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1962 Top Ten Music Charts

1962 Music Hits: Surf Guitar, Girl Groups, Doo-Wop, Dance Crazes, Motown, Teen Pop, and Pre-Beatles Favorites1962 music sat right before the British Invasion changed American pop. Girl groups were rising fast, Motown was gaining strength, surf guitar was roaring out of California, dance records were everywhere, and doo-wop still had plenty of radio life. The […]

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Holiday Songs and Secular Christmas Music

Holiday Songs and Secular Christmas Songs: The Big Festive PlaylistHoliday songs and secular Christmas songs are the soundtrack of snowy sidewalks, shopping-center speakers, tree decorating, office parties, winter travel, family gatherings, and the annual debate over when it is socially acceptable to start playing Mariah Carey.This list focuses mostly on Christmas-season songs that are not

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Top 100 Halloween Party Songs

Halloween Party Music: Spooky Songs, Monster Hits, and Dance Floor Frights Halloween party music needs more than one kind of scare. A good playlist needs monster songs, dance tracks, creepy classics, horror movie themes, novelty songs, goth favorites, spooky rock, and enough familiar hooks to keep people moving between the candy bowl and the costume

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100 Pop Songs About Death and Dying

Death Songs in Pop Music: Memorial Songs, Murder Ballads, and Songs About MortalityDeath songs in pop music can be sad, strange, beautiful, dramatic, darkly funny, or deeply uncomfortable. Some songs are about grief and remembrance. Some tell tragic stories. Some are murder ballads. Some are about accidents, war, illness, fame, addiction, or the simple fact

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Funeral Songs: Mourning and Grieving

Funeral Songs and Songs About Mourning: Music for Grief, Memorials, and RememberingFuneral songs and songs about mourning help people remember someone, honor a life, and sit with grief when ordinary words feel too small. Some are traditional hymns. Some are classical pieces. Some are modern pop songs. Some are country tributes, rock ballads, gospel songs,

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1992 Top Ten Music Charts

1992 Music Hits: Grunge, Hip-Hop, Dance Pop, Country Crossover, Alternative Rock, R&B, Power Ballads, and Early-1990s Favorites 1992 music was the year the early 1990s fully stopped sounding like leftover 1989. Grunge and alternative rock broke into the mainstream, hip-hop kept expanding, dance-pop filled clubs and radio, country crossover had a major moment, and R&B

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1993 Top Ten Music Charts

1993 Music Hits: Dance Pop, Hip-Hop, Alternative Rock, R&B, Pop Rock, Grunge, and Early-1990s Favorites1993 music was loud, colorful, strange, and unmistakably early-1990s. Alternative rock had moved into the mainstream, hip-hop was getting sharper and bigger, dance-pop was still everywhere, R&B vocal groups ruled radio, and pop-rock bands filled the space between college radio and

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1994 Top Ten Music Charts

1994 Music Hits: Alternative Rock, R&B, Hip-Hop, Dance Pop, Movie Songs, Women-Led Rock, and Mid-1990s Favorites 1994 music was one of the defining years of the mid-1990s. Alternative rock was everywhere, R&B vocal groups dominated pop radio, hip-hop had major crossover strength, dance-pop stayed active, and soundtrack songs still had huge cultural reach. The biggest

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Psychedelic Songs – Trippy Pop Music

Psychedelic Rock Music: Classic and Modern Trippy SongsPsychedelic rock music started in the 1960s, but the trip never really ended. The sound moved from acid-rock jams, surreal studio experiments, fuzz guitar, tape loops, sitars, feedback, and strange lyrics into modern psych-pop, dream rock, neo-psychedelia, space rock, garage revival, and electronic-influenced trippy music.This updated psychedelic songs

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Songs About Crimes and Criminals

Pop Songs About Crime and Criminals: Outlaws, Prison Songs, Murder Ballads, and Lawbreaking HitsPop songs about crime and criminals have been around almost as long as popular music itself. Singers have told stories about outlaws, prisoners, murderers, bank robbers, corrupt systems, crooked lovers, fugitives, detectives, gangsters, and people who really should have called a lawyer

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