From '' Let There Be Twang ''
Label: XXS Records – XXS 23
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2004
Tracklist
01. Spice Up Your Life
02. Basket Case
03. The Boxer
04. Take A Chance on Me
05. Born To Be Wild
06. Black Hole Sun
07. I Just Called to Say I Love You
08. Song 2
09. Nothing Else Matters
10. Every Breath You Take
11. Take On Me
12. Ace of Spades
13. Seven Nation Army
14. Angels
15. Rebel Yell
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\"Seven Nation Army\" is the first track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes.
It was released as a single in 2003.
Seven Nation Army reached #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for three weeks and won 2004's Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.
The song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song. Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an instrument the group had famously never previously used), the sound is actually created by running Jack White's semi-acoustic guitar (a 1950s style Kay Hollowbody) through a Digitech Whammy pedal set down an octave.
The riff was composed at a sound check before a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, according to the set notes in the booklet which accompanied the Under Blackpool Lights DVD.
This riff was inspired by the main theme of Anton Bruckner's Fifth symphony.
According to White, \"Seven Nation Army\" is what he used to call the Salvation Army as a child.
The song ranked #1 on UpVenue's 10 best The White Stripes songs.
Critical
This song was number six on Rolling Stone's 2009 list of the 50 Best Songs of the Decade.
In March 2005, Q magazine placed \"Seven Nation Army\" at number 8 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
In September 2005, NME placed \"Seven Nation Army\" at number 5 in its list of the 50 Greatest Tracks Of The Decade.
It was also called the 75th greatest hard rock song by VH1.
In May 2008, Rolling Stone placed this song at number 21 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.
\"Seven Nation Army\" also earned 20th place in Triple J's Hottest 100 of All Time in 2009.
The song was also listed at #30 on Pitchfork Media's top 500 songs of the 2000s, and at number 2 in Observer Music Monthly's top 75 songs of the decade, behind Beyoncé's \"Crazy in Love\".
It also came in second on Channel V Australia's top 1000 songs of the 00s.
In 2009, US website Consequence of Sound named this as their top rock track of the 2000s, as did Boston's WFNX Radio.
On Rolling Stone's updated version of their The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, \"Seven Nation Army\" was listed at number 286.
It was also ranked #1 on Rhapsody's list of the Top 100 Tracks of the Decade.
Cover versions
The song has been covered by the country music group The Oak Ridge Boys, Funk Metal band Living Colour, Rock supergroup Audioslave, Alice Russell, Nostalgia 77, The Dynamics, Flaming Lips, Ben l'Oncle Soul, Tomer G, Kate Nash, Nataly Dawn, Kelly Clarkson, OneRepublic, Weezer, The Strange, Silent Thunder, The Red Coats and many others.
