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- When Your Heart Stops Beating
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The director of the video for "When Your Heart Stops Beating" was Liz Friedlander, who is also responsible for directing the video for Blink 182's "Adam's Song."
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3 Doors Down
- It's Not My Time
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The song has been sung live in concert dating back to June 2006, and videos of live performances of the song have been posted on sites such as popular video sharing site YouTube.
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311
- Beyond The Gray Sky
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"Beyond the Gray Sky" is about the suicide of Nick Hexum's close high school friend David Barker.
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311
- Creatures (For A While)
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The line "Watch it now!", heard in this song after the first verse, is shouted out by reggae musician Black Chiney.
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311
- Frolic Room
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The song "Frolic Room" is named for lead singer Nick Hexum's favorite Los Angeles bar.
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311
- Long For The Flowers
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This song is a re-working of an outtake from the 1997 album "Transistor"; the original song was called "Grifters".
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AC/DC
- Big Balls
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"Big Balls" was originally the theme song for ECW wrestler Balls Mahoney.
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Alice In Chains
- Angry Chair
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Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection:
"Such a brilliant song. I'm very proud of Layne for writing it. When I've stepped up vocally in the past he's been so supportive, and here was a fine example of him stepping up with the guitar and writing a masterpiece."
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Alice In Chains
- Bleed The Freak (Demo Version)
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The song has been released 3 times in 3 different ways. The first being the Facelift version, the next being a demo off of the Alice in Chains box set Music Bank and the final being off of their Live album in 2000.
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Alice In Chains
- Died
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"Died" is the final Alice in Chains song recorded with lead singer Layne Staley, before his death (in 2002).
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Alice In Chains
- Down In A Hole
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Songwriter and guitarist Jerry Cantrell was at first hesitant to present the song to the band, feeling that the song was too soft, but after a positive response from the band, they followed through and recorded it, and it even became one of the five video-singles from the album.
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Alice In Chains
- Fear The Voices
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Fear the Voices is an outtake from the Dirt album, recorded in 1991. In stark contrast to the sound of Dirt, many fans consider this song to lean more towards the band's glam metal beginnings.
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Alice In Chains
- Frogs
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It is considered one of their most technical songs, featuring many displays of pinch harmonics, and odd scales. The song's sound and feel fit well on the album.
It is also well known for its quiet, synchronized lyrics from the 5:14 mark, and reflects front-man Layne Staley's vocals at their darkest. The lyrics for this part are not included in the booklet for the album.
It was also performed at their Unplugged performance, with Staley improvising much of the lyrics in the bridge section (as he may have done on the album). The performance of the song at Unplugged to this date is the only known live performance of the song with Layne Staley.
It is also their longest song reaching the 8:18 mark, and the Unplugged performance at 7:30 (also longer than any of their other songs).
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Alice In Chains
- Get Born Again
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One of the last two songs that Alice in Chains recorded with Layne Staley, The other being it's 'brother' song "Died."
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Alice In Chains
- God Am
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The song questions the existence of God, pointing out death and destruction and God seemingly doing nothing about it. This has led many people in the AIC fan community to believe that late AIC vocalist Layne Staley may have been an agnostic or atheist.
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Alice In Chains
- God Smack
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This is arguably the song that truly convinced fans that Layne Staley was addicted to heroin, as the lyrics quite plainly address addiction and heroin itself.
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Alice In Chains
- Grind
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The song was the first single from the album, and seemed to address the various rumors that surrounded the band at the time. The opening lines, "In the darkest hole/You'd be well advised not to plan my funeral before the body dies," seem to be addressing the rumors that the band had broken up and the many rumors of Layne Staley's death that had occurred frequently around this time.
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Alice In Chains
- Hate To Feel
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Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection:
"Again, a lot of pride in seeing Layne grow as a guitarist and songwriter to create something so heavy. He's always been so honest in his songs, which is like all of us. We don't bullshit in our music, we always pushed each other to say it as it needed to be said. We've always been fully for letting it all out."
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Alice In Chains
- Head Creeps
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Jerry Cantrell, on the song, claimed it "scared the hell out of me how dark it came out. Honestly its one of those songs that just makes you shake when you hear it."
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Alice In Chains
- I Stay Away
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The music video for "I Stay Away" is entirely stop-motion animation, featuring the band members in puppet form in a circus where all the performers are beset with unfortunate accidents. The video was directed by Nick Domkin, famous for his claymation film The Junky's Christmas.
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Alice In Chains
- Man In The Box
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The song was #19 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs and its solo was rated 77th greatest guitar solo by Guitar World. It is widely considered to be the band's signature song, even though it only peaked at #18 on the mainstream rock charts at the time of its release and did not come off of their signature album "Dirt".
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Alice In Chains
- Nutshell (Unplugged)
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Although never released as a single, it is still today one of Alice in Chains's best known songs. The song is notable for its emotional acoustic instrumentation and its electric guitar solo as well as its dark lyrics dealing with loneliness, despair, and death. It is considered a staple of grunge/alternative rock and a classic of the 90's as a whole.
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Alice In Chains
- Over Now (Unplugged)
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While the song was written by Jerry Cantrell about a failed relationship, many fans see this song as an eerie foreshadowing of the band's ultimate demise due to the fact that it is the closing track of their final studio album.
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Alice In Chains
- Rooster
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Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection:
"It was the start of the healing process between my Dad and I from all that damage that Vietnam caused. This was all my perception of his experiences out there. The first time I ever heard him talk about it was when we made the video and he did a 45 minute interview with Mark Pellington and I was amazed he did it. He was totally cool, totally calm, accepted it all and had a good time doing it. It even brought him to the point of tears. It was beautiful. He said it was a weird experience, a sad experience and he hoped that nobody else had to go through it."
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Alice In Chains
- Sea Of Sorrow (Demo Version)
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Two videos for the single were created: the first which was the one the band eventually decided to release, is shot mostly in black and white. The second (and ultimately discarded) version in color and features the band playing in multicolored spotlights. Layne Staley also has most of his dreadlocks cut off, but some intact, giving him an odd hairstyle not seen in any other Alice in Chains videos. In both videos, about two minutes is cut from the song. The second part of Jerry Cantrell's solo is eliminated, as is the second verse.
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Alice In Chains
- Them Bones
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Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection: "I was just thinking about mortality, that one of these days we'll end up a pile of bones. It's a thought for every human being, whether you believe in an after-life or that when we die, that's it. The thought that all the beautiful things and knowledge and experiences you've been through just end when you end scares me, the thought that when you close your eyes for good, it's gone forever."
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Alice In Chains
- We Die Young
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Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection: "I'd just temporarily moved in with Susan Silver because Sean and I had just had a fight. So I was riding the bus to rehearsal and I saw all these 9, 10, 11 year old kids with beepers dealing drugs. The sight of a 10 year old kid with a beeper and a cell phone dealing drugs equaled 'We Die Young' to me."
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Alice In Chains
- Would?
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Jerry Cantrell said of the song,
“ I was thinking a lot about Andrew Wood at the time. We always had a great time when we did hang out, much like Chris Cornell and I do. There was never really a serious moment or conversation, it was all fun. Andy was a hilarious guy, full of life and it was really sad to lose him. But I always hate people who judge the decisions others make. So it was also directed towards people who pass judgments. "
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Amy Winehouse
- Love Is A Losing Game
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A video shoot was set up for "Love Is a Losing Game", reportedly costing £70,000 at Pinewood Studios, however, due to Winehouse failing to turn up to the shoot, two alternate music videos were released. The first music video released for "Love Is a Losing Game" is a montage video, which includes photographs of Winehouse alongside live performance clips of the song. The second clip is an entirely live video, taken from her I Told You I Was Trouble live performance DVD.
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Amy Winehouse
- Rehab
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On Winehouse's song "Rehab", she mentions "Ray" and "Mr. Hathaway", in reference to Ray Charles and Donny Hathaway. However, in her Grammys performance, she replaced "Ray" with "Blake", referring to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is currently in prison awaiting trial, for charges of GBH.
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Audioslave
- Cochise
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The amount of fireworks released during the filming of the video for this song caused nearby residents to report a possible terrorist attack.
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Audioslave
- Show Me How To Live
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The car in the video for this song was a replica of a 1970 Dodge Challenger from the film "Vanishing Point"; two cars were used for the video, and one of the two was given away in a contest made by Audioslave (Chris Cornell and drummer Brad Wilk autographed the inside of the given away car's trunk).
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The Automatic
- Accessories
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Written around the same time as Steve McQueen, Secret Police and Responsible Citizen, the track was originally a lot longer however the band "hacked bits out of it" to make it shorter, the track is also confirmed that it will never be a single, the track is about the music industry.
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The Automatic
- Bad Guy
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Bassist/singer Rob came up with the lead riff on the computer, and later at a house party in Beverly Hills the band attended, they were asked by Barbara Broccoli, the daughter of Albert R. Broccoli, to come up with a James Bond theme tune, so using the riff Hawkins had come up with earlier in the year, the track is about the Bad Guys in spy films because the band felt they were more interesting than the good guy. Frost also has noted they never intended to use the chorus because they though they were stupid, however eventually got used to them and forgot.
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The Automatic
- Big Ideas
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Released on the vinyl, also released on the bands myspace due to it not being available elsewhere digitally.
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The Automatic
- In The Mountains
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Originally known as "Arjans", after a sandwich shop in Cardiff, parodying track "Raoul" from the bands first album, the track is about drug use and how users of drugs go about using drugs not caring of the consequences.
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The Automatic
- Light Entertainment
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Originally known as "Seven Eight", Recorded in Cardiff the track with recorded as an instrumentally as a live track, the riff is a 7.8 timing, thus leading to its original title Seven Eight.
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The Automatic
- Magazines
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Originally known as "Kings of Holey", sung primarily by Paul Mullen, the song is the second single from the album, and has to do with how we are manipulated by the media.
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The Automatic
- Make The Mistakes
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Influenced by Kings of Leon's use of echoing guitars, the tracks main riffs were originally from Paul Mullen, it was also one of the last tracks to be written.
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The Automatic
- Secret Police
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Originally known as "Revolution", Originally recorded in 2006 with former Keyboardist Alex Pennie, and set to be released along with Steve McQueen in early 2007, instead was re-recorded with Mullen, along with Steve McQueen, however the track was still performed live throughout 2007 with keyboardist Pennie. The track is about something going on behind your back.
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The Automatic
- Sleepwalking
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Originally known as "Millennium Stadium", The track is about Jan Grzebski a polish man who awoke from his coma after 19 years in 2007, the track was originally titled Millennium Stadium as the band felt it sounded like a Stadium rock song.
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The Automatic
- Steve McQueen
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Originally written and performed with Alex Pennie. Frank Turner, Chris T-T, Butch Walker provide gang vocals, the track was written as a closure to previous album Not Accepted Anywhere, wrapping up the lyrical themes of the first album, telling of the band growing up and then returning to their home town and no longer feeling part of it.
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The Automatic
- This Is A Fix
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The title track of the record, the track is partly to do with the war in Iraq, as well as dealing with manipulation, sung by primarily Mullen, with singer/bassist Rob Hawkins playing an Alesis Micron and photographer Peter Hill playing bass live, the track was the first one to be released for free digital download on July 30, 2008.
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The Automatic
- This Ship
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Originally known as "Paul Harris" - the man responsible for signing the band, the track is the first one that was written with Paul Mullen.
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Beastie Boys
- 3 Minute Rule
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This song begins with the sound of what is apparently a ping-pong ball being hit back and forth.
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Beastie Boys
- A Year And A Day
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Contains samples from...
"High Powered Rap" by Disco Dave & the Force of the Five MC's (Crash Crew)
"Ebony Jam" by Tower of Power
"That Lady, Pt. 1 & 2" by the Isley Brothers
"When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin
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Beastie Boys
- A.W.O.L.
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After the track ends, there is a reprise of "To All the Girls", the first track on Paul's Boutique.
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Beastie Boys
- A.W.O.L.
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Contains samples from...
"Good to Go" by Trouble Funk
"Good Times" by Chic
"Loran's Dance" by Idris Muhammad
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Beastie Boys
- An Open Letter To NYC
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The Introduction to "An Open Letter To NYC" is a sample from the track "Sonic Reducer" by the punk band The Dead Boys from their 1977 classic, "Young, Loud And Snotty."
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Beastie Boys
- B-Boy Bouillabaise: 59 Chrystie Street
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Contains samples from...
"Here We Go", by Run-DMC.
"Change Le Beat/B-Side" by Fab 5 Freddy.
"Burundi Black (Pt. 2)" by Burundi Black
"Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren
"Are You Experienced?" by Jimi Hendrix
"My Philosophy" by Boogie Down Productions
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Beastie Boys
- Body Movin'
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Contains samples from...
"Fido" by The Byrds
"Oye Como Va" by Tito Puente
"Modern Dynamic Physical Fitness Activities" by Ed Durlacher
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Beastie Boys
- Car Thief
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Contains samples from...
"I'll Bet You" by The Jackson 5
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan
Max Yasgur's "Woodstock" speech
"Drop the Bomb" by Trouble Funk
"Rien Ne Va Plus" by Funk Factory
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Beastie Boys
- Ch-Check It Out
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It did not receive much radio airplay due to the many uses of strong language, but despite that, the song hit #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks, #68 on The Billboard 100 and #7 on the UK Charts.
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Beastie Boys
- Dropping Names
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Contains samples from...
A Bob Marley interview
"Into the Night" by Sweet
"Hey Pocky A-Way" by The Meters
"The Well's Gone Dry" by The Crusaders
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Beastie Boys
- Egg Man
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Contains samples from...
"Jaws" theme song
"Aliens" theme song
"Psycho" theme song
"Sport" by Lightnin' Rod
"Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield
"Pump it Up" by Elvis Costello
"Cheech & Chong's Next Movie" theme song
"Jaws Theme" by John Williams
"I'm Ready" by The Commodores
"Shower Theme" by Bernard Hermann
"Drop it in the Slot" by Tower of Power
"Dance to the Music" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Bring the Noise", & "You're Gonna Get Yours" by Public Enemy
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Beastie Boys
- Electrify
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Contains samples from...
"Stakes Is High" by De La Soul
"The Firebird Suite" by Igor Stravinsky
"Company" by Dean Jones and Company
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Beastie Boys
- Fight For Your Right
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The song was intended as a parody of party and attitude songs, such as "Smokin' In The Boys' Room" and "I Wanna Rock"; but the irony was lost on most listeners.
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Beastie Boys
- Finger Lickin' Good
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Contains samples from...
"Aquarius" by 5th Dimension
"Breakout" by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" by Bob Dylan
"Dance to the Music" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Freaks for the Festival" by Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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Beastie Boys
- Funky Boss
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Contains samples from...
"Funky Worm" by Ohio Players
"Under Mi Sensei" by Barrington Levy
"Anywhere But Nowhere" by K.C. White
"Acid", & "Bicentennial Nigger" by Richard Pryor
"Duppy Conqueror" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
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Beastie Boys
- Hey Ladies
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Contains samples from...
"Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet
"Party Time" by Kurtis Blow
"Holy Ghost" by the Bar-Kays
"Shake Your Pants" by Cameo
"Pumpin' it Up" by P-Funk All Stars
"Jungle Boogie" by Kool & the Gang
"Machine Gun" by The Commodores
"Jazzy Sensation" by Afrika Bambaataa
"Change Le Beat/B-Side" by Fab 5 Freddy
"Come Let Me Love You" by Jeanette "Lady" Day
"Dance Floor", & "So Ruff, So Tuff" by Zapp & Roger
"Ain't It Funky Now", & "Funky President" by James Brown
"Hey DJ" by Malcolm McLaren & the World Famous Supreme Team
"High Powered Rap" by Disco Dave & the Force of the Five MC's (Crash Crew)
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Beastie Boys
- High Plains Drifter
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Contains samples from...
"Those Shoes" by The Eagles
"Suzy is a Headbanger" by The Ramones
"Your Momma Don't Dance" by Loggins & Messina
"Put Your Love (In My Tender Care)" by The Fatback Band
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Beastie Boys
- Hold It Now- Hit It!
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Contains samples from...
The Jimmy Castor Bunch "The Return of Leroy"
Kool and the Gang "Funky Stuff"
Bob James "Take Me To the Mardi Gras"
Kurtis Blow "Christmas Rappin'"
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Beastie Boys
- Intergalactic
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Contains samples from...
"The New Style" by the Beastie Boys
"Love is Blue" by The Jazz Crusaders
"Prelude C# Minor" composed by Rachmaninoff
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Beastie Boys
- Intergalactic
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The song was featured on the Futurama episode Hell Is Other Robots (in which the members of the band also guest-starred).
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Beastie Boys
- Jimmy James
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Contains samples from...
"Rockin' It" by Fearless Four
"Fresh is the Word" by Mantronix
"Beat Bop" by Rammelzee vs. K Rob
"Surrender" by Cheap Trick (Live version from At Budokan)
"I'm Chief Kamanawanalea (We're the Royal Macadamia Nuts)" by The Turtles
"3rd Stone from the Sun", "Foxy Lady", "Happy Birthday", & "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" by Jimi Hendrix
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Beastie Boys
- Johnny Ryall
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Contains samples from...
"AJ Scratch" by Kurtis Blow
"Sharon" by David Bromberg
"Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight
"One of These Days" by Pink Floyd
"Momma Miss America" by Paul McCartney
"Magnificent Sanctuary Band" by Donny Hathaway
"Military Cut (Scratch Mix)" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
"(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party)", & "The New Style" by the Beastie Boys
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Beastie Boys
- Johnny Ryall
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Johnny Ryall claims to be a famous rockabilly musician who purportedly wrote the classic song "Blue Suede Shoes" later sung by Elvis Presley, but this claim is unconfirmed and highly doubtful.
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Beastie Boys
- Mark On The Bus
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Contains samples from a Wild Style dialogue and "Mr. Roberts #1" from National Lampoon's That's Not Funny, That's Sick!
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Beastie Boys
- Pass The Mic
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"Choir" by James Newton
"Big Take Over" by Bad Brains
"So What'cha Sayin'?" by EPMD
"I Walk on Guilded Splinters" by Dr. John
"Big Sur Suite" by Johnny "Hammond" Smith
"The Black Prince Has Arrived" by Jimmie Walker
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Beastie Boys
- Professor Booty
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Contains samples from...
A dialogue from "Wild Style"
"Give it Up" by Kool & the Gang
"Loose Booty" by Funkadelic
"I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe" by Jimmy Smith
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Beastie Boys
- Root Down
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The "Root Down" EP pays homage to jazz legend Jimmy Smith and his seminal album Root Down: a sample from Smith's song "Root Down (And Get It)" is the basis for "Root Down."
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Beastie Boys
- Sabotage
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Its lyrics contain a reference to the Watergate scandal: "I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate."
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Beastie Boys
- Shadrach
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The song refers to the Biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Book of Daniel.
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Beastie Boys
- Shake Your Rump
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Contains samples from...
"Holy Ghost" by the Bar-Kays
"That's the Joint" by Funky 4+1
"8th Wonder" by the Sugarhill Gang
"Jazzy Sensation" by Afrika Bambaataa
"Dancing Room Only" by Harvey Scales
"Funky Snakefoot" by Alphonze Mouzon
"Tell Me Something Good" by Ronnie Laws
"Unity" by James Brown featuring Afrika Bambaataa
"6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock)", "Born to Love You", & "Yo Yo" by Rose Royce
"Super Mellow", by Paul Humphrey, Willie Bobo, Shelly Manne, & Louis Bellson
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Beastie Boys
- Slow And Low
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In the booklet included with the Beastie Boys' anthology set The Sounds of Science Adam Yauch (MCA) noted that "Slow and Low" was first recorded by Run-D.M.C. in the sessions for their second album, King of Rock, but was ultimately left off the original release (though the demo version later appeared on the album's 2005 Deluxe Edition re-release). Being one of the Beasties' favorite songs from the sessions, they got Run-D.M.C.'s permission to record a cover version.
