The White Stripes - Icky Thump
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Free Music Review: ICKY ICKY DUMP
Hit: 1 Stars
GOODNESS GRACIOUS WHAT IS THIS? THIS IS TERRIBLE. AND SOMEHOW THEY'RE SO POPULAR. JAGGER AND RICHARD 'PASSED THE TOURCH' TO JACK WHITE ON THE LATEST COVER OF ROLLING STONE. I'M CANCELLING MY FORTY YEAR SUBSCRIPTION
TO THE MAGAZINE. I WILL NOT BELABOR THIS TO MUCH DOESN'T RATE IT. SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT ALL THE GREAT RIFFS OF 2007 WERE COMPILED INTO THIS ALBUM. THEY ARE LOUD,VIRTUALLY SCREAMING, AND MAKE SOME MATHMETICAL SENSE BUT ARE DEVOID ABSOLUTEY OF ANY TRUE ROCK FEELING OR EMOTION, ITS ALL PRETENSE.
NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN THIS PRETENSE, JACK WHITE, KICK YOUSELF OUT, YOU'RE A IMMIGRANT TO. THE ASININE LYRIC OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY.
I WON'T BELABOR THE INDIVIDUAL SONGS, THEY ALL STINK THOUGH SOME MORESO THAN OTHERS. CONQUEST IS THE WORST SONG I'VE HEARD IN TWENTY YEARS. WHATS HE TRYING TO DO, DORIS DAY PROUD.
ROLLING STONE LISTS ON THE WEB THE HUNDRED GREATEST ROCK GUITARISTS OF
ALL TIME, THIS JACK WHITE CAT CLOCKS IN AT 17. SAY WHAT?! WITHN SUCH A PROLIFIC HYSTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL?
HE'S AHEAD OF GEORGE HARRISON ! AT 21. THE EDGE OF U2 ! AT 24 BUDDY GUY AT 30. BO DIDDLEY AT 37. PETER GREEN OF EARLY FLEETWOOD MACK AT 38.
JOHN FORGERT AT 40. ROBERT FRIPP OF KING KRIMSON ! AT 42. EDDY HAZEL ! OF FUNKDELIC AT 43. FRANK ZAPPA ! AT 45. PETE TOWNSEND ! AT 50 PAUL KOSSOFF OF FREE ! AT 51. LOU REED AT 52. ZOOT HORN ROLLO OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEARTS MAGIC BAND ! AT 62. MICK RONSON AT 64. VERNON REID OF LIVING COLOUR AT 66. STEVE HOW ! OF YES AT 69. ROBBIS ROBERTSON ! OF THE BAND AT 78. DAVID GILMOUR ! (GOOD GOD WHO PUT THIS LIST TOGETHER) AT 82.. DAVE DAVIES ! OF THE KINKS AT 88.
SO JACK WHITE SURPASSESS ALL THE GUITAR PLAYERS IN SKILL, DEXTERITY, CREATIVITY, PROWRESS ETC. ETC. THIS IS AN UTTER OUTRAGE. AN EMBARASSMENT
THE SECOND BEST ROCK GUITARIST( A VIRTUOSO WITH MANY INSTRUMENTS) WAS A FELLOW NAMED OLLIE HALSALL, A TRUE GENIUS SECOND ONLY TO HENDRIX. THEY HAD A BAND CALLED PATTO AND BOXER WITH ONE OF THE BEST ROCK SINGER OF ALL TIME, MIKE PATTO, BUT APPARENTLY WERE TO PROGRESSIVE FOR THEIR TIME. AFTER BRIAN JONES DEPARTURE AND THEN MICK TAYLOR LEFT THE ROLLING STONES
OLLIE HALSALL WAS PICKED AS THE REPLACEMENT, BUT RICHARDS RIGHTFULLY FELT UPSTAGED AND NIXED IT, A PITY. ANOTHER GREAT GUITARIST WHO SHOULD HAVE MADE THE LIST WAS GARY GREEN OF GENTLE GIANT, ANOTHER FABULOUS BAND THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT BIG THOUGH THE KIDS SEEM TO BE DISCOVERING THEM NOW.AND RON WOOD'S NOT ON THE LIST, HIS WORK WITH ROD STWEART ALONE RATES IT.)
