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Why Todd Rundgren Didn’t Care to Play His Egotistical Hit “Hello It’s Me”...
When Todd Rundgren first released his song “Hello It’s Me” as a B-side with his band Nazz in 1968, it managed to peak at No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, then reentered the chart at No. 66 months...
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The Meaning Behind “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar and Why It’s Perhaps the...
On May 4, Kendrick Lamar released the decisive diss track in a heated rap war with Drake. “Not Like Us” topped the Billboard singles chart and close observers of the feud between Lamar and Drake...
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The Story Behind “This Is Not America,” the Surprising David Bowie-Pat...
During his 1980s pop period, David Bowie did not shy away from collaborations. One of his most memorable duets came in 1977 when he and Bing Crosby recorded the Christmas medley “Peace on...
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Behind the Meaning of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Slim Pickins”
Sabrina Carpenter gave fans a sneak peek at her at next album with “Slim Pickins,” a country-tinged song about her limited options. As always, Carpenter doesn’t air her frustrations without a hint of...
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The Story Behind How Quincy Jones Nearly Cut “Billie Jean” From Michael...
Bassist Louis Johnson and Tom Scott on the lyricon, a wind-controlled analog synthesizer, created one of the most iconic intros to a song in pop history with their intro to Michael Jackson‘s 1983 hit...
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How After the Fire’s Cover of “Der Kommissar” Became Their Big Hit After They...
How quickly bands can change. Take a listen to After the Fire’s 1978 debut album Signs of Change and one can hear Genesis-inspired progressive rock played with spirit. Check out their fourth album from...
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The Meaning Behind “Elevation” by U2 and How Bono’s Sex Song Was Written so...
U2 is digging through their vaults to release deep-dive cuts and B-sides previously unavailable in the streaming era. The Irish rock legends have called this series U2 To Love and Only Love – Deep...
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A Dream Within a Dream: The Story Behind “In Another Land” by The Rolling Stones
Dreams occur mainly in the rapid-eye movement stage of sleep. During REM, your brain activity is high, which can trick you into thinking you are awake. A succession of images, ideas, emotions, and...
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The Heart Classic That Nancy Wilson Had To Convince Ann Wilson To Sing Again
Just because a song is a hit with the crowd doesn’t mean it’s a hit with the band, and such was the case for a Heart classic that Nancy Wilson had to convince her sister and bandmate, Ann Wilson, to...
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Remember When: Marilyn Martin is Thrust into the Spotlight with Her No. 1...
The doors to success can open in unlikely ways. Kentucky native Marilyn Martin began singing when she was a child, and by the time she was 18 was already fronting a cover band and traveling the...
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The Meaning Behind “The Wild One, Forever,” an Underrated Tom Petty and the...
Tom Petty’s iconic songs are many and it’s easy to overlook the hidden gems in his extraordinary catalog. “The Wild One, Forever” is one casual fans may have missed but it’s an underrated classic from...
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Behind the Meaning of Stevie Nicks’ Movie-Inspired “Moonlight (A Vampire’s...
The book-turned-movie, Twilight, seems to provide an endless source of inspiration. The novel has inspired other books, movies, and even songs. Stevie Nicks penned one of the most memorable Twilight...
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The Story and Meaning Behind “It Don’t Matter to Me,” the Bread Song that...
It’s sometimes easy to express sentiments in song that might be hard to actually act on in the messiness of real life. That notion comes to mind with the song “It Don’t Matter to Me,” a song by Bread...
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The Story and Meaning Behind “Even the Losers,” the Tom Petty Song Recalling...
Tom Petty‘s ability to tell slice-of-life stories that resonated with his audience made him one of the most popular songwriters of the classic rock era. In the case of “Even the Losers,” that slice...
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The Meaning Behind “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day and Walking...
In 2004, Green Day released a punk rock opera called American Idiot. The concept album is a coming-of-age story about a character called Jesus of Suburbia. Though the album was created against the...
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The Story and Meaning Behind “Minute by Minute,” The Doobie Brothers Hit that...
It seems like a pretty obvious thing to say that a band takes on the musical identity of their members. Still, it can be jarring when members of a band change, and then the band’s sound changes in...
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Post-Millennial Classic: The Powerfully Catchy “The Laws Have Changed” by The...
They were a self-proclaimed supergroup made up of members that hardly any music fans really knew. The New Pornographers came of age in a time when word-of-mouth, critical darlings could eventually...
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The Meaning Behind Post Malone’s “Yours”—A Letter to His Young Daughter
Amid Post Malone’s star-studded F-1 Trillion, there sits one song that is a standout among the rest—”Yours.” Deliberately sitting at the last spot on the album. Malone gives the song the final spot due...
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The Song That Took Stevie Nicks More Than 40 Years to Release After Being...
By the early 1970s, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were living at the home of producer Keith Olse while they were struggling artists in Los Angeles. During this time, Nicks was writing songs she...
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The All-Time Rock Classic That Single-Handedly Revitalized Aerosmith’s Career
Originally released in 1975 by Aerosmith, their hit “Walk This Way” had become a quintessential ’70s rock classic. However, as time went by both the song and the band started to fall in the charts due...
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