The Doors – Organ groove with no bass guitar
In Venice Beach in 1965, Ray Manzarek met Jim Morrison on the sand and heard a notebook of lyrics that already sounded like songs waiting for an organ to carry the bass.
Foo Fighters – Everlong
Foo Fighters’ Everlong, from The Colour and the Shape (1997): Grohl, Gil Norton, Grandmaster, Modern Rock No. 4.
Low – Berlin fragments after Station to Station
In January 1977 RCA released Low, the first Berlin-trilogy album, cut with Tony Visconti and Brian Eno after the Station to Station tour exhaustion.
Stromae – Papaoutai
On 13 May 2013 Stromae released "Papaoutai," the lead single from Racine carrée, a song whose title is the sentence "Papa, où t'es."
Interview of Ray Charles (1974)
November 1974: Ray Charles sits at a piano for a television interview and keeps the talk as plain as the keys under his hands. He moves between gospel roots, country crossovers, and the practical business of leading a band when the room expects a legend
Stromae – Brussels wordplay that moved the floor
Paul Van Haver built a career as Stromae by combining Brussels French, house rhythms, and sharp visual storytelling into a body of work that treated dancefloor hits like short films with something specific to say.
Sheryl Crow – If It Makes You Happy
On 27 August 1996 Sheryl Crow issued If It Makes You Happy as the lead single from her self-titled second album: co-written with Jeff Trott, produced by Crow, cut between Kingsway in New Orleans and Sunset Sound Factory in Los Angeles, and a Billboard Hot
Diamond Hoo Ha – Hansa loud again with Nick Launay
In March 2008, Supergrass cut Diamond Hoo Ha at Hansa in Berlin with Nick Launay and went loud again after the quiet of Road to Rouen.
Liam Gallagher & John Squire – Mother Nature’s Song
On the 2024 Gallagher & Squire album, Mother Nature's Song is the unreleased-as-single closer: Squire writing, Kurstin/LA, the track Liam says stops him.
Nirvana – Three chords that cracked the mainstream
In September 1991 a three-piece from Aberdeen, Washington, put a quiet-loud riff on MTV and watched the hair-metal calendar tear in half.