Free Man in Paris
1974 · From Court and Spark
Mitchell wrote it for David Geffen after a Paris trip, then set his escape to Jose Feliciano's guitar.
★ 6.5
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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Complete Control
1977
Lee Perry produced it after CBS released a single without the band's consent; Topper Headon's first Clash session.
★ 6.4
Stakes is HighDe La Soul
Stakes is High
1996 · From Stakes Is High
Dilla looped Ahmad Jamal's "Swahililand" into a warning shot at where hip hop was heading in 1996.
★ 5.9
It's Tricky
1987 · From Raising Hell
Rubin co-produced, the guitar hook lifted straight from My Sharona, and Penn and Teller hustle three-card monte in the video.
★ 5.8
What They Do
1996 · From Illadelph Halflife
Charles Stone III's video walks the group through every rap-video cliche, which is exactly what the record is arguing.
★ 5.8
It's Still Rock and Roll to Me
1980 · From Glass Houses
Richie Cannata's sax break, Joel needling critics and fashion alike, and his first American number one.
★ 4.8
Love Song
2007
Epic wanted a radio-friendly love song; Bareilles wrote a refusal instead, and that piano riff climbed to number four.
★ 4.4
Hold On (Pusha T)
2013
A Duralcha loop, Hudson Mohawke and Kanye West on the boards, and Pusha weighing his dealing past against rap money.
★ 4.3
Gettin It
1996
Ant Banks flipped a Bootsy Collins sample for a farewell album that went platinum, with Parliament-Funkadelic on the hook.
★ 2.9