Elephant
by The White Stripes

From Mike43 04/01/2012 09:21 | #39273 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Ball and Biscuit. I have said enough. I'll continue anyway. This album is killer from start to finish, not a bad song on the it. This is the most rockin' album Jack made with this band, and Ball and Biscuit has his finest guitar work ever.

From corenfro TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/02/2018 20:24 | #214056 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

I hate to be the guy who isn't super enthusiastic about an album that is so unanimously praised - and this is good music, but it's not even the best of this year let alone a top 10 for this decade.

It's pretty stylistically monotonous and the guitar work isn't as spectacular as I'd expect from everything I've read - more often than not it's really just power chords and various notes here and there. The songwriting is good often great but not groundbreaking or spectacular. It's really just recycling blues rock sounds from the 60's and 70's but not much was done to modernize it or add anything. Saying it's punk is generous if anything there's a bit of pop-punk influence sprinkled here and there. (To be fair I hate punk, don't really get it, and think it's awful - but the slight punk influences didn't realy detract from my enjoyment of this record in any substantial capacity)

There are some good songs here even though I cannot stand seven nation army. Jack is talented and well studied. I keep revisiting this every couple years thinking at some point it will click and I'll have an "aha" moment but haven't yet. To me the throwback sound, while interesting, is more gimmicky than profound to my ears and there's nothing else that really compensates for that and I can't get past it being a good - not great record.

From ~SMiLE~ 03/11/2013 17:56 | #67876 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Raw edgy dirty rock.
What a great album !
The Stripes recorded this album with all vintage instruments, none dated post-'63.
Dripping into a melting pot of styles of music keep the pace changing and developing.
A great garage band that uses very little to accomplish so much.

Brillian record. No fillers, just great music all the way through, with a wicked sense of humour as well.

From eclab 04/04/2013 23:53 | #71454 | TOP COMMENT Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.

Sounds to me like the result of a combined Nirvana, Doors, and Led Zeppelin jam session. Fantastic.