The most rewound
Most read
The whole archive ranked by how many times each story was rewound. At the top, the one that played again the most.
399 stories in the count
1
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 9: The Constitution and the Mould
570
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2
60s · garage
Ten Garage Rock Bands You Have to Hear
549
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3
00s · pop
Julieta Venegas: The accordion and the border
530
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4
80s · punk
Robert Smith: A house for the sad
529
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5
90s · indie
R.E.M.: The graceful exit
523
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6
90s · pop
Gustavo Cerati: Gracias Totales
518
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7
90s · indie
Sinéad O'Connor: She was right
518
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8
90s · pop
Aterciopelados: The flower and the punk
517
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9
50s · pop
Buddy Holly: The template
515
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10
60s · pop
Chubby Checker: They let go of each other's hands
513
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11
50s · blues rock
Chuck Berry: The song that went to space
512
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12
10s · soul
Michael Kiwanuka: The Name in Capitals
509
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13
60s · hard rock
The Who: They smashed everything and wrote operas
509
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14
80s · blues rock
Dire Straits: The teacher without a pick
507
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15
70s · funk
Earth, Wind & Fire: The date did mean something
505
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16
70s · pop
ABBA: The divorce the song does not tell
504
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17
00s · pop
t.A.T.u.: The song got away from the script
503
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18
80s · pop
Why Latin America Loves Depeche Mode
502
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19
90s · indie
The La's: The record the band never accepted
500
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20
90s · grunge
Kurt Cobain: He never wanted to be that
495
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21
80s · blues rock
Bruce Springsteen: The president mentioned my name
492
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22
70s · hard rock
How Much Rock Owes Nikola Tesla
492
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23
80s · pop
Milli Vanilli: The tape that jammed
492
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24
80s · pop
Duran Duran: Born with MTV
489
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25
80s · pop
a-ha: Bigger than yourself
486
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26
70s · hard rock
Deep Purple: The smoke was real
486
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27
70s · punk
The Clash: The Punk That Believed
486
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28
70s · funk
A History of Funk: The Music That Bet Everything on Rhythm
483
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29
50s · blues rock
The Day the Blues Went Electric
482
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30
80s · pop
Kim Carnes: The song that was not hers
481
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31
80s · metal
Iron Maiden: The show a bishop stopped
480
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32
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 10: The Voice of the Eighties
479
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33
70s · progresivo
Yes: The cathedrals and the borrowed name
479
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34
90s · indie
Brian Molko: The outsider
478
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35
90s · hard rock
Aerosmith: The only thing they owed no one
477
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36
80s · pop
Annie Lennox: The Mask That Didn't Hide
474
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37
70s · pop
Dolly Parton: Underneath the Sequins
474
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38
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 16: Music Loses Its Weight
473
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39
60s · blues rock
Janis Joplin: The hole where her voice should have gone
472
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40
80s · pop
Michael Jackson: The man in the mirror
472
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41
80s · pop
Phil Collins: The one at the back
472
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42
60s · pop
The Beach Boys: The piano inside the sandbox
472
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43
60s · garage
What Is Garage Rock?
470
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44
70s · blues rock
Rod Stewart: Ordinary, everyday joy
469
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45
80s · hard rock
AC/DC: The black sleeve
467
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46
80s · pop
Tears for Fears: The shout that sold millions
467
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47
90s · indie
Thom Yorke: He heard this world coming
467
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48
00s · soul
Amy Winehouse: The whole truth
464
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49
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 15: The Golden Age and the End of the Millennium
463
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50
80s · soul
Hall & Oates: The craft they called a guilty pleasure
462
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51
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 7: Exile and Silence
462
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52
70s · pop
John Lennon: A difficult man's prayer
461
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53
70s · hard rock
Foreigner: The question the whole world asked
460
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54
90s · pop
Linda Perry: The signature in the credits
459
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55
80s · pop
Madonna: She never belonged to anyone
458
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56
80s · metal
Metal: From the Underground to the Stadium
458
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57
70s · pop
Camilo Sesto: Do you want to be my lover?
