• 8 Songs About Working (Or Hating Your Job)

    If there's one thing that most rock fans can relate to, it's despising your job (or in some cases, not even having a job). In celebration of Labor Day tomorrow, here are eight songs about how tough and irritating most jobs can be.
  • Oasis' 'Definitely Maybe': 11 Songs Ranked For Its 20th Anniversary

    Today, Aug. 29, marks the 20th anniversary of Oasis' debut album Definitely Maybe, and though it wasn't the first album of the Britpop movement, it did become one of its defining documents. The album would become the fastest selling debut of all time in the UK (a record later broken by Elastica and then Arctic Monkeys), and in celebration of its 20th birthday, here are the album's 11 songs ranked, from worst to best.
  • 9 Albums Where Most Of The Songs Were Singles

    The main point of releasing a single is to convince audiences to go out and purchase the entire album, but some albums end up being so successful that most of the songs end up being released as singles. Here are nine albums that were mostly made-up of singles.
  • 8 Multi-Platinum Albums That Were Relative Flops

    The news of Robin Thicke's latest album selling a dismal 54 copies in Australia must be very embarrassing for him, but there are some artists who are so massively famous that even going multi-platinum can be considered a huge disappointment. Here are eight multi-platinum albums that sold less than half of their predecessors.
  • 8 Guitarists Who Are More Famous Than Their Lead Singers

    It's pretty common for a band's lead vocalist to be its most famous member, whether or not they actually deserve it (Ozzy Osbourne...), but there are some cases where the lead vocalist is actually outshone by the guitarist. Here are eight guitarists who are more famous than their lead singers.
  • 8 Great Musicians With Their Own Sneaker Designs

    On June 17, trance artist Paul van Dyk released his own line of TOMS shoes, though van Dyke is far from the first artist to do this. Here are eight great musicians with their own sneaker designs.
  • 7 Great Alt-Rock Songs Where The Lead Vocalist Doesn't Sing

    For most bands, one of their most identifiable aspects is the sound of the lead singer's voice. However, every once in a while another band member will step out in front and take the lead, sometimes even at the suggestion of the lead singer. Here are seven greatest alt-rock songs where someone else in the band sings lead.
  • 10 Great Albums With Semi-Title Tracks

    The last time I wrote about title tracks, I mentioned songs that were left off of the albums that bore their name. Though these ten songs were placed on the correct albums, their titles are actually slightly different, which means they're technically not title tracks. Here are ten great albums that have semi-title tracks.
  • 10 Artists Whose Most Famous Song Isn't Their Best

    Success in the music business is unpredictable. Some untalented artists inexplicably stay at the top of the charts, just like some songs inexplicably become an artist's signature, even though they have more qualified songs for the position. Here are ten artists whose most famous song isn't their best.
  • 7 Classic Albums That Would Improve with Different Production

    Though I wrote a list a few weeks ago about classic albums that sound awful, I wouldn’t change a thing about the way any of those albums were produced. When I sit down and listen to Raw Power, I want it to be rough and fuzzy, because that’s the kind of music the Stooges made. These seven albums, however, would have greatly benefited from a production overhaul.
  • Six Lead Vocalists Who Don't Write Their Own Lyrics

    It's totally reasonable to assume that each member of a band writes his or her own parts: the guitarist writes the guitar parts, the bassist writes bass lines, and the vocalist writes the lyrics. However, there are some rare cases where someone in the band other than the vocalist writes the lyrics. Here are six examples of bands whose vocalists don't write their own lyrics.
  • Seven Awesome Artists Who Are Ruined by Their Fans

    We all know at least one person who is so incredibly irritating that you refuse to listen to anything they say. If there's this one band they keep suggesting to you, you simply refuse to look into them, out of fear that you'll actually enjoy them and become irritating, too. Here are seven artists whose fans make me embarrassed to be a fan.
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