Adam Ant was the kind of rogue who would try absolutely anything for a hit, whether it was pirate gear, tribal drums, heavy guitar, even “Ant Rap.” But in “Strip,” he offers a philosophical inquiry into the topic of nudity, and why he’s in favor of it. As he pleads, “We’...
Read more: Top 20 Adam Ant songs10. Michael Caine, 1984Not actually about Michael Caine at all, this No.11-charting hit is really about IRA informers. The paranoid figure in the lyrics (“Staring out the window there’s nothing he can now do/ All he wanted was to remain sane”) is...
Over 90 music fans have voted on the 80+ Best Songs With Prince in the Title. Current Top 3: Some Day My Prince Will Come, Princes of the Universe, The Crown ...
And after watching it, you’ll see “Take Me Home, Country Roads” as one of most romantic songs ever written. —WC Photo : Courtesy Everett Collection 74. “Shakespeare in Love” (John Madden, 1998) For an ingenious and absurdly charming movie that practically invented its own sub-genre...
Several grandiose concerts are going to take place in Vegas this year just as every year. The most promising upcoming concerts involve that of Bruno Mars, Adam Ant, Brian McKnight, Boyz II Men all to be held in Las Vegas Theater. If you thought music Vegas events are over with this, you...
songs from films are incredibly important. movies with the best soundtracks are already good, but they become positively iconic with great music. films like the wizard of oz are already true classics, but with judy garland singing "somewhere over the rainbow"? even better. not surprisingly,...
who travels through time to a dystopian Britain ruled by roving gangs. Appearances by Adam Ant, the Slits and Siouxsie and the Banshees, along with U.S. trans icon Jayne County, ground it in the moment, but Jarman’s suggestion that even the most vocal nihilists would sell out their idea...
One of two new songs from Britney Spears’ first greatest hits comp (the other was a cover of Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative,” a song that could have been written for her), “Do Somethin’” is a slammin’ slice of electroclash from the still-reigning pop princess and producers Bloodsh...
Dance songs with instructional chants for lyrics tend to have a short shelf life. So upon first hearing “Harder, Better, Faster Stronger” (and to a greater extent, “One More Time”), I wondered if the new decade had already stumbled upon its “Bodyrock” or “Rockafeller Skank’. But...
The only movie ever made that could accurately be described as a cross between “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,”“Babette’s Feast,” and “Songs From the Second Floor,” this “ramen Western” begins with a petulant gangster (Kōji Yakusho) bringing a full picnic into a movie theater...