456
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58
70s · pop
Eagles: The door that opens
454
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59
00s · funk
Cristián Cuturrufo: The Trumpet and the Port
453
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60
00s · metal
Chester Bennington: So that no one would be alone
452
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61
80s · pop
Depeche Mode: The Machine That Became Soul
450
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62
70s · pop
Fleetwood Mac: The album made from their own ruins
449
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63
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 1: The Echo and the Spark
449
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64
90s · funk
Joe Vasconcellos: Footprints, and Alive
449
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65
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 8: The Underground Resistance
447
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66
90s · metal
Rage Against the Machine: Intelligent rage
444
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67
70s · progresivo
Supertramp: Two voices taking turns
443
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68
70s · punk
The Ramones: The brothers who weren't
442
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69
70s · progresivo
Roger Waters: The man who divides, pleading for empathy
439
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70
90s · reggae
Skank: Joy, properly made
439
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71
00s · hip hop
50 Cent: He was shot nine times, survived, and turned that into an empire
438
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72
80s · folk
Tracy Chapman: The second time out
437
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73
90s · indie
Alanis Morissette: The door kicked open
432
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74
80s · hip hop
Beastie Boys: How you grow up
432
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75
80s · hard rock
Bon Jovi: Tommy and Gina
431
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76
Opinion
Music as Crowd Control and a Tool of Normalisation
429
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77
60s · folk
Caetano Veloso: Devouring the world
428
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78
90s · indie
EMF: The number one came out of the forest
427
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79
90s · grunge
Chris Cornell: Grief turned into songs
426
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80
80s · pop
David Byrne: A rectangle with legs
426
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81
60s · psicodelia
Jim Morrison: The poet and the carrier
426
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82
70s · hard rock
Jimmy Page: The architect
425
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83
00s · punk
El Macha: The Party and the Sorrow
424
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84
70s · pop
Elton John: An envelope of lyrics from a stranger
424
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85
00s · indie
Gorillaz: The band that doesn't exist
423
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86
90s · metal
Mägo de Oz: Tilting at windmills
417
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87
90s · pop
Marciano Cantero: The Voice of Everyone's Adolescence
417
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88
80s · pop
Culture Club: The song that could not say its name
416
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89
80s · metal
Metallica: The card that chose
416
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90
80s · folk
Mauricio Redolés: Speaking Chilean
415
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91
90s · britpop
Oasis: The guns fell silent
414
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92
70s · metal
Ozzy Osbourne: The throne and the farewell
413
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93
50s · pop
Peter Rock: The One Who Opened the Door
411
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94
80s · pop
Toto: Five thousand other people's records
411
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95
90s · metal
Rammstein: The art of provocation
410
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96
90s · indie
The Smashing Pumpkins: Cathedrals made of sadness
409
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97
90s · metal
Tom Morello: Six strings and a cause
409
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98
90s · indie
Tori Amos: The piano as a confessional
409
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99
80s · progresivo
Vangelis: The music everyone knows and nobody can name
407
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100
00s · indie
Coldplay: They chose to be enormous
406
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101
80s · pop
Whitney Houston: The girl from the choir
406
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102
90s · britpop
Blur: The war that wasn't worth winning
405
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103
60s · pop
Pop Culture and Its Struggles Since the Sixties
397
rewinds
104
90s · britpop
Damon Albarn: He never stood still
396
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105
60s · garage
From the Garage to the Stadium
396
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106
90s · indie
Dolores O'Riordan: The voice of a country
395
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107
70s · blues rock
Eric Clapton: The only way he had of saying it
392
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108
70s · progresivo
Is This Progressive Rock?
