While singles such as “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,”“Holiday,”“Wake Me Up When September Ends,”“American Idiot” and “Jesus of Suburbia” all saw the punk icons breach the mainstream like never before, they still remained true to the genre’s aesthetics through their lyrics. A Perfect...
You feel like you’ve been left out of my life when you’re supposed to be at the center. I can account for that and hopefully make that feeling go away. But yesterday, when I was at the grocery store, I was overwhelmed—overwhelmed by the variety of things they sell—it surely is...
While singles such as “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,”“Holiday,”“Wake Me Up When September Ends,”“American Idiot” and “Jesus of Suburbia” all saw the punk icons breach the mainstream like never before, they still remained true to the genre’s aesthetics through their lyrics. A Perfect...
Elvis Costello (1994): Costello has spent so much of his career drifting into genre pieces that it's easy to forget that when he puts his mind to it, he can just straight-up rock too. This was his '90s rock 'n' roll album, and a pretty good one at that. American Recordings Ameri...
The producers hired an ex-addict as a “drug consultant” to ensure authenticity. A genius at mimicry, DiCaprio can slip effortlessly into junkie mode. “The voice: you go down an octave. Even when you raise your voice it’s like you got this frog in your throat,” he says, as if ...
Waters: Let’s see. At the time, I had started to work very much on my own. I’d moved to the countryside in England and I did drafts of both The Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking [his 1984 solo album] and The Wall concurrently. I presented both pieces to the band in the studios ...
pieces from Sugar Hill band Funky Four’s 1983 rap remake, ‘Feel It (The Mexican)’; but it kicks off with the ringing phone, suspicious partner and blazing breakbeat from Esther Williams’ ‘Last Night Changed It All’ as its scene-setting opening, before racing into the Jimmy Castor ...
Critics and a modern-day revisiting of the 2012 release find many stray pieces, however. “Do You Think About Me” and “Leave Love Alone” are good songs on their own, but not in context. "Wine After Whiskey" earned praise from mags likeRolling Stone, and the soft ballad is a ...