The White Stripes : Icky Thump (blues, albums, effect, members)

ProggyMan · 01-21-2008, 01:19 PM

To be fair Icky Thump got to no. 1, so he doesn't have much to complain about.

**jackhammer** · 01-21-2008, 01:21 PM

Yeah but not the tastes of people on here in general. I'm not bothered about those in the mainstream. I have known they have had no music tastes for years!

ProggyMan · 01-21-2008, 01:24 PM

What? Are you talking to me or r-t?

**jackhammer** · 01-21-2008, 01:37 PM

to anyone who will listen lol

**right-track** · 01-21-2008, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Yeah but not the tastes of people on here in general.

Of course not.

And thank God, or it would mean these boards were populated by the endless droids that listen to the dross that passes for music that saturate the charts.
cody's comment was, I think, directed at the seemingly majority of people that enjoy bubble gum for the ears.

dog · 01-23-2008, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

To my ears all the organ in it gives it a kind of mid 70s vibe to it.

I don't like it as much as De Stijl or Elephant but it's a huge improvement on their last album.

i'm yet to hear a bad album, get behind me satan was really cool.

**Urban Hatemonger** · 01-24-2008, 01:23 PM

I never said it was bad

Just not to my tastes.

dog · 01-25-2008, 07:39 PM

i didnt say that you thought it was bad, im just adding to what you said, and replying to the people who said it was a lesser album

**sleepy jack** · 01-25-2008, 08:02 PM

I don't understand all the hype surrounding the white stripes. I understand they mixed blues and other forms of root music with rock (now thats original) and made it catchy but so what? It seems like with every new stripes album critics jump all over them and go on about it being the greatest rock record of the year and the greatest album of their career. From the NME to SPIN to every amazon review/forum it seems like everyone loved this record and thought it was so great and blah blah blah. To me it just sounded like a standard White Stripes album. They mixed hard rock blues, country and other things, not too adventurous or original.. I don't hate this or love this, like every other Stripes album I'm pretty indifferent towards it, but all the people who hype them death bug me because they're really not all that.

Rainard Jalen · 01-26-2008, 02:23 AM

I've expressed my views on this album before, but to expand on the current discussion: I think the best that can be said of this album is that it's very competent. I can listen to it as a whole and enjoy it, in spite of the lack of sonic cohesion. But a masterpiece it is not. And I do find it, to say the least, weird, that any reviewer could have taken it as such.

With that said, to be fair, the overwhelming response seemed to be that it was a sorta 4 star deal. Though personally I think 3.5 is more accurate.

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01-21-2008, 01:19 PM
ProggyMan Reformed Jackass Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,461	To be fair Icky Thump got to no. 1, so he doesn't have much to complain about. __________________ Shut the fuck up and recognize what you holding ain't really broken. -Ian Bavitz If Noah had the benefit of hindsight on his ship he coulda' snatched two unicorns and left behind the mother fuckin' pigs. -Ian Bavitz I <3: Crowquill is cool. Sorta. I hate the Fall Of Troy. And Joy Division. And West Side Story.

01-21-2008, 01:21 PM
jackhammer A Cabled Discount Join Date: May 2007 Location: U.K Posts: 4,566	Yeah but not the tastes of people on here in general. I'm not bothered about those in the mainstream. I have known they have had no music tastes for years! __________________ My music collection.cough cough enjoy. Ha Ha charade you are. My dvd collection.

01-21-2008, 01:24 PM
ProggyMan Reformed Jackass Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 2,461	What? Are you talking to me or r-t? __________________ Shut the fuck up and recognize what you holding ain't really broken. -Ian Bavitz If Noah had the benefit of hindsight on his ship he coulda' snatched two unicorns and left behind the mother fuckin' pigs. -Ian Bavitz I <3: Crowquill is cool. Sorta. I hate the Fall Of Troy. And Joy Division. And West Side Story.

01-21-2008, 01:37 PM
jackhammer A Cabled Discount Join Date: May 2007 Location: U.K Posts: 4,566	to anyone who will listen lol __________________ My music collection.cough cough enjoy. Ha Ha charade you are. My dvd collection.

01-24-2008, 01:23 PM
Urban Hatemonger Groovy Hate F*ck Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Nuuk , Greenland Posts: 9,331	I never said it was bad Just not to my tastes. __________________

01-25-2008, 07:39 PM
dog this bird has flown Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: paris,texas Posts: 850	i didnt say that you thought it was bad, im just adding to what you said, and replying to the people who said it was a lesser album __________________ formerly ledzeppelinrulz.

01-25-2008, 08:02 PM
sleepy jack Bone Machine Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Jesusland Posts: 17,218	I don't understand all the hype surrounding the white stripes. I understand they mixed blues and other forms of root music with rock (now thats original) and made it catchy but so what? It seems like with every new stripes album critics jump all over them and go on about it being the greatest rock record of the year and the greatest album of their career. From the NME to SPIN to every amazon review/forum it seems like everyone loved this record and thought it was so great and blah blah blah. To me it just sounded like a standard White Stripes album. They mixed hard rock blues, country and other things, not too adventurous or original.. I don't hate this or love this, like every other Stripes album I'm pretty indifferent towards it, but all the people who hype them death bug me because they're really not all that. __________________ You're so evil and I'm so good, I'll make it up to you someday.

01-26-2008, 02:23 AM
Rainard Jalen Music Addict Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,623	I've expressed my views on this album before, but to expand on the current discussion: I think the best that can be said of this album is that it's very competent. I can listen to it as a whole and enjoy it, in spite of the lack of sonic cohesion. But a masterpiece it is not. And I do find it, to say the least, weird, that any reviewer could have taken it as such. With that said, to be fair, the overwhelming response seemed to be that it was a sorta 4 star deal. Though personally I think 3.5 is more accurate.