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What’s Up With Margaritaville?

This Album Links Duran Duran, Andy Warhol, and Kurt ...

Your Back-To-School Playlist

Cucumber Castle | the other Bee Gees Movie

Danny Elfman Scores New Film; Other Movie Weirdness!

Sparks Is Not Crying in Their Latte

Travis Scott : Rapper, Cannabis Entrepreneur, Filmmaker

Anders Runestad – Author and Music Blogger

What If They Really ARE Giants?

Prince’s Underrated Under the Cherry Moon

Six Degrees of Blondie

Six Degrees of: Adam and the Ants

Discovering Beat-Club | Vintage West German Music Show

Eurovision Contest Winners part 2

Song Analysis Corner: Snoopy vs. the Red Baron | The...

Eurovision Contest Winners part 1

KISS SUXX!

You Haven’t Met Your Last Reefer Man

Ruth Underwood and the “Zappa sound”

Catchy Commercial Earworms | vol 2

Song Analysis Corner: “Trouble Every Day” | Frank Zappa

Blues Music For Your Great Recession

We Can Fix America If We Just Bring Back Schoolhouse...

Song Analysis Corner: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Music To Shoot Down UFOs To

Are You Ready For AI Music?

How Dreary Was 1970s Adult Contemporary?

I Just Called To Say Stevie Wonder's Song Deserved a...

"Knock On Wood" | The Real Song To Remember From Cas...

Dr. Dre's Not Gonna Take This Anymore

Apache - The Shadows | A Surf-Rock Safari

New Year : New Music Artists You (Probably) Haven't ...

Song Odyssey | I Put A Spell on You

KMart and S.S. Kresge | Music Mystery?

Did I Ever Introduce You To Horrorpunk?

Song Analysis Corner : The Coffee Song

Duran Duran Finally Got Inducted

That Time Taylor Swift Broke Ticketmaster

Parody Songs and Lawsuits | Of Interest To Aspiring ...

Worst Band Spats

Rock and Roll Bookshelf | Corey Taylor's Seven Deadl...

Lizzo, the Flute, and Racist-Sexist Republican Fallout

Remembering Coolio | RIP Coolio 2022

Buy the Soundtrack, Skip the Movie : Singles (1992)

Emmy Awards 2022 | Lyric Interpretations' Hot Takes

How The Smothers Brothers Were Too Daring For 1969 TV

The Turtles and a Duck : A Love Story

Is Maroon 5 a Beautiful Mistake?

Olivia Newton-John from Xanadu to Grease

9 UK Producers That Had The 2015 Scene On Lock

My Music Story: Alice in Chains

The Music of DNA Lounge

We're Sorry to Have Ignored Ignore That Door Before

Remembering Lester Bangs : 40 Years Later

How Millennials and Generation Z Missed Out On Radio

Tangerine Dream : The Most Famous Band You Don't Kno...

Kate Bush's Hill Got Taller

This is Some Quality Garbage

Bands And Artists That Appeared on The Larry Sanders...

Historic Perspective : Uvalde School Shooting vs. Ke...

RIP Vangelis : Beyond Movie Soundtracks

Song Picks From Johnny Depp Film Soundtracks

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2022

Gen X Got All the Killer TV Theme Tunes

My Music Story : Cage the Elephant

Earth Day 2022 Music Potpourri

Five Movie Musicals For Normal People

Grammys 2022 : At Least Nobody Got Slapped This Time!

Penguin Pete Plays "1 Like = 1 Song"

Songs About Celebrities

Music To Mine Coal To

These Bands Are All Older Than You Think

Songs of Peace

Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother - The Orphaned Album

Catchy Songs About the Devil

Hey, There's More To Devo Than "Whip It," You Know

Wolfsheim : German Synthpop Duo Lives on Forever in ...

Spotify, Neil Young, and the Modern Politicized Plat...

That Time the FBI Went After John Lennon

Bikini Kill vs Weezer : The Revolution Will Not Be R...

Song Analysis Corner : Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody

Cartoonist Robert Crumb : Vintage Music Hipster

8 Awesome Parts of Leonard Nimoy's The Ballad of Bil...

The Forgotten Art of the Animated Music Video

Popular Vocalists With The Most Shredded Vocals

Great Moments in MCU Soundtracks

7 Rihanna Remixes and Covers You Gotta Hear

The Wonderful World of WFMU Radio

All We Want For Christmas Is For Mariah Carey To Shu...

2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : Carole King, Foo F...

Five Weird Musicals To Watch Along With Rocky Horror

Could Your Media Pass the Bechdel Test?

Nothing Music : The Liminal Space of Corporate Sound

Our Obligatory Coldplay Hatepost

Gothic Americana - Country Music For a Fallen Country

Moving to the Country, Gonna Smoke a Lot of Peaches

Since 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - What have we learned?

