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Like A Hurricane: The 100 Most Intense Tracks Of All Time, Pt 1

Posted Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:07pm PST
One way or another, all music is about emotion, even when it’s about lack of emotion. But some records reach the parts others never can, raising emotional intensity to a pitch that can verge on the unbearable. More »
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Remembering Rock Dreams: Guy Peellaert 1934-2008

Posted Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:24pm PST
The great Belgian artist Guy Peellaert died on Monday at the age of 74. It's his work you see on the covers of Bowie's Diamond Dogs and the Stones' It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, but his greatest work was the 1974 collection Rock Dreams. More »
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Billie Holiday

Cry Me A River: The 20 Most Heartbreaking Songs Of All Time!

Posted Thu Nov 20, 2008 5:53pm PST
For the last month Rock's Backpages has offered up a slew of sobworthy classics from all walks of pop. Country, soul, AOR, dance: you name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get yer handkerchiefs ready... here's our tearjerking Top More »
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the white album

The RBP Flashback: The Beatles' "White Album" Is Released 40 Years Ago

Posted Mon Nov 17, 2008 5:03pm PST
The Beatles' double "White Album" is deemed an eclectic classic today. It's intriguing and amusing, therefore, to revisit Mike Jahn's contemporary New York Times appraisal of The Beatles on the eve of its US release in November 1968. More »
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Ray Charles

Cry Me A River, Pt. 4: RBP's 100 Most Heartbreaking Songs of All Time!

Posted Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:35pm PST
Rock's Backpages offers up a ton of sobworthy classics from all walks of pop. Country, soul, AOR, dance: you name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get yer handkerchiefs ready... here come the next 20 , from ex-Temp David Ruffin t More »
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Dusty Springfield

Cry Me A River: The 100 Most Heartbreaking Songs Of All Time, Pt 3

Posted Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:07pm PST
You name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get your handkerchiefs ready... here come the next twenty, from Michael McDonald to Gillian Welch. More »
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ISB 500 spirits

A Goat Of Many Colours: The Incredible String Band

Posted Fri Nov 7, 2008 12:43pm PST
Forty years ago this month, the Incredible String Band released their benchmark double album Wee Tam & The Big Huge, just one of many milestones in a year that saw them become the counterculture's most unlikely pop stars. More »
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Patsy Cline

Cry Me A River: The 100 Most Heartbreaking Songs Of All Time, Pt 2

Posted Mon Nov 3, 2008 11:20am PST
100 Most Heartbreaking Songs of All Time, Pt 2 More »
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