Drumroll please. Shmoop introduces our 8th subject,
Shmoop Music.
The same website that compared 19th century literature to Gossip Girl and called Emily Dickinson a packrat takes on Kurt Cobain and John Lennon.
Remember VH1’s Pop-Up Video and how sweet it was to snack on juicy trivia as you watched a music video? Shmoop Music takes things to a whole new level. Whet your whistle on some of the most influential songs of all time. Drink in the songs you know and can’t get enough of. We offer shocking backstories and gritty details, and we explore the meaning of the lyrics, the music, and the songwriting.
Music is a delicious treat for finicky young intellectual palates. Music can help your students find an appetite for poetry, literature, and history. What better way to assuage student fears about poetry than to begin with an analysis of Bob Marley’s lyrics?
Don’t See Your Favorite? We’re Just Getting Started. Shmoop Takes Requests
- Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bob Dylan)
- Concrete Jungle (Bob Marley and the Wailers)
- Livin’ on a Prayer (Bon Jovi)
- Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen)
- Life on Mars (David Bowie)
- Welcome to the Jungle (Guns N’ Roses)
- Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
- Blaze of Glory (Jon Bon Jovi)
- Through the Wire (Kanye West)
- Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
- Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)
- Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
- Paper Planes (M.I.A.)
- Like a Prayer (Madonna)
- Kids (MGMT)
- Head Like a Hole (Nine Inch Nails)
- Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
- When Doves Cry (Prince)
- Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead)
- Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
- Samson (Regina Spektor)
- I Am the Walrus (The Beatles)
- I Want to Hold Your Hand (The Beatles)
- Roxanne (The Police)
- Heroin (The Velvet Underground)
- Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty)
- One (U2)
