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3 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This song has a intriguing history. It was written by Cheap Trick's guitarist Rick Nielsen and recorded for their 1977 self-titled debut album, but it didn't make the cut. The song was included on their second album, In Color, which was released l...
2 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Eddie Vedder explained in the Pearl Jam 20 documentary that this song is about first relationships. "The song is about letting go," said Vedder. "It's very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earth's gravitational pull and where it's going to...
27 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song addresses the topic of patriotism. Front-man and chief songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong: "It brings up 21st Century Breakdown in a lot of ways, and the 21 gun-salute for someone that's fallen, but done in an arena rock 'n' roll sort of wa...
25 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
At this point in his career, Richard Ashcroft had learned that money and happiness were not synonymous. "People have been sold a lottery dream in life that money solves everyone's problems," he said in a interview. "Suddenly you're looking at peop...
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This is a reworking of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "Pastime Paradise." It wasn't Coolio's idea to use Wonder's song; a singer named Larry Sanders - who goes by the stage name L.V. (Large Variety) - started working on it and sent a demo to Collio, wh...
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Killers guitarist Dave Keuning wrote this about lead singer Brandon Flowers' ex-girlfriend who cheated on him. Flowers recalled how he discovered her with another man at the Crown and Anchor pub in his hometown of Las Vegas: "I was asleep and I kn...
25 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The song was originally titled, "Interlude." The song is written in the key of B major. Carlton wrote the song's piano riff in the summer of 1998 at her parents' house in Philadelphia; her mother, who had been listening to her, said, "Vanessa, th...
23 Apr 2020 5 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Ella Yelich-O'Connor is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. Inspired by her love for such royals as Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, and the last Tsar, Nicholas II of Russia, she adopted the moniker of Lorde (The 'e' is pronounced silently). Ye...
21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
In England, a tubthumper is a politician. The US equivalent of tubthumping is "going on the stump" (campaigning). "To piss" has a different meaning in the UK than in the US - "Pissing the night away" would translate to "Drinking (alcoholic beverag...
21 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
It is the fourth track on the band's second studio album, Live Through This, released on April 12, 1994. Although not released as a single, "Asking for It" is one of the band's most notable songs as it charted a brief, four-week appearance on Bill...
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