Some songs treat love like a choice. This one treats it like a contagion. Before Japan fully…
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A six-minute-and-forty-nine-second song about a country that no longer exists, written by a British band named after…
Violence as metaphor has a long, complicated history in rock and roll, and few bands used it…
Some songs are about getting dumped. This one’s about doing the dumping, loudly, with a bass guitar…
Some songs don’t ask for your attention. They take it. “Move It” is a direct-address track, the…
There’s a particular kind of power that doesn’t announce itself with a sledgehammer. Sometimes it shows up…
Some songs hang a person on the wall like a portrait and dare you to look away….
Some songs announce themselves before the lyrics even register. The attitude arrives first, the argument second. That’s…
Some songs are built around a request. Some are built around a refusal. “Keep a Knockin’” is…