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Broken Boy Soldiers is the debut album by The Raconteurs, which was released on May 15 2006 in the UK and May 16 2006 in the US to generally favorable reviews. It ranked No. 28 on Rolling Stone's year-end critic's list and No. 19 on Spin Magazine's year-end Top 40 albums.

The cover was photographed by Autumn de Wilde and designed by Patrick Keeler and Alesksey Shirokov.

The Raconteurs' first full-length contains the lead single "Steady, As She Goes", which became the band's first Top 10 hit.

Broken Boy Soldiers entered the UK charts at #2 and managed to reach #7 in the U.S. Since its release, it has sold approximately 425,000 copies.[1] In December 2006, Britain's Mojo magazine made it their Album of the Year.

Writing and recording process

The songs were written by Benson and White. "Steady, As She Goes" was the first song the pair worked on, followed by "Broken Boy Soldier". After the completion of these two songs and their demos, they called in Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler to work on the songs.

In an interview with Uncut magazine White said that "Store Bought Bones" originated from an outtake of the White Stripes album, Get Behind Me Satan. In the same interview, Benson also said that "Call It a Day" and "Together" were both songs he was working on for his next solo album."Yellow Sun" was recorded live, according to an interview with the band on AOL Interface.[citation needed]

"Blue Veins" contains a backwards segment, with untranslatable screams from Jack. Apparently, this comes from an early demo of the song.[citation needed]

Benson said in an interview with Mojo magazine that the album feels like a demo because of how the band plays the songs live now. "Hands" features a "Back in Black" style outro, "Call It a Day" has been sped up (found on the Zane Lowe EP), "Store Bought Bones" has been merged with B-side "The Bane Rendition", and many other changes.

Track listing

  1. "Steady, As She Goes" – 3:35
  2. "Hands" – 4:01
  3. "Broken Boy Soldier" – 3:02
  4. "Intimate Secretary" – 3:30
  5. "Together" – 3:58
  6. "Level" – 2:21
  7. "Store Bought Bones" – 2:25
  8. "Yellow Sun" – 3:20
  9. "Call It a Day" – 3:36
  10. "Blue Veins" – 3:52

References

  1. ^ White Stripes looking for one-album deal, The Rock Radio, 2007-01-31
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