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Last Kiss
Last Kiss: teenage tragedy song written and first recorded by Wayne Cochran in 1961 (Gala label), made famous by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers' 1964 number 2 hit and Pearl Jam's 1999 benefit cover, which also peaked at number 2.
Last Lap
Last Lap is Rod Wave's sixth studio album, released October 11, 2024 on Alamo Records; 23 tracks, 67 minutes, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 with 127,000 units, RIAA Platinum, mixed reviews.
Last Resort (song)
Last Resort is a 2000 nu metal song by Papa Roach, lead single from Infest, written by Jacoby Shaddix and Tobin Esperance. It topped Billboard's Modern Rock chart, hit UK No. 3, and is six-times Platinum in the US.
Late Nights: The Album
Late Nights: The Album is Jeremih's third studio album, released December 4, 2015 on Def Jam after years of delays; a 15-track sequel to his 2012 mixtape, it peaked at number 42 on the Billboard 200 and was later certified platinum.
Late Orchestration
Late Orchestration is Kanye West's 2006 live album, recorded 21 September 2005 at Abbey Road Studios with a 17-piece all-female string orchestra before 300 guests. Released only in Europe (UK number 59), it performs College Dropout and Late Registration songs and reached streaming in 2022.
Late Registration
Late Registration is Kanye West's second studio album, released August 30, 2005 on Roc-A-Fella, co-produced with Jon Brion. It debuted at number one with 860,000 first-week copies, won Grammys including Best Rap Album, and holds a Metascore of 85.
Lateralus (song)
Lateralus is Tool's 2001 title-track song from the album Lateralus, a 9:24 progressive metal piece whose 9/8-8/8-7/8 chorus and Fibonacci-based syllable counts encode the number 987.
Latvian dainas
Latvian dainas are short Latvian folk songs, two to four lines long, regarded as symbols of Latvian identity and collected in the monumental edition Latvju dainas.
Latvian folk song
Latvian folk song, known in Latvian as latviešu tautasdziesmas and classically as dainas, is the oral song folklore of Latvia, rooted in pre-Christian Baltic tradition.
Laughing Stock
Laughing Stock, Talk Talk's fifth and final studio album, released 16 September 1991 on Verve/Polydor; recorded at Wessex Studios 1990-91 with Tim Friese-Greene, Phill Brown, about 50 musicians; UK chart No. 26; foundational post-rock influence.
Lavender's Blue
Lavender's Blue (Lavender Blue, Dilly Dilly), Roud 3483, is an English folk song from a 1672–1685 broadside, turned into a nursery rhyme by 1805 and a 1949 Disney hit.
Laxmikant–Pyarelal
Laxmikant–Pyarelal (लक्ष्मीकांत-प्यारेलाल), Hindi film composer duo of Laxmikant Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Sharma (born 1940); debuted with Parasmani (1963), won 7 Filmfare Best Music awards with a record 25 nominations, composed for several hundred films.
Layla
"Layla" by Derek and the Dominos (1970), written by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, is a seven-minute rock song about Clapton's love for Pattie Boyd, with a Duane Allman riff and a Jim Gordon piano coda; peaked at number 10 US and number 7 UK in 1972 and reworked acoustically by Clapton in 1992.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is Derek and the Dominos' only studio album, a double LP released November 1970 on Atco/Polydor, recorded at Criteria Studios Miami with Duane Allman; initially a modest seller, now a Grammy Hall of Fame album.
Lazaretto (album)
Lazaretto, Jack White's second solo studio album, released June 10, 2014 on Third Man/XL/Columbia after Blunderbuss. Notable for songs from his age-19 writings, a Grammy-winning title track, and an Ultra LP vinyl that set a 1991-era US weekly vinyl sales record.
Lazarus (David Bowie song)
"Lazarus" is a 2015 David Bowie song, second single from Blackstar and title song of his off-Broadway musical with Enda Walsh; sung as Thomas Newton, released December 18, 2015, it became his farewell after his January 2016 death.
Le Freak
Le Freak, by Chic (1978, Atlantic), written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards after being refused entry to Studio 54; six weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, UK number 7, Atlantic's biggest-selling single.
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Le Tombeau de Couperin is a six-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, composed 1914 to 1917 and dedicated to friends killed in the First World War.
Leak It
"Leak It" is a 2026 song by the British girl group FLO, released on 20 March as the lead single from their album Therapy at the Club.
Lean On
Lean On (2015): Major Lazer and DJ Snake single featuring Danish singer MØ, from Peace Is the Mission on Mad Decent. Spotify's most-streamed song in November 2015; video filmed in India, over 3.9 billion views; RIAA Diamond.
Lean on Me (song)
Lean on Me is a 1972 Bill Withers song from Still Bill, written on a Wurlitzer piano about his West Virginia coal-town childhood. It hit No. 1 on the Hot 100, and Club Nouveau's 1987 cover did too; it inspired the 1989 Joe Clark film.
Leave Home
Leave Home is the Ramones' second studio album, issued on Sire in early 1977, produced by Tony Bongiovi and Tommy Ramone; noted for "Pinhead," the pulled "Carbona Not Glue," and its 2017 40th-anniversary deluxe reissue.
Leck mich im Arsch
Leck mich im Arsch, KV 231 (KV 382c), is a bawdy six-voice canon in B-flat major attributed to Mozart and dated Vienna 1782, of doubtful authenticity, first printed in 1804 under the sanitized title Laßt froh uns sein.
Lecrae
Lecrae (Lecrae Devaughn Moore, born 1979) is a Houston-born American Christian hip-hop artist and Reach Records cofounder; four Grammy Awards, Anomaly (2014) first to top both Billboard 200 and Gospel Albums, tenth album Reconstruction (2025).
Led Zeppelin (album)
Led Zeppelin (1969) is the English rock band's debut album, recorded in about 30 hours at Olympic Studios, produced by Jimmy Page, engineered by Glyn Johns, released January 12, 1969 on Atlantic, peaking at US number 10 and UK number 6 despite a panning by Rolling Stone.
Led Zeppelin discography
Led Zeppelin discography: the English rock band's catalog of nine studio albums (1969–1982), The Song Remains the Same soundtrack, live releases, and Jimmy Page's 1990 and 2014–2015 remaster campaigns.
Led Zeppelin III
Led Zeppelin III, third 1970 album by Led Zeppelin (Atlantic), folk-acoustic shift after two heavy blues records. Released October 5 (US) and 23 (UK) 1970, hit US #1, later reappraised; 2014 Page remaster.
Leftoverture
Leftoverture is the fourth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released October 21, 1976 on Kirshner Records. Known for the hit "Carry On Wayward Son" (US No. 11), the closing suite "Magnum Opus," and 4x Platinum US sales.
Legacy (Five Finger Death Punch album)
Legacy is the tenth studio album by Five Finger Death Punch, released digitally July 31, 2026 via Better Noise Music to mark the band's 20th anniversary; produced by Drew Fulk, 10 tracks, 36 minutes.
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years
Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (John's Version) is John Fogerty's 2025 Concord album of 20 re-recorded CCR-era songs, made after he reclaimed publishing rights, backed by his children.