Only Shallow – My Bloody Valentine
The first guitar does not announce a riff.
Take On Me – a-ha
A drum machine and a keyboard riff arrive already running, bright as a cartoon chase, and Morten Harket's voice climbs until the note is higher than the room expected.
Top 10 Songs That Defined the 90s
The nineties were not one sound.
Lose Yourself – Eminem
A single piano note, then another, thin as a nerve.
Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses
The guitar starts like a finger exercise that forgot to stay private, a climbing figure so pretty it embarrasses the room it is about to enter.
Interview of Grace Jones (1985)
The 1985 Australian Day by Day interview meets Grace Jones in the year of Slave to the Rhythm, the Trevor Horn production that turned one song into a whole architecture, with Jean-Paul Goude still shaping the image.
Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers
In the first months of 1977, Bob Marley & The Wailers were in London because Kingston was no longer a safe room, and they answered the distance by making a record that walks.
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