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- No, It Isn't
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The song "No It Isn't", released on Tom Delonge's birthday, December 13, is primarily directed towards Delonge's departure from Blink-182.
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30 Seconds To Mars
- Battle Of One
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This song was the original title-track of this album before it was changed to "A Beautiful Lie". Also, this track and "Hunter" weren't supposed to be in this album. Both tracks were added after the album leaked on P2P several months before it's official release date.
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30 Seconds To Mars
- The Kill
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The video for "The Kill" was based on the novel "The Shining", by Stephen King, and on the homonimous movie.
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A Perfect Circle
- Passive
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This song was originally wrote for "Tapeworm", Maynard James Keenan and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)'s side-project.
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AFI
- Miss Murder
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"Miss Murder" won the award for "Best Rock Video" at the 2006 MTV's Video Music Awards.
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Alexisonfire
- A Dagger Through The Heart Of St. Angeles
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The cover art for Alexisonfire's self titled album was photographed at Ferndale Public School in St.Catharines, Ontario and is based on the lyrics from "A Dagger Through the Heart of St. Angeles". Moreover, the photos were taken by lead singer George Pettit.
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Alexisonfire
- Accidents
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Alexisonfire won 2005 MuchMusic Video Awards for "Best Independent Video" and was nominated to MuchLOUD Best Rock Video with Accidents.
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Alexisonfire
- Adelleda
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"Adelleda" is, so far, the longest Alexisonfire's song, clocking in at 5:47 minutes long.
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Alexisonfire
- Keep It On Wax
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The song 'Keep It On Wax' off the new Crisis album is about Jesse Ingelevics (hte band's former drummer) and his constant trash talking.'
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Alexisonfire
- That Girl Possessed
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The song "That Girl Possessed" is mainly about Linda Blair from The Exorcist, what she experience during becoming possessed. Also, the cover artwork for the album "Watch Out!" is based on this song.
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Apartment 26
- Apt. 26
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This song's title, as well as the band's, comes from David Lynch's Eraserhead, in which the character lives in Apartment 26.
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Armor For Sleep
- Car Underwater
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If you skip back one song before the first song, Car Underwater, you will find a short (approx. 1.25 minutes) hidden song in which the main character of the story talks of his death before he commits suicide in "Car Underwater". The hidden track is an acoustic track.
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Atreyu
- Ex's And Oh's
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The lyrics deal with the former alcohol addiction of vocalist Alex Varkatzas.
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Avenged Sevenfold
- Bat Country
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Avenged Sevenfold won the Moonman award for "Best New Artist In A Video" at the 2006 MTV's Video Music Awards.
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Blindside
- Fell In Love With The Game
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"Fell in Love With the Game" contains the line "We wrestle in the mud and the blood and the beer," which references the song "A Boy Named Sue", a country song written by Shel Silverstein and made famous by Johnny Cash.
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Blindside
- Pitiful
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Blindside appears playing "Pitiful" live in the movie "Grind".
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Blindside
- Yamkela
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"Yamkela" was written about a young African boy Christian met on a trip to Africa. The boy had HIV and had less than two months to live. However, in a recent interview, Christian Lindskog revealed that on a recent tour in South Africa, he had seen Yamkela (who Christian expected would be dead) at a show in Cape Town. To Christian's surprise, he was doing well and watched Blindside perform his song and sang along.
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The Blood Brothers
- Devastator
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"Celebrator and Devastator are direct criticisms of the United States military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan", says singer Jordan Blilie.
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The Blood Brothers
- Mr. Electric Ocean
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"Mr. Electric Ocean was the personification of our mass media. If you look at his character traits - always watching, controlling one's every move, twisting situations for his own benefit - you can see what we're saying about media's role in our culture", stated singer Jordan Blilie in an interview in 2003.
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The Blood Brothers
- Teen Heat
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Teen Heat is about the distribution company Artistdirect, with whom the band was having difficulties at the time.
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Bullet For My Valentine
- 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
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The band released "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" single on CD/Vinyl, on March 28, 2005. The Vinyl was limited to 1000 copies. The CD/Vinyl was deleted on day of release, so no new copies are available.
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Celldweller
- One Good Reason
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In 2004, Celldweller won the award for "Metal Song of the Year" at the Just Plain Folks Music Awards for the song "One Good Reason".
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Celldweller
- Stay With Me (Unlikely)
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"Stay With Me (Unlikely)" was nominated for "Best Industrial Song" at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards, but lost to another Celldweller song, "Switchback".
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Celldweller
- Switchback
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Celldweller won the award for "Best Industrial Song" at the 2004 Just Plain Folks Music Awards for "Switchback".
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Chevelle
- The Red
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Chevelle appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman perfoming "The Red".
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Clawfinger
- Recipe For Hate
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Originally, Clawfinger hired a company to take care of their clip of this single, which is the one still mainly aired on television. However, Clawfinger was not entirely satisfied with the work of the company, so Jocke Skog created a new edit of the clip, removing the cinematic elements and keeping on the scenes which show the band playing. This new version of the clip is available for download on the Clawfinger website.
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Clawfinger
- Rosegrove
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The song "Rosegrove" is most likely to be inspired by the former mental institute in which the band all met.
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Clawfinger
- The Truth
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In 2003, the band surprised their fans by producing for a boyband, taking their old song "The Truth", re-writing and re-arranging it into "In Da House", a hit single for the Norwegian band L8R.
