Category: Music

The Velvet Underground & Nico (23) is the debut album by American band the Velvet Underground and German singer Nico, released in March 1967 through Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour. The album features experimental performance sensibilities and a number of controversial […]

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (24) is the eighth studio album by the Beatles. Released in May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard chart in the United States. It was lauded by critics for its innovations […]

Rolling Stone has just updated it’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and so I thought for our new series that I would be bring you the Top 25 acording to the this new list. They compiled the new list by receiving and tabulating ‘Top 50 Albums’ lists from more than 300 […]

“Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” is a 1953 novelty song, with lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy and music by Nat Simon. It was written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople to Istanbul. “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” was originally recorded by the […]

“Hurt” is a song by American band Nine Inch Nails from its second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994), written by Trent Reznor. It was released in April 1995, as a promotional single from the album. The song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Song in 1996. The music video for Nine Inch […]

“Proud Mary” (1) is a song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was released by Fantasy Records as a single from the band’s second studio album, Bayou Country, which was issued by the same record company and is generally considered to have been released in early January […]

“With a Little Help from My Friends” (2) is a song by the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and sung by drummer Ringo Starr, his lead vocal for the album. As the second track on the album, it segues from […]

“All Along the Watchtower” (3) is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The final version of “All Along the Watchtower” resulted from two different takes during the second of three John Wesley Harding sessions. The session opened with five takes of the song, the third and fifth of which were spliced […]

“The First Cut Is the Deepest” (5) is a 1967 song written by British singer-songwriter Cat Stevens. Stevens made a demo recording of “The First Cut Is the Deepest” in 1965, while hoping to become a songwriter. He wrote the song earlier to promote his songs to other artists, but did not record it as […]