The White Stripes - Elephant

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 In Her 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: It's That We Love One Another


Another classic album for the people of the future to talk about... and they will. It's now 2009, while I write this and there is one problem, there is only ONE modern blues man that's in touch with past blues musicians and that is obviously, Jack White. He is considered the saviour of rock n roll, and yeah he pretty much is unfortunately, which I mean as no offence to Jack, but we definitely need more of him and the chemistry he has with his sidekick Meg White.

Elephant electrify's us instantly with a monstrous rock anthem, 'Seven Nation Army'. The slow tempo bass line that's used for the intro, which is the underlying rhythm throughout the song and builds up to an intense solo which would raise the hair on the back of anyone's neck and shows that this song is a modern classic. The tempo doesn't stop there, straight after 'Seven Nation Army' we are fixed straight into 'Black Math' which just 100 M.P.H garage rock, Jack is smashing his guitar in any possible direction while Meg just simply bangs around on the drums until she gives that final whack which signals the end.

My favourite songs from the album would probably be, 'Seven Nation Army', 'Black Math', 'There's No Home For You Here', 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself', 'In The Cold, Cold Night', 'Ball and Biscuit', 'Hypnotize' and 'Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine'. Am not going to bother reviewing the album in full, because I'll simply come of 100% bias.

But, what I can say is, this album is one of my favourites because it's simply rock & roll. Jack and Meg White give us back bluesy rock, where it was lingering around in some graveyard back in the 1970's. Now Jack and his pretend sister have resurrected blues rock into the 2000's, it sounds more harsh, brutal and it's in your face, just how it should be.

Now for relevant trivia, I got this album from my ex girlfriend, who somehow didn't like the Stripes... yes... I know, quite disgraceful but she only got it for 'Seven Nation Army' which is a bit ughh, because overlooking that one song, this album is full of gems and their cover of Dusty Springfield's 'I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself' is more than sublime, Jack kept it in it's original format, all he did was add his style of guitar to it and Meg added her simple drum expertise to it. Plus, one other song to look out for, which I feel is probably, my favourite song of the album would be 'Ball and Biscuit'. Now, here's an oxymoron for you, progressive garage rock. 'Ball and Biscuit' comes in at a total of 7 minutes and 19 seconds long and the slow start as Jack rattles of 'Let's have a ball sugar and take our sweet lil' time about it' then explodes into a frenzy of guitar solos, while Meg mashes her drum set into a stewed mess. The song continues to float in and out of slow paces and rushing into continued frenzies, I would simply just recommend this album to anyone... anyone who likes The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and blues musicians like Robert Johnson, Otis Rush and Stevie Ray Vaughan should and will enjoy, The White Stripes.