Die Krupps Synthpunk, Electronic body music, Industrial metal 2,259 votes German industrial rock band Die Krupps attempted to combine heavy metal influences with electronic beats, but their sound often fell shor
Ah, the mixtape--the grandfather of the playlist. To make a mixtape was to bear your soul to another, to spend HOURS analyzing lyrics and obsessing over the perfect tempo balance--and to receive a mixtape? That's when you knew someone liked you. ...
However, figuring out which mother-son dance song will serve as the backdrop to that very special wedding momentcanbe challenging. From the lyrics to the tempo, beat, and even what style of dancing you'll partake in, a lot of factors affect what groom and mother dance songs you consider....
Punk Rock Blitzkriegalso documents Ramone’s pre-Ramones days with Dust, Richard Hell & the Voidoids and Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, and subsequent stints with Dee Dee in the Ramainz,the Misfitsand others. He currently leads his own Ramones tribute band, Marky Ramone’s Blit...
‘NSync and Backstreet Boys found huge success abroad before they conquered at home. To that end, neither Kotecha nor Falk were sure 1D would break in the U.S. Falk even says of conceiving the band’s sound, “We didn’t want it to sound too American, because this was not meant —...
White, Broadway musical "Camelot" featured music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, the same talented duo behind "My Fair Lady." Composing the music was so stressful on Loewe that he left the musical theater business for more than a decade upon completion. While the play ...
If somebody really wants to know what you’re saying, he’ll take the trouble, and in that trouble lies your art. On a crude level this permits the kind of one-to-one symbolism of pot songs like ‘Along Comes Mary’ and ‘That Acapulco Gold.'” –from “Rock Lyrics are Poetry (...
even backstreet boys detractors sometimes admit this single is a gorgeous pop ballad. the quintet's pure singing skills often set them apart from pretenders to the boy band throne. listen to "i want it that way" and revel in the group harmonies. 2) larger than life (1999) consistent with...
“Story of My Life” sounds nothing like latter-day *N Sync or Backstreet Boys, whose sounds bent toward R&B and hip-hop at the end of their amazing runs in the early 00’s. That’s because One Direction read the tea leaves in popular music and correctly identified that rock was grad...
The lyrics to ‘Free’ and the album’s title itself could be construed as a rallying call to the listener: [‘Don’t be in love with the autograph/Just be in love when you scream that song’]. The message could be ‘break those fetters’; ‘be who you want to be’, but one su...