391
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109
80s · pop
Eurythmics: What was left when the love ran out
389
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110
90s · disco dance
Faithless: The dance floor as a church
388
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111
90s · grunge
Grunge: Seattle and the End of Innocence
387
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112
70s · hard rock
Hard Rock: The Decade of Excess
387
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113
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 11: The Sound of the Machine
386
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114
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 12: The Stadium Comes Back
383
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115
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 14: Joy and Rage
382
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116
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 4: A Voice Is Born
381
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117
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 5: The Chilean Road
379
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118
90s · folk
Joaquín Sabina: He was born three times
379
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119
80s · pop
Bryan Adams: The other half he made with a camera
378
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120
00s · indie
Keane: Rock without guitars
378
rewinds
121
80s · pop
Jorge González: What I've Eaten and Danced
376
rewinds
122
70s · pop
Juan Gabriel: What is visible needs no asking
376
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123
00s · folk
La Cabra Mecánica: The shopping list
373
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124
80s · soul
Lionel Richie: The world's tenderness
370
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125
70s · funk
Nile Rodgers: The hand you'd recognise
370
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126
80s · punk
Luca Prodan: The One Who Crossed the Ocean
369
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127
80s · hard rock
Poison: The laundromat ballad
369
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128
90s · folk
Manu Chao: Belonging nowhere
368
rewinds
129
00s · pop
Miranda!: Permission to have a good time
368
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130
90s · britpop
Pulp: Sixteen years of overnight success
366
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131
80s · reggae
Os Paralamas do Sucesso: Singing again
365
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132
80s · funk
Prince: The Vault Beneath the House
364
rewinds
133
90s · pop
Roxette: The record that crossed the Atlantic
364
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134
70s · progresivo
What Progressive Rock Is (and Isn't)
363
rewinds
135
80s · pop
Quincy Jones: Check your ego at the door
363
rewinds
136
Opinion
Beneath the Language, the Pulse
363
rewinds
137
Opinion
To Be a Rocker Is to Live Without Fear
360
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138
70s · soul
Stevie Wonder: He took the wheel
360
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139
10s · pop
Adele: The only stack left
359
rewinds
140
90s · metal
Tool: In praise of patience
357
rewinds
141
00s · pop
Bomba Estéreo: The drum plugged in
356
rewinds
142
90s · indie
Travis: The door under the rain
356
rewinds
143
90s · indie
Weezer: The album that humiliated him
356
rewinds
144
60s · soul
Ben E. King: From psalm to plea
355
rewinds
145
90s · pop
Café Tacvba: Never the same record twice
351
rewinds
146
70s · folk
Cat Stevens: Letting it all go
351
rewinds
147
60s · pop
How Pop Culture (and Pop) Was Born
351
rewinds
148
90s · hip hop
Coolio: The number one that was really a lament
350
rewinds
149
00s · disco dance
Daft Punk: Hiding so you'll be seen
349
rewinds
150
90s · indie
Counting Crows: Fame cured nothing
348
rewinds
