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}} ''Icky Thump'' is the sixth and final studio album by US alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released June 15, 2007 in Germany, June 18, 2007 in the rest of Europe, and June 19, 2007 in the rest of the world. It was the band's only album on Warner Bros. Records. ''Icky Thump'' entered the UK Albums Chart at number one〔("The White Stripes - Icky Thump global chart positions and trajectories" ). aCharts.us. Retrieved June 30, 2007.〕 and debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 223,000 copies sold.〔 By late July, ''Icky Thump'' was certified gold in the United States. As of March 8, 2008, the album has sold 725,125 copies in the US. On February 10, 2008, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. ==Recording and production== After ''Get Behind Me Satan'', ''Icky Thump'' marks a return to the punk, garage rock and blues influences for which the band is known.〔Garrity, Brian (June 23, 2007), "Icky Thump." ''Billboard''. 119 (25):71〕 Additionally, the album introduces Scottish folk music, avant-garde, trumpet, and bagpipes into the formula, whilst simultaneously reintroducing older characteristics such as the first studio recording of the early White Stripes song "Little Cream Soda". ''Icky Thump'' was recorded and mixed entirely in analog at Nashville's Blackbird Studio by Joe Chiccarelli. According to Chiccarelli in an interview with HitQuarters, the band had already rehearsed and demoed around half the album, with the rest being conceived in the studio. The album took almost three weeks to record—the longest of any White Stripes album.〔 The recording differed from previous albums in that White had the comparative luxury of recording to 16-track analog rather than his usual 8-track.〔 Also, Chiccarelli said: "We spent a little more time than he is used to experimenting and trying different things on that album, whether it was different ways to record the drums or the vocals, or different arrangements, or cutting takes together.".〔 Trumpet player Regulo Aldama, who appears on "Conquest", was discovered by Jack White at a local Mexican restaurant. Jack White said that the album would appeal to fans of the band's self-titled debut, suggesting a stripped-down garage rock sound. A statement on the band's (official website ) (spuriously attributed to "Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisof" of the "''Moscow Bugle''", a reference to the 1966 ''Batman'' film) humorously claims that: A video of The White 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.'" ''Entertainment Weeklys online site had an interview with Michel Gondry in which he said he would be directing a video for "I'm Slowly Turning Into You". He mentions the idea for the video. Gondry also says that the video idea came first, and after mentioning the idea to Jack White, White wrote the song to fit that idea. On May 30, 2007, Chicago radio station Q101 aired the entire album without the band's permission.〔''Billboard'' staff (June 16, 2007), INSIDE TRACK". ''Billboard''. 119 (24):57〕 Jack called into the station and reacted angrily about them playing it. There is speculation that the label supplied the album to the station in order to promote its release.〔("BBC World Service | The Beat )〕 In the liner notes of ''Icky Thump'', "Electra" is thanked on the second line, just after God. According to Ben Blackwell, Jack White's nephew, this is not directed towards the radio DJ, Electra, but to a pet Jack and Meg White used to have. The White Stripes announced the completion of ''Icky Thump'' on February 28, 2007. The title is derived from "ecky thump", a Lancashire colloquial response of surprise, popularized by an episode of the 1970s UK comedy series ''The Goodies''. On ''Later with Jools Holland'' (broadcast June 1, 2007) Jack attributed the album's name to its use as an exclamation by his wife, who is from Lancashire. He added that the deliberate misspelling was to make it easier for an American audience to identify with.〔''Ecky'' is described as being a Lancashire slang equivalent of ''heck'' (itself a euphemism for ''hell'') according to Partridge's ''Dictionary of Historical Slang'', Penguin 1972, entry for ''Heck''.〕 The liner notes for ''Icky Thump'' also suggest the spelling variation was due to concerns over copyright infringement. The Pearly Kings and Queens costume theme that the band used for this album is a traditional Cockney outfit, somewhat contrary to the Northern dialect of the title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Icky Thump」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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