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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...
20 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
In the video, the girl (Katelyn Rosaasen) is physically abused by her father. At the beginning, we can see all her bruises. Many of the lyrics demonstrate how hard it is to break the cycle of abuse ("These wounds, they will not heal" and "It's hau...
20 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is 23 minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the album. The song evolved out of Pink Floyd's live shows. According to Shiloh Noone's Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear, Pink Floyd introduced a new piece of music at th...
20 Apr 2020 10 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The most famous rock song of all time, "Stairway To Heaven" wasn't a chart hit because it was never released as a single to the general public. Radio stations received promotional singles which quickly became collector's items. On Tuesday November...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Imagine Dragons linked up with Alex Da Kid for this track, one of four Night Vision cuts that he contributed towards. The English Hip-Hop producer is best known for co-writing Eminem's hit single "Love The Way You Lie" and Dr Dre's successful tune...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about recalling times with a girlfriend and a romantic breakup. It's one of the most popular Steely Dan songs, but also one of their least favorite. In Rolling Stone, September 17, 2009, Donald Fagan said, "It's dumb but effective." W...
18 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Ben Moody (a co-founder of Evanescence along with Amy Lee, but Ben left the band in October 2003) wrote the lyrics and the piano part for this song. It was one of Evanescence's first tracks; they recorded it for their first EP in 1998, but decided...
17 Apr 2020 4 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
Written by Don Felder, Glenn Frey and Don Henley, this song is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wil...
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...