April Fools' Spoilers: The Top Five Plot Twist Films

The James Bond Themes That Never Were

Remembering Leonard Nimoy

If It Ain’t Broke…

Stupid Movies To Waste Your Winter Time

Five Times The Grammys Got It Hopelessly Wrong

How Deep Is Spirited Away?

The Interview: We're All Suckers

We Honor Great Video Game Soundtracks - part 2

We Honor Great Video Game Soundtracks - part 1

When the Wall Came Tumblin' Down

Movies Big Enough To Fill Thanksgiving Weekend

Trivia Popcorn: Ironies in Music

Witches To Watch Out For

Five Under-Rated Movies That Deserve To Be Halloween...

It's the Great Music Composer, Charlie Brown!

Can You Hear Me, Major Tom?

Revenge of the Unknown Ubuweb Songs

When Horn Head Met Scar Face

Nelvana Entertainment and the Rock & Roll Road to Hell

Why You'll Never Solve the Triangle

Do Music Awards Shows Even Matter Anymore?

Return of the Unique One-Hit Wonder Stories

Blade Runner: What You Never Knew

Five Albums No-One Thought Would See The Light Of Day

North by Northwest and the Birth of Bond

Beatles Songs About Real Places - What You Didn't Know

Five Films Not Made By Alfred Hitchcock For Alfred H...

Five World Cup Songs That Don't Totally Suck

The WORST Comic Franchise Movies

5 Movies That Will Scare You Sober

Point/Counterpoint: The Ukulele

The Lovable Nonsense of 1994

How Philip K. Dick invented Cyberpunk

5 Classic Love Songs that Stand the Test of Time

Let's Tackle the Dragon: Primer

Twenty Years of The Blue Album

Feeling Minnesota: The best Coen Brothers movie not ...

Superstar Duets That Were Anything But

Babes Behind Bars: The Women-in-Prison Film Genre

Can't Terry Gilliam ever get a break?

5 Best Original Song Nominees That Were Robbed Of An...

Comedians Gone Serious

Totally Bizarre Opening Acts

Five Sick Little Movies About Cannibals

Brutal Legend - The metelest of metal games

Pi: The World's Only Mathematical Thriller

Love Songs That Are Just As Quirky As You Are

The 50th Anniversary of Dr. Strangelove - What you d...

Rock 'n' Roll Bookshelf: Backstage Passes and Backst...

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" and the Saturday Afternoon...

The Most Misunderstood Movie: 1991's Nothing but Tro...

Musical Curses: The 27 Club

Welcome to Movie Meanings' Blog!

The Greatest Posthumous Duets

Supermodels Turned Singers

Have a Midiclorian Christmas!

The History behind Me and Bobby McGee

The Evolution of the Science Fiction TV Show Theme

The Black Friday Playlist

The Mercury Prize Curse

Where are they Now? - Garth Brooks

Rock 'n' Roll Bookshelf: I Hate Myself and Want to D...

Get Your Wicked On With These Songs About Witchcraft

Your Annual Halloween Playlist: Best Songs From Movi...

A Positive Post About Negativland

One-Album Wonders

Five More Astounding Things To Know About John Cale

Five Astounding Things To Know About John Cale

Microchips and Music: More Songs About Or By Computers

"Put Another Dime In The WHAT?" - Songs That Mention...

Rock 'n' Roll Bookshelf: Kill Your Idols (2004)

The Curse of the Revenge of the Return of Henry Mancini

Weekly News Wrap-Up - Twerking For The Weekend Edition!

In This Week's Music News

This Week in Music News

The Week in Music News

Song Analysis Corner: Pi - by Hard 'n' Phirm

The Busy Week In Music News

The Week in Music News and Interesting Stuff We Found

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Lou Reed?

Weekly News Wrap-Up and Interesting Stuff We Found

Music News Wrap-Up 7/5/13

Excuse Us For Saying So, But the Star Spangled Banne...

Music News Wrap-Up 6/28/13

Another Five Unique One-Hit Wonder Stories

Music News Wrap-Up: 6/21/13

Get Paranoid With Our NSA/CIA Playlist!

Music News Wrap-Up : 6/14/13

Music News Wrap-Up : 6/7/13

Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and the Twilight of the Americ...

The World Wasn't Ready: Music That Was Ahead Of Its ...

Jesters of YouTube - clap clap! - entertain us!

Never Live It Down : Notable Career-Killing Moments ...

Bewildering Lead Singles

California-Fried Country Rock

Kenneth Anger Is a Link Between Led Zeppelin and Cha...

