Since it seem to be songs you're supposed to mention:
Just like Heaven- The Cure
Pictures of You- The Cure (allso...)
One- Metallica
Tonight- Smashing Pumpkins
Telegraph Road- Dire Straits
Explain on what kind of music it is? Oh, well:
The Cure is.. well, their style is so varied, let's just say that they play alternative pop. It doesn't say very much about them, but saying it all would take a while. Just like Heaven it quite pop (not braindead pop, just pop. Don't dare to say it's braindead.). I heard it for the first time when I was 10 (or around 10) and 6 years later I still knew that guitarrsling. It's great (both the song and the guitarrsling). The second song, Pictures of You is kind of slow, and it's basicly only two cords (A and D). This song is extremely beutifull (espesially the lyrics).
One is another matter, since it's Metallica, and not Cure, who plays it. It starts out very calm and the speed builds on right 'til the explosive end. This song's got it all: Great lyrics, great solos, all you whant from a Metallica song (to keep it simple).
Tonight is a song who doesn't sound like classic Smashing Pumpkins (with heavy guitarrs, heavy base and heavy drums), mostly thanks to the strings. That, and the song structure (it's quite grand) makes it sound more like a piece from a symphony than a rocksong. Once again, brilliant lyrics.
Telegraph Road is (yet) a different matter. It is Dire Straits at their peak. For those who don't know what Dire Straits sound like I will describe their sound by describeing what Telegraph Road sounds like. For the first It's slow started (takes about 2 and a half minute untill the lyrics start). Second, it's long (15 minutes). Third, it's qite good lyrics (wouldn't say brilliant though. But still, quite good). Forth, it is an orge of smoth Mark Knopfler guitarrfills and Allan Clark pianofills. There is like two pianosolos followed by guitarsolos, and it's finnished by a 7 minute long Mark Knopfler (at his peak, too) guitarrsolo. In this song they do everything they're goo at, AND a little more.
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