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Entries Tagged ‘The Beatles’

Rolling Stone’s Beatles Top 10 list

Last year, I wrote up my favorite 10 Beatles’ songs as a response to a list that Entertainment Weekly published of its’ opinion of the top 50 Beatles songs. Now, Rolling Stone has weighed in with its’ top 10 list, as a preview of their new collector’s issue “The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs” on sale [...]

Bands Not Available On iTunes

I am constantly amused/amazed when I realize that there are still major acts not making their music available on iTunes, the MOST successful distribution channel for music today. It’s If you’re looking for Toto’s catalog, it’s in there. Same for Warren Zevon, Jethro Tull, and Peter Frampton. Huge acts from Springsteen to U2 to Pearl [...]

10 Favorite Beatles Songs

Last week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly focused on the release of Rock Band – The Beatles and the remastered reissues of all of their albums. Included in the issue is a list of the top 50 Beatles songs, as determined by a group of writers. I love such lists, because there is no objectively “right” [...]

Songs That Mention Other Song Titles By The Same Artist

Yesterday on my local classic rock station (Q104.3 in New York),  they played a 3-song block of songs for which the listeners had to guess the underlying connection between them. The songs were: All You Need Is Love – The Beatles Bicycle Race – Queen Space Cowboy – Steve Miller Band It took me a [...]