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The Cure
- Lovesong
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Upon release as a single, the song received worldwide success, and first peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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The Cure
- Lovesong
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Robert Smith originally wrote the song for his wife, Mary, as a wedding present. They are still married.
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The Cure
- Lullaby
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A mash up of this song and the song "Smile" by Lily Allen emerged in 2006 under the name "Lillybye".
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The Cure
- Lullaby
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This song has been sampled several times by various artists, including Just Jack in the song "Snowflakes" for his 2002 album The Outer Marker, and Rachel Stevens in the song "All About Me" from her 2005 album Come And Get It. It has also been covered by Australian trip-hop band Spook, on their album The Dusk Sessions.
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The Cure
- Pictures Of You
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According to interviews, the inspiration of the song came when a fire broke loose in Robert Smith's home. After that day, Robert was going though the remains and came across his wallet which had pictures of his wife, Mary. The cover of the single is one of the pictures. The same picture is featured on the "Charlotte Sometimes" cover, but this one is the full image while the 1981 single's cover was distorted.
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The Cure
- Pictures Of You
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In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #278 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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Deftones
- Back To School (Mini Maggit)
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"Back To School" is an interpretation of the original White Pony closer "Pink Maggit". Maverick Records asked the band to do another single, since the album had none left other than "Change", wich quite irritated the members. So, Moreno took the lyrics for "Pink Maggit", giving a hip-hop feel to them, and made it a single to show their record label how easy it is to produce a single. The band regrets the decision ever since.
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Deftones
- Back To School (Mini Maggit)
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Deftones played "Back to School" on tours in support of White Pony but rarely thereafter. It was only until their South American and European tour in early 2007 that the song began appearing on their setlists.
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Deftones
- Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)
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An acoustic remix of "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" was performed with a friend of the band, DJ Crook, and lead singer Jonah Matranga of Far. This mellow version with a new trip-hop-esque beat by Delgado inspired vocalist Chino Moreno to explore softer music, which eventually lead to the inception of his side project, Team Sleep.
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Deftones
- Bloody Cape
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The band made a video for the track "Bloody Cape," but it was never released for play on television. The video was only made available on the band's official website for one day. It was later released on their B-Sides and Rarities DVD.
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Deftones
- Bored
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Chino Moreno said, that this song was written in about 30 minutes. Also, he said, that he wasn't able to scream words "Get bored" properly, but after some practice he managed to do it.
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Deftones
- Cherry Waves
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"Cherry Waves" was intended to be the second single from Saturday Night Wrist, but the band dropped the decision and made "Mein" the second one instead.
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Deftones
- Combat
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Despite wanting to, the band has never played "Combat" live, not even on the promo tour for "Saturday Night Wrist". According to Chino Moreno, this is "because we can't play it right - we rehearsed it many times but it never came out right".
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Deftones
- Digital Bath
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Chino Moreno stated in an interview that he wrote the lyrcs for "Digital Bath" while completely drunk.
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Deftones
- Elite
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"Elite" won the 2001's Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance.
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Deftones
- Feiticeira
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In interviews, Moreno has stated that some of the lyrics are intentionally misprinted to cover up vulgarity. For example, at the beginning of "Feiticeira", the liner notes read "Stop I'm drunk" when Chino quite audibly sings "Fuck I'm drunk."
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Deftones
- Fist
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The hidden track on the CD, "Fist", was produced by Ross Robinson.
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Deftones
- Headup
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The song "Headup" features Max Cavalera of Soulfly. The song was written by Max and Chino as a way of venting some of their pain over the loss of Max's step son, and Chino's friend, Dana Wells.
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Deftones
- Headup
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Supposedly, Max Cavalera baptized his band "Soulfly" after a verse sang by him in the chorus of "Headup".
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Deftones
- Hexagram
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In reviewing Deftones, Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes that "Hexagram," the album's opener, "hits hard - harder than they ever have, revealing how mushy Staind is, or how toothless Linkin Park is, even if it's a bit of a shame that Chino Moreno has resorted to guttural barking for singing."
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Deftones
- Kimdracula
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Chino Moreno says "Kimdracula" was part of his email address at the beginning of making the record, during his heavy drug use phase.
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Deftones
- Korea
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The line "downtown pony" is used in the song "Korea", and in this sense "pony" seems to have a sexual connotation as well. This differs from the usual interpretation made from the album title, "White Pony", commonly regarded as a cocaine reference.
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Deftones
- Lucky You
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"Lucky You", the only song on the self-titled album not fully written by the band, was a collaboration between Deftones and Team Sleep's DJ Crook.
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Deftones
- Mein (featuring Serj Tankian)
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Despite contributing guest vocals for "Mein", Serj Tankian does not appear on the video for the song. At the time of the shooting, he was settling residence in New Zealand, and couldn't leave the country for that reason; therefore, Serj could not attend the video shooting.
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Deftones
- Mein (featuring Serj Tankian)
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In an interview, Chino Moreno stated: "There is no concept behind this clip, the idea was to have fun, not to make an artistic clip. We wanted just to be ourselves and to do what we like the most together with our friends".
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Deftones
- Mein (featuring Serj Tankian)
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As well as producing the album, Shaun Lopez, Far's guitarrist, also takes writting credits for the song "Mein", along with Deftones and Serj Tankian, from System of a Down.
