Strange Times (The Black Keys song)
2008 single by The Black Keys / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Strange Times" is the first single from The Black Keys' album Attack & Release. It was released March 24, 2008.[1]
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"Strange Times" | ||||
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Single by The Black Keys | ||||
from the album Attack & Release | ||||
Released | March 24, 2008 | |||
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Length | 3:10 | |||
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Producer(s) | Danger Mouse | |||
The Black Keys singles chronology | ||||
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The song has been featured in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto IV[2] on the in-game radio station "Radio Broker", and has reached number 40 on US Modern Rock Radio Airplay charts.[3] It is also in the game Nascar 09 and released as part of the band's three-song pack for the Rock Band series.
The song was also used in the promo commercials for the third season of Dexter and though discernibly similar, is not the track heard in the opening credits of Facejacker which is credited to Justin Tracy.[4]
Also, the song is used occasionally as bumper music for American sports talk radio program The Jim Rome Show.
The song also appears in the 2011 video game Driver: San Francisco.
In the last verse, a girl named Sadie is mentioned. It's suggested that this is a reference to Dan Auerbach's young daughter, Sadie Little Auerbach, who was born in 2008.
- "Sadie, dry your tears,
- I will be the one,
- To pull you through the mirror,
- Before you come, before you come undone."