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Mondegreens That Stuck
In 1954, Sylvia Wright wrote about a Scottish ballad her mother used to sing her as a child, about the murder of the Earl o’ Moray. The last line was “laid him on the green”, but she heard it as “Lady Mondegreen”. (My Hungarian readers migh...
Robert Miles: Children (1995)
Robert Miles wrote this to keep people alive on the drive home. It became one of Europe’s biggest dance records.
THE STORY YOU KNOW
That piano loop is the most recognizable four bars of 90s dance music. ‘Children’ defined an en...
Famous Enough to Disappear
I’ll admit I never fully got on board with Talk Talk’s last two albums. The minimalism, the near-silence, the post-rock reverence around them. But the first three tell the same story in a version I actually love, each one pulling further aw...
Wordless at the Top
No lyrics, no hook you can sing along, and still a number one. It happens rarely, but more than you would think.
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Vangelis hit number one in the US in 1982 with ‘Chariots of Fire’, a song where synths playing t...
OMC: How Bizarre (1996)
The club was a joke. For a few years, it wasn’t.
THE STORY YOU KNOW
That trumpet riff, the spoken-then-sung verses about a car getting stolen at a red light, and a chorus everyone can hum. It was inescapable in 1996-97. Nearly...
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