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Deftones
- Minerva
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The video for Minerva features the band playing the song on a desert like landscape backed by various amplifiers and other stage equipment. It seems to be a direct tribute to the Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii video released in 1972.
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Deftones
- MX
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The female vocals on "MX" are from Annalynn Cunningham, the wife of the band's drummer, Abe Cunningham.
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Deftones
- My Own Summer (Shove It)
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The band Fightstar covered the song "My Own Summer (Shove It)" for the free Kerrang! compilation album of metal classics "High Voltage: A Brief History of Rock."
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Deftones
- Pink Cellphone (featuring Annie Hardy)
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Guitarist Stephen Carpenter has said that a significant portion of certain songs on the album were based around ideas from Chino Moreno, and said that "Pink Cellphone," minus Annie Hardy's vocals, was all composed by Chino.
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Deftones
- Rats! Rats! Rats!
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"Rats! Rats! Rats!" was the only song entirely written by Stef Carpenter on "Saturday Night Wrist". Carpenter attributes some of his lack of input to the album to his online golf obsession during the creation of the CD. He would record his ideas, and leave the rest of the band to toil with them for long time periods while he played golf online.
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Deftones
- Savory
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"Savory" was recorded with Jonah Matranga on vocals and other band members from Far. It originally appeared on Far's "Soon" EP.
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Deftones
- Say It Ain't So
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The Deftones' version of "Say It Isn't So" couldn't make it into the "B-Sides and Rarities" album due to the inhability to shred guitar solos from the band's guitarrist, Stef Carpenter. However, they have played it live in a few shows, backed up by Thomas Erak, The Fall of Troy's singer/guitarrist.
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Deftones
- Teenager (Idiot Version)
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The "Idiot Version" of the song Teenager is so named because Washington band, Idiot Pilot first played it in this way. Chino Moreno heard this version and was so impressed by it, a Deftones version of it was recorded for this CD.
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Deftones
- U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, Select, Start
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The song "U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,A,B,SELECT,START" is a possible reference to the Konami code, which is normally represented as (U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A,Select, Start). This code is featured in many games published by Konami, as well as several other video game publishers. The title code does however work for "TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project" for the NES, a rare instance where the Konami code switches from b,a to a,b.
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Deftones
- U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, Select, Start
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In the recording of this track, Stef Carpenter, the band's guitarrist, played the drums, while Chino Moreno played all hte guitar parts.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Sunshine The Werewolf
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Greg Puciato, in a 2005 interview with Lambgoat, said: "Sunshine The Werewolf was originally about an article I read about people called "Gift Givers" and "Bug Catchers," people who try to give or catch AIDS deliberately. I changed it a little bit to make it more abstract so that it can be related to as a relationship song too, but it originally started as that. It works on both levels."
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Drowning Pool
- Bodies
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After September 11, radio stations owned by media conglomerate Clear Channel voluntarily refused to play "Bodies".
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The Fall Of Troy
- A Man. A Plan. A Canal. Panama.
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The track name "A Man A Plan A Canal Panama" is a palindrome, as it is spelled the same forward as backwards. It is a reference to former US president Theodore Roosevelt and his role in the construction of the Panama Canal.
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The Fall Of Troy
- Semi-Fiction
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The band has stated that "Semi-Fiction" is a renamed version of the previously unheard song "Ghostship VI", part of a suite of songs scheduled to appear on the upcoming "Phantom on the Horizon" album, although its inclusion on that album in its present form is uncertain.
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Fightstar
- 99
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"99"'s title is due to Charlie dropping his laptop down the stairs and only being able to use the '9' key after demoing the song.
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Fightstar
- Paint Your Target
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There are two videos for this song. One was banned because of scenes of children running around pretending to shoot each other; however, it can still be found on the internet. The second version had the band in a room playing the song.
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Fightstar
- Waste A Moment
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The video for this song has two versions. The banned version shows the band playing in an abandoned London Underground Tunnel, while a demon child in a red hood lures a man waiting for the train, where he gets run down. The clean version is exactly the same, but the other scenes are cut out, showing the band throughout the video.
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Filter
- Captain Bligh
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This song is about Nine Inch Nails' leadman Trent Reznor anti-social behaviors.
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From Autumn To Ashes
- Short Stories With Tragic Endings
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The female vocals in "Short Stories With Tragic Endings" are performed by Melanie Wills of One True Thing, who also does guest vocals for "Autumn's Monologue", from From Autumn To Ashes' album "The Fiction We Live".
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From Autumn To Ashes
- Take Her To The Music Store
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The spoken dialogue at the beginning of "Take Her To The Music Store", which goes "You break my heart into a thousand pieces and say it's because I deserve better?" is taken from an episode of the TV show Dawson's Creek.
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From Autumn To Ashes
- Take Her To The Music Store
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"Take Her to the Music Store" is a reference to "getting fucked against one's will". Scott Gross, one of the band's guitarrists, brought equipment to a local Long Island music store for repair (Murphy's Music) only to get charged for labor expenses with them. They applied the title to a song about their friend's rape because their friend was literally "fucked against her will".
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Glassjaw
- Ape Dos Mil
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A video for "Ape Dos Mil" was included on the album "Worship and Tribute"; howver, a second version was recorded later, after the song was chosen as a single.
