Over 3K music fans have voted on the 170+ Best '80s New Wave Songs. Current Top 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Head Over Heels, Take On Me
Over 6K music fans have voted on the 160+ Best '80s Pop Songs, Ranked. Current Top 3: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Take On Me, Every Breath You Take ...
The trio’s fifth and best album shows whyPaul Weller’s been a world-class rock songwriterever since. They expand in all directions here, from furious commentary to open-hearted love songs to the sardonic classic “That’s Entertainment.” Note that The Jam regularly left their singles off ...
In the summer of 1996, Fiona Apple’s piano-thudding debut revealed a fully formed voice that quickly cut through the fuzzed-out alt-rock of the era. Music executives who heard Tidal before it came out thought they were being tricked; it seemed impossible that songs like the knowing “Shado...
With its crunchy power chords and sharp turnaround into the chorus, “Stuck Between Stations” would have been a great song even if it wound up being about driving around and having a mindless good time, like so many classic rock songs before it. But Craig Finn upped the ante with words...
Dr. Dre’s 90s hip hop classic “Nuthin’ But A G Thang” was both one of 500 songs that shaped rock and roll, according to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame, and an example brought before the senate of music that bristled conservative congresspeople. Senator Sam Brownback, who sought hea...
from Kraftwerk and Mike Oldfield to Stereolab and Boards of Canada. But the song’s most direct impact can still be heard daily on classic-rock radio, via the iconic keyboard intros to The Who’s“Won’t Get Fooled Again”and“Baba O’Riley”— the latter even partly named after the com...
If you're not on your GTL game, you may be borderline grenade let's make sure that doesn't happen. The Jersey Shore crew went from hard-partying average Joes to full-fledged celebrities, thanks to their unique personalities, hot bodies, in your face attitude and classic one-liners. I'...
The group spent a month, at Mellencamp's insistence, learning a hundred classic rock & roll songs from the Sixties. "We got a bunch of those tapes you see advertised on TV with all the old songs on them," Crane says, chuckling, "and God, we learned everything." They rehearsed behind...
Despite its success, "The One I Love" is not one of the band members' favorites. "It's funny that the songs on the radio from us are probably the ones we feel from the heart the least," says Buck. So how did he feel when R.E.M. was proclaimed America's best rock & roll ban...