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Top 11 Songs About Football
Yes it’s that time of year again. The beer. The hot and greasy wings. The hot and greasy tailgating. And, oh yes, that little bit of pigskin insanity called football. Let’s face it guys and girls,...
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TOP 11 Election Movies
Hollywood is known for western, war and gangster movies about the bullet, but it has also had a long love affair with the ballot, and the democratic process. As early as D.W. Griffith’s 1915 racist...
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Top 11 Thankless Thanksgiving Songs
The Hallmark crowd believes that Thanksgiving should be a day we pause in gratitude for all we have. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated after the Pilgrims survived the brutal winter of 1620 thanks...
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Top 11 Songs With The Bo Diddley Beat
While its rhythm has been attributed to everything from Afro-Cuban clave music to “shave and a haircut, two bits,” the Bo Diddley Beat — three strokes/rest/two strokes — remains a rock and roll...
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Top 11 Rock Novels
Rock novels are a blast to read for any serious music lover. Just like you, rock novelists are tremendous music fans, and the novel form allows them to approach their passion from as many different...
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Top 11 Dumb-Ass Moves in Rock and Roll
Chris Rock has a famous bit about the circus tiger that attacked Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy saying “that tiger didn’t go crazy, that tiger went tiger!” In another wild animal metaphor, Sloane...
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11 Songs About Obsolete Stuff
Cool technology has been name-checked in rock since the early days; remember Chuck Berry’s “jukebox blowin’ a fuse”? Today landfills are packed with the same junk once celebrated by rockers. But here...
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Back in the U.K. – Top 11 British-isms in Beatles Songs
Until 1964, Americans imagined Brits as businessmen in bowler hats and stuffy butlers who served tea. The Beatles’ arrival on our shores changed all that. We grew our hair, dressed in Carnaby Street...
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Rock’s Top 11 Keyboard Solos
Since rock ‘n’ roll’s birth in the early 1950’s, the electric guitar has been at the core of almost every band. Pioneers like Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Elvis Presley’s guitarist Scotty Moore created...
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Top 11 Songs for a Better World
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) While rock ‘n’ roll has always celebrated love, laughter, and living large, its stars have also created music that has sparked social change. To abolish war, racism, hate and...
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Top 11 Rock N’ Roll Screams
When rockers want to convey rage, frustration, pain or ecstasy, nothing works like an ear-splitting scream. Some rockers’ shrieks are so outrageous that they’ve been banned from the radio, parodied on...
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