White Blood Cells

White Blood Cells is the third album by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album was reissued in 2002 after the band signed with the major label subsidiary V2 Records. Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, going Gold and selling over 500,000 units. The album also reached number 55 in the United Kingd... more

White Blood Cells is the third album by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album was reissued in 2002 after the band signed with the major label subsidiary V2 Records. Considered the band's commercial breakthrough, White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200, going Gold and selling over 500,000 units. The album also reached number 55 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by the "Fell in Love with a Girl" single and its Lego-animation music video. Stylus magazine rated it the fifteenth greatest album of 2000-2005 while Pitchfork Media ranked it ninth on their list of the top 100 albums from 2000-2004, and twelfth on their top 200 of the 00s. Uncut Magazine placed it first in their list of the greatest 150 albums of the 00s. The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's... less