The White Stripes - Aluminum

[@monstergod888]

This song is so fucking perfect,It's like Black Flag jaming with Black Sabbath on a lsd trip!

[@sunspotpixie]

he incorporates early Black Sabbath sounds into this. It rocks.

[@Mauricejonesdrew3213]

this song is the roughest thing i have heard in a while!....and i love it. i thought cannon was tough

[@Willo29O592]

this is the most pissed off music i've ever heard. fucking love it.

[@ThatythAlmeida]

amanzing how this song can be so expressive! just added to my collection! loved it!

[@PennyRoyal369]

In one of the lyric books (Icky Thump, I believe) Jack speaks of a symbol in music that means, in his words, 'play until the cows come home.' In my opinion, this song has one at the end. And the cows ain't never comin' home.

[@zenlikethat]

that "AHHHH" noise is definitely Jack's voice run through some kind of effects, and then it's a bit clearer near the end of the song, but all of you that seem to think it's a guitar making that noise are trippin'.

[@billylopez7143]

best song

[@TheMostTriumphant]

He is using a Big Muff on the overdrive channel. Plus it sounds like he is using a ton of reverb (I can here some type of rattling like a spring reverb unit) It also sounds like someone just saying UUUUUV, if you listen closely, you can here someone sing (sing?) harmony.

[@LindseyLayne]

I'd say "Bloody amazing Jack and Meg."

[@84ND3R5N4TCH]

That high-pitched ringing sound is high gain feedback...

[@DukeSecom]

I would've loved to have seen a jam between the two

[@pudman31]

How could anyone dislike this song?! ;)

[@leiposuctie]

@Yekex you get feedback, if the signal from the microphone/guitar/etc. resonates at the same pitch as the speakers, because the signals pick up each others vibrations, and amplify each other and oscillate, which is what feedback is, oscillation. you get achieve this by using the bridge pickup(more harmonics) and holding the pickups close to the speaker. in jack's case, the guitar he uses here is uncontrollable, it gives feedback almost instantaneously, cuz it's basicly a plastic toy......

[@lolwhut13375]

You, sir, win every internet I have.

[@wiggaroo]

AAAAAARRGHHHHH! Who needs lyrics when you're the white stripes? MINT MUSIC

[@whitEstripEdElephant]

I guess its feedback.. The pickups at those old guitars gets feedback right away if you're in the right angle, or with the volume high enough.. At the beginning i guess he's using his digitech whammy to change the octave at the feedback/guitar (Not sure if he's strumming the guitar)

[@heggy_69]

this is a really old comment but he could also be using a hollowbody guitar. when I distort my acoustic and bend down at my amp and then get up I get a simular sound to the start

[@crashbirmingham7063]

@@heggy_69 definitely

[@william1ter2burgh]

In the words of a southy, 'this was wicked awesome!'

[@m4l4d13]

cool rare and cool song and amazing and other words to describe this... thanks for the song..

[@84ND3R5N4TCH]

@whitEstripEdElephant i dont know bout you but it sounds like hes found a way to sing through the guitars pickups. how the hell he got that to work i might never know

[@PennyRoyal369]

@wherestheunity Could be the Peppermint Triple Tremolo. It's probably just a rotary and reverb effect. Eh.

[@chocskate3]

love aluminum

[@streetsidenomad]

My friend burned this cd for me and didnt put this song, little room, and this protector, on it. You can now see him at the Phoenix Cemetery.

[@gonzooification]

Its like a scolding hot bath of fuzzzzzzz oh my god i love it so much

[@dcore64]

He is singing/ screaming rather through a leslie speaker which is a speaker that rotaes in the cabinet at whatever speed you choose some digital FX simulate it but it sounds like the real thing to me. usually they use them with Hammond organs... Huh Huh, he said organs. lol

[@paninnoso]

godzilla atack tokio with this song

[@QueenOfAmber]

Ich liebte diesen Lied in Glueck, zwar so geil. :)

[@abcdlovexoxo]

I fell asleep listening to The White Stripes... this song fucked my dreams. Lol, I love this

[@Ramentastic]

your English teacher is awesome.

[@andyscoot43]

@wherestheunity I think it's that custom speaker box he made.

[@undergroundamericana]

@Yekex the very first sound you hear?its his voice run through a reverb tank

[@thelandofme]

@HANBASM I agree with your friend!

[@namelesssmokemonster]

@SHORTBUSCLAY (ALUMINUM) thats it

[@spencerknifes5260]

what kind of fx pedal or if you will stomp box is he using ??

[@edwintaber5999]

They use it for resistance to interrogation training I heard

[@Rykkkrykkk]

How does he make the "UUUUUUUUUUUUV" sound? Which sounds like the guitar is crying?

[@HenryLNelson]

I know this is probably a bit late but it's called guitar feedback is when the amp sound gets picked up by the guitar and it makes a loop and you break the loop by playing a note :)

[@Rykkkrykkk]

@@HenryLNelson I appreciate your answer! I learned this years ago but it's cool when someone replies to my comments from when I was a teenager.

[@hutch356]

i think it's just jacks voice, but with phaser and echo

[@princeanime]

She really is a talented drummer, I mean, who wouldn't be after playing for more than 10 years of it. But Jack forces her to only play simple drum beats. I don't know if complicated drum beats would work with these songs, but I do know Jack wanted her like that so she could represent how a child experiments with a drum.

[@whitEstripEdElephant]

Strumming at the beginning that is.. Between the riff i'm pretty sure its feedback

[@chasseman45]

@abcdlovexoxo How the fuck do you fall asleep while listening to The White Stripes in the first place?

[@84ND3R5N4TCH]

I'm a grunge baby, myself.

[@potatoheadhaoy]

This is heavier than metal.

[@xirius5059]

Heavier then metal? Xd Listen to black metal, death metal and grindcore PS. That song sounds like doom metal

[@potatoheadhaoy]

@@xirius5059 funny enough I love all those genres as well. I think most of those genres bank on different things than the immediate sort of feel that punk has.

[@pudman31]

And Captain Beefheart, I'm sure.

[@thewizard7194]

lyrics?

[@Admiralex91]

It's obviously his voice through a filter

[@avexjaa]

To je amelinium !

[@TaZiey17]

Alumin(i)um. Tego nie pomalujesz!

[@shanefell5608]

Awesome song, but what the heck is that timing?

[@norsketilbakeblikk3717]

Shane Fell Listen to the upholsterers - Apple of my eye. Same dude, same weird but cool timing

[@Shakes-Off-Fear]

To answer my own question, it’s 11/8 in the verses and 12/8 in the chorus

[@father042]

I think it sounds like Jack white having a mouthwash

[@sentryshinobi]

And the lyrics? (-.-)

[@notar5564]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Rykkkrykkk]

thx. mine can make a sound similar to this, but it's far not as beautiful as his.

[@haydensk]

@karlswree ha!

[@roejogan8]

i will beat someone down to this song.

[@juchabb]

amelinium, hahah !

[@metallicaner]

>aluminum what?

[@Dkingof]

@deadsherry LOL

[@StatiqueFM]

This is like violent hard dirty sex. Like the illegal sort. He's violating that guitar.

[@crashbreakerr]

this song is highly influenced by Nirvana.

[@TrakMiro]

@sammirox002 I am a huge fan of The White Stripes, and I don't care for this song either. This is almost nothing like their other songs though, so try something else of theirs before giving up on them.

[@dbmasters]

this is actually the ONLY WS song I don't really like that much...