Top 10 Videos That Invented a Language
Some videos did not illustrate a song.
Gloria – Patti Smith
The first line does not sing so much as it clears the room.
A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
The dulcimer starts alone, a dry, bright pattern, closer to a kitchen table than to a studio, and Joni Mitchell's voice enters as if the conversation had already been going on for an hour.
Top 10 Albums Released Ahead of Their Time
Ahead of its time is a compliment paid too late.
Teardrops – Womack & Womack
The bass arrives already dancing, a line so springy it could carry a lighter lyric, and then Linda Womack sings as if the tears were a fact and the rhythm a decision not to drown in them.
A Forest – The Cure
The bass finds the path before anyone asks for one.
Top 10 Most Audacious Samples
A sample is audacious when it steals in daylight and still makes a new song.
Midnight in a Perfect World – DJ Shadow
The piano is melancholy and already old, a figure from David Axelrod's 1969 The Human Abstract, set down in a room that does not belong to 1969.
Lucifer Over Lancashire – The Fall
The riff does not apologise for being a riff.
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