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Few songs have defined an artist as clearly as this Willie Dixon song did for Muddy Waters. Its stop-time arrangement was innovative for a blues song in 1954, but it’s the eternal swagger of the lyric that really grabs hold: The singer is so powerful, especially with the opposite sex, ...
its jarring time signature changes, Ward and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez’s snaking guitar riffs, or its hair-raising refrain of “Get away! Get away!” Perhaps the song’s multiple moving parts, somehow
Cumulative cultural evolution, the accumulation of sequential changes within a single socially learned behaviour that results in improved function, is prominent in humans and has been documented in experimental studies of captive animals and managed wild
The 50 best love songs of all time on the Billboard charts -- songs with "love" in the title that are the biggest hits.
Combining NWOBHM thump with classic rock & roll sass, Girlschool’s 1980 single offered a charmingly snotty two-fingered salute to naysayers everywhere. The song’s message of staying focused in the face of negativity — whether you’re making much-needed life changes or just getting your drink...
Also, adding chord changes within a bar would be awesome. That would add more complexity, sure, but the app for have so much value for making fully realized chord progressions for a song or composition. Other than those things, a solid app with lots of potential for improvement. I'm ...
Musically, it relies on the jangly riffs, tempo changes, and layered guitars written into the emo playbook by the genre’s Founding Fathers, with just enough piano to fit in among the band’s contemporaries on the Christian circuit. – B.M. 34. Don Martin Three –“Transistor” Love in ...
Send your dance party besties out into the evening on a high note (or in the direction of the afterparty) with this classic from French dance-pop duo Daft Punk, which is a perfect final anthem. Lyrics of Love:“One more time, we’re going to celebrate / Oh yeah, alright, don’t ...
The song serves as a temporal break from the diegetic present time, redeemed by the carefree optimism of a child in a song-dialogue with her mother, a relationship typically represented by the use of her native tongue Wolof. Despite the circumstantial nature of such happiness, this song’s ...