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Beastie Boys
- So What'cha Want
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Contains samples from Big Daddy Kane's "Just Rhymin' With Biz" and Southside Movement's "I've Been Watching You."
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Beastie Boys
- Something's Got To Give
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Both the song and the video have a strong anti-war message, the video containing footage of bombs being dropped on a jungle, and the song containing lyrics alluding to the pacifist messages of both Buddhism and Christianity.
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Beastie Boys
- The Move
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Contains samples from...
"Gula Matari" by Quincy Jones
"El Rey Y Yo" by Los Angeles Negros
"Get Out of My Life Woman" by Iron Butterfly
"WKCR 'Stretch' Bobitto Lord Sear" radio program (Bobbito's voice & Lord Sear's human beat box)
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Beastie Boys
- The Sounds Of Science
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Contains samples from...
The Beatles "Back In the U.S.S.R."
The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
The Beatles "When I'm 64"
The Beatles "The End"
Pato Banton "Don't Sniff Coke"
James Brown "Get Up, Get Into It, Get Involved"
Boogie Down Productions "My Philosophy"
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Beastie Boys
- Time To Get Ill
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Contains samples from...
Stevie Wonder "Boogie on Reggae Women"
Steve Miller Band "Take the Money and Run"
Creedence Clearwater Revival "Down On the Corner"
Led Zeppelin "Custard Pie"
Schooly D "Gucci Time"
"Green Acres" theme song
"Mister Ed" theme song
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Beastie Boys
- What Comes Around
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Contains samples from...
"Moby Dick" by Led Zeppelin
"It's Hot Tonight" by Alice Cooper
"Put on Train" by Gene Harris & The Three Sounds
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The Beatles
- Because
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"Because" features a Moog synthesizer, played by Harrison. The chords in "Because" were inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which Lennon heard Ono play on the piano, after which, according to Lennon, he played the notes backwards.
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The Beatles
- Because
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"Because" features three-part harmonies by Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison, which were then triple-tracked to sound like nine singers. The results of this have been compared in sound to the Beach Boys. As recalled by Geoff Emerick, during the recording of the harmonies, they sat on a bench around the microphone and Starr sat there along with the others, perhaps in an unconscious display of love and brotherhood, despite their increasing differences.
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The Beatles
- Carry That Weight
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Features chorus vocals from all four of The Beatles, although Lennon was in hospital at the time of the primary recording because of a car accident with Yoko Ono, his son Julian, and Ono's daughter Kyoko—he recorded his vocals at a later date.
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The Beatles
- Come Together
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The chorus was inspired by a song Lennon originally wrote for Timothy Leary's 1969 campaign for governor of California titled "Let's Get It Together".
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The Beatles
- Come Together
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It has been speculated that the verses, described by Lennon as intentionally obscure, refer cryptically to each of the Beatles (e.g. the "He's one holy roller" verse allegedly refers to the spiritually-inclined Harrison). The song was later the subject of a lawsuit brought against Lennon by Morris Levy because the opening line in "Come Together" - "Here come old flat-top ..." was admittedly lifted by Lennon from a line in Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me".
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The Beatles
- Her Majesty
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On the first printing of the LP cover, "Her Majesty" is not listed, although it is shown on the record label. "Her Majesty" opens with the final, crashing chord of "Mean Mr. Mustard", while the final note of "Her Majesty" remained buried in the mix of "Polythene Pam". This was the result of "Her Majesty" being snipped off the reel during a rough mix of the medley. The cut in the medley was subsequently disguised with further mixing although "Her Majesty" was not touched again and still appears in its rough mix.
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The Beatles
- Here Comes The Sun
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"Here Comes the Sun" is Harrison's second song on the album and one of his best-known songs, written in Eric Clapton's garden while Harrison was "sagging off" from an Apple board meeting (which he considered tedious). It was influenced by the Cream song "Badge" (which was co-written by Harrison and Eric Clapton).
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The Beatles
- I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)", is a combination of two somewhat different recording attempts. The first attempt occurred almost immediately after the "Get Back/Let It Be" sessions in February 1969 and featuring Billy Preston on keyboards. This was subsequently combined with a second version made during the "Abbey Road" sessions proper, and when edited together ran nearly 8 minutes long, making it The Beatles's second-longest released song ("Revolution 9" being the longest).
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The Beatles
- I Want You (She's So Heavy)
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During the final edit, as the guitar riff continues on and on, Lennon told engineer Geoff Emerick to "cut it right there" at the 7:44 mark, creating a sudden, jarring silence which concluded side one of "Abbey Road". The final overdub session for "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" would be the last time all four Beatles worked in the studio together.
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The Beatles
- Maxwell's Silver Hammer
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According to Geoff Emerick's book, Here, There and Everywhere, John Lennon despised this song, criticizing it as "more of Paul's granny music", and also refusing to participate in the recording of the song.
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The Beatles
- Octopus's Garden
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Starr wrote and sang one song for the album, "Octopus's Garden", his second composition released on a Beatles album. It was inspired by a trip to Sardinia that occurred when Starr left the band for two weeks with his family during the sessions for The White Album. While there, he composed the song, which is arguably his most successful writing effort.
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The Beatles
- Oh! Darling
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When recording "Oh! Darling", McCartney attempted recording only once a day, so that his voice would be fresh on the recording. Lennon was of the opinion that he should have sung the lead vocal on this song, remarking that it was more his style and McCartney didn't sing it well.
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The Beatles
- Polythene Pam
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Was inspired by an evening that John Lennon spent with poet Royston Ellis and his girlfriend Stephanie.
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The Beatles
- Something
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"Something", the second track on the album, later became Harrison's first A-side single.
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The Beatles
- Something
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Originally written during the White Album sessions, the first line is based on the James Taylor song "Something in the Way She Moves" (Taylor was signed to Apple at the time).
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The Beatles
- Something
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After the lyrics were refined during the "Let It Be" sessions (tapes reveal Lennon giving Harrison some songwriting advice during its composition), "Something" was initially given to Joe Cocker, but was subsequently recorded for Abbey Road.
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The Beatles
- Something
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"Something" became the first Beatles number-one single that was not a Lennon-McCartney composition, while "Here Comes the Sun" has received significant radio airplay despite never having been released as a single.
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The Beatles
- The End
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In his 1980 interview with Playboy, John Lennon acknowledged McCartney's authorship by saying, "That's Paul again ... He had a line in it, 'And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you make,' which is a very cosmic, philosophical line. Which again proves that if he wants to, he can think." Lennon misquoted the line slightly; the actual words are, "And, in the end, the love you take/ Is equal to the love you make."
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Beck
- Black Tambourine
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The song "Black Tambourine" was featured in the David Lynch film Inland Empire.
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Beck
- Clap Hands
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The set up for "Clap Hands" on an episode of Saturday Night Live consisted of half a dozen people playing with silverware at a dinner table while Beck played guitar and harmonica. It also consisted of puppets, representing Beck and the people playing at the table, "performing" backstage.
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Beck
- Deadweight
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This song has a music video directed by Michel Gondry. It interweaves footage from "A Life Less Ordinary" with images of Beck, who lives in a paradoxical world.
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Beck
- Devils Haircut
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The video was meant to reference the films Midnight Cowboy and The 400 Blows.
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Beck
- Devils Haircut
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As is common with his Odelay-era songs, Devils Haircut is driven by a number of samples: the drums in the choruses and drum breaks come from Pretty Purdie's Soul Drums; the drumbeat during the verses comes from Them's cover of James Brown's Out of Sight; and the guitar riff was taken from another Them cover (this time of I Can Only Give You Everything,) but it was replayed by Beck, rather than sampled.
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Beck
- E-Pro
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The video for the song was created by Shynola, four visual artists based in London who have collaborated on a variety of projects, most notably a number of acclaimed music videos for several pioneering artists.
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Beck
- Earthquake Weather
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Money Mark, solo artist and keyboardist for the Beastie Boys, plays the organ on "Earthquake Weather".
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Beck
- Farewell Ride
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The song "Farewell Ride" was featured in FX trailers promoting the final season of The Shield.
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Beck
- Go It Alone
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Jack White of The White Stripes plays bass on "Go It Alone".
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Beck
- Hell Yes
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Actress Christina Ricci provides the cameo voice in "Hell Yes".
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Beck
- Jack-Ass
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The song is based on a sample of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue performed by Them, from their 1966 album Them Again.
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Beck
- Jack-Ass
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Willie Nelson has an appearance in the music video, playing a ghost in the mine.
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Beck
- Loser
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The title "Loser" comes from what Beck called himself after his first attempt at rapping.
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Beck
- Rental Car
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Petra Haden, formerly of That Dog and The Rentals, provides an intricate backing vocal track for "Rental Car".
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Beck
- Sissyneck
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For the bass line of the song, the Dust Brothers sampled "A Part of Me" by the band Country Funk.
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Beck
- The New Pollution
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The influence of The Beatles' experimental song "Tomorrow Never Knows" from their 1966 album Revolver is strong in this song. For one, there are many tape loops sampled in the song, most of them repeating several times throughout the whole song. The repeating drum track played in the song is strikingly similar to the one found on "Tomorrow Never Knows." The instrumental solos in the song are also very similar to the Beatles' song. More of the Beatles' influence can be found in the song's bass line, which is reminiscent of the bass line in Taxman.
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Beck
- Where It's At
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"Where It's At" is notable for the number of odd spoken samples that Beck and the Dust Brothers incorporated into it. Many of these come from an obscure sex education album titled Sex for Teens: (Where It's At), whose subtitle Beck borrowed. Other vocal samples incorporated into "Where It's At" come from "Needle To The Groove" by old school rap group Mantronix ("we've got two turntables and a microphone..."), as well as The Frogs ("that was a good drum break"). The song also references Gary Wilson, one of Beck's influences.
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Beck
- Where It's At
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"Where It's At" was the first music video to be broadcast on the television channel MTV2. The video features a parody of William Shatner's video of "Rocket Man".
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Black Stone Cherry
- Lonely Train
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Featured in the videogame "WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007." It was also the theme song for WWE Great American Bash 2006.
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Black Stone Cherry
- Shapes Of Things
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"Shapes of Things" is a cover of a song written by Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith and Jim McCarty. It was originally recorded by the Yardbirds.
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blink-182
- All Of This (featuring Robert Smith)
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"All of This" was supposed to be the fifth single from the album, if the band didn't go on hiatus. The music video would have been directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who states it as one of his favourite songs.
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blink-182
- All Of This (featuring Robert Smith)
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In this song, the girl named 'Holly', previously mentioned in 'Easy Target' returns (the tune at the end of 'Easy Target' runs straight into 'All of This'). The lines "Use me, Holly", refer to her only going out with him in order to get closer to his brother.
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blink-182
- Asthenia
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The intro features NASA transmissions. According to Tom DeLonge, "This song is about one thing only, an astronaut sitting in a space capsule about the size of a car, floating above the earth. He's contemplating if coming back or not will make a difference on such a negative place. A song about the loss of hope. A term was coined for the breakdown of life in space and it is called Asthenia, the name of the track."
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blink-182
- Asthenia
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This was recorded through a 1960s era Leslie speaker that had a tube dying out and glowing purple.
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blink-182
- Down
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The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart.
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blink-182
- Easy Target
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This song is based around the story of one of the band's techs first crushes. Allegedly, the girl invited the band tech around to her house on a date. The tech rode his bicycle there as fast as he could, but upon arriving, she and her friends jumped out and sprayed him with a water hose. The tech went home, embarrassed and humiliated. The story has also been brought up in past interviews, where allegedly, the name Holly was derived from Tom Delonge's first girlfriend, who left him for his older brother.
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blink-182
- Feeling This
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"Feeling This" was the first single from the album. It was certified gold by the RIAA. The song (erroneously listed as "Action", a title the band never used) was included on soundtrack for the video game Madden NFL 2004.
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blink-182
- Here's Your Letter
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This song is about people's inability to communicate with one another and how words and explanations only confuse the issue.
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blink-182
- I Miss You
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"I Miss You" was released in March 2004 as the second single from the album. It was their most successful single of all time, reaching the #1 spot on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart and being certified platinum after selling over 200,000 copies.
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blink-182
- I'm Lost Without You
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There are two drum solos layered on top of each other during the last 45 seconds of this song. Tom sings into a rotating microphone, which makes it sound like he's underwater.
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blink-182
- Obvious
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According to Travis Barker, this song was meant to sound like "Failure meets Led Zeppelin meets The Police".
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blink-182
- Stockholm Syndrome
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This song is about paranoia, being afraid of the outside world and about being convinced that people can hear your thoughts.
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blink-182
- Stockholm Syndrome
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The intro features actress Joanne Whalley reading letters that Mark Hoppus' grandfather wrote to his grandmother during World War II.
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Bloc Party
- Hunting For Witches
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The lyrics are influenced by the terrorist attacks on London's transportation system in July 2005. It also contains references to the September 11 attacks and the British Newspaper "The Daily Mail."
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Bloc Party
- I Still Remember
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On the album, the song runs for 4:24, but the version on the original leak of A Weekend In The City had an extended outro by guitarist Russell Lissack and came in at 4:35.
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Bloc Party
- SRXT
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The song SRXT takes its name from the drug Seroxat (with all of the vowels removed), controversial for the suggestion it causes suicide. This relates to the theme of the song which is that of suicide. The track was originally called Seroxat, but was later changed to SRXT in order to avoid legal issues. In that song there is the line "I called up Eugene, Told him I was drowning"; Eugene is Kele's father's name in real life.
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Bloc Party
- The Prayer
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Lead singer Kele Okereke says he was inspired to write the song after hearing Busta Rhymes' song "Touch It".
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Bloc Party
- Where Is Home?
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When the album was previewed (seemingly in its entirety) on MySpace, the song "Where Is Home?" was omitted, suggesting it may not appear on the album upon its release. However, the song was indeed included on the CD and vinyl releases.
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Boris
- あくまのうた
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Pronounced "Akuma no Uta", which is translated to "The Devil's Song."
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Boris
- となりのサターン
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Pronounced "Tonari No Sataan", translated to "My Neighbor Satan."
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Boris
- ぬるい炎
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Pronounced "Nurui Honoo", translated to "Afterburner."
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Boris
- スクリーンの女
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Pronounced "Sukuriin no Onna", translated to "Woman On the Screen."
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Boris
- ブラックアウト
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Pronounced "Burakku Auto", translated to "Blackout."
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Boris
- メッセージ
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Pronounced "Messeeji", translated to "Statement."
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Boris
- 俺を捨てたところ
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Pronounced "Ore o Sute Ta Tokoro", translated to "Just Abandoned Myself."
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Boris
- 偽ブレッド
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Pronounced "Nise Bureddo", translated to "Pseudo-Bread."
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Boris
- 別になんでもない
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Pronounced "Betsuni Nan Demo Nai", translated to "Nothing Special."
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Boris
- 君は傘をさしていた
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Pronounced "Kimi wa Kasa o Sashiteita", translated to "You Were Holding An Umbrella."
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Boris
- 放て!
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Pronounced "Hanate!", translated to "Shoot!"
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Boris
- 枯れ果てた先
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Pronounced "Kare Hateta Saki", translated to "Dead Destination." On the English version, it's "Ka Re Ha Te Ta Sa Ki", translated to "No One's Grieve."
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Boris
- 決別
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Pronounced "Ketsubetsu", translated to "Farewell."
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Boris
- 花・太陽・雨
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Pronounced "Hana, Taiyou, Ame", translated to "Flower, Sun, Rain."
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Boris
- 6を3つ
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Pronounced "6 o 3 Tsu", translated to "Six, Three Times."
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Bryan Adams
- I Thought I'd Seen Everything
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In 1991 Robert Lange co-wrote a song with the same title for his ex-wife Stevie Vann; however according to Adams website, the title and writer are only similarities that exist between the two songs, and that this song is an entirely new composition.
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The Buzzcocks
- Boredom
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"Boredom", probably the EP's most well-known song, announced punk's rebellion against the status quo while templating a strident musical minimalism. At the same time the lyrics already showed boredom with punk itself indeed Howard Devoto left the band on the eve of the record's release, saying "I get bored very easily and that boredom can act as a catalyst for me to suddenly conceive and execute a new vocation." He added that punk rock had already become restrictive and stereotyped.
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The Buzzcocks
- Boredom
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Richard Boon, the band's manager, asserts that "Boredom" was a satirical song.
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The Buzzcocks
- Ever Fallen In Love With Someone (You Shouldn't've Fallen In Love With)?
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Sometime during November 1977, the band watched the musical Guys & Dolls in the TV lounge of a guesthouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was the dialogue Have you ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have from the film which inspired the song. The following day Pete wrote the lyrics of the song, in a van outside a post office, with the music following soon after.
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The Buzzcocks
- Harmony In My Head
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In a 2006 interview with Pitchforkmedia, Diggle revealed he had smoked 20 cigarettes to achieve the gruff sound of the vocals.
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Chris Cornell
- Disappearing Act
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An acoustic version of "Disappearing Act" is heard in the movie Bug, a 2007 horror film by William Friedkin. The version of the song on this album is a full-band version.
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Chris Cornell
- Part Of Me
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Music videos for this song has been made for Canadian, UK and Ireland release. Timbaland made a cameo in this video. However, the video is available in more Europeans countries. The Video also features cameo appearances by Heavyweight Boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko and Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man.
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Chris Cornell
- Watch Out
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It is the 1st single from Cornell's album Scream on August 5, 2008. Even though "Long Gone" was released from the album first, "Long Gone" is actually a promo single, due to its heavy airplay in the northern portion in the United States.
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The Clash
- Career Opportunities
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The song attacks the political and economic situation in England at the time, citing the lack of jobs available, particularly to youth, and the dreariness and lack of appeal of those that were available. They specifically mention service in the military and police forces, in addition to jobs that are often perceived as being 'menial' such as a bus driver or ticket inspector, as well as "making tea at the BBC".
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The Clash
- Career Opportunities
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The line "I won't open letter bombs for you" is a reference to a former job of Clash guitarist Mick Jones, opening letters for a British government department to make sure they weren't rigged with mailbombs.
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The Clash
- Clash City Rockers
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The song was first played live in at Mont De Marsan (Landes - France), in August 1977 and recorded the same year in the band's October and November sessions in CBS studios.
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The Clash
- Clash City Rockers
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The song was edited in December by producer Mickey Foote (Joe Strummer's old sound-man from the 101'ers and producer of The Clash and "White Riot") after manager Bernie Rhodes decided it sounded 'a bit flat' rendering the song one semitone higher in pitch. Strummer and Jones were in Jamaica at the time. With the exception of the 2000 re-issue of the US version of The Clash, the original mix of the song has been used on every re-release since.
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The Clash
- Clash City Rockers
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The Clash's first overt attempt as self-mythology, "Clash City Rockers" is, by and large, a song about positivity and moving forward, and revisits themes common in Clash songs of the era, specifically dead-end employment and having a purpose in life. The middle part of the song is based on an old nursery rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons", and namechecks The Groove, David Bowie, Gary Glitter and Prince Far-I; the irony of the line "when I am fitter say the bells of Gary Glitter" following his scandal was not lost on Mick Jones, who joked about it in December 2003 of Uncut magazine: "The Gary Glitter lyric? Yeah, that was before the internet."