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Glassjaw
- Ape Dos Mil
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The single for "Ape Dos Mil" contains live recordings of the songs "Mu Empire" and "Must've Run All Day", from the album "Worship and Tribute".
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Glassjaw
- Convectuoso
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Originally, the album "Worship and Tribute" was intended to have twelve songs with the last song entitled "Convectuoso." The band, however, had previously recorded the song with their previous label Roadrunner Records for the "Ry Ry's Song" single and had since they abruptly ended their contract with them to sign with Warner Bros. Roadrunner retained the rights for that song and refused to let the newly rerecorded "Convectuoso" be released on the final album despite being on promotional copies.
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Glassjaw
- Cosmopolitan Blood Loss
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The US version of the "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss" single also featured the song Trailer Park Jesus, from "Worship and Tribute", and "El Mark", which would later appear on the "EL Mark" iTunes-only digital EP. However, the UK version of that single features "The Number No Good Things Can Come Of" instead of "El Mark", a song which would also appear on the digital EP.
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Glassjaw
- Cosmopolitan Blood Loss
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The video for "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss"features a guest apearence from american actor, director and musician Vincent Gallo. The video shows the band performing in an alley in New York City, which is cut with shots of Gallo confronting strangers as he walks the streets of New York. Gallo eventually comes upon the same alley that the band is performing in and he walks up to the speakers and unplugs the band's equipment just before the song is finished. He then gives them a long, cold stare before the video ends. In a different version of the video, Gallo walks up to the band and shoots each member. It was deemed too violent for TV but can be found online.
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Glassjaw
- El Mark
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Some copies of "Worship and Tribute" feature this song as bonus track.
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Glassjaw
- Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
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"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" is one of the few songs from the homonimous album that's not credited to the band alone; it's credited to Glassjaw and Ross Robinson, the album producer. The other songs portraying this behavior are "Lovebites and Razorlines" and "Hurting and Shoving (She Should Have Let Me Sleep)".
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Glassjaw
- Motel Of The White Locust
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On the UK release of "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence", the song "Motel of the White Locust" is entitled "Hotel of the White Locust" instead.
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Glassjaw
- Motel Of The White Locust
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This song's outro, where Daryl speaks "pack your shit and leave...", was initially used as the outro of Star Above My Bed in early demos.
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Glassjaw
- Oxycodone
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"Oxycodone" was released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of "Worship and Tribute".
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Glassjaw
- Pretty Lush
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The song is about a female friend of Daryl Palumbo who went to college and began getting involved in a life of partying and binge drinking and forgetting her friendship with, the then straight edge, Daryl Palumbo.
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Glassjaw
- Ry Ry's Song
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Glassjaw released a "Ry Ry's Song" single limited to the UK, which also included "Siberian Kiss", from their full-lenght "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence", along with a demo version of "Convectuoso" and a cover of "Modern Love Story", by Youth Of Today, featuring guest vocals from Ray Cappo, Youth of Today's original singer.
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Glassjaw
- Star Above My Bed
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Singer Daryl Palumbo has stated that "Star Above My Bed" will be rewrote for Glassjaw's upcoming third album.
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Glassjaw
- Tewt
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"Tewt" was left out of the official "Worship and Tribute" track listing, even though it's present in the pre-production demo of that same album that circulates in the web. That demo also contained demo versions of "Ape Dos Mil" and "Cosmopolitan Bloodloss", along with "Grasper" and a different version of "Midwestern Stylings".
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It Dies Today
- Freak Gasoline Fight Accident
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The title "Freak Gasoline Fight Accident" is taken from the film "Zoolander" and the eulogy Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) gives to his friends who died in a "Freak gasoline fight accident".
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Kaddisfly
- A Message To The Flat Earth Society
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"The Flat Earth Society" is how the main character and narrator of the novel "The Mist" (written by Stephen King), David Drayton, nicknames a group of townspeople who refuses to believe in the existence of an unnatural event leading to the covering of the town in thick fog.
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The Killers
- Read My Mind
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The single for "Read My Mind" was released on February 8, 2007. The video was filmed in Tokyo, Japan.
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Korn
- A.D.I.D.A.S.
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Jonathan Davis is shown on table with lingerie in this video, which is from a past experience when Davis himself worked in a morgue and had a dead pimp come in and when they examined him he was found to be wearing lingerie, Davis thought it was the funniest thing he had ever seen so he decided to include it in the video.
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Korn
- A.D.I.D.A.S.
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Benji Webbe, from Skindred, helped the band by singing "A.D.I.D.A.S." at the 2006's Download Festival in Jonathan Davis's absence.
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Korn
- Alone I Break
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There was a contest for this video supported by MTV, in which the winner is chosen to direct the video. Contest winner Sean Dack kept the video consistent with the darkness of Korn. It was actually shot in the form of a reality show where Jonathan Davis kills off members of the band after a supposed mistake made by Munky during a performance. The band later admitted the video would have been more fun to do had the director actually been a Korn fan.
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Korn
- Ball Tongue
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This song is the first of Korn's works that includes a unique way of singing, scat vocals. Ball tongue, however, is different than later Korn songs with scat vocals since Davis does not simply spit out complete gibberish (notably in Twist, Freak on a Leash, and Seed) and instead takes actual words and does not pronounce them fully.
