Tags 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1954 AFI Silver Alfred Hitchcock Amazon streaming arrow UK Best of 2017 Blu-ray books Books on Film Books on Movies british noir classic films Comics Alternative criterion Criterion Collection Dark Horse david lynch project documentary DVD Eddie Muller Edward G. “Blue Orchid” appears on the album Get Behind Me Satan. And what can you do besides ask “How dare you?” Here are things ruined, degraded, coming apart, fallen. Blue Orchid is the first track by the American alternative rock band the White Stripes from their album Get Behind Me Satan, and the first single to be. The White Stripes Song Pack: Blue Orchid: The White Stripes: : The. David Lynch would be proud.Īs weird as the video seems, it does give a more dismal interpretation to the song. Motionless in White will release its sixth full-length album, Scoring the. A dilapidated house, a red-head wearing lace and impossibly high heels, Jack and a piano with its guts ripped out, a white apple, Meg drumming on stacks of dishes, a white horse, and Jack’s cane that becomes….well, just watch. White has commented that he sees the entire record as an exploration of “characters and the ideal of truth.” Something better than nothing, it’s giving up So is Jack singing about Satan or about a really wicked woman? It would seem that whoever it is, he or she has the power/ability to screw up (with pretty malicious intentions) something that was once good: Although “Blue Orchid” opens the album Get Behind Me Satan, and the words “get behind me” are in the song, Satan is never specifically mentioned. While the music may be somewhat simple, the lyrics are a very different story. The same thing happened to me after hearing the opening riff in “Blue Orchid.” Several days ago I played “Seven Nation Army” (from Elephant) for this friend of mine and he was humming it the rest of the day. Not many people can do that, and even fewer can do it on a consistent basis. The White Stripes Verified 16. I haven’t listened to all the White Stripes albums (although I’d like to), but from what I have heard, Jack and Meg do a masterful job of writing fairly simple melodies that stay in your head for days after you hear them. (To my less-than-expert hearing it appears that White has added a second guitar that’s just slightly behind the other track, adding a little more power and energy.) I don’t say this in a derogatory way, only to note that when you isolate the song’s elements, you’ve got Jack White’s falsetto vocal, distorted guitar riffs (not even chords) and drums. The song is raw, unrefined, driving, loud, hard to ignore. To someone now in his 40’s, it still provides a pretty good kick. “Blue Orchid” is the type of song that, as Stephen King says, would’ve “turned my dials all the way up to 10” in high school. “Blue Orchid” by The White Stripes (2005)
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