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The Clash
- Complete Control
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The song is often cited as one of punk's greatest singles, and is a fiery polemic on record companies, managers and the state of punk music itself, the motivation for the song being the band's label CBS Records, releasing "Remote Control" without bothering to ask them, something that infuriated the group.
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The Clash
- Complete Control
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The song also refers to managers of the time who sought to control their groups - Bernie Rhodes (of The Clash) and Malcolm McLaren (the Sex Pistols) - indeed, the song's very title is derived from this theme:
“ Bernie [Rhodes] had a meeting in The Ship in Soho after the Anarchy Tour. He said he wanted complete control...I came out of the club with Paul [Simonon] collapsing on the pavement in hysterics at those words. ”
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The Clash
- Complete Control
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The track also refers to the band's run-ins with the police, their practice of letting fans into gigs through the back door or window for free and a punk idealism seemingly crushed by the corporate reality they had become part of and the betrayal and anger they felt. The overriding message of the song can be recognised in this couplet from the song:
“ They said, we'd be artistically free / When we signed that bit of paper. ”
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The Clash
- Complete Control
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The track was recorded at Sarm East Studios in Whitechapel, engineered by Mickey Foote and produced by Lee "Scratch" Perry.
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The Clash
- Complete Control
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During the tracking session, some Clash and Lee "Scratch" Perry biographies claim that Perry had blown out a studio mixing board attempting to get a deep bass sound out of Paul Simonon's instrument, while a 1979 New Musical Express and Hit Parader article self-penned by Strummer and Jones stated that Perry had complimented Jones' guitar playing by describing it as someone who "played with an iron fist". Perry's contribution to the track, however, was toned down - the band went back and fiddled with the song themselves to bring the guitars out and played down the echo Perry had dropped on it. The song was also Topper Headon's first recording with the band, following the departure of Terry Chimes.
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The Clash
- English Civil War
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The song is derived from an American Civil War song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", written by Irish-born Massachusetts Unionist Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore, which is in turn derived from the Irish anti-war song "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye". The American Civil War song was popular with both sides of the conflict.
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The Clash
- English Civil War
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The song is about this state of politics in Britain and warns against all things uniformed and sinister - shortly after the song was first performed live at Rock Against Racism Joe Strummer said in an interview to the music newspaper Record Mirror:
"War is just around the corner. Johnny hasn't got far to march. That's why he is coming by bus or underground" (as in the song's lyrics).
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The Clash
- I Fought The Law
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It was the existence of a 45 of the Bobby Fuller version in an American studio jukebox that inspired The Clash to record a cover version of the song in 1978. This cover version helped gain The Clash their first taste of airplay in the States and is one of the best-known cover versions of the song.
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The Clash
- I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
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The song began life as another track, I'm So Bored With You, a love song written by Mick Jones. According to Keith Topping's The Complete Clash book, the song was about Jones's girlfriend, the same woman who was the topic of Deny. According to the story often told by the song's authors Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, including on their documentary Westway to the World, the change came about by Strummer mishearing the song's title when Jones played him it during their first meeting at Davies Road Squad.
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The Clash
- I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
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Early recordings including on the popular live bootleg 5 Go Mad At The Roundhouse include the song in its original form. However, by the time of the concert on 20 September 1976 at the Roundhouse, Camden the song was using "I'm So Bored With the U.S.A." instead of "I'm So Bored With You."
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The Clash
- I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
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Originally demoed with slightly different lyrics during The Clash's second demo session with their soundman Mickey Foote as producer, I'm So Bored with the USA's lyrics do what the title suggests, condemn America. Referring to the drugs problems in the US Army (particularly heroin), America supporting dictatorships (something that was later elaborated on with their track Washington Bullets), the surf culture and American television as well as mentioning the Watergate scandal, Starsky and Hutch and Kojak with the chorus expressing the inescapability of the USA's influence and indeed the futility of the song.
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The Clash
- I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
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I'm So Bored with the USA was a mainstay in the band's set until 1978, when its appearances became less frequent, except in America where it was often used as the band's opening song.
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The Clash
- Jail Guitar Doors
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The song opens with the lines "Let me tell you 'bout Wayne and his deals of cocaine", which is a reference to the MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer.
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The Clash
- Janie Jones
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The subject of the song, Janie Jones, was a famous madam in London during the 1970s and had been a pop singer during the 1960s.
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The Clash
- London's Burning
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The song continues talking about the problems in the England's traffic lines, who makes people stay in the car until the night falls, feeling bore and far of their homes. This message is clearly seen in the next verse: "I'm up and down the Westway, in an' out the lights/ What a great traffic system - it's so bright/ I can't think of a better way to spend the night/ Then speeding around underneath the yellow lights."
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The Clash
- London's Burning
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In the song it is repeated the racial theme so often treated by them, when they say "Black or white turn it on, face the new religion."
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The Clash
- Police And Thieves
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"Police & Thieves" is a well known reggae song first recorded in the Jamaican reggae version with the falsetto singer Junior Murvin from 1976. The song is written by Murvin and the man who originally produced the song, Lee "Scratch" Perry.
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The Clash
- Police And Thieves
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In the beginning of the song, Joe Strummer reinterprets the line "They're going through a tight wind" as a tribute to The Ramones, already an established American punk band and an influence on The Clash. The lyric line appears in the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop".
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The Clash
- Remote Control
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The song was written by Mick Jones after the disastrous Anarchy Tour and contains pointed observations about the civic hall bureaucrats who had cancelled concerts, the police, big business and especially record companies. The song mentions a 'meeting in Mayfair' which probably refers to one held by EMI's shareholders on December 7, 1977 (1977-12-07), which effectively withdrew all support for the Anarchy Tour. Also alluded to in the song are the 'old-boy' peerage networks and hapless politicians.
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The Clash
- Remote Control
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The band virtually disowned the song, following their record label CBS's decision to release the song as a single without consulting the band. The band had already told Melody Maker magazine that their next single would be "Janie Jones", and were irate that CBS had undermined them and made a decision to release "Remote Control" instead without the band's permission. To the band, the song became a symbol of everything they were fighting against. The incident was referred to in the first lines of a later song, "Complete Control", which is on the 1979 US release of the album--They said, 'Release "Remote Control", but we didn't want it on the label...
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The Clash
- Tommy Gun
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Joe Strummer said that he got the idea for the song when he was thinking about terrorists, and how they probably enjoy reading about their killings as much as movie stars like seeing their films reviewed. While Topper Headon mimics the sound of gangster movie shootings with quick snare hits and the guitars are full of distortion and feedback, Strummer's sarcastic lyrics (I'm cutting out your picture from page one/I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours/And give my false support to your cause/Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!) condemn rather than condone violence.
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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The song showed considerable musical and lyrical maturity for the band at the time and is stylistically more in line with their version of Junior Murvin's "Police & Thieves" as the powerful guitar intro of "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" descends into a slower ska rhythm, and was disorientating to a lot of the fans who had grown used to their earlier work.
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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"(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" starts by recounting an all-night reggae "showcase" night at the Hammersmith Palais in Shepherd's Bush, London that was attended by Joe Strummer and roadie Rodent and was headlined by Dillinger, Leroy Smart and Delroy Wilson. Strummer was disappointed and disillusioned that these performances had been more "pop" and "lightweight" similar to Ken Boothe's brand of reggae with Four Tops-like dance routines, and that the acts had been "performances" rather than the roots rock rebellion that he had been hoping for.
The song then moves away from the disappointing concert to address various other themes, nearly all relating to the state of Britain at the time. First giving an anti-violence message, then addressing the state of 'wealth distribution' in Britain, promoting unity between the Black and White youths of the country before moving on to address the state of the British punk rock scene in 1978 which was becoming more mainstream.
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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Included is a jibe at an unnamed group who wear Burton's suits, taken by many to be The Jam (though in an NME article of the time, Strummer claimed the actual target was the power pop fad hyped by journalists as the next big thing in 1978) and the lyric concludes that the new groups are in it solely to be famous and for the money (though The Clash themselves have often been criticized for just that, notably by other punk rock bands like Crass).
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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The final lines fret over the social decline of Britain, noting sardonically that things were getting to the point where even Adolf Hitler could expect to be sent a limousine in the unlikely event of flying into London.
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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This song was one of Joe Strummer's favorites, he continued to play it live with his new band The Mescaleros until his death and it was played at his funeral.
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The Clash
- White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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"(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" helped The Clash assert themselves as a more versatile band musically and politically than many of their peers, and it broke the exciting but limiting punk mould that had been established by the Sex Pistols; from now on The Clash would be "the thinking man's yobs".
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The Clash
- White Riot
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The song is short and intense, drawing influence from the Ramones' style of two chords played very fast. Mick Jones counts off "1-2-3-4" at the start (In the re-recorded version, it instead begins with the sound of a police siren).
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The Clash
- White Riot
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Lyrically, the song is about class economics and race and thus proved controversial: many people thought it was advocating a kind of race war. Rather, lyricist Joe Strummer was trying to appeal to white youths to find a worthy cause to riot, as he felt blacks in the UK already had. It contains a positive message in the lines "Are you taking over / Or are you taking orders? / Are you going backwards / Or are you going forwards?"
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The Clash
- White Riot
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The song was written after Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon were involved in the riots at the Notting Hill Carnival of 1976.
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The Clash
- White Riot
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"White Riot" is considered a classic in The Clash canon, although as the band matured, Mick Jones would at times refuse to play it, considering it crude and musically inept. Over two decades later, Joe Strummer would perform it with his band the Mescaleros.
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The Clash
- White Riot
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This song was featured in the soundtrack for the game Tony Hawk's Underground.
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The Clash
- White Riot
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In March 2005, Q magazine placed "White Riot" at number 34 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
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Cobra Starship
- Angie
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The song "Angie" was actually first named "Mike" after Mike Carden of The Academy Is...; Cobra Starship member Ryland Blackinton did not approve and thus, the song was called "Angie."
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Cobra Starship
- The Church Of Hot Addiction
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The title track from Bon Jovi's album Lost Highway was supposed to be used as the official theme for the WWE pay-per-view, The Great American Bash 2007, but was changed to "The Church of Hot Addiction" by Cobra Starship.
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Coldplay
- Lost!
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The band have stated that the track "Lost!" resulted from listening to the early Blur track "Sing", as featured on Blur's debut album Leisure, while they were on tour in the United States.
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Common
- Forever Begins
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Contains samples from "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" by Paul Simon, and "She's Leaving Home" by Syreeta Wright.
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Common
- I Want You
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Contains samples from Bob James' "Feel Like Making Love" and Minnie Ripperton's "Baby, This Love I Have."
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Common
- So Far To Go (featuring D'Angelo)
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Contains samples from "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time For Love)" by The Isley Brothers, utilizes the beat from J Dilla's "Bye", and contains skit plays from "As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still" by Soft Machine.
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Cypress Hill
- 3 Lil' Putos
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Featuring samples of:
"I've Told Every Little Star by Linda Scott
"Remix For P Is Free" By Boogie Down Productions
"Ode To Billy Joe" by Lou Donaldson
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Cypress Hill
- Break It Up
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Featuring samples of:
"Compared to What" by Les McCann & Eddie Harris
"Johnny Ryall" by the Beastie Boys
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Cypress Hill
- Hits From The Bong
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Featuring samples of:
"Son Of A Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield
"Get Out Of My Life, Woman" by Lee Dorsey
"Don't Cha Hear Me Calling To Ya" by Junior Mance
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Cypress Hill
- How I Could Just Kill A Man
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Featuring samples of:
"Tramp" by Lowell Fulsom
"Midnight Theme" by Manzel
"Come on In" by Music Machine
"Are You Experienced" by Jimi Hendrix
"Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies
"Escape-ism", "I Got Ants in My Pants", and "I Got to Move" by James Brown
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Cypress Hill
- I Wanna Get High
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Featuring samples of:
"Get Out Of My Life, Woman" by The New Apocalypse
"Taxman" by Junior Parker
"One Draw" by Rita Marley
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Cypress Hill
- Insane In The Brain
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Featuring samples of:
"I'm Black And I'm Proud" by James Brown
"Good Guys Only Win In The Movies" by Mel & Tim
"All Over The World" by The Youngbloods
"Life" by Sly & The Family Stone
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Cypress Hill
- Latin Lingo
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Featuring samples of:
"Mongoose" by Elephant's Memory
"Sing a Simple Song" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On" by Edwin Starr
"A Gritty Nitty" by Pazant Brothers and the Beaufort Express
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Cypress Hill
- Phunky Feel One
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Featuring samples of:
"More Peas" by the J.B.'s
"Hector" by Village Callers
"Look Ka Py Py" by the Meters
"Give it Up" by Kool & the Gang
"La Di Da La Di Day" by the J.B.'s
"Blues and Pants" by James Brown
"Fight the Power" by the Isley Brothers
"The Breakdown Pt I & II" by Rufus Thomas
"Life is What You Make It" by Kool & the Gang
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Cypress Hill
- Psycobetabuckdown
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Featuring samples of "Foxy Lady" by Willie Hutch
"Aquaboogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)" by Parliament
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Cypress Hill
- Real Estate
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Featuring samples of:
"Copy Cat" by the Bar-Kays
"Humpin'" by the Bar-Kays
"Underdog" by Sly & the Family Stone
"Sexy Coffee Pot" by Tony Avalon & the Belairs
"Cramp Your Style" by All the People featuring Robert Moore
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David Gilmour
- On An Island
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Featuring David Gilmour on guitars, vocals, electric piano and percussion, David Crosby, Graham Nash on vocals, Guy Pratt on bass guitar, Orchestrations by Zbigniew Preisner, Rick Wright on Hammond Organ, Rado Klose on guitar and Andy Newmark on drums.
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David Gilmour
- The Blue
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Featuring David Gilmour on guitars, vocals, bass guitar, percussion, piano, Rado Klose on guitar, Andy Newmark on drums, Jools Holland, Polly Samson on piano, Chris Stainton on Hammond Organ and Rick Wright on vocals.
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Dead Kennedys
- Holiday In Cambodia
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In 1998, Jello Biafra refused to play this song in a commercial for Dockers. This led to the rest of the former Dead Kennedys members suing Biafra.
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The Decemberists
- Billy Liar
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Deriving its title from the English novel Billy Liar, the song also references the "Nogood Boyo" Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, and appears to generally talk about a young man's masturbation fantasies.
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The Decemberists
- California One / Youth And Beauty Brigade
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"California One" is named after "State Route 1" (or "Highway 1"), is a state highway that runs along much of the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. It is famous for running by some of the most beautiful coastlines in the world, leading to its designation as an All-American Road.
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The Decemberists
- O Valencia!
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It tells a story of two star-crossed lovers, similar to that of Romeo and Juliet (or the modern, urban retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in the famous musical West Side Story). The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to a gang which is opposed to one he is in. At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother (the singer's "sworn enemy") and is killed by a stray bullet.
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The Decemberists
- O Valencia!
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The 7" single sold in the UK was mispressed, featuring "Culling of the Fold" as the b-side despite the artwork and record label listing "After the Bombs" as the b-side.
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The Decemberists
- O Valencia!
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For the music video of this song, The Decemberists filmed themselves in front of a green screen and asked fans to complete it by digitally adding in background images or footage. Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, having recently asked fans to do the same with a video of him with a light saber in front of a green screen, brought up The Decemberists on his segment "Look Who's Riding on My Coattails Now" and accused the band of stealing the idea. The Decemberists' response was to challenge Stephen Colbert to a guitar solo showdown on December 20, 2006 on The Colbert Report.
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The Decemberists
- Odalisque
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An odalisque was a virgin female slave in an Ottoman seraglio. She was an assistant or apprentice to the concubines and wives, and she might rise in status to become one of them. Most odalisques were part of the harem, that is, the household, of the sultan.
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The Decemberists
- Of Angels And Angles
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Its title is likely an allusion to the phrase Non Angli, sed Angeli. ("Not Angles, but Angels.") In legend, this was a Latin pun allegedly said by Pope Gregory I after a response to his query regarding the identity of a group of fair-haired Anglian children whom he had observed in the marketplace.
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The Decemberists
- Shanty For The Arethusa
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Based on "The Saucy Arethusa", a sea shanty which, although usually considered 'traditional', was possibly written by 'Prince Hoare', a comic opera librettist, in around 1832.
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The Decemberists
- Sixteen Military Wives
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Songwriter Colin Meloy has characterized the song as a "protest song" inspired by the Iraq War. However, though it does attack elements of the American foreign policy under George W. Bush (the lines "Because America can/And America can't say no/And America does/If America says it's so/It's so" in the chorus), "16 Military Wives" focuses primarily on the news media and popular response to the war, particularly levying criticism at infotainment and the surface-level involvement of celebrities in public affairs.
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The Decemberists
- Sixteen Military Wives
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The video was directed by Aaron Stewart-Ahn, who also helmed the band's video for "O Valencia!"; and appears to be drawn stylistically from Wes Anderson's films, particularly Rushmore, from which it borrows the prestigious private school setting and similar school uniforms, as well as themes of rivalry between students. Additionally, Rushmore featured a brief segment concerning a model United Nations at the school.
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The Decemberists
- The Chimbley Sweep
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On some editions, the track list printed on the actual disc is missing the song "The Chimbley Sweep", though the song is listed on the back of the CD jacket and in the liner notes.
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The Decemberists
- The Crane Wife, Pt. 1 And 2
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The Crane Wife is an old Japanese tale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in it), takes it in and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman appears at his doorstep with whom he falls in love and marries. Because they need money, his wife offers to weave wondrous clothes out of silk that they can sell at the market, but only if he agrees never to watch her making them. They begin to sell them and live a comfortable life, but he soon makes her weave them more and more. Oblivious to his wife's diminishing health, his greed increases. He eventually peeks in to see what she is doing to make the silk she weaves so desirable. He is shocked to discover that at the loom is a crane plucking feathers from her own body and weaving them into the loom. The crane, seeing him, flies away and never returns.
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The Decemberists
- The Crane Wife, Pt. 3
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The Crane Wife is an old Japanese tale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in it), takes it in and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman appears at his doorstep with whom he falls in love and marries. Because they need money, his wife offers to weave wondrous clothes out of silk that they can sell at the market, but only if he agrees never to watch her making them. They begin to sell them and live a comfortable life, but he soon makes her weave them more and more. Oblivious to his wife's diminishing health, his greed increases. He eventually peeks in to see what she is doing to make the silk she weaves so desirable. He is shocked to discover that at the loom is a crane plucking feathers from her own body and weaving them into the loom. The crane, seeing him, flies away and never returns.
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The Decemberists
- The Mariner's Revenge Song
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"The Mariner's Revenge Song" has been one of the Decemberists' most popular at live performances. It had been played at virtually every live show as an encore since its release up until the 2006 tour. At this point, the band swore off playing it at nearly all of the shows, saying that they were giving it a break for a while.
When played live, the song utilizes a characteristic variety of instruments, with Chris Funk on mandolin, Nate Query on stand-up bass and bowed bass, Colin Meloy on vocals and guitar, John Moen on floor tom and Jenny Conlee on accordion. The band usually brings out a large paper maché whale jaw to use as a prop, and encourage the audience to "scream like you're being eaten by a whale" during the part of the song when the whale attacks the ship.
