66-418: (Redirected from Blackstars ) Black Star or Blackstar may refer to: Astronomy [ edit ] Black star (semiclassical gravity) , a theoretical star built using semiclassical gravity as an alternative to a black hole Saturn , referred to as "Black Star" in ancient Judaeic belief Black dwarf , a theoretical stellar remnant formed after cooling of
132-460: A Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The title track was released as the album's lead single on 19 November 2015 and used as the opening music for the television series The Last Panthers . Its music video, shot in September 2015 in a Brooklyn studio, is a surreal ten-minute short film directed by The Last Panthers director Johan Renck . It depicts a woman with
198-495: A 1985 song by Georgie Davis "Black Star", a 1995 song by Radiohead from The Bends "Black Star", a 1996 song by Carcass from Swansong "Black Star", a 1996 song by Lustmord from Strange Attractor/Black Star "Blackstar", a 2003 song by Yahzarah from Blackstar "Black Star", a 2004 song by Peccatum from Lost in Reverie "Black Star", a 2011 song by Avril Lavigne from Goodbye Lullaby "BlackStar",
264-419: A 1998 album by Black Star Blackstar , a 2003 album by Yahzarah Black Star , a 2006 album by Timati Songs [ edit ] "Blackstar" (song) , a 2015 song by David Bowie "Black Star", a song by Elvis Presley from sessions for the film Flaming Star "Black Star", a 1980 song by Touch (1980s band) "Black Star", a 1984 track by Yngwie Malmsteen from Rising Force "Blackstar",
330-513: A 2012 song by Carlos Jean "Blackstar", a 2012 song by Celldweller from Wish Upon a Blackstar "Black Star", a 2024 song by Static-X from Project Regeneration Vol. 2 Sports [ edit ] Black Stars Basel , a football team based in Basel, Switzerland Ghana national football team , nicknamed "Black Stars" Other uses [ edit ] Black Star of Africa , symbol of Africa or Ghana Black Star (anarchist group) ,
396-659: A 2018 novel by the Canadian author Maureen Medved Companies and brands [ edit ] Black Star (cider) , a brand of cider produced by Brookfield Drinks Black Star (fragrance) , a perfume by Avril Lavigne Black Star (photo agency) , a New York-based photo agency founded in 1935 Black Star Canyon , an area in Orange County California Black Star Line , a shipping line created by Marcus Garvey to repatriate African-Americans to Africa Black Sex Link , or Black Star,
462-421: A Greek direct action group, also known as Mavro Asteri See also [ edit ] Black Sun (disambiguation) Black hole Dark Star (disambiguation) Dark Sun (disambiguation) Blaqstarr (born 1985), American rapper, producer and DJ Star Black , poet, photographer and artist Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
528-537: A Little Time" and a remake of "Someday" (now retitled "Blaze"). Although Bowie performed his vocals live while the band were playing during the Magic Shop sessions, he and Visconti moved to Human Worldwide studios in April for proper recording. The majority of his vocals were recorded from scratch between April and May, although some vocals from the Magic Shop sessions, including part of "I Can't Give Everything Away" and
594-447: A Season of Crime) " and " 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore ", both of which were originally released in 2014. More experimental than its predecessor The Next Day (2013), the music on Blackstar combines atmospheric art rock with various styles of jazz. Bowie took inspiration from artists including Kendrick Lamar and Death Grips , listening to them during the album's production. The cover art, designed by Jonathan Barnbrook , features
660-402: A Season of Crime)" featured brass-heavy instrumentation and a bebop -jazz arrangement, Stephen Dalton of Classic Rock magazine writes that the re-recorded version "feels sharper, denser and heavier", with added funk rock guitar lines and "percussive shudders". "Girl Loves Me" features synthesisers, "acrobatic" drumming, strings and "bouncing" bass. "Dollar Days", the sixth track, contains
726-488: A breed of chicken Film and television [ edit ] The Black Star (film) , a 1922 German silent film Blackstar ( Arrow ) , a character in the series Arrow Blackstar (TV series) , a 1981 fantasy/science fiction cartoon by Filmation Black Star ( Soul Eater ) , a ninja assassin character in Soul Eater media Black Stars, a set of characters from Sgt. Frog Black Star , working title of
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#1732782362176792-487: A career highlight. Rolling Stone critic David Fricke called Blackstar "a ricochet of textural eccentricity and pictorial-shrapnel writing". Andy Gill of The Independent regarded the record as "the most extreme album of [Bowie's] entire career", stating that " Blackstar is as far as he's strayed from pop." Jon Pareles of The New York Times described the album as "at once emotive and cryptic, structured and spontaneous and, above all, willful, refusing to cater to