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Korn
- Blind
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This song has been heavily acclaimed on the press, winning Q Magazine's "100 Songs That Changed The World" and "100 Greatest Guitar Tracks Ever", and was appointed as #10 in Kerrang!'s "Greatest Singles Of All Time".
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Korn
- Chi
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"Chi" was written for and dedicated to Deftones' Chino Moreno.
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Korn
- Clown
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What inspired Davis to write this song, though, was an early gig where a skinhead was booing them and telling them to "go back to Bakersfield!" Jonathan kneeled down to hear him and the guy actually punched Davis in the face. The skinhead was all tattooed and looked like a clown, so that was the inspiration for the title of the song and also the line "Hit me clown, because I'm not from your town."
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Korn
- Coming Undone
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The song entered Top 10 in both Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and R&R Active Rock Chart, peaking at no. 4 and 3, respectively.
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Korn
- Coming Undone
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The song has become Korn's third most successful single to date, reaching number 64 on the Billboard's mainstream Hot 100 countdown. It has also become one of Korn's most recognizable songs, along with Did My Time, from 2003's Take A Look in the Mirror (featured in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life), Falling Away From Me (which premiered on the South Park episode Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery) and Freak On A Leash, which is generally regarded as KoRn's most well-known and recognizable.
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Korn
- Faget
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During the chorus, Davis screams 'HIV' repeatedly behind the main melody, as a word instead of three individually spoken letters, a reference to Davis' unwanted nickname throughout high school. While Davis did not take the name kindly, he ironically has it tattooed on his arm. He claims he has done this to both "remind myself of the dangers of unprotected sex" and to "remember the pain".
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Korn
- Falling Away From Me
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The video was directed by Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst. It begins as a continuation of the famous video for Freak on a Leash, starting with the closing animation for it. The video shows a young woman clearly distraught by an abuser (her father) and her eventually leaving the house in the middle of the night, with cut-aways to Korn performing.
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Korn
- Here To Stay
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This song won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, as well as winning an award for best international video on MuchMusic in 2002 and being nominated for the best rock video by MTV in 2002.
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Korn
- Justin
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The album "Follow The Leader" begins on track 13, following 12 tracks of silence. The combined length of the tracks is one minute, making up one minute's silence for Justin, the boy the song 'Justin' is based on. The story goes that as his dying wish with Make a Wish Foundation, Justin wanted to meet KoRn. This spooked them somewhat, and the song Justin was written in his honor.
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Korn
- Need To
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This song has spawned from other Korn song, "Alive" that appears on the demo called "Neidermeyer's Mind" (and was later re-recorded for band's 6th studio album, "Take a Look in the Mirror").
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Korn
- No Place To Hide
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In 1998 this single was a Grammy nominee for Best Metal Performance. It was Korn's second nomination in this category.
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Korn
- Porno Creep
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This is, other than a couple of minute-long interludes on the album Issues, the only instrumental song written by the band to date. The only lines in the song are vague and hard to make out: "Closer to me, it feels." This is referring to how a "porno creep" watches porn movies and looks at porn magazines to get a better feel of what actual sexual intercourse would be like. The song itself is two minutes of a mix of Korn's sound and the wah drenched pseudo-funk music which can be heard in many 1970s porn videos, creating a very strange and creepy sound.
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Korn
- Right Now
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There was accompanying video for this single chosen through a contest. It was Korn's first entirely animated video that portrayed grotesque man that was constantly hurting himself in more and more sophisticated ways, it was very disturbing video and some fans couldn't stand such images.
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Korn
- Shoots And Ladders
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This song was nominated for Grammy Award of 1997 in "Best Metal Performance" category.
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Korn
- Shoots And Ladders
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The title is a mockery of American children game Chutes and Ladders (In the UK also called Snakes and Ladders), and the song lyrics mostly consists of nursery rhymes. It's the first Korn song that featured bagpipes, it is generally soft song with gentle intro played on mentioned bagpipes, but later it comes to its crescendo when heavy bridge appears and incorporates Patton-esque scat.
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Korn
- Twist
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"Life Is Peachy" has a hidden track, after the song Kill You, that consists of the song Twist been played in a capella.
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Korn
- Y'all Want A Single
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The track is a humorous, dedication to their record company, Sony, for asking the band to "write a radio hit" for their upcoming self-produced album. The song was chosen for a single through voting by fans on band's official forum.
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Limp Bizkit
- Hot Dog
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Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, returned the lyrics of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", stating "You wanna fuck me like an animal/You'd like to burn from the inside." Ironically, this attempt at "bashing" Trent Reznor only forced them to give him a co-writing credit on the song for the usage of his lyrics, and therefore earning him money from sales and airplay.
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Lostprophets
- 4 AM Forever
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Lead singer Ian Watkins recently claimed "4:am Forever" and "Always All Ways" were written in the aftermath of his split with TV presenter Fearne Cotton the year before the album's release.
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Lostprophets
- A Town Called Hypocrisy
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The video for this song depicts frontman Ian Watkins as a children's television presenter on a fiction television program called 'Town Time' and is arguably a response to the accusations of the band's metrosexuality.
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Lostprophets
- Burn, Burn
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This song attracted some criticism, as the opening bore a striking resemblance to "Mother Mary", a song from the band Far's "Water and Solutions" album. The band themselves even conceded in interviews that the singing pattern bore an undeniable similarity to the Adamski song "Killer".
