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From their "Spring Session M" album, and the only track to have been sampled from the band.
Yeah, yeah, still carrying on from themes earlier in the week...
The drums in this track have been sampled more times than I can list. A few notable:
Ol' Dirty Bastart - 'Hippa to the Hoppa'
The Pharcyde - 'Passin' Me By'
Das EFX - 'Mic Checka'
The Prodigy - 'Poison'
Full list : whosampled.com
Bringing it back to the old school for this (not-so-"future") futurebeats track.
The year was 1996. I had spent my middle and high school years (graduated in '94) listening to pretty much just various shades of punk and post-punk. The immediate post-grunge years, though, saw the term "alternative" loss any meaning it once had, and with it being saturated on the radio stations, I was beginning to get bored. As I was also beginning to discover "designer drugs" at the time, as well as having a fairly unhealthy obsession with Michael Alig and his club kids, who I had seen years before on both Geraldo and Donahue, becoming a club kid/raver myself became the next logical progression.
This song was EVERYWHERE for a while, notably on the album Platinum on Black, volume 3, me and my friends' "go-to" cd to play on the way from the rave to the after-party (or the after-after party.)
This song is about two people who cheated on one another while the other was away for a considerable period of time. The male singer is heard in the first part of the song asking for forgiveness, as he blames his indiscretion on human frailty. The female then responds that she is willing to forgive, but expects the same from him, as she also cheated. (Sources: Songfacts and background on song's wiki page)
Found this song on this album:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/best-of-blues-vol-3-madacy-mw0001032233
which I found while browsing at a place that sells used CDs. I like blues music so I thought that I would buy it and give it a listen.
I searched discogs for the word "weoh" but only the Boys song submitted by u/sbroue was a match: link. So I waited a half hour and decided to hit the restart button. And I chose <BITCH> as the word to match because that was kind of a bitchy thing sbroue did, dragging the game to a complete halt just a few hours into it.
I kid, it's totally cool with me... :D
The Stunt That Got Elvis Costello Banned From Saturday Night Live
>“I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “but there’s no reason to do this song here.” At that point he and the band launched into “Radio Radio,” a song that takes a jab at corporate-controlled broadcasting. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was furious. According to some reports, he raised his middle finger at Costello and kept it up until the unapproved song was over. Costello was banned from the show for nearly 12 years.
lol
The dub versions of this song that I've heard are outstanding. I used to have the 12" vinyl of Walking In The Rain, and it had an amazing, dubtastic remix of this song on the B-side: youtube / discogs. I was at this bar in Chicago one night years ago, this mix of the song came on and I watched this cute guy bopping along to the beat, I usually think of him when I hear it ;)
Yeah, the intro music is so iconic and amazing, but also so eerie and haunting.
Also, I can never hear this now without thinking about this sad backstory about back-up singer Merry Clayton losing her baby...
Interesting tidbit about this song: this song was written after they read a book on Native American Poetry. What stuck with them was the line "all we are is dust in the wind" - basically how they return to the earth after death. The circle of life, perhaps.
A lot of these have been posted already, but here's a quick list. Are instrumentals and avant-garde tracks allowed? Related theme: No Intro
from songfacts.com:
"This was Zeppelin drummer John Bonham's showcase song on early tours. His solo would last up to 20 minutes, while the rest of the band would leave the stage and grab a smoke. Bonham sometimes drew blood performing this from beating his hands on his snare and tom toms."
"This is an instrumental song. According to Bonham's wife Pat, the song is named Moby Dick because his son asked him to play 'The long song.' When John asked why, the boy answered, 'It's big like Moby.'"
It's a catchy R&B song from 1994. Very groovy and repetitive to instill the lyrics, "Every little thing I do, you're on my mind". It uses a bongo drum sample featured in "Outstanding" by The Gap Band.
Here's a whosampled.com link to the song (I find this site useful for popular songs with samples)
Hope you enjoy (and I hope I did this posting thing correctly).
One of my favorite samples of all time! Sampled by Jedi Mind Tricks, on the song "The Deer Hunter". Here you can listen to both: http://www.whosampled.com/sample/16144/Jedi-Mind-Tricks-Chief-Kamachi-The-Deer-Hunter-Mathilde-Santing-Too-Much/
Around the :30 second mark of Dre's Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat.
That song has a bunch of great samples goin' on in it.
