SONG.REVIEWS
Greatest of All Time!The most imitated drum sound of the 1980s began with a talkback microphone that engineer Hugh Padgham had routed through a heavy compressor -- and Phil Collins says he isn't quite sure what the song is about.
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Oliver Tree's 2021 single was already a hit before it was borrowed for a singing AI polar bear -- and it holds up as a compact, hooky piece of genre-scrambling pop on its own terms.
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Greatest of All Time!Maroon 5 wrote a eulogy for their late manager and set it to Pachelbel's Canon -- borrowing a chord progression so overused at weddings that hearing it turned into a funeral is its own small jolt.
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Greatest of All Time!Billy Joel set an original doo-wop lyric to the melody of Beethoven's 'Pathetique' sonata -- and gave the composer an actual co-writing credit on the sleeve of An Innocent Man.
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