We asked and you answered. Earlier this month, we opened the polls and invited All Songs Considered's listeners to tell us their top 5 records of the year. We tabulated all of the ballots, determined ...

You don't get a second chance at a first impression. That's something each artist in the list below of the Top 35 Opening Songs on Debut Albums knows all too well. The first song on that first album ...

(What’s The Story) Morning Glory is Oasis’ best album for a reason. And the closing track “Campagne Supernova” was the perfect piece to put at the end of that record. It’s a fun track full of the ...

Call it a summer listening project. After years of speculation and fan clamoring, Bruce Springsteen finally releases Friday “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” an expansive seven-album box set and sequel to ...

The boundaries between country and pop are getting more porous by the day, but back in 1999, the lines were far more rigid — and the Chicks were at the forefront of a movement to push their genre ...

Post Malone whips through five decades of country music across 18 songs on F-1 Trillion, his first-ever country album. There's a steel-soaked waltz, a glossy bit of effervescence, one or two boots-and ...

There’s always one. It’s that single track on a great record that sucks to such a profound degree that it almost feels like a sick joke. They exist for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes the lead singer ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...