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Bruce Springsteen Considers This Stripped-Down '80s Album His Best (opens the original)
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When a songwriter sits down to work on their next album, ideas rarely come fully formed. Instead, potential songs take the shape of bare bones sketches – a melody without words, a series of chord changes, or perhaps lyrics that are still in need of a tune. Musical notation can be a tricky business. It's easy to write down a song that's been worked up on a guitar, but capturing the little details is a challenge. Thankfully, for some time now it's been relatively easy to record at home, and the re
The Book F. Scott Fitzgerald Considered His Greatest Work—But Readers Disagreed (opens the original)
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It's a sad and sobering truth that the list of writers, painters, poets, and musicians who achieved little recognition or financial reward during their lifetimes, yet have gone on to become widely celebrated, is not a short one. It seems incredible now to imagine that, during his lifetime, one of America's greatest writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, also struggled financially for a large portion of his later life, and it was only following his untimely passing that his work began to enjoy the lasting
The Fan Gift That Inspired an Entire Bruce Springsteen Album (opens the original)
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Late in 2020, Bruce Springsteen released his album, Letter to You, to widespread critical acclaim. It was the Boss's first record to feature his classic E Street Band since 2014's High Hopes; the other album Springsteen released that decade, 2019's Western Stars, was a concept album of sorts influenced by 1970s country pop music, and employed a wide range of session musicians. With Letter to You, Springsteen returned to more familiar rock territory. Fans loved it, and so did reviewers, with Guar
5 Sounds That Defined Fall in the 1990s (opens the original)
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The world today feels like a very different place from the one we knew back in the 1990s. The internet, with its many streaming services and social media platforms, has changed much about our daily lives. That said, although several items on our list of classic 1990s sounds will strike an instant wave of nostalgia in anyone who grew up during that decade, others are still just as recognizable and relatable today as they were thirty-plus years ago. Let's dive into some of our favorite fall memori
The Classic R.E.M. Hit That Came Together in Just Five Minutes (opens the original)
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In January 1980, when a young Peter Buck and Michael Stipe chanced to meet one day in a Wuxtry Records store in Athens, Georgia, neither could have known they would one day be part of one of the most successful bands of their time. Buck and Stipe were students at the time at the University of Georgia, as were bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry, who would soon round out the group. With Buck on guitar and Stipe as lead singer, R.E.M. would go on to sell millions of records and influence gen
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