Danger Mouse (feat. Jack White): "Two Against One"

I generally have a fundamental disagreement with people who think music was a lot better back in the day.  If you look at it from a strictly commercial, easily accessible POV then sure, rock probably peaked in the 70s.  It's hard to compare many artists after punk with the relatively straight forward styles of rock that came before it, but that's mostly because there haven't been many artists that have even attempted to be that straight forward since at least 1980... unless they were corporate media whores to begin with, a la Three Doors Down, Bush, etc.  Even the inexplicably beloved Foo Fighters are mostly revered because a) they've gone this long without out-and-out sucking, and b) Dave Grohl seems like he'd be a cool guy to get shitfaced with.  Still: no one is ever going to mistake "Stacked Actors" for "Dead Flowers".

Which is what makes Jack White such an anomaly.  You really do have to go all the way back to the 70s to find someone that can parlay as many well established, accessible styles into as diverse a portfolio of hit songs (or songs that should have been hits) as Jack White.  I'd rather drink with Grohl, but if I was putting a band together Jack White would be my guy.  Even U2 don't have as many great songs as White does, and they've been at for almost twenty years longer.

This song comes off the new Danger Mouse album (on which Italian composer Daniele Luppi receives co-billing credit), which is only guest star-laden to the extent that Jack White and Norah Jones sing three songs apiece.  "Two Against One" in particular sounds like one where White almost certainly had a major hand in the songwriting... strip away the faintly audible string section and this could easily be a White Stripes or Raconteurs song.

[EDIT 1/9/12: replacing the fan made video with an official video for posterity's sake]: