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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 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...
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...
