"You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" is a song written and recorded by the American alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The White Stripes

The White Stripes

The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...

. The song was first played live on June 29, 2007 in Calgary

Calgary

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, Alberta

Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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, and is the second track from their sixth studio album Icky Thump

Icky Thump

Icky Thump is the sixth and final studio album by US alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released June 15, 2007 in Germany, June 18, 2007 in the rest of Europe, and June 19, 2007 in the rest of the world. It was the band's first album on Warner Bros...

. The track was released as a CD single on September 10, 2007. The music video

Music video

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 for "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" premiered on MTV2 Unleashed, as well as MTV.com and MTV2.com on July 30, 2007.

The video was filmed in front Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company , abbreviated HBC, or "The Bay" is the oldest commercial corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world. A fur trading business for much of its existence, today Hudson's Bay Company owns and operates retail stores throughout Canada...

 historical buildings in the Apex neighborhood of Iqaluit, the capital of the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

, while the band was on tour there.

Track listings

Compact Disc

1. "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" – 3:56
2. "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" (Frat Rock version)  – 3:45
3. "A Martyr for My Love for You" (Acoustic version)

7" vinyl #1

1. "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)"
2. "A Martyr for My Love for You" (Acoustic version)

7" vinyl #2

1. "You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told)" (Acoustic version)
2. "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
   300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
   "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues" is a song written and recorded by The White Stripes. It is the third track from the album Icky Thump and is also on the B-side of the single "You Don't Know What Love Is "...
   
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Cover versions

Australian R&B singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Daniel Merriweather

Daniel Merriweather

Daniel Paul Merriweather is an Australian R&B singer-songwriter who has worked as a featured vocalist for other artists and has a solo career. His guest vocals are included on album tracks by Disco Montego, Mark Ronson and Phrase...

 covered the song as a bonus track for the Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese edition of his 2009 album Love & War.

External links

• Music video
• Some stills from the video