Win The Last Available Aluminium Vinyl
Fans of Stravinsky and Jack White (you know you're out there), take note: Aluminium is your dream project. No, Jack White doesn't have a hand in performing the music; in fact, his only involvement with the album was to say "I like" -- and, of course, to have written the songs that appear on the record. See, Aluminium is a pomo, classical interpretation (by XL Records founder Richard Russell and British composer Joby Talbot) of Jack's tunes. If you haven't heard it yet, hit Alumiiinium to stream five of the songs.
The album was pressed in an extremely limited run of 3,333 CDs and 999 LPs. There are still a few CDs available (hit the site directly to purchase), but 998 LPs have been snatched, with only one awaiting a home. So, do you like vinyl? Jack White? Wacky string interpretations of indie rock gems? Well then you're in luck! We've got the last Aluminium vinyl to give away, and it may just have your name on it.
To enter the Aluminium Vinyl Sweepstakes, post a comment telling us your fave Jack White song -- as a Stripe, as a Raconteur, whatever -- and tell us why. We'll pick a winner at random on Monday 11/27 at 6PM EST, and that person will go on to be the envy of all of their post-modern classical vinyl-loving White Stripe-fan friends. They just don't make bragging rights like that no more. (If you don't get your hands on the LP or a physical CD, there's hope yet; Aluminium is available at all the usual digital outlets [iTunes, eMusic, etc.] in bountiful 1s and 0s on 11/21.)
And we thought you guys would want to see this. Here is our Marie Antoinette Epiphone Giveaway winner, Ms. Maya Lucia. She promised she'd learn "How Soon Is Now" first and foremost (such impeccable taste in such a young lady!) and we can't wait for the MP3! Her dad says: "Maya Lucia loves the guitar so much, she even sleeps with it ... Here's hoping she'll let me play with it sometime!" Yeah, some of you are bitter you didn't win -- but c'mon, it melts your heart, don't it?
Also, congrats to our Harry Smith Anthology winner, Marc -- and to Joe, the man who will soon hang a signed Love Is All poster on his wall. See, folks? People really do win at stereogum.com! So you still have a few days to enter The Who CD Catalog Giveaway, the Andy Partridge Boxed Set Giveaway, and the Mimobot Flashdrive/Beck designed & signed The Information Giveaway. Do it.
UPDATE: About those bragging rights -- wouldn't it be cooler if you could prove that you had the last available Aluminium vinyl? Well you can, you loser! You're gonna get the real deal, serialized #999. You are so gonna get laid.
Posted at 4:00 PM in Contest
Tags: Jack White | The White Stripes
Pain (Give Me Sympathy) - The Upholsterers (Jack White's other other other band)
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my doorbell. the catchiest song i've ever heard, i think.
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i won the hold steady contest and it was great!
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"Cold cold night". I danced with Meg at a W.S. show afterparty in Reykjavik, Iceland. She was quiet as ever, but she danced like a slut.
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"Suzy Lee". My favorites are his songs that are oddball takes on liking girls--it's true that cynics are closet romantics, and that's what sucked me into the vortex of fangirliness.
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The songs that made me interested in Jack White were his awesome Appalachian folk songs off of the Cold Mountain soundtrack. So my choice is The Wayfaring Stranger. Reason: it gives me chills. The vocal delivery is simultaneously straightforward and unaffected, but so emotive.
In case this isn't really chosen randomly, I actually have a turntable (the Dual 1225, Elvis' last turntable for those of you that have been to Graceland) as my primary music player. No ipods.
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I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman
because its the best.
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Red Death At 6:14. Gotta love the coughing "fills" and the "La-La-La..." breakdown
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'the same boy you've always known.' his most personal, honest, heartbreaking lyrics and gorgeous, ringing guitar.
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"Death Letter." Big ups to Son House.
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"Portland, Oregon" - the duet with Loretta Lynn, because it was a duet with Loretta Lynn. That's all I should have to say. She's great.
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Hand Springs; such an infectious riff
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just don't know what to do with myself, i lost faith in them sometime between self titled and white blood cells but when I heard this song it restored all my faith in the band, fantastic.
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Any live rendition of Death Letter.
This song has an awesome simple riff with room for some face melting solos. Also when he throws an acapella song in the middle it makes me smile a little.
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Astro. Duh.
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We're Going To Be Friends.
Because it cheers me up.
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The Union Forever
Because it is a song about Citizen Kane, which if you didn't know, is kind of a good picture.
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Why Can't You Be Nicer to Me.
Because it's totally Foxy Lady. You know it is.
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"Who's a bog baby?" For the sheer absurdity.
