According to NME, the new White Stripes album will be called Icky Thump. And while that’s hardly the worst title we’ve ever heard, it certainly begs the question: If this is the best they could come up with, what names did they reject?
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March 1st, 2007 // 8 Comments
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I can’t wait for the Greatest Hits collection: From De Stijl to Icky Thump.
It’s an anagram of “Hit My Puck.”
Maybe a Redwings shoutout, Detroit keepin’ it real.
Maybe Meg has been watching “Slap Shot” while Raconteurs have been on the road.
I bet the LP will do fresh and innovative things in the blues idiom, regardless!!!
Cough!
It’s a corruption of a bit of Northern English dialect, “ecky thump,” meaning… well, I’m not actually sure. The ecky bit comes from heck, as in a polite way of saying ‘hell,’ and the thump bit, god knows!
Ecky thump is also in an episode of the Goodies (’70s British comedy show) where it is used as the name of a new type of martial arts from Lancashire (with hilarious consequences).
Admittedly, still a horrible album title. (Very funny press release though.)
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Oh, I’m a huge Richard Scarry fan. If only it was in fact called “Lowly Worm.”
Normally I’d come to the defense of my boys Chuck and Flav, but I have to agree that was a frickin’ horrible album title.
@Sir Charlie Palmer: You beat me to it. Ecky Thump actually killed a man:
Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King’s Lynn literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode “Kung Fu Kapers” in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding (from the Lancastrian martial art “Ecky-Thump”) in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of “Hoots-Toot-ochaye.” After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell’s final moments so pleasant.
Icky Thump is great because it’s both an album title, and no doubt, an accurate review of the music.
And it’s much more concise than “We totally bit our style from Jon Spencer, and wear gimmicky getups to appeal to the deaf demographic.”