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There are two kinds of songs on the White Stripes' Icky Thump. The first are primitive, grinding rockers--the kind people have known and cherished and unbuttoned one anothers' clothes to since the Rolling Stones first raided the blues bin. Let's call these the good songs. The second are so willfully odd and filigreed as to be almost beyond description, let alone comprehension. Suffice it to say that if you've ever wondered what a Patti Page, Herb Alpert and Slash tribute to Three Amigos might sound like, there's a song on Icky Thump just...
Eccentricity has always been a part of the White Stripes' appeal--six albums in, they're still working the ironic-novelty-costume act--but for most listeners the real draw is the melodies. On Icky Thump, there are four really good ones. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) stomps all over a passive lover's heart with a Led Zeppelin--quality riff and an impossibly effortless vocal, while the sweet, diffident A Martyr for My Love for You changes the pace and proves Jack White can sing ballads too. Along with Catch...
Ncube: We should all come together. We must be orderly, not violent - or these people will thump you. I would lead an orderly crowd. The trouble is getting people to be convinced of that...
...astro-guitar and galactic bump: all these elements appear elsewhere on the disc, but here they’re wired into a seamless industrial complex of a song. At other times, as in “Heart of Hearts” (which, unfortunately, is the single), the looping bass thump and electric guitar become tiring and fairly forgettable. The fairly forgettable fills most of the album, but there are highlights, such as “Yadnus.” If Offer’s hushed come-ons in the song “Myth Takes” are filled with...
...bridge devoid of all other sounds besides waves crashing and a tragic-sounding mandolin. “Redhead Girl” finally brings the album’s latent intensity to the forefront. The peaceful wind chimes that open the song lead into a heartbeat’s thump and grave chords strikingly similar to those in Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away.” The vocals move through the song like mist over a still lake, and Air’s dreamy trance hits a fever pitch. While “Pocket Symphony?...