Unlikely Dream Teams

The 'Quarter-Decent Three Chord' Britpop Playlist

When Advertising and Pop Collide

Pit Your Brains Against These Highbrow Artists

The Art of Self-Indulgence

The Alternative Papal Playlist

The Anarchist's Songbook

The Buried Treasure of Forbidden Zone

Music's Most Flamboyant Flamingos

Sexual Double Entendre in Music: A Spotter's Guide

The Greatest Cult Film Soundtracks

Your Word For the Day Is Leitmotif - part 4

Five More Unique One-Hit Wonder Stories

Song Analysis Corner: Holiday in Cambodia

The Media's Favorite Music Scapegoats

Song Analysis Corner: Rivers of Babylon

The Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" Makes Excellent Holi...

Captain EO and Moonwalker Revisited

Song Spotlight: You Are A Pirate

Animated Acts - Part 2

Censored by History: When It's Too Soon To Sing Abou...

Dangerous Music

More Time Capsule Films

Five Song Artists Who Got A Popularity Boost Through...

Things To Hate About Christian Music

The Twelve Best Movie-Ending Songs - Part 2

The Twelve Best Movie-Ending Songs - Part 1

Classical Selections For Your Halloween Playlist

Lyric Interpretations' Rock Picks For A Beggar's Nig...

The Top 7 Villain Songs

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Unknown Songs From Ubuweb That Will Bend Your Mind -...

Suicide Songs

Angels, Devils, and Demons . . . OH MY!

Getting Some Head With The Monkees

Little Boxes and the Horror of Sterilized Suburbia

BEWARE! Monster Riffage On The Loose!

You're a Misinterpreted Song, Charlie Brown!

Songs About The Sea

Songs About Birthdays and Aging

Can Yoko Ono Get Just 15 Minutes Of Respect For Her ...

How To Hurt Your Favorite Band By Being Their Most O...

Me and My Wine - Getting in the Spirit of Things

Five Unique One-Hit Wonder Stories

The 11 Best Quotes About Music (and one that's misun...

Five Songs You Didn't Know Were About Real Historic ...

Invasion Of The Song From Mars - Songs About Outer S...

Unknown Songs From Ubuweb That Will Bend Your Mind -...

Embracing the Apocalypse (Or, the soundtrack to the ...

Five Hated Hits - When A Band Despises Their Most Po...

What Makes A Punk Song Punk?

Listen To Me - Songs About Alice In Wonderland

Musical Mythbusting: The Origins Of The Pogo Dance

7 Big Rock Talents Who Have Scored Films

The Meanest, Most Misogynist Music

The Top Five Music Video Location Cliches

Have A Ball With The Who's Tommy

Why Bob Dylan’s Lyrics are Taught in College

A Spin Around the Block With Frank Zappa's "Joe's Ga...

The Stories Behind Some of the Weirdest Music Videos

Between Rock and a Heart Place

Geek Culture References in Weird Al Yankovic's "Whit...

Les Horribles Cernettes - The Very First Web-Famous ...

How Seven Artists Got Their Start In The Music Business

Are You In The Moog To Read About This Synthesizer?

Your Word For the Day Is Leitmotif - Part 3

Revenge of the Nerds... songs about science

The Five Bands Most Frequently Mistaken For the Beac...

We Lost Dick Clark and Don Cornelius In The Same Year

And This Was Before 'Guitar Hero' - Songs related to...

"Put Another Dime In The WHAT?" - Songs That Mention...

What On Earth Happened To ABBA?

The Rise of Dubstep

It's For You - Songs About Phone Calls

Eight Nineties #1 Hits You Wish You Could Forget

Anti-Work Songs - A Slacker's Hymnal

Blast Off With Sun Ra's "Space Is The Place"

There's A Song For Every Phobia

The Other Top 7 Songs You Only Hear In Chick Flicks

Top 7 Songs You Only Hear In Chick Flicks

In Which We Yank Some Songs About Hair Out By The Ro...

I'm In Your Playlist, Clowning Around

How to be Scene

Five More Actors With A Hit Single And No Singing Ca...

Five Actors With A Hit Single And No Singing Career

Even Rock Stars Go Through An Awkward Phase

The birds and the bees...Bands with weird animal names

Kurt Cobain’s Love-Hate Relationship With Punk Rock

A Beginner's Introduction To Frank Zappa

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, One Song

A Whole Post About Ubuweb

The Rise and Fall of Glam Rock

The Ten Most Notable Deaths In Music In 2011

Can We Get A New Song For New Year's Please?

Fan Polarities in Music

Who Is This Santa Claus Guy Anyway?

Who Did It First? - Nobody: False Music Cliches

The (Hidden) Impact of MTV Unplugged

A Pantheon of Fictional Characters From Music

Fads Inspired By Music Artists

The Parody Targets of Popular Music

RIP Ken Russel, Director of The Who's "Tommy"

Suffering For Your Art - Five Albums That Barely Mad...

Wet,Wet,Wet. Songs for a rainy day...

Happy Thanksgiving from LyricInterpretations!

