Tall tales, campfire singalongs and Oldham slang: the White Stripes’ 20 best songs – ranked!

The White Stripes play Heaton Park, Manchester in 2003 Photograph: Jon Super/Redferns

20. The Big Three Killed My Baby (1999)

Not, as one might initially assume, a reference to the Merseybeat band from noted scholar of 60s obscurity Jack White, but a rare White Stripes protest song (of sorts), decrying the US automobile industry’s penchant for engineering planned obsolescence in cars. Perhaps more importantly: mammoth, sludgy, distorted and thoroughly electrifying sound.