Rock is Dead! Songs by Todd Rundgren, the Knack, Elvis Costello, others: Gimme Five
To celebrate October, autumn and U2’s recent marketing fiasco, here’s a few songs about the death of everyone’s favorite bad penny, rock ‘n’ roll.
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The Five Best Steely Dan Guitar Solos: Steely Dan Sunday
Wondering about the best Steely Dan guitar solos? Play air guitar along with fanatics John Lawler, Preston Frazier and S. Victor Aaron.
Bruce Springsteen Songs about Cars: Gimme Five
They were as ubiquitous, at one point, as songs about girls.
Forgotten George Harrison gems from The Apple Years: Gimme Five
George Harrison’s catalog, even more than a decade after his death, is widely underappeciated outside of the radio hits, a grievous thing.
1980s ‘Hair Ballads’ That Don’t Suck: Gimme Five
I bristle when folks dismiss everything from this era as garbage.
Gimme Five: Songs of despair by Townes Van Zandt, Nick Drake, Phil Ochs, others
A visit with singers who know what it means to lose heart.
Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey songs, including ‘Sandy,’ ‘Rosalita,’ others: Gimme Five
“Rosalita” was the song that just had to be played before all important events.
Danny Seraphine on ’25 or 6 to 4,’ ‘Full Circle,’ ‘Hard Habit to Break’ + Others: Gimme Five
Danny Seraphine looks back on a career that started and continues with CTA.
Gimme Five: Forgotten Kinks singles, including ‘Better Things,’ ‘Sleepwalker,’ ‘Wonderboy’
Time to recognize these as “klassics” in the Kinks songbook.
Gimme Five: Bruce Springsteen’s spiritual songs, including ‘My City of Ruins,’ ‘The Promised Land,’ ‘We Are Alive,’ others
On the search for salvation, both in this world and the next.
