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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
Santeria means "Way of The Saints" in Spanish, and is a religion where the focus is on worship of saints. It is practiced in Cuba, Brazil, Panama, and a few other countries. There are some followers of Santeria in California, where the band is fro...
19 Apr 2020 3 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
"Hey Joe" was written by a singer named Billy Roberts, who was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early '60s. The song is structured as a conversation between two men, with "Joe" explaining to the other that he caught his woman cheati...
19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind
The Proclaimers are the Scottish twins Craig and Charlie Reid. This is their only hit in America, but four of their other songs made the UK Top 40, including their first hit, "Letter From America," which went to #3 in 1987. This song is about bein...
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...
18 Apr 2020 2 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind
This was the first single taken from English alternative rock band Muse's fifth studio album The Resistance. Singer/guitarist Matt Bellamy described this to Mojo magazine August 2009, in a pre-release interview, as "like a heavy-rock take on Goldf...
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...
