The White Stripes - Icky Thump [2007]

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Amazon.comBagpipes, 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

1. Icky Thump Listen Listen
2. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)
3. 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
4. Conquest
5. Bone Broke
6. Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn
7. St. Andrew (This Battle Is In The Air)
8. Little Cream Soda
9. Rag And Bone
10. I'm Slowly Turning Into You
11. A Martyr For My Love For You
12. Catch Hell Blues
13. Effect and Cause
The White Stripes - Icky Thump [2007]

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The White Stripes - Aluminium

I never was a big fan of The White Stripes but after listening to their latest album, Icky Thump, I downloaded every single album from the band. And I discovered Aluminium.

Aluminium basically covers ten songs from different The White Stripes' albums with orchestral music. And the result is pure genius. Aluminium is like a soundtrack to a tragic and epic movie and while you're listening to it, you do actually see sceneries and landscapes; those usually featured at the beginning of movies, you know?

Although some of those tracks may give you the impression that the orchestra tried to do too much, this record is very very good. It must be noted that neither Meg nor Jack White participated in recording this one although Jack did endorse the project. The musicians here are Richard Russell and Joby Talbot.

Tracklist:

1. Aluminium
2. I'm Bound to Pack It Up
3. Why Cant You Be Nicer To Me?
4. Astro
5. Never Far Away
6. Little Bird
7. Let's Build a Home
8. Who's a Big Baby?
9. The Hardest Button to Button
10. Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)

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Thanks to the original uploader.

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