# "Icky Thump" for the 45+ folks...

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 25, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652 "2008-03-25T06:16:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652/1 "2008-03-25T06:16:19Z")

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Excuse me, but doesn’t this sound like it could have been recorded in 1975?

LOVE it, though…and I’ll be 50 in two months. I was air-guitarin’ like a madwoman, turn it UP!

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**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652/2 "2008-03-25T06:28:00Z")

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That late? Jack White tends to like [his equipment](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Stripes#Instruments_and_equipment) from the '60s…

I definitely prefer _Icky Thump_ to _Get Behind Me Satan_ (“Co-ooo-oonnnn-QUEEEESSSST!”), but they’ve yet to top _White Blood Cells_ in my book.

(Then again, I haven’t hit 45+ yet. Take my comments with a grain of youth.)

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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652/3 "2008-03-25T06:53:59Z")

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I love it too!!!

But then, my memories of growing up in the 70’s are falsely-implanted and I’m really only 28. 🆒

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652/4 "2008-03-25T12:35:01Z")

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Haven’t heard it, but clearly **Elephant** and **White Blood Cells** sounds that way. I think all their stuff is done live in the studio, which pretty much died out by the late 60s.

It makes for a good sound though; the lack of perfection is a good thing.

And I’m well above 45.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/icky-thump-for-the-45-folks/442652/5 "2008-03-25T13:57:12Z")

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I like the song, Jack White is a riff monster on par with Jimmy Page and Joe Perry when it comes to awesome hooky major scale riffs, and Icky Thump has a classic, but that part where he starts banging a bundle of cats into that thing from the Del Shannon song Runaway? Not so much. I know it’s a new toy Jack, but dial it back a little. Brevity is the soul of wit, and the same goes for odd guitar effects too.