Daily Song Facts

Daily Song Facts

Facts and trivia about songs


You Know You're Right by Nirvana - Daily Song Facts

12 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

"You Know You're Right" was recorded January 30, 1994 at Robert Lang studios in Seattle just before Nirvana embarked on a European tour, which turned out to be their last. It was the last song the band recorded, as Kurt Cobain passed away on April...

Simple Man by Lynyrd Skynyrd - Daily Song Facts

11 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Shortly after vocalist Ronnie Van Zant's grandmother and lead guitarist Gary Rossington's mother died, they got together in Van Zant's apartment and started telling stories about them. Rossington came up with a chord progression, and Van Zant wrot...

Gangnam Style by PSY - Daily Song Facts

11 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Park Jae-sang is a South Korean singer/rapper, who is better known by his stage name, PSY, which stems from the first three letters of the word psycho. PSY is popular in his home country for the satirical slant of his songs and humorous videos and...

Comedown by Bush - Daily Song Facts

11 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

Rossdale had written songs with other people, but this was the first one he wrote on his own. It gave him a lot of confidence and inspired him to keep writing. Lead singer Gavin Rossdale wrote this about his ex-girlfriend, Suze DiMarchi. She was l...

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman - Daily Song Facts

10 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Tracy Chapman said to Q magazine: "It's not really about a car at all... basically it's about a relationship that doesn't work out because it's starting from the wrong place." This won the Grammy Award in 1989 for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance...

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Slick wrote this song and performed it when she was in a band called The Great Society with her first husband, Jerry Slick. The Great Society made inroads in the San Francisco music scene, but released just one single, "Somebody To Love" (written...

Somebody To Love by Queen - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

This song is sung in a gospel style, with the voices of Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor multitracked to sound like a choir. According to Brian May, the gospel sound was inspired by the music of Aretha Franklin. This is widely reputed t...

Blurry by Puddle of Mudd - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Lead singer Wes Scantlin wrote this about his desire to be a good dad and hang with his kid. This angered Scantlin's son's mother when she first heard it. She and Wes are separated. Scantlin claims that this song helped bring some issues into the...

Only In Dreams by Weezer - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

When asked in 2006 which Weezer guitar solo he is the most proud of/likes the most, lead singer Rivers Cuomo answered, "I'd have to go with 'Only in Dreams' and [Make Believe track] 'Haunt You Every Day' for sheer length. Epic, epic, epic. So few...

Space Oddity by David Bowie - Daily Song Facts

8 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Yes this is the "demo" version used in the original music video. I simply prefer this one more. In a 2003 interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Bowie explained: "In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landi...