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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...
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...
13 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
"Falling Down" was originally recorded as "Sunlight on Your Skin" during a London studio session between Atlanta singer-songwriter iLoveMakonnen and New York emo hip-hop artist Lil Peep as part of a collaboration project. Lil Peep died in November...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
