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Every Breath You Take
Police

While the Police were working overtime in the late 70's to establish themselves both at home (in England) and abroad (in ...read more

Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears

It's difficult to figure how some great English singles from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s never reached the top 40. In ...read more

Get Off Of My Cloud
Rolling Stones

London, England in the late ‘50s was awash with a music scene that was referred to as trad jazz. Inspired by the New ...read more

Heartbreak Hotel
Presley, Elvis

Unless you were a big fan of country music in 1955, chances are you had no idea who Elvis Presley was. While at Sun ...read more

Hey Jude
Beatles

"The dream is over."- John Lennon, from "God" "When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought like a child, I ...read more

Hotel California
Eagles

Trying to write something nice about this record is about as easy as rejoicing over a trip to the dentist. My personal ...read more

I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones were the first real English rock-and-roll band with as much authority as the Beatles, but their ...read more

I Feel Fine
Beatles

It's amusing today to think how the executives at Capitol Records complained about the feedback at the top of "I Feel ...read more

I Try
Macy Gray

Sometimes, I try to imagine what might have happened if Macy Gray attempted to obtain a recording contract in 1950. Can ...read more

I Walk The Line
Cash, Johnny

In his autobiography, The Man In Black, Johnny Cash said, "I never did a concert that I didn't sing 'I Walk The Line.' ...read more

I Want To Hold Your Hand
Beatles

Before the Beatles can be discussed properly, a bit of historical updating is in order. Americans were struck so ...read more

I Wish
Wonder, Stevie

Soon after completing the Innervisions album in 1973, Stevie Wonder was almost killed by a serious car accident that ...read more

I'm Like A Bird
Nelly Furtado

From my perspective as a longtime fan of pop music, the new millennium at first looked more like a new Dark Age than a ...read more

If You're Gone
Matchbox Twenty

“I think I’ve already lost you, I think you’re already gone I think I’m finally scared now, You think I’m weak, but I ...read more

Johnny B. Goode
Berry, Chuck

Ask the early rock and rollers who their favorite artist is and you'll usually get the same reply. Elvis, Little ...read more

Kiss From A Rose
Seal

There are any number of ways that a recording artist can address issues they consider to be urgent. Some might be ...read more

La Bamba
Valens, Richie

Richard Valenzuela was born of Mexican and American Indian descent on May 13, 1941 in Los Angeles. Growing up a minority ...read more

Like A Rolling Stone
Dylan, Bob

Any semblance of linear thinking that I may have had when I started this project has all gone out the window once I ...read more

Little Red Corvette
Prince

"You had a pocket full of horses, Trojans, and some of them used." A love song to a girl who is funky enough to save ...read more

Losing My Religion
R.E.M.

Since punk had fizzled out without making any substantial commercial impact, most record companies reverted to business ...read more

Love Shack
B-52's

“Glove slap! I don’t take crap!” - modified lyrics to “Love Shack,” as it appeared in an episode of The Simpsons Why ...read more

Lowdown
Scaggs, Boz

By the mid-to-late ‘70s, rock music came very close to being almost exclusively white, male and sexist. The ...read more

Mack The Knife
Louis Armstrong

Walden Roberto Cassotto was born and raised in a tough part of the Bronx, New York. His father died a few months before ...read more

Maggie May
Stewart, Rod

Isn't it interesting how in the ‘60s, nearly every record seemed to exude a sense of anticipation or optimism for the ...read more

Mama Said Knock You Out
L L Cool J

To the uninitiated, the biggest problem with most Rap (Gangsta Rap in particular) is that it’s so damned believable. ...read more

Maybelline
Berry, Chuck

"Maybelline" is to rock and roll what Adam and Eve are to the Bible. Sure, rock-and-roll style songs predate it, but ...read more

Modern Love
Bowie, David

Considering his influence on music in the 70's, it is incredible to consider that besides his three antiseptic funk ...read more

My Baby Left Me
Presley, Elvis

Elvis Presley was an interpretive singer, and as such, he relied on songwriters for virtually all of his material. But ...read more

No Myth
Michael Penn

As the 90's set in, the compact disc had fulfilled its inevitable destiny by overtaking both vinyl and cassette sales, ...read more

Nothing Compares 2 U
Sinead O'Connor

Over time, music video proved itself to be much more limiting than was originally hoped. We had great expectations of ...read more

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