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White Blood Cells
Studio album by The White Stripes
Released	July 3, 2001
Recorded	February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennesse
Genre	Garage rock, alternative rock
Length	40:25
Label	Sympathy for the Record Industry; V2 (2002 re-release)
Producer	Jack White
Professional reviews
	Allmusic link; Pitchfork Media (9.0/10) link; Robert Christgau (A) link; Rolling Stone link; Tiny Mix Tapes link; Sputnikmusic link;
The White Stripes chronology
Singles from White Blood Cells
	"Hotel Yorba"; Released: November, 2001; "Fell in Love with a Girl"; Released: April 23, 2002; "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground"; Released: August, 2002; "We're Going to Be Friends"; Released: 2002;

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.

[edit] Background

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.

[edit] Track listing

"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

A Japanese edition adds the two tracks: "Jolene" and "Hand Springs".

[edit] Personnel

Jack White – guitar, piano, Vocals
Meg White – drums, background vocals