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Songs about Growing Up That Leave Room for Mixed Feelings
Songs about Growing Up That Leave Room for Mixed Feelings
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Getting older can mean wanting to leave and asking to stay, sometimes in the same song. These recordings make room for both impulses. Hear how a repeated question, a change in vocal register, or a...
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Songs under Three Minutes That Feel Completely Finished
Songs under Three Minutes That Feel Completely Finished
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These recordings tell a story, turn a mood around, or get a whole argument across in less than three minutes. The selection moves from bossa nova and country to punk, reggae, and pop. Listen for...
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Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
Songs That Tell Their Story Without a Conventional Chorus
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A song can carry you for several minutes on a guitar figure, a single voice, or a line that keeps changing meaning. Some of these recordings work through one verse after another. Others save a...
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Songs About Home That Mean Very Different Things by It
Songs About Home That Mean Very Different Things by It
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One song takes you back to a childhood bedroom. Another finds home in two cats in the yard, a friend making sure you get in safely, or the hope of seeing your country again. Listen for the small...
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Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
Missing-Person Novels That See the Lives Behind the Search
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For readers who want a missing person to remain a person, with a history, relationships and a voice that complicates the first account. These novels follow families, investigators and communities...
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Homecoming Shows Where the Place Has Moved On Without You
Homecoming Shows Where the Place Has Moved On Without You
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Returning to a familiar address does not restore a familiar role. These shows follow people coming back after time elsewhere, imprisonment or a life built on a different account of where they came...
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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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Pop Albums with More to Offer Than Their Biggest Single
Pop Albums with More to Offer Than Their Biggest Single
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A huge single can leave the rest of a good pop record in the shade. These choices are worth exploring for their less familiar songs: a surprise change in vocal character, a stranger rhythm or a...
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Songs with Two Released Versions Worth Keeping Side by Side
Songs with Two Released Versions Worth Keeping Side by Side
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A new vocal can change the meaning of a line. An acoustic performance can take a familiar song at a pace you didn’t expect. These pairs give you two released recordings to compare and one detail...
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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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Albums That Reveal More on a Second Listen
Albums That Reveal More on a Second Listen
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A first listen can give you the melody or the mood. A return can reveal a bass line that changes the song's balance, a voice hidden in the arrangement or a detail whose emotional weight only...
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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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Albums for People Who Usually Only Listen to Singles
Albums for People Who Usually Only Listen to Singles
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Know the hits but rarely stay for the album? These records offer an inviting next step: immediate songs, a clear sense of movement and less familiar tracks that repay staying put. The choices...
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Pop Albums About Leaving Childhood Stardom Behind
Pop Albums About Leaving Childhood Stardom Behind
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The move from a childhood public image to an adult musical voice can happen in the production, the writing or simply the way a singer delivers a line. Every album here comes from an artist who was...
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