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It's not uncommon for a band to shift personnel every once in a while, but one thing a band rarely survives is the loss of the primary songwriter. However, sometimes a band overcomes this loss and continues making music, and as these six bands proved, this can either an improvement or a horrible mistake. -
7 Album Covers That Don't Match the Music: Pink Floyd, Neil Young, and more
A good album cover should compliment the music inside, and a lot of covers do this very well. The ethereal cover of My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless matches the album’s ethereal music, but some album covers suggest something completely different than what the music actually offers. Here are seven album covers that don’t match the album’s music. -
7 Songs Written About Ex-Bandmates: Pink Floyd, the Beatles, and more
Being in a band can be stressful work. Sometimes this can lead to vicious disputes between bandmates or untimely departures from the band, and because these are musicians we're talking about, songs are inevitably written about these tensions. These seven songs were written about estranged or long lost bandmates. -
Seven Albums Hated by the People Who Made Them: R.E.M., the Beatles, and more
Musicians have a very unusual relationship with the songs they write. Just like an actor doesn't sit around watching his or her own movies all day (hopefully), a musician doesn't listen to their own albums very often, for various reasons. They could simply be tired of hearing the songs, or maybe they're self-conscious, but sometimes an artist genuinely dislikes their own work. Here are seven albums aren't very well liked by the people who made them. -
7 Great Rock Songs with Saxophone: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, and more
Despite what Courtney Love may think, saxophones do, in fact, belong in rock music. Of course they can be used poorly, just like anything else really, but these seven songs prove that saxophone can be integrated brilliantly into rock music. -
8 Pairs of Songs with the Same Title: Which is Better?
While musicians can be sued if they plagiarize lyrics or melodies, song titles are pretty much fair game, resulting in a ton of songs with the same name. I’ve decided to stack up some of the best songs that share titles and see which is better. These might seem like arbitrary comparisons based on a coincidence, but so are “Best of the Year” lists, and those are cool. -
Wish You Could Hear: Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' Track Gets a Violinist's Touch per an Immersion Re-Release, Nick Mason Claims Travesty
The slowed-down ballad track from the conceptual 'Dark Side' LP featured not just a 12-string acoustic juxtaposed with a riffing six, but a fully orchestrated band crooning to the departed Syd Barett and Waters' lonely feelings of isolation. -
6 Bands That Would Be Better With Different Lyricists: Best Coast, Oasis, and more
Just because you can write excellent music doesn’t mean you can write excellent lyrics to go along with it. Johnny Marr knew this when he collaborated with Morrissey, and Elton John knew this when he teamed up with Bernie Taupin. Here are six bands that should consider hiring new lyricists. -
Eight Songs That Are Genuinely Terrifying (But Still Incredible): The Cure, R.E.M., and more
There’s plenty of dark and depressing music out there (and I listen to a bunch of it), but finding a song that’s dark and terrifying is very rare. Death metal bands may attempt to be scary, but their music ends up being more cartoonishly fun than genuinely frightening. Here are eight great songs that are genuinely frightening. -
8 Bands That Should Be On Classic Rock Radio: The Replacements, the Buzzcocks, and more
Classic rock radio is, by its own design, a very stagnant radio format. While a lot of excellent songs are played, there’s never going to be new “classic rock” band to come along and shake things up. What these radio stations could do, though, is dig a little deeper and give some of these artists a spin. -
The Flaming Lips try Pink Floyd again with 'Flaming Side of The Moon' companion album
It's not much of a secret that the Flaming Lips are huge fans of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of The Moon: The band did its own version of the classic record during 2009, resulting in Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of The Moon. The Flaming Lips have taken a more imaginative route for its most recent project however. -
Roger Waters completes first rock record in 20 years, may take 'The Wall' back on tour
Roger Waters has recently finished up a three year-long tour, and at the age of 70, he's already tearing at the bit. The frontman for Pink Floyd told Rolling Stone that he's recently completed the audio for his first solo album in more than 20 years. Naturally, being a Waters project, it's more complex than your typical rock record.
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