The White Stripes Elephant Reel To Reel Tape (Ultra Tape) (2 Reels)

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Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 449/500!

From Acoustic Sounds, Inc. comes the highest quality analog reel-to-reel tape album reissues - Analogue Productions Ultra Tape!

From Analogue Productions comes another classic title in Analogue Productions' Ultra Tape reel-to-reel album reissue series. Each is a 15 ips, ¼-inch analog tape copy (IEC equalization) sourced from a copy of the original analog master tape. Transferred real-time, using an ATR-modified Ampex Tape Machine with flux magnetic heads, by Matthew Luthans at Blue Heaven Studios. Custom slipcase cover.

Originally released in 2003, the fourth studio album by the rock duo the White Stripes was an extraordinary success. It peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard charts and topped the U.K. Albums Charts. To date it's sold 4 million copies worldwide, achieving platinum-sales certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and 3x platinum from the British Phonographic Industry. It spawned the hit single "Seven Nation Army," the band's signature track that's become a sports anthem, plus the hits "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself," "The Hardest Button to Button" and "There's No Home for You Here." Elephant has received critical acclaim, and it's often cited as the White Stripe's best work, including receiving a nomination for Album of the Year and a win for Best Alternative Music Album at the 46th Grammy Awards in 2004.

Rolling Stone ranked the album No. 449 on its 2020 list of the 500 Best Albums of All Time. The Stripes, it said, exploded out of Detroit with a minimalist garage-blues attack: just Jack White on guitar and Meg White on drums, taking on the world.

* It is standard practice in all recording studios to keep the tape "tail out." This reduces "pre-echo" and it means that the tape should be placed on the right hand side of the recorder, re-wound and then played.

If you're lucky enough to own, or have access to, a 15ips, 2-track, CCIR tape player, then buy this Ultra Tape! You will not regret it. This is one of those tapes which, apart from listening to again and again, you'll play for any and every visitor and it'll stop them in their tracks. Jaws will fall open and air guitars and drums will come out to play. Seriously, press play and try to resist – it's impossible! This could well be the party tape to beat all party tapes. Thunderously good!!