frequently generated enormous swing while playing repeated, unsyncopated quarter notes. Jazz, in fact, is not—and never has been—an entirely composed, predetermined music, nor is it an entirely extemporized one. For almost all of its history it has employed both creative approaches in varying ...
frequently generated enormous swing while playing repeated, unsyncopated quarter notes. Jazz, in fact, is not—and never has been—an entirely composed, predetermined music, nor is it an entirely extemporized one. For almost all of its history it has employed both creative approaches in varying ...
205. “Not a Second Time,” With the Beatles (1963) You keep waiting for a redeeming melody to rise to the surface, but it doesn’t come. The weirdest thing about the song is how the title words come on a low note that Lennon doesn’t quite hit, a rarity for a band with such...
2017, and also used as the title song of his final album,Adiós. Featuring twelve songs Campbell had long loved but never recorded, the album was made with the help of producer and longtime collaborator Carl Jackson. Singers Willie
As countless beer bottles aimed at the band shatter on impact with the chicken-wire fence protecting the stage, The Blues Brothers pacify the “redneck” audience with repeated versions of “Rawhide.” I Just Called To Say I Love You (The Woman In Red, 1984) The Woman In Red was a ...
and new people coming into your lives. It’s those moments where you realize you’re growing. Over the past four years, people have been forced to grow and reflect in the public eye since the pandemic and with social media. You have to find the right way to put...
Standout “bezhigo” weaves together three separate recordings of Indigenous vocalizing, and as the string arrangements surge, a steady beat arrives in the form of industrial clang, sounding like the repeated strikes of a blacksmith’s hammer. There’s beauty, “bezhigo” suggests, in forging...
(Blur bassist Alex James, artist Damien Hirst, and actor Keith Allen, singing in the style of Ian Drury). Most of their song consists of the phrase “nah nah nah” repeated constantly, along with the word “vindaloo.” Incidentally, there is a good Max Wall lookalike in the “Bitter...
Everything might seem fine on first glance, but it all becomes more troubling (“What kind of pills are you on?”) with each repeated glimpse.499 Townes Van Zandt, ‘Pancho and Lefty’ 1972 Writer(s):Townes Van ZandtPowered byPlay the Full Song An epic story-song about a bandit and ...
Eric Churchhas a few breakup songs that come with an edge ("I'm Gettin' Stoned" comes to mind), but the everyman pain of "Over When It's Over" is our choice from Chief's catalog. It also has a great, often repeated country lyric in"We had it in the air but we just couldn't...