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"Seven Nation Army" is the first track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock ban The White Stripes. It was released as a single in 2003, and is easily the most well known song from the band. Seven Nation Army reached #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for three weeks and won 2004's Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song. Although it sounds like a bass guitar (an instrument the group had famously never previously used), the sound is actually created by running Jack White's semi-acoustic guitar (a 1950s style Kay Hollowbody) through a whammy pedal set down an octave. The riff was composed at a sound check before a show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, according to the set notes in the booklet which accompanied the Under Blackpool Lights DVD. Some critics, however, have pointed out the riff's striking similarity to that of Cleveland garage rock band The Pagans' "Eye of Satan."

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