On March 21, during their "Twilight in the Fearful Forest Tour 2007" at The Landmark Lowes Theater in Jersey City, New Jersey, the song was "revived" and brought back from retirement as the last song played in the regular set. Colin Meloy said that they were playing it for all the people who never experienced the song live. The band continued to play it throughout the tour.
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The Decemberists
- The Mariner's Revenge Song
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The band has stated that the song was recorded in one take around a single microphone. The various band members stepped towards the mic and back to control the audio level of their instrument. Drummer Rachel Blumberg had to stand much further away because of the relative loudness of the drums.
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The Decemberists
- The Perfect Crime #2
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The song was featured in "Charged", the second episode of the TV series Reaper. It was also played in the background of a scene in "'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous", a seventh-season episode of Gilmore Girls.
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The Decemberists
- Valerie Plame
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The song is about a former United States CIA Operations Officer, whose covert identity was classified. After working for the CIA for twenty years, she retired in December 2005, as a result of the publication and compromising of her classified cover identity and that of her Agency front company, Brewster Jennings & Associates by an American journalist in the summer of 2003.
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Disturbed
- 10,000 Fists
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As put by Disturbed frontman David Draiman: "Meant to signify unity and strength, it is speaking to the believers: "You will remember the night you were struck by the sight of ten thousand fists in the air". Its meaning is "You should stand up for what you believe in."
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Disturbed
- Down With The Sickness
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Draiman has stated that it is meant to be "Mother Society" beating her child who is different. It is a satire on how society looks down on anything not conformed to "the mainstream." It is, in fact, not to convey actual child abuse.
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Disturbed
- Inside The Fire
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According to guitarist Dan Donegan, "It's about a girl he (David Draiman) was in a relationship with. She's committed suicide, and he just has the voice of the devil over his shoulder trying to provoke him to take his own life to join her again, because the only chance for him to be with her again is if he takes his life. We're not condoning suicide off of this, it's just more of the temptation to join a girlfriend that was very confused and messed up and wanted out."
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Disturbed
- Just Stop
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"About a situation where your other half is always trying to come up with reasons to argue with you, and you are constantly apologizing, and constantly asking for forgiveness, over and over again, and the frustration that comes with it. The song is asking "that person" to just stop." - David Draiman
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Disturbed
- Just Stop
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Had two video versions: Yahoo.com released a computer-generated video, and the official video was recorded live.
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Disturbed
- Land Of Confusion
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The video for Disturbed's "Land of Confusion" was done by Todd McFarlane, the creator of the comic book series "Spawn"; McFarlane has also done the video for Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution."
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Disturbed
- Liberate
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This song was featured in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2, heavily edited for language.
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Disturbed
- Prayer
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The video for "Prayer" was banned from TV due to 9/11 attacks because of the buildings exploding in it.
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Disturbed
- Prayer
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The song is about a conversation between lead singer David Draiman and God after the death of Draiman's grandfather.
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Disturbed
- Remember
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The music video consisted of footage from one of their concerts, similar to the videos for two other songs by the band: "Liberate" and "Down with the Sickness". In 2003, a new video was released that shows the band in a room playing in front of a T.V. that shows people wearing masks, referring to "Hide behind the mask this time".
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Disturbed
- Stricken
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The video was filmed in an abandoned hospital, where parts of the film A Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed.
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Disturbed
- Stupify
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During the song, Draiman pronounces the word "Tefached", which means "be afraid" in Hebrew. This became a popular trait in the song.
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Disturbed
- Stupify
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After the end of the track on the album, an eerie guitar arrangement identical to the one played in the background of "Down with the Sickness" can be heard.
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Disturbed
- The Game
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The track became the band's least successful single, landing at #34 on the Mainstream Rock Charts. It also failed to reach the Modern Rock Charts, as well as the Billboard 100. Despite this, the song has become a favorite among fans, also being played at virtually every Disturbed live show since its release.
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Disturbed
- The Game
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The song was used in the Dragon Ball Z feature movie Cooler's Revenge.
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Disturbed
- Voices
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"I was watching the Discovery channel one night and there was a program on about serial killers. About the theory that they had these internal voices telling them to, maim, kill, steal or whatever it is that they had done, but that is no different from everyone else we have the same voices in our head, we just choose not to listen to them."
~David Draiman
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The Doors
- The End
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Featured in the movie "Apocalypse Now." It is also on the soundtrack for that movie.
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Dream Theater
- A Nightmare To Remember
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According to Rich Wilson, "A Nightmare to Remember" includes solos from Petrucci and Rudess in addition to multiple time signature changes. Petrucci wrote the lyrics about a car accident he was involved in as a child.
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Dream Theater
- A Rite Of Passage
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"A Rite of Passage" involves Freemasonry and secret societies. "A Rite of Passage" was the album's first single; it was available for free download through Roadrunner Record's website for one day in May of 2009. Its music video—also the first of the album—debuted on May 8.
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Dream Theater
- Another Day
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The lyrics were written entirely by John Petrucci and refer to his father's struggle with cancer.
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Dream Theater
- Another Day
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Jay Beckenstein, from the band Spyro Gyra and owner of BearTracks studios where the album was recorded, plays soprano saxophone on this song. For the ending, he recorded eight takes, all of them improvised, one of which was chosen to be featured on the song.
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Dream Theater
- Another Day
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The band originally thought that the song could have been a big hit, but surprisingly Pull Me Under gained more airplay.
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Dream Theater
- Endless Sacrifice
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The song is believed by many to be about John Petrucci and his wife being apart during his work as a musician, and how it pains them that they cannot see each other. It mentions how she has given up her livelihood, and therefore made a sacrifice, for him to live out his "undying dream", alighting to the title of the track.
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Dream Theater
- In The Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 1
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In a recent interview, Mike Portnoy stated that there were a few reasons for breaking the song up into two separate songs, the main one being that as a whole, it was such a great way to open the album, and it was also a great way to close the album.
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Dream Theater
- In The Presence Of Enemies, Pt. 2
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In a recent interview, Mike Portnoy stated that there were a few reasons for breaking the song up into two separate songs, the main one being that as a whole, it was such a great way to open the album, and it was also a great way to close the album.
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Dream Theater
- Lie
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The lyrics were written entirely by Kevin Moore, though he didn't appear in the music video, as he had left the band by that point.
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Dream Theater
- Prophets Of War
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Mike Portnoy recruited 50 Dream Theater fans to come into the studio and record chants for this song. A video was released on April 20th, 2007, which included the intro and outro to the track, along with the recording of the fifty fans that were there.
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Dream Theater
- Pull Me Under
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A distinctive feature of the song is its lack of a conventional ending. The song simply stops, mid-note, at 8 minutes and 11 seconds. Scott Hansen (otherwise known as Setlist Scotty), on drummer Mike Portnoy's forum recently stated that the abrupt ending was inspired by a track from The Beatles. However, on closer listening, it can be noted that the ending is in 4/4 time, as emphasized by the 3 and 4 in the final bar being emphasized and then silence following.
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Dream Theater
- Pull Me Under
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Kevin Moore's lyrics refer to Shakespeare's Hamlet, and are told from Prince Hamlet's point of view. The lyrics allude heavily to the play and echo Hamlet's desire to give in to his desire to gain revenge for his father at the cost of his own sanity. Over the final moments of the song (from time 7'50'' until the end) James LaBrie can be heard singing a direct quote from Hamlet: "Oh that this too, too solid flesh would melt."
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Dream Theater
- Repentance
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This song was written by Mike Portnoy, and it is a part of the Alcoholics Anonymous suite, which is an epic that covers all twelve steps of the Alcoholics Anonymous program. The suite has been running since the band's sixth album, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. "Repentance" is to include steps eight and nine.
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Dream Theater
- Sacrificed Sons
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For the next minute or so, actual footage from the 9/11 newscasts are heard, which are broken up newscast by newscast by static noises, meant to represent the changing of channels; it is meant to emphasize the constant footage on every channel. The lyrics by LaBrie describe the horror of the disaster, with lyrics including "A complete surprise, who'll be coming home tonight" and "Heads all turning towards the sky, towers crumble, heroes die".
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Dream Theater
- Take The Time
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Each member of the band wrote a section of the lyrics. The lyrics reflect their feelings about the long, frustrating period of the band's early history during which they were searching for a new vocalist.
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Dream Theater
- Take The Time
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During their playing of the song on the Once in a LIVEtime CD, after John Petrucci's solo, the band breaks off from the original song and starts playing the solo to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song Free Bird.
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Dream Theater
- Take The Time
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On certain occasions when the band plays the song live, they cut out the 2nd verse, abridging the song. Presumably down to it being very difficult to sing and taking a toll on James LaBrie's voice. In addition, Mike Portnoy usually sings the first verse, with James LaBrie coming in on the last line ("I think it's time for a change").
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Dream Theater
- The Best Of Times
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"The Best of Times" is about Mike Portnoy's father, who died due to cancer. "I just wanted to write something that was a tribute to our life together," said Portnoy, who played the song for his father prior to his death.
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Dream Theater
- The Count Of Tuscany
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As the album's longest track, Wilson calls "The Count of Tuscany" "the monster", comparing it to "A Change of Seasons" and cited Pink Floyd as a possible influence. Petrucci wrote the lyrics about a count that frightened him while he visited Tuscany.
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Dream Theater
- The Dark Eternal Night
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This song was written by John Petrucci. According to him, this song is "about a monster, that from long, long ago, a pharaoh that comes and haunts a town."
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Dream Theater
- The Shattered Fortress
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The title of the song is derived from two lines from The Glass Prison; "A shattered glass prison wall behind me" and "A long lost fortress."
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Dream Theater
- The Silent Man
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It's the third movement of a suite called "A Mind Beside Itself", following "Erotomania" and "Voices". Both the music and the lyrics were written by John Petrucci.
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Dream Theater
- Wither
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Petrucci wrote "Wither" about writer's block. Wilson compared the song to "Vacant" from Train of Thought.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Boy Blue
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"Boy Blue" was the second single from the afore mentioned LP released in the US.The difference between this version and the Eldorado version is that it's missing the entire orchestral intro, the orchestral parts of the bridge, and the entire next to last chorus. Despite it being one of the more favoured tracks off the album it failed to chart.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Can't Get It Out Of My Head
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The song became the band's first top ten single in the US and helped boost American public awareness of the band, however, back in the UK, the single and LP failed to chart. In 1978 the song was included on the four track ELO EP (UK release) reaching #34 on the UK charts.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Eldorado
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The song gained a certain notoriety when it was claimed by some Christian Fundamentalists that Eldorado contained some 'satanic messages' (around the title track's line that went: 'On a voyage of no return to see'). When played backwards - they claimed - this sounded something like: 'He is the nasty one - Christ you're infernal - It is said we're dead men'). Jeff Lynne replied with the backwards response "skcolloB" , Lynne's next album would contain the famous Fire on High with its deliberate backwards message as a further insult to his accusers.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Eldorado
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According to the songs composer Jeff Lynne
"This song is where the dreamer wakes up to reality, then decides he likes his dream world better and tries to get back to Eldorado."
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Eldorado Finale
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Upon careful listening on this track, the noises of impatient double bass players closing their cases can be heard. This was due to the fact at the time classically trained musicians insisted on being paid for a set amount of time, and refused to play on or improvise.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Evil Woman
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The song is being performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu. In 2002, the song was also used in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember during the jail scene with Doctor Evil getting a visit from Mindy Sterling's character Frau Farbissina.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Rockaria!
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Featuring Mary Thomas on Operatic voice on the introduction, she fluffed the first take but they used it anyway. Live, the 'aria' was provided by the vocal talents of the band's bassist Kelly Groucutt.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Rockaria!
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The title of the song is not said in the lyrics, thus it is often mispronounced, usually as rhyming with "momma mia". It is actually a fusion of two different words, rock and aria, thus giving "rock-air'-ia".
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Shangri-La
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Shangri-La is a ballad about lost love with an extended fade out (like The Beatles on Hey Jude) and reprise. The lyrics reflect the song's fade out. Mary Thomas (Rockaria!) appears on the song's reprise.
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Electric Light Orchestra
- Xanadu
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A version of the song was re-recorded in 2000 as part of the compilation box set Flashback with Jeff Lynne's vocal replacing that of Olivia Newton-John. The original "Xanadu" became Lynne's only #1 hit single in the UK.
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Elvis Costello
- Less Than Zero
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On a 12/19/77 episode of Saturday Night Live, Costello was going to play "Less Than Zero" until he decided to play "Radio Radio" instead; that idea was against NBC's wishes. Because of this, NBC banned Costello from SNL for 11 years.
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Eric Clapton
- Tears In Heaven
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The song is dedicated to his 4 1/2 year old son Conor, who accidentally fell to his death from a 53rd-story window of a New York City apartment building.
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Fall Out Boy
- "The Take Over, The Breaks Over"
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When performed at the Decaydance Fest at Hammersmith Apollo, London, August 22, 2007 and at Jones Beach Amphitheatre on June 5, 2007, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes joined the band and performed a special rap intro over an extended version of the song.
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Fall Out Boy
- Dance, Dance
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The music video was filmed at the famous Salesian High School, which is located in New Rochelle, New York, a suburb of New York City. A cameo is made by Ben Jorgensen of the rock group Armor for Sleep as well as Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes.
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Fall Out Boy
- Golden
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The song differs from other Fall Out Boy songs, in that it does not feature guitar or drums on the track; rather, the studio version of the song uses only a piano and organ.
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Fall Out Boy
- Golden
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In concert, the band has approached playing the song in a number of ways. In the Leaked in London EP version, the song features heavy use of electric guitar and drums, including a breakdown in the final verse. On the Honda Civic Tour, Patrick Stump merely played the song on piano and sang without any assistance from the other band members. During the Young Wild Things Tour, Patrick would again play the song solo, but on acoustic guitar instead of piano.
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Fall Out Boy
- Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet
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This song was originally titled "Does Your Husband Know?" according to an MTV article. Presumably, the title of the song refers to former Major League Baseball player Pete Rose, known for sliding headfirst into bases. Rose was blackballed from baseball due to a betting scandal while managing the Cincinnati Reds and will likely be kept out of the Hall of Fame, located in Cooperstown, N.Y., because of it.
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Fall Out Boy
- Hum Hallelujah
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The song is reportedly about Pete Wentz's attempted suicide, while listening to the song "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen (which is sampled in the song) in his car, although his comments in an interview with Guitar World suggest otherwise.
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Fall Out Boy
- Hum Hallelujah
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This song is the only song from Infinity on High whose original title wasn't changed for the final cut, and is also one of the only four songs off the album which directly refers to its title in the song, the others being "Golden", "Thnks fr th Mmrs" (as "thanks for the memories", with vowels), and "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race".
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Fall Out Boy
- Hum Hallelujah
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As a preface to the song during live concerts, Pete has said that, "This song goes out to all the kids who keep the lights on, even when the world is being really shitty."
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Fall Out Boy
- I Don't Care
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During the video clip, a graphic of a cat eating spaghetti appears abruptly, referring to an incident on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, where the same graphic appeared during a segment randomly.
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Fall Out Boy
- I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me + You)
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In an interview with MSNBC, Wentz told Chicagoan/Today Staffer Devin Johnson, that the band was to film the video for the song in Uganda, and further noted, "...we're going to shoot it on 24p cameras and donate the money that we were going to use in the video for the film or the video to a project over there..." According to Billboard, the band shot the video for the single after having performed their first show in South Africa. A sneak peek of the video aired on TRL on September 12th, and the music video for "Me + You" can now be seen in its entirety on AOL.com. FUSE TV premiered the video on September 14th.
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Fall Out Boy
- Saturday
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The lyrics were written by Patrick Stump. Patrick said that this was the song that he worked hardest on.
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Fall Out Boy
- Saturday
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During the video, there are clips of the band playing a show. In an interview, they said that the moshing and slam dancing were to Hatebreed, not actually them.
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Fall Out Boy
- Saturday
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The members of the band have repeatedly stated that this song is one of their favorites, and typically finish every full length live show with it. It is also a fan favorite at concerts.
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Fall Out Boy
- Sugar, We're Goin' Down
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The line, "I'll be your number one with a bullet" is a nod towards the movie, High Fidelity, where Rob talks about Laura being on his Top 5 of Worst Break-Ups with a bullet.
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Fall Out Boy
- Sugar, We're Goin' Down
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The song was the first by Fall Out Boy and the first by an artist on the Fueled By Ramen label to reach the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100. This success would lead to future Fueled By Ramen artists breaking into the mainstream, and helped pave the way for the group's next single, Dance, Dance, to also crack the top ten on the chart.
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Fall Out Boy
- This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
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The song is reportedly about lyricist/bassist Pete Wentz's frustration with the ever growing 'emo scene'. As he told Rolling Stone, "There may be other songs on the record that would be bigger radio hits, but this one had the right message." Wentz got the idea for the arms-dealer metaphor from the Lord of War movie.
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Fall Out Boy
- This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
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The website that bassist Pete Wentz promotes, FriendsorEnemies.com, made "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" available to the internet community on November 17, just after its radio debut in Indianapolis. It is easily Fall Out Boy's biggest hit.
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Fall Out Boy
- Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
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The title, "Thnks fr th Mmrs" is the words "thanks for the memories" after having been disemvowelled, much like it would be written as part of a text message. Another reason for the song title's lack of vowels comes as joking nod at Fall Out Boy's record company, who have asked them to shorten their often verbose song titles.
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Fall Out Boy
- Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
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The song features Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds on mandolin and The Movement Orchestra Strings, and was featured as the theme song on an episode of VH1's Best Week Ever. The chorus of the song contains the line, "He tastes like you, only sweeter", a line referencing the The Patrick Marber play, Closer which premiered on Broadway in 1999. There is a widespread misconception that the line originated from the film adaptation of the stage play by the same name.
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Fall Out Boy
- Thriller
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According to Pete Wentz, he wanted it to be a State of the Union to the band's true fans, which is best displayed in lyrics such as, "Crowds are won and lost and won again but our hearts beat for the diehards".
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Fall Out Boy
- Thriller
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During the intro, lead vocalist Patrick Stump and Wentz can also be heard reading select portions of negative reviews of the band's albums and live shows.
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Fall Out Boy
- Thriller
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The band gave the song this title to honor Michael Jackson's Thriller album. They named the song Thriller according to Patrick Stump because its like "writing a book and calling it the bible, only less controversial".
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Fall Out Boy
- What A Catch, Donnie (featuring Elvis Costello, Gabe Saporta, Travis McCoy, Brendon Urie, Doug, Alex DeLeon & William Beckett)
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The artists and their corresponding Fall Out Boy songs in "What A Catch, Donnie" are:
Elvis Costello - "Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet"
Gabe Saporta (Midtown), (Cobra Starship) - "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy"
Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes) - "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
Brendon Urie (Panic at the Disco) - "Dance, Dance"
Doug Neumann (Doug) - "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race"
Alex DeLeon (The Cab) - "Thnks fr th Mmrs"
William Beckett (The Academy Is...) - "Growing Up"
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Foo Fighters
- Big Me
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Doing backing vocals in this version of "Big Me" is violinist Petra Haden.
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Foo Fighters
- Long Road To Ruin
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The single's success was hurt in America during several occasions, when Foo Fighters only played "The Pretender" on Saturday Night Live, instead of "The Pretender" and "Long Road to Ruin." Essentially the only promotion for "Long Road to Ruin" is its heavily played video and radio-play.
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Foo Fighters
- Long Road To Ruin
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The music video of the song is a comedic spoof of a stereotypical 1970s-era hospital soap opera (General Hospital in particular), and is essentially a "show within a show."
