The Ant and The Elephant (Elephant - The White Stripes)

Member Name: vassilis73

Product:	Elephant - The White Stripes
Date:	03/07/03 (272 review reads)
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Advantages: Authentic Rock, Excellent Lyrics

Disadvantages: None

Elephant is one of those rock albums that will make you to re-discover your lost hope for sounds with meaning. Amazing guitars that they lifting you up. Drums and basses that you really can sense. Opinionated and full of energy voices.

Who are White Stripes
Meg White: drums and vocals
Jack White: vocals, guitar and piano

Elephant is their fourth album and they have done several singles.
More details about them you can find on their web-site: www.whitestripes.com

The tracks
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Black Math
3. There's No Home For You Here
4. I Just don't Know What to Do With Myself
5. In the Cold, Cold Night
6. I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart
7. You've Got Her In Your Pocket
8. Ball and Biscuit
9. The Hardest Button To Button
10. Little Acorns
11. Hypnotize
12. The Air Near my Fingers
13. Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
14. Well It's True That We Love One Another

Produced by Jack White
Engineered and recorded by Liam Watson
All songs written by Jack White except ?I Just don't Know What to Do With Myself? (written by Burt Bacharah ' Hal David)

This note that impressed me very much is inside the cover:?No computers were used during the writing, recording, mixing or mastering of this record?

Isn?t that amazing? This album is a pure human product!

The price
The cheapest is at cd-wow.com at £8.99.At Amazon.co.uk it?s on for £9.97 and at WHSmith
it?s on for £9.99.(+£1.54 for delivery if you buy it through their site)

My experience
Listening the whole cd was really a challenge as the first time I listened up to the third song and went back to listen again the first two. Then I managed to listen up to the fifth track and I couldn?t?t resist. I had to go back to listen again track number three and four! On track number seven I stayed for half an hour, list
en to it again and again.
When I got to the 12th track I had already listen about ten times track number 8 and the first two tracks a couple of times! And when after hours I managed to listen the last track which is so sweet and funny, I didn?t know where that cd starts and where it finishes! I had years to enjoy a cd that much.

My opinion
An absolutely fantastic album.Elephant is one of the best albums I have heard this year. I don?t want to say the best I?ve ever heard for years because you probably will say that I am exaggerating.

Really if you want to make a gift to yourself, buy that album or borrow it and listen to that authentic album that was made without the use of computer.(I don?t know if the innocence that is coming out of this album is because of that but to tell you the honest truth?I don?t want to know.)

What I know though is that the simplicity of the words and the sounds reminded me the fastness and the deep meaning of the ancient Greeks. You can say three words and you can analyse them for centuries. I am not saying that album is that good but it surely reminded me that.

Song that I like
You 've Got Her In Your Pocket,
Well it's true That we Love One Another,
The Air Near my Fingers,
Black Math, There's No Home for You here,
Seven Nation Army, In the Cold,
Cold Night, Ball and Biscuit, Hypnotize
(I have wrote them all or I have left some for you to discover?!)

So if you are asking me ?shall I buy it?? I will answer ?I hope you are calling me from your mobile and you are at HMV or something!!...?

Thanks for reading?

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