The Rat was the first single by The Walkmen and went on to become their signature song, with a great lyric, a great tune and some superlative drumming.

Not bad for a tune that was written when the band were messing about in a jam session, begun by Matt Barrick’s improvised drum pattern, back in 2002, with the words written in five minutes by singer Hamilton Leithauser.

The opening line – “You’ve got a nerve” – has become iconic, and struck such a chord with Idles singer Joe Talbot that he has a tattoo of it alongside a rat, saying it’s his favourite song.

Although never a hit here in the UK (it stalled at No.45) it was called “one of the greatest songs of the century” by Rolling Stone.

It as also named in the Top 20 songs of the 2000s by both NME and Pitchfork, the latter describing it memorably as “a St Valentine’s Day Massacre of relentless drums, bass and guitar.”

The Walkmen were formed in 2000 by five musicians from Washington D.C. drawn from two other bands, The Recoys and Jonathan Fire*Eater, after they moved to Harlem in New York.

They released seven albums before going on hiatus in 2013, when Barrick joined Fleet Foxes as a session drummer, returning to the fold when The Walkmen reunited ten years later for their so-called Revenge Tour.