151
80s · pop
Cyndi Lauper: The glove turned inside out
347
rewinds
152
70s · hip hop
What's the Difference Between Rap and Hip-Hop?
346
rewinds
153
70s · progresivo
Electric Light Orchestra: The chosen disciple
342
rewinds
154
70s · pop
David Bowie: The Perfect Amalgam of Rock and Pop
340
rewinds
155
70s · punk
Debbie Harry: You are supposed to be dead
339
rewinds
156
90s · hip hop
Delinquent Habits: The sound that went round three times
339
rewinds
157
70s · soul
Diana Ross: The one who ran the mix
339
rewinds
158
70s · folk
Don McLean: The paper boy
338
rewinds
159
80s · hard rock
Europe: The song they did not want to release
338
rewinds
160
00s · hip hop
Eminem: Saying it before the other guy
337
rewinds
161
50s · pop
Elvis Presley: Not the fortunate son
335
rewinds
162
80s · pop
Federico Moura: Dancing at the Edge
332
rewinds
163
00s · indie
Franz Ferdinand: The stall was the only deliberate part
330
rewinds
164
80s · hard rock
Guns N' Roses: Three nights on MTV
329
rewinds
165
00s · folk
Gustavo Santaolalla: One single note
328
rewinds
166
70s · blues rock
Santana: They played before they had a record
328
rewinds
167
70s · hard rock
Freddie Mercury: The teeth he never had fixed
327
rewinds
168
00s · garage
Garage Rock: The Eternal Return
326
rewinds
169
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 2: The Window
323
rewinds
170
70s · hard rock
Heart: They kicked the door open
322
rewinds
171
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 13: The Avalanche
322
rewinds
172
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 3: The Counterculture and the Root
321
rewinds
173
Series
A History of Chilean Rock · Chapter 6: The 11th of September
321
rewinds
174
90s · indie
James: An anthem for sitting down
320
rewinds
175
70s · hard rock
KISS: Somebody else wears the makeup
320
rewinds
176
00s · pop
Lady Gaga: Under the costume, a piano
319
rewinds
177
70s · progresivo
King Crimson: The experiment that never stopped
318
rewinds
178
70s · folk
León Gieco: The sheet that was saved
314
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179
80s · pop
Men at Work: The bars that cost too much
313
rewinds
180
80s · progresivo
Los Jaivas: The Progressive Rock That Spoke to the Land
311
rewinds
181
70s · pop
Luis Alberto Spinetta: Born a poet
309
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182
00s · garage
The Rebobinados Manifesto: Why Rewind
308
rewinds
183
80s · indie
Morrissey: The two truths
308
rewinds
184
80s · pop
Pet Shop Boys: Dancing with T. S. Eliot
305
rewinds
185
10s · punk
Pierce the Veil: The photo was never the band
304
rewinds
186
80s · progresivo
Peter Gabriel: He wore masks in order to look
300
rewinds
187
60s · psicodelia
Psychedelia 1967: The Year That Changed Everything
297
rewinds
188
70s · punk
Punk: Three Chords and the Truth
296
rewinds
189
90s · progresivo
The Closest Queen Ever Came to Progressive Rock
294
rewinds
190
50s · soul
Ray Charles: The church and the bar
293
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191
60s · pop
Roy Orbison: The glasses he left behind
292
rewinds
192
70s · hard rock
Robert Plant: He never became his own statue
291
rewinds
193
70s · progresivo
Progressive Rock: Ambition Without Limits
290
rewinds
194
70s · punk
Sex Pistols: Two and a half years
290
rewinds
195
70s · progresivo
Rush: They never made themselves easy
289
rewinds
196
60s · folk
Simon & Garfunkel: The drums nobody asked for
289
rewinds
197
90s · pop
Smash Mouth: The song that beat its own joke
287
rewinds
198
90s · punk
Ska-P: Protest turned carnival
286
rewinds
199
80s · pop
Sting: The teacher who never stopped studying
286
rewinds
200
90s · britpop
Suede: The best before they played
285
rewinds
201
90s · grunge
Stone Temple Pilots: The ones branded a copy who turned out to be chameleons
284
rewinds
202
80s · folk
Suzanne Vega: The voice that tuned the MP3
280
rewinds
203
60s · folk
The Mamas and the Papas: The lie in the obituary
277
rewinds
204
