‘Gloomy Sunday’: Can a song inspire suicides?
What makes a song depressing and what makes it sad?
Song
The Ballad of Gitmo Bay: How a Drowning Pool song became an anthem of torture
Some people really do just want the state to control them.
The song and the book that made Mark Chapman murder John Lennon
The limits of what we can understand.
Prog-rock’s greatest uneasy love song: Kevin Ayers performs ‘The Lady Rachel’ live in 1975
A slow-burning prog gem performed live in 1975.
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’: The song famous by The Muppets was originally from a 1968 Italian softcore sex film
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’ was written for an Italian sexploitation film.
‘Trouble Boys’: The song that ignited the Replacements (with a DM premiere)
In late 1979, when the Replacements first got together, they started out as many bands do—playing cover tunes in the basement. They worked up songs…
‘Wet Dream’ by Wet Leg: Can they top their own best song of the year???
The other day I noticed that every single one of the songs–save for one–on the list of my most played songs on TIDAL was by…