Icky Thump is either my fav…or as good as the first two albums.

icky thump > get behind me satan.
icky thump

I think that GBMS is getting a lot of hits in reviews as being too experimental and not as good, but I love the guitar-driven-ness of Icky Thump and piano/marimba fun of GBMS equally well. Icky Thump’s a little more…”singable” maybe? I have to say, Baby Brother is my favorite. It’s like Jerry Lee Lewis but with guitar instead of piano. Brilliant!

Read Jack’s message at the end of the CD cover. It’s really fun. This CD is SO Led Zepplin. Love it eqally as well as GBMS. I always have to listen to White Stripes a few times before they burrow into my brain never to leave.

Icky Thump just feels like the next chapter. I’ll always remember how much I enjoyed listening to each of their album’s for the first time. They all took a little bit of time to acquire a full taste for. That’s what makes the White Stripes so unique. I don’t really hear the Zeppelin references, but if two people can make as much noise as four, they have to be doing something right. The comparisons whether positive or negative show what a force of band they are, love them or hate them. Who else has lasted as a band these last ten years and been able to consistently draw everyone’s attention?

1.The White Stripes (self titled)
2.Icky Thump
3.Get Behind Me Satan
4.Elephant
5.White Blood Cells
6.De Stijl

I have never experienced a band whose fans’ opinions all differ on which album is best. I’m still waiting on Amazon to ship me my Icky Thump. But just for the record, my rankings…
1. White Blood Cells
2. White Stripes
3. De Stijl
4. Elephant
5. Get Behind Me Satan

I loved the last two albums, but realistically they rank on the bottom of my list. So if it’s unanimous that Icky Thump rocks, that only adds to my anxiousness.

My opinion mirror’s “#10. Charilie’s”:

1.De Stijl
2.The White Stripes (Self Titled)
3.Icky Thump
4.White Blood Cells
5.Elephant
6.Ge Behind Me Satan

same as CAgirl!!!!!!!!!

love the new album!!

Yes, #7 CAgirl, yay for liner notes! Yay for lyrics and cute pics of Jack and Meg. I love that Meg is using some new techniques eg Bone Broke. In St. Andrew Meg’s voice is sped up but is it sped up in Rag and Bone too? It sounds strange to me. Different from I’m Slowing Turning Into You too. But yay for hearing Jack’s “normal” voice in that song, hot! I like the intro to Catch Hell too. Does anybody else feel like Catch Hell was made out of the intro for Death Letter from Blackpool Lights?
The album is so great but I can’t chose or rank them, that is too hard!!

The new album is great. But I need to know something because I haven’t seen it written anywhere yet. The white stripes used to play an old song called “Lord, send me an angel” and when I first heard “you don’t know what love is” the main riffs sounded remarkably similar in both songs. In YDKWLI(YJDAYT) the riff just sounds like a chopped-up version of the LSMAA riff. Tell me if anybody else heard this or thought of this or if I’m crazy.

woah, elephant #1, really? it’s my least favorite white stripes album–but possibly my favorite cover artwork.

Charlie @ #10 summed it up for me.

Okay, so maybe I am very slow, but has anyone noticed how each WS album has a song with the word ‘little’ in the title? In chronological order, we have ‘Little People,’ ‘Little Bird,’ ‘Little Room,’ ‘Little Acorns,’ ‘Little Ghost,’ and ‘Little Cream Soda.’ What is Jack trying to tell us (if anything)?

Icky Thump>The White Stripes
Icky Thump