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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 The White Stripes |
 Get Behind Me Satan |
 De Stijl |
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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
Icky Thump CustomerReview
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.
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White Blood Cells (Shm)
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Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD – playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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Rock & roll is constantly splintering into multiple personalities. Big radio players layer thick slabs of studio shine on their albums, while back-to-the-basics rockers keep the sound so raw it rubs calluses on your ears. The White Stripes fall in the latter category. The duo strips down to the fundamentals of Meg White’s simple drumbeat and Jack White’s garagy guitar and pleading vocals. While the elements are sparse, the Detroit act create a noisy, hip-grinding batch of punk R&B, displayed again on White Blood Cells, the Stripes’ third full-length. While it’s hard to pick favorites from such talent, this band only gets better with time. White’s vocals were sounding like a young Robert Plant on De Stijl–definitely not a bad thing–but on Cells, he’s developed his own persona. He throws musical fits on “Fell in Love with a Girl,” gets almost loungy on the piano number “This Protector,” and keeps the blues vibe running on “Now Mary.” The album is so rich with basic variations on a simple theme it’s hard to believe such soulful energy comes from just two people. White Blood Cells is an amazing piece of work, a benchmark that ought to inspire new legions of garage rockers for years to come. –Jennifer Maerz
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Once I saw MAD magazine referring to The Strokes, The Vines, The White Stripes and The Hives as :The Attack of The Clones: I had to voice my own opinion where it can be heard. The White Stripes are in a category all their own. A true fan of rock music can appreciate this group. They may not be as talented as some acts on the scene, but then again most rock fans adore The Ramones. Listening to “White Blood Cells” is listening to a tribute to the lost sound of early ’60’s punk. From “Fell In Love With A Girl” (The Kinks) to “I Think I Smell A Rat” (The Who). The duo even shows its softer side with “We’re Going To Be Friends” which sounds an awful lot like Paul McCartney’s “Black Bird”. Whether paying homage to the ’60’s or flat out originals like “Little Room” I would not be ashamed to call this album one of the best of 2002. As for the talk of clones, The White Stripes have already released two previous records while the other bands are just getting started. So with that I ask…who is copying whom?
Again, notice that this is a lost review of mine from a previous username. This review was written in March of 2003, look at how far The White Stripes have come since this breakthrough release? Hmm…I guess I know my bands after all! 
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The White Stripes
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Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD – playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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The White Stripes’ self-titled debut album is purely amazing. Diving straight in with “Jimmy the Exploder”, the song is incredibly catchy. The main riff, however simple, is genius, and you won’t be able to get it out of your head. Throughout the album, Jack and Meg’s souls and energy are poured into the music, and it obvious that so much work was put into the album. However long you’ve been interested in the Stripes, this album will surely be an amazing complement to the rest of your collection, and after you’ve listened to the first album, you won’t be able to wait to buy the others.
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White Stripes
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Jack sings with a sometimes soaring, sometimes abrasive abandon that shows he really means the lyrics he’s singing. Combine that with his fierce, dirty, reverb-soaked guitar playing and Meg’s powerfully minimal start/stop drumming, and you’ve got a rock band that is primal, melodic, punk and sophisticated all at once. 17 tracks of blissful noise.
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The White Stripes’ self-titled debut album is purely amazing. Diving straight in with “Jimmy the Exploder”, the song is incredibly catchy. The main riff, however simple, is genius, and you won’t be able to get it out of your head. Throughout the album, Jack and Meg’s souls and energy are poured into the music, and it obvious that so much work was put into the album. However long you’ve been interested in the Stripes, this album will surely be an amazing complement to the rest of your collection, and after you’ve listened to the first album, you won’t be able to wait to buy the others.
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De Stijl
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2008 reissue of cult classic De Stijl is White Stripes ’s second album released in 2000 and it was recorded on an 8-track analog tape in Jack’s living room. The album title De Stijl is a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917. Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order through pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour with simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, using only primary colors with black and white. This simplistic color continuity is evident on the White Stripes album covers. 13 tracks.
