Stan
2000 · From The Marshall Mathers LP
The 45 King looped Dido under four letters, and Eminem's fan character ended up in the Oxford dictionary.
★ 8.7
The Songs canon
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Ode to Billie Joe
1967
Gentry's demo vocal was kept, Jimmie Haskell added four violins and two cellos, and the intended B-side became the A-side hit.
★ 7.3
Jeremy
1992 · From Ten
A twelve-string bass figure from Ament, a Texas newspaper item in Vedder's hands, and four VMAs in 1993.
★ 6.8
Whiskey Lullaby
2004
Two verses, two voices, and Jerry Douglas's Dobro; Bill Anderson and Jon Randall wrote country's bleakest modern ballad.
★ 5.8
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
1975 · From Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Baldry talked Elton out of a wedding in 1968, and Taupin wrote him into the chorus as Sugar Bear.
★ 5.0
Adam's Song
1999
A piano bridge from session player Roger Joseph Manning Jr. lifts the band's most serious song out of its despair.
★ 5.0
Last Resort
2000
Bassist Tobin Esperance wrote that riff on a piano, and Shaddix built a nu-metal standard about despair over it.
★ 4.8
Jumper
1997
A bullied teenager's death behind it, and Jenkins turned the fifth single off his debut into a plea.
★ 4.5