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Lostprophets
- Burn, Burn
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On the cover of the Liberation Transmission album, the words "Nobis pro lemma vobis" feature, which is Latin for 'For us, for them, for you', which features in Burn Burn.
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Lostprophets
- Kobrakai
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This song's name is an alternative spelling of Cobra Kai, the name of the karate dojo in the Karate Kid movies.
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Lostprophets
- Last Summer
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In the music video for "Last Summer", at the 3:00 mark, lead singer Daryl Palumbo and bassist Jarvis Morgan Holden of Head Automatica can be seen walking in front of the school.
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Lostprophets
- Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)
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The chorus of "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" was inspired by the scene in the film "Garden State" where the characters are screaming into a pit. The general theme of the song also matches the film's — "make a mark" in your life while there's still time.
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Lostprophets
- Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)
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When the band pitched their dream video for "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" to their record label, it was refused because it would have cost 8 million pounds to produce. It subsequently went through several re-drafts before they settled on the final version.
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The Mars Volta
- Eunuch Provocateur
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The backwards vocals at the end of the song are the lyrics from the song "Itsy Bitsy Spider". Other backwards vocals in the same song can be heard saying "did mommy or daddy ever have to spank you?". These samples come from an old vinyl the band used that contained children's songs.
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Mudvayne
- Happy?
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"Happy?" is, until now, the best placed Mudvayne single in US Mainstream Rock charts, having placed #1 for a week.
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My Chemical Romance
- Cemetery Drive
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My Chemical Romance has cited Green Day as one of their biggest influences. In the song "Deadbeat Holiday," the lyric "cemetery drive" is used, possibly an inspiration for the song title.
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My Chemical Romance
- Cubicles
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This song was the first to be recorded by the band, along with "Our Lady of Sorrows", and was recorded in Matt Pelissier's (the band's first drummer) attic.
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My Chemical Romance
- Helena
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Gerard Way said in an interview with Channel [V] the band got influences for Helena from the song "Aces High" by Iron Maiden and tracks from The Misfits.
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My Chemical Romance
- Helena
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The video for "Helena" was nominated for four Moonmen at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards: Best Rock Video, Best Choreography, Best New Artist, and the MTV2 and Viewer's Choice Awards (both of which are chosen by viewers). Though the band did not win any awards, they did do a surprise performance of the song towards the end of the show.
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My Chemical Romance
- Thank You For The Venom
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The line "Sister, I'm not much a poet, but a criminal" can be seen as a reference to the Morrissey song "Sister, I'm a Poet." Gerard Way has stated that Morrissey was one of his inspirations.
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My Chemical Romance
- The Ghost Of You
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The artwork on the case of "The Ghost Of You" is in the same style as the HBO series Band Of Brothers' opening theme. Other notable references to the opening theme is the video game series Medal of Honor.
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My Chemical Romance
- The Ghost Of You
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In the video for "The Ghost Of You", while the soldiers are in the Higgins boats, we see a soldier with the 2nd Ranger Battalion patch on his shoulder. When the soldiers get onto the beach, they wear the insignia of the 1st Infantry Division. During the Normandy invasion, these two units were not together at Omaha Beach.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Piggy
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It is widely believed that the song "Piggy" is based on William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies”, with the notion that it is a lyrical representation of the encounter between Simon and the staked pig's head.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Starfuckers, Inc.
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In the video for "Starfuckers, Inc", you can see Trent breaking a plate with Fred Durst's face, by throwing a stone at it. This is due to some personal issues Trent and Fred had for each other at the time. Also, the video was directed by Marylin Manson, who appears at the end of the video.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Survivalism
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A NIN tour T-shirt contained highlighted letters that spell out a phone number: 1-310-295-1040. Calling this number plays a clip of the single "Survivalism."
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Nirvana
- Come As You Are
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The main riff of Nirvana's song "Come as You Are" bears a striking resemblance to the riff of Killing Joke's single, "Eighties".
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You
- El Piñata De La Muerte
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The track "El Piñata De La Muerte", which should correctly be titled "La Piñata De Muerte", translates in English to "The Piñata of Death". According to the official website, the song is a revenge fantasy about Jesse Korman's abusive stepfather.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You
- Texas Dolly
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The song "Texas Dolly"'s lyrics are about a poker game, and the line "...what would Doyle Brunson do" refers to the famous Doyle Brunson, a.k.a Texas Dolly, the first professional to win over $1 Million in Poker tournaments.
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P.O.D.
- Alive
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This song's video was released in the same day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and was one of the most played videos on MTV and MTV2 of that year.
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P.O.D.
- Boom
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The Swedish table tennis team in the music video for "Boom" is played by the band Blindside.
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P.O.D.
- Goodbye For Now
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"Goodbye For Now," went on to become the #1 video on MTV's TRL and became P.O.D.'s unprecedented 4th #1 video.
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P.O.D.
- Portrait
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"Portrait" received a considerative number of awards, including a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2002.
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P.O.D.
- Youth Of The Nation
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"Youth of the Nation" was influenced in part by the school shootings at Santana High School and Granite Hills High School.
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Panic At The Disco
- Intermission
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The song "Intermission" includes a sample from Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" - "Due to circumstances beyond our control . . ."
