Songs · Skopia

Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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6 songs

Dear Mama

1995

Pizarro built it from a Joe Sample loop and the Spinners' Sadie, and the Library of Congress later archived it.

★ 8.5

1968 · From Mama Tried

Three years in San Quentin behind him, Haggard gave his narrator a life sentence he never served himself.

★ 7.5

1960

Motown's first million-seller, recut at three in the morning with Gordy at the piano chasing a poppier hit.

★ 6.8

1973 · From Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd

Van Zant and Rossington wrote it in an hour, putting his grandmother's and Rossington's mother's advice into song.

★ 6.5

2001

Monahan woke from a dream of his late mother, and Paul Buckmaster's strings carry the whole ache.

★ 4.8

1996

Thomas drew on his mother's cancer fight, and his earlier band Tabitha's Secret put it on record first.

★ 4.7