This Friday’s release of the White Stripes’ first-ever Greatest Hits, the duo have shared a new animated video for the collection’s earliest track, “Let’s Shake Hands.”
The video is Directed by Wartella, who also made the recent animated visual for the song “Apple Blossom,”
The new “Let’s Shake Hands” video features the White Stripes’ classic red-and-white look as well as iconic footage of Meg and Jack White performing the song onstage.
According to Jack and Meg, “Let’s Shake Hands” is the first song the duo recorded together in their living room.
What would you have given to be a fly on the wall for that?
The song was released as a seven-inch single in 1998, prior to the arrival of their self-titled debut LP a year later and the rest is rock and roll history.
Third Man Records, which revealed the Greatest Hits song list in a White Stripes-themed crossword puzzle, said of the collection: “In an era of streaming where the idea of a ‘Greatest Hits’ album may seem irrelevant — that an act’s most streamed songs are considered their de facto ‘hits‘ — we wholeheartedly believe that great bands deserve ‘Greatest Hits’ and that a large part of Third Man Records’ and the White Stripes’ successes have been built on zigging when the rest of the music business is zagging. Thus, for a great band with great fans, a greatest hits compilation for the White Stripes is not only appropriate but absolutely necessary.”
