10 Underrated Hard Rock Songs Of The 2000s

10. Black Math - The White Stripes

At the start of the '00s, it felt like the rock scene snapped on a dime the first time we heard the White Stripes. Stripping away all of the trickery coming with other bands at the time, the music blaring from Jack and Meg White was some of the most inventive back to basics that the rock scene had to offer. Then again, not even the professionals were able to swing like they could on Black Math.

Coming from their colossal album Elephant, Black Math is a bit of a lowlight on the album compared to the other tracks like The Hardest Button to Button and Ball and Biscuit. Clocking in at just a few minutes, the blues worship that you normally expect from Jack is traded in for a much more punk-leaning direction, which comes in his rapid fire guitar stabs. As apocryphal as it sounds though, Meg White truly is the killing blow here, matching Jack with each strike and bringing a ton of urgency into her performance.

On the other hand, when you're coming off an opening track like Seven Nation Army, this kind of song was bound to fly under the radar regardless. That being said, when you go back to Elephant, take a second look at this sonic fireball to see what you've been missing all these years.