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A list of the top 50 songs released in 1974 as voted by UCR staff.
Summer songs: Going back 40 and 50 years to revisit top tracks of 1974 and 1984 Love Sabrina Carpenter's 'Espresso' or Billie Eilish's 'Lunch'? Here's what the hot months sounded like decades ago.
But with songs like 'Rednecks,' 'Birmingham' and 'Louisiana 1927,' pop music's sharpest satirist buries himself deep in New Orleans roots music, pulling up an ugly history of political, racial and ...
Here’s the definitive list of the top 10 jams each summer that pumped out of your speakers most between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Across 66 songs (on three CDs), Patterns on the Window goes all out to explain that for every simpering pop song your parents liked, an art-pop song was waiting in a nearby laneway, ready to mug them.
Summer songs are in the ears of the beholder. I picked 10 songs for each year, and yes, your list might differ. But I did try to cast a wide net and survey as much as personal memory and online ...
Summertime, and the listening is easy, songs are rockin’ and the volume is high. Which is to say, it’s time to talk about songs of summers past. Songs of the summer anchor us in a time and ...