After their first 3 albums I feel that there are plenty of misses, one example is “Hardest Button to Button” which I feel needed like, a little longer in the oven. It could have become a good song. Anyway, still fun to revisit them with this piece, sad I never saw them live.
Funny that that's the one you mention, given its reference in the article:
> Alt-pop star Olivia Rodrigo was less than two months old when Elephant came out, but she grew up listening to the album and remembers falling in love with “The Hardest Button to Button.” “Meg’s drums really shine on that one, and from there I dove into all their other incredible albums and became a massive fan,” she says.
There are misses on nearly every artists albums, it's just that some folks have different opinions about what missed and what hit. Personally I loved the White Stripes and their lofi slightly unfinished aesthetic. One of my life's disappointments is that Jack White broke his hand when I was going to see them at some festival and I never got another chance to see them.