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TOTO

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Fiona Apple

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Fiona Apple never quite belonged to a specific scene. The closest she came was at the dawn of her career, when her debut album Tidal arrived as the alternative rock wave reached its crest in 1996. Apple spent her time in MTV's Buzzbin and on tour with <a href="spotify:artist:4NgNsOXSwIzXlUIJcpnNUp">Sarah McLachlan</a>'s Lilith Fair revue, earning a hit single ("Criminal") and platinum certification along the way, but she wasn't a folkie or a punk rocker. Her roots lay in jazz, show tunes, and classic '70s singer/songwriters, an idiosyncratic blend that came into sharper focus on her second album, When the Pawn. Upon its release in 1999, When the Pawn drew attention for its emotional intensity, unconventional arrangements, and eccentric flair, elements that were central to her appeal in the next decades when she worked steadily and rigorously. As her output slowed -- it took her six years to deliver her third album, Extraordinary Machine, and another seven for its sequel, The Idler Wheel, to appear -- her reputation as a daring artist grew. The Idler Wheel and its 2020 successor Fetch the Bolt Cutters confirmed Apple took aural risks without abandoning her strengths as a singer/songwriter, a combination that helped her maintain a devoted cult following. Born to singer Diane McAfee and actor Brandon Maggart in 1977, Fiona Apple started playing and writing songs at the age of 12 in an effort to work out a traumatic childhood that included rape at the age of 11. Apple continued to write, leaving high school for Los Angeles at the age of 16. She cut a demo tape that eventually earned her a contract with Sony Music in 1995. Teamed with producer Andrew Slater, she cut her debut, Tidal, releasing the album in the summer of 1996. Tidal was a slow build, earning critical acclaim and a cult that exploded when the controversial video for "Criminal" turned the single and album into a hit. Mark Romanek's seedy, suggestive clip was overtly sexual -- a path Apple notably avoided afterward -- but it did the trick, helping the album reach the Top Ten and earning Apple a Grammy. Despite this titillation, Tidal appealed to middle of the road listeners, a path Apple definitively rejected with her next album, 1999's When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King.... The entire title was a 90-word poem, a fair indication of the artistic ambition that lay within. Produced by <a href="spotify:artist:57YJQe0ayvIaRZJ3PW5nFP">Jon Brion</a>, the album was dense, literate, and melodic, not matching the commercial success of the debut but deepening her cult. Despite a romance with director Paul Thomas Anderson -- she contributed to the soundtrack of his 1999 magnum opus Magnolia -- Apple retreated from the spotlight, fostering an element of mystery that only grew when her next album experienced a series of delays. By 2003, the lack of a sequel became a sensation among some music message boards, where rumors swirled that <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sony%22">Sony</a> rejected her newest music for being uncommercial. Within the next year, unfinished mixes leaked onto the Internet and the saga of the album spilled over into the mainstream, earning ink in The New York Times. All this helped usher the album to completion in the fall of 2005, when the original <a href="spotify:artist:57YJQe0ayvIaRZJ3PW5nFP">Brion</a> productions were tweaked and expanded with producer <a href="spotify:artist:23Q5yNjnlqThITasb5Y7y6">Mike Elizondo</a>, who helped Extraordinary Machine reach its final shape. The album was greeted by generally positive reviews -- some compared it not entirely favorably to the leaked album -- and the record received healthy sales. In its wake, Apple maintained a moderate presence, touring with <a href="spotify:artist:3bcLBxvaI7GsBzGp3WHnwQ">Nickel Creek</a> in 2007 and appearing with the Watkins Family at times during their residency at the Largo in Los Angeles. In 2012, Apple previewed three songs from her fourth studio album (which boasted a typically enigmatic title in The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do) to a wildly enthusiastic audience at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. Produced by Apple with her touring drummer, Charley Drayton, the album earned excellent reviews upon release in June 2012. Apple spent the next few years contributing songs to movies and television shows, including writing "Container," which was the theme to the Showtime series The Affair. In 2015, she contributed to Watkins Family Hour, the first album by <a href="spotify:artist:45K759axQK0aohwSjbkgpy">Sean</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1FDE7zZ6jmP8HHb9ej3mek">Sara Watkins</a>' Los Angeles-based collective, and the following year she appeared on <a href="spotify:artist:4uSftVc3FPWe6RJuMZNEe9">Andrew Bird</a>'s Are You Serious album. Apple released her fifth solo album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, in April 2020. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi

Bob Marley & The Wailers

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Def Leppard

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Lynyrd Skynyrd

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ABBA

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David Bowie

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Boston

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Jacqueline Taieb

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Stan Getz

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Fiona Apple

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Bon Jovi

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Muse

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The Killers

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The Bangles

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The La's

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Sade

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Laufey

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Noah Kahan

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The Smiths

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Mazzy Star

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Dido

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Liana Flores

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Kate Bush

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Nirvana

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Lana Del Rey

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The Cranberries

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Pink Floyd

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Led Zeppelin

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Queen

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AC/DC

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Iron Maiden

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Arctic Monkeys

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Debbii Dawson

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Billy Joel

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Fleetwood Mac

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Sam Phillips

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The Division Bell

Album · Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here

Album · Pink Floyd

The Wall

Album · Pink Floyd

The Water's Fine!

Album · Liana Flores

Flower of the soul

Album · Liana Flores

Boston

Album · Boston

Rumours

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The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster)

Album · Iron Maiden

Piece of Mind (2015 Remaster)

Album · Iron Maiden

Fear of the Dark (2015 Remaster)

Album · Iron Maiden

Jacqueline Taïeb

Album · Jacqueline Taieb

Jazz Impressions Of Japan

Album · The Dave Brubeck Quartet

When The Pawn...

