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Rihanna – Cheers (Drink To That) (2010)
Although tunes such as “Hard”, “Rude Boy” and “What’s My Name?” seemed more quintessential at the turn of the 2010s as slices of Millennial recession-core, “Cheers (Drink To That)” stands the test of time as the most explicitly zeitgeist-bottling. This 21st century saloon song harkens back to a time when pop seemed pretty simple as… Read more
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Bruce Springsteen – Wreck On The Highway (1980)
Such is the strength of its finality, it is perfectly clear that the closing track from 1980’s epic “The River” album was also the last written for it. A powerfully haunting, economical, country-esque arrangement, it is nonetheless musically vibrant, between those gold-kissed strums, spare, warm basslines, devastatingly placed keys and rushes of watercolour organ. The… Read more
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