858-525: A digital download, and received its world premiere on BBC Radio 6 Music 's Steve Lamacq Show the same day. A music video for "Lazarus", shot in November 2015 in a studio in Brooklyn and again directed by Renck, was released on 7 January 2016, the day before the album's release. It prominently features Bowie, appearing with a bandage and buttons sewn over his eyes, lying on a deathbed. The video
924-414: A far, far more intriguing one." NME critic Sam Richards stated that Bowie had maintained his "formidable record of reinventing himself" on a "busy, bewildering and occasionally beautiful record", adding that "one of the few certainties we can take from this restless, relentlessly intriguing album is that David Bowie is positively allergic to the idea of heritage rock." Chris Gerard of PopMatters called
990-401: A form of degeneracy pressure preventing spacetime (and the particles held within it) from occupying the same space at the same time. This vacuum energy is theoretically unlimited and, if built up quickly enough, will stop gravitational collapse from creating a singularity . This may entail an ever-decreasing rate of collapse leading to an infinite collapse time or asymptotically approaching
1056-502: A hip hop group formed by rappers Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli Blackstar (band) , a heavy metal band formed by former members of Carcass Black Star, later named Motör Militia , a Bahraini thrash metal band One of the aliases of jungle producer Rebel MC Albums [ edit ] Blackstar (album) , a 2016 album by David Bowie Black Stars (album) , a 2001 album by Jason Moran Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star ,
1122-456: A large black star with five star segments at the bottom that spell out the word "BOWIE". The album was preceded by the singles " Blackstar " and " Lazarus ", both of which were supported by music videos . Two days after its release, Bowie died of liver cancer ; his illness had not been revealed to the public until then. Visconti described the album as Bowie's intended swan song and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death. Upon release,
1188-483: A radius bigger than zero. A black star with a radius slightly greater than the predicted event horizon for an equivalent-mass black hole will appear very dark, because almost all light produced will be drawn back to the star, and any escaping light will be severely gravitationally redshifted. It will appear almost exactly like a black hole. It will feature Hawking radiation , as virtual particle pairs created in its vicinity may still be split, with one particle escaping and
1254-447: A review before Bowie's death, Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork wrote: "This tortured immortality is no gimmick: Bowie will live on long after the man has died. For now, though, he's making the most of his latest reawakening, adding to the myth while the myth is his to hold." Barry Walters of NPR , reviewing the album the day after Bowie's death, believed the album "resonates precisely because it favors emotion over meaning." Walters felt that
1320-500: A sax solo and an arrangement that Dalton considers reminiscent of Bowie's work on Young Americans (1975). Biographer Chris O'Leary believes "Dollar Days" has "the lushest arrangement" on the album. In the final track, "I Can't Give Everything Away", Bowie plays a harmonica solo similar to one from his instrumental track " A New Career in a New Town " off his 1977 album Low . Billboard and CNN wrote that Bowie's lyrics seem to address his impending death, with CNN noting that
1386-435: A tail, played by Elisa Lasowski , discovering a dead astronaut and taking his jewel-encrusted skull to an ancient, otherworldly town. The astronaut's bones float toward a solar eclipse, while a circle of women perform a ritual with the skull in the town's centre. The short film won the award for Best Art Direction at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards . The second single, "Lazarus", was released on 17 December 2015 as
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#17327823621761452-542: A white dwarf to a sufficient level where heat is no longer emitted Literature [ edit ] Blackstar (novel) , a 2013 novel by Josh Viola, based on the album Wish Upon a Blackstar by Celldweller Blackstar, a character from Erin Hunter's Warriors series The Black Star , a fantasy novel by Lin Carter Black Star, a character in pulp fiction written by Johnston McCulley Black Star,
1518-560: Is a gravitational object composed of matter. It is a theoretical alternative to the black hole concept from general relativity . The theoretical construct was created through the use of semiclassical gravity theory. A similar structure should also exist for the Einstein–Maxwell–Dirac equations system, which is the (super) classical limit of quantum electrodynamics , and for the Einstein–Yang–Mills–Dirac system, which
