![]() ![]() Tags 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1954 AFI Silver Alfred Hitchcock Amazon streaming arrow UK Best of 2017 Blu-ray books Books on Film Books on Movies british noir classic films Comics Alternative criterion Criterion Collection Dark Horse david lynch project documentary DVD Eddie Muller Edward G. “Blue Orchid” appears on the album Get Behind Me Satan. And what can you do besides ask “How dare you?” Here are things ruined, degraded, coming apart, fallen. David Lynch would be proud.Īs weird as the video seems, it does give a more dismal interpretation to the song. A dilapidated house, a red-head wearing lace and impossibly high heels, Jack and a piano with its guts ripped out, a white apple, Meg drumming on stacks of dishes, a white horse, and Jack’s cane that becomes….well, just watch. White has commented that he sees the entire record as an exploration of “characters and the ideal of truth.” It was no great surprise when the White Stripes announced they were no more back in early 2011. Something better than nothing, it’s giving up So is Jack singing about Satan or about a really wicked woman? It would seem that whoever it is, he or she has the power/ability to screw up (with pretty malicious intentions) something that was once good: Although “Blue Orchid” opens the album Get Behind Me Satan, and the words “get behind me” are in the song, Satan is never specifically mentioned. White dedicated the album to deceased blues musician Son House. The album was produced by Jim Diamond and vocalist/guitarist Jack White, recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders and Third Man Studios in Detroit. While the music may be somewhat simple, the lyrics are a very different story. The White Stripes is the debut studio album by American rock duo The White Stripes, released on June 15, 1999. The same thing happened to me after hearing the opening riff in “Blue Orchid.” Several days ago I played “Seven Nation Army” (from Elephant) for this friend of mine and he was humming it the rest of the day. Not many people can do that, and even fewer can do it on a consistent basis. I haven’t listened to all the White Stripes albums (although I’d like to), but from what I have heard, Jack and Meg do a masterful job of writing fairly simple melodies that stay in your head for days after you hear them. (To my less-than-expert hearing it appears that White has added a second guitar that’s just slightly behind the other track, adding a little more power and energy.) I don’t say this in a derogatory way, only to note that when you isolate the song’s elements, you’ve got Jack White’s falsetto vocal, distorted guitar riffs (not even chords) and drums. The song is raw, unrefined, driving, loud, hard to ignore. To someone now in his 40’s, it still provides a pretty good kick. “Blue Orchid” is the type of song that, as Stephen King says, would’ve “turned my dials all the way up to 10” in high school. And, more than two decades on, one of the first great albums of the 21st century remains a serious contender.“Blue Orchid” by The White Stripes (2005) This is where everything they were building up to on their first two albums suddenly clicked into place. Hotel Yorba takes your hand and whirls you joyously round a sawdust floor and I’m Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman hits a perfectly weighted groove. Smash hit Fell In Love With A Girl is the most fun you can have in less than two minutes, with its buzzsaw riff and wordlessly mesmerising refrain. ![]() They always excelled at impactful openers but the filthy fuzz and consummate construction of Dead Leaves And the Dirty Ground is as close to perfection as you can get. Their first two albums had made them a cult act for those in the know but it was on White Blood Cells that they exploded into the wider public consciousness, colour theme, sibling mythology and all. (Image credit: Sympathy For The Record Industry)Įlephant might have established The White Stripes as the hottest rock phenomenon of a then new century and briefly made power duos fashionable, but it was the incredible White Blood Cells that laid the groundwork. There were other standout moments like You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) but this was largely The White Stripes returning to a style and sound they’d already done better. He certainly had a knack for it though, delivering coruscating lines like ' White Americans, what?/ Nothing better to do/ Why don’t you kick yourself out?/ You’re an immigrant too.' Jack’s lyrics were rarely political - The Big Three Killed My Baby on the self-titled debut was the last time he’d really nailed his colours to any mast, and that was about the automotive industry. The angular title track was also one of their finest moments. It certainly wasn’t a bad album, returning to a more fundamental, fuzzed out approach after the more laid back deviation of Get Behind Me Satan. If it didn’t represent their creative peak, The White Stripes at least went out on a commercial high with the album that would turn out to be their swansong debuting at Number 1 in the UK and Number 2 on the US Billboard 200. ![]()
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