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Icky Thump by The White Stripes
Icky Thump is an album by The White Stripes, released in 2007. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 79 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Icky Thump”, on 54 lists and voted number one twice.
Icky Thump, the sixth and last White Stripes album, came out in June 2007 on Warner Bros. in America and XL everywhere else, and it finds Jack and Meg White kicking the doors of the garage back open. Jack produced it himself at Blackbird, and the sessions ran three weeks in January and February 2007, which for a band built on speed and simplicity was practically a marathon: the longest they ever spent making a record.
After the experiments of Get Behind Me Satan split the critics, this one went straight back to the roots: punk-blues riffs, fuzzed-out garage stomp, Jack yelping over the top and Meg whacking the drums like they owe her money. For all the racket, the songs have a sunny streak, a band sounding glad just to be alive and loud. The title track did the heavy lifting on rock radio.
The reviews came back glowing, the album went to the top of the UK chart and number two on the Billboard 200, earned gold in both, and at the 50th Grammys it took Best Alternative Music Album and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Nobody knew it yet, but it was the final word: the duo dissolved in 2011, and this is where the red-white-and-black story ends.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Icky Thump on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icky Thump | 54 | #1 | 2 | 2007–2026 | |
| 2 | You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) | 18 | #22 | – | 2007–2009 | |
| 3 | Conquest | 7 | #38 | – | 2007–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.