1584-406: Is all I ever meant / That's the message that I sent", which led Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph to think of the song as a point where "Bowie sounds like he is grappling with his own mystery." The artwork for Blackstar was designed by Jonathan Barnbrook , who filled the same role on Heathen (2002), Reality (2003) and The Next Day . The cover's star image is credited to NASA in
1650-425: Is the (super) classical limit of the standard model. A black star does not require an event horizon , and may or may not be a transitional phase between a collapsing star and a singularity . A black star is created when matter compresses at a rate significantly less than the free fall velocity of a hypothetical particle falling to the center of its star. Quantum processes create vacuum polarization , producing
1716-763: The British Album of the Year at the 2017 Brit Awards . It was listed as one of the best albums of 2016 and later the 2010s decade by numerous publications. Outtakes from the recording sessions were released on the No Plan EP in 2017. In the years following Bowie's death, commentators have named Blackstar one of his best works, and was included in the 2018 edition of the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . David Bowie recorded Blackstar while suffering from liver cancer . Like his previous album The Next Day (2013), recording took place in secret at
1782-557: The Magic Shop and Human Worldwide Studios in New York City, with production being co-handled by Bowie and longtime collaborator Tony Visconti . Bowie began writing and making demos for songs that appear on Blackstar as soon as sessions for The Next Day concluded. Two songs, " Sue (Or in a Season of Crime) " and " 'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore ", had been previously released, but were re-recorded for Blackstar . The title of
1848-656: The soundtrack album for the Lazarus musical in October 2016. In 2018, Jon Culshaw played Bowie in the BBC radio play The Final Take: Bowie in the Studio , an imagined account of Bowie as he works on the album and looks back over his life. Blackstar was acclaimed by music critics and fans. On Metacritic , the album has an average score of 87 out of 100 based on 43 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Several considered it
1914-434: The 1960 western Flaming Star "Black Star", an episode of the series Space: 1999 Military [ edit ] Blackstar (spacecraft) , a rumored United States Air Force spaceplane Black Star, or Type 54 pistol , Chinese pistols Music [ edit ] Blackstar Amplification , a UK-based manufacturer of guitar amplification and effects pedals Bands [ edit ] Black Star (rap duo) ,
1980-477: The CD booklet. The five star segments below the main star form the word "BOWIE" in stylised letters. The vinyl cover, in black, features the star as a cutout, revealing the record (with an all-black picture label) beneath. With the record removed, the black paper behind the cutout reveals a hidden picture of a starfield when the foldout sleeve is held up to a light source. It took more than four months for fans to discover
2046-606: The Starman is now returning to the heavens above. We can't begin to thank you enough for all your gifts." Following Bowie's death, Bryan Wawzenek of Ultimate Classic Rock ranked Blackstar as Bowie's twelfth-greatest album, describing it as a throwback to his Berlin Trilogy . Although he felt it wasn't as "accessible" as The Next Day , he considered it a "great companion piece" and "a fitting end to one of rock's most influential careers." In 2018, Consequence of Sound ranked
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2112-561: The UK because of streaming . As of January 2018, the album has sold 446,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Bowie was the biggest-selling vinyl artist of 2016 in the UK, with five albums in the vinyl Top 30, including Blackstar as the number one vinyl album of the year. It sold twice as many copies as the previous year's winner, Adele 's 25 . In the US, the album debuted at number one on
2178-482: The US Billboard 200 chart, moving 181,000 copies in its first week. Its number one debut was previously anticipated by Billboard , though its total sales exceeded expectations by 51,000 copies. The album topped the iTunes chart following Bowie's death, with Best of Bowie (2002) placing second. It was Bowie's first number one in the US and best weekly sales figure. It was the 14th-best-selling album in
2244-752: The US in 2016, with 448,000 copies sold that year. After news of his death, some music stores in both the US and UK sold out of copies. The album also peaked at number one in 24 countries, number two in Greece and Mexico, number four in Hungary, and number five in Japan. It has since been certified Gold in Germany, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the US, certified Platinum in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and