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Foo Fighters
- Low
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The video for "Low" features actor and performer Jack Black.
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Foo Fighters
- The Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners
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Dave Grohl composed it as a tribute to two miners from the Beaconsfield mine collapse, who asked for an iPod with Foo Fighters songs to listen to while waiting for rescue. The song was played live for the first time in October 4, 2006 at Sydney Opera House. One of the two surviving miners attended the gig and joined Grohl for a beer afterwards, as promised by Grohl himself.
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Foo Fighters
- The Pretender
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In a 2007 interview with XFM, frontman Dave Grohl stopped short of explaining the meaning behind "The Pretender," but alluded its roots go to current political unrest. Grohl noted,
"That's the thing with lyrics, you never want to give away specifics, because it's nice for people to have their own idea or interpretation of the song. But, you know, everyone's been fucked over before and I think a lot of people feel fucked over right now and they're not getting what they were promised, and so something to do with that."
Grohl also told XFM "The Pretender" wasn't initially planned for the album and happened really quickly.
"That song didn't happen until later on in the session. We didn't go into making the record with that song and it happened after we recorded a lot of stuff. Up until that point, I didn't know if we had a good opening song or not. So after we recorded it, I thought, 'oh this is perfect, we have the song to open the record,' and it just became everybody's favorite song. ... It's the type of song that I look forward to opening shows with and it came together really easily. We put that song together in, I don't know, a day, whereas a lot of the other songs we worked on for weeks."
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The Fratellis
- Chelsea Dagger
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It's supposed to be named after Jon Fratelli's wife Heather, a burlesque dancer whose stage name he borrowed for the song.
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The Fratellis
- Whistle For The Choir
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The video features the band singing on darkened streets; it was filmed in downtown Glasgow, including Buchanan and Sauchiehall Streets.
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Genesis
- Land Of Confusion
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In 2004, the Republican Party asked MTV not to play the video for Genesis' "Land of Confusion" due to Ronald Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's; a fake Reagan (besides a fake Nancy Reagan) was in the video.
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Gnarls Barkley
- Run (I'm A Natural Disaster)
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The video premiered on MTV Overdrive on February 29, 2008. The video features Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse performing on a TV show called "City Vibin'", reminiscent of Soul Train. Cee-Lo Green sings the song behind a microphone stand, while Danger Mouse plays the song's music on a turntable. Justin Timberlake appears in a cameo as the host of the show. The video features dizzying special effects such as hypnotic spirals, and as a result was been banned from airplay in the United States after failing an epilepsy test. As of March 5, 2008 the hypnotic spirals have been toned down upon request and the video premiered on TRL March 6, 2008.
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Gnarls Barkley
- Whatever
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"Whatever" samples "The Hair On My Chinny Chin Chin" by Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs.
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Gnarls Barkley
- Who's Gonna Save My Soul
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In early March of 2008, the second single "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" was premiered by hip hop band the Roots' drummer ?uestlove through a video uploaded to YouTube.
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Godsmack
- Awake
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Since the mid 2000s, the song has been featured extensively in the U.S. Navy's "Accelerate Your Life" commercials.
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Godsmack
- Greed
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The video for "Greed" is rather unusual for Godsmack in that it follows an actual story rather than loosely connected elements and aesthetics. Sully Erna stated that it was their attempt at fitting in with the more mainstream music video crowd and that he was unpleased with it.
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Godsmack
- I Stand Alone
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It was featured on the soundtrack to the 2002 film The Scorpion King, and also features in the video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.
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Godsmack
- Re-Align
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The acoustic version runs for 4:23, two seconds longer than the original version on "Faceless".
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Godsmack
- Speak
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In the video Sully Erna can be seen wearing a Saint Caine t-shirt. Saint Caine is a hard rock band featuring former members of Dropbox, a band that was signed to Erna's imprint record label Re-align Records.
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Godsmack
- The Enemy
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Featured in "WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007" and was also the official theme song for WWE's 2006 Summerslam Pay-Per-View.
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Godsmack
- Touché
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The song was used as a secondary theme song for World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania XX.
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Godsmack
- Voodoo
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The video features Laurie Cabot, an American Wiccan priestess, and members of her then coven.
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Green Day
- American Idiot
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"American Idiot" criticizes the post 9/11 U.S., referring to such issues as paranoia, propaganda and media.
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Green Day
- American Idiot
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The intro riff is similar to the intro riff from Dillinger Four's "Doublewhiskeycokenoice", written in 1997. Dillinger Four opened for Green Day on Green Day's Japan tour.
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Green Day
- American Idiot
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American Idiot has also been certified as an RIAA Gold (500,000 downloads) along with Boulevard of Broken Dreams, American Idiot's second single.
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Green Day
- Are We The Waiting
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"Are We the Waiting" is the fourth song on Green Day's live album Bullet in a Bible, and is the only song with no commentary on the album other than "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)".
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Green Day
- Are We The Waiting
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The song [according to an iTunes review] is about Jesus of Suburbia's change into Saint Jimmy. On the iTunes released version, this song is combined with St. Jimmy.
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Green Day
- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
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In response to Hurricane Katrina and the popularity of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Green Day donated all of the iTunes proceeds from this song for the year to the American Red Cross for Katrina aid efforts.
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Green Day
- Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
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The song speaks from the point of view of American Idiot's "main character", Jesus of Suburbia, and is a moderate midtempo song characterized by moody and depressing lyrics. This is in contrast to the previous track on the album, "Holiday", which illustrates Jesus of Suburbia's "high" of being in The City. MTV's Green Day Makes a Video described "Holiday" as a party, and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as the subsequent hangover.
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Green Day
- Extraordinary Girl
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The unusual percussion instruments in the song's intro (bongo drums in particular), combined with the electric sitar that joins it eight measures later, give the song a Middle Eastern feel until a standard drum kit and electric guitar take over where the sitar and bongos leave off. This introductory segment is evocative of The Beatles' music circa 1966, when John Lennon and Paul McCartney introduced increasingly exotic instruments into the repertoire of rock.
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Green Day
- Extraordinary Girl
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Extraordinary Girl is in the key of A; the aforementioned intro is taken at 112 bpm which segues into the song proper at 142 bpm.
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Green Day
- Give Me Novacaine
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Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is reported as saying "My wife Adrienne told me to put this song on the record" and suggested he wasn't sure it was a good idea. Billie Joe has also stated in one of his concerts that this is one of his favorite songs.
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Green Day
- Give Me Novacaine
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You can hear someone coughing in the second chorus. The opening drum beat closely resembles the opening drumming to "Bullet the Blue Sky" by U2 and "Little Guitars" by Van Halen.
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Green Day
- Holiday
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The end of the video for "Holiday", where their car breaks down, leads to the beginning of the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
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Green Day
- Holiday
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The spoken bridge of the song makes references to Nazi Germany, George W. Bush and France's refusal to support the 2003 invasion of Iraq:
"Sieg Heil to the President Gasman/Bombs away is your punishment/Pulverize the Eiffel Towers/That criticized your government."
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Green Day
- Holiday
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"Holiday" was played in the movie Accepted and parts of the song were played in the movie Surf's Up.
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Green Day
- Homecoming
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While frontman Billie Joe Armstrong writes most of the songs, this compilation features one part written and sung by drummer Tré Cool (entitled Rock and Roll Girlfriend), and another part written and sung by bassist Mike Dirnt (entitled Nobody Likes You).
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Green Day
- Jesus Of Suburbia
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Director Samuel Bayer said this was going to be his "swan song" video. But he went on to direct Green Day's "Working Class Hero" music video.
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Green Day
- Jesus Of Suburbia
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Part II heavily quotes "On With the Show" by Mötley Crüe, "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams, Part IV quotes "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Come On Eileen". Part V quotes "Ring of Fire" by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and popularized by Johnny Cash.
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Green Day
- Letterbomb
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It is in the key of E, a common key signature for punk rock songs, but more relevantly it is one of only two songs (the other is "Whatsername") on the entire album not with a key signature of G, A-flat, A (which are each only a semitone apart), or F minor in any part of the song. This radically different key signature subconsciously makes the listener aware that this song marks a transition, both in the album's tone and the continually unfolding story of Jesus of Suburbia.
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Green Day
- Letterbomb
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Letterbomb featured Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna singing for the opening of the song.
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Green Day
- She's A Rebel
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It modulates from the previous track's key signature of A down a step to G major. Its chord structure is simplistic even by the standards of punk rock, progressing in an ordinary I-V-IV pattern in power chords (which changes to the equally common I-IV-V in the verse). This song is Whatsername's "introduction" song, much like the songs Jesus of Suburbia and St. Jimmy. However, this song is not written from the point of view of the person it describes. Whatsername's "voice" is later heard in "Extraordinary Girl" and "Letterbomb." The song bears striking similarity to Molly's Lips by The Vaselines (covered by Nirvana), Boxcar by Jawbreaker, and Motivation by Sum 41.
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Green Day
- St. Jimmy
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"St. Jimmy" is often combined with the song "Are We the Waiting", the preceding song on American Idiot and between which there is no pause in the music. Beginning in the same key (A) as the "Are We the Waiting", "St. Jimmy" has a brisk tempo of 136 BPM. Following the intro, and a count of "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4", the song continues in double time.
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Green Day
- St. Jimmy
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"St. Jimmy" was featured in an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide on Nickelodeon.
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Green Day
- St. Jimmy
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St. Jimmy's name might be a reference to The Who's Doctor Jimmy. Doctor Jimmy is the alcoholic mad-man alter-ego of the protagonist Jimmy in The Who's rock opera Quadrophenia, much like St. Jimmy is in American Idiot. On the other hand, St. Jimmy is also an inversion of the name of the early Bruce Springsteen character Jimmy the Saint from the song "Lost in the Flood" on Springsteen's debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J..
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Green Day
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
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There once was much debate about what the song was about, one of the most common initial beliefs being that it is about the events of 9/11. However, Billie Joe Armstrong has confirmed to the public that the song was written as a memorial anthem about his father, a jazz musician and minor league baseball catcher, who died of lung cancer when Armstrong was only ten years old.
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Green Day
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
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In this melancholy ballad, Armstrong revisits his painful childhood and thinks about the day he lost his innocence when his father died. Like many faced with such a traumatic event, he never truly recovered, and he can't believe that twenty years have passed since that September day. As Armstrong associates pain with the month September, he would rather not deal with anything related to the month, prompting him to sing, "As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost... Wake me up when September ends..."
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Green Day
- Wake Me Up When September Ends
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The song eventually became a tribute song to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and sound bytes were added from various news coverages to the song. A live version of the song, recorded on September 3, 2005 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts was released soon after and dedicated to the hurricane's victims.
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Green Day
- Whatsername
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The chord progression and rhythm are somewhat similar to the 1996 song "One Headlight" by the Wallflowers.
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HIM
- Bleed Well
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A short music video of this song was found on the band's YouTube page, which made it look like there would be a full version of the video to be released along with a single. Since short videos in the same style were also created for Passion's Killing Floor and then Love In Cold Blood, fans stopped believing there would be a full version. However, the band did later release a new video for the song on YouTube, in a style different from the 30 second video clips featuring Nosferatu. The band said the video will be comparable to that of Killing Loneliness, meaning that the video would be of a live, audience-free performance, like the second video for Killing Loneliness. The video has been finished and can be seen on YouTube along with many others. Ville Valo recently said in an interview the video was basically the band trying not to spend too much money and trying to have a little bit of fun. On the video, Valo can be seen wearing a t-shirt promoting "Aikuisten Lelukauppa", an adult toy store in Helsinki that is owned by his own father.
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HIM
- Buried Alive By Love
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The music video was directed by Bam Margera, and features actress and singer Juliette Lewis.
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HIM
- Join Me In Death
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It was also released as "Join Me", since they weren't allowed to include "Death" in the title for the US version.
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HIM
- Join Me In Death
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This song is the band's best-known song in Europe, where it made HIM a household name after being featured in the sci-fi movie The Thirteenth Floor.
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HIM
- Killing Loneliness
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On the May 11, 2006, episode of Loveline, Ville Valo confirmed that the song was inspired by skateboarder Brandon Novak, who blamed his heroin addiction on a need to, as he put it, "kill the loneliness". In other interviews however, he said "Killing Loneliness" is a self-explaining song, in which the loneliness gets killed by his girlfriend. Valo is known for giving different answers to the same question, so the official meaning of the song is still uncertain.
At a concert, at The Pagent in St. Louis Mo. (Oct. 26th) Valo said the song was for his friend who was addicted to smack (heroin), and has since then kicked the habit, obviously referring to Novak.
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HIM
- Killing Loneliness
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There are two versions of the song's music video: a European and U.S. version. The U.S. version of "Killing Loneliness" was filmed in April 2006 and released in May. Making a guest appearance in the video is tattoo artist Kat Von D, known from the reality television series' LA Ink and Miami Ink.
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HIM
- Poison Girl
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In Finland, it reached #3 on the singles charts and in Germany it reached #34.
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HIM
- The Kiss Of Dawn
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Ville Valo has stated that the song was for a close friend who committed suicide soon after the band wrapped the recording sessions for Dark Light.
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HIM
- The Kiss Of Dawn
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The music video was directed by Meiert Avis, who also directed HIM's previous video, "Wings of a Butterfly." HIM started recording the music video on June 21 in the Los Angeles area. The production team put out a casting call for a "beautiful girl" to perform the lead role in the video. Auditions were held on June 19. The music video was released July 24, 2007. A secret code, "Ten Point Six", was included in the video.
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HIM
- Vampire Heart
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This was only released as a 7" vinyl single along with a HIM calendar.
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HIM
- Wicked Game
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HIM frontman Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of Wild At Heart and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit wrong. We didn't hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the lyrics."
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HIM
- Your Sweet Six Six Six
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This single featured a 'His Infernal Majesty' sticker on it, despite the fact they had changed their name to 'HIM'.
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Hot Hot Heat
- Give Up?
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In late March 2007, the band posted the song "Give Up?" on their MySpace page as a sample of the album, and it was released on iTunes as a single on May 15th.
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Hot Hot Heat
- No, Not Now
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The song was released in the UK as the second single from Make Up the Breakdown on July 28, 2003.
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Hot Hot Heat
- Soldier In A Box
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On the back of the album cover where the list of tracks of the album is, it does not list track 13, listing 12 then 14. The reason for this is most likely because of Triskaidekaphobia, the superstition that 13 is unlucky, found in some elevators which do not have a button for the 13th story of the building. However, there is a track 13 on the album, sometimes titled "Four Seconds of Noise," which is merely the final four seconds of the ending guitar riff from "Soldier in a Box."
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Incubus
- Dig
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Incubus wanted fans to help create the music video for this song in a contest called "I Dig Incubus". Whoever won the video contest had the video featured as the "official" video of this song.
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Incubus
- Megalomaniac
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The video for this song was moved to late nights on MTV because of Adolf Hitler being shown in it.
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Interpol
- Mammoth
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Before the song was named "Mammoth" it was called "Pawn Shop" due to its lyrics.
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Interpol
- Mammoth
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The music video is a live performance of Interpol performing the song in The Astoria, London, UK, 7/2/07. Though the audio in the video is not from the concert, but the edited version of Mammoth.
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Interpol
- The Heinrich Maneuver
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The video for "The Heinrich Maneuver" was released on June 26, 2007. Shown in extreme slow motion, it features a woman who walks in front of a bus unknowingly, only to be hit at the end of the clip where the screen goes black and the song's outro is cut short. The video received negative reviews from critics and fans alike due to the slowness of the video and the ending. There have been rumors of a second version from fans, but it is likely false.
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Interpol
- The Heinrich Maneuver
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Popular music magazine Billboard has described the song as "a peppy kiss-off to an ex-love now residing on the opposite coast."
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Iron Maiden
- 2 Minutes To Midnight
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The song has references to the Doomsday Clock, the symbolic clock used by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In September 1953 the clock reached 11:58, the closest the clock ever got to midnight. This occurred when the United States and Soviet Union tested H-bombs within nine months of one another. This song is clearly presenting an anti-war view.
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Iron Maiden
- Aces High
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The song was a frequent concert opener and it was usually preceded by "Churchill's speech", a part of a famous speech that the British Prime Minister gave during World War II, the 4th of June 1940, 2 days after the French defeat and general retreat from France's lost battlefield with French and Belgian remaining troops gathered at Dunkerque.
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Iron Maiden
- Aces High
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The music video for "Aces High" features archive footages of Winston Churchill's speech, Allied troops in everyday life, real dogfights between RAF and Luftwaffe, black & white animated battle maps and even a brief appearance of Hitler speaking. A newer version of the video (available on the Visions of the Beast DVD) replaces the old footage with Flash animation by Camp Chaos, featuring the band and Eddie fighting Luftwaffe planes over Egypt. In the final scene of this video, after Eddie destroys the last German plane, the parachuting pilot is revealed to be Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who has been parodied by Camp Chaos on their Napster Bad! series.
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Iron Maiden
- Flight Of Icarus
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The song is loosely based on the ancient Greek myth of Icarus who was imprisoned with his father Daedalus in the Labyrinth on Crete. So the pair fabricated wings for themselves from feathers and wax. Unfortunately Icarus, not heeding the advice of his father, flew too close to the sun, melting the wax that held the feathers together and thus fell to his death in the sea. Vocalist Bruce Dickinson admits that he had modified the original tale to make it an allegory of teenage rebellion against adult authority (which caused the death of Icarus in this case).
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Iron Maiden
- Flight Of Icarus
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Bassist Steve Harris feels that the studio version should have been played faster, so they play it faster live. "This little extra touch gives it a bit more fire" says the bassist and founder of Iron Maiden.
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Iron Maiden
- Flight Of Icarus
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The video for this track was directed by Jim Yukich and was filmed in the Bahamas at Compass Point Studios (where the album was recorded) as the band played a staged recording session of the track.
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Iron Maiden
- Hallowed Be Thy Name
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The song describes a man's thoughts just before being sent to the gallows. At first he feels terror and says he is not afraid of dying, but realizes he actually is afraid. At the end of the vocal section, the man gets executed; this is followed by a long instrumental section, culminating in his ambiguous final words, "Hallowed be thy name".
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Iron Maiden
- Iron Maiden
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The song is now well known as the band's signature song to the general public (along with "The Number of the Beast" and "Run to the Hills") and is usually played as one of the last songs of any given show.
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Iron Maiden
- Iron Maiden
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It writes about the spirit of an actual iron maiden torture device - it is not, contrary to popular belief, relating to the band itself.
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Iron Maiden
- Iron Maiden
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A live video was the 16th video played during the launch of MTV, making it the first heavy metal video ever played on MTV.
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Iron Maiden
- Mission From 'Arry
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"Mission from 'Arry" is a recording of an argument between bassist Steve Harris and drummer Nicko McBrain. The argument happened during the band's World Slavery tour in '84-'85, and occurred following a misunderstanding on stage between the two due to technical issues with Harris' bass. Vocalist Bruce Dickinson was recording the argument with a concealed tape recorder.
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Iron Maiden
- Powerslave
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It is a tale about the demise of an Egyptian pharaoh. The use of Egyptian imagery, such as the eye of Horus, and allusions to mythology is allegorical for vocalist Bruce Dickinson's spiteful outlook on the music industry, and how their greed and disrespect for talent leads to their own demise.
