De Stijl

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* [[Jack White]]: vocals, guitar, piano, upright bass on "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]"
* [[Jack White]]: vocals, guitar, piano, upright bass on "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]"
* [[Meg White]]: drums, percussion, vocals
* [[Meg White]]: drums, percussion, vocals
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* [[Paul Henry Ossy]]: violin on "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]", electric violin on "[[Why Can't You Be Nicer to Me?]]"
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* [[Paul Henry Ossy]]: violin on "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]", electric violin on "[[Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me?]]"
* [[John Szymanski]]: harmonica on "[[Hello Operator]]"
* [[John Szymanski]]: harmonica on "[[Hello Operator]]"
* [[Dominique Payette]]: voice sample on "[[Jumble, Jumble]]"
* [[Dominique Payette]]: voice sample on "[[Jumble, Jumble]]"
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* [[Blind Willie McTell]]: voice sample on "[[I'm Bound to Pack It Up]]"
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* [[Blind Willie McTell]]: voice sample on "[[Your Southern Can Is Mine]]"
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===Album===
===Album===
* Produced by [[Jack White]]
* Produced by [[Jack White]]
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* Cover concept by [[The White Stripes]].
* Cover concept by [[The White Stripes]].
* Layout by [[Cholomite]]. ("Artes Graficos Por CHOLOMITE!")
* Layout by [[Cholomite]]. ("Artes Graficos Por CHOLOMITE!")
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* Photography by [[Eddie Wolfl|E Wolf]].
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* Photography by [[Ewolf|Ewolf]].
* Comes with branded innersleeve stating "Y'alls Turntables Aint Big Enough!"
* Comes with branded innersleeve stating "Y'alls Turntables Aint Big Enough!"
* This album is dedicated to [[Blind Willie McTell]] and [[Gerrit Rietveld]].
* This album is dedicated to [[Blind Willie McTell]] and [[Gerrit Rietveld]].
* This album contains the designs, sculptures, and sketches of: Paul Overy, Gerrit Rietveld, Theo Van Doesburg, Georges Vantongerloo, Vilmos Huszár.
* This album contains the designs, sculptures, and sketches of: Paul Overy, Gerrit Rietveld, Theo Van Doesburg, Georges Vantongerloo, Vilmos Huszár.
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===Essay===
===Essay===
When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstrued as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual components cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construction of things visual or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.
When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstrued as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual components cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construction of things visual or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.

Current revision as of 00:20, 29 January 2012

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De Stijl
studio album by The White Stripes

Contents

Track Listing

Liner Notes

Performers

Album

Essay

When ideas become too complicated, and the pursuit of perfection is misconstrued as a need for excess. When there is so much involved that individual components cannot be discerned. When it is hard to break the rules of excess, then new rules need to be established. It descends back to the beginning where the construction of things visual or aural is too uncomplicated to not be beautiful. But this is done in the knowledge that we can only become simple to a point and then there is nowhere else to go. There are definite natural things which cannot be broken down into lesser components. Even if the goal of achieving beauty from simplicity is aesthetically less exciting it may force the mind to acknowledge the simple components that make the complicated beautiful.

Release History

Press/Reviews

Band Quotes

Trivia

  • On February 5, 2008, Canadian media reported that former Radio-Canada host Dominique Payette filed a lawsuit against the White Stripes for using a 10-second clip of her interview with a little girl (about something the child had experienced "for the first time") at the beginning of "Jumble, Jumble". She demanded $70,000 in damages and the removal of the album from store shelves. She probably lost.

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