10 Best Rock Music Album Openers Of The 2010s

10. Shine A Little Light - The Black Keys ('Let’s Rock')

The reason why this 2019 album from The Black Keys has quotation marks around its name is because 'Let's Rock' were the last words of a convicted murderer before he was executed via the electric chair.

Guitarist and singer Dan Auerbach saw this in a newspaper and thought it was neat. The last words part, not the murdering part.

'Let's Rock' was the band's first album in five years and saw them return to good old-fashioned guitar-driven rock 'n' roll. Drummer Patrick Carney called the record an "homage to the electric guitar" and he was absolutely spot on.

The album gets off to a great start with Shine a Little Light, a song written with the express purpose of being really, really cool. The track is stuffed with catchy guitar parts to the point where you could listen to it multiple parts and follow a new one each time.

There's nothing fancy about Shine a Little Light, but that's the whole point. 'Let's Rock' was intentionally created to show how effective simple rock music can be, and it achieves that mission statement with its very first song.