Because the Night: the meaning and the story of a rock anthem
Because The Night is a rock masterpiece written by Bruce Springsteen at the end of the 70s. But the Boss realised that there was no room for the track on his album (Darkness in the…
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The Passenger: what’s the meaning of Iggy Pop’s song
The Passenger is a single from Iggy Pop’s album, Lust for Life, released in 1977. The song refers to the long journeys of the rock iguana on the Berlin S-Bahn line. The riff is very…
The psychological meaning of Tears For Fears’ Pale Shelter
Written by Roland Orzabal, sung by Curt Smith and published in March 1982, Pale Shelter is the song that excites me most among those extracted from The Hurting, Tears For Fears’ debut album. A record…
Seven songs to celebrate the 80s
There was a little game that became viral on the web some time ago: invited by one of your friends, you were asked to list seven songs, one per day, as your personal way to…
Something In the Way: the meaning of Nirvana’s song
Aberdeen, a small town about two hours drive southwest of Seattle, where Kurt Cobain, Nirvana’s leader, was born in 1967 and where he lived most of his life. A forgotten and cursed place. After a florid…
Can You Feel It? The best classics from early house music
House music is love. It was born, more than thirty years ago, as a celebration of a community with a strong connection, within itself and with music. As entertainment, glorification of the present. The founding…