• 8 Great Opening Tracks That Are Unlike The Rest Of The Album

    A good opening track should offer a captivating example of the rest of the album to come, but sometimes a song is chosen to open the album that doesn't sound anything like the other songs. Here are eight great opening tracks that are unlike the rest of the album.
  • 8 Lyrical Rhymes That Need A Rest

    Because of its confounding structures, the English language is one of the most difficult in which to rhyme, but that hasn't stopped English speakers from writing millions of incredible songs. However, these rhymes pop up in song lyrics so often that they just come across as incredibly lazy. Here are eight lyrical rhymes that need a rest.
  • 10 Band Names Taken From Literature

    If there's one surefire way to add a sense of importance and artistic integrity to your band, it's to name your band after something you read in a book. Here are ten bands who took their names from literary works.
  • 6 Great Albums That Are Front-Loaded

    Sequencing an album is a tricky process. If you place all of the weakest songs at the beginning, the listeners might not make it to the end. If you place all of your best songs at the beginning, however, the rest of the album is going to be disappointing. Here are six great albums whose track listings were front-loaded, with all of the best songs in the beginning.
  • 6 Albums That Sound Totally Different From Their Predecessors

    Most artists worth listening to tend to slightly change up their style with each release, and sometimes this results in the artist sounding completely different today than it did when it first started (hello, Radiohead). However, some artists forego this gradual transformation and instead entirely change their sound with just one album. Here are six albums that sound totally different from the one that came before it.
  • 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.
  • 6 Bands With International Lineups

    When musicians come together to form a band, they're usually all from the same town, or at the very least, the same state. However, there are a few bands out there that have line-ups featuring musicians from completely different countries. Here are six bands with international line-ups.
  • 6 Alternative Musicians Who Vanished from the Music Business

    For the most part, musicians don’t really retire. A great deal simply keep playing until they’re physically unable to go on (see: the Rolling Stones). However, there are some artists who more or less vanished from music altogether, and some never returned. Here are six alternative musicians who vanished from the music business.
  • 7 Artists Who Recruited Old Bandmates For Solo Albums

    When musicians leave their bands and go on to record solo albums, it seems like their former bandmates would be the last people they'd want to help out. However, these seven musicians actually recruited their old bandmates to perform on their solo albums.
  • 6 Bands That Continued After Their Songwriter Left

    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.
  • 9 Great Songs That Sound Out of Place On Their Albums

    Though an album where every song is pretty much the same won’t be very good (unless you’re the Ramones), the songs on an album should at least feel like it they all came from the same place. These nine songs, however, sound like they were placed on the wrong album entirely. Here are nine great songs that sound out of place on their albums.
  • 5 Bands Who Only Got Famous After Breaking Up

    Thousands of bands form every year, but unfortunately most of them don't ever achieve significant commercial success.These five bands, however, somehow managed to achieve their greatest popularity only after they had broken up.
  • 7 Album Covers That Don't Match the Music

    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.
  • 6 Bands Who's Final Album Was Its Worst

    When R.E.M. released its critically panned 2004 album Around the Sun, the band considered breaking up, but realized that they couldn’t end their career on such a failure, which prompted them to release two acclaimed albums before calling it a day in 2012. That was R.E.M., though. Not every band is able to control its legacy so gracefully. Here are six bands that broke up after their weakest albums.
  • 5 Artists Whose Lyrics Are Better Than Their Music

    When talking about his songwriting, Kurt Cobain was once said “music comes first and lyrics come second.” Most songwriters and music fans place the importance of a song’s music over its lyrical content, but there are some singers whose lyrics are actually the best parts of their songs. Here are five artists whose lyrics are better than their music.
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