Icky Thump

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The White Stripes chronology
Icky Thump

Studio album by The White Stripes
Released	12 June 2007
Recorded	February 2007 at Blackbird Studio, Nashville
Genre	Indie Rock Garage rock revival
Length	48 mins (est.) ^[1]
Label	Warner Bros. Records (U.S.) XL Recordings (E.U.)
Producer(s)	Jack White
Walking with a Ghost (2005)	Icky Thump (2007)

Icky Thump (derived from "Ecky-Thump", a Yorkshire colloquialism) is the announced title of the sixth studio album by The White Stripes. Its completion was announced February 28, 2007, with a tentative June release date [2] ^[2]

1 Track listing
2 Official website statement
3 North American tour
4 Notes

[edit] Track listing

The track listing as announced on March 23, 2007 [3] by CMJ.com.

"Icky Thump"
"You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)"
"300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues"
"Conquest" (originally performed by Patti Page)
"Bone Broke"
"Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn"
"St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)"
"Little Cream Soda"
"Rag and Bone"
"I'm Slowly Turning into You"
"A Martyr for My Love for You"
"Catch Hell Blues"
"Effect and Cause"

The track listing and selected lyrics can be found on the band's official web site [4]

[edit] Official website statement

The White Stripes official web site has announced that Icky Thump will be the sixth studio album by The White Stripes. Its completion was announced on February 28, 2007^[3]. The band's website announced that the album was recorded at Nashville's Blackbird Studio and took almost three weeks to record — the longest of any White Stripes album to date.

A statement on the band's official website (spuriously attributed to "Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisof" of the "Moscow Bugle") claims that:

“

The White Stripes have completed the recording and mixing of their sixth album. It is entitled Icky Thump, and is their first album to include a title track, which curiously (and not ironically) has the same words in it's [sic] name. Though some residents of northern England might almost recognize the title, the Stripes stress they are spelling it wrong intentionally just for "kicks" and "metaphors", and to avoid a possible lawsuit from the estate of Billy Eckstine.

”

A video of The Stripes in the studio working on the album can also be found at their site, although the aforementioned statement has this to say about the song: "The actual music has been replaced with mid eighties sampling keyboard technology to prevent what industry analysts are now calling 'song poaching'."

Jack White stated that the album will appeal to fans of the band's self-titled debut, perhaps suggesting a stripped-down hard rock sound. A trumpet/guitar duel is said to take place in one song.[5]

[edit] North American tour

The White Stripes management responded to NME.com's supposedly confirmed North American tour schedule with a statement on the band's official website:

“

With unbridled enthusiasm for the June release of 'Icky Thump', NME.com has printed a North American tour routing that holds no semblance of reality. Indeed, it looks like their journalists simply found and printed the tour routing the band did in support of their 2005 release, 'Get Behind Me Satan'.

In fact, The White Stripes have yet to confirm their North American routing as of yet. But we are happy to say that it will include all 10 provinces and 3 territories of Canada, as well as the remaining 16 states of the United States the band have yet to play. A few major markets that have been journeyed to in the past will be also be included.

The North American tour will start in the state of Tennessee.

”

Discography
The White Stripes
Jack White \| Meg White
Albums and extended plays: The White Stripes \| De Stijl \| White Blood Cells \| Elephant \| Get Behind Me Satan \| Walking with a Ghost \| Icky Thump
Singles: "Let's Shake Hands" \| "Lafayette Blues" \| "The Big Three Killed My Baby" \| "Hand Springs" \| "Hello Operator" \| "Lord, Send Me an Angel" \| "Party of Special Things to Do" \| "Hotel Yorba" \| "Fell in Love with a Girl" \| "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" \| "We're Going to Be Friends" \| "Red Death at 6:14" \| "Candy Cane Children" \| "Seven Nation Army" \| "I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself" \| "The Hardest Button to Button" \| "There's No Home for You Here" \| "Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)" \| "Blue Orchid" \| "My Doorbell" \| "The Denial Twist"
DVDs: Candy Coloured Blues (unofficial) \| Under Blackpool Lights
Other projects: Aluminium \| The Go
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