2310-414: The album "reveals a man who appears to be grappling with his own mortality". The title track features the lyrics: "Something happened on the day he died / Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside / somebody else took his place, and bravely cried, 'I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar'"; Jesse Kinos-Goodin of CBC Music felt these lyrics represented Bowie reflecting on his life and impending death. "Lazarus" features
2376-428: The album "singular in its unique sound and vibe," describing it as "trippy and majestic head-music spun from moonage daydreams and made for gliding in and out of life." Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly considered the album Bowie's best work in years. In a review published before his death, Greenblatt felt the album contained enough themes and imagery that could "probably be dissected for days or even weeks." In
2442-476: The album as Bowie's eighth-greatest, writing: "This is one of Bowie's most dynamic outings and a courageous triggering of a second creative wind." Praising the experimental nature and lyrics, staff writer Lior Phillips concluded "It's a startling reminder that the only way Bowie can transcend 49 years of artistry is by detaching from the Superstar he had become and transform into a new thing altogether." The album
2508-540: The album as Bowie's intended swan song and a "parting gift" for his fans before his death. Within days of the album's release, online retailer Amazon.com temporarily sold out of both the CD and LP editions. The third and final single, "I Can't Give Everything Away", was released posthumously on 6 April. The outtakes "No Plan", "Killing a Little Time" and "When I Met You" were included on an EP, No Plan , released on 8 January 2017, which would have been Bowie's 70th birthday. The three songs had appeared on
2574-481: The album is "so startling" because it reminded listeners that even though Bowie was long past his golden years, it is almost as if he never left them. He concluded the review stating "even while staring down death, [he] reversed his claim on " Station to Station " so many years ago: It's never too late to be grateful." Writing for The A.V. Club , which chose it as the best album of 2016, Sean O'Neal described Blackstar as "a sonically adventurous album that proves Bowie
2640-443: The album was met with commercial success, topping charts in a number of countries in the wake of Bowie's death, including the UK, and became his only album to top the US Billboard 200 . It was the fifth-best-selling album of the year, worldwide, and has been certified Gold and Platinum in the US and the UK, respectively. Critically acclaimed, Blackstar won three Grammy Awards at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017 and awarded
2706-402: The album, Visconti said "We wound up with nothing like that, but we loved the fact that Kendrick was so open-minded and he didn't do a straight-up hip-hop record. He threw everything on there, and that's exactly what we wanted to do." According to Pegg, another album Bowie listened to during the sessions was D'Angelo 's Black Messiah (2014), which featured a fusion of soul, jazz and funk that
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2772-471: The backing band for the sessions. McCaslin and Guiliana previously played on the original version of "Sue". The musicians received demos from Bowie in December 2014 in preparation for the sessions at the start of the new year. Visconti told Mojo : "If we'd used [Bowie's] former musicians they would be rock people playing jazz...Having jazz guys play rock music turns it upside down." Lefebvre later said that
2838-427: The band worked with Bowie "essentially from 11 to 4 every day", while Lefebvre stated that "it never looked to us like he was sick". James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem was present during the second block of recording; his work on Arcade Fire 's Reflektor inspired Bowie to create a remix of " Love Is Lost " for The Next Day Extra . Recorded in early February was " Dollar Days ", " Girl Loves Me ", "Someday" and
2904-469: The band's chemistry made the sessions much easier. Bowie knew exactly what he wanted, so Lefebvre felt special that Bowie chose a band that was a "unit" and not a random set of studio musicians. Bowie also encouraged the band to try new things and experiment with ideas; Lindner told Rolling Stone , "He gave us the freedom to really just play, sort of be ourselves, and if we were hearing anything in particular, to try it out." Visconti gave consistent praise to
