Facts and trivia about songs
15 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Frontman Dave Grohl described this to Billboard magazine as "A stomping Foo Fighters uptempo song, with a little bit of Chuck Berry in it." Grohl revealed in an interview with the XFM Radio station that they put this song together in a day, while...
15 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
With images of "disco lemonade" and "double cherry pie," this is one of the more puzzling songs of the '90s, and according to Marcy Playground songwriter/lead singer John Wozniak, the song pulls many things from many places. In a interview with Jo...
15 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
A song about the deterioration of society, this reflects how the world is becoming very superficial and plastic, much like California. The Red Hot Chili Peppers formed in Hollywood and are quite familiar with the quirky nature of life in Los Angel...
15 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Morrison cribbed the title, and also the line "Not to see the sun," from Aftermath: A Supplement to the Golden Bough, a supplement to the 1890 book The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Both works were written by the Scottish social ant...
14 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This was one of the first songs written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The Stones manager, Andrew Oldham, gave it to a singer he also managed named Marianne Faithfull, who released it in 1964. It was going to be the B-side of her first single,...
14 Apr 2020 6 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song was written by the British production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It was inspired by a woman Pete Waterman had been seeing for three years. Rick Astley was staying with Waterman at the time, and after a three-hour phone call with...
14 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
John Lennon wrote this ode to inactivity to explain what he had been up to in the last six years. Until Double Fantasy, his last album was Walls And Bridges, which was released in 1974. He was no longer interested in fame, and dedicated himself to...
13 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Biophilia is a collaboration with Apple and is billed as the world's first "app album." It features music videos and unique apps for all ten tracks created to add multiple dimensions to each song. In the app for this song, players can navigate thr...
13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
"Falling Down" was originally recorded as "Sunlight on Your Skin" during a London studio session between Atlanta singer-songwriter iLoveMakonnen and New York emo hip-hop artist Lil Peep as part of a collaboration project. Lil Peep died in November...
13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This was featured in the 1961 Elvis movie Blue Hawaii. It was written by the songwriter George Weiss, who claimed that neither the movie producers nor Elvis' associates liked the song demo, but Elvis insisted on recording this song for the movie....
