Daily Song Facts

Daily Song Facts

Facts and trivia about songs


You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack [album] by Viper - Daily Song Facts

8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Yes this album is real. The album was recorded and produced between late 2007 to early 2008. Viper made all the beats himself using only a Yamaha Motif keyboard and a Roland beat machine. According to Viper himself, the album's upfront lyricism a...

Perfect Day by Lou Reed - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Reed claimed this song has nothing to do with drugs. Speaking with NME in 1973, he said: "That's a lovely song. A description of a very straightforward affair." At the end of the song, Reed repeats the line, "You're gonna reap just what you sow."...

Everlong by Foo Fighters - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

According to an interview with Dave Grohl in Mojo magazine, he penned this song during one of the lowest points in his life over Christmas 1996. The frontman was sleeping in a sleeping bag on a friend's floor having just gotten divorced from photo...

Take On Me by a-ha - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

This song became a hit in the US because of its innovative video where a cartoon figure beckons the reader to join him in comic. It was created by Michael Patterson and his wife Candace Reckinger, who would later work on videos for "Opposites Attr...

We Can Work it Out by The Beatles - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

  Paul McCartney wrote this about his girlfriend, an actress named Jane Asher. They split for good in 1968. The Beatles recorded this specifically for release as a single at two quick sessions while they were making the Rubber Soul album in Octobe...

Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

This is commonly used at weddings as part of bridal processions. Some purists believe it is inferior to "Here Comes The Bride," which is the traditional choice, but the song has grown more popular and accepted over the years. The song begins with...

Why Can't This Be Love by Van Halen - Daily Song Facts

6 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

Eddie Van Halen wrote this song on an Oberheim OB-8 keyboard. It was one of his first songs where Sammy Hagar said, "You don't mind if I follow your keyboard melody do you?" And Eddie said, "No, not at all," though he really didn't like the vocals...

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert - Daily Song Facts

5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

The original words of Ave Maria (Hail Mary) were in English, being part of a poem called The Lady of the Lake, written in 1810 by Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832). The poem drew on the romance of the legend regarding the 5th century British leader Kin...

Today, April 5th, is the anniversary of the deaths of both Layne Staley and Kurt Cobain

5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Layne Staley is remembered most as the former lead singer of the band Alice in Chains.  Layne died on April 5th, 2002 at the age of 34 from a "speedball" overdose exasperated by the self-neglect of his health, very likely stemming from depression and...

Marigold by Nirvana - Daily Song Facts

4 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

(Note, this version is an "alt mix") In Dave Grohl's initial months in Seattle, Kurt Cobain overheard him working on a song called "Color Pictures Of A Marigold," and the two ended up jamming on it. During the sessions for In Utero, the band decid...