Icky Thump
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The White Stripes are back with the most bombastic album they've ever produced! While revealing the band's roots in American folk music, Icky Thump is an explosive, revolutionary assault that brings together garage rock, every blues style of the past 100 years, nouveau, and flamenco. This is truly a modern rock and roll masterpiece!
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Bagpipes, a song written as the soundtrack to a Michel Gondry music video, Patti Page's musical shadow, and Jack and Meg co-narrating a scavenger's rummages: It must be time for Icky Thump, the many-flavored riposte to 2006's Get Behind Me Satan. The duo starts big with the title track--Jack's fast-tumbling, falsetto-tinged lyrics jagging on hyper keyboard-sounding segues and Meg's pounding drums. They rarely shy from an idea, invoking acoustic Bob Dylan to frame "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues," but interjecting a series of distortion-laden guitar paroxysms for good measure. The end of Icky, on "Effect and Cause," is where Jack's trademark vocal warble and spare, quick acoustic strums meet Meg's single-minded beats. Everywhere on Icky giant riffs leap and shout, with Flamenco horns and those eerie bagpipes and rhythmic shifts and Jack's impatient vocal kinetics, marking new territories even as the White Stripes again populate them with vintage ideas. --Andrew Bartlett
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B. G. Ball Said: laidilaidilaiyooooohoooo! Great fun! ( Jun. 10th 2010 )
I wasn't a real White Stripes fan, till I purchased this album. This album happens to be my very first White Stripes album puchased. Although I knew the White Stripes for a year, I waited before purchasing this album because I wanted to know how consistant this album was. So, I spent time on Youtube listening to it; that was a big mistake because I knew the sound of the album before purchasing it, but for now on I'll shoot from the hip when buying White Stripes material.
Something, that is very suprising about this album is its consistancy. You would think, well gee this album has fourteen songs, it's probably going to have a few weak songs. But, instead all of the songs really stood out to me. At that point, I was on the edge of my seat. Too shocked by the resemblance of Led Zeppelin's III to this album. "Pricky Thorn, But Sweetly Worn" is my favorite sound. The acoustics on this album really put other modern bands like Coldplay to shame.
If you want an album that you wouldn't dare take out of the CD player get this. After all, it is your choice whether you want to listen to tin can getting thrown down or this beautifully crafted album.
****1/2 out of ***** Great job!
carol irvin Said: I Rediscovered Music with the White Stripes and I Adore This Album ( Aug. 19th 2009 )
I first heard the WHITE STRIPES when I was in my late 50s. I am now 61 and I still listen to them every day. I also listen to the Raconteurs (also Jack White) and now Dead Weather (ditto). As someone who went to college in the late 1960s, this is the freshest music for me which has come out since that time period. ICKY THUMP is right at the top of all of these albums for me. Expanding their instruments, eerie bagpipes and Flamenco horns are added to this album with great effect. I loved their inclusion. There are many musical influence in this music but garage rock coupled with blues certainly are always at the forefront. Having listened to Jack White now play with other musicians, I must say that his playing with Meg has been consistently underrated. The two of them bring out the best of one another musically. Good as Jack is on his own or with other musicians, when he plays with Meg it as as if he is playing with his soul mate. I usually don't appreciate the instruments as much as the singing on any album but that is not true on these albums. I love the great thought that has gone into the use of each instrument and to the uniqueness of each one and to the softness or hardness of its sound. Jack's vocalizing is terrific and fits seamlessly into every arrangement. My only hope is that this is not the last White Stripes album since Jack now has so many other musical irons in the fire. I don't have the technical expertise to comment on each song as other reviewers here have done. I just know I love the whole album. There is no greater pleasure than driving in my convertible with the top down through the nearby national park and listening to this album during the summer time. This album also won two Grammys.
Nathan Mccoy Said: What a great album ( Aug. 1st 2009 )
I remember when I first heard the track Icky Thump on the radio. I liked it right away. One day, after hearing it for about the 10th time or so, the DJ comments after the play, "It must be tough to be the best band in the world." And right at that moment, I had to agree. What a great song and what a great band.
I really don't have a favorite band ever. It fluctuates. Sometimes I like Led Zeppelin. Sometimes Pink Floyd. Sometimes Coldplay. Sometimes NIN. Sometimes Radiohead. Sometimes System of a Down. But on that day and on many days, it's The White Stripes.
I think of Jack White as a pure, old-fashioned songwriter. If he lived in less modern times, he'd probably be a very successful wandering minstrel. He captures raw emotions in words and music and crafts a completely enjoyable experience. Icky Thump is just the latest in a long string of fantastic albums.
Viva The White Stripes
C. Mitchell Said: This isn't your parent's music ( May. 16th 2009 )
Well, i'm a bit embarrassed to have just heard of this band less than 3 weeks ago. I feel like i've missed a lot, must have been hiding under a rock. I love this band! I bought this CD right away after hearing "Little Cream Soda". I was shocked to find out this CD came out 2 years ago, i'm a bit taken aback, the music is familiar, but different. They definitely have classic music, garage, metal, & folk all wrapped into one great package. Being born in the late 70's, I don't recall jamming out to 70's music, but it kinda reminds me of the old style rock n' roll, but this certainly isn't your parent's music! I also have heard GBMS & Elephant as well, also just as brilliant! What can I say? I'm hooked!!
Scaramouche Said: Unfortunately no zero-star option ( May. 11th 2009 )
I saw these people on the final Conan O'Brien show. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'm still not certain they aren't a joke. They were the worst-sounding group I've ever heard presented as professional musicians. Just abyssmal, ear-killing, retarded crap. Possibly a sign of the approaching nadir of all culture.