10 Perfect Rock Music Songs Of The 2010s

From the 2010 album of the same name, Beat the Devil's Tattoo is the definitive Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song of the decade.

Transitioning from their ultra-cool, disaffected garage and blues rock of the noughties (which, perplexingly, culminated in an ambient noise album -- The Effects of 333 -- released exclusively online), BRMC stepped boldly into the next decade with a record that gathered up all their loose ends and tied them into something that sounds at once super polished and raggedy by design.

The effects of this approach were clear and immediate, with various of the album's tracks being picked up for video games, TV shows and films, matching the boost in mainstream popularity that fellow blues/garage rockers The Black Keys saw with their similarly refined 2010 album Brothers. Although Beat the Devil's Tattoo's popularity would far outstrip the record's other hits, appearing in a stream of media for years to come.

Layered with textures and sounds more complex than the typical BRMC tune, the song is a blues rock classic sewn into a folk-shaped jacket. Cascading from acoustic to electric guitars, shapely vocals from Robert Levon Been pin down lyrics laced with drugs and demons, all bedded on some mercurial mixed percussion.

And if that doesn't sound appetising, wait for the stripped back final section that brings the band's co-singer Peter Hayes in for a scathing conclusion.