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Thank you, that’s really that is really needed to be said. This music is one of the great album’s I have listened to this year. I have to admit, this band really sounds like Led Zeppelin. In the song “Truth doesn’t make Noise,” shows you how closely related they are (Jack White’s vocals really sound like Robert Plants vocals). This band is among the few bands that keep classic rock, blues/rock fans still buying modern rock/blues albums.
I have to admit, Jack White is best with the White Stripes; not with the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. But, I heard that they will reconvene this year for the seventh album (release for 2011). The Dead Weather are great and same with the Raconteurs, but they are a level under the White Stripes… The classic line up is Meg White on the drums and Jack White on Piano, Guitar, and vocals. They are todays Led Zeppelin. Lets just put it at that.
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Elephant
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Double colored vinyl. One white. One red.
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Jokingly referred to as the White Stripes’ British album, Elephant is scattered with cultural references that give away the fact it was recorded far from home. Just listen to the lyrics on “Seven Nation Army” (“From the Queen of England to the hounds of Hell”) or the album outro, in which someone chips in, “Jolly good, cup of tea?” But while there are new twists here, from Meg White discovering her voice to a tongue-in-cheek threesome with Holly Golightly, Elephant is no great departure for Jack and Meg White. They still push their creativity (and the boundaries of their eight-track) to new heights. Check out the startling, Queen-inspired “There’s No Home for You Here,” while the deep bass line on “Seven Nation Army” makes it a classic indie dance track. But while some songs fly off into new realms, there’s plenty of their trademark straight-up bluesy rock, notably the overtly sexual “Ball and Biscuit.” And there’s Jack’s plaintive, resolutely modest and yet theatrical voice. –Caroline Butler
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Hard, dark takes on early 1960s music, with direct references to Stones, Pete Townsend, Burt Bacharach (!). This blues-based music is uncomplicated and uncompromising. Instrumentation changes from track to track. Noir music is created by recycling retro music through filters that remove 1960s innocence, thickening and toughening the music, stripping passion to leave a matter-of-fact hard, rough metallic surface. Stand outs: tr 6–I want to be the boy to warm his mother’s heart. Quiet, earnest country blues that Pete Townshend could have written. Great slide guitar bridge. Tr 13–Girl, you have no faith in medicine. This head banging garage-rock, punk rave up contrasts a dirt-simple musical setting with a meth-spun vocal.
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Get Behind Me Satan
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Japanese pressing of their 2005 album includes two bonus tracks, ‘Who’s A Big Baby?’ and ‘Though I Hear You Calling I Will Not Answer’. Both bonus tracks were previosly released as B-sides to the first single, ‘Blue Orchid’. 15 tracks in all. V2.
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Their fifth album, Get Behind Me Satan is the strangest and least focused effort by these unlikely garage rock superstars to date. It’s also their finest, an Exile on Main Street-ish mish-mash where the sum is greater than the parts. In a market increasingly driven by singles and downloads, it’s nice to be reminded how exciting an album can be, especially one where you really don’t know what to expect next. There are a lot fewer pounding guitars on this album. They’ve largely been replaced by pounding pianos. Most songs sound like rough mixes at first; almost every song has something exceptionally loud in the mix–the guitar solo in “The Nurse,” the drums in “Doorbell,” everything in “Blue Orchid.” After a few listens, however, it becomes clear that the group is not using the studio as an instrument so much as exposing the nuts and bolts in the process along the way.
