Mega64 Record Club Ep. 93 -The White Stripes -Elephant(#449)
Happy New Year, everyone! We're kicking off 2025 with one of Shawn and Rocco's favorite albums: Elephant by The White Stripes. What’s their favorite song on the album? And why is the band’s biggest hit called “Seven Nation Army”? We’ll dive into all of it this week!
Mega64 Record Club Ep. 93 -The White Stripes -Elephant(#449) (YouTube)
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As someone who's born and raised from Wichita Kansas, I cannot begin to describe the level of excitement people have about our city being in a song. When my first band played it live as a cover, people popped off like crazy just for "I'm going to Wichita", lol. "Open Up The Border" by Clutch elicits a similar feeling for me, but that's because the band has a much more personal relationship with the city. As someone who loves music, this is one of my most favorite things you guys have done!
I love all jack whites bands and of his bands the white stripes will always be my fav. This is by far my fav white stripes album and honestly one of my favorite all time albums ever. Y’all don’t usually talk about the engineer and fidelity of the album, but my god this thing is not only amazing song writing but the mixing, mastering, engineering of it all is so beautiful and perfect. Meg’s drum hit you so hard, jacks guitars rumble everything when they need to but have such a delicate light sound on something less rock. 50 pieces of vinyl out of 5 for me, this is an all timer.
You guys need to do some sort of announcements if you're planning on live discord streams. It sucks missing out on patreon benefits when you have no idea they're going to be happening. I have no idea how many other discord streams I've missed out on.
A lot of these are just decided in the moment, but you can get notifications for them through Discord.
Doing these live on the Discord is fun. Appreciate the shout out!
Awesome record club episode
Elephant was an album I got shortly after it came out and over the years I’ve come to appreciate more and more of it. The Air Near My Fingers is easily my favorite track now, my favorite back then was Little Acorns. I’ve always loved the Burt Bacharach cover, Hypnotize and Medicine, as well. I’ve really grown to love the closing track, too. I mean, I always liked it but now that I recognize it’s like a The Mamas and the Papas/Sonny and Cher type thing it’s more than ‘just a silly song.’ Next week’s album seems like a Jennie episode. Regardless, I’m looking forward to whoever you end up bringing on!
Ball and Biscuit is my favorite on this as well. White Stripes is not completely my thing but respect to them for sure. I think I like Jack Whites solo stuff better. You guys put me on to “No Name” and I really liked it. “Rough on Rats” was one of my favorite songs last year.
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