Tonic - You Wanted More

Song: You Wanted More
Artist: Tonic
Album: Sugar
Genre: Rock
Year: 1999

I know that the guitar tab of this piece is always the same, it lacks a little bit of creative imagination and that you could perfectly hear it on any teen-movie... but I like it anyways.

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Richard Ashcroft - A Song For The Lovers

Song: A Song For The Lovers
Artist: Richard Ashcroft
Album: Alone With Everybody
Genre: Rock
Year: 2000

The front man of The Verve [wiki] takes the Rock'N'Roll life essence 'till the end: it can be seen on the way he understands living, the meaning of his solo album songs or how he acts. A necessary state of mind to compose tracks like this one.

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Patrick Wolf - Wind In The Wires

Song: Wind In The Wires
Artist: Patrick Wolf
Album: Wind In The Wires
Genre: Alternative Rock, Independent
Year: 2005

First of all comes the revolution, then you obtain a reputation. The future of alternative-independent music follows the steps of this man. Simply an overflowed talented album.

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love

Song: The Power Of Love
Artist: Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Album: Welcome To Pleasuredome
Genre: Rock
Year: 1984

Isn't the dream of any artist to be remembered forever? To compose a song that will last ever? Those guys did it with their first album.

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Christopher Cross - Sailing

Song: Sailing
Artist: Christopher Cross
Album: Christopher Cross
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 1980

Another 80's love song that you'll hear everywhere. I haven't found the original video, just this live version (performed by NSYNC [wiki]).

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Whitesnake - Is This Love

Song: Is This Love
Artist: Whitesnake
Album: Whitesnake
Genre: Rock
Year: 1987

One of the best 80's love-rock songs. I like how it describes that feeling that all of us have felt sometime but that we are not able to understand completely. The music is really harmonious with lyrics.

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Andreas Johnson - Glorious

Song: Glorious
Artist: Andreas Johnson
Album: Liebling
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 2001

Close your eyes and dream. What shows on your mind? There are so many things you can imagine while you are listening to this track... A lovely song from talented artist.

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Papa Roach - Broken Home

Song: Broken Home
Artist: Papa Roach
Album: Infest
Genre: Alternative Rock, Metal
Year: 2000

There are a lot of ways to talk about Domestic Violence. Pain, sadness, harm, hurt or anger are some words that appears frequently. And I think that this track is the perfect complement to all those feelings.

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Nightwish - Nemo

Song: Nemo
Artist: Nightwish
Album: Once
Genre: Metal, Hard-Rock
Year: 2004

You can see a lot of examples of nu-metal or hard-rock with orchestral or opera music. It's very common. Long time ago, Black Sabbath [wiki] already did it. And Edward Van Halen [wiki] too. Making an appointment of al Wikipedia [link] article:

"The Encarta encyclopedia claims that "when a text was associated with the music, Bach could write musical equivalents of verbal ideas". Progressive rock bands such as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Yes had already explored this relationship before heavy metal evolved. As heavy metal uses apocalyptic themes and images of power and darkness, the ability to translate verbal ideas into musical ideas that successfully convey the ideas of the words is critical to heavy metal authenticity and credibility." [Heavy-Metal wiki].

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Daft Punk - Nightvision

Song: Nightvision
Artist: Daft Punk
Album: Discovery
Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Year: 2001

On my opinion, this was the best album of 2001. And nowadays I still can't stop listening to it. I love all the tracks and how this french guys played with the videos. If you haven't seen any of them, the hole album is a story and one video follows another. Here is the order you may keep to watch all of them:

1. One More Time
2. Aerodynamic
3. Digital Love
4. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
5. Crescendolls
6. Night Vision
7. Superheroes
8. High Life
9. Something About Us
10. Voyager
11. Veridis Quo
12. Short Circuit
13. Face To Face
14. Too Long

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Puff Daddy - Come With Me

Song: Come With Me
Artist: Puff Daddy
Album: Godzilla Soundtrack
Genre: Soundtrack, Hip-Hop
Year: 1998

Following with hip-hop genre, I had to post this song. Incredibly performed by Mr. Diddy, an astonishing video and a perfect mix of genres (rock, orchestral, rap). My favourite hip-hop song ever.

