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Is Beethoven's 5th Symphony named "symphony of fate" by the composer?
There are many myths and doubts about this title. Do we have evidence about the original intention of Beethoven naming his symphony after the so called fate motif?
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Beatles album with the most hit singles? Beatles album with the most #1 hit singles?
You'd think this would be an easy thing to find with a Google search but I've come up empty.
Beatles album with the most hit singles?
Beatles album with the most #1 hit singles?
Cheers!
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Do those cheap MP3 web sites based in Ukraine really pay royalties to artists?
There are several web sites out there that sell MP3 music files for 10 cents each. Most of these web sites seem to be based in Ukraine, and they all have FAQs that claim that they pay full royalties to the artists. Here are a few examples:
From…
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Ident Romeo and Juliet song
I can’t find the cruddy radio copy mp3 I used to have anymore but the first verse goes like this:
My Juliet..
I was your Romeo you were my Juliet
and we were so in love.
It was instant love.
1,2,3,4
It was late night party time when I…
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Why did David Bowie never play any songs from Labyrinth live?
I'm a fan of David Bowie and I thought he was excellent in the 1980s movie, Labyrinth. I also liked a lot of the music from that movie, which Bowie wrote the soundtrack to. However, apparently he never played any of the songs from Labyrinth live…
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What genre of music does G3: Vai, Satrianni, Malmsteen represent, what is the name for their guitar tone?
To me it seems that their basic tone falls in the same broad category of
'singing, sustained, liquid leads'.
Heavy metal is commonly named as the genre (at least on wikipedia), yet heavy metal amps usually have a noisy, dirty tone tone (at least…
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Does Janelle Monáe's Metropolis conceptual series have a definite plot?
Janelle Monáe's set of Metropolis suites (comprised, so far, of her debut EP and first two full-length albums, with two suites left to come) is a sci-fi epic about androids.
Do the lyrics (so far) describe a single coherent plot (a la rock operas…
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Symphonic metal bands with very technical guitar
When it comes to symphonic metal bands, the guitar parts aren’t usually very complex.
I know two bands which have both symphonic instruments and very technical guitars:
Symphony X
Angra
Failed to find any more. Do you know any?
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Is vaporwave the first global genre that originated online?
In the video Vaporwave: A Brief History of a Genre That No One Has Heard Of, the narrator says (from 0:50 to 0:59; my transcription, so might contain mistakes):
It [the vaporwave genre] distinctively has no set location as to where it originated,…
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Where can Pat Metheny's original "The Way Up" track be found?
About a decade or more before releasing his album The Way Up in 2005, Pat Metheny had already come up with a tune by the name of The Way Up. I’m trying to search for this on Amazon but cannot seem to find it anywhere. It used to be on YouTube but…
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Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" - did it really start a cult?
The question appears on several music trivia quizzes as:
"What Soundgarden song started a cult?"
The answer given is Black Hole Sun, which supposedly led to the creation of the "Concerned Christians" movement.
I was very intrigued by this and upon…
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What is hard bop?
How can one define the jazz style hard bop? In which way is it different from bebop? Which are the main characteristics of the style?
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Who is Johanna in this Joan Baez song - The Winds of the Old Days
In this song, The Winds of the Old Days, by Joan Baez, the last stanza is:
And get you down to the harbor now
Most of the sour grapes are gone from the bough
Ghosts of Johanna will visit you there
And the winds of the old days will blow through…
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What is the significance behind so many uses of the word "murder" in old school reggae lyrics?
Why does the word murder get used so much in pre-digital dancehall and old reggae?
For example, this Barrington Levy track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdhqRgRsmE
Is there any reason or significance?
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Oasis' song "Waiting For The Rapture" as a tribute to The Doors?
In Oasis’ last album, Dig Out Your Soul, there’s a song called Waiting For The Rapture.
That song has a guitar riff that is identical to the guitar riff of the The Doors song Five To One, and it seems a true plagiarism.
I am a huge Oasis (specially…
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