2970-436: The band, saying "They can play something at the drop of a dime". Recording began at the Magic Shop in the first week of 2015. Most of the rhythm tracks were recorded in one or two takes. Tracks for both Blackstar and the Lazarus musical were recorded: "Lazarus", "No Plan", the re-working of "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" and "When I Met You". During the week, Bowie celebrated his 68th birthday; his wife Iman visited him in
3036-533: The center. Blackstar (album) Blackstar (stylised as ★ ) is the 26th and final studio album by the English musician David Bowie . Released on 8 January 2016, Bowie's 69th birthday, the album was recorded in secret in New York City with his longtime co-producer Tony Visconti and a group of local jazz musicians: Donny McCaslin , Jason Lindner , Tim Lefebvre and Mark Guiliana . The album contains re-recorded versions of two songs, " Sue (Or in
3102-526: The effect. The designer claimed there were many other surprises hidden in the LP's artwork. Music journalists noted that a "black star lesion," usually found inside a breast, suggests to medical practitioners evidence of certain types of cancer. The sleeve is the first and only Bowie sleeve to not feature an image of the artist himself. After Bowie's death, Barnbrook released the Blackstar design elements under
3168-410: The expectations of radio stations or fans". The Daily Telegraph ' s Neil McCormick hailed Blackstar as an "extraordinary" album which "suggests that, like a modern day Lazarus of pop, Bowie is well and truly back from beyond." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian praised the album, calling it "a rich, deep and strange album that feels like Bowie moving restlessly forward, his eyes fixed ahead:
3234-455: The first week (a week that saw four other Bowie albums in the Top 10 and a further seven in the Top 40, the latter equalling Elvis Presley 's chart record) and became his tenth number-one album in the UK. The album remained three weeks at number one, falling to number two behind another Bowie album, the compilation Best of Bowie (2002), which became the first-ever album to get to number one in
3300-435: The full vocal for "No Plan" were kept. The final master mix is credited to English engineer Tom Elmhirst , although Bowie and Visconti oversaw the mixing sessions in general. According to Visconti, he and Bowie deliberately attempted "to avoid rock'n'roll" while making the album. They listened to rapper Kendrick Lamar 's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly during the recording sessions and cited it as an influence. Discussing
3366-459: The latter derives from 'Tis Pity She's a Whore , a play by the 17th century English dramatist John Ford . The song " Lazarus " was included in Bowie's Off-Broadway musical of the same name . Bowie recruited a local New York jazz quartet led by saxophonist Donny McCaslin , and featuring other musicians including drummer Mark Guiliana , pianist Jason Lindner and bassist Tim Lefebvre , as
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#17327823621763432-483: The lines "Look up here, I'm in heaven / I've got scars that can't be seen", which appeared in many publications following Bowie's death on 10 January. "Girl Loves Me" was notable for its inclusion of Nadsat , a fictional language created by Anthony Burgess for his 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange , where it was used very often. It also included Polari , a type of slang used commonly in England by homosexual men during
3498-467: The mid-20th century. The refrain, the explicit "Where the fuck did Monday go?", was interpreted by Pegg as the kind of desperation from a man who knows his time is running out. "Dollar Days" contains the lyrics "don't believe for just one second I'm forgetting you — I'm trying to, I'm dying to/too", which Pegg and O'Leary note is a very dark pun. "I Can't Give Everything Away" contains the line "Seeing more and feeling less / Saying no but meaning yes / This
3564-446: The other being trapped. Additionally, it will create thermal Planckian radiation that will closely resemble the expected Hawking radiation of an equivalent black hole. The predicted interior of a black star will be composed of this strange state of spacetime, with each length in depth heading inward appearing the same as a black star of equivalent mass and radius with the overlayment stripped off. Temperatures increase with depth towards
3630-419: The position in which he's always made his greatest music." In a favourable review for Exclaim! , Michael Rancic wrote that Blackstar is "a defining statement from someone who isn't interested in living in the past, but rather, for the first time in a while, waiting for everyone else to catch up". Reviewing for Q magazine, Tom Doyle wrote, " Blackstar is a more concise statement than The Next Day and