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Placebo
- Song To Say Goodbye
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Some of the songs on the leaked copy of Meds appear to differ slightly from the versions on the album as eventually made commercially available. "Song to Say Goodbye", for one, has a subtly different structure and a clearly different vocal performance from Brian Molko.
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Radiohead
- Pyramid Song
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"Pyramid Song" was strongly influenced by jazz musician Charles Mingus' piece "Freedom".
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Rancid
- Ben Zanotto
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Ben Zannoto was a friend of Lars Frederiksen, and this song was written as a memorial to him.
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Rancid
- Otherside
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This song was written in memory of Robert, Lars Frederiksen's older brother, who died from an aneurysm in 2000.
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Seu Jorge
- Tive Razão
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American actor Bill Murray makes a brief cameo appearance on the video for "Tive Razão". This has probably some connection to the recording of the movie "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", on which both of them worked at the same period.
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Spineshank
- Smothered
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"Smothered" was nominated in the 2003's Grammy Awards for "Best Metal Performance".
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Stabbing Westward
- Lies
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The songs "Lies", "Lost", and "Can't Happen Here" off of the Ungod album were present in the movie Mortal Kombat. However, because the band did not think the movie would do well in theaters, they opted to not allow the songs on the official soundtrack. A marketing mistake, as the album, and the movie went on to become quite popular.
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Stabbing Westward
- Ungod
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The song "Ungod" shares an identical guitar riff with "Hey Man, Nice Shot", arguably Filter's most well-known song. Both bands had utilized the talent of Stuart Zechman, the guitarist who wrote the riff, and agreed to forego any legal actions against each other.
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Stabbing Westward
- Violent Mood Swings
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The first Stabbing Westward song to appear on a CD was the 1990 demo version of Violent Mood Swings. The 1992 album is named Cyberflesh Conspiracy.
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Stabbing Westward
- What Do I Have To Do?
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A persistent, yet unfounded rumor since the release of the album is that "What Do I Have To Do?" originally was entitled and/or ended with the chorus line "Who Do I Have To Kill?", but was not permitted to be used by Columbia Record executives and changed to the released line.
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Static-X
- Otsego Undead
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The "Otsego" songs, present at least once in every Static-X album's, are a reference to the city of Otsego, Michigan, where Wayne Static attended college.
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Static-X
- Otsegolation
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The "Otsego" songs, present at least once in every Static-X album's, are a reference to the city of Otsego, Michigan, where Wayne Static attended college.
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Static-X
- Otsegolectric
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The "Otsego" songs, present at least once in every Static-X album's, are a reference to the city of Otsego, Michigan, where Wayne Static attended college.
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Stone Sour
- Through Glass
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"Through Glass" recently took the #1 spot on the Mainstream and Active Rock Charts, marking the first #1 single in the band's career.
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Streetlight Manifesto
- 1234 1234
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At the end of this song there is an interview conducted by computer voices explaining why the album was remade, instead of the shout-outs present on the 1998 recording.
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Streetlight Manifesto
- Everything Went Numb
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Played in order, most of the songs from Everything Went Numb bear a strong resemblance to their counterparts from Keasbey Nights. For example, "Everything Went Numb" has some of the same mariachi influence as "Dear Sergio", the guitars and horns from "That'll Be The Day" sound very similar to those found in "Sick and Sad", and "Point/Counterpoint" shares its lyrical style with "Keasbey Nights".
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Streetlight Manifesto
- Here's To Life
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"Here's To Life" makes references to a few suicidal artists, such as Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Cobain, Albert Camus, and Ernest Hemingway. J.D. Salinger and his character Holden Caulfield (from the novel Catcher In The Rye) are also mentioned in the lyrics.
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Streetlight Manifesto
- Point / Counterpoint
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"Point/Counterpoint" is sometimes performed live with the song "Keasbey Nights" (from Catch 22's, and, most recently, Streetlight Manifesto's remake of Keasbey Nights) played partway through.
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Streetlight Manifesto
- Super Nothing
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In its original form, "Supernothing" is played as a slow song, utilizing soft acoustic strumming with a violin solo performed by Kalnoky's brother, Achilles (who also played violin in Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution). In its second form, on Keasbey Nights, it is much faster, with a full ska band, including trombone, trumpet, and saxophone. This form is also used on the Streetlight Manifesto version of the song.
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Streetlight Manifesto
- The Receiving End Of It All
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The "Somewhere In The Between"'s booklet states: "The Receiving End Of It All - Arguably everyone in the band’s favorite track on the record, this one was a typical combination of two or three older songs that I at some point realized were really all different parts of the same song. Whenever we get to the chorus, we can’t help but headbang in slow motion. Should make for an interesting live show."
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Stutterfly
- Gun In Hand
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In the movie "House of Wax", in once scene where the group are in a car, you can hear on the radio Stutterfly's song "Gun in Hand".
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System Of A Down
- Attack
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According to bassist Shavo Odadjian, the album was originally set to open with an instrumental track called "Hezze," but was instead dropped entirely in favor of beginning with "Attack." "We wanted to start out the album really heavy," Odadjian explained. It is expected that "Hezze" will be released sometime in the future on an EP.
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System Of A Down
- B.Y.O.B.
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In February of 2006, System of a Down won the Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for this song.
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System Of A Down
- Boom!
