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Songs Where the Piano Is More Than Accompaniment
Songs Where the Piano Is More Than Accompaniment
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Listen to what the piano does when the singer takes a breath or the rest of the band comes in. On some records it supplies the riff or sets up a rhythm you can follow through the whole song. On...
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Songs About Cities That Make the Place Feel Specific
Songs About Cities That Make the Place Feel Specific
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Stand on a São Paulo corner, watch a Friday night begin at Waterloo Station, or wait for a house inspection in suburban Melbourne. Each of these recordings gives you a detail that could only come...
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Songs That Do More by Leaving Space between the Notes
Songs That Do More by Leaving Space between the Notes
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Listen to what happens just after a guitar stops, a voice trails away, or a beat leaves you waiting. These tracks give those gaps a job. Sometimes the space sets up the next hit, gives a voice...
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Songs That Use a Sample in a Musically Revealing Way
Songs That Use a Sample in a Musically Revealing Way
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A piano figure that lasts two bars on one record can become the sound you wait for throughout another. A little whistling can answer a singer. These tracks give you one sample to listen for and...
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Songs That Tell a Whole Life in a Few Minutes
Songs That Tell a Whole Life in a Few Minutes
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The best narrative songs do in four or five minutes what a novel needs hundreds of pages for. Instead of general reflections on time passing, they build concise, detailed story arcs that follow...
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Albums with Opening Tracks That Set the Whole World in Motion
Albums with Opening Tracks That Set the Whole World in Motion
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The first track can teach you how to hear everything that follows. Here, a classroom roll call sets up an album’s conversations about love, a country ballad gives a story its recurring tune, and a...
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Country Ballads Where a Small Detail Does the Emotional Work
Country Ballads Where a Small Detail Does the Emotional Work
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Country's finest ballads draw their power not from grand gestures but from small, precise details. A single concrete image, an old letter kept by the bed, a coat sewn from rags, a dirty shirt...
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Instrumental Albums for a Quiet Working Afternoon
Instrumental Albums for a Quiet Working Afternoon
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For a stretch of reading, writing, or routine work, these albums give you something to hear without a lead vocal pulling you into the words. Hiroshi Yoshimura’s small keyboard phrases suit a...
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Songs with Percussion Details You Start Waiting For
Songs with Percussion Details You Start Waiting For
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A well-placed drum fill can change what you expect from a whole song. So can a few stick clicks, a handclap, or a drummer briefly taking the band’s place. Start with Phil Collins for the big...
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Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
Musical Cast Albums with Stories You Can Follow by Listening
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A good cast recording can tell you who just walked into the room or why a line matters the second time you hear it. These albums use narration, recurring songs, or scenes between numbers to keep...
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