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The 10 Best Genesis Songs
Abacab, the 11th studio album by UK prog/pop legends Genesis, turns 40 tomorrow. Nursery Cryme, the band’s first album with drummer Phil Collins and guitarist Steve Hackett, turns 50 in November....
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The 10 Best Paul Simon Songs
Fifty years ago, Paul Simon wondered how terribly strange he’d feel at 70. Today, after becoming one of the 20th century’s greatest songwriters, he turns 80. Happy birthday, Paul.
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The 10 Best Mac Miller Songs
People will take you for granted until you’re gone, a truth hip-hop is intimately familiar with. If an artist is “lucky,” they will live long enough to have their contributions simply forgotten, as...
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The 10 Best One Direction Songs
Simon Cowell pulled One Direction together in 2010 after Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne had each auditioned as solo artists on The X Factor UK. Better together,...
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The 10 Best Kate Bush Songs
It’s shaping up to be the summer of Kate Bush. After Stranger Things used 1985’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” in the first part of its new season, the song became an instant viral hit,...
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The 10 Best Paul McCartney Songs Post-Beatles
In the days of mixtapes and CD burning, Paul McCartney was one of those acts like the Fall and Wu-Tang Clan whose immense catalog concealed overlooked corners and underused trails the former Beatle...
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The 10 Best Foo Fighters Songs
There’s a parallel universe out there where Dave Grohl doesn’t start the Foo Fighters in the wreckage of Nirvana’s unexpected and tragic conclusion. Instead, he takes up that offer to be Tom Petty’s...
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The 10 Best Queens Of The Stone Age Songs
It's been 20 years since Josh Homme breathed new life into the ashes of his old band, the seminal stoner metal outfit Kyuss, thereby conceiving Queens Of The Stone Age: one of the most successful,...
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The 10 Best Vince Staples Songs
Vincent Jamal Staples doesn't have to hide behind an MC name, middle name, or street name, at a time when most of his fellow rappers of the gangster tradition wouldn't be caught dead using their...
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The 10 Best Robert Plant Songs
Robert Plant was the frontman of Led Zeppelin. What the hell do you do after that? Sure, there are all sorts of reasons a lead singer, or another band member, goes solo, from ego to creative...
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The 10 Best Echo And The Bunnymen Songs
The Beatles didn't live there anymore. Liverpool at the end of the '70s was hardscrabble and hardly swinging, but from its post-punk bohemia came a music scene tye-dyed by psychedelia and other '60s...
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The 10 Best Cranberries Songs
The Cranberries were one of the alt-rock era's biggest successes. That's true in numerical terms: The Irish band's first two albums, 1993's Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? and 1994's No...
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The 10 Best War On Drugs Songs
Ten years ago this June, the War On Drugs released their debut album Wagonwheel Blues. At that point, nobody could’ve expected what would eventually happen for this project and its mastermind, a...
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The 10 Best Simple Minds Songs
There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the '80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the '70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given...
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The 10 Best Hot Chip Songs
For nearly 15 years now, Hot Chip have been releasing effervescent, wildly infectious synthpop albums like clockwork. Up until recently, you got a Hot Chip album every two years, and you could always...
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The 10 Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs
Throughout the long and tumultuous history of the Smashing Pumpkins, there's never really been a prolonged period of anything resembling tranquility. There's never been a moment where they could...
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The 10 Best Wye Oak Songs
We often perceive indie rock of the early 21st century through two defining lenses: the era of New York's early '00s retro-revival and the rise of Brooklyn and mainstream indie that supplanted it by...
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The 10 Best The Weeknd Songs
"I just wanna take you there." These were the first words we ever heard from Abel Tesfaye, uttered in a sinful, irresistible whisper over a warped-out fairytale score backed by lurching 808s. This was...
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