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Elephant

by White Stripes

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All Time

of 455,477

637
2000's

of 265,750

41
2003

of 34,566

4

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.4295 Elephant is ranked overall as 3.4295 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2900 Elephant has an avg. critic score of 3.2900 out of 4 stars

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Rolling Stone

It is a glorious thing to hear. It will be one of the best things you hear all year. ...more

PopMatters

Each album, from the White Stripes to De Stijl to White Blood Cells, has shown their evolution from Blind Willie McTell cover band with a pop sensibility to full-fledged, honest-to-goodness rock 'n' roll gods, a status finally reached on their latest disc. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Apparently overwhelmed by their elevation to the upper echelons of alterno-rock celebrity following the release of their 'White Blood Cells' album, Jack and Meg White have downplayed the arrival of their ...more

All Music Guide

Elephant overflows with quality -- it's full of tight songwriting, sharp, witty lyrics, and judiciously used basses and tumbling keyboard melodies that enhance the band's powerful simplicity. ...more

All Music Guide

White Blood Cellsmay have been a reaction to the amount of fame the White Stripes had received up to the point of its release, but, paradoxically, it made full-fledged rock stars out ofJackandMeg Whiteand sold over half a million copies in the process. ...more

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

All the elements of previous White Stripes records surface again, but in weirder, more intense strains that don't break with Jack and Meg White's past, yet don't slavishly adhere to it, either....read the complete review at The Onion (A.V. Club)

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Adrian Denning.co.uk

Jack White has apparently been quoted as saying, "If people find out everything about us, then we're finished" - the kind of comment that leads to speculation. What could this everything be? Are The White Stripes really the Milli Vanilli of garage...read the complete review at Adrian Denning.co.uk

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Drowned In Sound

For all the talk and emphasis about using old recording equipment and no computers (underlined) on the recording of Elephant, it seems that perhaps The White Stripes thought they could pull one over on their listeners. Don't get on my case about...read the complete review at Drowned In Sound

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The Austin Chronicle

Blind parasites buzz and crawl over the living-earth hide of thisElephant, feeling the back-end millennia's worth of evolution that became this beast: Flat Duo Jets, Doo Rag, JSBX, Fat Possum Records. Simple, primal: bass -- yes, bass -- guitar,...read the complete review at The Austin Chronicle

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The A.V. Club

The one downside of great albums is that they can only be heard for the first time once: Imagine being able to hearLet It Bleedor......read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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