60s · soul
Aretha Franklin: She took the song away
276
rewinds
205
90s · punk
The Offspring: The punk who earned a doctorate
273
rewinds
206
80s · pop
Robert Palmer: The suit was the costume
270
rewinds
207
00s · indie
The xx: Silence as an instrument
268
rewinds
208
00s · soul
Alicia Keys: The classically trained pianist who swept the Grammys at twenty-one
267
rewinds
209
90s · pop
Andrés Calamaro: Writing the way you breathe
267
rewinds
210
80s · pop
The Police: They knew when to leave
267
rewinds
211
80s · indie
U2: Nobody gets left behind
267
rewinds
212
80s · progresivo
The Alan Parsons Project: Designed to have no star
266
rewinds
213
90s · britpop
The Verve: Twenty-two years unable to say it
266
rewinds
214
80s · hard rock
Van Halen: A new language
265
rewinds
215
70s · pop
Barbra Streisand: She changed nothing, and she won everything
262
rewinds
216
70s · pop
Chicago: They put a horn section into rock, and were hiding a guitar genius
262
rewinds
217
10s · pop
Benson Boone: The kid who made the stage a spectacle again
261
rewinds
218
10s · pop
Billie Eilish: She made the future of pop in one bedroom, and swept the Grammys at 18
261
rewinds
219
90s · punk
Blink-182: What aged badly was the mockery
261
rewinds
220
60s · blues rock
B.B. King: One single note
259
rewinds
221
80s · soul
Billy Ocean: From Trinidad to the world, with a velvet voice
259
rewinds
222
50s · pop
Brenda Lee: Sixty-five years late
259
rewinds
223
70s · pop
B.J. Thomas: The voice that put optimism into the rain
258
rewinds
224
70s · disco dance
Boney M.: The voice was in another room
257
rewinds
225
90s · pop
Celine Dion: The most powerful voice in the world, and the courage to come back from the Eiffel Tower
256
rewinds
226
70s · folk
Carole King: She wrote half a decade of other people's hits before singing her own
253
rewinds
227
90s · pop
Cher: Thirty-three years between two number ones
252
rewinds
228
80s · soul
Dionne Warwick: The voice at the centre of a family and of a cause
248
rewinds
229
60s · blues rock
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Second place five times over
245
rewinds
230
80s · pop
The Human League: The one per cent the name cost him
245
rewinds
231
90s · hip hop
Cypress Hill: The Simpsons made a joke in 1996, and they delivered on it 28 years later
244
rewinds
232
10s · disco dance
Dua Lipa: She put out an album for dancing just as the whole world locked itself in
244
rewinds
233
10s · pop
Ed Sheeran: One man, one guitar and one pedal filling the biggest stadiums in the world
244
rewinds
234
70s · disco dance
Donna Summer: The queen of disco who invented the future
243
rewinds
235
70s · disco dance
Eruption: British, Caribbean, and German disco stars
238
rewinds
236
00s · metal
Evanescence: The voice the label imposed on her
238
rewinds
237
50s · pop
Frank Sinatra: Breathing like someone talking
238
rewinds
238
60s · soul
Etta James: The suitcase by the door
237
rewinds
239
60s · pop
Frankie Valli: Four decades
234
rewinds
240
90s · hip hop
Fugees: Three children of exile made one perfect album, and that was enough
234
rewinds
241
60s · pop
George Harrison: The one who waited his turn
232
rewinds
242
80s · folk
Gipsy Kings: The upside-down guitar
229
rewinds
243
80s · pop
George Michael: The immense talent, and the generosity only known when he died
227
rewinds
244
70s · pop
Gilbert O'Sullivan: The softest balladeer in pop changed the rules for all of music
226
rewinds
245
10s · pop
Harry Styles: He beat the boy band curse, and broke the rules of how a man dresses along the way
221
rewinds
246
90s · punk
Green Day: Nobody reads the titles
220
rewinds
247
70s · punk
Iggy Pop: The godfather who outlived them all
219
rewinds
248
80s · punk
Joan Jett: Every label turned her down, so she founded her own
219
rewinds
249
10s · indie
Imagine Dragons: The band the critics scorned, and the singer who fought for the kids who were suffering
218
rewinds
250
60s · funk
James Brown: The night Boston didn't burn
