1990s

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Film
La Llorona: the Mexican song of a weeping ghost

La Llorona is a Mexican folk song tied to one of the country's most persistent ghost legends. The song has no single…

July 27, 2026
Technologies
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: the homeless voice in Gavin Bryars' loop

Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet began in 1971 with a fragment of documentary sound collected by English composer Gavin…

July 21, 2026
Film
Chaiyya Chaiyya: Sufi-inspired lyrics of the Dil Se train scene

The train-top dance made Chaiyya Chaiyya famous. Beneath that public spectacle sits a lyric image drawn from Sufi…

June 27, 2026
Songwriter
Lamento Boliviano: meaning and origin of the Mendoza rock anthem

Lamento Boliviano became the best-known song in the repertoire of the Argentine rock band Los Enanitos Verdes after…

May 31, 2026
Songwriter
Bailamos: meaning and flamenco roots of Enrique Iglesias' hit

Bailamos remains one of Enrique Iglesias' best-known songs originally recorded for his 1998 album Cosas del Amor but…

October 9, 2021
Songwriter
Oye Mi Amor: meaning and harmony of Maná's hit

Oye Mi Amor is one of the signature tracks of the Mexican rock band Maná. Released on their 1992 album ¿Dónde Jugarán…

August 23, 2021
Music Theory
Lost for Words: Pink Floyd's only Lydian song

Of all 138 songs and instrumental tracks released by Pink Floyd on their 14 studio albums, Lost for Words is the only…

August 14, 2021
Songwriter
La Gota Fría: vallenato music masterpiece refashioned by Carlos Vives

La Gota Fría is one of the best-known examples of the vallenato genre that originated in the early 19th century in the…

August 7, 2021
Songwriter
Burbujas de Amor: playful and saucy lyrics by Juan Luis Guerra

Burbujas de Amor is one of the best-known songs by Juan Luis Guerra, a Dominican pop singer and accomplished songwriter…

July 5, 2021
Songwriter
Dos Gardenias: romantic lyrics of the famous Cuban bolero

Dos Gardenias is a well-known Cuban song with soulful and gentle lyrics composed in the form of bolero—a vocal style…

June 19, 2021
Songwriter
Suavemente: meaning behind Elvis Crespo's merengue hit

Suavemente means softly or gently in Spanish, and Elvis Crespo turned the word into the hook of one of the best-known…

May 26, 2021
Music Theory
6 songs combining harmonic minor and Aeolian mode

The polyphonic structure of Western classical music distinguishes it from other musical traditions such as Indian…

March 27, 2021
Songwriter
Livin' la Vida Loca: why is Ricky Martin's best song so catchy?

Livin' la Vida Loca is likely one of the best-known tracks in the entire repertoire of the Puerto Rican singer…

March 17, 2021
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…

November 12, 2020
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…

October 29, 20202 comments
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…

August 30, 2020
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…

July 26, 20206 comments
Songwriter
Traditions of Malian music spread worldwide through Afel Bocoum and Damon Albarn collaboration

The famous Malian songwriter Afel Bocoum began his musical career in the 1960s at the age of thirteen when he joined…

January 5, 2020
Choir
Traditional music of Gourara archipelago of oases features the poetry of endangered languages

Located in southwest Algeria, Gourara is one of the most picturesque areas of the Sahara desert. This unique region is…

November 6, 2019
Guitar
Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: the unlikely fusion of two guitar greats

A Meeting by the River—is one of the most striking cross-cultural works of the 1990s which brought Grammy Awards for…

October 16, 2019
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…

September 15, 2019
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…

September 8, 2019
Piano
Songs for Drella: the minimalistic tribute to Andy Warhol that united his beloved artists for the first time since 1960s

As an absolutely iconic figure in the visual art movement known as pop art, Andy Warhol had a profound influence on the…

August 6, 2019
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,…

July 20, 2019
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…

July 10, 2019
Band
The low-end sound of Morphine trio cut short by Mark Sandman's tragic death while on a stage

Twenty years have passed since Mark Sandman’s tragic passing of a heart attack during a 1999 live performance with the…

July 7, 2019
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…

June 19, 2019
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…

June 5, 20192 comments
Collaboration
Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox: the prog family who proclaimed Sunday All Over the World

One of the brightest collaborations of the late 1980s arose after the wedding of postpunk singer Toyah Willcox and…

May 5, 2019
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…

March 8, 2019