The White Stripes
by The White Stripes
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The White Stripes bestography
The White Stripes is ranked 6th best out of 16 albums by The White Stripes on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The White Stripes is Elephant which is ranked number 111 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 11,325.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The White Stripes track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The White Stripes rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/31/2026 03:31 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,114 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/02/2026 01:55 | mrmcrook | 1,104 | 77/100 |
| ! | 04/08/2026 20:53 | araidernomore | 469 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2026 14:45 | mash | 1,489 | 89/100 |
| ! | 02/28/2026 15:38 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Some bands debut album can sometimes be their best or at least be very iconic. Not the case here. A good album definitely. But you can hear the building blocks here and the start of what would come later. A rawer sound than the later albums
A mighty fine debut and they got better !!
Irresistible, as high in energy and fun as they ever got.
llibnanoon 06/04/2020 12:50 | #252838
Started okay then fell apart.
A very good debut. A very raw, almost punk rock style garage rock album. Its The White Stripes at their most primitive, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Best Tracks: The Big Three Killed My Baby, Do
Early raw Jack White is nothing to be sniffed at.
The White Stripes' first album deserves to be remembered. In some ways it's just as good as anything that they did later.
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After spending most of my team with later iterations of the White Stripes catalog, I have come back to this album only to realize that this is the best of the bunch. It is everything that makes the White Stripes great an not an ounce more.
Very raw and catchy. A fun record listen to. The beginning of one of the greatest rock bands of the 21st Century...
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