MARK ANATER … The question apparently refers to I Me Mine. Although all of the songs on the Let It Be album received the Phil Spector treatment after the fact, I Me Mine wasn’t actually recorded until a year after the others, and had no contribution from John Lennon. George Harrison brought the song into […]
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LEONARD HAID … Johnny Carson once asked Frank what he listened to when he was in a romantic mood, and “you’re trying to make out, whose records do YOU put on?” Frank said he puts on Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel and The Sunken Cathedral by Claude Debussy. As well, Frank liked opera, and […]
Larry Starstruck writes …. Keith Richards was never a member of the Yardbirds at all. He was a member of the Rolling Stones. However, I think you may have meant to ask about Keith Reif, the original lead singer. He left the group in 1968, which would coincide with the end of the classic era […]
Brian Slizewski writes … If it’s better than the Stones’ original, it’s certainly not Sympathy for the Devil, Honky Tonk Women, or Gimme Shelter. But I always thought the original Tumbling Dice was just okay, and the Linda Ronstadt cover is actually better.
Muiris writes … Although it had previously been announced by Paul Weller, much to the surprise of bassist Bruce Foxton & drummer Rick Buckler, the Jam officially broke up at the end of their final concert at the Brighton Conference Center on the 11th December 1982. It would be 20 years before bassist Bruce Foxton […]
Chrysaor Jorday writes … Different people have had different reasons to dislike Pink Floyd. Here are a few reasons: They use machines to make all their music, and they aren’t a real band. (False) Musically, they aren’t all that good. (I disagree). Their music is demented and insane (I disagree) and encourages people to take […]
Michael D Mirne writes … This is actually a very good question and unfortunately, the previous answers all avoided the essence of the question. We know that even studio recordings that do not have overdubs still require some isolation of tracks. Otherwise, the drum mics would pick up the guitar amps, and the guitar mics […]
First published in 2015 As Joni Mitchell turns 70, telegraph music writers select 20 of her best tracks, from Woodstock to Carey, Help Me to Hejira. Take a look HERE
Lance LaSalle writes … It didn’t change music, it changed popular culture. Suddenly certain fashions and styles of music that were confined to rather limited social underground scenes became fashionable. At the time, I was wearing a lot of hand-me-down flannel shirts; I had a pointy chin beard and I had questionable hygiene. I deliberately […]
Ramakrishnan Parthasarathy answers here: No garage punk, proto-punk or punk rock band (or, to take it even further: no rock band) wrote better and more memorable riffs than Blue Oyster Cult. No one had a more intriguing sound that was dirty when required and deliciously evil at will. In fact, the best of Blue Oyster […]
R J Holland writes … Paul McCartney called it The Perfect Song. I am going to pick God Only Knows by The Beach Boys. It is truly one of the most beautiful songs every written. The melody, the music and the vocals could not have been better. I could listen to this song forever. Thank […]
James O’Connor writes … So…there’s a tough one. I’m VERY familiar with bands and singers with only one album, that’s sort of a music trivia classic question, and here was my contribution to that list James O’Connor’s answer to Who is the best band of all time that only released 1 album? But two and […]
Mark Whelton writes Periodically I am directed to bands that I may have heard of but never actually listened to or if I have it was years ago or very occasionally ones i know absolutely nothing about. I collect and am always on the look out for psych/garage bands that I have missed. The US […]
Antonella Frau writes … The guy is a beast. I understand we get used to regarding a guitar or bass player as “talented” or “virtuoso” because of their shredding[1], finger tapping, fingerwork and so forth. When it comes to Sting, however, specially during his Police years, we fail to spot any of the aforementioned parameters. […]
Earnest Farr writes … What a great question. I don’t know if there’s a definitive answer to this question, but there are certainly some tunes that can’t be left out of the list of greatest rock intros ever. In no particular order, and from the perspective of an old fart, I submit…. “Threshold”, the intro […]
Tom Randberry writes … That could be hard to to determine exactly. “Come Together” is a good candidate though. It was among the last Beatles songs recorded for “Abbey Road” and John Lennon said it was written in the studio during the “Abbey Road” sessions. That was probably after he got back from his Scotland […]
Sarah Meisels writes … The Beatles’ video of Hey Jude was shown on the David Frost show on September 8, 1968. They were tricky, all of them: David Frost made it seem that the Beatles were actually in his studio, but they weren’t. David went to Twickenham film studios four days earlier, on September 4. […]
McKinzie Brantley III, Lifelong Music Fan (1966-present) writes … Originally, John and Paul wrote songs for Ringo AND George so each would have a vocal on the albums. This was generous, but also helped cement their individual roles within the band. Paul/John were the writers. Geo played guitar. Ringo drums. These roles, defined early, proved […]
Muiris Mac Cartaine, Listens to a lot of Music answered …. Monster by R.E.M. is a contender, it was a chart topper in 1994 and and only good in parts. The band heavily toured the albums rockier sound but it’s predecessor Automatic for the People was also successful and is one of the top REM […]
STEFAN FOCH writes … The short (and incomplete) answer is that The Animals are not in the same category of The Rolling Stones or The Beatles in terms of overall financial success, commercial success, or as a pop cultural institution today. No one is. That aside, the Animals were in the same category during the […]
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James O’Connor: The song, “Dirty Work,” is from Steely Dan’s 1972 debut album Can’t Buy A Thrill and is likely the most pop feeling song on the record, featuring an almost Philly Soul sound that stood in contrast to the more Jazz/Rock style of the rest of the LP. David Palmer was the lead vocalist […]
BOB SMITH: Oooh good question as the sounds are very hard to identify, but thankfully John Fogerty explained this and more in his 2015 autobiography. The song is a cover of a “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins song from 1956 done by Creedence ClearWater for their self titled album in 1968. In an attempt to create a […]
GERAINT HALL … Saxophones can be made out of wood (I looked on YouTube) but usually (and traditionally) they are not, they are made out of brass. Prince Chokorda and his wooden saxophone Wooden saxophone Wooden Saxophone — Bart Hopkin (this one doesn’t look like a saxophone but still sounds like one) Thoughts on the […]