Elephant
by The White Stripes
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Elephant is ranked as the best album by The White Stripes.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 4 days ago | artvandelay73 | 239 | 77/100 | |
| 03/26/2026 02:59 | stareaterogni0n | 365 | 72/100 | |
| 03/24/2026 16:57 | Gedi | 178 | 84/100 | |
| 03/19/2026 04:46 | Cheddar | 147 | 86/100 | |
| 03/17/2026 21:28 |  nextorgd | 1,174 | 84/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.6/100, a mean average of 81.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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A near perfect album to me. Jack's guitar work is close to unmatched as far of guitarists in the 21st century go. I could listen to that man play guitar forever and not be tired of it. I recognize it's not categorically one of the best albums ever, but I love every song on the album and that's all that matters to me.
Shortlisted for album of the year at the 2004 Grammys. The winners was Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast
arturguerra 04/17/2024 03:01 | #303017
Nice guitar tones, nice drums. Bad composer and no bass. Repeat: no bass
Classic garage rock with killer guitar riffs. Despite being played to death, Seven Nation Army is still amazing. I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself and Ball & Biscuit also very good. Most tracks are enjoyable but it's a few too many filler tracks, stopping it from being an all-time great for me.
A cool raw straight up rock and roll album which gets the formula right following some promising albums. Incredible guitar playing mixed with infectious vocal melodies proves to be all that is needed to create a classic.
There is some good stuff on here but nothing, except for the opening track, which is truly outstanding which leads to an unsatisfying listen. They can create some great hooks but other than that there isn't really much that separates them from other groups. I think these select few songs which are very good and their infectious hooks and choruses have made them become an over rated duo. This record would be a strong foundation to build upon and improve musically as they did have quite a lot of room to get better but I don't think that was ever realised in the duos career together. Overall, this record gets over hyped especially for the level of quality that is on here which is good but no way near the top 100 albums of all time.
Great sound for a two piece. Quite rightly heralded as their best album even though it was commercially pushed. It's the wide musical variety throughout this that makes this stand apart from their other albums. My favorite from them.
Solid album
pedro1976 05/05/2022 17:50 | #284990
Album of the year, 2003
A blues guitar god. Pretty good song writer too. Only thing keeping this score down is a limited number of “crank it up” bangers, a la Hardest Button To Button.
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