However the worst issue was the vinyl not being centered properly causing wide fluctuations in my stylus.

White Stripes - Elephant (200 Gram Clarity Vinyl) UHQR The White Stripes - Elephant (200 Gram Clarity Vinyl) UHQR

Seven Nation Army" was the standout song of the album, acclaimed for its "ubiquitous" riff and drumbeat and becoming a stadium chant. An eagle-eared AP reader noted in the Comments section underneath our Facebook post of this story that all of the live material from that 2003 Aragon Ballroom show was indeed released on vinyl already as the 2LP color vinyl set dubbed Nine Miles From The White City, via the Third Man Records Vault series (TMR 211). To give Elephant the sonic perfection and signature packaging it deserves, Analogue Productions and Third Man Records have teamed up for the ultimate reissue edition.I wasn’t expecting great things from the vinyl, but mine is actually pretty decent after a good wet vac clean, with only a few minor, occasional crackles and little surface noise. Elephant (Deluxe) is out digitally on Friday, March 31 via Third Man Records and sees the remastered HD audio of the original studio album joined with the band’s July 2, 2003 27-song set at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom from their Elephant Tour. One can quite predictably measure a band's impact on commercial music history by way of just how many full-blown reissues they've released, many of which aim to repackage and represent albums to their fullest, most honest effect. Meg's vocals on "In The Cold, Cold Night" were deemed "sweet and tender" and "magnetic" by Hart and Tom Breihan of Stereogum, respectively. Including the song "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" (a Dusty Springfield/ Burt Bacharach cover) in their repertoire was Meg's idea, and the band had begun to cover the song live.

The White Stripes – Elephant (2003, Vinyl) - Discogs

A 20th anniversary limited edition has Jack wearing all white similar to the limited 2003 Australian pressing. Recorded to eight track reel-to-reel at Toe-Rag Studios, Hackney, London in April 2002, except B1 recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios. Largely recorded over two weeks in April 2002 at London’s analogue Toe Rag Studios, Elephant includes such now-classic singles as the GRAMMY® Award-winning “Seven Nation Army,” “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself,” “The Hardest Button To Button,” and “There’s No Home For You Here,” all of which prompted Rolling Stone’s David Fricke to hail the album as quite simply, “ a work of pulverizing perfection.Im not sure what others are glowing about even if you look past the vinyl flaws the sounds are so flat on leveling. Jack White is also displaying a mano cornuta and looking at a light bulb intensely, while Meg White is barefoot and appears to be crying, with a rope tied around her ankle and leading out of frame. My only complaints would be that both LPs are just a tad warped and slightly off centered (QC strikes again)… nothing that ruins it for me although you’d expect more from TMR and for what you’ll most likely pay for this. For those of you, like me, wondering about the comparison to the 2013 Third Man release (TMR200) https://www.

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I got this record a while ago when I first started collecting and just realized that I have this instead of the other 2013 pressing.

I don't remember if I took care of it correctly when I got it, but the sleeve has kinda fallen apart over the few years I've owned this. To give an example, on the US CD edition Meg White is sitting on the left of a circus travel trunk and Jack is sitting on the right holding a cricket bat over the ground, [31] while on the UK CD edition the cricket bat touches the ground and the image is mirrored so that their positions on the trunk are reversed. Pressing is hardly audiophile quality and very slightly veiled, but sound is punchy and raw with drums a particular highlight. If sounds leagues better than both the original CD and the HD remaster that is currently streaming, even just playing back the 16-bit CD layer.

The White Stripes – Elephant (2021, Vinyl) - Discogs

I was originally going to pass on this UHQR, but decided to pull the trigger after reading the reviews and I am glad I did. It spawned the hit single "Seven Nation Army," the band's signature track that's become a sports anthem, plus the hits "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," "The Hardest Button to Button" and "There's No Home for You Here. The album has been released with at least six different versions of the front cover—different covers for the CD and LP editions in the US, the UK and elsewhere. Elephant was nominated for Best Album at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2003, and won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2004. My copy had vinyl shavings sticking out from the center holes on the B and D sides preventing discs from resting on the platter.

He went on to say, "I wanted people to be staring at this album cover and then maybe two years later, having stared at it for the 500th time, to say, 'Hey, it's an elephant!