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Sara Bareilles has a way of writing highly emotional, painfully beautiful lyrics, and the musical wizardry is stunning, deep, and like walki...

Tupac Shakur "Peter piper picked a peck of picked peppers" "Sally sells seashells by the sea shore." "How much wood...

I was recently reminded of this fabulous song, and thought the oddity of the chordal approach coupled with several captivating lyrical phras...

As one of the great writers of the 20th century, we could analyse Leonard Cohen songs all day (we peered into his uncanny ability to deeply ...

In honor of the new "Top Gun: Maverick" movie, I'd like to re-wind the clock to 1986 and the original "Top Gun" movi...

Bob Dylan is a man of many talents and, musically, of many lives.  With a career spanning 60-odd years, with classic songs coming from almos...

From the mind of the man who brought us "Roxanne", "Message in a Bottle", "King of Pain", "We'll Be T...

This fabulous song was released in 1970 by John Lennon and is often cited as one of the fastest released songs in pop music history, as the ...

In the third installment of this series, we took a look under the hood, as it were, at The Beach Boys song "Surfer Girl" which, ha...

This beautiful song was written by the always stellar Carole King and her then songwriting partner & husband Gerry Goffin (for context, ...

Here in our 4th piece in the series, we'll look at Sam Cooke's timeless classic, "You Send Me", which was written by Sam ...

In our 3rd installment of the series, let's look at the Beach Boys classic "Surfer Girl" from 1963. Written by Brian Wilson (w...

"Prosody" has many meanings, depending on what context one is examining (linguistics, music, poetry & versification, etc), but...

Part ONE of a series where we will examine ultra-cool songs from specific viewpoints - sometimes chords, sometimes rhythm, sometimes melody,...