both good and bad, with a funky backdrop. The funketeers have multiple songs about gratitude, including "Everyday People," "Life," and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)." The uplifting messages in their songs show appreciation for life and unity while embody...
From 1956 through 1958 he completely dominated thepop musiccharts and ushered in the age ofrock and roll, opening doors for both white and Black rock artists.His television appearances, especially those onEd Sullivan’s Sunday night variety show, set records for the size of the audiences. Even...
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not unlike Queen’s “It’s A Hard Life,” which was recorded around the same time. While it doesn’t sound mournful, it is nonetheless melancholy, as Freddie sings of the fading embers of a love about to die: “This is our last goodbye and very soon it will be over/But today just...
The Doors have always denied that they took the melody of The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night" for their 1968 hit "Hello, I Love You." Although there was never a formal accusation against The Doors, Ray Davies of The Kinks referenced the incident in an interview with Rolling S...
Also ranks #54 onThe 75+ Best Songs About The Color Red Buy at 8 Trap House Gucci Mane 14 votes Album(s):Trap House, Who Framed Radric Davis Buy at 9 House of Fun Madness 21 votes "House of Fun's" upbeat and playful nature made it an instant hit for Madness, reaching No. 1 in...
And “The Taste of Ink” was a big hit song, and the success of it I think really really opened doors to screamy post-hardcore music in the mainstream. Even moreso than Thursday. People talk in the book about how Bert and Gerard Way from MCR had a kind of physica...
“I Got 5 on It” is a song about drugs. But it could be about anything. It hooks you from the very beginning with its haunting, opening chords. The chorus is just the icing on the cake. Luniz was giving us West Coast rap with an incredible R&B twist. The fact that it was abou...
“Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” was a story all right, a weeper penned by Rodriguez alone about disappearing into another country when the world’s got you down — the forlornness in his voice almost at odds with the lushness of Jerry Kennedy’s production. It went on to become his ...
While the first half of the ‘90s were all about Seattle and alternative rock, there was a turning point about midway through the decade as a new genre that combined funk, hip-hop and rap rock formed in California. Korn spearheaded the whole thing, which came to be known as “nu-metal...