Listen to Pitchfork’s favorite songs of 2023 and you’re bound to be blown back by the full spectrum of human emotion: the dizzying high of new love (“Rush,”“Padam Padam,”“Super Shy”), the vengeful low of a woman scorned (“Kill Bill,”“get him back!,”“Boy’s a liar ...
The accompanying music video amplifies the humor of the song, featuring the band members throwing objects in a variety of scenarios. The song is part of Lonely Island's debut album, Incredibad, released in 2009. It has since become a cult classic, and its music video has been viewed over...
89. The Maddox Brothers & Rose - America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band 90. Hank Snow - The Essential Hank Snow 91. Connie Smith - Connie Smith 92. The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin 93. The Highwomen - The Highwomen 94. Kenny Rogers - The Gambler 95. Er...
- The Band - The Weight (1968) - The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset (1968) - Little Richard - Tutti Frutti (1955) - Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind (1960) - Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (1956) - David Bowie - Heroes (1977)
When you think of the song “Mona Lisa,” 40s jazz bandleader Charlie Spivak is probably not the first singer’s name that comes to mind. But it was the Ukrainian trumpeter who first performed Ray Evans’s lyrics – which started with the title “Prima Donna” – in the little-known 19...
“Woo-hoo!” Blur were one of the top Brit-pop bands of the ‘90s, but livened things up considerably with their hard-driving stadium anthem “Song 2,” which was featured on their self-titled 1997 album. Ironically, the song was recorded as a joke by the band, figuring their label ...
Fleet Foxes “White Winter Hymnal” is a super snow song that really gets you in the mood for winter. Bon Iver is another band that uses snowy imagery in their music. Their song “Blindsided” is one of the best for feeling the cold. Kanye West had his fair share of snow days growing...
the time, writes a save-the-planet anthem, “We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter.” Just as the family band is about to cut it, though, middle brother Peter’s voice starts to crackle as adolescence kicks in. Instead of kicking Peter out of the band, Greg, apparently on a ...
12.‘How to Disappear Completely’ by Radiohead Image: Capitol Records Anyone who thought in 1997 that Radiohead had reached the depths of bleakness with OK Computer got a big surprise three years later, when the band released Kid A and it turned out there were whole oceans of mumbling ele...
With an anxious arrangement inspired by Scottish cult band the Blue Nile, the song connects culture and counterculture, internet and real life, past and present in a way that feels miraculously, temporarily united. Even when the words read like a list of jumbled trending topics—“Fossil fueling...