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Iron Maiden
- Powerslave
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On the 1998 remastered version of Powerslave, the songs "Back in the Village" and "Powerslave" were separated in the wrong places, thus making "Back in the Village" longer and "Powerslave" shorter (the sounds effects of someone screaming followed by a deep ominous laugh, as well as a short rolling drum fill were moved to the end of the former from the beginning of the latter).
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Iron Maiden
- Revelations
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It is based partly on a book by Aleister Crowley, but this is also juxtaposed with a verse taken from a hymn by G.K. Chesterton which forms the first verse of the song.
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Iron Maiden
- Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797–1799 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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Iron Maiden
- Run To The Hills
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The song itself is about the conflict between Native Americans and the invading white men. The first verse is written from the point of view of the native Cree, the second from the point of view of white soldiers, and the third from a more neutral observer point of view. It may have been inspired by the film Soldier Blue, about the massacre of a peaceful Cheyenne village by US militia (one line goes "Soldier blue in the barren wastes" and then refers to rape and murder amongst other atrocities).
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Iron Maiden
- Run To The Hills
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In early 2002 "Run to the Hills" was again released as a single, and once again in a live version. This time it was the original studio version again, but with live recordings as B-sides. The single was released to raise money for the Clive Burr MS Trust Fund, to help former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr, who is suffering from multiple sclerosis. In March of 2002, Iron Maiden played three shows at the Brixton Academy in London to raise money for this trust fund, and the single was released around the same time. Two versions of this single exist, with different B-sides.
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Iron Maiden
- Run To The Hills
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"Run to the Hills" was released as a video in the early 1980s, which was later remade in the late 90s/early 2000s. The first video consisted of the band performing, interspersed with comical footage featuring Indians from the 1923 James Parrott film Uncovered Wagon. The later video removed all the old film footage and replaced it with Flash animation of Cyborg Eddie (from the Somewhere in Time cover) in a sci-fi Wild West setting, animated by Camp Chaos.
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Iron Maiden
- Running Free
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The song is about a troubled 16-year-old boy who runs away on a pick up truck, ends up in a Los Angeles jail and picks up a woman from a bar.
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Iron Maiden
- Running Free
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In 1985, a live version of the song was released as the first single from the album Live After Death (Maiden's twelfth single).
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Iron Maiden
- Sanctuary
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The song was included in the US release of their debut album Iron Maiden but it was not included in the UK/European release. However, when the album was re-released in 1998 the song was added to the UK release.
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Iron Maiden
- Sanctuary
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On live performances of the song, the band would always slip in the opening guitar riff of Queen's "Keep Yourself Alive" on the final portion of the instrumental section.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The song is inspired by both a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie Damien: Omen II, and the storyline of the poem Tam o' Shanter.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The track is known for its very long, high-pitched and guttural scream by Bruce Dickinson at the end of the intro. In the documentary on the album of the same name, as part of the Classic Albums series by the BBC, Dickinson said this was due to producer Martin Birch forcing Bruce to sing the first four lines for several hours, over and over again. The frustration of this culminated in this scream, the pitch of which Dickinson has not managed to re-create live since the early days, which may possibly be an influence to the using of the death growl singing technique of later death metal and groove metal vocalists
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The song is about a man who is wandering alone and happens upon a portion of Hell on Earth, with people performing Satanic rituals and sacrifices. At first, he is disgusted and decides to report it to law enforcement, but eventually becomes entranced by the ordeal and decides to join in.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The band had asked the famous horror films actor Vincent Price to read the intro text. However, according to Bruce, Price refused to do it for anything less than £25,000. They had heard of someone who read ghost stories at the Capitol radio station and got him to do it. The man was a theatre actor who had no interest in Maiden, but they asked him to put on a Vincent Price kind of voice.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The original music video featured the band performing the song, interspersed with clips from various horror films including Godzilla. The Crimson Ghost - used as a logo by The Misfits - also appears early in the video, and there is another reference to The Misfits later in the video, when the monster from The Angry Red Planet appears (The Misfits used the monster on the cover of their album Walk Among Us). A later video (available on the Visions of the Beast DVD), animated by Camp Chaos, replaced the film clips and the dancing couple with Flash animation of Bruce (acting as a priest) and Eddie re-enacting scenes from The Exorcist.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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This song was featured on the video game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and is playable in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock as a master track.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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The song, being the title number for the 1982 album was a prominent target of critics during a time when Maiden were accused of being a Satanic group. Much of the controversy is believed to have originated due to the prominence of the number 666 in the song's repeating chorus.
Maiden took a swing at their critics in the follow-up album Piece of Mind which features a backmasked message in the beginning of the song Still Life which, when played backwards translates as a very drunk Nicko McBrain doing an impression of Idi Amin Dada (stating "What ho said the t'ing with the three "bonce", do not meddle with things you don't understand"), followed by a belch.
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Iron Maiden
- The Number Of The Beast
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Before being Iron Maiden's drummer, McBrain was the Devil on the Number of the Beast videoclip. When the music video was first shown on MTV, Eddie's appearance at the end was edited out after complaints from frightened viewers.
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Iron Maiden
- The Trooper
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The music video features clips of the charge from the 1936 film The Charge of the Light Brigade, which was controversial due to the deaths of 200 horses and an actor during filming. On the Visions of the Beast DVD, a newer version of the video replaces the film footage with Flash animation by Camp Chaos. In the animation, Eddie - dressed in 19th Century British uniform and wielding two sabers - battles multiples caricatures of George Bush, Al Gore and Tipper Gore in a parody of the 2000 US presidential election. At one point, Tipper Gore paints 'RATED X' on a cannonball; this is a mocking reference to Tipper's involvement in the Parents Music Resource Center which attempted to add warning labels to various records - many of them heavy metal - that they deemed inappropriate.
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Iron Maiden
- The Trooper
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The song is about the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 during the Crimean War, and is at least partially based upon Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade", taking the viewpoint of one of the slain troopers, who, in the coverart, is perceived as a bald Eddie.
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Iron Maiden
- The Trooper
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Lead singer Bruce Dickinson introduced the song in the Rock in Rio (Brazil, 2001) concert by quoting some lines of the poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson: "Into the valley of death, rode the six hundred.... Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, volleyed and thundered, 'The Trooper'". Usually, Dickinson waves a British flag during the song (sometimes a flag different from the British), but on the last few tours he has also worn an authentic-looking red tunic.
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Jay-Z
- Show Me What You Got
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Featured in the video for "Show Me What You Got" are race car drivers Danica Patrick and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Justice
- D.A.N.C.E.
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The song "D.A.N.C.E." is about and dedicated to Michael Jackson.
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Justice
- DVNO
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According to Justice member Xavier de Rosnay, "DVNO" stands for "Divino." Xavier states, "In every suburb of the world, in every city, there's always a nightclub called El Divino...clubs where you have to wear like a white shirt to get in."
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Justice
- DVNO
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The song was featured in the 2007 film Hitman directed by Xavier Gens.
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Justice
- DVNO
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The song's music video is directed by So-Me, Yorgo Tloupas and Machine Molle; it features the song's lyrics turned into animated 80s-style logos of familiar companies, such as HBO, 20th Century Fox, Cannon Films, NBC, PBS, Sega, and CBS Fox Video, with band members Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé playing piano at the end. The outro is a homage to the closing logo of Stephen J. Cannell's production company. The video was featured as a "Web Obsession of the Week" in the March 14, 2008 edition of Entertainment Weekly.
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Justice
- New Jack
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Contains a sample of "You Make Me Wanna Wiggle" by The Brothers Johnson.
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Justice
- Stress
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Contains samples from Mussorgsky's "A Night On The Bare Mountain" and Devo's "Jocko Homo."
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Justice
- Waters Of Nazareth
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It was released twice, once as a 12" single with the original three songs, and once on CD and 12" with remixes by DJ Funk, Erol Alkan, and Justice featuring Feadz.
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Kanye West
- Hey Mama
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Kanye West sang this song at the 50th annual Grammy awards as a tribute to his mother who died a month before the awards took place.
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Kanye West
- Stronger
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Contains samples from Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
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Kanye West
- Stronger
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Even though Daft Punk is not featured in the song, they're featured in the video for the song.
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Keane
- A Bad Dream
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This song was released as the last single from the album on early 2007.
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Keane
- Atlantic
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"Atlantic" was the first single off the album, only a download video. It charted at number 35.
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Keane
- Broken Toy
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This is the longest song recorded by Keane on any of their releases, at 6:07 minutes in length (the longest song recorded is the rare track "The Happy Soldier" at 7:43). The song has split opinion amongst the fanbase, due to the fact it is a marked stylistic departure from previous Keane songs. However because of this, it is also viewed as possibly the best indicator yet as to which direction the band may take on their third album.
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Keane
- Hamburg Song
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"Hamburg Song" is the only organ-voice Keane song to date. The song talks about Rice-Oxley troubles with Tom Chaplin and how he feels. The song was premiered on October 20, 2004 as a demo. The final version was slowed down and the organ sound changed a little. It doesn't feature drums but a few ride crashes on the outro.
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Keane
- Is It Any Wonder?
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"Is It Any Wonder" is the only Keane song completely composed using distortion piano effects pedals.
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Keane
- Leaving So Soon?
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"Leaving So Soon?" was the last song composed for the album, in 2005. The song is considered as a fan favourite and it remains as the Keane song with the highest tempo ever released (144). Written by Tim Rice-Oxley, it has been rumoured that the lyrics are aimed at Tom Chaplin after the band had an argument. It is possible too that are referred to the old member Dominic Scott, who left before the band, "never had a chance to bloom".
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Keane
- Nothing In My Way
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The song was released as the fourth single off the album. It was previously called "Nothing In Your Way".
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Keane
- Put It Behind You
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Composed in mid 2004 because of Richard's break-up with his girlfriend. The song was first mentioned on Strangers by Rice-Oxley. A demo version of this song is included on the Under the Iron Sea DVD. During live performances of this song, the three members of the band sing on the main chorus, contrary to the album version, in which Hughes doesn't sing.
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Keane
- The Iron Sea
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It appears as a demo on Strangers, with Tim playing it at the Helioscentric Studios. "The Iron Sea" was composed in 2004 by him. On the UK version, "The Iron Sea" is the eighth track but in the International version is a hidden song after "Put It Behind You". The outro was also used on the single version of "Atlantic". The place where the track title should be on the CD tracklist is marked as a change in the font color (from dark blue to royal blue).
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Keane
- Try Again
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The song is currently being released only in Germany as the fifth single from the album, on a 3 CDs maxi-single format.
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Kid Rock
- All Summer Long
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This successful single is about a teenage summer camp romance during Kid Rock's teenage years. It speaks of how he had made love down by the lake playing "Sweet Home Alabama", while they were "smoking funny things" and "sippin' whiskey out the bottle." Later he states that to this day, when he hears this song. "he starts to sing along, and think "Man, I'd like to see that girl again."
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Kid Rock
- All Summer Long
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Contains samples from:
"Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon
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Kid Rock
- Amen
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Amen is a song of worldly troubles, ranging from starving children to war, but in a more motivational way, where if we all work together, we can solve these problems.
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Kid Rock
- Blue Jeans And A Rosary
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Blue Jeans and a Rosary is about a good girl that falls in love with the bad guy. She's so in love with the guy she pays no minds to her friends saying he's no good for her.
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Kid Rock
- Don't Tell Me U Love Me
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Don't Tell Me U Love Me is about false love that women pretend to give to rich celebrities, saying that Kid Rock is aware of their tricks, and won't believe it if women tell him that they love him, because he's aware of their tricks, and won't love them back.
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Kid Rock
- Half Your Age
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Half Your Age is by most called a diss track towards Pamela Anderson, stating his current girlfriend is "Half Your Age and Twice has as hot", plus she doesnt bitch about everything.
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Kid Rock
- Lowlife (Living The Highlife)
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In the final song on the album is a John Eddie cover. It's a Rolling Stones-esque tongue in cheek rib at himself for all the ways he's a lowlife. Although the line "I got kids I've never seen and their mom is seventeen" isn't true.
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Kid Rock
- New Orleans
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New Orleans is a song referencing the city of New Orleans saying that "people gonna treat you right". The vocals on the first part of the track is done with a nasally faux creole voice.
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Kid Rock
- Rock N Roll Jesus
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The title track of this album is Kid Rock's b-boy typical bravado laced into a AC/DC styled classic rock song oppossed to a rap song. Its in much in the veins of American Bad Ass and Trucker Anthem were he detest all his contemparies in American music.
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Kid Rock
- Roll On
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The song has him complemplating on the fact that he's aging and entering a new phase in his life and he's looking forward to growing old and sharing stories with his future grandkids.
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Kid Rock
- So Hott
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This single is his "Crazy Bitch" by Buckcherry he's stated. Songs explains itself pretty much he's got the obssesion with a girl and he wants to have sex with her.
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Kid Rock
- Sugar
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Sugar as two parts. The first part of the song is a folksy ballad where he sees the errs of his ways with Pamela Anderson. Then he kicks into Devil era rap metal for the 2nd half claiming he's been set free and back to play the field.
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Kid Rock
- When U Love Someone
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When U Love Someone is a song about love. It's about how when one is truly in love, he wont "care what people say", because true love will last.
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The Killers
- Glamorous Indie Rock And Roll
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The song is on the UK version of Hot Fuss and its a bonus track on the US limited edition version of the album. Due to its popularity among fans, it became a regular number in the setlist until the end of the Sam's Town arena tour.
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The Killers
- Shadowplay
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The song was initially recorded for the 2007 film Control; the Killers' version plays during the credits to the film and appears on the Control soundtrack.
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Korn
- Bitch We Got A Problem
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Billboard journalist Todd Martens compares the song to "Do What They Say" as also sporting an almost dance vibe and industrial grooves.
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Korn
- Do What They Say
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Billboard journalist Todd Martens comments the song "sports almost dance-y, industrial grooves."
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Korn
- Ever Be
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The song is written about ex-guitarist Brian "Head" Welch.
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Korn
- Evolution
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Described by Jonathan Davis as "addressing global climate issues."
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Korn
- Evolution
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"Evolution" was originally titled "Evolutionary Stop."
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Korn
- Freak On A Leash
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The protesting video was created mostly in animation by Todd McFarlane (creator of Spawn), mixed with live shots of the band performing, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris.
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Korn
- Hold On
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Despite "Hold On" being included on the standard version of the album, it is not available on the iTunes version.
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Korn
- Hushabye
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The definition of a hushaby is a lullaby used to soothe or lull babies to sleep.
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Korn
- I Will Protect You
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Features a bagpipe intro and a very progressive middle section showcasing Bozzio's drumming.
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Korn
- I Will Protect You
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"I Will Protect You" is written about Jonathan Davis' children and his near-fatal bout with Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP). This disease is also the subject of "Starting Over" and "Hold On".
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Korn
- Kiss
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One of guitarist Munky's favorite tracks on the new album.
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Korn
- Starting Over
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A song where Jonathan Davis channels all of his feelings about the battles he's overcome in the past few years: alcohol addiction, drug dependency, and a near-fatal blood disease.
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Led Zeppelin
- Black Dog
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Led Zeppelin bass player John Paul Jones, who is credited with writing the main riff, got the idea for "Black Dog" after hearing Muddy Waters' experimental psychedelic-blues album, Electric Mud. He wanted to try "electric blues with a rolling bass part." Jones also wanted to write a song that people couldn't "groove" or dance to.
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Led Zeppelin
- Black Dog
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The song's title is rumoured to stem from a nameless black labrador that wandered around the Headley Grange studios during recording.
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Led Zeppelin
- Four Sticks
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Guitarist Jimmy Page once said of the song: "It was supposed to be abstract." The abstract effect is further achieved by the unusual time signature of the song, featuring riffs in a mixture of 5/4 and 6/8 time signatures. After another failed take during the recording, Jimmy began to play an improvised guitar riff out of frustration. John Bohnam began to play along with a drum track from a Little Richard song. That riff was later on developed into the second track of the album, "Rock and Roll".
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Led Zeppelin
- Misty Mountain Hop
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The most common interpretation of the song's lyrics is that they point to an encounter with the police after smoking marijuana in the park, and leaving to go to the Misty Mountains ("where the spirits fly"), which seems to be a reference to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
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Led Zeppelin
- Stairway To Heaven
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The opening chord progression and verse in "Stairway to Heaven" are nearly identical to the 1968 instrumental "Taurus" by the group Spirit. In the liner notes to the reissue of Spirit's 1968 eponymous debut, songwriter Randy California mentions the fact that Jimmy Page took special interest in "Taurus". Stairway to Heaven also has the same chord progression as The Chocolate Watchband's "And Shes Lonely".
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Led Zeppelin
- The Battle Of Evermore
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Plant felt he needed another voice to tell the story, and for the recording of this song folk singer Sandy Denny was invited to duet with Plant. Denny was a member of British folk group Fairport Convention, whom Led Zeppelin had shared a bill with in 1970. Plant played the role of the narrator and Denny represented the town crier. To thank her for her involvement, Denny was given the symbol on the album sleeve of three pyramids (the four members of Led Zeppelin each designed their own symbols for the album). This is the only song Led Zeppelin ever recorded with a guest vocalist.
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Led Zeppelin
- When The Levee Breaks
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The Led Zeppelin version features a distinctive and often-sampled pounding drum beat by John Bonham recorded in a three-story stairwell, driving guitars and a wailing harmonica, all presumably meant to symbolize the relentless storm that threatens to break the levee, backing a powerful vocal performance by Robert Plant. The vocals were processed differently on each verse, sometimes with phasing added.
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Lily Allen
- Everyone's At It
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The song was rumored to be the lead single from the album. The song was not released as a single, the song The Fear was released instead, but the song received considerate attention by airing on YouTube. The music video was in production in November 2008 (Lily posted a photo from shooting on a MySpace blog) but is rumoured to have been switched for The Fear.
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Lily Allen
- Fuck You
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Also known for its working titles "Guess Who Batman", "Get Wit the Program", and "GWB"; all three titles shared initials with George W. Bush.
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Lily Allen
- Who'd Have Known
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Allen posted a fourth song on her MySpace page called "Who'd of Known", noting that the song had been recorded for the album but would not be included due to legal issues since the chorus is musically similar to the Take That song "Shine". However, Take That later did allow Allen to include the song on the album (now titled "Who'd've Known").
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Linkin Park
- Given Up
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"Given Up" has a distinct jingle sound during the verses, which the band revealed in the Minutes To Midnight Special Edition CD/DVD package was created by shaking guitarist Brad Delson's car keys.
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Linkin Park
- Hands Held High
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It's very much like a song you'd hear in church as it's played with an organ and even has a familiar Little Drummer Boy style drumming. The biggest Christian theme is the chants of "Amen". The lyrics however have nothing to do with Christianity. It mostly criticises politics and the rich (and also has swearing, which you'd probably never hear in a church).
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Linkin Park
- In Between
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The message in the song is vague, but it's most likely a person telling someone else something difficult, which may hurt the listeners feelings.
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Linkin Park
- Leave Out All The Rest
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The song seems to be about someone dreaming that they were missing but no one else cared. When he wakes up, he wants help to make sure that he is missed when he dies.
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Linkin Park
- No More Sorrow
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It originally began as The Little Things Give You Away, but was replaced by the current version and the leftover piece became this song.
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Linkin Park
- No Roads Left
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The song deals with someone who has no idea what to do, no paths to take. It uses a lot of metaphors, such as "And no roads left to run".
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Linkin Park
- Shadow Of The Day
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The song seems to address the difficulty of someone leaving. All their friends plead them to stay, but "Sometimes, goodbye is the only way". One theory is that this person might be leaving to war for the first time.
