Let’s be frank: the music on Pardoner’s sophomore album,Came Down Different, is sloppy, noisy, and slapdash. The vocals are mumbled, the drums are messy, the guitars slightly off-key. One may be apt to ask themselves whether these guys are even trying? And therein lies the brilliance...
Billy Corgan wrote the Smashing Pumpkins' track “Spaceboy” about his half-brother, Jesse, who is autistic. Barenaked Ladies musician Ed Robertson wrote about missing his brother who died in a motorcycle accident on the song, “Am I the Only One?” Other top songs that are about brothers ...
"I wrote it. I didn't fail. It was straight," Bob Dylan said of his greatest song shortly after he recorded it in June 1965. There is no better description of "Like a Rolling Stone" — of its revolutionary design and execution — or of the young man, just turned 24, who created ...
Payne's path to success began when he was just 14 years old, when he first auditioned for the UK version of"The X Factor." Though his snap-filled rendition ofFrank Sinatra's "Fly Me To the Moon"moved him past the audition round, Payne was ultimately told by judge Simon Cowell to co...
Famous renditions: Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne wrote the track with the easy-to-remember title. Released in 1945 right after Thanksgiving, the song was a hit by Christmas. However, a quick look at the lyrics shows it makes no mention of the holidays. ...
97. Elton John,“I Want Love”(No. 6, Adult Contemporary) Though John’s longtime songwriter partner Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics, “I Want Love” felt brutally autobiographical for John as a man “dead in places,” plaintively longing for an impossible love. The gorgeous first single from...
Frank Sinatra’s Birthplace Commemorates His 100th Its Way Then, following the first chorus, it must have sounded to pop music listeners in 1956 as if all hell was breaking loose: the instrumental passage resembles Kenton at his most chaotic. First there’s a gaggle of trombones led by solo...
Frank Sinatra View on AMAZON 7 28 votes Long Line of Cars View on AMAZON 8 18 votes Daria View on AMAZON 9 54 votes Let Me Go View on AMAZON 10 18 votes Walk On By View on AMAZON 11 53 votes Sheep Go to Heaven View on AMAZON 12 20 votes Jolene View on AMAZON 13 66 votes Comf...
1 singles. In response, one of the greatest songwriting teams in American history wrote a soaring anthem that encapsulated the greatness of their entire body of work within one perfect three-minute single that, naturally, reached the top of the charts. –David Raposa Listen: The Supremes: “...
The formula has legs, as the recent success of Daft Punk’s "Get Lucky", which Rodgers co-wrote with Pharrell, suggests. But in 1982, Rodgers and his partner Bernard Edwards used it to develop a post-disco pop song performed by Carly Simon, "Why". The cheery, memorable "La-di-da-...