Category Archives: Top 50 Songs

Counting down the Top 50 tracks from any given artist.

Pavement – Top 50 Songs

Posted on December 13, 2020 by the press music reviews

Pavement first appeared on the music scene in 1989, formed in Stockton, California when founding members and school friends Stephen Malkmus (SM) and Scott Kannberg (Spiral Stairs) met and started creating primitive indie-rock. Their music stood out amid the angst-fuelled … Continue reading →

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The Fall – Top 50 Songs Playlist

Posted on April 17, 2020 by the press music reviews

The Fall Top 50 Songs has now been posted as a Spotify playlist for your listening pleasure. Listen Here

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The Fall – Top 50 Songs

Posted on April 4, 2020 by the press music reviews

Mark E Smith: maverick singer, often combative front-man and lyricist of post-punk group The Fall exemplified attitude throughout their long and strange career. At times cantankerous, regularly funny and more often than not quite brilliant, John Peel, the groups most … Continue reading →

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The Police – Top 50 Songs Playlist

Posted on August 2, 2019 by the press music reviews

This Top 50 Police tracks has just been posted on Spotify. Listen here.

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Lou Reed – Top 50 Solo Songs Playlist

Posted on August 2, 2019 by the press music reviews

This Lou Reed Top 50 Songs is now available to listen to on Spotify. Listen here.

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The Police – Top 50 Songs

Posted on May 30, 2019 by the press music reviews

For a band who spanned a brief seven or so years and released only five albums, the reverberating impact and lasting influence of The Police is difficult to overstate. Arguably, the only other three-piece to so profoundly shatter the rock … Continue reading →

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Iggy Pop – Top 50 Songs

Posted on December 13, 2018 by the press music reviews

“I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh… and, uh… heartless manipulators, about music… that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have … Continue reading →

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Lou Reed – Top 50 Solo Songs

Posted on October 7, 2018 by the press music reviews

Lou Reed’s influence as a solo artist and leader of the now canonised Velvet Underground touched countless rock fans and artists alike (as Brian Eno once said, “The Velvet Underground didn’t sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and … Continue reading →

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The Kinks – Top 50 Songs Playlist

Posted on October 19, 2017 by the press music reviews

  The Kinks Top 50 is now available on Spotify: Listen here.    

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The Kinks – Top 50 Songs

Posted on August 14, 2017 by the press music reviews

You may have missed them along the way, they always seemed second fiddle to the likes of the Beatles and the Stones, or during the wave of like-sounding garage whimsy of 90s pop – Blur et al. The Kinks early … Continue reading →

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