I do pick up stuff from various sources, but I find that some of the most helpful stuff for newcomers is on the site Rateyourmusic, which has a decent community of library music fans. There are some good lists there- some are uncommented lists of thousands of items, which I don't find useful for exploration, but I think these two lists in particular are really good ones. The first is a one-CD compilation of some of the most striking library music tracks:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/TheScientist/rym_ultimate_box_set__library_music/
This is a longer list, but has some nice short descriptions of the music, and is a great starting point for further exploration:
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Moahaha/smokin_hot_library_music_/
...I probably should've posted these links to the main topic yesterday, now that I think about it. :)
I got this via Metafilter, it was the most obvious answer song I saw and of course refers to Elvis' Are You Lonesome Tonight which came out the same year.
The song provided the name for the 3D computer graphics software Blender, which is in turn has a mascot in Suzanne the monkey head.
This song is described by AllMusic as "One of the most hilarious, truly trippy songs ever recorded by anyone... consisting of [Daniel] Ash's nonsense main lyric, weirdly soothing backing vocals, and an utterly strange percussion loop that sounds like people clicking their tongues more than anything else."
I can't say I've ever heard this song before despite my love of all things Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail.
"Dylan starts right off by accusing the unspecified second-person target of the song as having a lot of nerve to say they're his friend, then reeling off verse after verse lambasting him or her for being a two-faced backstabber" - Allmusic.
Dylan vitriol at its best. Here's a live version from Australia in 1966.
Onstage, DCFMA is a ballad sung by Evita towards the beginning of Act 2, in the famous open-your-arms-dramatically-whilst-standing-on-a-balcony scene. And Madonna does the slower version of the song superbly both in the film and on the soundtrack, standing on that same balcony where Eva had stood in Buenos Aires to film it. She also took voice lessons for the first time in her career before recording the music.
But these Spanish-style remixes are super fun, as far as I'm concerned. There are six remixes that were included on the CD maxi and other releases and they all sound pretty much the same, but a few of them she actually sings in Spanish. No llores por mi Argentina, mi alma está contigo...
Because this is one the best things ever.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-stunt-that-got-elvis-costello-banned-from-saturday-night-live.html >One of the defining moments in Elvis Costello's career happened on December 17, 1977, when he appeared on Saturday Night Live. Costello was 23 years old. His debut album, My Aim Is True, had just come out in America a month earlier. When the Sex Pistols were unable to appear on the show as planned (see their last live concert here), Costello and his recently formed band, the Attractions, got their big break.
>They were supposed to play his single "Less Than Zero," a catchy tune about a loathsome politician in England. But only a few bars into the song, Costello put a stop to it. "I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen," he said, "but there's no reason to do this song here." At that point he and the band launched into "Radio Radio," a song that takes a jab at corporate-controlled broadcasting. Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels was furious. According to some reports, he raised his middle finger at Costello and kept it up until the unapproved song was over. Costello was banned from the show for nearly 12 years.
WhoSampled just clued me into Leon Ware's death last week which sucks, that dude was badass.
Song was sampled by Gang Starr.
Once upon a time in the mid to late 1990s, I was a raver who liked to dance the night away to the sounds of jungle (especially ragga jungle.) I don't have many of my CDs left from that time period, but this song is on one of the few I still have, Toasted: Massive Ragga Jungle.
Every once in awhile I still play it. My wife just kind of shakes her head and walks away when I do.
When I think of "shambolic," "lo-fi," and "off-kilter," this is what comes to mind. This is from their debut album The Fugs First Album.
Quoted from the artist biography written by Richie Unterberger on allmusic:
> Surrounded by an assortment of motley refugees from the New York folk and jug band scene (including Steve Weber and Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders), some of whom could barely play their instruments, the group nonetheless was determined to play rock & roll their way -- which meant rife with political and social satire, as well as explicit profanity and sexual references, that were downright unheard of in 1965 ... Starting on the legendary avant-garde ESP label, the Fugs' debut was full of equal amounts of chaos and charm...
They "started learning the art of recording" by the time they recorded their second album because they wanted "to get beyond tribal primitive in our recording techniques." (Source: History of the Fugs)
> The album [Live!!!! Almost!!!] contains an equal mixture of traditional songs and ones penned by the band, plus a few cover versions - including "Walkin' Down the Line" by a then up-and-coming young artist: "I don't know how many of you know who Bobby Dylan is, but he's probably done more for folk music or had more influence than anybody. He has a voice that's very much like a dog with its leg caught in barbed wire, but that doesn't matter..." (link)
So, this is one of the earliest adaptations of a Dylan tune that I know of.
