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Jack White, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jack White, Photo By Ros O'Gorman

The White Stripes To Release Greatest Hits Album

by Paul Cashmere on October 19, 2020

in News

The White Stripes first ever greatest hits record ‘My Sister Thanks You and I Thank You: Greatest Hits’ on 4 December.

The White Stripes have not released the tracklisting for the album yet. They are allowing you to guess at The White Stripes website.

The White Stripes had their first ever Top 40 hit, not in the UK. ‘Hotel Yorba’ reached no 26 in the UK but failed to chart in the USA or Australia.

The UK then had a run of hits for The White Stripes before they cracked another territory. ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’ reached no 21 and ‘Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground’ reached no 25.

Even ‘7 Nation Army’ failed to chart in America. It reached no 17 in Australia and no 7 in the UK in 2003 but only peaked at no 76 in America.

Despite not grabbing the US as quickly as the rest of the world The White Stripes did manage an appearance in The Simpsons with Bart performing ‘The Hardest Button To Button’.

Chartwise, The White Stripes really don’t have any “hits” except for one Top 40 entry in the USA when ‘Icky Thump’ reached no 26 in 2007.

Here is the official blurb for the Greatest Hits:

The White Stripes Greatest Hits

In 1997 a brother and sister climbed into the third floor attic of their Southwest Detroit family homestead and bashed out a primitive cover of David Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream.” In an alternate reality, it’s all they ever do musically. The brother leads a spartan life as a dutiful upholsterer and the sister finishes culinary school and continues to make heartwarming food. 

But that doesn’t happen. Something sparks in both of them. They take their simple guitar-drums-voice approach to a local open mic night on Bastille Day. The performance was just good enough to keep them going. In what feels like a whirlwind, they record and release two 7-inch singles for a local indie label. A not-so-local indie offers to put out a full length album.

They start touring. Another album. More touring. Another album. Folks REALLY start to pay attention. CRAZY touring. More albums, accolades, wildest dream after wildest dream coming true. “World-renowned” becomes an appropriate descriptor as does “long-building overnight sensation.”

It is with extreme reverence that we present to you The White Stripes Greatest Hits.

The first-ever official anthology of recordings from the iconic rock duo, Jack and Meg White, is an essential career-spanning collection highlighting 26 previously released songs. From late Nineties flashes of brilliance through early 2000s underground anthems, masterful MTV Moon Man moments, Grammy-grabbing greatness, and worldwide stadium chants, the songs here are as wide-ranging as you can imagine. In an era of streaming where the idea of a “Greatest Hits” album may seem irrelevant – that an act’s most streamed songs are considered their de facto “hits” – we wholeheartedly believe that great bands deserve “Greatest Hits” and that a large part of Third Man Records’ and The White Stripes’ successes have been built on zigging when the rest of the music business is zagging. Thus, for a great band with great fans, a greatest hits compilation for The White Stripes is not only appropriate, but absolutely necessary.

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