500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Number 269, The Rolling Stones' Some Girls.100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Number Four, The Rolling Stones.100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time: Number Ten, Keith Richards.100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Number 16, Mick Jagger."The feeling of longing is what the song is." "It's not really about a girl," Jagger said. The Stones were in Toronto, rehearsing for their classic gigs at the El Mocambo Club, when Jagger, jamming with R&B legend Billy Preston, came up with "Miss You." With a disco groove and a touch of the blues via a harmonica player they found in a Paris subway, it became the band's first Number One hit in five years. It also earned Weezer autographed photos from the real Mary Tyler Moore. His efforts to stick up for her inspired Weezer's breakthrough, a track whose bubble-grunge hooks and lines such as "I look just like Buddy Holly/And you're Mary Tyler Moore" helped the band reach a nation of pop-minded suburban punks. In the early 1990s, Cuomo had an awkward girlfriend who was routinely picked on. The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Smokey Robinson.The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time: Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.That one worked.Īppears on: The Ultimate Collection (Motown) and called him back to the studio to re-cut it - faster and with Robinson's vocal more prominent. After it came out, Gordy heard it on the radio and found it way too slow. Robinson thought Barrett Strong should record "Shop Around," but Gordy persuaded Smokey that he was the right man for the song. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, ‘Shop Around’.Songs like that come out in five minutes if I work on them more than, say, 20 minutes, they’re probably not going to work. As soon as you start, you get that magic feeling, an extra feeling. It’s how a basketball player must feel when he starts hitting every shot, when you’re in that zone. When I’m writing a song that I know is going to work, it’s a feeling of euphoria. That song had everything - different melodies, opera, R&B, rock - and it explored all of those different genres in an authentic way, where it felt natural. A great song has all the key elements - melody emotion a strong statement that becomes part of the lexicon and great production. It takes the emotions of a moment and holds it for years to come. When you hear a great song, you can think of where you were when you first heard it, the sounds, the smells. Click here for the new, updated 500 Greatest Songs list from 2021Ī great song doesn’t attempt to be anything - it just is.
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