The White Stripes

[ChristopherBanks]

I was in a record store yesterday and the lyrics of the song that was playing sounded strangely familiar...

The song was "The Union Forever" by a band called The White Stripes and the album is called "White Blood Cells".

The song is made up entirely of quotes from "Citizen Kane"...

The lyrics can be found here:

http://www.whitestripes.com/lyrics/union.txt

A review of the album here:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-....s.shtml

And another review of the album, with downloadable MP3 sample of the track:

http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1148364,00.html

I haven't yet found any info on the song's background. Was anyone else aware of this?

[Jeff Wilson]

Actually, I have the album myself, and didn't think anyone else here would be into garage blues, so I never mentioned it. I knew nothing about the Kane quotes in the song until I was playing the album. I wasn't paying particular attention when it came on, until I heard the line "everything you hate," which caught my attention. I've never seen any mention of the connection with Kane anywhere else, though.