Some of the best classic rock songs are downright painful to hear at times. For example, Marianne Faithfull’s “As Tears Go By” is especially difficult to listen to now. Faithfull had ...

Or it can put you in a joyous mood. Or it can elicit tears from your welling eyes. One of the most envied guitar-based songs in rock history. Jimi Hendrix summons such beauty with the intro riff ...

These one-hit wonders used pretty unusual instruments to produce their megahits, one of which wasn't an instrument at all.