216
rewinds
251
80s · pop
INXS: The most magnetic frontman Australia ever produced
215
rewinds
252
60s · folk
José Feliciano: The slow fire
215
rewinds
253
80s · pop
Journey: The singer they found on YouTube
214
rewinds
254
70s · punk
Joy Division: The bass up front
214
rewinds
255
80s · pop
Gloria Estefan: She danced again
212
rewinds
256
10s · pop
Justin Bieber: He grew up under the whole world's magnifying glass, and survived
212
rewinds
257
70s · disco dance
KC and the Sunshine Band: Miami's joy machine
211
rewinds
258
70s · pop
Kenny Rogers: Somebody else wrote the song
209
rewinds
259
70s · pop
Kiki Dee: The friend who gave Elton John his first number one at home
208
rewinds
260
90s · metal
Korn: A failed guitar and a brand-new genre
207
rewinds
261
80s · pop
Laura Branigan: The voice that came back from the dead to win a cup
206
rewinds
262
80s · disco dance
Modern Talking: Half the duo went on at Viña del Mar
206
rewinds
263
00s · hard rock
Creed: Ninth in sales and first in mockery
205
rewinds
264
70s · blues rock
Keith Richards: The sentence was to play for the blind
205
rewinds
265
90s · punk
Mano Negra: The train where they broke apart
205
rewinds
266
90s · punk
Los Peores de Chile: The old house on Avenida España
204
rewinds
267
70s · progresivo
Roger Hodgson: The two wrists and the broken pact
204
rewinds
268
90s · pop
Natalie Imbruglia: The fourth voice on the same song
203
rewinds
269
60s · pop
Charles Aznavour: They told him his voice was no good
202
rewinds
270
90s · pop
Eagle-Eye Cherry: The son's four chords
202
rewinds
271
00s · metal
Limp Bizkit: The heartbeat that arrived eleven days late
202
rewinds
272
90s · grunge
Alice in Chains: The last one to see him alive
200
rewinds
273
00s · punk
Avril Lavigne: Six years with no album
200
rewinds
274
00s · metal
Limp Bizkit: The barrier the band asked for and was refused
200
rewinds
275
50s · blues rock
Little Richard: The man who never collected on the scream
200
rewinds
276
00s · punk
Panic! at the Disco: The exclamation mark came back when the one who hated it left
200
rewinds
277
90s · funk
Red Hot Chili Peppers: The four from Fairfax High
199
rewinds
278
80s · pop
Rick Astley: The one who served the tea
199
rewinds
279
80s · pop
Huey Lewis and the News: The man who stopped hearing his own song
198
rewinds
280
60s · pop
Los Bravos: Sounding like they weren't Spanish
198
rewinds
281
90s · reggae
Los Pericos: Reggae was already there
198
rewinds
282
90s · pop
Los Tres: The cueca plugged in
198
rewinds
283
00s · pop
Shakira: Eight minutes in a Barcelona court
198
rewinds
284
70s · disco dance
Kraftwerk: Twenty-seven years over two seconds
197
rewinds
285
60s · pop
Louis Armstrong: The boss who hated the song
197
rewinds
286
80s · pop
Charly García: The dinosaurs and the survivor
195
rewinds
287
90s · hard rock
Jane's Addiction: The punch in Boston
195
rewinds
288
90s · pop
Los Piojos: The rock of the barrio
195
rewinds
289
90s · indie
PJ Harvey: The only one to win it twice
194
rewinds
290
00s · hard rock
Queens of the Stone Age: The desert went through Seattle
194
rewinds
291
10s · hip hop
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: They reached number one with no label, and they used that number one for something
193
rewinds
292
10s · pop
Mon Laferte: She never fit the boxes
193
rewinds
293
00s · indie
The Killers: Five hundred weeks without a number one
193
rewinds
294
00s · pop
The Rasmus: Nine years and four albums before the leap
192
rewinds
295
90s · pop
Maná: The chair at the end of the pier
190
rewinds
296
70s · folk
Mercedes Sosa: The poncho on the chair
190
rewinds
297
70s · pop
Billy Joel: The pianist who stayed in the bar
188
rewinds
298
00s · indie
Kings of Leon: Two generations and the same bottle
188
rewinds
299
10s · pop
Miley Cyrus: The Disney girl who came to own herself, and waited almost twenty years for her first Grammy
185
rewinds
300
80s · hard rock
Mötley Crüe: The names rock stopped naming
