The album neatly reflects the evolution of the band without ever becoming a predictable, chronologically ordered ‘Singles Collection’. With it being sub-titled ‘My Sister Thanks You And I Thank You’ and Jack White’s electric promotional performance on SNL, it seems pretty clear that the taller White Stripe was heavily involved in this track-sequencing, and it’s always nice to have an artist-picked entry point into their work.Īnd he’s done a good job of it too. Thankfully The White Stripes’ ‘Greatest Hits’ isn’t just a flagrant cash-in (although, what with its pre-Christmas release date and the inclusion of all those ‘de-facto hits’ mentioned earlier, it is also that). That being said, in a world crammed with ‘Most Popular Tracks’, ‘This Is’ playlists and Where To Start articles, no one needs another collection of songs that starts with ‘Seven Nation Army’ and proceeds to run down through ‘Blue Orchid’, ‘Icky Thump’, ‘My Doorbell’ and so on before finally tailing off into comparative mediocrity. So, yes, The White Stripes don’t need a ‘First Ten Years’ or a ‘Greatest Hits… So Far!’, they deserve a goddamn ‘Greatest Hits’.Ī well-curated Greatest Hits can act like rocket-fuel for a new fan, offering them a glimpse of a band’s entire identity rather than just a snapshot in time.
For the better part of a decade their songs ruled the airwaves before they quite definitively called it a day in 2009.
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The White Stripes are unarguably one of the great bands of the 21st century, a universally beloved yet uncompromising rock act who took the bare bones of dustbowl blues and stuck them full of bolts and electrical wiring to create something at once instantly familiar and unlike anything anyone had heard before.
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