the door behind them, and doing whatever the hell they want. Even Jack White's work on the Cold Mountain soundtrack and Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose isn't adequate preparation for how farflung this album is: Get Behind Me Satan is a weird, compelling collection that touches on several albums' worth of sounds, and its first four songs are so different from most of the White Stripes' previous music as well as from each other that, at first, they're downright disorienting. As if the red herring that is "Blue Orchid" isn't enough warning that Get Behind Me Satan is designed to defy expectations, "The Nurse"'s ironically perky marimbas and offkilter stabs of drums and guitar not to mention lyrics like "the nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds" make its domestic skulduggery one of the most perplexing and eerie songs the White Stripes have ever recorded (although Meg's brief cameo, "Passive Manipulation," which boasts the refrain "you need to know the difference between a father and a lover," rivals it). "My Doorbell," on the other hand, is almost ridiculously immediate and catchy, and with its skipping beat and brightly bashed pianos, surprisingly funky. Meanwhile, "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)" turns cleverly structured wordplay and those fluttering marimbas into a summery, affecting ballad. |
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Detroit minimalist rock duo (specifically, southwest Detroit minimalist rock duo) the White Stripes -- Jack White, guitar and vocals, Meg White, drums -- formed in 1997 (Bastille Day, to be precise) with the idea of making simple rock roll music. Fr...Full The White Stripes Biography
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Pros: It's hard, brash and unique, like all of their stuff
Cons: A little funky
This album kicks ass! It's different from their previous work (less electric guitar and less hard vocals) but is just as creative and inventive, has a nice inclusion of bluegrass/blues/hard acoustic mixed with that awesome White Stripes style. LOVE IT!