Best Of Rock: 10 Of The Saddest Songs
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
There’s no accounting for what’s going to stop us cold and remind us of that long-lost ex, something that slices through our heart. For me, there...
Best Of Rock: 10 Keyboard Solos Not Played By Emerson Or Wakeman
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Far be it from me to make these lists easy. Uber fan as I am of knife-wielding Keith Emerson and cape-twirling Rick Wakeman, I thought it...
Best Of Rock: 10 (or so) Never-Sung-About Unsung Heroes Of Rock & Roll
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
There are a host of studio musicians, unknown arrangers, producers, writers, artists — gals and guys of every stripe, background and from every era — that...
Best Of Rock: Seven Things Taken For Granted
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
A woefully subjective-in-no-way-conclusive-completely-unscientific listing of those moments in rock music, whether intentional or accidental, that stir men’s souls and cause women’s skirts to inch-up so suggestively...
Best Of Rock: 10 Concerts To Catch In 2014
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Looking at the roster of concerts for 2014, I feel a bit like Al Pacino in The Godfather III when he complains, “I thought I was...
Best Of Rock: 10 Ballsy Parts On Famous Songs
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
They thunder from your speakers, cause you to press pedal to the metal, fist pump in a concert crowd, get your blood boiling for the big...
Best Of Rock: 10 Album Covers That Changed My Life
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
Like everybody else, I enjoy all the wonderful gains with our latest technologies — but I am about as likely to watch a movie on my...
Best Of Rock: 10 Rock N’ Roll Literary Connections
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
As often as they are accused of being sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll layabouts, many are wise beyond their years. Queen’s Brian May and Dean...
Best Of Rock: 10 Songs I Really Do Like…But Don’t Need To Hear Again
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
All bands have ‘em. They are those super-duper popular tunes that either broke a group to a mainstream audience, have been co-opted for commercials or are...
Best Of Rock: 10 Moments When We Might Have Lost Rock n’ Roll…But Didn’t
By Ralph Greco, Jr.
From legislation to outlaw it to past preachers who condemn it — bucking trends, scrutiny and inflation — rock has risen again and again like the...
