“Tea for One”
As miserable and agonizing a recording as has ever been released by a functioning record label, Led Zeppelin‘s “Tea for One” has been […]
Category: Song
Fleetwood Mac’s “Rattlesnake Shake”
Released on Fleetwood Mac’s seminal Then Play On in autumn 1969, “Rattlesnake Shake“–a Peter Green ode–instantly took its place as a defining […]
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Knife Edge”
Released on Emerson, Lake & and Palmer‘s eponymous debut album (1970), “Knife Edge” successfully reconciled the group’s classical interests and irrepressible virtuosity […]
Aerosmith’s “Movin’ Out”
The first song that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry wrote together (while sitting on a water bed at the band’s Boston apartment), […]
The Yardbirds’ “Happenings Ten Years Time Ago”
The latter half of 1966 brought a consolidation of commercial and artistic success in Roger the Engineer and “Over Under Sideways Down” as […]
50 Years of James Brown’s “Cold Sweat”
Let loose on the public in the epochal July of 1967, James Brown‘s “Cold Sweat” has provided an exhilarating listening experience for […]
Heart’s “Sing Child” In Review
Perhaps the most underrated track from a long-overlooked band, one still relegated to novelty status based on the sex of its most […]