Quiz #62 - The White Stripes "Blue orchid"

Two zebras are talking and one asks the other: "Am I black with white stripes or white with black stripes?" The other replies: "Well I don't know. You should ask God." So that night he asks God and God replies: "You are what you are."

The next day he talks to the other zebra: "I still don't understand what I am because God just said, 'You are what you are'." The second zebra responds: "You must be white with black stripes or else God would have said, 'Yo is what yo is'."


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Detroit minimalist rock duo (specifically, southwest Detroit minimalist rock duo) the White Stripes — Jack White, guitar and vocals, Meg White, drums — formed in 1997 (Bastille Day, to be precise) with the idea of making simple rock & roll music. From the red-and-white peppermint candy motif of their debut singles, self-titled album, and stage show to their on-the-surface rudimentary style, they succeeded wildly and immediately with that mission. Their first recordings were a mix of garage rock, blues, and the occasional show tune.

While they may have sprung from the Detroit rock scene, the White Stripes quickly gained a national following after two successive tours with indie rockers Pavement and Sleater-Kinney in 1999 and 2000. The White Stripes released their second LP, De Stijl, in 2000 and it further spread the group's reputation.

The White Stripes truly became big time rock stars when their "Fell in Love with a Girl" clip was nominated for four MTV Video Awards, including Best Video of the Year (alongside Eminem and *NSYNC!), Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects in a Video, and Best Editing in a Video. That summer the group also played four triumphant shows with the Strokes, two apiece in the bands' respective hometowns. In spring 2003 their fourth full-length, Elephant — recorded in two weeks at London's Toerag Studio and dedicated to "the death of the sweetheart" — arrived to nearly unanimous critical acclaim.

In 2005 the Stripes returned with "Get Behind Me Satan", a dizzyingly diverse album that spanned disco-metal and light, marimba-driven pop and was written and recorded in two weeks that spring. While touring that year, the band covered Tegan and Sara's "Walking with a Ghost," which they released as a single at the end of 2005. That year, Jack White and his wife, model/singer Karen Elson, moved to Nashville, TN. White also formed the Raconteurs with Brendan Benson and the Greenhornes' Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, and spent much of 2006 touring in support of the group's debut album, Broken Boy Soldiers.

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The White Stripes "Blue orchid"
Album "Get Behind Me Satan" - 2005