The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights (2010) Alt Rock

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Audio CD (15 Mar 2010)
Number of Discs: 2
Format: CD+DVD
Label: XL
ASIN: B00356Q7QC

Release Notes

"Sing with me, Yellowknife!" Perhaps the most enjoyable thing about the White Stripes first live album is the knowledge that much of it was recorded in towns with populations smaller than most British football grounds. Released to accompany Emmett Malloy's documentary of the same name, the record captures a tour that took in gigs in each of Canada's territories – hence shows in places like tiny Arctic town Iqaluit. The Whites' contribution to the sometimes brilliant, frequently inessential live genre straddles those two categories. They're a great loud band, but apart from some bagpipes before Let's Shake Hands, there's little new or particularly interesting here. Plus Jack's predeliction for fretty onanism make it something you're unlikely to listen to more than once. The hits are all here though, and you can hear the Canuck fans' enthusiasm grow as a Jolene or a Blue Orchid swells into life and, as ever, it's hard not to "DUR, DUM DUM DUM DER DERRRR" with Seven Nation Army. UGWNL is a live album for those who were there, and unless you're one of 600 Iqalummiut fans, you probably weren't.

Tracklist

DISC1: 1. Let's Shake Hands
2. Black Math
3. Little Ghost
4. Blue Orchid
5. Union Forever, The
6. Ball And Biscuit
7. Icky Thump
8. I'm Slowly Turning Into You
DISC2: 1. Jolene
2. 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
3. We Are Going To Be Friends
4. I Just Don't Know What To Go With Myself
5. Prickly Thorn But Sweetly Worn
6. Fell In Love With A Girl
7. When I Hear My Name
8. Seven Nation Army

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