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Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone

Song: Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Bonus Track)
Artist: Kanye West
Album: Late Registration
Genre: Hip-Hop
Year: 2005

I don't use to listen hip-hop usually because it's a gendre that I don't like quite much. but sometimes you find tracks that are incredible. That exactly what happens with this song. There are some versions of it, the most known is the Remix feat. Jay-Z [wiki] but I like this one (Bonus Track of the album)

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Lacquer - Behind

Song: Behind
Artist: Lacquer
Album: Overloaded
Genre: Electronic
Year: 2003

An interesting song, but not to be listened quite much because you will get bored. I love above all its video: fantastic compression of a 7 day trip from LA to New York into 4 minutes.

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Everything But The Girl - Missing

Song: Missing
Artist: Everything But The Girl
Album: Amplified Heart
Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Year: 1994

There are a lot of versions of this track, but I recommend the Todd Terry Remix because he is able to make the most of it while others can't reach that top of high quality.

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Third Eye Blind - Motorcycle Drive By

Song: Motorcycle Drive By
Artist: Third Eye Blind
Album: Thid Eye blind
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 1997

Summer time and the wind is blowing, outside in lower Chelsea. And I don’t know what I’m doing in this city: the sun is always in my eyes,
it crashes through the windows and I’m sleeping on the couch when I came to visit you, that’s when I knew that I could never have you (I knew that before you did). Still I’m the one who’s stupid and there’s this burning, like there’s always been. I’ve never been so alone, and I’ve never been so alive.

Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by: the cigarette ash flies in your eyes and you don’t mind. You smile and say the world doesn’t fit with you. I don’t believe you, you’re so serene careening through the universe - your axis on a tilt-, you’re guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of me with you,

And there’s things I’d like to do that you don’t believe in.I would like to build something but you’d never see it happen. And there’s this burning, like there’s always been. I’ve never been so alone, and i’ve, I’ve never been so alive.

And there’s this burning. There was this burning.

Where’s the soul, I want to know. New york city’s evil, the surface is everything, but I could never do that. Someone would see through that. And this is the last time, we’ll be friends again and I’ll get over you. You’ll wonder, who I am. And there’s this burning, just like there’s always been. I’ve never been so alone and I’ve never been so alive.

I go home to the coast. It starts to rain. I paddle out on the water, alone. Taste the salt and taste the pain. I’m not thinking of you again. Summer dies and swells rise, the sun goes down in my eyes. See this rolling wave, darkly coming to take me home. And I never been so alone, and I’ve never been so alive.

I had to post the hole lyric. I love it too much!. Imagine it with an increchendo progresive guitar, drums and bass. Just perfect.

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Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal

Song: Smooth Criminal
Artist: Michael Jackson
Album: Bad
Genre: Pop
Year: 1987

If you have to define the word "decline", the King of Pop would be the greatest example. How can you lose everything when you've had it all? I'm really sorry for this man because he was once the best.

A melancholic note: this was the first album I had when I was young. My grandpa gave it to me.

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Lipps Inc. - Funky Town

Song: Funky Town
Artist: Lipps Inc.
Album: Funkky World
Genre: Disco
Year: 1992

This is one of the most known 80's disco hits. You have heard it and you have danced it too. But, have you seen the video? 80's esthetics, 80's dance movements, 80's eccentricity... just 80's.

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Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla

Song: Hoppipolla
Artist: Sigur Rós
Album: Takk
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2005

I don't use to post more than one song from a band [previous] but there are always exceptions. Those iceland guys are uniques, and their particular way of understanding music too. Don't try to understand what they sing because they speak a languaje that doesn't exists. Just close your eyes and feel it, you'll realize that everything are instruments (voice, guitars, choir, piano, guitar, drums, trumpets, ...) and no one stands out from another. Aren't you like a child when you listen to this song? I really do (that's why I love the video-clip so much).