However, and this is a real trove of nuggets, you can listen to a somewhat similar arrangement of the song, with a rockabilly rhythm, done by Dylan with Grateful Dead as his backing band during the practice sessions for their '87 tour together (track 27 here).
I love those sessions - lots of raw, half-sung songs yes, but also some fantastic gems treated with respect and a sense of exploration.
WhoSampled says that classic break was sampled in 596 different songs, my goodness.
I'm pushing my 4(ish), but sacrifices must be made.
And this is a discovery for me -- one of the reasons I love this sub. I'd missed the news that Eric Burdon released an album last year.
This would have been suitable for last Thursday's theme.
To be honest, I rarely investigate the lyrics of songs I listen. Even though Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of my favourite bands, I don't know what Anthony is jabbering on about half the time. In this case, I think he's matched lyrics to simply fit the rhythm, but that doesn't stop people trying to interpret them. The music video to this song compounds that confusion, but I love it all the same. Maybe the wiki article will help?
From Milo Goes to College, this song is about the death of a girl that drummer Bill Stevenson said, "was not stable, but I had really not known." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Goes_to_College#Writing)
McCartney helped the beat legend Ginsberg put this one to music in 1996. Read more about the project here.
Great cover of a classic Johnny Cash song. The band kept this tune in rotation for the duration of their career since it was introduced into their repertoire in late 1971.
Obviously the lead is killer, and guitarist Jerry Garcia could simply light fireworks worthy of Chinese New Year's on some versions, but check out the phenomenal interplay between piano and rhythm guitar.
This is a particularly rippin' version from an early "stadium"-style show where the band co-headlined with The Allman Brothers Band.
This song is about a man looking for redemption from his past mistakes. He knows he has hurt people and made some poor choices, and now he wants to be forgiven
The singer explained on her blog: "It's a very personal story that I'm not willing to go into but I can explain that this song is about loyalty, betrayal, friendship, death, loss. It is about not being able to cope. It is about extreme pain and not wanting to feel. It's about how someone conducts themselves as a whole person, it's about being used. It's about being let down and treated very badly by another person. It's about men and women. It's mostly about the breakdown of trust.
>Drive-By Truckers close their English Oceans album with this emotional elegy for Craig Lieske, a longtime member of the band's touring family. (He was credited as "assistant" on Go-Go Boots). Lieske died suddenly of a heart attack in January 2013 following the first night of the band's three-night homecoming stand in Athens. "I probably wrote it in 15 minutes," Patterson Hood said. "It wasn't any kind of a conscious thing. It's the most important song of mine on the record. I wrote new songs to go with it. It recalibrated something. It became a totally different record for me than the record I thought we were going to make."
>This song was dedicated to Joe Cole, a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was shot and killed in a robbery on December 19, 1991, as he and his roommate, Henry Rollins, returned home from a video rental store. In the press bio for Dirty, singer and guitarist Thurston Moore called it an "LA story. One of limitless violence; the hopeless and the hopeful."
It's a nice song. I like it. Right now it's like a farewell song to winter as we slowly make our way into spring...down these ways at least.
>Lead singer and songwriter Robin Pecknold (from Daytrotter): "It's lyrically fairly meaningless. As an introduction to the record, (this was intended to be the opening track on the album), we thought it would be nice to start it with a simple jam that's focussed on singing - on the record it starts with a tongue-in-cheek harmony thing that we hoped would make people laugh or something but I think it just confuses them. This is my favorite song to play live, though singing it live is sometimes difficult because the lyrics are so vague. Weird how that works!"
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12239
More song info.
>...written by Toni Wine, Irwin Levine and Phil Spector...
Toni Wine: "It was about a black woman. The male is singing to her, she is his sweetheart. She is his world, and she is his black pearl. They're dreaming of better times, better days, and he is saying, "Black pearl, pretty little girl, let me put you up where you belong. Black pearl, precious little girl, you've been in the background much too long." Which, at that time, with segregation, you had black students, white students, but older people, a lot of the black women, were depicted as being housekeepers, cooks, rather than having positions in companies, whether they were capable or not. It was a very difficult time period. They really weren't given the chances that their counterparts, the white women, may have been given. And it was time to have a song putting them on a pedestal. Because it shouldn't be "they" or "us" or anything. We are all capable of doing the same job, and should be given that chance. If we do a job well, we should be given the opportunity to do it, regardless of black or white. And in those days it wasn't as easy."
