10 Perfect Rock Songs Of The 2000s

Seven Nation Army almost seems to exist outside of being just a song these days. If you've even been alive in the past 20 years, chances are you've heard this at almost any sporting event that you've gone to whether you like it or not. Before any of the football chants started though, it's important to look at where the White Stripes were when they actually started making this song.

Seeing how the rock scene was still reeling from wearing their emotions on their sleeves, here were two people on stage with just drums and a guitar trying to make the kind of primal rock music that the genre started with back in the day. The White Stripes basically helped us all get over ourselves and focus on rock and roll again, and that means making a song that can exist as just a riff before anything else. While Jack White was originally saving this for a potential James Bond movie, hearing it in the context of this song is so much better, with the ramshackle production only adding to the charm.

As much as this song might be too simple for its own good in some spots, that's the reason why it's lasted this song, managing to stick in the brain a lot easier than any intricate guitar riff might have done otherwise. This kind of riff goes beyond rock altogether. This is basically the kind of mentality of folk music, where the riff seems to belong to the world now more than Jack.