As many know I utterly love Jack White and everything that he does. But this is the band that I fell in love with a few years ago before I realised what Jack looked like. The White Stripes. Now I'll give you some info on this Detroit Band.
The White Stripes is an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consists of songwriter Jack White (vocals, guitar, and other assorted instruments) and Meg White (drums, percussion and occasional vocals).
After releasing several singles and three albums within the Detroit independent music underground, The White Stripes rose to prominence in 2002, as part of the garage rock revival scene. Their successful albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The White Stripes use a low-fidelity, do-it-yourself approach to writing and recording, and utilize a simplified color scheme of red, white, and black for their imagery, instruments and clothing. Playing in the punk blues style, their music stresses a raw, minimalistic simplicity of composition and arrangement predominantly inspired by blues, early punk rock, and garage rock.
The White Stripes' discography consists of six studio albums, one extended play (EP), one video album, 26 singles and fourteen music videos. The band has sold approximately 12 million albums worldwide, 2 million in the US alone, and their latest three albums have each won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album.
Albums:
The White Stripes (self-titled)
De Stijl
White Blood Cells
Elephant
Get Behind Me Satan
Icky Thump
And another studio album is announced for the summer of 2009!!
Nominations & Awards
1 Nomination for American Music Awards
1 BRIT Award and 4 nominations
5 Grammy awards and 8 nominations
1 Meteor Music award and 2 nominations
1 MTV Europe Music award and 8 nominations
5 MTV Video Music awards and 18 nominations
1 NME award and 9 nominations.
Film Clips:
Hotel Yorba
We Are Going to Be Friends
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Fell In Love With A Girl
Seven Nation Army
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
The Hardest Button to Button
Jolene (live)
Hotel Yorba (live)
Blue Orchid
My Doorbell (< the song that got me into them)
The Denial Twist
Icky Thump
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)
Conquest
^ such a cute film clip with the little kids.
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