With lyrics that include "I know I should have thought twice before I kissed her" in the opening, you know you're in for a sleigh ride like none other. It's therefore no surprise thatCyndi Lauperand Swedish rock band the Hives' unconventional Christmas duel describes many...
' I say, 'Well, it's kind of like the Beatles, but just played faster with distortion,'" he quips. "It's the same catchy melodies, but the lyrics were very heartfelt, very honest, and very real — also very vulnerable, in a way that pop music really wasn't at the time."...
This guide vocal used a set of placeholder lyrics written by Brian’s collaborator Tony Asher, which weren’t intended to be a final lyric: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, “Good Vibrations (first version)”] Brian then put the track away for a month, while he continued work on the Pet ...
it’s hard to believe that the songs on Spit were written when the quartet of girls were all 14 years old; there’s a maturity to their lyrics, which predominantly deal with hate and sexism. Beyond the lyrics, the tone of the album ...
California USA. With Hamish Miller as our inspiration, we took off up the road that coils around and up the mountain, crisscrossing back and forth over the intersecting energy lines that converge at the peak, and setting the intention that you who are watching could feel what we are feeling...
In the song I Found Out, the lyrics are very bold: “There ain’t no Jesus gonna come from the sky. Now that I found out I know I can cry.” Throughout the song Lennon states that he has seen through religion “from Jesus to Paul” and that religion was simply a form of drug....
In a way that will make people who've just met me think: "Here is a funny, clever fellow I'd like to get to know more."Instead, it gets me thinking about my lack of roots. Just last month, I visited Southern California for the first time since my dad lived out there 2 decades...
You know, the one dubbed by the Finns as the start of WWIII? Is that fair? I do fear that people are grasping for the return of something loved but lost as opposed to bracing for the shock of the new, like with this bit of advice: Most of the category’s biggest threats have ...
having met and worked with the Grammy award-winning Guaraldi the previous year, commissioned the jazz pianist to record the soundtrack. A children’s choir from an Episcopal church sang for two of the tracks. Mendelson himself wrote the lyrics to Guaraldi’s tuneChristmas Time is Here,now cove...
“popcorn for the brain” flick. The movie’s main character, Beca, likes to make electronic music, and she takes her penchant for mash-ups to a college acapella group that she’s somehow strong-armed into joining. She takes a bass line from one song, a melody from another, lyrics ...