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Bloc Party - Pioneers

Song: Pioneers
Artist: Bloc Party
Album: Silent Alarm
Genre: Alternative Rock
Year: 2005

This is the best discovery of '05 that I've done. I think we'll have a lot of time for enjoying this band because they are gonna be a long time with us. The hole album is really great (and critically acclaimed too, which is very important): you can hear it again and again, but you won't get bored at all.

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Lisa Loeb - I Do

Song: I Do
Artist: Lisa Loeb
Album: Firecracker
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 1997

Another artists discovered thanks to a tv-ad (about three years ago or more). A very easy-listening song that you'll recognize as fast as saying it's title. I'm sorry the album had not a proportional commercial success as it sould...

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The Kinks - You Really Got Me

Song: You Really Got Me
Artist: The Kinks
Album: The Ultimate Collection
Genre: Rock
Year: 1965

Who doesn't knows this song? I guess no one. I've posted this live because it's when you realize that this is pure Rock'N'Roll and nothing else. I love it.

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10cc - I'm Not In Love

Song: I'm Not In Love
Artist: 10cc
Album: The Original Soundtrack
Genre: Rock
Year: 1975

How can rally be one of the best love songs ever an acclaimed anti-love song? I think that you have to pass through the situation Eric Stewart [wiki] describes to understand it completely.

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Oval - Textuell

Song: Textuell
Artist: Oval
Album: Systemische
Genre: Instrumental, Chill Out
Year: 1996

"What the f***k is this song??" You could scream when you listen it for the first time. But then, curiosity enraptures you unintentionally. Your finger pushes play again... but this time it's different. There's something on the song that you didn't realized the first time and, while you are playing it on and on, you arouse on a bliss state of mind.
Maybe Armani [wiki] had the same feeling when he watched his Aqua di Gio cologne tv-spot for the first time.

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Sade - No Ordinary Love

Song: No Ordinary Love
Artist: Sade
Album: Love Deluxe
Genre: Pop - Rock
Year: 1992

When I saw Indecent Proposal [link] I realized that, no matter what you do (or how you do it), if the music played is the right one... it will be much more better. Love, pain and sadness, all mixed on a beautiful track.

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Oasis - Fuckin'In The Bushes

Song: Fuckin'In The Bushes
Artist: Oasis
Album: Staiding In The Shoulders Of Giants
Genre: Rock
Year: 2000

If somebody told you "Choose just one song from Oasis"... which would it be? I guess that Wonderwall [wiki] will be one of the most voted songs and I admit that it's one of the bests songs of the 90's. But my opinion would be different, as you can see. Why? (you'll be thinking) Because I think that if I had to choose just one song, it must describe exactly what this band was and showed. Therefore, I associate Oasis with rebelliousness, nonconformity, rows, rackets and quarrels. Doesn't this song recalls you all those things?

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Guano Apes - Innocent Greed

Song: Innocent Greed
Artist: Guano Apes
Album: Don't Give Me Names
Genre: Grunge, Alternative Rock
Year: 2000

I think this is the German band that I've listened the most, but (after thinking a while) I've realized that I don't really know German Rock as I would like to... Maybe it's time to rediscover it.

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Matchbox Twenty - Downfall

Song: Downfall
Artist: Matchbox Twenty
Album: More Than You Think You Are
Genre: Pop-Rock
Year: 2002

"I wonder how you sleep. I wonder what you think of me. If I could go back, would you have ever been with me? I want you to be unused, to remeber, to believe in me. I want you on my side. Come on a lay it down, I've always been with you. Here and now give all that's within you: be my saviour and I'll be your downfall..." Do you still need something else to listen this song right now?

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A Perfect Circle - Judith

Song: Judith
Artist: A Perfect Circle
Album: Mer de Noms
Genre: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock
Year: 2000

Such a mix from talented artists can't go bad. This was the first album they released (there are three of them) and it's mindblowing! What an amount of energy together! You can find a version of this song too at Underworld Soundtrack [amazon link].

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