How many of these ’60s songs can you name based on just the lyrics?
Most of the time, the part of a song’s lyrics that you remember best are the same ones that appear in the song title. So if someone tries to stump you by asking, “What song […]
How many of these bands can you name based on just one, obscure fact?
Which famous rock star earned eight dollars an hour by smoking cigarettes for a UCLA science experiment? If you said Axl Rose, then you know your obscure rock trivia. Congratulations. Needless to say, Rose isn’t […]
How many of these ’80s songs can you name based on just the lyrics?
Music from the 1980s is at a distinct disadvantage as compared to music from a previous decade, such as the 1960s. Music from that period is beloved by Boomers and has had extra decades to […]
How many of these guitars can you name based on just the body?
News flash! A lot of people like to pore over the curves and contours of certain bodies, but those bodies don’t belong to their fellow human beings. Rather, those bodies belong to guitars. Many people […]
The most commonly misheard song lyrics of the 1970s
Of all the perils threatening humankind, one that’s been successfully neutralized is the need to sing along to a song whose lyrics you don’t know. In the Spotify age, you can see all of a […]
The all-time most popular musicians in America (no, Taylor Swift isn’t on the list — yet)
Who are the 100 most popular musicians of all time? We wanted to find out, so we consulted with the research data and analytics group YouGov. YouGov gave us the artist rankings, the number […]
Vanilla Fudge & 9 other bands you’ve probably totally forgotten
In a long-forgotten past, there were establishments known as “record stores,” where people would go to purchase discs that, when inserted into a CD player, would generate music. Two of the sections in these stores […]
The totally unexpected ways Mungo Jerry and 9 other ’60s bands got their names
Since the dawn of time, rock bands have been giving themselves really stupid names. This was especially true in the 1960s when anyone with 20 hits of acid and a thesaurus could name a band […]
America’s most popular musicians of all time (and no, Taylor Swift didn’t make the list, yet)
Who are the 100 most popular musicians of all time? We wanted to find out, so we consulted with the research data and analytics group YouGov. YouGov gave us the artist rankings, the number […]
America’s most popular musicians of all time (and no, Taylor Swift didn’t make the list, yet)
Who are the 100 most popular musicians of all time? We wanted to find out, so we consulted with the research data and analytics group YouGov. YouGov gave us the artist rankings, the number […]