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Beatles songs featuring Lydian mode
Beatles songs with Dorian mode
Vivir Mi Vida: meaning and origin of Marc Anthony's jubilant salsa
Quimbara: meaning and origin of the best-known salsa
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El Manisero: essential rumba song behind Caribbean music world expasion
Cuba
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Latin
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Popular Song
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1920s
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1930s
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Caldonia: the song that spawned the term rock and roll
USA
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Popular Song
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Rock
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1940s
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Statesboro Blues: no one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell
USA
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Blues
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1920s
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1930s
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Misty Mountain Hop: Led Zeppelin's contribution to pot legalization
England
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Rock
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1970s
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Hushabye: folk roots of famous rock and roll lullaby
USA
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Lullaby
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Rock
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1950s
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1960s
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Mairzy Doats lyrics inspired by 15th century nursery rhyme
USA
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Popular Song
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1940s
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Coal Miner's Daughter was forced to remove a third of the lyrics from her autobiographical song
USA
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Folk
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1960s
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1970s
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Incense and Peppermints: a tangled story of song production
USA
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Rock
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1960s
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Wabash Cannonball: the ballad of the railway Flying Dutchman
USA
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Folk
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Popular Song
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1930s
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Last Train to Clarksville: a duo of songwriters behind the first Monkees hit
USA
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Rock
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1960s
Poetry
Guajira Guantanamera: song meaning and origin of the lyrics
Cuba
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Flamenco
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Latin
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Popular Song
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1930s
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1940s
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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: the reveille that defined a generation
USA
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Popular Song
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1940s
SONGWRITER
Bennie and the Jets: the opening piano chord and disastrous recording sessions in Jamaica
England
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Rock
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1970s
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: Iron Butterfly's longest song anticipated metal genres
USA
,
Popular Song
,
Rock
,
1960s
2 comments
SONGWRITER
Minnie the Moocher: essential step in the history of scat singing by Cab Calloway
USA
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Jazz
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Popular Song
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1930s
SONGWRITER
Foxey Lady and the Hendrix chord
USA
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Popular Song
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Rock
,
1960s
SONGWRITER
I Wanna Be Sedated: pure classical harmony cementing the Ramones' hit in punk rock history
USA
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Rock
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1970s
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Taking off with Pistol Packin' Mama
USA
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Popular Song
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1940s
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Maybellene: Chuck Berry changed the lyrics of his first hit while recording
USA
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Rock
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1950s
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Subterranean Homesick Blues popularized Dylan's idea of an official lyric video
USA
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Folk
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Rock
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1960s
SONGWRITER
Shaman's Blues: quintessential The Doors song refined their most controversial album
USA
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1960s
SONGWRITER
Baba O'Riley or Teenage Wasteland brought to life by Lowrey organ
England
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Rock
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1970s
SONGWRITER
Smokestack Lightning: the eternal Howlin' Wolf blues of the passing trains
USA
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1950s
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Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity
England
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USA
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Blues
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Rock
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1930s
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1950s
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2000s
SONGWRITER
Wishful Sinful: atypical harmony of Robby Krieger
USA
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Rock
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1960s
SONGWRITER
Easy Skanking: meaning and themes in the famous Bob Marley album opener
Jamaica
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1970s
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Popular songs using Lydian mode
Canada
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England
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USA
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Popular Song
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Progressive Rock
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Rock
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
2 comments
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Bésame Mucho: song meaning and source of inspiration behind the famous Mexican bolero
Mexico
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Bolero
,
Popular Song
,
1940s
1 comment
SONGWRITER
Savoy Truffle: cautionary song about chocolate by the quiet Beatle
England
,
Rock
,
1960s
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Twist in My Sobriety: rare oboe solo in Tanita Tikaram's best song
England
,
Folk
,
Popular Song
,
1980s
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