1970s

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SONGWRITER

Ladytron: Roxy Music's lunar landing with mellotron, oboe, and synth

Ladytron is one of Roxy Music's most noteworthy tracks released on their 1972 debut album. One of the song's strongest...
Music Theory

6 songs to unpack Ionian mode and the major scale

The polyphonic aspects of Western classical music distinguish it from other musical traditions such as Indian Сlassic...
SONGWRITER

Sugaree: Jerry Garcia's song referencing his lyricist's criminal past

Sugaree is a 1972 track that first appeared on Jerry Garcia's debut solo album, the guitarist who is widely regarded as...
SONGWRITER

Marie Laveau: ballad of the legendary Voodoo Queen

Dedicated to the legendary Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau was composed by award-winning writer Shel...
SONGWRITER

Misty Mountain Hop: Led Zeppelin's contribution to pot legalization

Misty Mountain Hop is an iconic 1971 Led Zeppelin song the title of which is associated with the mountains described by...
FILM

Dum Maro Dum: psychedelic Hindi lyrics in Western arrangement that influenced generations

Dum Maro Dum is a popular Hindi song written by Anand Bakshi and composed by Rahul Dev Burman for the 1971 Bollywood...
SONGWRITER

Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song

Coal Miner's Daughter is an autobiographical song by the influential country-genre songwriter Loretta Lynn in which she...
SONGWRITER

Bennie and the Jets: the opening piano chord and disastrous recording sessions in Jamaica

Bennie and the Jets is inarguably one of Elton John's most popular songs first released on the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road...
Music Theory

8 songs to introduce Aeolian mode and natural minor scale

Over the past centuries, the composition of polyphonic music has been primarily focused on seven diatonic scales...
Music Theory

Plagal cadence exemplified by 9 songs in all diatonic modes

In musical theory, the term cadence is applied to the chord progressions that create a sense of resolution at the end of... 2 comments
SONGWRITER

I Wanna Be Sedated: pure classical harmony cementing the Ramones' hit in punk rock history

Released in 1978 on the Ramones' fourth studio album Road to Ruin, I Wanna Be Sedated remains to be one of the most...
Music Theory

7 songs featuring Mixolydian mode

The dominance of the major and minor modes in Western classical music has been observed for several centuries, and this... 2 comments
SONGWRITER

Baba O'Riley or Teenage Wasteland brought to life by Lowrey organ

The now-iconic album opener Baba O'Riley was first released on the fifth studio album by the English rock band The Who ...
Music Theory

5 songs featuring Dorian mode

Out of all seven diatonic scales, the major and minor scales have been the two most prevalent in Western music...
SONGWRITER

Easy Skanking: meaning and themes in the famous Bob Marley album opener

Easy Skanking is the opening song on Bob Marley’s tenth studio album Kaya released in 1978 and preceding the historic...
Music Theory

Popular songs using Lydian mode

In Western music, the vast majority of classical compositions and popular songs are written using only two diatonic... 6 comments
Music Theory

Popular songs featuring Phrygian mode and Neapolitan chord

Western music theory describes seven diatonic scales that are the basis of corresponding musical modes, among which the...
SONGWRITER

Salma Ya Salama: historical record by Sayed Darwish, the father of Egyptian popular music

Salma Ya Salama is a famous song written by songwriter Sayed Darwish who is considered to be the most influential...
SYNTHESIZER

Progressive rock adaptation of Alberto Ginastera's piano concerto features innovative electronic drums

One of the works of the iconic Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera went far beyond the attention of the classical... 4 comments
Music Theory

Mixolydian mode: famous examples in classical and pop music

In the 17th century, the major and minor scales became the basis for almost all classical music compositions. This... 13 comments
Music Theory

The Andalusian cadence: distinct chord progression of flamenco that captivated all pop music genres

The Andalusian cadence is a musical term denoting a chain of four chords that appear sequentially through each step of...
Poetry

Peter Sinfield: the songwriter whose lyrics embellished the formative prog rock albums of the 1970s

Peter Sinfield is an iconic songwriter who has written for most influential albums of the prog-rock genre released... 3 comments
Electric Guitar

Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space

American multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Adrian Belew managed to extract entirely extraordinary sounds from his...
SONGWRITER

The morna: essential music of the Cape Verde archipelago reached mainland thanks to Cesária Évora's voice

With roots in the 18th-century Cape Verde, the morna music is a vital and culturally definitive genre of the archipelago...
SONGWRITER

The resonance of African tribal heritage in Ali Farka Touré's guitar

Ali Farka Touré was one of the first Malian songwriters to arrange African folk music for acoustic and electric guitar,...
SYNTHESIZER

The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would...
Band

Tinariwen: 40 years of nomadic desert music driven by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib's guitar

Formed by Ibrahim Ag Alhabib in the late 1970s, the African band Tinariwen always had a clear mission to preserve the...
Band

Emotion over meaning: the enigmatic lyrics of Cocteau Twins in the languages of glossolalia

Having first appeared in religious practices, the term glossolalia referred to the ability of a believer to... 2 comments
PIANO

Zawinul incited his electric piano to report the jazz weather

European jazz pianist Joe Zawinul is best known for his founding the iconic band Weather Report which is highly...
PIANO

Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition

Piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 retains its innovative...

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