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Tidal

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Getz/Gilberto

Album · Stan Getz, João Gilberto

The Passenger

Track · Siouxsie and the Banshees

Runaway

Track · Bon Jovi

Girls on Film

Track · Duran Duran

Black Coffee

Track · Sarah Vaughan

Maneater

Track · Daryl Hall & John Oates

Nothing Else Matters (Remastered)

Track · Metallica

Eulogy For Nobody

Track · Debbii Dawson

Walk Like an Egyptian

Track · The Bangles

Back In Black

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The Trooper (2015 Remaster)

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Fear of the Dark (2015 Remaster)

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How to Dream

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Move Away

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Come On Eileen

Track · Dexys Midnight Runners

Bohemian Rhapsody - Remastered 2011

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Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy - Remastered 2011

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Killer Queen - Remastered 2011

Track · Queen

There She Goes

Track · The La's

Where The Colors Don't Go

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If I Could Write

Track · Sam Phillips

Uptown Girl

Track · Billy Joel

Old Yellow Bricks

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This House Is a Circus

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D Is for Dangerous

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R U Mine?

Track · Arctic Monkeys

Teddy Picker

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You Give Love A Bad Name

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The Chain - 2004 Remaster

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Gypsy

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Come As You Are

Track · Nirvana

Smells Like Teen Spirit

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Golden Brown

Album · The Stranglers

Deceptacon

Track · Le Tigre

The Deepest Blues Are Black

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Zombie

Track · The Cranberries

We Will Rock You - Remastered 2011

Track · Queen

Highway to Hell

Track · AC/DC

Supremacy

Track · Muse

Arabella

Track · Arctic Monkeys

Another One Bites The Dust - Remastered 2011

Track · Queen

Song 2

Track · Blur

Killing In The Name

Track · Rage Against The Machine

Enter Sandman (Remastered)

Track · Metallica

American Idiot - Radio Edit

Track · 5 Man Riot

People Are Strange

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Stairway to Heaven - Remaster

Track · Led Zeppelin

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts. 1-5)

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Kickstart My Heart

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Hotel California - 2013 Remaster

Track · Eagles

Whole Lotta Love - 1990 Remaster

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Thunderstruck

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Wish You Were Here

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Money - 2023 Remaster

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Immigrant Song - Remaster

Track · Led Zeppelin

Mona Lisa

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Tom's Diner

Track · Suzanne Vega

Vienna

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Fade Into You

Track · Mazzy Star

Run to the Hills (2015 Remaster)

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Black Velvet

Track · Alannah Myles

Spellbound

Track · Siouxsie and the Banshees

Hounds Of Love

Track · Kate Bush

Gold Dust Woman - 2004 Remaster

Track · Fleetwood Mac

Wherever I May Roam (Remastered)

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Metallica

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For Whom The Bell Tolls (Remastered)

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To Your Love

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Carrion

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Get Gone

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The Way Things Are

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The Child Is Gone

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Limp

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Criminal

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Sleep to Dream

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Paper Bag

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I Want You To Love Me

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Slow Like Honey

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7 heures du matin

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The Number of the Beast (2015 Remaster)

Track · Iron Maiden

Twilight

Track · bôa

Dreams - 2004 Remaster

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Second Hand News - 2004 Remaster

Track · Fleetwood Mac

Never Going Back Again - 2004 Remaster

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Go Your Own Way - 2004 Remaster

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I wish for the rain

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The Dark Side of the Moon

Album · Pink Floyd

Suddenly I See

Track · KT Tunstall

Mr. Blue Sky

Track · Electric Light Orchestra

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Remastered 2011

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Peace of Mind

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Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

Track · Edison Lighthouse

Bicycle Race - Remastered

Track · Queen

Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster

Track · David Bowie

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

Track · ABBA

Hey You

Track · Pink Floyd

September

Track · Earth, Wind & Fire

A Horse with No Name

Track · America, George Martin

Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2

Track · Pink Floyd

One Way Or Another

Track · Blondie

Free Bird

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Simple Man

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Radio Ga Ga - Remastered 2011

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We Didn't Start the Fire

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What's Up?

Track · 4 Non Blondes

Beat It

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Cherry Pie

Track · Warrant

Pour Some Sugar On Me

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Rock Brigade

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Lady Stardust - 2012 Remaster

Track · David Bowie

Cold as Ice

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Starman - 2012 Remaster

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"Heroes" - 2017 Remaster

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Bad Moon Rising

Track · Creedence Clearwater Revival

Renegade

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I Don't Feel Like Dancin'

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You Really Got Me

Track · The Kinks

Time To Think

Track · Kimya Dawson

Driving Driving Driving

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The Competition

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Being Cool

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Same Shit / Complicated

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Could You Be Loved

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Teenage Dirtbag

Track · Wheatus

Three Little Birds

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Goo Goo Muck

Track · The Cramps

I Love Rock 'N Roll

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Magic Dance

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Moonage Daydream - 2012 Remaster

Track · David Bowie

Runnin' with the Devil

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Harness Your Hopes

Track · Pavement

22 Acacia Avenue (2015 Remaster)

Track · Iron Maiden

Walk This Way

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Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be

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Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

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Hold the Line

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Africa

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Sultans of Swing

Track · Dire Straits

Smoke on the Water

Track · Deep Purple

I Want To Break Free

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Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Track · Tears For Fears

Head Over Heels

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War Pigs

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Born To Be Wild

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Carry on Wayward Son

Track · Kansas

Ride The Lightning (Remastered)

Track · Metallica