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Our list of the 10 best songs about trains features tracks that use the word “train” in the title or simply highlight the power and impact of trains. These songs don’t necessarily have to be about an actual train; they can be about the meaning of a train, which, for many, is the ideals of moving on, moving away, escaping, or maybe simply the everyday ride of life. Of course, ...

If there was one band that benefited from the advent of MTV and music videos in general, it was Duran Duran. Sure, they sounded good, but to millions of female fans all around the globe, they looked even better. Other bands had better chops, but Duran Duran was the total package. There was also the name, which just rolled off the tongue and was taken right from a character in...

Free was one of the original bands of the late sixties who took the American sensibilities of the blues and infused them with a razor-sharp, English-bred attitude, alongside bands like Led Zeppelin, early Fleetwood Mac, and Cream. It wasn’t until the early seventies that they truly found their niche and became one of the most popular bands of that period. They were together f...

Our Top 10 Jerry Lee Lewis Songs takes a look at one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. No other piano player in rock and roll history knew how to bang out those rock and roll eighth notes like Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis. The man lit it up and held his fans breathless. While many fans associate Jerry Lee Lewis with pure 50s rock and roll, some do not realize that the man had ...

Our top 10 The Roots songs list looks at the catalog of a Grammy Award-winning American hip-hop band best known for its interminable musical creativity in the rap scene. Formed in 1987, The Roots established its musical career on a path earlier cut by Stetsasonic, one of the pioneering hip-hop bands of the early ‘80s. Before becoming a house band for the Tonight Show Sta...