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Category The Ten Best Songs By…

My opinionated lists of the best songs by some of my favourite artists. Some are conventional, while on others I like to wander off the beaten track and draw attention to lesser-known gems.

10 Best Eagles Songs

The four original Eagles played their first gig together at Disneyland, supporting Linda Ronstadt. Starting as a country-rock outfit, they became one of the most commercially successful bands of the 1970s – their 1976 compilation Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) is…

10 Best ABBA Songs

Swedish quartet ABBA were massively popular from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. They were effectively a supergroup when they formed in 1972 – Agnetha Fältskog was already a solo star in Sweden while songwriting team Björn Ulvaeus and Benny…

10 Best Pixies Songs

Pixies Trompe Le Monde

A quirky alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, the Pixies effectively bridged two eras in guitar rock; the underground bands of the 1980s like Hüsker Dü and the mega-selling 1990s alt-rock bands like Nirvana and Radiohead. The four-piece guitar band…