She wrote really expressive music that broke boundaries in her time. And she was a rare figure of the Middle Ages in leaving behind manuscripts of her songs – it meant that on around the 800th anniversary of her birth, the music community was able to rediscover her work and revive her s...
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Earlier in the decade, his DFA label had helped get indie-rock kids on the dancefloor with songs like the Rapture's "House of Jealous Lovers." Here he had those same kids shuffling their Converse to the electro of "Get Innocuous," laughing their asses off to the Euro-baiting boogie of ...
I believe that they were great musicians solely because their music inspired so many people and they put much emotion into some of their songs. Lyrics and music spread emotion better than just music when the lyrics are great. Also, the Beatles were not inspired by Bach so without Bach there...
Greatest Musicians of All Time The Beatles The most famous and commercially successful band in history, The Beatles had a huge influence on popular music. Their timeless songs like “Yesterday” and “Let It Be” will live on forever. The Beatles created a sound that is still imitated to thi...
the songs’ catchiness only adds drama to frontman Geoff Tate’s sort of convoluted, occasionally cringey storyline (just skip the prostitute song “Spreading the Disease.”) But what’s impressive now is how the music matches the story’s dystopia. When Tate sings “I don’t believe in ...
Mann and Weil met in 1960 at the song-publishing company Aldon Music, married in 1961 and have been living and working together ever since. Their songs of struggle and triumph brought class consciousness to Brill Building pop, with hits like "On Broadway" for the Drifters, "Uptown" for the...
Definitely one of the greatest violinists... and one for whom it was all about the music. Almost painfully self-effacing and indifferent to fame and fortune, Nathan Milstein was a violinist’s violinist. He lived and breathed the violin almost to the exclusion of anything else. It was his...
Why He’s a Video Icon: Brooks’ peerless power as a storyteller translates from his hit songs to his videos, cinematic clips that helped him redefine country music in the `90s on a stadium-packing scale. The MTV Classic: Call it Nashville Noir: a seedy motel on a dark and stormy night...