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Fast Car by Tracy Chapman - Daily Song Facts

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...

White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane - Daily Song Facts

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...

Somebody To Love by Queen - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

This song is sung in a gospel style, with the voices of Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor multitracked to sound like a choir. According to Brian May, the gospel sound was inspired by the music of Aretha Franklin. This is widely reputed t...

Blurry by Puddle of Mudd - Daily Song Facts

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...

Only In Dreams by Weezer - Daily Song Facts

9 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment ChasingAfterTheWind

When asked in 2006 which Weezer guitar solo he is the most proud of/likes the most, lead singer Rivers Cuomo answered, "I'd have to go with 'Only in Dreams' and [Make Believe track] 'Haunt You Every Day' for sheer length. Epic, epic, epic. So few...

Space Oddity by David Bowie - Daily Song Facts

8 Apr 2020 3 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Yes this is the "demo" version used in the original music video. I simply prefer this one more. In a 2003 interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Bowie explained: "In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landi...

You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack [album] by Viper - Daily Song Facts

8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Yes this album is real. The album was recorded and produced between late 2007 to early 2008. Viper made all the beats himself using only a Yamaha Motif keyboard and a Roland beat machine. According to Viper himself, the album's upfront lyricism a...

Perfect Day by Lou Reed - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

Reed claimed this song has nothing to do with drugs. Speaking with NME in 1973, he said: "That's a lovely song. A description of a very straightforward affair." At the end of the song, Reed repeats the line, "You're gonna reap just what you sow."...

Everlong by Foo Fighters - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

According to an interview with Dave Grohl in Mojo magazine, he penned this song during one of the lowest points in his life over Christmas 1996. The frontman was sleeping in a sleeping bag on a friend's floor having just gotten divorced from photo...

Take On Me by a-ha - Daily Song Facts

7 Apr 2020 2 minute read 0 comments ChasingAfterTheWind

This song became a hit in the US because of its innovative video where a cartoon figure beckons the reader to join him in comic. It was created by Michael Patterson and his wife Candace Reckinger, who would later work on videos for "Opposites Attr...