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The Best Song Ever (This Week)

Scott Frampton

A short, deep dive into a song and what makes it special. Different genres, different eras -- old, new (but probably old).

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“And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” by THE POGUES

In that mad world of blood, death, and fire

World War I is where the political and military traditions from the previous century ran into the industrial scale of the new one, at the cost of 20 million lives.

The Gallipoli Campaign was the...

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"In The Summertime" by MUNGO JERRY

You can stretch right up and touch the sky

The time it took to write one of the best selling singles in history could be measured by the minute hand of a wristwatch. Ray Dorset was, in fact, taking a break from his day job at a lab for Tim...

3 years ago
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"The Boys of Summer" by DON HENLEY

Those days are gone forever. I should just let them go but…

Heartbreakers’ guitarist Mike Campbell and Tom Petty were in the studio mixing “Don’t Come Around Here No More” when they decided to honor the tradition of listening to the mix in...

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"Reflections" by DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMES

I see a dream that's lost

Flo Ballard had the biggest voice in The Supremes. This was true literally and figuratively: She had a regal, passionate presence that could reach the back pew of a church, and had been the group’s leader since th...

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"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by THE EURHYTHMICS

Everybody's looking for something

Annie Lennox was curled up on the floor in a fetal position. She was living her dream as an artist, only it was one of those anxiety dreams of being unable to find the place where you know you need to be....

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    Back-in-the-day CMJ New Music Monthly Editor-in-Chief | Birthed R.I.Y.L. | Writer of music stuff for Esquire, Oprah & more

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