Over 2K music fans have voted on the 20+ Best Irish Folk Songs. Current Top 3: The Wild Rover, The Irish Rover, The Rising of the Moon
Five classic Scottish songs you can't help singing along to Welsh songs: 7 traditional Welsh folk songs you can't help singing along to The Whitby Lad This song about a young thief sentenced to life in an Australian penal colony exemplifies the 'transportation ballad'. This 18th-century genre...
The Sound of Musicproduced an impressive number of classic songs with this, the title song, “Climb Every Mountain,” and “Do-Re-Mi” all ranking with the best loved movie songs of all time. “My Favorite Things” has been covered hundreds of times, most famously and gloriously by John...
Studied other techniques under another shakuhachi great, Kohachiro Miyata and classic honkyoku. Studied shinobue and nohkan flute from various masters. Has appeared on numerous TV radio programmes as a shakuhachi and flute player and on many recordings. Has performed overseas, and for ten years ...
Between the classic drum fill introduction, crunchy guitars, and iconic vocals, it’s hard to top “Come Together.” We do acknowledge that there are about 25 other Beatles songs that could be included here. But “Come Together” is certainly worthy of the title. The song had a very 60s...
Vítezslav Novák Slovak Suite was inspired by the songs and folk tunes that he heard while travelling through the Moravian countryside. This opening movement At Church is a firm favourite, painting a calm countryside scene, with magnificent use of the organ towards the end. This beautiful Novák...
Editor’s note, February 2024: In the two and a half years since Rolling Stone rolled out the all-new, fully revamped version of our 500 Greatest Songs list in September 2021, artists like Beyonce, Lana Del Rey, and Taylor Swift have all released classic tracks. So we’ve updated the ...
But while the album is best remembered for introducing Vedder to the world on the alt-karaoke classic “Hunger Strike” (which taught a generation the proper way to enunciate “brrrrreead”), it marked an important evolutionary step for everyone involved, planting the seed for a more emotionall...
Michael McDonald’s "I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)" is a quiet storm classic whose liquid groove has buttressed other great songs through the years (ask Warren G and Madlib), but its sneaky triumph, beneath the durability of the hook and message, is compositional. It’s...
“Hotel Bloedel,” the song that kicked off the Fall’s classic Mark-and-Brix heyday, from the albumPerverted by Language. “The first song I ever recorded with the Fall,” she recalls in her memoir,The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise. Her doomy croon meets his slang-king snarl over ...