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28 May 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This is about the money-grubbing record producers and managers controlling the band, which contributed to Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett's mental collapse. The world around him was like a machine: the fans, the group, the record industry. They tol...
28 May 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
The song was written by Baker Knight and first released by Ray Peterson in 1959. It was originally recorded by Vince Edwards in 1958, but this recording has never been released. Elvis Presley recorded a live version of the song in Las Vegas, Neva...
27 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
For this song, lead singer Anthony Kiedis wrote the lyrics around the music. The words are a somewhat random collection of thoughts, with some creative rhyming thrown in to fit the rhythm of the song ("Can I get 2 maybe even 3 of these, come from...
27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
According to Liza Bermingham, who was tour manager with the band, Blink-182 bass player Mark Hoppus wrote this when he was in a state of depression about being on tour and away from his family. The end of the song is a message that things will get...
27 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This is also known as "Whoo-Hooo," which is the chorus. The title is not in the lyrics, as the name "Song 2" was originally just a working title, with Blur introducing it that way during live performances. Fans soon identified the song as "Song 2"...
27 May 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
A special edition of Daily Song Facts featuring songs with a short amount of trivia. Enjoy! Fat Lip by Sum 41 This is about lead singer Deryck Whibley's parents. His parents wanted him to be just another normal person, but Deryck wanted to do what...
25 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Ben E. King recorded this shortly after leaving The Drifters in 1960. It gave him a solid reputation as a solo artist. After leaving The Drifters, King auditioned for the wildly successful songwriting/production team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoll...
23 May 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This song is about man's desire to kill and destroy. Sabbath got the idea from war stories they heard when they did a show at an American Air Force base during a tour of Europe. They wrote the song when they were in a grim deserted place in Zurich...
21 May 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
This reflects the mood of lead singer Billy Corgan, who was very depressed when he wrote it. Corgan was in therapy, suffering from writer's block, and struggling with expectations that Smashing Pumpkins would be the next Nirvana. With the lyric, "...
21 May 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
Gavin Rossdale wrote this about his relationship with his girlfriend at the time, a model named Jasmine Lewis. She is credited as a backup vocalist on the Sixteen Stone album. Rossdale dated her for about five years before their breakup, which was...
