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“Army of Me”

Bjork | 1995

Bjork imagined she was a polar bear with an "army" of 500 ursine comrades destroying a town. "I identify with polar bears," Bjork said. "They're very cuddly and cute and quite calm, but if they meet you they can be very strong." The song isn't literally about bears -- it's "about people who feel sorry for themselves all the time and don't get their s--- together," she explained. "You come to a point with people like that where you've done everything you can do for them, and the only thing that's going to sort them out is themselves."

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Billy Joel | 1973
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“Is It True”

Brenda Lee | 1964

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."

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