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Has anyone heard of that band called arms embrace, they are like electronic metalcore or something....i dunno what i think about it, its pretty different.
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Has anyone heard of that band called arms embrace, they are like electronic metalcore or something....i dunno what i think about it, its pretty different.
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Has anyone heard of that band called arms embrace, they are like electronic metalcore or something....i dunno what i think about it, its pretty different.
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Ball and a Biscuit, cause the guitar and song in general is bad-fucking-ass
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Ball and a Biscuit, cause the guitar and song in general is bad-fucking-ass
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Ball and a Biscuit, cause the guitar and song in general is bad-fucking-ass
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Hotel Yorba, It is silly, sweet and fun to sing along to.
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The White Stripes' cover of "Jolene."
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big three killed my baby
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I know this is a very obvious choice and I'll probably anger a lot of people by saying it, but I'm gonna go with Seven Nation Army. It's just a really great song.
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We're Going To Be Friends
Pop. Goes. the. Weasel.
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"Dead Leaves on The Dirty Ground" Hearing this as a young High Schooler that liked primarily crappy music, this totally blew my mind and I never looked back.
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"Dead Leaves on The Dirty Ground" Hearing this as a young High Schooler that liked primarily crappy music, this totally blew my mind and I never looked back.
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"You Have No Faith In Medicine" -because it uses 'acetometaphine' effectively as a lyric
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"You Have No Faith In Medicine" -because it uses 'acetometaphine' effectively as a lyric
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I like "Hotel Yorba" because when I saw the video, I still believed that Jack and Meg were brother and sister.
-sigh-
Those were simpler times . . .
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Jimmy The Exploder. I just like it.
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It's True That We Love Another - Love the lighthearted lyrics and the banter between all three of them.
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"Little Room"
short. to the point. fun to sing real loud.
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Whites Stripes Jolene cover because it does it justice.
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"Offend in Every Way," is one hell of a guitar riff that just doesn't leave your head. It was the first White Stripes song that made me actually take notice of Jack's guitar skills--he's no virtuoso but the pale man can wail.
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Candy Cane Children. Nothing like it.
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"A boys best friend" - The only song about dogs that makes me cry
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the hardest button to button
because its awesome you indie fools!
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Hotel Yorba - my first introduction to the stripes from a mix tape. still may fave to this day.
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Apple Blossom, It's the best cute love song that everyone doesn't already know.
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Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground
beacuse it was the first time he used that awesome well worn chord progression, before reusing it thirty times after.
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"dead leaves & the dirty ground"
first stripes song i ever heard, in my friend's dad's pickup truck. he turned it off about halfway through.
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st. james infimary, cause its old school yo.
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Apple Blossom - It's just such a simple sweet pop song.
Runner Up would be Screwdriver/Southern Can is Mine, which they mixed together on a performance on Craig Kilborn. That was the first time I heard the Stripes, and it blewed me away.
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'Girl, you have no faith in medicine' because it's so fast-paced and addictive somehow.
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"You're Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)". Because it opens up my favourite White Stripes record, because when it starts I know I'm in for a brilliant half-hour, and because of that chord progression that leads into the middle eight.
Oh, and Marc, winner of the Harry Smith Project, should send a thank you note to my email account. It's a long story.
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hotel yorba, because i like it.
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I have no problem saying Seven Nation Army...how can you fuck with: "I'm going to Wichita! Far from this opera forever more! I'm gonna work the straw!" That shit still gives me little shivers when I hear it on the radio.
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Hello Operator - I have no #1 favorite Jack White song, they're all great... but I always find myself using this one on mixes when I'm trying to introduce friends to "old" White Stripes...
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White Stripes = well marketed douchebaggery. If you want good one guy/one girl rock listen to the Evens.
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I bet Jack White watches Arrested Development.
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I'll echo others' sentiment and go with Apple Blossom. Sweet and surprisingly delicate, but relentlessly catchy. Great tune.
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"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself." Not because I find it to be the best all around musically, AND it's not even original, it's a cover--but they were my first real concert when I was 14, and I was completely infatuated with Jack White at the time, and I imagined that he was looking right at me during that song. It was fun. =)
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dead leaves and the dirty ground
(when i know your not around)
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the nurse, cause of how wonderfully weird it is. or perhaps intimate secretary cause i had an uncle who got shot too... but not a red japanese teapot.
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the nurse, cause of how wonderfully weird it is. or perhaps intimate secretary cause i had an uncle who got shot too... but not a red japanese teapot.
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The wordplay in 'Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine' is really interesting.
