playlists
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Rediscover Your Favourite Songs With Lifehacker’s Cover Song Playlist
Back in the day, all the big singers shared the same songbook: A canon of folk tunes, jazz standards and borrowed Broadway numbers. Louie and Ella and Duke and Nina and the boy bands and the girl groups, they were all sharing the same songs up until the middle of the last century, when things…
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Give Your Kids A Playlist Of Your Favourite Songs
“Uptown got its hustlers, the Bowery got its bums. Forty-second Street got big Jim Walker, he a pool-shootin’ son of a gun”. Jim Croce sang those words in 1972, six years before I was born. They’ve been burned into my memory for so long that I can’t remember when I first heard them.
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The Lifehacker Pump-Up Song Playlist
We asked Lifehacker readers to share their pump-up songs, the one that gets them ready to crush it like the wild beasts they are, and they delivered.
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The Lonely Nostalgia YouTube Playlist
The New Yorker ran a story yesterday about the emotional experience of listening to a tinny version of Toto’s “Africa” on YouTube. The popular video simulates the sound of hearing the pop song echoing through an empty shopping centre.