There are some duds; the wanky blooze-rawk number “Instinct Blues” goes on way too long and it would be nice if “The Nurse” had a real chorus. Whether “Passive Manipulation” is about the wife-or-sister schtick, if the cover artwork indeed has Jack and Meg calling each other devils, and which scripture is referred to by the album’s title (Matthew, Mark or Luke?): none of that matters so much as the fact that this album is strangely sprawling and obliquely ass-kicking at the same time. “Orchid” is a rockdisko sonic smash that shows how to really get rock kids on the dancefloor. Meanwhile, “Doorbell” sounds enough like the Jackson Five to totally rule, and “Forever for Her” is the best ballad Jack’s written in years. The fact that some marimbas provide the driving force to “Forever” makes it all the better. –Mike McGonigal
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THE WHITE STRIPES – GET BEHIND ME SATAN
I love The White Stripes. … I got to see them at George Mason University in Virginia a few years back, and they were as powerful and dynamic as ever. … The red background made me think of the tile of this album: “Get Behind Me Satan.” … and of its deep, religious significance, as is stated in The Bible:
Luke 4:5-8 (King James Version): 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. … 4:6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. … 4:7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine. … 4:8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
The Bible also records, in the Matthew and Mark gospels, how Jesus rebuked Peter with the same words at his suggestion that Jesus would not be raised from the dead. … Matthew 16:23. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. … Mark 8:33. But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
So, I ask you, if the devil was sneaking up behind you, and you saw him standing there trying to do you in, would you turn around and tell him to get behind you? Hell no! … I know what I would do. …I would look that devil in the eye and stare him down till he went away – and not let him stab me in the back when I wasn’t looking! Indeed, I think Jack White would feel the same way. In fact, if I were Jack White, I would pick up one of his mighty guitars and whoop that devil right over the head with it! Yeah, that’s what I would do,
Listen to this album. Just LISTEN to it! If this album don’t scare away the devil and his legion of demons and fallen angels, nothing will! This album rocks like a landslide in Colorado during an earthquake! “Shake, rattle, and roll,” indeed.
Get this album and play it loud whenever you’re feeling spooked. It will clear the air, and the room, of all evil spirits.
Also, it sounds as beautiful as a loaded electric, tube guitar amp cranked to maximum volume and feeding back with an overdriven and sustained distortion that would make Jimi Hendrix proud.
… YOWZA! – George Koumantzelis / The Aeolian Kid
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White Blood Cells [Vinyl]
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This, the much anticipated third album by Detroit’s critically acclaimed brother and sister duo, The White Stripes was recorded in early February this year at the legendary Easley Studio in Memphis, Tennessee and if The White Stripes were the Velvet Underground this would be their Loaded. It’s becoming apparent that THE WHITE STRIPES ARE the great white hope and they have developed an enthusiastic following across the country and around the world. White Blood Cells has 15 original tracks performed by Jack and Meg White, no orchestras, session musicians or studio trickery has been employed. 2001 release.
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Rock & roll is constantly splintering into multiple personalities. Big radio players layer thick slabs of studio shine on their albums, while back-to-the-basics rockers keep the sound so raw it rubs calluses on your ears. The White Stripes fall in the latter category. The duo strips down to the fundamentals of Meg White’s simple drumbeat and Jack White’s garagy guitar and pleading vocals. While the elements are sparse, the Detroit act create a noisy, hip-grinding batch of punk R&B, displayed again on White Blood Cells, the Stripes’ third full-length. While it’s hard to pick favorites from such talent, this band only gets better with time. White’s vocals were sounding like a young Robert Plant on De Stijl–definitely not a bad thing–but on Cells, he’s developed his own persona. He throws musical fits on “Fell in Love with a Girl,” gets almost loungy on the piano number “This Protector,” and keeps the blues vibe running on “Now Mary.” The album is so rich with basic variations on a simple theme it’s hard to believe such soulful energy comes from just two people. White Blood Cells is an amazing piece of work, a benchmark that ought to inspire new legions of garage rockers for years to come. –Jennifer Maerz
White Blood Cells [Vinyl] CustomerReview
Once I saw MAD magazine referring to The Strokes, The Vines, The White Stripes and The Hives as :The Attack of The Clones: I had to voice my own opinion where it can be heard. The White Stripes are in a category all their own. A true fan of rock music can appreciate this group. They may not be as talented as some acts on the scene, but then again most rock fans adore The Ramones. Listening to “White Blood Cells” is listening to a tribute to the lost sound of early ’60’s punk. From “Fell In Love With A Girl” (The Kinks) to “I Think I Smell A Rat” (The Who). The duo even shows its softer side with “We’re Going To Be Friends” which sounds an awful lot like Paul McCartney’s “Black Bird”. Whether paying homage to the ’60’s or flat out originals like “Little Room” I would not be ashamed to call this album one of the best of 2002. As for the talk of clones, The White Stripes have already released two previous records while the other bands are just getting started. So with that I ask…who is copying whom?
