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The Greatest Opening Guitar Riffs Ever
What's the greatest opening guitar riff? SMGM documents the 10 best of all time. But...
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Bruce Springsteen “Mary’s Place”
Whether Mary's dress waves or sways to open Thunder Road, a character named Mary recurs...
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The Top 10 Best American Bands
To celebrate Independence Day, So Much Great Music went through the painstaking process of choosing...
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Top 5 Movie Songs by Fictional Bands
Real movies, fake bands: the So Much Great Music countdown of the best 5 songs...
November 7, 2022
Steely Dan “Bodhisattva”
It’s doubtful you would ever think of Steely Dan as a “guitar solo” band, and...
November 29, 2019
The 10 Most Perfect Albums
In search of perfection: So Much Great Music makes the case for the 10 most...
October 22, 2021
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