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    All your favorite one-hit wonders from the '70s.
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    Don't fight it, feel it! In the 1960s, gospel music met secular lyrics describing the black experience in America, and soul music was born. '60s soul singers demanded respect, begged for love, and told it like it was, changing popular music forever.
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    Cool tunes from the golden age of pre-punk classic rock, 1965-'76, featuring deep tracks from the era's superstars as well as definitive songs from cult heroes and oddballs. Vintage doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.
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    Since 2007, Elbow frontman, Guy Garvey has hosted his own BBC radio show. Listen to all the songs he's spun on "Guy Garvey's Finest Hour."
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    In memory of the life of Levon Helm (1940-2012), this playlist explores the country- and blues-flavored roots rock of The Band. Each recording on this playlist features a performance by Robbie, Rick, Richard, Garth or Levon.

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    Folk rock was born when bands started using rock instrumentation to play traditional folk music in the 1960s. These are the songs that defined this important development in popular music history.
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    Sit back, relax, and drink the "electric kool-aid." This playlist offers up the best psychedelic music from the genre's most fruitfull decade, the 1960s. Far out, indeed.
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    Don't fight it, feel it! In the 1960s, gospel music met secular lyrics describing the black experience in America, and soul music was born. '60s soul singers demanded respect, begged for love, and told it like it was, changing popular music forever.
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    From the end of the '50s to the start of the '60s, the kids kicked off their shoes and started shaking all over the place. These were the sounds they moved to, back in the days when doo wop and R&B were just another way of saying "rock & roll."
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    What if you could listen to Bob Dylan's record collection? This is probably the closest you'll ever get. All songs taken from Dylan's XM radio show, "Theme Time Radio Hour." (Also, this station is a work in progress.)
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    In the 1990s, these bands revitalized and re-imagined the British tradition of tuneful, guitar driven pop bands (established, of course, by The Beatles). The lyrics celebrate British youth culture and the music is packed full of big, bright, catchy hooks.
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    These are the songs that take classic rock to another level: forgotten B-sides and sprawling deep cuts from the most iconic rock acts of the '60s and '70s.
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    Whether you're studying for finals, organizing your desk, or filling out expense reports, these classical pieces provide the perfect musical accompaniment to help you get the job done. Now get to work!
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    It wasn't all peace and love; feel the bad vibes of the psychedelic void with artists from the 1960s to now.
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    Characterized by its lush vocal harmonies, "doomph, doomph" bass lines, group snapping, and high falsetto, doo-wop was one of the most popular musical styles of the '50s and '60s.
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    One of rock journalism's favorite buzzwords comes to life in songs that echo Dylan's various phases lyrically and/or vocally. Explore Bob's influence on his generations of disciples, from the folk-rock era to today's modern troubadours.
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    Drawing on influences from traditional folk, psychedelia, and elsewhere, freak folk was born out of the "New Weird America" cultural movement in the mid-2000s. Listen to the sounds inspiring a new generation of hippies and expanding the definition of folk music.
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    In the '50s and '60s, NYC's Greenwich Village was home to America's folk music revival. With Odetta and Pete Seeger guiding newcomers like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, the Village proved fertile ground (once again) for seminal bohemian developments.
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    Since 2007, Elbow frontman, Guy Garvey has hosted his own BBC radio show. Listen to all the songs he's spun on "Guy Garvey's Finest Hour."
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    Cool tunes from the golden age of pre-punk classic rock, 1965-'76, featuring deep tracks from the era's superstars as well as definitive songs from cult heroes and oddballs. Vintage doesn't have to mean old-fashioned.
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    Dance the night away to the stacked jukebox in a steamy dive bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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    Get intimate with these lushly arranged records full of artful elegance -- from idiosyncratic alt-pop to moody soul and cool, classy balladry.
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    Celebrate the return of one of television's best shows with this playlist of every song to be featured on the hit series.
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    While "The Artist" looked back to Hollywood's silent film era (1920s), the film's composer, Ludovic Bource, drew inspiration from the composers of Hollywood's Golden Age (1930s-'50s).
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    A collection of classics and lesser-known gems from the beginning of rock & roll, with an emphasis on country-leaning "hillbilly rock," or rockabilly
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    As rock & roll entered its second decade, these artists brought new vocal, lyrical and musical complexity while retaining a youthful spark. The result was rock even the Mad Men generation enjoyed.
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    Hit the southern backroads with these classic 45s from the birth of rock 'n' roll. And while you're out there, visit 706 Union Street in Memphis, where Sam Phillips' Sun Records birthed their pioneering mix of R&B and hillbilly music.
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    The Beatles are arguably the most important group in the history of recorded music. This playlist features essential songs by The Beatles, solo recordings by individual members, as well covers from their friends and indebted followers.
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    During the 1058 days between Jan. 14, 1967 (the Human Be-In) and Dec. 6, 1969 (Altamont), rock became the voice of a generation. This fertile period yielded more iconic songs than ever before or since.
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    Like the blues music they're grounded in, The Black Keys possess both timelessness and staying power. Listen to the greatest songs from their influences -- including band favorites -- as well as those from their contemporaries and side projects.