185
rewinds
301
10s · hard rock
Mötley Crüe: They needed a notary to be believed
184
rewinds
302
00s · britpop
Stereophonics: Sacked just before the only number one
184
rewinds
303
80s · pop
Aparato Raro: Where the dynasty began
182
rewinds
304
80s · metal
Motörhead: A pity prize and a fruit machine
179
rewinds
305
60s · pop
Nancy Sinatra: Boots on the shadow
179
rewinds
306
00s · punk
Paramore: The drummer who came back six years later
179
rewinds
307
90s · pop
Saiko: The voice that came out of an audition
178
rewinds
308
50s · pop
Nat King Cole: The empty easel
176
rewinds
309
00s · pop
Empire of the Sun: Eight years to reach the Hot 100
174
rewinds
310
00s · pop
Juanes: The shirt Italy read backwards
174
rewinds
311
80s · pop
Alphaville: He wasn't talking about Japan
173
rewinds
312
70s · hard rock
Grand Funk Railroad: Seventy-two hours
173
rewinds
313
00s · indie
Interpol: The bass that left before the record
173
rewinds
314
60s · pop
Neil Sedaka: The half somebody else signed
173
rewinds
315
00s · hard rock
Nickelback: The band the whole world decided to hate, and that filled stadiums for twenty years anyway
173
rewinds
316
00s · indie
The Temper Trap: Two and a half weeks before the film
173
rewinds
317
90s · pop
Goo Goo Dolls: Eighteen weeks and no number one
170
rewinds
318
80s · disco dance
New Order: The four records inside "Blue Monday"
169
rewinds
319
00s · pop
Norah Jones: The quietest album of the year swept the Grammys
169
rewinds
320
90s · hip hop
The Notorious B.I.G.: The greatest storyteller rap ever produced, silenced at 24
168
rewinds
321
70s · pop
Olivia Newton-John: The two Sandys
168
rewinds
322
80s · metal
Pantera: They burned what was already working
168
rewinds
323
60s · pop
Paul Anka: Writing another man's life
167
rewinds
324
80s · metal
Twisted Sister: The most sensible man in the room
167
rewinds
325
00s · indie
Kasabian: The statement came a day early
166
rewinds
326
80s · pop
Peter Cetera: The voice behind Chicago's ballads bet on itself, and won
165
rewinds
327
00s · hard rock
Incubus: Twenty-two years later they recorded it again
164
rewinds
328
70s · pop
Paul McCartney: The lawsuit nobody understood
164
rewinds
329
10s · funk
Pharrell Williams: The man who made two whole decades sound the way they did from behind, and then stepped out front
164
rewinds
330
90s · indie
Plastilina Mosh: One from the conservatory, one from noise
161
rewinds
331
10s · indie
Portugal. The Man: Ten years of silent work, and all at once a song that conquered the world
159
rewinds
332
90s · blues rock
Gary Moore: A German court took his blues away
158
rewinds
333
10s · hip hop
Post Malone: He belongs to no genre, and that is why he belongs to everyone
158
rewinds
334
70s · blues rock
ZZ Top: The razor they never used
158
rewinds
335
00s · pop
Lifehouse: The number one of the year that stalled at two
157
rewinds
336
80s · pop
Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota: The band that asked no one's permission
157
rewinds
337
00s · indie
Arctic Monkeys: The MySpace was made by the fans
156
rewinds
338
90s · pop
Bersuit Vergarabat: Two hundred thousand dollars to play it
156
rewinds
339
70s · hard rock
Queen: The guitar his father built
156
rewinds
340
70s · soul
Roberta Flack: The voice that turned silence into power
156
rewinds
341
50s · pop
Ritchie Valens: The first thing he ever won
155
rewinds
342
80s · funk
Rick James: The Grammy came out of a lawsuit
154
rewinds
343
10s · pop
Bruno Mars: Eleven names in the credits
153
rewinds
344
60s · pop
Sammy Davis Jr.: The total entertainer who carried the weight of the world while smiling
151
rewinds
345
50s · pop
Santo & Johnny: The guitar that weeps
151
rewinds
346
90s · pop
Savage Garden: They made a generation's love song, and left at the top
151
rewinds
347
90s · funk
Jamiroquai: The floor was not moving
150
rewinds
348
90s · grunge
Pearl Jam: They testified and they lost
150
rewinds
349
80s · pop