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In the music video, the band cooperated with Michael Moore, writer and director of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, to create a music video with pro-peace interviews and a satirical video of George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden riding rockets over a city. This video was banned from MTV after a while. VH1 named the song as the 18th greatest protest song ever.
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System Of A Down
- Fuck The System
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"Fuck The System" is based on the book by Abbie Hoffman of the same name. The title of the album "Steal This Album" is also a reference to another book by Abbie Hoffman, named "Steal This Book".
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System Of A Down
- I-E-A-I-A-I-O
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One of the possible meanings of this song is that I-E-A-I-A-I-O are the vowels inside the word I-D-E-A-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N.
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System Of A Down
- Kill Rock 'N Roll
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The song was supposedly inspired by a rabbit that guitarist Daron Malakian ran over. He buried the rabbit and when he arrived at work, he saw a rabbit that looked exactly like him. He named it "Rock & Roll". Other possible meaning for this song was stated by Daron in a live show: "When I was little boy, I used to talk to God. And I said, "you motherfucker." And he said "You motherfucker... gotta grow up ... and KILL rock 'n' roll. He said KILL Rock 'n' roll, and FUCK all the sexy people." So I did."
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System Of A Down
- Lonely Day
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In one show, a while before the band hiatus, Daron improvised lyrics from Lonely Day, changing them to "Such a lonely day, hanging out with the band/ This motherfucker, I can't stand" while looking at vocalist Serj Tankian.
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System Of A Down
- Mr. Jack
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On the leaked version of Steal This Album, "Toxicity 2", this song was called "Side of the Freeway".
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System Of A Down
- Spiders
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"Spiders" is best interpreted as a song denouncing government regulation at the personal level (through subliminal advertising, the v-chip, and other government controls).
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System Of A Down
- Sugar
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The video for "Sugar" begins with a reinactment from the 1976 film "Network", when the newsreporter was going beserk.
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Taproot
- Mine
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The video for "Mine" was directed by System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian.
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Taproot
- Poem
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"Poem" achieved #5 on the Mainstream Rock charts.
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Tool
- Ænema
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In 1997, Tool won a Grammy Award in the category of "Best Metal Performance" for this song.
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Tool
- Intension
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'Intension' is commonly defined as 'intensification'; however, it may also mean "a strenuous exertion of the mind or will". In Logic, it means "the sum of all possible attributes in a term". In the study of evolution, it can refer to the process of interbreeding.
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Tool
- Jambi
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Jambi is a wish-granting genie in the TV show "Pee-wee's Playhouse".
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Tool
- Jambi
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"Jambi" is an Indonesian Province in Sumatra, which was once part of a powerful kingdom with a rich sultan who lived an opulent lifestyle. The setting reinforces the message that family and friends are more important than wealth.
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Tool
- Jambi
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Jambi is also Finnish for iamb, a metrical foot where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one. Iambic meter is used in the lyrics of the song.
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Tool
- Jambi
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The rhythm used just before the talk box/guitar solo in Jambi plays out in such a way that it "writes" out '3, 2, 1' in Morse code.
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Tool
- Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
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This song's title refers to Dr. Albert Hoffmann, hailed as "the father of LSD" for being the first person to synthetize the drug.
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Tool
- Rosetta Stoned
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The Rosetta Stone is an archeological artifact of carved granite found in Egypt. The tablet was used as a key to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs; its name was also used as a nom de plume for children's author Dr. Seuss. It is also a quick second language learning system.
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Tool
- The Pot
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In the Guitar World interview, Jones confirmed that the title of "The Pot" was a reference to an idiomatic term for hypocrisy (i.e., the "pot calling the kettle black").
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Tool
- The Pot
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"The Pot" has topped #1 in US Mainstream Rock charts.
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Tool
- Vicarious
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Vicarious means either "experienced or gained through someone else" or "done on behalf of others".
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Tool
- Vicarious
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"Vicarious" was the first single from 10,000 Days. Debuting April 17, 2006 on commercial radio, the single entered the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart at #2.
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Tool
- Viginti Tres
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"Viginti Tres" is Latin for "twenty-three" - the number has a lot of historical, mathematical, and occult significance.
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Tool
- Wings For Marie (Pt. 1)
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"Marie" is the middle name of Keenan's deceased mother, Judith Marie Garrison. As Keenan explains in his commentary on A Perfect Circle's aMOTION DVD, Judith suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. The two-part song, "Wings for Marie", is an opus dedicated to her. The length of time between the paralysis and her death was 27 years, or approximately 10,000 days. The band debuted Wings for Marie (Pt 1) and 10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2), on September 7, 2006, before a live audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA.
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Tori Amos
- Precious Things
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The verse "demigods with their nine-inch nails" is an allusion to the one-man band Nine Inch Nails.
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Underoath
- Salmarnir
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"Sālmarnir" comes from the Icelandic word for "Psalm." It features the reading of Psalm 50 in Icelandic (could possibly be Romanian instead).
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Underoath
- Smic Tague
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"Smic Tague" is an early version of "Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape".
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Underoath
- The 80's Song
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"The 80's Song" is an early version of "It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door".
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Unearth
- Giles
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This song was inspired by the legend of Giles Corey, a farmer killed in the Salem Witch Trials, wich took place at early XVII century. According to legend, his ghost appears the night before a catastrophe in Salem. Some even say an old man seen in a graveyard before the Great Salem Fire of 1914 was Corey's ghost.
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