"300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues" is a song written and recorded by The White Stripes. It is the third track from the album Icky Thump and is also on the B-side of the single "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)". It is one of the band's longest songs, at nearly five and a half minutes long.
The Washington Post called the song "a love song that opens as a quiet shuffle, then gently toggles the soft-loud-dynamics switch before a pealing 12-second guitar break erupts violently and without warning just past the two-minute mark before fading out -- an unexpected moment of brilliance".
Jack White, the guitarist of The White Stripes, explained that when writing this song he wanted to use as many different styles of blues as he could in one song and that "it goes from the really screeching, distorted, heavy blues song, to a wimply Wurlitzer kind of loungey blues sound, to a white-boy takes on the blues, to real earthy, country blues."
Famous quotes containing the word blues:
“Holly Golightly: You know those days when you’ve got the mean reds?
Paul: The mean reds? You mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No, the blues are because you’re getting fat or maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of.”
—George Axelrod (b. 1922)