Tied for First: Songs to be better
By Stefan Lizarzaburu | May 20, 2021I’ll never get over my fascination with the power of chance. But chance doesn’t always serve me well. Chance tells us how, but doesn’t always tell us why.
I’ll never get over my fascination with the power of chance. But chance doesn’t always serve me well. Chance tells us how, but doesn’t always tell us why.
No song better exemplifies the approach of covers that listen, feel and reshape through re-experience than Syreeta’s cover of “She’s Leaving Home” by The Beatles.
Maurice White’s heaven-sent falsettos always deserved a jarring sonic juxtaposition — and the Foo Fighters’ gritty guitarwork and thudding drumsmanship fit like a glove.
I could have never fully prepared myself for the intro track — you guessed it, Erykah Badu's "Penitentiary Philosophy" — the greatest song of all time.
In April 2018, Gunna and Lil Baby dropped “Sold Out Dates,” the greatest song of all time — and a further fracture in hip-hop conservatism.
Let these entirely Halloween-unaffiliated songs get you in the mood for our favorite time of the year.
Today, let’s celebrate The Sundays — makers of the greatest song of all time, “When I’m Thinking About You."
Senior Writer Stefan Lizarzaburu is back to let you know — the best song of all time is "As" by Stevie Wonder.
Let us continue to persecute the authors of Black devastation, to institute the authors of Black salvation — and allow “Cinquante Six” to soundtrack the deliverance.
“Haenim” gifts listeners a personal blank slate, acting as an ever-refreshing paint-by-number kit — except listeners bring new emotional palettes with every passing listen.