Sunday, January 13, 2019

The White Stripes - Boll Weevil - Non-Album Tracks (2001-2002)

A few months ago, due to a request, I posted an album of White Stripes stray tracks from the earliest part of their career. A lot of people know the band put out a lot of singles in their first few years, and that's what that post mostly consisted of. But the band actually had a lot of stray tracks throughout its entire career. I've made a series of albums for them, and here's the next in that series.

Many of the songs here are covers. That includes two Dylan songs ("Love Sick" and "Isis"), a blues song best known from a Rolling Stones cover ("Stop Breaking Down"), a traditional blues song that was made into a 1960s pop hit ("Boll Weevil"), and a campy song from the 1960s spy spoof TV show "Get Smart" ("99").

The album ends with a demo of one of the greatest songs of all time, "Seven Nation Army." I'm not sure where it comes from since it's unreleased and a one-off, but it's definitely a legit demo.

01 Rated X (White Stripes)
02 Baby Blue (White Stripes)
03 Boll Weevil (White Stripes)
04 Love Sick (White Stripes)
05 Goin' Back to Memphis (White Stripes)
06 For the Love of Ivy (White Stripes)
07 Isis (White Stripes)
08 Red Death at 6;14 (White Stripes)
09 Stop Breaking Down (White Stripes)
10 99 (Jack White with Beck)
11 Seven Nation Army [Demo] (White Stripes)

https://www.imagenetz.de/dtJzt

I made the album cover using a 2002 White Stripes concert poster for the artwork.

4 comments:

  1. Could you please check the link? It doesn't seem to be working.

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    1. I just checked, and it's working for me. Other people have downloaded it too, based on the stats I get to see.

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    2. Hmmm. I've just tried again and it worked. Baffling. Thanks for checking, regardless. I'm particularly interested to hear the demo of '7NA' as it definitely wasn't on my copy of the single.

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    3. Glad to hear that it worked. The demo of Seven Nation Army seems to be unreleased (but bootlegged), so it isn't on any single.

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