History
The name of the track comes from the Northern England exclamation "Ecky Thump," roughly meaning "Oh god!" The phrase was popularized in an episode of The Goodies. The album title was then changed to "Icky" so that "teenagers would understand it better back in America," in the same way Led Zeppelin took out the "a" so they wouldn't be referred to as 'Lead Zeppelin.'
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