This rock ballad still holds the UK record for most consecutive weeks at number one. While we might have got bored of it back in 1991, it remains one of the greatest love songs of all time. It was recorded for the movieRobin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but lost out to 'Beauty and the...
Over 3K music fans have voted on the 170+ Best Country Songs of The '90s. Current Top 3: Friends In Low Places, Carrying Your Love With Me, Check Yes or No ...
One of pop’s first protest songs is also one of its most profoundly disturbing. Written by a Jewish schoolteacher in the Bronx, its lyrics evoke the horrors of a lynching (“Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze/Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees”), and its languid melody...
During his early teens, Guthrie learned folk and blues songs from his parents' friends. He married at 19, but with the advent of the dust storms that marked the Dust Bowl period, he left his wife and three children to join the thousands of Okies who were migrating to California looking ...
Before compiling the best songs by one's favorite musical artists took minutes, greatest hits vinyl albums and CDs were popular. It was usually money well spent to get an artist's most notable tunes in one collection from the 1960s to the early portion of this century. It seems ...
In 1992, 22-year-old Beck Hansen was scraping by as a video-store clerk while performing bizarro folk songs at L.A. coffeehouses. After friends offered to record some songs, Beck cut “Loser” in his producer’s kitchen. It became the centerpiece of the album Mellow Gold. At first peop...
Or, God forbid, a comeback full of happy songs. But the gale-force wind storm whipped up by "Hello"’s first "HALLO FROM THE OTHER SIIIIDE" blew away all that: the high priestess of heartbreak was back, and heartbreakier than ever. "Hello" proves that Adele continues to be better ...
Rage Against the Machine, "Killing in the Name" (1992) Rage Against the Machine's debut self-titled album is full of incredible songs of protest, from the opening lines of "Bombtrack" to the closing chaos of "Freedom.” No song on the album — and truly, in Rage’s career — quite...
Rage Against the Machine, "Killing in the Name" (1992) Rage Against the Machine's debut self-titled album is full of incredible songs of protest, from the opening lines of "Bombtrack" to the closing chaos of "Freedom.” No song on the album — and truly, in Rage’s career — quite...
Many a chart hit has come off the back of a movie appearance. From Simple Minds to Stevie Wonder, we present some of the best movie songs.