“Little Black Submarines” by The Black Keys

"Little Black Submarines" is track four on El Camino, the Black Keys' 2011 album, and it's the record's big curveball: it opens as a hushed acoustic ballad that sounds like it's being played alone on a back porch, then halfway through it detonates into a full-bore hard-rock stomp. Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney and Brian Burton wrote it, the band produced it with Danger Mouse, and Tchad Blake mixed it.

Critics counted it among the album's highlights, and as its fourth single it climbed to No. 2 on the US Alternative Songs chart, matched that on Canada's alternative and active rock charts, and eventually went platinum in America. Danny Clinch shot the video in a Nashville dive bar, the Springwater Supper Club and Lounge.

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