![]() ![]() So in my opinion the white orchid symbolises the gift of music that was given to the audience. Although this happened a long time after he had written this song, I sense the same anger and see similar statements. Another time while reading the lyrics I had an association with the statement Jack directed to his pseudo-fans registered to vault (if you haven't heard about the case,the vault members are given an opportunity to buy limited vinyls at a bargain price and some of them made a business from reselling them on ebay at a few times higher price which of course pissed Jack off and made him stop offering these gifts to valt members for some time). What can be so sacred to Jack that its violation pisses him off to that level? I'm sure it's his art and privacy. I think we all agree that the song is about thoughtless devastation of something valuable and pure. The innocence lost of “Little Cream Soda,” an old plaint for Jack by now, stands a better chance - as does “Bone Broke,” about Jack’s supposed money woes, and, right after “Icky Thump,” the riff monster “You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told).My InterpretationI went through all comments and didn't find the interpretation that would feel totally right for me. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)” will fare on the Hot 100. But you can be sure we’ll never find out how “Prickly Thorn, but Sweetly Worn”/ “St. This time it’s bagpipes, their wild-man-of-the-north mysticism balancing off the hit’s south-of-the-border macho. That’s always been Jack’s MO, and album to album - one every two years since White Blood Cells in 2001 - he’s hauled new detritus into his theoretical garage. Looking for Technics turntables to gramophones.” Proudly, they build their music - and “make some money,” yeah! - from the “Christmas trees” and “toilet seats” others discard. Two other top tracks show off Jack’s songwriting per se: a broadly applicable philosophical closer called “Effect and Cause,” and a cute Jack-and-Meg dialogue that recalls the band’s earliest blues, “Rag and Bone,” where the pair wander “Rich house/Doghouse/Outhouse/Old folks’ house/House for unwed mothers. White Stripes Dig Up 2001 'Hotel Yorba' Performance From 'Jools Holland' “Icky Thump” has a topic: immigration! The song isn’t easy to parse, but for once that’s a plus - it’s genuinely complex, condensing hard moral conundrums into a narrative whose comic side is captured by the south-of-the-border video and whose intrusive guitar leaves conflict hanging rather than providing comfortable resolution. ![]() Elephant‘s “Seven Nation Army” and Get Behind Me Satan‘s “Blue Orchid” defy fame and a temptress with typical pop imprecision. debut, Icky Thump, is their first single to go Top Forty on Billboard‘s Hot 100 - Top Twenty-Six, to be precise. ![]() The White Stripes are justly renowned for cracking a hit parade of mad compression and synthesized everything with naught but a guitar, a drum kit and some analog tape. ![]() Part of the answer is that not so many simple pop fans do. Still, what do the White Stripes have to say? What do they stand for? Why do simple pop fans care about minimal Jack and his mythical sister, Meg? Plus the color-coded packaging and knack for self-mythification. Voice avid and emotional enough, words catchy sometimes and - crucially - tunes catchy often. Major guitarist, albeit overrated by those seeking a young titan to prove the guitar retains its glamour. So what is it about Jack White? Right, he’s very talented. ![]()
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