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18. Pat Metheny, Last Train Home
"Do you remember before we had bullet trains in Texas?"
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17. Eminem, Lose Yourself
Why is it hard to grab the seat of our pants and jump?
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16. Lucille Ball, Hey Look Me Over
You get the sense that Lucille Ball was a tough cookie.
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15. Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem: IV
Imagine if we tried to make some peace with death through music.
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14. Ella Fitzgerald, Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)
She doesn’t need to spell out what we can all hear in the lyrics.
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13. 10,000 Maniacs, These Are Days
To be part of the miracles you see in every hour.
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12. Post Malone & Swae Lee, Sunflower
I thought, “This is heaven.” And I could feel the universe, glad that I had noticed.
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11. Miles Davis, Someday My Prince Will Come
How did a song of such girlish sweetness, such innocent yearning, became a jazz standard?
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10. Olivia Newton-John, Xanadu
Perhaps Xanadu is not a place, but a state of being.
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9. Silvio Rodríguez, Playa Girón
What poem, or song, or history, can be written when there is no “right” side?
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8. The Righteous Brothers, Unchained Melody
Does time go by slowly, or does it go fast?
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7. Kim Wilde, Kids in America
Thank God, the kids scoff at our fear for them. They laugh straight in our faces.
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