“Ball and Biscuit” by The White Stripes

"Ball and Biscuit" turns up eighth on Elephant, the White Stripes' fourth album, in 2003, and at more than seven minutes it's the longest thing the duo ever cut in a studio. Jack White wrote and produced it, and he and Liam Watson taped it at Toe Rag Studios in Hackney, London, in the spring of 2002.

It's a slow, swaggering blues crawl played at hard rock volume: Meg White laying down a heavy, unhurried beat while Jack struts through the verses as a self-declared seventh son sweet-talking a woman, then rips the thing open with guitar so fuzzed and furious it sounds like the amp is being throttled. Nothing on the record takes its time quite like this, and nothing sounds more pleased with itself.

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