The album “Elephant” by The White Stripes was released 20 years ago today. What are your thoughts about this album?

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  3. It’s a classic, existed within that early 00s indie rock renaissance. It’s been a long time since I listened to it all the way through so I’d have to refresh my memory on some of the songs but off the top of my head Ball and Biscuit is my favorite.

  4. It’s a solid album but I think White Blood Cells is their best. Ball and Biscuit is a good track off of Elephant, besides the obvious seven nation army.

  9. Outside of the obvious, There’s No Home for You Here, The Hardest Button to Button, Little Acorns, and The Air Near My Fingers are all bangers. Great album overall.

  10. This wasn’t the first album I bought with my own money, but it was the first one I bought that I was truly hyped to own. It never left my portable CD player for months and cemented the Stripes as my favorite band for years to come.

  11. Amazing. One of my favorite rock albums. I’d say one of the last great rock albums before mainstream rock coalesced.

  13. It’s a great album, and “Seven Nation Army” is an enduring rock classic to this day.

  15. I think it’s their 4th best album, with the 3 before it coming in ahead of it, and it also kinda marked the end of my interest in what they were doing.

  16. It’s the 20 year anniversary of me wondering why Seven Nation Army is such a popular song.

  17. It deserves the hype, it came out the summer I graduated high school so it has this timepiece quality. It’s got so many different feels to it, Meg singing a blues dirge, rock anthems, a freaking Burt Bacharach song, and a broadway ditty with someone named Holly Golightly that was fucking *delightful*. And it still had that staticky, crunchy rock that they did best. Girl, you have no faith in medicine might be my favorite

  18. My first concert ever* was seeing them perform this record at the Greek Theater in Berkeley with my dad and sister as a teenager.

    It’s been tough to top that one.

    (*I guess technically it was my second concert ever, I had gone to Alice’s Now and Zen Fest in Golden Gate Park prior to this to see Smashmouth, Sixpence None The Richer, and the Wallflowers)

  19. It’s brilliant. Saying any more takes away from time that could be spent listening to it. It was a game changer. Required listening for anyone trying to understand modern rock.

  21. Seven Nation Army and The Hardest Button to Button are good songs. The latter’s how I found out about them due to that joke in The Simpsons when Bart was playing drums and slammed into Meg White.

  22. >The album “Elephant” by The White Stripes was released 20 years ago today.

    First of all, that is the rudest thing anyone has ever said to me.

    Second of all, it’s a classic. “Seven Nation Army” is the obvious iconic track, but “Ball and Biscuit” gets my vote for overlooked track.

  26. 20 years, really? Good lord. I feel old.

    A solid album from a pair of fellow metro Detroiters. Always great to see local people achieve success.

  29. Personally I never understood the hype. Seven Nation Army was massive but to me it was always an incredibly simple and repetitive. I never understood the general publics fascination with the song.

  31. Ball and Biscuit is far and away my favorite from it, despite being completely overshadowed by 7 Nation Army

  32. It was the first album I learned to play on guitar when I was in high school. Still love that one.

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