“I Melt With You” is unique among one-hit wonders, in that Modern English’s version was never really a hit – it didn’t even reach the top 75 on Billboard’s Hot 100. But you’d be hard pressed to find a song that better captures the zeitgeist of the era. To this day it ...
" he said. "Izzy [Stradlin] started playing the chords that I was playing, strumming them, and all of a sudden Axl [Rose] really liked it. I hated that song because it was so stupid
" he said. "Izzy [Stradlin] started playing the chords that I was playing, strumming them, and all of a sudden Axl [Rose] really liked it. I hated that song because it was so stupid
" he said. "Izzy [Stradlin] started playing the chords that I was playing, strumming them, and all of a sudden Axl [Rose] really liked it. I hated that song because it was so stupid
Imagine an unskilled hand striking at random on this key-board, with a sudden clash of octaves, dissonances and topsy-turvy chords; and you will have a pretty clear idea of the Toads’ litany. As a song, this litany has neither head nor tail to it; as a collection of pure sounds, ...
Divine Sounds were a group Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, who had one notable hit, "What People Do For Money," in 1984. Perhaps the most noticeable thing about the song, in retrospect, is just how badly it aped Run DMC's "It's Like That," which dropped a year earlier. What, you tho...
“Sunny” is perhaps the most-covered soul recording ever, with more than 400 covers and counting. For all the sentimentality of its lyrics, the music itself is sophisticated, with a slew of chords, tempo shifts, key modulations, and a few injections of the 007 theme. No surprise it ...