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Top 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers Songs

Top 10 Red Hot Chili Peppers songs are a bit like pearls down in the ocean. It’s full of them down there. But you probably don’t need more than ten of them to be happy. Am I confident that I will be able to choose the ten finest, most elite tracks out of the…
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Why Everyone Hated Creed (Or Pretended They Did)

Creed was the fulfilment of a prophecy. It spoke of a band that would look and sound like Pearl Jam but outsell them and get their kitschy music videos featured heavily on MTV. They’d sell millions of records. But nobody would admit to buying one. They would be hated…
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Eve of discontent: Paul Bergmann and Tribes

Tribes – Hard Pill Similar artists: D.I.D, Spector, The Crookes Genre: Grunge. Garage Rock, Alternative Rock Guitar music is at its best when the songs created in this style attempt to reveal some kind of universal truth. There are a few things we all have in…
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Manic Mondays: Ingrid and the Ministers & Orca Station

Orca Station – Alas Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock Similar artists: Nirvana Look, there’s a right way and a wrong way to sound like you’re a favourite band. And it has little to do with the actual sound that you’re producing. Instead, it has a lot…
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Arctic Monkeys Albums Ranked

Arctic Monkeys are the fulfillment of the collective dreams of British rock critics and music fans. They’re a guitar band that writes clever three-minute singles, they dress nice and haven’t ditched their English accents yet. Arctic Monkeys’ albums ranked…
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The 11 Best Oasis Sad Songs

Oasis sad songs are a bit like life. You’ll encounter them whether you like it or not. And you’ll have a much better time if you choose to enjoy them. Fortunately, millions of people genuinely like them. Besides this, it’s in Oasis’ sad songs that…