WHITE STRIPES - WHITE BLOOD CELLS - 2001 12"RED VINYL

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YOU ARE BIDDING FOR A 12" 2001 XL/THIRD MAN RED VINYL PRESSING OF "WHITE BLOOD CELLS" BY THE WHITE STRIPES. BOTH COVER & VINYL IS IN NEAR MINT CONDITION. White Blood Cells is the third album by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album was reissued in 2002 after the band signed with the major label subsidiary V2 Records.

Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, going Gold and selling over 500,000 units. The album also reached number 55 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by the "Fell in Love with a Girl" single and its Lego-animation music video. Stylus magazine rated it the fifteenth greatest album of 2000-2005 while Pitchfork Media ranked it ninth on their list of the top 100 albums from 2000–2004, and twelfth on their top 200 of the 00s. Uncut Magazine placed it first in their list of the greatest 150 albums of the 00s.

The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's comeback hit album Van Lear Rose.

Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald created an online-only art project, titled Redd Blood Cells, in which he added a bass track to the otherwise bass-less album. The White Stripes arranged with Steven to take the files down after more than 60,000 downloads.

The song "The Union Forever" featured on this album is a tribute to Orson Welles' film classic Citizen Kane. Nearly every line of the song lyrics correspond to dialog or songs from the movie.

Recently, Rolling Stone called White Blood Cells the 19th best album of the decade, and Fell In Love With a Girl the 58th best song of the decade.

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" – 3:04
"Hotel Yorba" – 2:10
"I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman" – 2:54
"Fell in Love with a Girl" – 1:50
"Expecting" – 2:03
"Little Room" – 0:50
"The Union Forever" – 3:26
"The Same Boy You've Always Known" – 3:09
"We're Going to Be Friends" – 2:22
"Offend in Every Way" – 3:06
"I Think I Smell a Rat" – 2:04
"Aluminum" – 2:19
"I Can't Wait" – 3:38
"Now Mary" – 1:47
"I Can Learn" – 3:31
"This Protector" – 2:12

The A.V. Club named White Blood Cells the best album of the decade,[1] calling it "damn near perfect, a slice of sweetly snarling blues-pop so convincingly original that it rendered the whole garage-rock revival immediately irrelevant."

Rhapsody ranked the album #8 on its "Rock’s Best Albums of the Decade" list.[2] "The third proper White Stripes LP catches Jack and Meg at their finest: not yet bored with the simple alchemy that brought them international acclaim, but mature enough to make the most of it. Starting with "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground," the record opens with five of Jack White's most fully conceived tunes, the best being the seductive "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman." Aside from the downright ungentlemanly snarl of "I Think I Smell a Rat," there's hardly a miss."

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