The 10 Best Marvin Gaye Songs
It can be hard to not engage in a mental game of "What if?" when it comes to artists who died well before their time. Would Kurt Cobain have released more albums as zeitgeist-defining and powerful as...
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The 10 Best Marilyn Manson Songs
During the first quarter of 2015, two artists maintained twin strangleholds on my music-related social-media conversations. The first was Björk. The second was Brian Warner, better known by his stage...
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The 10 Best Annie Lennox Songs
It's surprising to learn that the only significant acting credit associated with Annie Lennox is a role in a Robert Altman-directed adaptation of a Harold Pinter play. If you've watched any of the...
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The 10 Best Brand New Songs
Being a diehard Brand New fan is a frustrating, often punishing exercise. In the 15 years since their arrival, they've been a hard band to try to follow to the ends of the Earth. With long periods of...
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The 10 Best Stereolab Songs
While grunge was peaking, Britpop was winding down, and hip-hop was in the midst of being codified as pop's lingua franca, Stereolab were just getting warmed up in pursuit of a throwback art-deco...
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The 10 Best Chemical Brothers Songs
Twenty years ago, in the last week of June 1995, the Chemical Brothers released their debut album, Exit Planet Dust, and turned the strong electronic-dance vanguard of their early singles into...
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The 10 Best Meek Mill Songs
This year has been friendly to street rappers. Right now, Future is experiencing a full career resurgence; Fetty Wap -- who was an unknown a year ago -- has three songs in the Top 20; and Meek Mill...
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The 10 Best Duran Duran Songs
By 1982, twenty full years after the initial British Invasion, the time-honored model of sending gifted, handsome young blokes across the Atlantic to plunder the hearts and wallets of English-mad...
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The 10 Best Broken Social Scene Songs
Has there been a better collective in the past two decades than Broken Social Scene? I really doubt it. The amount of talent inside and on the periphery of this band is monumental. Feist, Metric, and...
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The 10 Best High On Fire Songs
High On Fire are a heavy metal band. Let that soak in for a minute. What at first appears to be a pedestrian observation (i.e., "No shit") is a distinguishing factor for the Oakland-based trio. Over...
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The 10 Best Joanna Newsom Songs
"Wood nymph." "Teething infant." A "faerie [who has] a squeaky voice that sounds like it's been stepped on." These are but a few of the ways journalists and other content curmudgeons have characterized...
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The 10 Best Stone Temple Pilots Songs
Scott Weiland died last night at the age of 48, the end of a life defined by rock 'n' roll excess at its most triumphant and destructive. In one sense, it's amazing that a man who lived that hard...
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The 10 Best ELO Songs
When Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood formed Electric Light Orchestra in 1970, their goal was to carry the torch of the recently disbanded Beatles, expanding that band's psychedelic blueprint for "I Am The...
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The 10 Best Tool Songs
Formed in 1990 from the radioactive ash and dust of a comet composed of LSD, and hurtling at a polyrhythmic rate, Tool have spent the better part of the last 25 years as the inadvertently weird kid in...
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The 10 Best Loretta Lynn Songs
It has been almost half a century since Loretta Lynn clinched her first #1 on the country charts, but that was hardly the first chapter of her story. The sprightly country singer -- who would climb the...
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The 10 Best Underworld Songs
With eight studio albums of atmospheric electronica under their belt -- the latest of which, Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future, comes out today -- and both its members pushing 60, it's tempting...
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The 10 Best Merle Haggard Songs
It has been a cruel season of loss in the music community, felt most recently with the departure of Merle Haggard, the titan of American song who passed away last Wednesday on the occasion of his 79th...
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The 10 Best Primal Scream Songs
Throughout their 30+ years as a band, Glasgow’s Primal Scream have always operated on the preternatural need to be in flux; a creature poised on the promise of evolution. This instinct is all at once...
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The 10 Best Liz Phair Songs
Back when indie rock was beginning to brew, singer-songwriter Liz Phair emerged as a bold, feminist pioneer in the developing scene. Unafraid to overshare or express her anger, Phair gained a following...
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The 10 Best Sufjan Stevens Songs
Conventional wisdom states that Undisputed Era Of The Album took place in the 1970s. But thanks to technological circumstances and the growth in popularity of independent labels, the first decade of...
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