Consisting of members Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon, the band's unique blend of mod, rock, and punk genres quickly catapulted them to stardom. The Who's signature style features power chords, windmill guitar strums, and an aggressive stage presence, with their...
Michael Bublé(#7) andBing Crosby(#8) have breached the Top 10 so batten down the mistletoe.Nat King ColeandMariah Carey, meanwhile, are sledding uphill at #13 and #14, respectively. You can dig into the rest of the charthere. Or not if you're feeling...
So thoughtful, so theatrical. It was like going to see something on Broadway. It was awesome.Thinking about the state of pop music, tell me if you think I’m wrong about this, but it seems that the one artist/one collaborator relationship has supplanted the loads-of-songwriters-per-project...
Lewis’ vocals were tracked in Capitol Records Studio B, the room christened by Ol’ Blue Eyes in 1956 when he gesticulated at the sessions for(Frank Sinatra Conducts) Tone Poems Of Color, her piano chords fingered on the same keys that voiced Carole King’sTapestry. The music indeed feels...
Interzone Full of powerful rusty chords and a great duo of Peter Hook and Ian Curtis vocals. Atrocity Exhibition The song "The Fly" by U2 has been described as a phone call from hell, but this song takes that to much higher levels. A carnival of the grotesque, this song is full of ...
“Malibu” offered a stark contrast to “Celebrity Skin,” the cheeky, snarling title track off Hole’s 1998 LP. Instead of Courtney Love’s scathing wit and blistering power chords, “Malibu” — which she co-wrote with Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson and Billy Corgan — peeled back the toug...
Fulton Street 1is an introduction to the grief felt inPanorama,La Dispute’s fourth studio album. Haunting, melodic and thematically dark, it’s an intense listen—exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Michigan natives. Soft, nuanced chords lead the listener on a journey through life ...
Other artists took note. That synthline allegedly inspiredThrillerand Phil Collins has admitted he ripped it off forSussudio. Prince even recycled the riff himself on his 2006 singleFury. The thick chords are the most iconic part of1999– pure stadium-fuel – but they’re so ear-catching, so...
Vince Gill and Keith Urban began with separate songs, before Brad Paisley played “Galveston.” Campbell’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis was well know by this time, so emotions in the room were at an all-time high. Many lost it when the legend picked up a guitar and played a few chords to ...
“Malibu” offered a stark contrast to “Celebrity Skin,” the cheeky, snarling title track off Hole’s 1998 LP. Instead of Courtney Love’s scathing wit and blistering power chords, “Malibu” — which she co-wrote with Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson and Billy Corgan — peeled back the toug...