Raconteurs

These guys are such competent musicians it's a shame they allow someone other than Jack White to write some of their songs.  The fact that he's the one singing aside, it's never difficult to tell when Jack White is the creative force behind the songwriting.  When he's not, however, the Raconteurs output is consistently powerful music tainted by dreadfully cheesy songwriting. This discrepancy taints much of their most second album, Consolers of the Lonely.  Thankfully though, the album closes with this gem (this song builds to an amazing crescendo at the 5:35 mark):