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Linkin Park
- Wake
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As it says in the included booklet with the album "This short song was created near the end of the album writing process. The dual-meaning of the word 'wake' seemed an appropiate introduction to the record."
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Linkin Park
- What I've Done
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Joseph Hahn of the band directed the video for the single, which was shot in the California desert.
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Live
- Deep Enough
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The remix of "Deep Enough" is featured in the movie "The Fast and the Furious."
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Live
- Lightning Crashes
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After the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, Ed Kowalczyk would frequently dedicate the song to the victims at live shows.
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Live
- Mystery
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On May 24, 2006, the band and Chris Daughtry performed "Mystery" on the season finale of American Idol, and on June 7, a new version of "Mystery" was released on the Friends of Live website featuring Chris Daughtry on guest vocals.
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Live
- The Dolphin's Cry
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This song was co-produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads, who also assisted the band in producing their first two albums.
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Mötley Crüe
- Saints Of Los Angeles
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The first single, "Saints of Los Angeles", was released in on April 11, started airing on radio stations on April 15, 2008, and was given further promotion through the music video game Rock Band, being released as downloadable content on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store on the same day. A video for the single was premiered at a press conference by the band on April 15. Jacoby Shaddix from Papa Roach, Josh Todd from Buckcherry, Chris Brown from Trapt, Marion Raven and James Michael from Sixx A.M. all make cameos at the end of the video.
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Manic Street Preachers
- Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
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The song includes the lyrics "You stole the sun from my heart"; a quote from an earlier hit of the same name on the album "This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours" and "Trade all your heroes in for ghosts", a reference to Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."
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Marilyn Manson
- Dancing With The One-Legged...
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The "One Legged" referred to in "Dancing with the One Legged", was a Huggy Bear doll (the pimp from Starsky and Hutch) that the band used as a container for drugs; it had one leg.
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The Mars Volta
- Askepios
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Askepios could refer to Asklepios, German form of Asclepius, the demigod of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology.
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The Mars Volta
- Cassandra Gemini
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On the CD listing, Cassandra Gemini is separated into eight "separate" tracks (from "Cassandra Gemini I" to "Cassandra Gemini VIII") due to difficulties with the band's record label.
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The Mars Volta
- Cavalettas
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A Cabaletta is a form of aria within 19th century Italian opera. It usually refers specifically to the second half of a double aria: a faster or more rhythmic movement following a cantabile section.
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The Mars Volta
- Cavalettas
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"Una cavaletta" is said to be a woman who constantly tries to change her lover into some fantasy she has conjured.
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The Mars Volta
- Cicatriz ESP
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The voice of Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante is heard several times in this song, even though he's not credited for those backup vocals.
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The Mars Volta
- Copernicus
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer, famous for formulating the first comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
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The Mars Volta
- Cotopaxi
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Cotopaxi is a volcano in the Andes Mountains within Ecuador. The volcano is known for its high peak; its last major eruption was in 1877, and a minor one occurred in 1904.
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The Mars Volta
- Goliath
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Goliath is a Philistine warrior mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He is famous for his battle in the 11th century BC with David, the young Israelite boy who had already been chosen by God and anointed by Samuel to become the King of Israel.
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The Mars Volta
- Goliath
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The song was originally released as "'Rapid Fire Tollbooth'" on guitarist Omar's 2007 solo album Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo, after being incorporated into the band's live set during their tour in support of their previous album Amputechture. "Goliath" contains a segment that originally appeared as an improvised jam during performances of "Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)".
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The Mars Volta
- Halo Of Nembutals
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Nembutal is a trade name for Pentobarbital, which is a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative. The drug is infamous for being used in suicides, and is also one of the three compounds used in a lethal injection.
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The Mars Volta
- Ilyena
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Ilyena is a reference to Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov, which is the birth name of actress Helen Mirren.
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The Mars Volta
- Ouroboros
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The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.
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The Mars Volta
- Soothsayer
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A soothsayer is a person who claims to speak sooth: specifically one who predicts the future based upon personal, political, spiritual, or religious beliefs rather than scientific facts. It is also worth noting that Haruspex, the name of a song on their live album, Scabdates, is Latin for 'soothsayer'.
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The Mars Volta
- Teflon
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Teflon is a brand name for PTFE (polytetrafluorine), which is used in non-stick pans, and is a nickname given to persons, particularly in politics, to whom criticism does not seem to stick.
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The Mars Volta
- Wax Simulacra
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The word Simulacrum is used to describe a representation of another thing, such as a statue or a painting; especially of a god. It also describes an image without the substance or qualities of the original. Simulacra is simply the plural form of the word.
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Massive Attack
- Black Milk
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In 1998 Manfred Mann sued Massive Attack for unauthorized use of a sample of the song "Tribute" from Manfred Mann's Earth Band's eponymous 1972 album, used in "Black Milk". The song has subsequently appeared as "Black Melt" on later releases and at live performances, with the notable absence of the sample.
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Massive Attack
- Karmacoma
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The track "Karmacoma" featured vocals from Tricky, and the video was directed by Jonathan Glazer. The song also features a sample from the track "Dream Time in Lake Jackson" by The KLF, which can be found 2:00 minutes in.
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Massive Attack
- Karmacoma
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The bass line sample featured is the same bass line used by Serge Gainsbourg in the song Melody from his 1971 album Histoire de Melody Nelson.
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Massive Attack
- Protection
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"Protection" is a collaboration between Massive Attack and Everything But the Girl singer Tracey Thorn.
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Massive Attack
- Unfinished Sympathy
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The video for "Unfinished Sympathy" was directed by Baillie Walsh, and filmed in January 1991 on West Pico Boulevard between S. New Hampshire Avenue and Dewey Avenue in Los Angeles, California. It features Shara Nelson walking along the sidewalk, unaware or uncaring of her surroundings, which includes drunks, gangs, bikers and the three members of Massive Attack (Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles). It was one of the earliest music videos to use one continuous shot. The video was later paid homage to in the music video for The Verve's song "Bitter Sweet Symphony".
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Megadeth
- Gears Of War
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The song was first played on October 31, 2006 in Six Flags New England during an event for the Xbox 360 game, Gears of War. The song is not officially associated with the game in any way, but Dave Mustaine said in an interview he was inspired after playing the game and decided to rename an already-written song.
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Metallica
- Don't Tread On Me
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"Don't Tread On Me" is a motto shown on the bottom of the Gadsden flag; it's shown below the rattlesnake.
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Metallica
- Fuel
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"Fuel" was used as the official theme song for NASCAR on NBC and TNT.
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Metallica
- One
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The video and song are based on the war movie "Johnny Got His Gun."
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Metallica
- Unnamed Feeling
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The music video features actress Pauley Perrette, best known for her role as Abby Sciuto on "NCIS."
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Moby
- Alice
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The music video features a collage of footage interspersed with Aynzli Jones' head performing the song.
The video also shows scenes of violence and discrimination; the title "Alice" may be used as a personification of the word Malice, which is a feature explored in the video.
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Moby
- Alice
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Featuring guest vocals from the British MC Aynzli Jones and members of the Nigerian group 419 Squad.
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Moby
- Degenerates
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This version of "Degenerates" is an alternate mix of "It's OK" from the Raining Again single.
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Moby
- Disco Lies
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The video is likely the product of Moby's veganism and strong animal rights activism, as it makes a strong statement against the meat industry.
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Moby
- Disco Lies
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The song was featured in the 2008 monster/horror film Cloverfield.
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The Monkees
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
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Musicians featured on the recording are:
Lead vocal by Micky Dolenz,
backing vocal: Tommy Boyce,
Guitar: Wayne Erwin, Gerry McGee, Louie Shelton,
Organ: Bobby Hart,
Bass: Larry Taylor,
Drums: Billy Lewis,
Percussion: Henry Levvy
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The Monkees
- (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
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The song is simple musically, with a repeating verse chord progression of E Major, G Major, A Major and C Major, and a repeating bridge in cut time of E major, G major, A major, and G major.
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The Monkees
- I'm A Believer
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In 1967, the song became Billboard's top single of the year and kept the novelty smash, "Snoopy & the Red Baron" by The Royal Guardsmen, at number two for four weeks.
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The Monkees
- Last Train To Clarksville
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According to the song's authors, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, the song is their protest of the Vietnam War and tells the story of a young man who has been drafted. He is waiting for the train that will take him to an army base, and he knows he may die in Vietnam.
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The Monkees
- Last Train To Clarksville
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The song is strikingly similar to The Beatles' "Paperback Writer" both in the style of "jangly" guitar and the chord structure.
Even more striking is the similarity of the guitar riff to the earlier one in "Blue's Theme", by Davie Allan and the Arrows, from the Peter Fonda biker movie, The Wild Angels.
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The Monkees
- Last Train To Clarksville
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Though the Clarksville in the song's title appears to refer to the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, and by implication to nearby Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Hart claims that this is a coincidence and that the choice of the name "Clarksville" was settled on after other names like Clarksdale had been rejected. There are a few other "Clarksvilles" in the U.S., near military training centers, where the song could be set, which helped to make the song a favorite for many people during the Vietnam War.
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The Monkees
- Pleasant Valley Sunday
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"Pleasant Valley Sunday" was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey, where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, lived.
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Muse
- Apocalypse Please
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"Apocalypse Please" is characterised by martial percussion and crashing piano chords, to create an intense and violent mood, encouraged by lyrics such the warning in the repeated chorus, "This is the end of the world". Apparently the song was originally a complex orchestral piece, until it was decided during pre-production to simplify it; its simplicity complements its energy and violence.
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Muse
- Apocalypse Please
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Like Stockholm Syndrome, Apocalypse Please was released as a download only single, except this time all the profits made went to charity.
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Muse
- Butterflies And Hurricanes
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The song was also dedicated to Dominic Howard's father, who died shortly after the band's performance at Glastonbury Festival.
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Muse
- Butterflies And Hurricanes
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The song concerns itself with the so called butterfly effect of chaos theory, describing how individuals can make a huge difference just as a butterfly could redirect a hurricane.
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Muse
- Feeling Good
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"Feeling Good" is a cover of a song originally from a 1965 musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd."
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Muse
- Hysteria
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The song's video, starring actor Justin Theroux, is based on the hotel-trashing scene from the movie Pink Floyd: The Wall.
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Muse
- Invincible
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The song has been compared by fans to Keane's "Everybody’s Changing" due to its similar chord progression on the verse and an identic on the chorus; however according to Bellamy it was based on David Bowie’s "Heroes". It also bares a striking resemblance to "Can't Help Falling In Love" by UB40.
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Muse
- Invincible
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Song lyrics talk about an alternate concept of love, similar to Coldplay’s "Fix You" about the support someone can give to his loved one.
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Muse
- Invincible
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The song's length in the video is shorter than the album version but longer than the radio edit, lasting 4:30.
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Muse
- Knights Of Cydonia
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Live performances of "Knights of Cydonia" feature Bellamy's intro falsetto much more loudly and clearly than its studio counterpart. Recent live performances have featured Bellamy playing an extra guitar part during the solo at the end of song, as well as the coda of "Space Dementia" played as a finale.
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Muse
- Knights Of Cydonia
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The guitar sound in the song was inspired by the 1962 number one hit "Telstar" by The Tornados (George Bellamy, Matt Bellamy's father, was the band's rhythm guitarist). The song, taken in entirety, also bears a striking resemblence to George Bellamy's composition "Ridin' the Wind".
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Muse
- Knights Of Cydonia
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The titular ‘Cydonia’ refers to the region on Mars where some believe life has existed, and which is the site of the infamous Face on Mars.
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Muse
- Map Of The Problematique
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The song was released as the fifth single from the album "Black Holes and Revelations" in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2007 as a digital download only.
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Muse
- Map Of The Problematique
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The song reached number 18 in the UK singles chart in its first week of release. The song has been more successful than "Invincible", the previous single.
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Muse
- New Born
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The main piano melody is based on broken chords, a technique used in numerous other Muse songs, such as "Sunburn" and "Bliss".
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Muse
- New Born
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Matthew Bellamy said of the song: "It's about a semi-fear of the evolution of technology, and how in reality it's destroying all humanity. My fear is that we can't control it because it's moving faster than we are, so the songs setting myself in a location in the future where the body is no longer important and everyone's plugged into a network. The opening line is 'link it to the world', so it's connecting yourself on a worldwide scale and being born into another reality."
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Muse
- New Born
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The song was "performed" on Live & Kicking, but due to the BBC producers not allowing the band to perform live, Matthew Bellamy waved his hands around instead of playing the keyboard. Chris Wolstenholme (bass) and Dom Howard (drums and percussion) swapped instruments for this mime performance.
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Muse
- Plug In Baby
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The meaning of this song is unknown, but some have suggested that it could also be about his love for the electric guitar, and how he only has to plug it in and play, for all his critics to be proven wrong ('crucifies my enemies'). Bizarrely, it could be about genetically engineering puppies to remain young and live forever, as Matt Bellamy has stated jovially in a magazine interview.
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Muse
- Plug In Baby
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This song is widely praised for its intro riff, almost instantly recognisable for use of a rising triad motif to move through a distinctively harmonic minor scale. It made it to #5 in Kerrang!'s Top 50 Riffs. The beginning of the riff shows similarities to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue". Bellamy has also stated in a 2005 interview that it elaborates on the riff from DJ Shadow's track Organ Donor.
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Muse
- Starlight
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Starlight is usually played live with the guitars tuned half a step down.
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Muse
- Starlight
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Despite its simplicity, "Starlight" was the most difficult song to write on Black Holes and Revelations. It underwent multiple recordings before the final version was produced.
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Muse
- Starlight
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Lead singer Matthew Bellamy commented that he first wrote the song on a boat in bad weather.
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Muse
- Stockholm Syndrome
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The video appears on the Time Is Running Out CD single, and was shot using a thermal camera.
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Muse
- Stockholm Syndrome
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Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological response sometimes seen in an abducted hostage, in which the hostage shows signs of loyalty to the hostage-taker, regardless of the danger (or at least risk) in which the hostage has been placed.
The syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm, Sweden, in which the bank robbers held bank employees hostage and the victims became emotionally attached to their victimizers, and even defended their captors after they were freed from their six-day ordeal.
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Muse
- Supermassive Black Hole
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The different style has met mixed reactions, and resulted in numerous comparisons of the main riff to those of Cameo's 1986 single "Word Up!" and Britney Spears' 2004 single "Do Somethin'."
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Muse
- Time Is Running Out
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The single proved to be the band's breakthrough hit in the United States - hitting #9 on the US Modern Rock chart. It was also the band's first Top 10 hit in the UK, their previous best being #11 attained by "Plug In Baby".
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Muse
- Time Is Running Out
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The video depicts a number of military officials seated at a round table preforming actions simultaneously, moving to the beat of the song. There are also various clips of Muse standing and playing the song on the round table. It is partially based on Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
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Muse
- Unintended
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Its guitar track is very similar to "If" by Pink Floyd from their album Atom Heart Mother.
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Muse
- Unintended
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When originally played live, Bassist Chris Wolstenholme would play the guitar part on either an electro-acoustic or electric guitar, and play the bass part simultaneously using a Roland PK-5 floor based pedal, while Matt Bellamy improvised noises on the electric guitar. Although the song was retired from live sets in the Absolution era, it has been played at a few recent shows, with Bellamy playing guitar and Wolstenholme playing bass.
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My Chemical Romance
- Famous Last Words
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The video for "Famous Last Words" may be a continuation from the video for "Welcome To the Black Parade"; scenes and pieces of the video from "Welcome To the Black Parade" are shown.
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N-Trance
- Stayin' Alive
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Featuring Ricardo Da Force, formerly a member of the British acid house group The KLF.
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Nada Surf
- Blonde On Blonde
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The track “Blonde on Blonde” was featured in the opening credits to the 2004 German film Sommersturm (Summer Storm).
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Nada Surf
- Ice On The Wing
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Featuring John Roderick (of the Long Winters) on backing vocals, and Martin Wenk (of Calexico) on horns.
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Nada Surf
- Popular
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The video for this song, directed by Jesse Peretz, was shot at the Bayonne High School, with administration approval, and showed football players and cheerleaders, wearing the uniforms of the school, as well as the three members of the band, Matthew as a teacher, Daniel as a security guard, and Ira as the football coach. The vice principal of the High School later launched a controversy, in mid-August 1996, by raising the issue that the last scene, which shows football players staring suggestively at each other in the showers, was homoerotic and thus offensive towards Bayonne High School, as it suggested some of its football players could be gay.
According to Nada Surf, the shower scene was never intended to suggest homosexuality. Indeed, both the song's lyrics and the bulk of the video's imagery are predominantly — and blatantly — heterosexual. The video features passionate, heterosexual kissing scenes, for example, which go well beyond any "suggestive" smiles that so offended the vice principal.
Significantly, the band members quickly took exception to this homophobic attack. During an MTV News report on the controversy, Nada Surf lambasted the vice principal's ignorance — calling the vice principal "small minded" for singling out "homoeroticism as more offensive than straight eroticism".
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Nine Inch Nails
- Capital G
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Featuring William Artope, Matt Demeritt, Jeff Gallegos, and Elizabeth Lea on brass instruments.
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Nine Inch Nails
- In This Twilight
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On February 25, 2007, a USB drive was found in Manchester, England, containing the track "In This Twilight" and an image of the Hollywood sign apparently demolished.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Me, I'm Not
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On February 19, 2007, a USB drive was found in Barcelona, Spain, containing the track "Me, I'm Not" and an MP3 of static.
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Nine Inch Nails
- My Violent Heart
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On February 12, 2007, a USB drive was found in a bathroom stall during a NIN concert in Lisbon, Portugal. It contained a high-quality MP3 of the track "My Violent Heart," which quickly circulated the Internet. Another USB drive containing the same track was purportedly found in Madrid, Spain.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Only
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The "tiniest little dot caught my eye" line is related to the "tiny little dot caught my eye" line from "Down In It."
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Nine Inch Nails
- Survivalism
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As with "The Hand That Feeds" and "Only," the "Survivalism" multi-track GarageBand file was released by the band for fan remixing on March 13, 2007.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Survivalism
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On the editing version of the "Survivalism" video, both scenes where two men are having sexual intercourse in bed and a topless woman was putting on makeup are covered by the US Bureau of Morality image.
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Nine Inch Nails
- Survivalism
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The time code in the monitor sometimes changes the last digit for a letter. This eventually spells out "THE_TURNEDTO_". In addition, several Bible verses that reference water and blood are shown through out the video. "Isaiah 15:9" on the graffiti wall, "John 19:34" on the picture of Jesus behind the couple, and "II Kings 3:22" and "Exodus 7:21" in the board behind the man with the laptop. This led to the discovery of the Year Zero website, thewaterturnedtoblood.com, which is a collage of a hand picking a man up out of the wreckage of a crumbling bridge, claimed to be drawn by a prison inmate. There are various biblical quotations surrounding the drawing, and capital letters (un-capitalized letters in the second paragraph) align to form the word "francesca" once in the first paragraph, and twice in the second. Francesca has two documented meanings; 'free', and 'from Franconia' or 'from France'.
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Nine Inch Nails
- The Hand That Feeds
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NIN was going to play "The Hand That Feeds" at the 2005 MTV Music Awards, but the band was dropped out due to conflicts between Trent Reznor and MTV concerning the band's plan to incorporate an image of George W. Bush into the performance; NIN was then replaced by the Foo Fighters at that ceremony.