>I don't care 'cus I'm not there
And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow
Again and again, I've taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
>I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun
This is sampled in over 90 other songs as well. I made a playlist of the majority of them one time https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyAbGOp_-WGVB8gC3Kk-qxWwh5S7U0ZnX
AKA Bruce Haack & Esther Nelson
Remember first hearing this off a ridiculously good Ruckus Roboticus mix made to take ya back to your childhood call 'The Music Machine Mix'.
Argggh, this stop on the movie crawl happened when I was sleeping; otherwise I would have submitted something by the incredibly talented Patrick Cowley. He made some brilliant music of the disco/dance genre as well as experimental electronica-based songs during his relatively short life, and some of these songs wound up as background music in some gay porn films of the early 1980s. Deep Inside You originally featured in a porno film called School Daze, from 1980; it was included on a compilation album of Patrick's music called Muscle Up last year. discogs
Nah, afraid I can't take credit for this piece of work. Google images said it came from a game of Drawception. Better than the dead tigers on higways pics that kept coming up. :(
"I can't hold my breath anymore, I stopped swimming and learned to surf"
Hmm, synchronicity time.
This soon became one of my favourite Superchunk songs when this album came out in 2010 (I've been listening to them for 20 years).
So I've had some struggles with anxiety lately, and I've been reading about and practicing/learning meditation and mindfulness.
I've been reading a book by a guy called Jon Kabat-Zinn called "Wherever You Go, There You Are."
And in it he says "You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
And it really struck a chord with me.
And now I read the lyrics to this tune and I wonder if that's what Mac is singing about.
I think so.
And this morning I saw Mr T on TV and he said this same quote.
Mr T.
Thanks for posting! Per the sidebar rules - >When submitting your song, please include some information in the comments. For example: A bit of history about the song; What the song means to you personally (e.g. where you first heard it, something that happened to you while you were listening to it, what it reminds you of); The lyrics; How it's relevant to today's theme (if that's not readily apparent); Or anything else that might get people interested!
Also, nice choice! I love this song.
From wikipedia: Brown indicated that a main influence for "F.E.A.R." was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which preached the study of etymology, so that one could have "control over people through the use of language." Brown proceeded to create hundreds of acronyms from the word "fear".
THE BOOK is "Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story" - Amazon.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/greatest-hits-of-the-60s-2003-platinum-mw0001276858
So funny story about this CD and song, I brought this CD thinking that this song I posted was December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night), but I was wrong.
I've posted Patrick and some of his brilliant music a few times here before, but never this song. He obviously made the music prior to his death in 1982, but as far as I can tell this song was never released until it was remixed and tacked onto a 12" vinyl re-release of Megatron Man from 1987: discogs.
"There Are 10 Types of People In This World Those Who Understand Binary and Those Who Don't:"
Exactly the sort of thing that would have been on a Hitchcock-presented Valentine's Day album. And "The Mystery of the Four Quarters" was one of <em>Alfred Hitchcock's Solve-Them-Yourself Mysteries</em>, a book I read as a kid long before I'd seen any of Hitch's movies. That one in particular drove me nuts trying to figure out what "four quarters" was referring to - I was never able to figure it out, but couldn't bring myself to turn to the solution like I did for the others!
As heard on WKIT 100.3FM in Bangor, Maine, founded by Stephen King in large part just so that he'd have a radio station to listen to while writing (and you needed to be a bestselling author to have the money to do that).
http://www.whosampled.com/six-degrees/search/?artist1=Bob+Dylan&artist2=And+One So All Along the Watchtower was covered by XTC, who were produced by John Leckie, who produced a New Order song, who were covered by And One live.
I'm just gonna say it: I don't like Drake, and think his music (what little I've heard) is shit.
I found this one in five degrees of seperation
This song is listenable, at least.
Did anyone find a six degree gap?
According to RateYourMusic 'Since I Left You' is the best Australian album https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?page=1&chart_type=top&type=album&year=alltime&genre_include=1&include_child_genres=1&genres=&include_child_genres_chk=1&include=both&origin_countries=Australia%2C+New+Zealan...
From the album E2-E4 (1984) by Manuel Göttsching (member of kratutrock group Ash Ra Tempel).
