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White Blood Cells
Studio album by The White Stripes
Released	July 3, 2001
Recorded	February 2001
Genre	Garage rock
Length	40:25
Label	Sympathy for the Record Industry
Producer	Jack White
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (9.0/10) link Robert Christgau (A) link Rolling Stone link Tiny Mix Tapes link
The White Stripes chronology
De Stijl (2000) White Blood Cells (2001) Elephant (2003)

White Blood Cells is the third album by American rock band The White Stripes, released in 2001 (see 2001 in music).

The album is considered the band's commercial breakthrough. White Blood Cells eventually reached #61 on the Billboard 200, going gold and selling over 500,000 units. The album also reached #55 in the United Kingdom, being bolstered in both territories by "Fell in Love with a Girl" and its use of Lego animation in its Michel Gondry-directed music video. Stylus Magazine rated it the 15th greatest album of 2000-2005 whole Pitchfork Media ranked it 9th on their list of the top 100 albums from 2000-2004.

The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, instigating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack White and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn's comeback hit album Van Lear Rose.

Redd Kross bassist Steven Shane McDonald created an online only art project, titled Redd Blood Cells, in which he added a bass track to the otherwise bass-less album. The White Stripes arranged with Steven to take the files down after more than 60,000 downloads.

All songs written by The White Stripes.

1. "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" – 3:04
2. "Hotel Yorba" – 2:10
3. "I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman" – 2:54
4. "Fell in Love with a Girl" – 1:50
5. "Expecting" – 2:03
6. "Little Room" – 0:50
   • Only White Stripes song to not use guitar, piano, or any other instrument of Jack's.
7. "The Union Forever" – 3:26
   • Many lyrics are lines of dialog from the 1941 Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. No credit was given in the liner notes.
8. "The Same Boy You've Always Known" – 3:09
9. "We're Going to Be Friends" – 2:22
10. "Offend in Every Way" – 3:06
11. "I Think I Smell a Rat" – 2:04
12. "Aluminum" – 2:19
    • Only White Stripes song characterized as nearly instrumental, though it does feature some wordless vocals.
13. "I Can't Wait" – 3:38
14. "Now Mary" – 1:47
15. "I Can Learn" – 3:31
16. "This Protector" – 2:12

• Jack White – guitar, piano, vocals
• Meg White – drums, background vocals