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Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb 2022

One of the greatest classics in the Pink Floyd catalogue is updated for 2022 and turned into a dark prophecy

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Jackson C. Frank - Marlene

From the elementary school fire, the youthful tragedy of Jackson C. Frank is sublimated into his most emblematic love song

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Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

Just days after the death of one of its authors, Gary Brooker, we look back at the song-symbol of the British "Summer Of Love", an inspiration for much of the prog to come

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Residents - Santa Dog

The San Francisco band's mad discography begins with a deranged Christmas Ep

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John Miles - Music

Remembering the epochal hit by the musician who has just passed away

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Premiata Forneria Marconi - La carrozza di Hans / Impressioni di settembre

The story of the 45 that changed Italian music

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Black Sabbath - Iron Man

The strange story behind the heavy-metal manifesto signed by the Birmingham band, turning 50. A song-symbol of the genre, and a curious self-fulfilling prophecy

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Yes - Leave It

Not just "Owner Of A Lonely Heart": among the grooves of “90125” there was another gem shining through, suspended between pop and avant-garde

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Supertramp - The Logical Song

Genesis and alchemy of a pop masterpiece, born from the fine pen and voice of Roger Hodgson

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Dream Theater - The Dance Of Eternity

The chemistry between Petrucci, Rudess and Portnoy pushes their idea of progressive metal to its ultimate consequences and opens a new season for the band

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Kazik - Twój ból jest lepszy niż mój

The song that has just sparked a genuine popular uprising in Poland

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Fugs - Kill For Peace

The celebrated pacifist anthem by the founding fathers of the underground lays bare the contradictions of capitalism and hippie counterculture

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Tat Ming Pair - Wui jik jau dzoey

The epic anthem-ballad of the Hong Kong protests and the memory of Tiananmen Square

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John Cage - In A Landscape

John Cage's early composition that paved the way for American minimalism and "music to inhabit"

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The Who - Baba O’Riley

The British band pays tribute to the minimalism of Terry Riley, which has become a permanent part of pop culture

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Steeleye Span - Long Lankin

Dark and radiant, gentle and gruesome: the most contradictory chapter of English electric folk

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Emerson Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man

In memory of Keith Emerson. The swan song of triumphant progressive rock

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Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)

One of the American singer-songwriter's most representative love songs, with a heartbreaking dedication to his own mother

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Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Der Mussolini

The controversial seed of Electronic Body Music, an anthem to physicality on the brink of the Apocalypse

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Dadamah - High Tension House

The meditative, inward-collapsing peculiarity of a key track by Montgomery's band and co.

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Ricky Nelson - Garden Party

The frustrations of a rock'n'roller who had the nerve to stay in step with the times

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Phil Ochs - The War Is Over

Lost to the oblivion of memory, one of the songs symbolic of the Vietnam War

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Blur - Caramel

The drama of separation as lived through Damon Albarn's words, between drug-addled ramblings and bittersweet melancholy

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Lou Reed - Perfect Day

Between narcotic, "Trainspotting"-like readings and the romanticism of life's small things, we retrace the history of one of Lou Reed's great classics