SO BACK TO THE POINT. KURT COBAIN & U2 SAVED US FROM TWO DECADES OF TERRIBLE HAIR BANDS, MOTLEY CRUE, POISON, SKID ROW, KISS TO NAME A FEW.
NOW WHATS GONNA SAVE US FROM THIS JACK WHITE CHARACTER.
I REMEMBER IN COLLEGE 70-74 LISTENING TO NEIL YOUNG LIVE RECORDS AND ALL THE OUTRAGEOUS ERRORS HE MADE. IT WAS TRULY BELLY LAUGH STUFF. NOW THIS JACK WHITE HAS ALL THE TIME, THE TECHNONOGY AND STUDIO PROWRESS TO PLAY A DECENT NOTE AND HE'S JUST DOING THESE BELLY LAUGH ERRORS AGAIN AND THEY'RE EVEN MORE FUNNY. THE 17TH GREATEST ROCK GUITARIST. KID'S A TRUE GOD.
TO CLOSE ON A LIGHTER NOTE MEG WHITE IS AN EFFICIENT MINIMALIST DRUMMER,
AND DRIVES A HARD BEAT THE ONLY TALENT IN THE BAND.
BUT CRIMANY HOW LONG WILL THIS BAND ENDURE BEFORE PROPLE CATCH ON?
Free Music Review: Smart Cd by a Smart guy......very cool
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're here, you know what the Stripes are about. Each cd is progressively more brilliant than the prior...with seemingly no limits. If you enjoy this type of creativity, also check out the new Poi Dog Pondering CD...I think someone already mentioned that as well....Fantastic stuff.7Free Music Review: Jack White= the Keith Richards of GenX
Hit: 4 Stars
Mark my words, people will be playing the riffs of Jack White for generations to come.......Stripes CD's are perfectly written and produced, where Jack has proven to be a genious....the Lorreta Lynn CD he did was probably one of the most brilliant musical projects released in the last 30 years. With Icky Thump, song after song of great catchy riffs and big hooks are abundant. A true genious, and sure rock and roll hall of famer when the time comes. I'd also highly recomend the new Poi Dog Pondering '7' CD, almost a polar opposite of the Stripes, but somehow very similar in the enjoyment equation.Free Music Review: Another great album from the Stripeys
Hit: 5 Stars
There is apparently an opinion, common among certain highly educated musicians, that the White Stripes can't play.
This reminds me of the old complaint that Thelonious Monk couldn't play piano. It's true that he couldn't play everything, the way his friend, neighbour and colleague Bud Powell could play anything placed in front of him. Monk didn't need to be able to play everything, because he was wise enough and genius enough to only play what he wanted to. A DJ once said on air that Monk's style was based on playing wrong notes. Monk rang the radio station and informed them 'Piano ain't got no wrong notes.' Jack White plays guitar as though guitar ain't got no wrong notes.
Similarly, the White Stripes are brilliant musicians because their technique is absolutely spot-on for what they want to do. There are Berklee-educated shred merchants out there who secretly wish they could come up with the riffs that Jack White can rattle off effortlessly. Ted Kirkpatrick, of the Christian metal band Tourniquet, is a phenomenally gifted player, but he is nothing like as good a musician as Meg White - partly because he has the bad taste to play Christian metal, but mostly because he thinks that good drumming is about lots of intricate polyrhythms and hitting things as fast and as much as possible. It isn't.
This is one of my favourite White Stripes albums - loud, raucous, perverse, more Led Zep II than Zed Lep III. I am a guitar player (rock, punk, blues and am studying jazz at a fairly advanced level) and I am in awe of how eloquent the White Stripes' music is, compared to some more ballyhooed stuff I've had to listen to.
Free Music Review: Best CD I bought last year
Hit: 4 Stars
This was the best CD I bought last year bar none, and I bought a few. White Stripes never cease to impress me. I guess that is why Conan had them on the show for an entire week a few years ago, which is when I got hooked.