Steve Smith

No genre knows love better than R&B. The Motown songbook alone contains enough lessons of the heart to fill several medical textbooks. Sure, many great soul songs are about the dark side of love – jealousy, betrayal, breakups, etc. But that’s not why you came to this list, is it?  It’s to find those songs that speak directly to the joy of being with someone else. Whether it’s innocent infatuation, all-consuming obsession or lustful intoxication, there’s an awesome jam out there to communicate exactly what you’re feeling. And not all of them are of the smooth, old-school variety either. Here, we’ve compiled the absolute best R&B love songs, and while you’ll find plenty of ‘60s classics, there are several modern, chart-busting pop bangers as well. So let’s get it on, shall we? RECOMMENDED:🏩 The best love songs of all time😭 The best heartbreak songs🍆 The sexiest songs of all time🕺 The best party songs of all time

Alright: time to get physical and also musical. Contrary to what the very ripped personal trainer at the gym keeps screaming at you, sometimes the best motivation for working up a sweat isn’t the grunting encouragement of a stranger clutching a protein shake. Often, you just need the right song to get your blood pumping, your body moving and you mind in the zone. The perfect workout song is, to some extent, an elusive beast that heavily depends on what type of music you’re into: presumably there are people out there who work out to showtunes, and good for them. The unifying factor is enough energy to power the national grid, and a decently fast beat to help you keep the pace up. Beyond that, all bets are off,  To help you on your fitness journey, we tapped our stable of music geeks – some of which are in much better shape than others – to scour their knowledge of hip-hop, pop, classic rock and for 55 high-energy motivators. Some may seem like pretty leftfield choices, but all of them should get your pulse racing. Strap on the sweatband and get ready to move.  Written by Kristen Zwicker, Marley Lynch, Hank Shteamer, Gabrielle Bruney, Brent DiCrescenzo, Sophie Harris, Andy Kryza, Andrew Frisicano, Nick Leftley, Tim Lowery, Carla Sosenko, Kate Wertheimer, Steve Smith and Andrzej Łukowski. RECOMMENDED:🏃 The best running songs💪 The best motivational songs🤩 The best inspirational songs🎸 The best classic rock songs⚡️ The best songs about power

Like movies and books centered around the Big Apple, the best New York songs are by artists who understand the things that make NYC great and horrifying are one and the same. A great New York song is tapped into the rhythms of the city and well aware of the incredible wealth of human experience happening simultaneously across its expanse. They are songs of triumph and heartache, success and failure, love and loss. They celebrate that iconic skyline, but aren’t afraid to descend to the gutter.  There are thousands of songs about New York, but only a select few are timeless. Here we collect our favorite odes to the Big Apple. You’ll find anthems by New York icons ranging from Lou Reed to Jay-Z. There are broadway showstoppers and dispatches from the birth of hip-hop. You’ll find disco, hardcore, pop, punk, jazz and folk penned by outsiders and lifers alike. And if sticking all those genres and personalities together on one list about the same city seems a bit scattershot, well, you’ve clearly never taken a rush-hour subway across town. Written by Sophie Harris, Adam Feldman, Steve Smith, Hank Shteamer, Marley Lynch, Andy Kryza, Sharon Steel and Jesse Serwer Listen to these songs on Amazon Music RECOMMENDED:🏙 The best songs about London, LA and Chicago🎶 The best ’80s songs🎉 The best party songs ever made🎸 The best classic rock songs🕺 The best pop songs of all time

In the decades since its 1976 premiere, Einstein on the Beach, an experimental opera by composer Philip Glass and conceptualist-director Robert Wilson, has been more widely discussed than witnessed. A watershed creation comprising five continuous hours of abstract declamation, song and gesture, including exuberant choreography by Lucinda Childs, Einstein has been restaged only rarely. BAM produced the work in 1984; Princeton hosted a 1992 revival that also played there. Now Einstein is circling the globe in a new staging by its originators that sets sail in March. Reviewing the London premiere in May, the Guardian critic Andrew Clements said that the undertaking was “like watching the theatrical equivalent of a period performance.” Wilson, he suggested, might have modernized the staging to lessen the anachronistic creaks that Clements perceived during a performance beset by technical gremlins. Actually, scraps of video on the Web indicate that Wilson has subtly tweaked certain elements to invoke his mature Weimar-Kabuki style. But to pine for updates or revisions by other directors (inevitable and desirable as that prospect is) reduces Einstein to the dimensions of historic opera—something it patently is not. True, Einstein is a product of its time. Bands of light slice through dark planes with the witness-bearing intensity of Barnett Newman’s “zip” paintings. The music’s hypnotic stasis and whirling-mandala rhythms recall a hippie-era quest for transcendence. Wilson’s gestur