3696-404: The re-recording of "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore" was "powered by a hip hop beat and free-form sax", unlike the original, which was described by Dalton as "a propulsive, roaring, heavily electronic wall of sound." "Lazarus" is described by Pegg as "an intense, brooding threnody". Some critics felt the track begins to drag across its six-minute runtime. Although the original version of "Sue (Or in
3762-537: The remake of "Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)". "Dollar Days" was created without a preliminary demo being made for the song. McCaslin later stated that Bowie one day "just picked up a guitar ... he had this little idea, and we just learned it right there in the studio." For the March sessions, the band were joined by jazz guitarist Ben Monder , who played on the original recording of "Sue". Songs recorded included " Blackstar ", " I Can't Give Everything Away ", "Killing
3828-472: The studio and the band played an avant-garde rendition of " Happy Birthday ". Following the January sessions, further recording commenced in blocks; according to Nicholas Pegg , they lasted four to six days each, in the first week of February and the third week of March. Bowie emailed demos to the musicians before each session. The backing band were reportedly unaware of Bowie's declining health – McCaslin said
3894-487: The title Black Star . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Star&oldid=1246876470 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Black star (semiclassical gravity) A black star
3960-509: The voting for 2016's top album. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in 2017, the album won awards for Best Alternative Music Album , Best Recording Package and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical . In addition, the title track won both Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance . The album was nominated for the Top Rock Album award at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards , losing to Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots . Blackstar
4026-514: Was also included in the 2018 edition of Robert Dimery's book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . Pitchfork later listed the album as one of the greatest albums of the 2010s decade, calling it "a magnificent farewell to his audience." Blackstar was named one of the best albums of 2016 by numerous publications. According to Metacritic, it was the most prominently ranked record of 2016. In The Village Voice ' s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, Blackstar finished at number one in
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#17327823621764092-509: Was always one step ahead—where he'll now remain in perpetuity." Sandra Sperounes of the Edmonton Journal stated that Bowie kept true to the artistic statement "An artist must be willing to embrace failure as one step to evolving what it is he does. You have to be able to fail to accept it – otherwise you're not going to go anywhere. With Blackstar , he kept true to this artistic statement until his body failed. We have to accept it –
4158-575: Was his most experimental album in years. The saxophone was the first instrument Bowie learned; he was an avid jazz listener in his youth and had occasionally worked with jazz musicians in the past. The album's title track incorporates nu jazz while progressing through a drum and bass –style rhythm, an acid house –inspired portion of the instrumental, a saxophone solo, and a lower-tempo blues -like section. Ten minutes in length, it originally began as two separate melodies before being merged to one single piece. Andy Greene of Rolling Stone said that
4224-615: Was later named as one of the greatest albums of the 2010s decade by numerous publications, including Billboard , Consequence of Sound , NME , Pitchfork , Rolling Stone , Slant Magazine and Stereogum . Blackstar was already on course to debut at number one on the UK Albums Chart prior to the announcement of Bowie's death on 10 January 2016, according to the Official Charts Company . The album debuted at number one after selling 146,000 copies in
4290-427: Was nominated for three awards: Best Direction, Best Cinematography and Best Editing , at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Blackstar was released on 8 January 2016, coinciding with Bowie's 69th birthday, through his ISO label, Columbia Records and Sony Music . Two days later on 10 January, Bowie died of liver cancer; his illness had not been revealed to the public until then. Visconti described
4356-466: Was reminiscent of Bowie's work on "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)". Electronic duo Boards of Canada and experimental hip hop trio Death Grips have also been cited as influences. The music on Blackstar has been characterised as incorporating art rock , jazz , experimental jazz , free jazz , and experimental rock , as well as elements of industrial rock , folk-pop and hip hop . Bryan Wawzenek of Ultimate Classic Rock writes that it
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