Number 15

Song & Artist: Steady, As She Goes - The Raconteurs / Saboteurs
Album & Date: Broken Boy Soldiers - 24th April 2006
Nationality of band: American
Members at release: Brendan Benson (Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards - American); Patrick Keeler (Drums - American); Jack Lawrence (Bass Guitar & Vocals - America); Jack White (Vocals and basically every instrument known to mankind.... - American)

YouTube:

My rant;

I will repeatedly bang on about the lack of talent out there in the rock world in recent times. I will specifically harp on endlessly about the old crew (FF, RHCP etc) turning out ballsack albums with one or two average tracks on them that the media take to the masses with fake gusto (which is in fact thinly veiled boredom)

Once again, I'm calling this track alternative because there was no one else really really doing this garage rock revival scene in 2006. The Foo Fighters latest, Wasting Light, was apparently recorded in a garage, but seeing as that garage is bigger than my house, I'm pretty sure that doesn't count.
But Jack White is someone who is genuinely talented and has been releasing music post 2000 that is genuinly interesting and rocks. So team him up with the rest of the boys of the Raconteurs and you get this lo-fi, garage rock track that is inspiring in both its simplicity and its depth of rock.

The drum and bass in this track carry it beyond what it could have been. The short, caught guitar marks the track as something entirely different to any thing else released around then. The slightly offset layering of the vocal track is something not done a lot, and not done well at all generally. But this track has it nailed and musically these four chums have turned out a cracker.

The lyrics are defining for any young man and especially for me seeing as I was engaged when this was released and spent significant time thrashing it at work where Vladimir and I were both jumping up and down about its brilliance.
Bands: (multiple band entrys ARE counted twice)

8 - America
7 - England

Band Members Country of Origin: (multiple band entrys ARE counted twice)

29 - England
29 - America
2 - Germany
1 - Tanzania

Decade Released

10 - 90's
2 - 70's
2 - 60's
1 - 00's

Year Released

2 - 1994
2 - 1997
2 - 1993
2 - 1995
2 - 1991
1 - 1975
1 - 1965
1 - 1979
1 - 1968
1 - 2006

Genre:

5 - Alternative
4 - Grunge
2 - Rock
1 - Punk
1 - Glam Rock
1 - Post Grunge
1 - BritPop(Rock)