Fell In Love With A Girl / When I Hear My Name / Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground/ I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself / Hotel Yorba / Rated X / Black Jack Davy / The Same Boy You've Always Known / Isis / You're Pretty Good Looking / Hello Operator / We're Going To Be Friends / Astro + Jack the Ripper / Jolene / Your Southern Can Is Mine / Little Bird / Lafayette Blues / Cannon / Wasting My Time / Screwdriver / Look Me Over Closely / Sugar Never Tasted So Good / The Big Three Killed My Baby / Do / Jimmy The Exploder / Screwdriver / Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground SOURCES: Tracks 1-13 RRR-FM Rooftop, Melbourne, Australia 1/30/2002; Tracks 14-21 Bug Jar Outdoor Festival (excerpts), Rochester, NY, 1/21/2000; Tracks 22-27 WDAT-FM, Detroit, MI, 1999

REVIEW: Sick of seeing the White Stripes on every magazine cover? Taken a sworn vow never to wear anything remotely hinting of a red/white color motif? Me too. That said, the new Stripes studio rec Elefant is superb (and almost worthy of the hype). And for the most part, this disc is well-worth checking out as a concert flashback of the band, pre-hype. Both broadcasts are excellent, sound-wise; the Australian show is a little flat, tonally, but the better-mixed Detroit segment is in-your-face and explosive. (It also features a neat little mini-interview at the beginning with the deejay asking the sorts of questions that the band would no doubt get many, many times over, including the "are you married or brother-and-sister?" query. At that point Jack White was still pulling the sibling gag.) The middle portion is a distant-sounding outdoor audience recording - hence the double sound rating --  and doesn't have much to recommend it by, although the cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is interesting. Speaking of covers, the version of Dylan's "Isis" is downright amazing; Jack's guitar work is especially noteworthy, shifting between bottom-end notes during the main portion of the verse and each time "answering" it with a jagged electric flourish. And the version of Burt Bacharach/Hal David's "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" is equally intriguing; it recently turned up as a studio recording on Elefant so this is a nice way to hear it in a more virgin state. Good stuff.             Incidentally, the label Wonder Boy, which has issued a number of alternative-oriented titles that fall well outside the usual Beatles/Stones/Dylan/Springsteen parameters, is as of this writing reportedly about to close up shop. Pity - we need more left-field stuff like this. Not that I'm advocating a label start doing Alanis Morissette bootlegs again - that would be a short trip to bankruptcy, and besides, who cares? - but even if the option is to concentrate limited pressings, the collectors' world will certainly be the better for it if genuinely interesting artists like the White Stripes continue to be documented.