The White Stripes Raid The Vault For ‘Get Behind Me Satan XX’

The White Stripes will take a deep dive into their 2005 album Get Behind Me Satan with a deluxe package available only via their subscription vinyl service the Vault. Sign up is open now through Jan. 31 for the release, which includes two vinyl LPs, a 7-inch vinyl single and a Blu-ray with footage filmed during Jack and Meg White’s 2005 tour of South and Central America.

Side one of the first opaque red LP sports demos of 10 songs worked on during this period, including radically different versions of what would become “I’m Slowly Turning Into You” and “Over and Over and Over.” This disc also includes “Seminole Blues,” which was never recorded or performed again.

Side two rounds up six previously unreleased alternate takes, including a version of “City Lights” that later appeared on Jack White’s 2016 album Acoustic Recordings and a gospel-tinged take on “I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet).”

The second LP, pressed on white vinyl, offers 13 previously unreleased live recordings from the tour in support of Get Behind Me Satan, one of which, “Blue Orchid,” can be sampled below.

The vinyl single comprises an early version of “Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)” with electric guitar, electric piano and organ, contrasting with the officially released version’s use of acoustic guitar and marimba. The B-side is “Spitting Tracks,” which Third Man calls “one of the great white whales in Stripes history.”

“Originating at a time when Jack was still a full-time upholsterer and revisited many times over the course of the band’s existence, this hypnotic, repetitive riff structure never really found a place,” they said. “We’ve yet to uncover any other even halfway decent attempts at the song, so this may be the only insight fans ever get into the one Jack and Meg could never truly tame.”

Last but not least, the Blu-ray compiles footage shot by David James Swanson on the road with the Stripes — less as a proper film and more as a striking, complimentary statement of the unique and chaotic time that the White Stripes inhabited in this era.”

See the vinyl LP track lists below.

SIDE A:  Songwriting Demos

1 Instinct Blues – previously unreleased demo

2 Red Rain – previously unreleased demo

3 City Lights – previously unreleased demo

4 I’m Slowly Turning Into You – previously unreleased demo

5 Seminole Blues – previously unreleased demo

6 The Denial Twist – previously unreleased demo

7 My Doorbell – previously unreleased demo

8 The Nurse – previously unreleased demo

9 Over and Over and Over – previously unreleased demo

10 White Moon – previously unreleased demo

SIDE B : Alternate Studio Takes

1 The Denial Twist – previously unreleased alternate take

2 White Moon – previously unreleased alternate take

3 City Lights – previously unreleased alternate take

4 Over and Over and Over – previously unreleased alternate take

5 As Ugly As I Seem – previously unreleased alternate take

6 I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet) – previously unreleased alternate take

SIDE C : Get Behind Me Satan Live

1 Blue Orchid – Buenos Aires 5-28-05 – previously unreleased live version

2 The Nurse – Guatemala City 5-18-05 – previously unreleased live version 

3 My Doorbell – Glasgow 11-15-05 – previously unreleased live version

4 Forever For Her (Is Over For Me) – Boston 9-20-05 – previously unreleased live version

5 Little Ghost – Louisville 9-13-05 – previously unreleased live version

6 The Denial Twist – Tallinn 6-29-05 – previously unreleased live version

7 White Moon – Chicago 8-29-05 – previously unreleased live version

SIDE D : Get Behind Me Satan Live

1 Instinct Blues – Vancouver 8-8-05 – previously unreleased live version

2 Passive Manipulation – Rio de Janeiro 6-3-05 – previously unreleased live version

3 Take Take Take – St. Louis 8-24-05 – previously unreleased live version

4 As Ugly As I Seem – Amsterdam 10-31-05 – previously unreleased live version

5 Red Rain – Barcelona 10-19-05 – previously unreleased live version

6 I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet) – Gdynia 7-9-05 – previously unreleased live version

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