Funerals are emotional affairs. The deep emotion of gospel funeral songs can ease feeling of someone leaving this world, leaving others to grieve their loss.
This band's unique blend of country, Southern rock, and bluegrass made them stand out from their contemporaries, while their dynamic live performances captivated audiences across the globe. Their legendary frontman's fiery fiddle playing and distinctive voice set the stage for a new breed of countr...
Plus, just for argument sake, each year we've provided the rock songs that ended up as runners up in our collective staff voting. And it should also be noted that if you think certain acts such asMetallica,Korn,ToolandSystem of a Downare missing, there's still theBest Metal Song of E...
John has written a big pile o’ great songs, with a variety that stretches from rockers to ballads, soul to show tunes and blues to symphonic grandeur. Something as simple as “Your Song” is equally effective as the over-the-top bombast of “Funeral For A ...
Best R.E.M. Songs: 20 Defining Hits From The Alt.Rock Heroes ADVERTISEMENT Finally, this list has been confined strictly to one album per band/artist. When an artist obviously has more than one essential album, we’ve made a case for the one that we believe to be the most important ...
What are the best rock albums for each year since 1970? Rock 'n' roll is a wide ranging term that has seen many different evolutions over the years, but by the time 1970 came around you could start to see acts that weren't just content with the catchy ditties that populated radio in...
Is a Thing of little Size, You know where.Many of these poems are subtly or tantalizingly sexual—naughty or risqué—rather than overtly graphic. Others do get "down and dirty." For example, this one for the working girls ...The Perfect Courtesan ...
Horse Lords has spent the past 12 years on a quest for utopia, seeking freedom and euphoria within the structures of their experimental rock music. On “May Brigade,” a clashing, raucous pattern born out of microtonal crunch and minimalist repetition morphs into free jazz freneticism, and dis...
Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail...
In 1991, the Pumpkins were still on an independent label, but they worked with the fastidious approach of a blockbuster rock act, swinging into songs with gas-face guitar solos, undergirded by the jazz-prog drumming of Jimmy Chamberlin. Gish—named after silent film icon Lillian Gish—would ...