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• A Tribe Called Quest

  “Verses From the Abstract”

• Arctic Monkeys

  “Reckless Serenade”

• Beastie Boys

  “Sabotage”

• Dead Kennedys

  “Holiday in Cambodia”

• Eagles

  “Take It Easy”

• Fugees

  “Fu-Gee-La”

• James Taylor

  “Sweet Baby James”

• Justin Timberlake

  “Cry Me a River”

• Pete Townshend

  “Let My Love Open the Door”

• Pixies

  “Monkey Gone to Heaven”

• Spice Girls

  “Wannabe”

• Tag Team

  “Whoomp! (There It Is)”

• Talking Heads

  “Road to Nowhere”

• Television

  “Marquee Moon”

• Temple of the Dog

  “Hunger Strike”

• The Academy Is

  “About a Girl”

• The Allman Brothers Band

  “Midnight Rider”

• The Avett Brothers

  “I and Love and You”

• The Band

  “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

• The Band Perry

  “If I Die Young”

• The Bangles

  “Walk Like an Egyptian”

• The Beach Boys

  “Help Me, Rhonda”

• The Beatles

  “The Long and Winding Road”

  “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”

  “Eight Days a Week”

• The Black Keys

  “Little Black Submarines”

• The Box Tops

  “The Letter”

• The BPA featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal

  “Toe Jam”

• The Breeders

  “Divine Hammer”

• The Byrds

  “Hickory Wind”

• The Carpenters

  “We've Only Just Begun”

  “Goodbye to Love”

• The Cars

  “Sad Song”

  “Candy-O”

• The Chantels

  “Maybe”

• The Clash

  “Complete Control”

• The Coasters

  “Young Blood”

• The Commodores

  “Nightshift”

• The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

  “Fire”

• The Cribs

  “Men's Needs”

• The Cure

  “Just Like Heaven”

• The Decemberists

  “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist”

• The Dixie Chicks

  “Goodbye Earl”

• The Doors

  “The End”

• The Drifters

  “Under the Boardwalk”

• The Five Satins

  “In the Still of the Night”

• The Five Stairsteps

  “O-o-h Child”

• The Flaming Lips

  “Free Radicals”

• The Flying Burrito Brothers

  “Hot Burrito #1 / Hot Burrito #2”

• The Four Seasons

  “Sherry”

Most Popular Song Stories

• “Drifter's Escape”

  Jimi Hendrix | 1974

• “Crosstown Traffic”

  The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

• “Voodoo Chile”

  The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

• “Purple Haze”

  The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1967

• “All Along the Watchtower”

  The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

• “Kiss From a Rose”

  Seal | 1995

Song Stories

“Helen Wheels”

Paul McCartney | 1973

A rollicking good-time hard rocker, "Helen Wheels" was not about a woman but about Paul McCartney's Land Rover, the anthemic chorus voicing the vehicle's reckless joy as "she" took to the road. The song was added to the U.S. version of Band on the Run but was issued only as a single in McCartney's native U.K. "I like that because it's a British road song and there's not many of those around," said McCartney. "It's always Route 66. But Carlisle? How many songs have got Carlisle in them?"

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