A Walk Down Tin Pan Alley With Harry Warren

5 Albums That Redefined Their Genres

Just How Crazy Can Copyright Laws Get?

Bootleg Beats - Music You May Never Have a Chance To...

When Your Heart Beats Faster Than The Drummer - Song...

Understanding Lyrics Through Applied Music Theory

The Lifecycle of Your Favourite Band

Humming A Hoodoo - Songs About Magic Spells

Blog Post of a Thin Man

If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Marry It?

Six Songs Inspired By Real-Life Events

Know Your Heavy Metal Music Mascots!

Back To School - The Top 7 Educational Pop Songs

A Lyric Mapping Of "The Revolution Will Not Be Telev...

How To Be An Insufferable Alternative Rock Elitist i...

Haunted by Legends: Five Music Artists Rumored To Be...

The True Meanings Behind Seven Leiber and Stoller Songs

Ten Years After 9/11: A Look At Clear Channel's 2001...

Do We Really Need All These Punk Genres?

Katy Perry Explains About Last Friday Night

The Couple That Plays Together, Stays Together

Summer Songs: the Music of Summer

Merry Meet At Scarborough Fair

I Predict a Riot: 5 Songs of Protest

Why Do We Hate Some Bands and Artists?

Whistle While You Work - Songs With A Chain Gang Theme

The Red Songbook And Socialism In Music

All Grammy, No Oscar - Five songs from films where t...

Vampy Vocals: Nine Songs About Vampires

Ten Great Ironies of Music

Eight Reasons Why The Monterey International Pop Fes...

Quentin Tarantino Has the Best Ear in the Film Business

The Bizarre Story Of The Film Heavy Metal

Spotlight On Tom Petty's "American Girl"

A Whole Article About Scrumpy and Western

Lady Gaga's Born This Way and Individual Empowerment

Halo Effect: Why gaming soundtracks are the new music

Five Artists Who Have Reached "The Tyson Zone"

An Interesting Little History of The Rutles

The Concept Band - Band or Stage Show?

All You Need Is Cash - Songs About Money

Six More Badly Misinterpreted Song Meanings

This Songlist Will Make You Hungry

The Weird, Weird, Weird Story of Trout Mask Replica

Eurovision - And the winner is....

Hiding From Plato in The Cave, by Mumford & Sons

All You Need Is Four Chords

Speed Freak: Music that can make you move

Katy Perry's E.T. and Space Metaphors in Popular Music

At Least They Aren't One-Hit Wonders! - The most fam...

Avril Lavigne's What the Hell - Finer Than Mickey

The Creepiest Songs You’ve Ever Heard

The Lazy Song by Bruno Mars and Defying the Work Ethic

The Big Cheese! Was 80’s music really that bad?

Lord of the Sings - Songs and Bands Paying Tribute T...

The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough and Theme...

Rihanna's S&M and Kink Culture in Music

Wedding Singer – What the first dance track says abo...

Time Capsule Films - Music Subcultures Whose Era Was...

The 9 Strangest Deaths of Rock 'n' Roll

Second Time Around: Cover songs that are better than...

Let's Hear a Round of Clicks For Six of the Internet...

You Always Get These Song Titles Wrong

Jello Biafra Can Still Kick Your Butt

Storytelling Songs: Music That Does More Than Just S...

There's More To Humor In Music Than Weird Al Yankovi...

How To Make A Song That Will Be Widely Hated

I Sing the Body Electric - Songs About Computers

Baby-Making Beats: Three tracks that belong on every...

So-and-So and the Bookworms - Bands which took their...

Verily, Detroit Leadeth the Way

The Craziest Song Theories

Get Over It: Songs to Help Get Through a Breakup

I Could Have Seen This Coming At Me Like An Atom Bomb

Musical Memento Mori - Six songs about dying young

Anger, Hate, Rage: Music Best Suited to the Moment A...

Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant Massacree - They S...

Red Alert! The Singing Careers of the Star Trek Cast

Why "Born in the USA" Isn’t All that Patriotic

Your Word For the Day Is Leitmotif - Part 2

Your Word For the Day Is Leitmotif - Part 1

WTF Happened to Folk Music?

"I've Got Blisters On My Fingers!"

Coven - Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls (a...

Weird names, weird people: The origin of Smashing Pu...

Yes, There Was Life Before MTV

But Have You Heard the Punk Version of "Summer Nights"?

Songs That May Actually Make You Stupid

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Songs of Unity, Songs of Labor

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This One Goes Out To My Buzz

The New Sounds of Strife

Blood Ballads - 7 Songs about murder

Archie and All-Around Animated Acts

There's Your Cue, Audience!

Dictionary Dartboard - Songs with deliberately meani...

Cover Me Bad - Eight hit songs that nobody knows are...

Six Badly Misinterpreted Song Meanings

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