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“Hotel Yorba” by The White Stripes
From the album White Blood Cells (2001)
“Hotel Yorba” by The White Stripes appears on 14 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 2001 and 2025. It was first released in 2001 on the album White Blood Cells. Its best result is #2 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #154 alternative song of 2001 and #7,614 alternative song of all time.
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"Hotel Yorba" kicked off the White Blood Cells singles in November 2001, and it's a curveball: a country song from a garage band whose roots are in punk and rock. Jack White strums acoustic guitar and sings, Meg White keeps the beat on percussion and chimes in on backing vocals, and Jack produced it and mixed it with Stewart Sikes.
The title is a real place, a former hotel in southwest Detroit built in 1926, in view of I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge, and the single version was cut in its room 206. As a kid, Jack heard the Beatles had stayed there; it wasn't true, but he loved the rumor anyway. The song also landed on the 28 Days Later soundtrack, though the scene it scored got cut from the film.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001 | 50 |
| 2001 | 64 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001 | 100 |
| 2002 | 89 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2002 | 101 |
| 2002 | 5 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 2002 | 103 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1994 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1987 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2013 | 465 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2019 | 280 | WYEP | WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 | 1099 |
| 2019 | 280 | WYEP | WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 | 1017 |
| 2022 | 28 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2022 | 1290 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2023 | 121 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places | 800 |
| 2025 | 374 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 271 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
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