Over 1K music fans have voted on the 150+ Best Ballads of All Time. Current Top 3: The Sounds of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, ...
Over 1K music fans have voted on the 70+ Best Ballads of the '70s, Ranked. Current Top 3: Bridge Over Troubled Water, Take It to the Limit, You're So Vain ...
Making their name with traditional, perfectly crafted pop songs such as “She Loves You” and “I Saw Her Standing There,” they soon began experimenting with more challenging instrumentation, introspective lyrics, andmusicgenresranging fromfolkandcountrytochamberballadsandpsychedelia. As such, the Beat...
that genre tag fits loosely: Highlights “Pass Dat” and “Drank” are experimental celebrations of substances that travel along pathways carved by Lil Wayne and Young Thug, and ballads like “Actin’ Up” and “Remember Me” have a stoned spaciness that recalls the decade’s best hip-hop....
But this is the album most representative of what you might call the Timbaland Ideal, as typified by his Shock Value albums, where you’ve got the big electro chart-toppers shoved up against the vaguely Coldplay-esque big-emotion rock ballads next to the Orientalist R&B. The stylistic ADHD...
“Body Paint,” the album’s cinematic centerpiece, belongs in the revered UK band’s pantheon of slippery slow burners, alongside enigmatic 2000s ballads “505” and “Cornerstone.” Swapping orchestral swoon for glam-rock crunch midway through—right after Alex Turner croons, “And if you’re...
Here, he trades barroom ballads for disorienting, percussive songs that sound like a junkyard come to life, and on “Down, Down, Down” and “16 Shells from a 30.6” he unleashes the gravely howl that would become his trademark. Waits was always a reliable guide to the desperate underbelly...
Barbra Streisand had “Evergreen,” but Lady Gaga arguably outdid them both with “Shallow.” The song recurs at pivotal moments in the career and romance of Gaga and Cooper’s characters; the climactic live version is one of the more emotive power ballads you’ll ever hear. – Brett Milan...
And while Eilish still counts the 2020 GRAMMYs — where she swept all four major categories, as well as Best Pop Vocal Album — as "the most insane night of my life to this day," her elder brother pointed to the timeless quality of "What Was I Made For?" as one of the reasons the...
so even if you don't fancy "1968 spiritual and 1976 Romanian modal jazz to New York cool and 2002 free funk", for example, there are hundreds of others to choose from that will suit your mood and tastes. (395's "Alternative pop and deep Detroit groove to piano ballads and b-side so...