De Stijl
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De Stijl
studio album by The White Stripes
- First released: June 20, 2000 on Sympathy (US)
- Recorded: 1999 – 2000 at Third Man Studios in Detroit, Michigan
- Formats: CD, LP
- Tracks: 13
- Length: 37:31
- Previous album: The White Stripes (1999)
- Next album: White Blood Cells (2001)
Contents |
Track Listing
- 1. "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)" - 1:49 (White/White)
- 2. "Hello Operator" - 2:36 (White/White)
- 3. "Little Bird" - 3:06 (White/White)
- 4. "Apple Blossom" - 2:13 (White/White)
- 5. "I'm Bound to Pack It Up" - 3:09 (White/White)
- 6. "Death Letter" - 4:29 (Son House)
- 7. "Sister, Do You Know My Name?" - 2:51 (White/White)
- 8. "Truth Doesn't Make a Noise" - 3:14 (White/White)
- 9. "A Boy's Best Friend" - 4:22 (White/White)
- 10. "Let's Build a Home" - 1:58 (White/White)
- 11. "Jumble, Jumble" - 1:53 (White/White)
- 12. "Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me" - 3:22 (White/White)
- 13. "Your Southern Can Is Mine" - 2:29 (Blind Willie McTell)
Liner Notes
Performers
- Jack White: vocals, guitar, piano, upright bass on "I'm Bound to Pack It Up"
- Meg White: drums, percussion, vocals
- 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"
- Dominique Payette: voice sample on "Jumble, Jumble"
- Blind Willie McTell: voice sample on "I'm Bound to Pack It Up"
Album
- Produced by Jack White
- Mixed by Jim Diamond and Jack White at Ghetto Recorders
- Recorded by Jack White at Third Man Studios, SW Detroit, at the turn of the century.
- Cover concept by The White Stripes.
- Layout by Cholomite. ("Artes Graficos Por CHOLOMITE!")
- Photography by E Wolf.
- Comes with branded innersleeve stating "Y'alls Turntables Aint Big Enough!"
- 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.
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.
