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The Bee Gees

Charted: #15 in February 1968 To my knowledge, never has a singer so effectively employed tremolo in his voice as ...read more

Workingman’s Dead
The Grateful Dead

From today’s perspective, it’s hard to imagine just how much of an impact this album had on the state of contemporary ...read more

World Party - Dumbing Up

Boy, oh boy. I just don’t know quite what to make of this record, except to say that I haven’t stopped listening to it ...read more

Wrong-Eyed Jesus

As might be presumed from the CD title, Jim White is one weird dude. On song after song, White comes across as a guy who ...read more

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wilco

Remember the good old days when a good song meant a few guys singing like crazy while bashing out a few really good ...read more

Yeah!
Def Leppard

I never thought I’d be saying this, but the new CD by Def Leppard is totally awesome, dude! Honestly, I pretty much had ...read more

You Win Again
Van Morrison/Linda Gail Lewis

It’s back to the bars for Van Morrison and Jerry Lee Lewis’ sister, Linda Gail. Heck, I read Nick Tosches’ "Hellfire" ...read more

Young Americans
David Bowie

This was just too weird. After me spending most of my high school years trying to appropriate the look of David Bowie as ...read more

Your Song
Elton John

Charted: #8 in December 1970 Elton John could be said to be the patriarch for the third generation of rock and ...read more

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie

The best characteristic about Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars is also its major weakness, which is Bowie’s ...read more

Zooropa
U2

With Zooropa, Bono and the boys consciously expand on the contrived artifice of their last effort, Achtung Baby. The ...read more

Zucchero & Co- w/ Various Artists

America is a very insular country, but we hardly ever recognize it, or admit it. We think we are so worldly, and that we ...read more

Ain't That a Shame
Domino, Fats

The year 1955 began ordinarily enough, with the standard musical trends of the time firmly entrenched and no particular ...read more

Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
Belafonte, Harry

If you felt too old to tolerate rock and roll, but still wanted to be modern enough to appreciate new sounds, ethnic ...read more

Be My Baby
Ronettes

Phil Spector is probably the only man in the world who would claim that the castanets are an integral instrument to ...read more

Billie Jean
Jackson, Michael

Working once again with Quincy Jones as producer, a man who has been nominated for 76 (!) Grammy awards, Michael Jackson ...read more

Bittersweet Symphony
Verve

“Bittersweet Symphony” is a pop song for the ages, a song that will be as relevant to its time and place as “All You ...read more

Black Dog
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin took the blues, gave it a lobotomy, ran about 40 million volts of current through it, and then set it loose ...read more

Born In The U.S.A.
Springsteen, Bruce

Whether it was restlessness or an extremely focused personal vision is uncertain, but Bruce Springsteen changed bands ...read more

Born To Be Wild
Steppenwolf

Although we may not have been aware of it at the time, the late ‘60s marked a period when music was the dominant force ...read more

Born To Run
Springsteen, Bruce

It was very easy for me to distrust Bruce Springsteen's intentions around the time of "Born To Run". In the mid-‘70s, ...read more

Brass In Pocket
Pretenders

Chrissie Hynde renders impotent those "women in rock" magazine features that appear every now and then. From as far back ...read more

Brown Sugar
Rolling Stones

The supposedly carefree days of the rock-and-roll festival crashed and burned on December 6, 1969, at the free concert ...read more

Bye Bye Love
Everly Brothers

By the late ‘50s, rock and roll had begun to move away from the raw immediacy of its early stars and became a vehicle ...read more

Crazy For You
Madonna

I'm not going to pretend that I'm a fan of Madonna - because I'm not. I'm not going to pretend that I respect her ...read more

Creep
Radiohead

In 1993, guitar-based music (the term ‘rock and roll’ has become an almost laughable anachronism in the nineties) was ...read more

Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House

If you wanted to know just what was missing from ‘80s rock that made it seem less vital or less fun to listen to than ...read more

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
Jackson, Michael

More than other styles, production was immensely important to the success of a dance hit. The long-term result is that ...read more

Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lauryn Hill

As the century ended, the pop charts consisted mostly of an uncomfortable blend of Hip-Hop/R&B and Country/Mainstream, ...read more

Empty Garden
John, Elton

Although I have lived near New York City for my entire life, there are only three incidents that I associate with ...read more

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