All tracks on E2-E4 last for full minutes https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/manuel_gottsching/e2_e4/
>Sidney Joe Qualls (who is listed as Sidney Joe Qualis on some releases) was a southern-born soul singer who was heavily influenced by Al Green. Signed to Dakar Records in the early '70s after meeting Otis Leavill, he made an impressive showing with singles such as "Run to Me," though by the end of the 1970s, on the Chi-Sound label, he'd begun moving toward a disco sound, which he sustained across several singles and an LP. I Don't Do This, a 2002 compilation on the Expansion label, reissued his 1974 Dakar LP I Enjoy Loving You and added bonus tracks.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/sidney-joe-qualls-mn0001750827/biography
From the excellent 2-CD compilation, Cumbia Beat Vol. 1 Experimental Guitar Driven Tropical Sounds From Peru.
This was the entire B side of their album, which was also called Cruisin' The Streets. The lyrics are kind of explicit at times, but nothing more shocking really than your average rap or hard rock song. Except it's gay, haha. discogs
*edit- ok after listening to it again it may be pretty racy after all. Buyer beware.
Featuring drummer Moses Boyd, they are collective put together by legendary DJ Gilles Peterson to remake a long sought after record by Jose Prates.
Lost Your Number is the first song on the Nu Shooz album Poolside, and the album mix of this song is second. But I posted the Dutch remix here because it's track 1 on side A of a compilation cassette I still have, called Dance Traxx Vol. 2. I loved the remixes on that tape, I listened to it a lot.
> Recorded on May 10, 1928 in Camden, New Jersey. The Carter Family, with A. P., wife Sara and Sara's cousin Maybelle, are one of the most influential performing acts in American music. This tune sold around one million copies between 1928 and 1929. (link)
It's astounding how fresh and gorgeous this recording it, nearly a century later.
> Back home, kids play in the leaves in the park
> She wants to play a game of hearts
This song was written for Adams' third solo release, but this recording with The Cardinals from Das Haus in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 2006 perfectly exhibits how everything that band touched could turn to gold.
>With their fusion of Reggae, Rock, Dub and Roots, Sons of Zion are a talented 6 piece reggae band which comprises of 6 young Rangitahi from various locations in Aotearoa (New Zealand). http://www.reverbnation.com/sonsofzion
Edit:Yes
This is the last track on Ry Cooder & co.'s phenomenal soundtrack to Walter Hill's <em>The Long Riders</em>.
Among the players on this album are the usual Cooder cohorts Jim Dickinson and David Lindley, playing a huge array of traditional and unusual instruments.
If you have seen this movie, you know how great the music is.
If you know Cooder, you know how great the music is.
I've submitted this exact same piece of media in the past, but I do honestly believe Damien Jurado is such a fantastic artist who deserves much more exposure (not to mention, half of the album is about "Silver" characters).
Airwave is really Laurent Christian Georges Véronnez, a Belgian electronic musician. He is the one who spelled the word "aggressive" with only one G, so I was just following his lead. I have a compilation CD with this song on it, it's really quite good if you're into this kind of trance music. discogs
The villain of Midnight Rescue! was none other than The Master of Mischief, Morty Maxwell!
"The title for this song comes from a specific incident in March 1978, where several friends of drummer Topper Headon turned up at The Clash's rehearsal space to sell him an air rifle. They, along with roadie Robin Crocker and bassist Paul Simonon, went up to the roof and began shooting at nearby pigeons, not realizing that they weren't ordinary pigeons - they were in fact very expensive racing pigeons. A British Rail worker then spotted the shooters and reported them to CID, believing that they were anarchists taking pot shots at passing trains on the mainline into Euston station. Road manager Johnny Green described the situation as "really quite serious. These guys who broke into rehearsals with guns really meant business. There was a helicopter circling overheard, policemen shouting down... it was f--king heavy."
Simonon adds: "They'd called out the whole police force. There's a helicopter above us, eight police vans and the Sweeney (Flying Squad) with guns. All we had as an air rifle."
Charges of attempted manslaughter were later dropped through lack of evidence, although they were fined £30 each and had to pay the owner of the racing pigeons £700 in compensation. The present song was given the title "Guns on the Roof" as a joke when it was being worked on in sessions, and the name stuck."
It's musically inspired by a famous person, but is not lyrically about them ...
