The Who song Pete Townshend always loved: “A testament to the universe”
Sentimental through the cheesiness.
From The Vault Archives: 09/2024
The version of Fleetwood Mac Lindsey Buckingham dismissed as “generic”
“This is kind of generic here.”
“Kind of an achievement”: Sting picks out the saddest song not to feature minor chords
A unique sound for a sombre story.
Cyndi Lauper discusses the impact of Joni Mitchell: “She sang in pictures”
“She painted pictures with her lyrics.”
‘Corduroy’: The song Eddie Vedder thought was “too obvious” for Pearl Jam
A hook too obvious not to work.
‘Gaucho’: The Steely Dan album that went overboard
“We were trying to realise a technical perfection that started to deaden the material.”
The band that forced Tom Petty to move to California: “We got reactionary to it”
The perfect kind of motivation.