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"There's No Home For You Here" - The White Stripes
I got addicted to this song for a summer a couple of years ago. It just has such a nice groove. It's great for walking back from the lab at 2 a.m.
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a) Arrested Development wanted to use Hotel Yorba in that scene in the pilot where Tobias and Portia and kids skipped out on their bill at the Ritz, but they couldn't get the rights to it back then. Sigh.
There are so many, but my favoritist is their cover of Stop Breaking Down. I hear that guitar riff and think that something is going to break. Makes me want to get up and just jump around rhythmlessly
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I Want To Be The Boy That Warms Your Mother's Heart.
Reminds me of the rich girl I dated.
I never said I was the heir to a fortune
I never claimed to have any looks
But these kind of things must be important
Because somebody ripped out my page
In your telephone book
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'fell in love with a girl' because it blended years of rock n' roll in to a delicious lofi, minimalist crepe. (i'm in france so i felt the need to make a reference.)
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mind you i could have picked any song off of 'white blood cells'.
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st. james infirmary
Cab Calloway in the house!
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It's so hard to pick one of jack's songs b/c he's one of the few artists that I could listen to him play anything in any setting and it be brilliant. Although to pick one I'd have to say ball&biscuit b/c that's the first song I heard that made me understand what a musician jack was.
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My favorite would have to be "St. Ides of March". Best guitar riff ever. It's simple yet effective.
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I really like the Beefheart cover EP (party of special things to do)... but I really like Beefheart.
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I have one already :D
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I'll have to go with "We're Going to Be Friends" because of its utter beauty and simplicity. It's one of the most naive, innocent and yet touching songs I've ever heard. It reminds me a lot of Big Star's "Thirteen" as well as some of Jonathan Richman's more tender songs.
However, it's really hard to choose between this one and their amazing cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene". When I first saw them play it back in 2002 at Bowery Ballroom, I was completely blown away.
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Hotel Yorba. This was the song that I heard first from them; it made me go out and by the cd. I have seen it covered by bands, played by djs, played in jukeboxes... it always gets people moving whether they know the white stripes or not.
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"Dead Leaves & The Dirty Ground" - because it's one of the most well-written (words and music) songs in their catalog. And it opens up what I consider to be their best album.
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Another vote for "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" - just a great, great song.
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Another vote for "Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground" - just a great, great song.
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Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground... because it rocks.
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i have thre picks.
01. just dont know what to do with myself, because theres no hotter music vid than kate moss pole dancing.
02. little ghost, because "specter" is one of my favorite words
03. take take take, because it sounds awwweeesssoomme when i listen to it on my ipod. when i take one of the earbuds out of either ear, you miss pretty much half the song. i dunno, i like it.
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It's so hard to pick just one--I really love "Ball & Biscuit," but I also love "Do" from the first White Stripes record. They are both bluesy and fabu. The Alumiinium CD is on its way to me as we speak, but I would love to win the coveted vinyl. :-]
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Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground. ftw.
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yet another vote for 'dead leaves and the dirty ground.' it elevated them from good to really amazing to me.
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'hotel yorba.' it makes me want to jump up and dance.
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"Hello Operator," since Jack White has this thing about phones ... crossed lines, miscommunication ... something about death.
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Easy: "Who's a Big Baby?"
Just kidding, that song is terrible. Even hearing the sample on the Aluminiium site makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
I'm going to have to go with "Jimmy the Exploder," because it's simple, it rocks, and it embodies everything for which the White Stripes were created (minimalism that rocks your face off). Plus, it's about a monkey that goes apeshit when he sees the color red!
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"Fell in love with a girl"
It just is. And the video is awesome.
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"Ball & Biscuit." It's an over-the-top, ridiculously long song that features "i have a huge cock" guitar riffs, and it all sounds perfectly natural. I like to listen to it in the morning to get myself going, or whenever I need a song to make me feel like I'm hot shit.
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"Ball & Biscuit." It's an over-the-top, ridiculously long song that features "i have a huge cock" guitar riffs, and it all sounds perfectly natural. I like to listen to it in the morning to get myself going, or whenever I need a song to make me feel like I'm hot shit.
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Level live with the raconteurs, maybe some of jacks best guitar work, which is saying something. i also love the call and response vocals, not a lot of that on jacks songs so far
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Level live with the raconteurs, maybe some of jacks best guitar work, which is saying something. i also love the call and response vocals, not a lot of that on jacks songs so far
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"Hypnotize" - 'cause it rocks, but yearningly so.
Though I could list a dozen or two other songs just as easily.
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The Hardest Button To Button - Because it makes me weepy.
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