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I'm a U2 Fan, I'm Smart!
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- Ask The Experts Now it’s official! SAT Scores and Music Preferences Correlate! If you’ve ever suspected that classical music fans are smart and rap fa...
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- Album Review U2’s No Line On The Horizon I took my time with this review (rather than writing it when the album came out, on March 3), because this is an album y...
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- Famous Musical Pieces: You Can’t Always Get What You Want Information: Written By: Jaggers/Richards Performed By: The Rolling Stones Album: Let It Bleed Rel...
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Jethro Tull's Discography
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- Jethro Tull Over a career spanning 40 years Jethro Tull has released over 20 studio albums (including an Orchestral work). 8 Live albums, 14 compilations with 26 memb...
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Band Profile: Jethro Tull
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- Jethro Tull Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967-1968. Their music is characterized by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson, who has led th...
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- All Star Once upon a time,a long long time ago (actually less than 10 years ago, but who’s counting?), a California pop-rock band r...
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The Sitar: in Today's Music
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- The Sitar in Today’s Music We’ve already taken a look at the beginnings of the sitar through musical works of jazz and The Beatles. Then we watched guys like Th...
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The Sitar in Classic Rock
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- The Sitar in Classic Rock My previous lesson was about the early use of the sitar in jazz and Beatles music. But the influence of Indian music didn’t stop just th...
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- The Sitar: Early Use in Jazz and The Beatles The sitar is a classical Indian instrument. Just like a guitar, you pluck the strings along a neck. At the bottom of the ho...
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- Famous Musical Pieces: Baba O’Riley Genre: Rock Composed and performed by: The Who Released: 1971 You’ve probably heard this song on television or in the movies ...
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- Famous Musical Pieces Come TogetherPerformed by: The BeatlesReleased: 31 October, 1969Album: Abbey RoadWritten by: Lennon/McCartneyProduced by: George MartinCheck out the song h...
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- Concert Recommendation Songs of David Byrne and Brain Eno I didn’t even know Byrne had a new album out until I accidentally stumbled upon it… and then I di...
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- Famous Musical Pieces Under the Bridge Composed and performed by: Red Hot Chili Peppers Released: March 13, 1992 Album: Blood Sugar Sex Magik Producer: Rick Rubin Hear the son...
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- Smells Like Teen Spirit As clichéd as it sounds, this song truly did define a generation and the whole grunge rock movement. It was dubbed “the anthem for apathetic kid...
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- The Beatles “Yesterday” “Yesterday” is an acoustic ballad written by Paul McCartney, one of The Beatles. The lyrics tell the tale of a man who has just b...
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- Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone is arguably one of the most famous rock and roll songs of this century. At the time it was a song which was refreshing and innovative. Wr...
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- A ringtone favourite for cellphones all around the world, perhaps some more information behind the piece known as Für Elise is in order! Who was “Elise”? “Für...
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Rock Quotes
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- Rockers got big mouths! They say a lot of stupid stuff… but sometimes they surprise you with a profound saying. Here are some rock quotes from rockers about rock...
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Sub-Genres of Rock
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- The terms “Rock,” “Metal,” and “Alternative Rock” are incredibly broad. Here’s a guide to some major sub-genres. This ...
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- This is Part X of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 10-1 Part 10! My best songs ever are here! This is the tenth and final part of my very own 100 favorite song...
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- This is Part IX of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 20-11 Part 9! Just this and one more to go… This is the ninth part of my very own 100 favorite songs ...
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- This is Part VIII of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 30-21 Part 8… oh no, it’s almost over This is the eighth part of my very own 100 favorite son...
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- Album Review Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends Coldplay… that band that’s sort of in between U2 and Radiohead. They’re hard ...
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- Always wanted to be in a rock band but didn’t know how? Here’s a great guide to get you started: What you’ll need: - At least 3 friends who support y...
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- This is Part VII of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 40-31 Part 7, aren’t you excited? This is the seventh part of my very own 100 favorite songs list. T...
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- This is Part VI of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 50-41 Part 6, and it’s really getting closer now This is the sixthpart of my very own 100 favorite so...
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- This is Part V of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 60-51 Part 5! We’re halfway there This is the fifth part of my very own 100 favorite songs list. This ...
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- This is Part IV of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 70-61 We’re getting up there- it’s part 4 This is the fourth part of my very own 100 favorite s...
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Joy Division
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- Joy Division has long had many “bootleg” videos floating around due to the lack of material being published before Ian Curtis’s death. Here are few that are av...
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- This is Part III of oLahav’s Top 100 Songs List: songs 80-71 Part three is here already! Yay! This is the third part of my very own 100 favorite songs list. This...