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Nirvana
- Pen Cap Chew
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The band was going to name themselves "Pen Cap Chew" until they decided to call themselves "Nirvana" before debuting on March 1988.
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One Day As A Lion
- Wild International
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This track was first revealed on July 16, 2008. It was made available to stream on the band's myspace page. On the same day, the song was premiered by the influential L.A. radio station KROQ and on Australian radio station Triple J. Thus far, it peaked at #27 on the Billboard Hot Modern Tracks.
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Pearl Jam
- Do The Evolution
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The video for this song was created by Kevin Altieri (the creator of "Batman: The Animated Series") and Todd McFarlane (the creator of "Spawn").
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Peter Gabriel
- Solsbury Hill
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Solsbury Hill is a hill located near Bath, England; it is possible that it was one of the locations where the Battle of Mons Badonicus took place.
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Porcupine Tree
- Anesthetize
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The song can be split into three sections, and in the album booklet, asterisk markings separate the lyrics to each of the sections. These sections are not named in the booklet, although during their BBC Radio 1 Rock Show performance, Gavin Harrison revealed that part two is called "The Pills I'm Taking"; the song "What Happens Now?" from Nil Recurring EP uses a sample of the opener riff for this second movement.
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Porcupine Tree
- Anesthetize
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The song was initially called "The Beast" when the band premiered it during the Arriving Somewhere tour on 2006, but the name was later changed due to Wilson's own nonconformity with it.
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Porcupine Tree
- Anesthetize
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It is the longest song on this album, clocking in at 17:42; this makes Fear of a Blank Planet the studio album containing the longest composition since The Sky Moves Sideways, not counting Voyage 34 (Phase III) in Voyage 34: The Complete Trip since it is a compilation album.
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Porcupine Tree
- Fear Of A Blank Planet
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On April 16, 2007, the same day as the European release date, the music video for the title track debuted on Porcupine Tree's MySpace, though it was temporarily removed a day later in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech due to the band finding the content, namely children wielding guns, distasteful at the present. On April 25, 2007, the video was launched on the Fear of a Blank Planet microsite to view in high resolution, but has been replaced by the live projection for "Sleep Together". The video is now included as a bonus along with the 17-minute film for Anesthetize on the DVD-A version of FoaBP.
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Porcupine Tree
- Fear Of A Blank Planet
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Steven Wilson has mentioned that the title is a direct reference to the 1990 Public Enemy album, Fear of a Black Planet. He explained that race relations were a major issue when the album was released and he sees "coming to terms with information technology and...the 21st century" as a modern issue.
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Porcupine Tree
- My Ashes
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The song was named after the final chapter of the Brett Easton Ellis novel Lunar Park, a heavy influence for the entire album.
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Porcupine Tree
- Sentimental
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An early version of the song's chorus can be found on the track "Normal" from the Nil Recurring EP, which contains the B-Sides of Fear of a Blank Planet.
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Portishead
- Glory Box
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"Glory Box" samples the Isaac Hayes track, Ike's Rap II, from Hayes' 1971 double-album, Black Moses.
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Portishead
- Glory Box
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The track "Glory Box" appears on the soundtrack to the Bernardo Bertolucci film Stealing Beauty and on the Andrew Niccol film Lord of War. It also appears in the Levi's ad celebrating the watch pocket.
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Portishead
- Numb
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In the UK the track "Numb" was used in a commercial for the TV series Lost and featured in a commercial for the Nissan Primera.
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Portishead
- Only You
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"Only You" was later released in a promotional French language lyrics version.
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Portishead
- Roads
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The track "Roads" appears on the soundtrack to the Lori Petty film Tank Girl. It is also used in the movies Cheaters, Little Criminals and The Watcher. In addition, it has appearance in the beginning of the Season 1 finale of the TV series The L Word. (1x13 - "Limb from Limb").
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Portishead
- Sour Times
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In the UK the track "Sour Times" was used as the theme tune for the ITV series The Vice (1999–2003), starring British actor Ken Stott.
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Portishead
- Wandering Star
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The chorus and title of "Wandering Star" are taken from the Bible; "...wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever." (Jude 1:13)
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The Prodigy
- Omen
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The track was The Prodigy's tenth top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart.
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The Prodigy
- Omen
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Omen debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number eight. In its second week on the charts, the single moved up the charts to break into the top five, at number four making it their highest charting single since Breathe reached number 1 in 1996.
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The Prodigy
- Omen
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The single was co-produced by Does It Offend You, Yeah? singer James Rushent.
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Puddle Of Mudd
- Famous
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Was the theme song of one episode of ECW, when WWE was trying to find a replacement for Drowning Pool's "Bodies."
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Puscifer
- Rev. 22:20
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The title "Rev. 22:20" is a direct reference to the epilogue of The Book of Revelation, chapter 22, verse 20: "He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus."
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Queens Of The Stone Age
- Burn The Witch
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Along with "You've got a killer scene there, man...", it borrows heavily from the blues, probably due to the fact that ZZ Top's legendary guitarist and singer Billy Gibbons appears on lead guitar and backup vocals.
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Queens Of The Stone Age
- Little Sister
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When this song was performed on Saturday Night Live on May 14, 2005, actor/comedian Will Ferrell, who hosted the show, came onstage and played the cowbell as fictional Blue Öyster Cult member Gene Frenkle. This was a reprise of a role that Ferrell played in a famous 2000 sketch in which actor Christopher Walken demands, "More cowbell!" during the studio recording of that band's famous song, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", much to the chagrin of the rest of the band.
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Queens Of The Stone Age
- No One Knows
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The music video for "No One Knows" features the band in a car, when they run over a deer. The deer then comes back to life and takes revenge on the band. The video also features Dave Grohl (of Nirvana/Foo Fighters fame) playing the drums. Dave Grohl features on the single itself. This video also features former MADtv cast member, Nicole Sullivan and accordion player/comedy performer "Weird Al" Yankovic.
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Queens Of The Stone Age
- Sick, Sick, Sick
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Queens of the Stone Age shot a video for "Sick, Sick, Sick" on April 25 in the Los Angeles area, featuring the band performing "at a dinner party audience of one."
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R.E.M.
- Driver 8
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The song refers to the Southern Crescent, a passenger train operated by the Southern Railroad until 1979, and continues today (with fewer stops) as the Amtrak Crescent. The music video shows Chessie System trains running around Huntington, West Virginia.
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R.E.M.
- Driver 8
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Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. borrowed the title of this song for his autobiography. (Until 2007, Earnhardt drove a #8 car.)
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R.E.M.
- Fall On Me
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Though Stipe described the song once as "pretty much a song about oppression," the song is about acid rain and its effects on the environment, hence the first line of the chorus, "Don't fall on me."
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R.E.M.
- Fall On Me
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The song is something of a duet between Stipe and Mike Mills, with the two of them sharing vocals prominently during the bridge and chorus. Mills takes lead vocals for the bridge.
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R.E.M.
- Finest Worksong
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The single version of the song (also known as Mutual Drum Horn Mix), featuring a new horn section by The Uptown Horns, was placed on R.E.M.'s I.R.S. Records compilation Eponymous. This was the last original single the band released on I.R.S. Records.
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R.E.M.
- Gardening At Night
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In the booklet of the 2006 And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Bill Berry wrote the following of "Gardening at Night":
"We were driving at night after a show (I don't remember where), and I was at the wheel of our old car, with a rental trailer in tow. One of my three passengers aimed a directive at me. Rather than inform me of his desire to evacuate his bladder, he instead suggested that I pull over so that he might engage in the task of roadside 'night gardening.' To four guys in their early twenties this was a glaring catalyst for a new song."
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R.E.M.
- It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
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The song originated from a previous, unreleased, R.E.M. song called "PSA", which was short for "Public Service Announcement". The two songs are very similar in melody and tempo. "PSA" was itself later released as a single in 2003, under the title "Bad Day". In an interview with Guitar World magazine in the early 1990s, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck indicated that one of the primary inspirations of "End of the World" was Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
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R.E.M.
- Radio Free Europe
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In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine listed the song at #379 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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R.E.M.
- Radio Free Europe
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Shortly after its formation, Johnny Hibbert (Hib-Tone records) expressed an interest in releasing a single by the then-one-year-old R.E.M. in exchange for the publishing rights to their songs "Radio Free Europe" and "Sitting Still", which they had just recorded at the Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with Mitch Easter. The band, desperate to release something and attracted by the fact that Hib-Tone would become an Athens label, agreed. Despite the reservations of the band's friend, Bertis Downs, who was acting as their lawyer, the songs were initially published by Hibbert's Dorothy Jane Music. Downs partially renegotiated the deal, shortening it to six months with no options, but the other parts of the deal - the publishing and the remixing - stood.
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R.E.M.
- So. Central Rain
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As mentioned in the liner notes of the 1988 I.R.S. Records greatest hits album Eponymous, the song was performed on Late Night with David Letterman in 1983 before it even had a title.
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R.E.M.
- So. Central Rain
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Depending on where one looks, this song is titled
"So. Central Rain" (the back of both Reckoning and Eponymous), "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (on the single), "S. Central Rain" (both on the Reckoning album cover and the liner notes on Eponymous), and "Southern Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (inside the Reckoning sleeve).
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R.E.M.
- Supernatural Superserious
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Like most of the songs on Accelerate, it made its debut during the band's "working rehearsals" at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin between June 30 and July 5, 2007, in an unfinished form with the name "Disguised."
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R.E.M.
- Supernatural Superserious
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The song itself has already proven an early success, entering the UK Singles Chart at #54 on downloads, before its official physical release, and has become R.E.M.'s first song since 2001's "Imitation of Life" to enter more than two charts and to chart on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks, with an entry position of #36.
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R.E.M.
- Talk About The Passion
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"Talk About The Passion" is a "hunger song", although the only direct reference in the song is to "empty mouths". Michael Stipe has stated, "Talk About the Passion" was a song about hunger but the lyrics weren't clear enough.
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R.E.M.
- The One I Love
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The accompanying video's director was artist Robert Longo. The director of photography was Alton Brown, who later became a Food Network celebrity chef.
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R.E.M.
- The One I Love
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In March 2005, Q magazine placed "The One I Love" at number 57 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.
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R.E.M.
- The One I Love
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In the ensuing months, listeners who misunderstood the song's meaning made the song a popular radio dedication to loved ones, relying on the main lyric, "This one goes out to the one I love." However, they missed an ensuing line: "A simple prop to occupy my time"; the song was not particularly a love song. Stipe related to Rolling Stone, "I've always left myself pretty open to interpretation. It's probably better that they just think it's a love song at this point."
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R.E.M.
- What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
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"What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" was originally what William Tager asked when he and his assailant attacked (now former) CBS anchorman Dan Rather back in October of 1986.
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The Raconteurs
- Hands
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The video for this song took place at a Norwegian school for deaf girls.
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Radiohead
- (Nice Dream)
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This song's lyrics are said to be inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, particularly the line "the sea will electrocute us all". The song's narrator revels in a happy-life fantasy, but concludes it can be nothing more than a "nice dream". The demo version, available on the compilation Volume 13, is mainly an acoustic number featuring organ and strings, and contains different lyrics, including "I'm a sweet man, made of chocolate".
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Radiohead
- 15 Step
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The version of the song on In Rainbows features sampled hand-claps provided by young children at the "Matrix Music School & Arts Centre" located in London. Towards the end of the song there is also a highly manipulated sample of the children yelling, "Yeah!"
The children were recorded in a small session with Colin Greenwood and Nigel Godrich. They showed up with a few microphones, practice amp, and a small laptop computer in which the children were recorded directly to computer.
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Radiohead
- 2 + 2 = 5
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The song's title "2 + 2 = 5" recalls the symbol of unreality from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the book, inhabitants of an authoritarian future state are made to engage in doublethink, replacing their own conscience and beliefs with those imposed from above. At the end of the novel, the protagonist's individuality is demolished, as he avows that two and two are, in fact, five. The song contains similar inaccuracies including January bringing April showers, also a possible reference to Yorke's fears of climate change.
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Radiohead
- A Wolf At The Door
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The line "flan in the face" is a reference to Clare Short, the U.K. overseas aid/development secretary who was once assaulted with a custard pie by anti-globalization activists and who later resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet over the Iraq War. The "wolf" title and reference to Three Little Pigs has been seen as one of many fairy tale metaphors on the album, inspired by his status as a new father. Apparently Yorke felt the lyrics were too bleak to use, until Jonny came up with the jaunty, angular backing music.
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Radiohead
- Airbag
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Originally entitled "Last Night an Airbag Saved My Life," a headline which Thom Yorke read in an AA manual that came in the mail.
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Radiohead
- Black Star
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The second of screaming feedback that can be heard in the second chorus of "Black Star" (at the 2:00 minute mark) was actually a mistake made during recording, but was kept due to Thom and Jonny's insistence.
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Radiohead
- Bones
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It is one of the heavier rock songs on the record, and features lead singer Thom Yorke express his fears of ill health and old age. It was recorded on the same day as the album's title track, which guitarist Jonny Greenwood described as: "easily the best day of recording".
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Radiohead
- Bones
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The song was premiered during the band's 1994 summer tour, and was described by reviewers as "quite sensational" and "stunning". However, it has since been dropped from Radiohead's setlist and is rarely played live.
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Radiohead
- Climbing Up The Walls
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The distant scream heard at the end of this song is caused by Thom Yorke flipping his acoustic guitar up to his face and screaming into it, creating the distorted and hollow effect for his vocals.
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Radiohead
- Dollars And Cents
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"Dollars & Cents" references the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, a turning point for the anti-globalisation movement, with lines like "it's all over the streets tonight" (these lyrics are sung live by Yorke, not on the album version).
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Radiohead
- Electioneering
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Lead singer Thom Yorke was thinking of the Poll Tax Riots as he wrote "Electioneering", the scenes where people were breaking down the gates of Downing Street. As well as being political, the song is also about Radiohead, travelling around the globe and having to sell their records to people.
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Radiohead
- Everything In Its Right Place
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The opening track from Radiohead's fourth album, this song emphasizes the band's increasing use of electronic music and distortions of Thom Yorke's vocals.
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Radiohead
- Fake Plastic Trees
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"Fake Plastic Trees" producer Paul Kolderie missed a cue during the final verse (the distorted guitars were meant to come in at the beginning of the bar), but the result was so pleasing that the mistake was left on the final mix. The song also was partly inspired by the commercial development of Canary Wharf.
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Radiohead
- Fake Plastic Trees
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The lead vocal take of "Fake Plastic Trees" was recorded immediately after the band had seen Jeff Buckley playing upstairs at The Garage in London. Thom went straight to the studio after the concert, recorded the take, then broke down in tears.
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Radiohead
- Faust Arp
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Faust is a German legend in which a scholar makes a pact with the Devil, while Arp is short for arpeggio.
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Radiohead
- Faust Arp
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The song is finger-picked on an acoustic guitar and bears some similarity to the pattern of finger-picking on "Julia" by The Beatles.
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Radiohead
- Fitter Happier
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"fitter happier" is the only song on OK Computer not sung by Thom Yorke. Instead the lyrics are read by Fred Cooper, who also provided his voice to the voice synthesizer on the Apple Macintosh platform.
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Radiohead
- Go To Sleep
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The guitar-work at the end of this track was achieved by Jonny Greenwood playing a sequence of random notes on his guitar that were being processed through a digital patch for software called Max/MSP, which is musical software frequently used by electronica or experimental artists. Some believe that even though this is a random process, what you hear on record sounds slightly more structured and therefore may have been edited in the production process. However, Greenwood has played this song live using the same patch on many occasions, most notably on Later...With Jools Holland where the patch seemed to generate a more frantic and random rendition of the unique solo.
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Radiohead
- High And Dry
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"High and Dry" was originally played by Thom's band at Exeter University, the Headless Chickens. However, the Radiohead version came to being after drummer Phil Selway was testing his new bass drum. The song was demo-recorded before Pablo Honey came out, and the band had no plans to release it on their next album until receiving record label pressure. In 2006, Thom Yorke said it was the only time he had had his "arm twisted", to "put it anywhere". In 1998, Jonny Greenwood said, "Seems like there's always a song or two on every album, which is kind of a dead end, and isn't going anywhere... I always felt that 'High and Dry' on The Bends was a good pop song, and is alright, but it felt like it was the end of something, like we'd finished that kind of thing."
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Radiohead
- House Of Cards
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The "Throw your keys in the bowl" line is a reference to "Key Parties" where swinging couples would exchange sexual partners by having the women pick the car-keys of the men from a bowl that is passed around the room.
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Radiohead
- How To Disappear Completely
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The early version of the song was starker than both the final studio and live versions. In the studio, Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood developed the song in a different direction from the band's earlier work - arranging a string section (played by the Orchestra of St. John's), and himself playing the Ondes martenot, an early electronic instrument popularized by the works of Olivier Messiaen. The recording was pieced together over months during the experimental and sometimes contentious recording sessions for Kid A, in which co-producer (with the band) Nigel Godrich also played an important role. According to Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, "When Jonny did the strings on 'How to Disappear Completely,' that was absolutely his thing. Nigel [Godrich] helped him, and that was it. The rest of us were not involved in that at all".
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Radiohead
- Hunting Bears
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"Hunting Bears" is a brief instrumental (and one of only two such tracks to appear on the band's full length albums, along with Kid A's "Treefingers"). The song has been seen as reminiscent of "ambient" material such as the mid-'70s work of Brian Eno (it closely parallels the melodic structure of Eno's 'Zawinul/Lava' from his 1975 album Another Green World). The title may reference the "modified bears" found throughout the Kid A-era artwork and blips (the band's "logo" had however changed by the time of Amnesiac to a crying minotaur). The phrase "we're going hunting for bears / la la la we're not scared" also appeared in a story written by artistic collaborator Stanley Donwood and found on the band's website prior to the album, referencing an incident of racial hate crimes. The band played the song live several times on solo guitar, as an outro for "The National Anthem". The earliest track list of Amnesiac sent to the press did not contain this song, but had "Cuttooth", which was ultimately left off the album to become a B-side on the "Knives Out" single.
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Radiohead
- Idioteque
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Singer Thom Yorke usually dances during the song, and the crowd joins in singing the second verse ("Ice age coming, ice age coming").
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Radiohead
- In Limbo
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The title may be a reference to the spiritual concept of Limbo, specifically in the writings of Dante.
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Radiohead
- In Limbo
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The lyrics "Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea / I've got a message I can't read" reference the British shipping forecast.
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Radiohead
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place
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When it is performed live, the song features distorted guitar and resembles the music of Sonic Youth, who has been an influence on the band.
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Radiohead
- Just
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The single's famous video was directed by Jamie Thraves, who was hand-picked by the band after they saw several of his experimental short films. It was filmed near Liverpool Street Station in London.
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Radiohead
- Karma Police
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The sound at the end of the song was created by Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien by "feeding sound through a digital delay machine".
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Radiohead
- Kid A
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Thom Yorke's vocals have been heavily modified, producing a distorted effect similar to a vocoder and rendering his lyrics nearly unintelligible. Yorke sings over a backdrop of sterile, downbeat electronica, including a lullaby-like xylophone (possibly synthesized), synthesized strings and electronic drum pad or machine. Digital software such as Pro Tools and Cubase were often used in composing music by the band at this time and since.
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Radiohead
- Knives Out
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The tune's chord progression is also very similar to the one heard in the first part of Radiohead's 1997 single "Paranoid Android."
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Radiohead
- Let Down
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The track was ultimately not released as a single because the band was unsatisfied with the video they had produced, and ended up losing money.
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