No, it is not the album of Popular (also called Seven Nation Army), but Get Behind Me Satan It is probably the album with which the White Stripes changed the rules of rock, displacing everyone with the guitar sounds that Jack White had pulled out of the cylinder, and the pedal. This year that album turns twenty, and to celebrate its release, a special double vinyl reprint will arrive, available from June 27: a red smoke and a transparent LP with red and black veins.
Released in 2005, Get Behind Me Satan It is perhaps the bravest and experimental album of the duo. Registered in the trumpet of the stairs of the home of Jack White in Detroit, it is the album with which the duo definitively moved away from the sound of Elephantthe album that had consecrated them, to throw themselves headlong into the sounds before at the time far from their style.
Inside there are individuals who have become cult like Blue Orchid, My Doorbell And The Denial Twist. In addition, despite the initial displacement of criticism and public, in that year the disc won a Grammy as Best Alternative Album, exceeding the 900,000 copies sold only in the USA.
The reprint will be released a few months after Get Behind Me Satan XXa version expanded with demo, alternative takes and live recordings. Meanwhile, the White Stripes have been included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, together with names such as outkast, soundgarden and cyndi lauper.