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Get Behind Me Satan is the fifth studio album by the American rock duo the White Stripes. It was released on June 7, 2005, through V2 and XL Records. It was conceived after band members Jack and Meg White faced a creative slump, and was recorded in Jack's living room between February and March 2005. Jack was responsible for the album's production in its entirety.
Musically, Get Behind Me Satan diverts from the band's previous studio release Elephant, featuring experimental production and lyrics that often reference truth and actress Rita Hayworth. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, and won the 2006 Grammy for Best Alternative Album. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling 900,000 copies in the United States, and received platinum certifications from both the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Music Canada.
In the years following its release, Get Behind Me Satan has been reissued numerous times. It was not released in a vinyl format until 2015, as the band wanted to record a separate live version which never came to fruition.
Background and recording
The album was recorded in around two weeks at Jack's Indian Village home with Matthew Kettle, who had been mixing the band's live shows, as studio engineer. Jack described the album as "a purging of everything", "A lot of stuff was filling up my spiritual knapsack, you know? A lot of hopelessness, a lot of ideas that weren’t coming together. It felt good to get those songs, which had been hanging around for a while, on tape and out there. To clear the air, so we could just go out and play." Jack hadn't written any songs in over a year due to touring, and ended up writing 35 songs. A majority of those songs were either partially written or written during the recording sessions. Jack considered the recording sessions to be "torture" as the tape machine and microphones would malfunction and water would drip from the ceiling.
The album's title refers to a well-known line from the story of the Temptation of Jesus which is later repeated against the disciple Simon Peter, in Matthew 16:23 of the New Testament. In the King James Version, the quotation is slightly different: "Get thee behind me, Satan".
= Outtakes
="Ain't No Sweeter Than Rita Blues" an instrumental track, was released as part of a Third Man Records Vault subscription in 2015.
"City Lights" was written and recorded for the album, but it was left unfinished. The track was forgotten about until the masters for the album were revisited for the 2015 vinyl release of the album. The track was finished with Dominic Davis playing bass for the track and released on Jack's acoustic compilation, Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016 on September 9, 2016.
Two takes of "Over and Over and Over" were recorded during the sessions, but ultimately went unreleased. Jack later attempted the song with his side projects and recorded it in a collaboration with American rapper Jay-Z. The song was eventually re-recorded and released on Jack's third solo album, Boarding House Reach on March 23, 2018.
Music and lyrics
Though still basic in production style, the album marked a distinct change from its guitar-heavy 2003 predecessor, Elephant. With its reliance on piano-driven melodies and experimentation with marimba on "The Nurse" and "Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)", Get Behind Me Satan plays down the punk, garage rock and blues influences that dominated earlier White Stripes albums. Jack plays with different technique than in the past, replacing electric guitar with piano, mandolin, and acoustic guitar on all but a handful of tracks, as his usual riff-conscious lead guitar style is overtaken by a predominantly rhythmic approach.
Jack stated in an interview on the radio show Fresh Air that "truth is the number one theme throughout the album Get Behind Me Satan." Relating that point to the album's multiple reference to movie actress Rita Hayworth, White said she became an "all-encompassing metaphor" for the album since she changed her last name from something that revealed her Latina heritage, and the way celebrity was cast upon her. White told Rolling Stone, "Rita Hayworth became an all-encompassing metaphor for everything I was thinking about while making the album. There was an autograph of hers—she had kissed a piece of paper, left a lip print on it, and underneath it said, 'My heart is in my mouth.' I loved that statement and wondered why she wrote that. There was also the fact that she was Latino and had changed her name. She had become something different, morphed herself and was trying to put something behind her. And there was the shallowness of celebrity when it's thrown upon you. All of that was going around in these songs; what had been thrown on me, things I'd never asked for. Every song on that album is about truth."
Release
Get Behind Me Satan was, for ten years, the only album by the White Stripes not to be commercially released in a vinyl format. The White Stripes had intended to re-record Get Behind Me Satan entirely live onto acetate in January 2006 at Joe Gubay's Studio in New Zealand and wanted that to be the official vinyl version, but the studio no longer had the recording equipment to make it possible. However, copies of the album on vinyl LP were made to be given exclusively to music journalists for review. They were released by both XL Recordings and V2 Records and each label issued only 300, making the total 600. These albums have become rare and coveted collector's items. For Record Store Day 2015, Third Man Records finally released a limited vinyl edition with a lenticular gatefold sleeve, pressed on red and white vinyl; a commercially released version with standard artwork pressed on standard black vinyl was released later that year.
Reception
Get Behind Me Satan entered the U.S. and UK charts at No. 3, ranking higher in the U.S. charts than their previous records, but lower in the UK charts than Elephant. It sold over 900,000 copies in the United States. "Blue Orchid", the first single, became a radio hit in the United States and the band's second UK Top 10 hit. "My Doorbell" was the second single from the album, followed by "The Denial Twist". Both also reached the Top 10 in the UK and charted on the Modern Rock Charts as well.
Rolling Stone ranked it the third best album of the year. In 2006, the album was included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, edited by Robert Dimery, but was removed in the 2007 edition. "Instinct Blues" was featured in Michel Gondry's 2006 film The Science of Sleep. It was voted the sixth best album of the year in the 2006 Village Voice Pazz and Jop critic poll, with the song "My Doorbell" being voted as the year's ninth best single.
= In popular culture
=The album cover was used in the Gilmore Girls episode "I Get a Sidekick Out of You", with Lane and Zach in Meg and Jack's positions, respectively. It was also used for the 2008 Ozy and Millie calendar as both the front cover and for the month of January with the characters Ozy and Mille replacing Jack and Meg.
Track listing
Get Behind Me Satan features alternate track sequencing on its vinyl release.
= CD track listing
== Vinyl track listing
=Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.
The White Stripes
Jack White – guitar, vocals, piano, bass, mandolin, marimba, tambourine, songwriting, production, mixing
Meg White – drums, vocals, percussion, bells, triangle
Additional personnel
Eddie Gillis – tambourine and shakers (track 5)
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Roger Lian – sequencing
John Hampton – mixing
Adam Hill – assistant engineer
Matthew Kettle – recording
Artwork
Arthole – layout
"The Third Man" – design
Ewen Spencer – photography
Nick Pavey – photo assistant
Charts
Certifications and sales
References
External links
"Get behind me, Satan", or "Go away, Satan", and in older translations such as the King James Version "Get thee behind me, Satan", is a saying of Jesus in the New Testament. It is first attested in Mark 8:33, where Jesus is addressing Peter; this is retold in Matthew 16:23 (Greek: Ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ, Hypage opisō mou, Satana). In the temptation of Jesus, in Matthew 4 and Luke 4:8, Jesus rebukes "the tempter" (Greek: ὁ πειραζῶν, ho peirazōn) or "the devil" (Greek: ὁ διάβολος, ho diabolos) with the same phrase.
See also
Vade retro satana
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