Again, notice that this is a lost review of mine from a previous username. This review was written in March of 2003, look at how far The White Stripes have come since this breakthrough release? Hmm…I guess I know my bands after all!
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White Blood Cells
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2008 reissue of White Blood Cells, the third album by alternative rock band The White Stripes. The band’s commercial breakthrough, this 2001 album went gold,spinning off the Top 20 Modern Rock hits ‘Fell In Love With A Girl’ and ‘Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground.’ White Blood Cells peaked at number 61 on the Billboard 200 and it reached number 55 in the UK, being bolstered in both territories by the “Fell in Love with a Girl” single. The album was dedicated to Loretta Lynn, creating a friendship between Lynn and both Jack and Meg White. In 2004, Jack White would produce Lynn’s comeback hit album Van Lear Rose.16 tracks.
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Rock & roll is constantly splintering into multiple personalities. Big radio players layer thick slabs of studio shine on their albums, while back-to-the-basics rockers keep the sound so raw it rubs calluses on your ears. The White Stripes fall in the latter category. The duo strips down to the fundamentals of Meg White’s simple drumbeat and Jack White’s garagy guitar and pleading vocals. While the elements are sparse, the Detroit act create a noisy, hip-grinding batch of punk R&B, displayed again on White Blood Cells, the Stripes’ third full-length. While it’s hard to pick favorites from such talent, this band only gets better with time. White’s vocals were sounding like a young Robert Plant on De Stijl–definitely not a bad thing–but on Cells, he’s developed his own persona. He throws musical fits on “Fell in Love with a Girl,” gets almost loungy on the piano number “This Protector,” and keeps the blues vibe running on “Now Mary.” The album is so rich with basic variations on a simple theme it’s hard to believe such soulful energy comes from just two people. White Blood Cells is an amazing piece of work, a benchmark that ought to inspire new legions of garage rockers for years to come. –Jennifer Maerz
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Once I saw MAD magazine referring to The Strokes, The Vines, The White Stripes and The Hives as :The Attack of The Clones: I had to voice my own opinion where it can be heard. The White Stripes are in a category all their own. A true fan of rock music can appreciate this group. They may not be as talented as some acts on the scene, but then again most rock fans adore The Ramones. Listening to “White Blood Cells” is listening to a tribute to the lost sound of early ’60’s punk. From “Fell In Love With A Girl” (The Kinks) to “I Think I Smell A Rat” (The Who). The duo even shows its softer side with “We’re Going To Be Friends” which sounds an awful lot like Paul McCartney’s “Black Bird”. Whether paying homage to the ’60’s or flat out originals like “Little Room” I would not be ashamed to call this album one of the best of 2002. As for the talk of clones, The White Stripes have already released two previous records while the other bands are just getting started. So with that I ask…who is copying whom?
Again, notice that this is a lost review of mine from a previous username. This review was written in March of 2003, look at how far The White Stripes have come since this breakthrough release? Hmm…I guess I know my bands after all!
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Under Great White Northern Lights (CD & DVD)
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Under Great White Northern Lights features a CD of the first-ever live album from The White Stripes and a DVD of the film by Emmett Malloy.
Disc 1: The Film
“In Under Great White Northern Lights, Emmett Malloy has captured and crafted a magical, compelling, and perfectly musical document. Having never played extensively in Canada, in 2007 in support of their album Icky Thump, The White Stripes embarked on a tour designed to hit “every province and territory” in the country. And so they did. In addition to more conventional concerts they also played a series of “side shows,” often concocted on the fly, and Malloy’s camera finds them playing in bowling alleys, pool halls, tiny town squares, a fishing boat and, at one point, what appears to be aa day-care center. The Stripes cover Canada like a red, white, and black blanket.” – Jim Jarmusch
Disc 2: The Album
Performances from the 2007 Canadian tour recorded at venues across the great white north:
1. Let’s Shake Hands
2. Black Math
3. Little Ghost
4. Blue Orchid
5. The Union Forever
6. Ball And Biscuit
7. Icky Thump
8. I’m Slowly Turning Into You
9. Jolene
10. 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
11. We Are Going To Be Friends
12. I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself
13. Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
14. Fell In Love With A Girl
15. When I Hear My Name
16. Seven Nation Army
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