Starship: A judge gave them their name
150
rewinds
350
90s · pop
Daniela Mercury: She took the neighbourhood out of the song
148
rewinds
351
90s · hard rock
Scorpions: The whistle and the Kremlin
148
rewinds
352
50s · blues rock
Jerry Lee Lewis: He married his bass player's daughter
146
rewinds
353
90s · soul
Seal: The song that embarrassed him, and the scars he never hid
146
rewinds
354
60s · garage
Shocking Blue: The Dutchmen who got there first
146
rewinds
355
90s · hard rock
Lenny Kravitz: He doesn't play that guitar
145
rewinds
356
90s · soul
Simply Red: A credit given away
144
rewinds
357
70s · folk
Willie Nelson: Fifty dollars and sixteen million
144
rewinds
358
90s · grunge
Dave Grohl: The drummer who turned out to be a songwriter
141
rewinds
359
90s · indie
Sixpence None the Richer: The most secular song of the year was made by a Christian band, and the name explains it all
141
rewinds
360
80s · pop
REO Speedwagon: Its only founder was already gone
140
rewinds
361
50s · pop
Édith Piaf: The sparrow of Belleville
139
rewinds
362
90s · grunge
Silverchair: They never said they were splitting up
139
rewinds
363
90s · metal
Slipknot: They erased their faces so you would look at the music
139
rewinds
364
00s · indie
Klaxons: The joke that won the Mercury
138
rewinds
365
80s · pop
Opus: The tape was full
138
rewinds
366
90s · hard rock
Foo Fighters: Five times Best Rock Album
137
rewinds
367
60s · funk
Sly Stone: Who gets on stage with you
137
rewinds
368
80s · hard rock
Survivor: The anthem of grit was born from a phone call by Sylvester Stallone
137
rewinds
369
00s · metal
System of a Down: They only sing when there is something to say
137
rewinds
370
70s · pop
The Carpenters: The warmest voice in pop, and the drummer hidden behind it
137
rewinds
371
80s · pop
Yazoo: Others got to number one
137
rewinds
372
60s · blues rock
The Animals: One name on the label
135
rewinds
373
60s · pop
The Archies: The band that could not argue
134
rewinds
374
90s · pop
Enya: They told her she would be nobody
132
rewinds
375
90s · disco dance
Moloko: The tight sweater was the title
132
rewinds
376
00s · folk
Natalia Lafourcade: Where it said pumpkin she put flowers
132
rewinds
377
70s · folk
Piero: The old man wasn't his
131
rewinds
378
90s · pop
La Ley: The song the dead man wrote
130
rewinds
379
90s · grunge
Candlebox: The farewell that wasn't
129
rewinds
380
80s · pop
Fine Young Cannibals: The break-up at the summit
129
rewinds
381
00s · garage
The White Stripes: The surname was the drummer's
129
rewinds
382
90s · pop
Björk: Debut was not her debut
128
rewinds
383
80s · pop
Spandau Ballet: The perfect song and the lawsuit
127
rewinds
384
60s · hard rock
Steppenwolf: The motorcycle was a Ford Falcon
127
rewinds
385
70s · garage
The Guess Who: The Canadians who put an anti-United States song at number one in the United States
127
rewinds
386
70s · punk
Elvis Costello: The nerd who refused to be pigeonholed
126
rewinds
387
00s · indie
Peter Bjorn and John: The whistle was provisional
126
rewinds
388
60s · pop
The Hollies: The voices that split up and found each other again on a record
126
rewinds
389
00s · soul
Duffy: She told it first
125
rewinds
390
90s · punk
Fiskales Ad-Hok: The world tour started with them
125
rewinds
391
00s · metal
Sinergia: The song everyone misread
125
rewinds
392
00s · metal
Staind: The sleeve that nearly cost them everything
125
rewinds
393
70s · soul
The Jackson 5: Four number ones in a row, and a boy who changed everything
125
rewinds
394
70s · progresivo
Jean-Michel Jarre: Twenty-five times in his whole life
123
rewinds
395
90s · disco dance
Enigma: The same mistake twice
121
rewinds
396
90s · punk
Chumbawamba: The manifesto everyone sang without knowing it
119
rewinds
397
90s · grunge
Eddie Vedder: His dead father sings on his record
119
rewinds
398
90s · metal
Marilyn Manson: The lawsuit he withdrew while paying
119
rewinds
399
50s · soul
The Platters: The crack in the wall
119
rewinds