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More popular than Jesus
"More popular than Jesus" is a remark John Lennon made in March 1966 claiming the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, which sparked American record burnings.
Morrison Hotel
Morrison Hotel: The Doors' fifth studio album, released February 9, 1970 on Elektra (EKS-75007), produced by Paul A. Rothchild; a blues-rock comeback photographed at a real Skid Row Los Angeles hotel, reaching No. 4 in the US.
Moshing
Moshing, or slam dancing, is violent contact dancing at rock, punk, metal, and EDM concerts in a mosh pit. Known forms include the circle pit and wall of death; it originated in 1980s Washington D.C. hardcore punk.
Moving Pictures (Rush album)
Moving Pictures is Rush's eighth studio album, released February 12, 1981, recorded at Le Studio, Quebec, with Terry Brown. Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Red Barchetta, and YYZ made it Rush's best-selling album.
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar's fifth studio album (May 13, 2022, pgLang/TDE/Aftermath/Interscope), is a double album in two nine-track volumes, his final TDE release, winner of the 2023 Grammy for Best Rap Album.
Music from "The Elder"
Music from "The Elder" is Kiss's ninth studio album, released November 10, 1981 on Casablanca: a Bob Ezrin-produced art-rock concept album from Gene Simmons's story, Kiss's first US album that failed to go gold.
Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
Music of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, also called brony music, is fan-made music inspired by the 2010 show composed by Daniel Ingram. It began 2010–2011 with Eurobeat Brony, peaked 2011–2013, spans EDM to orchestral, and persists via compilations like Ponies at Dawn.
Music sequencer
Music sequencer: hardware device or software tool recording, arranging and playing back MIDI notes, audio clips, and automation in order; types include step, linear, tracker, and hardware sequencers like Roland MC-8 and Elektron Digitakt.
Musique concrète
Musique concrète (also Concrete music): music composed from recorded natural sounds, altered and rearranged, founded by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 at French radio's Club d'Essai, theorized in his Traité des Objets Musicaux and continued by the GRM.
My Generation (album)
My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the US) is the Who's 1965 debut album, produced by Shel Talmy, reaching #5 in the UK, with the title single at #2 UK and #74 US.
My Girl (The Temptations song)
"My Girl" (The Temptations song), also known simply as My Girl: 1964 Motown soul ballad written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, first Temptations No. 1 pop hit in March 1965 with David Ruffin on lead vocal.
My Life (Mary J. Blige album)
My Life is Mary J. Blige's second studio album, released November 29, 1994 on Uptown/MCA. Produced with Sean Combs and Chucky Thompson, the triple-platinum, Grammy-nominated hip hop soul album samples Roy Ayers, Curtis Mayfield and Isaac Hayes, and entered the National Recording Registry in 2025.
My Neck, My Back (Lick It)
"My Neck, My Back (Lick It)" is Khia's explicit 2002 debut single from Thug Misses, peaking at No. 42 on the Hot 100 and No. 4 in the UK, later sampled by Saweetie, YG, and City Girls.
My Own Prison
My Own Prison (1997) is Creed's debut album, recorded for under $6,000 in John Kurzweg's Tallahassee home studio, self-released on Blue Collar, then re-released by Wind-Up; it sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Native Tongues
Native Tongues (Native Tongues Posse), a New York hip-hop collective of the late 1980s and 1990s centered on Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest, pioneered Afrocentric, jazz-sampling rap; no joint album was released.
Navarone Garibaldi
Navarone Garibaldi Garcia (born 1987), American musician, son of Priscilla Presley and Marco Garibaldi; frontman, vocalist, and guitarist of the synth rock band Them Guns, known for From The Shadows and the Shut Up and Drive soundtrack.
Neil Giraldo
Neil "Spyder" Giraldo (born 1955, Cleveland) is an American guitarist, producer, and songwriter, Pat Benatar's musical partner and husband since 1982, first guitarist on MTV, and co-creator of hits including "Love Is a Battlefield."
Neo soul
Neo soul (nu soul) is a mid-1990s American R&B style built on classic soul, hip hop, jazz, and funk, with analog, live-instrumented production; named by Kedar Massenburg, defined by D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, and the Soulquarians.
Neo-prog
Neo-prog (neo-progressive rock) is a progressive rock subgenre that developed in the UK in the early 1980s around Marillion, IQ, Pendragon, Pallas, and Twelfth Night, blending 1970s symphonic prog with 1980s sounds; it peaked commercially in the mid-1980s.
Neo-psychedelia
Neo-psychedelia, also called neo-psych, is a genre of music in which artists draw on 1960s psychedelia; it arose in British post-punk in the late 1970s.
Neofolk
Neofolk, also called dark folk or apocalyptic folk, is an experimental folk genre from 1980s European post-industrial and post-punk scenes; founding acts Death in June, Current 93, Sol Invictus; acoustic instrumentation, pagan and occult themes, far-right controversy.
Neon Indian
Neon Indian, the project of Alan Palomo (formerly VEGA, Ghosthustler), is an American chillwave and electronic pop act formed in 2008 in Denton, Texas, known for Psychic Chasms (2009), Era Extraña (2011), and VEGA INTL. Night School (2015).
Neue Deutsche Härte
Neue Deutsche Härte (NDH, "New German Hardness") is a 1990s German rock genre blending metal guitars, industrial and electronic elements with German lyrics; pioneered by Oomph!, popularized worldwide by Rammstein.
Neue Deutsche Welle
Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW): West German punk/new wave-derived pop movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s; named by Alfred Hilsberg in Sounds (1979); hit peak 1982-85 with Nena, Trio, DAF; distinct from the later NNDW.
Never Let Me Down
Never Let Me Down is David Bowie's seventeenth studio album, released by EMI in April 1987 and produced with David Richards. Known for its dense 1980s production, poor reception, the Glass Spider Tour, and the 2018 reworking in the Loving the Alien box set.
Nevermind
Nevermind is Nirvana's second studio album and major-label debut, released on Geffen/DGC in September 1991. Produced by Butch Vig at Sound City Studios and mixed by Andy Wallace, it reached US number one on January 11, 1992, sold over 30 million copies, and popularized grunge worldwide.
New jack swing
New jack swing (swingbeat): a late-1980s R&B subgenre fusing soul vocals with hip-hop drum-machine beats, invented by Teddy Riley, named by Barry Michael Cooper in 1987, dominant in US urban pop until about 1994.
New musick
New musick is a term Jon Savage developed in Sounds from November 1977 for post-punk experimentation, avant-gardism, and a synthetic, mythically European sound, distinct from New Romantic and from classical 'new music'.
New Romantic
New Romantic: late-1970s/early-1980s British youth movement and new wave subgenre from London's Billy's and Blitz clubs, with flamboyant androgynous fashion and synth-pop acts like Spandau Ballet, Visage, and Duran Duran.
New wave music
New wave music is a pop and rock style that arose in the mid-to-late 1970s in the United Kingdom and the United States as a sleeker offshoot of punk rock.