Born out of a midlife crisis involving a painful divorce, "Graceland" reignited Simon's career and reinvented his sound for a new generation. Simon has called the title track, which fuses the sounds of 1950s country with the sounds of South Africa, his favorite of all the songs he's written. The...

Released in 1997, Radiohead's "OK Computer" was a landmark moment in the history of alternative rock. The album's dark, dystopian lyrics explore a future in which human beings have dehumanized themselves using their own technology. On "Subterranean Homesick Alien," however, the band opens itself...