Facts and trivia about songs
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The Proclaimers are the Scottish twins Craig and Charlie Reid. This is their only hit in America, but four of their other songs made the UK Top 40, including their first hit, "Letter From America," which went to #3 in 1987. This song is about bein...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Imagine Dragons linked up with Alex Da Kid for this track, one of four Night Vision cuts that he contributed towards. The English Hip-Hop producer is best known for co-writing Eminem's hit single "Love The Way You Lie" and Dr Dre's successful tune...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about recalling times with a girlfriend and a romantic breakup. It's one of the most popular Steely Dan songs, but also one of their least favorite. In Rolling Stone, September 17, 2009, Donald Fagan said, "It's dumb but effective." W...
18 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Ben Moody (a co-founder of Evanescence along with Amy Lee, but Ben left the band in October 2003) wrote the lyrics and the piano part for this song. It was one of Evanescence's first tracks; they recorded it for their first EP in 1998, but decided...
18 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This was the first single taken from English alternative rock band Muse's fifth studio album The Resistance. Singer/guitarist Matt Bellamy described this to Mojo magazine August 2009, in a pre-release interview, as "like a heavy-rock take on Goldf...
18 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Billie Joe Armstrong told Q magazine May 2009 that sometimes he doesn't know where he gets his songs from. For instance, when he found himself singing "Sieg Heil to the president gas man" on this number, he freaked himself out. He said: "It was ki...
17 Apr 2020 4 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Written by Don Felder, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, this song is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wil...
17 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about Los Angeles. It exposes the dark side of the city many people encounter when they go there to pursue fame. Guns N' Roses knew this side of the city well: in 1985, they lived in a place on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles that the...
17 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Norman Greenbaum was kind enough to tell us about this song. He set out to write a religious rock song, and he is Jewish. Instead of using a Jewish word for God, he used "Jesus" because he thought it would be more marketable. It took months for Gr...
16 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about the detached feeling most people go through life with. It is a commentary on how people cope with the world by withdrawing physically, mentally, or emotionally. In the commentary of The Wall, Roger Waters states that the inspira...
