56 LONELY BOY

The Black Keys

If 2010’s Brothers album was their breakthrough, this lead single from the following year’s El Camino kept the Keys’ commercial fires burning (and let’s not forget that this was their seventh studio album, their debut being the far less fanfared The Big Come Up in 2002). The intro was seedy as a Vegas peep show, and the verse an addictive strut, its twang redolent of T. Rex’s Get It On. But it was Lonely Boy’s chorus that kept us coming back, with the duo sending in the backing singers for an electrifying wall of ‘whoa-oa’s, and Dan Auerbach’s response ‘I got a love that keeps me waiting’ suggesting a man horny enough to break down his girl’s door. HY From: El Camino, 2011