As previously opined here on RowThree, Horehound, the debut album from The Dead Weather is quickly becoming one of my favorites of 2009. Track five, “Treat Me Like Your Mother” got the video treatment by director Jonathan Glazer and premiered on Cinemax a few nights ago. Since I don’t have Cinemax and since I missed their performance at the legendary First Ave. on Monday night, I have to settle for the YouTube version – which I gotta say is simplistically awesome.
Watch Jack White and Alison Mosshart duel it out with fully automatic machine guns as they walk towards one another in a “Terminator-esque” sequence. The rhythm of the song mashing with the gun caps is pretty killer – no pun intended. Bloodied and exhausted, the two part ways once the clips have been emptied. It is the definition of cool; admittedly in part because of Glazer’s style and tone of the video. Check it out below. Then go buy the album.
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