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1529
> The first part of the title comes from Meher Baba, who was Pete Townshend's spiritual guru. The second part comes from Terry Riley, an experimental, minimalist composer Townshend admired - many of the keyboard riffs and sound effects on Who's Next were a result of Riley's influence. According to the Who's Next liner notes, Townshend wrote it as his vision of what would happen if the spirit of Meher Baba was fed into a computer and transformed into music. The result would be Baba in the style of Terry Riley, or "Baba O'Riley."
From songfacts.com: Roger Waters wrote the lyrics. While many people thought the song was about drugs, Waters claims it is not. The lyrics are about what he felt like as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes, entering a state of delirium, where he felt detached from reality. He told Mojo magazine (December 2009) that the lines, "When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons" were autobiographical. He explained: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. A lot of people think those lines are about masturbation. God knows why."
"The ghost story doesn't end with the song. Apparently, Hank made it all the way to Opryland to see Coe perform it for a televised special. When he made it to the last verse, with the lyrics "the whole world called me Hank," the lights and power went out."
From:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=34875
And the writer of the song claims that he saw the ghost of Hank Williams.
>According to Dave Rubin in Robert Johnson - King Of The Delta Blues, this song, written in 6/4 time, was the first song ever recorded by the legendary bluesman, on November 23, 1936, at San Antonio, Texas. It also contains the only guitar solo Johnson ever recorded, although it is not of any length.
Source: http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=24544
Song info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_Hearted_Woman_Blues
According to songfacts.com:
> This song is about the financial difficulties farmers in the Midwest US face; difficulties that can go as far as having their farms repossessed by banks.
This song (so I'm told) was huge when it came out, for country and pop. It help start a big fashion trend. Songfacts has the history of the song, pretty interesting. It's been covered by a lot of people, and has been in a few things (including Rhinestone, starring Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton).
>Never thought the words you said were true
Never thought you said just what you meant
Never knew how much I needed you
Never thought you'd leave, until you went
Artist info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean
>Don McLean went through some rough times, which are reflected on his American Pie album. His father died when he was just 15, and his marriage was on the rocks when he recorded the album. Faced with a bout of depression, he sympathized with Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch painter who went insane and cut off his ear. Speaking with the UK newspaper The Telegraph, he revealed that in this song about a man who loses a love, the Empty Chairs are Van Gogh's paintings of a chair.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=12780
>Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
Some interesting song info.
An older guy I had a crush on lent me the London Calling tape in high school. I copied it on my reel to reel and listened to it constantly. I still remember when he asked for it back, I just happened to have the tape in my jeans front pocket, hoping to run into him.
I've always thought this song was about organized crime, but it's possibly about an overzealous police force or both.
This song has been sampled many times, but my favorite is Beats International's Dub Be Good To Me.
Just recently found out Karl Jenkins played Baritone Sax, Oboe, Piano and E-Piano on this album.
Rather interesting line up they had at this point... https://www.discogs.com/Nucleus-Well-Talk-About-It-Later/master/175620
This song is from their album In Full Bloom. The Cover Girls did this song in the early 90s and I freaking loved it, I like the original too but this is one of the songs where I like the later version better.
A how-to guide to driving all of Route 66 By Andrea Sachs September 8, 2016
>Most GPS gadgets ignore Route 66 and kick you onto major roads. So I can’t overstate the usefulness of Jerry McClanahan’s “EZ66 Guide for Travelers.” The author meticulously plots every turn from Chicago to Los Angeles (or vice versa) and also includes sightseeing and dining suggestions, historical tidbits, dirt-road options and more. Check his website, mcjerry66.com, for updates, plus a link to order his book. Taylor’s guidebook was equally critical (available on Amazon.com and through local booksellers).
I visited Amazon and ordered their 7 inches by price, high to low. This little record was the highest priced I could find on youtube as well, coming in at a humble $1,969. But only $4 shipping!
Because this is about remembering the dead and not just about posting songs, I'm doing a fifth post, this time for Adam West who played Batman and continued working as a voice actor in various Batman cartoons, as the mayor on Family Guy, and in various other cartoons. When I was a young boy, I once brought my copy of Batman from the 30s to the 70s for Batman to sign it at a local bookstore. He signed it as Batman, but I asked him if he was Adam West, and he said he was.
Connecting Prince to Danny Elfman takes Boil the Frog eighteen songs, none of which are in the Batman soundtrack! Some of it winds through movies that are at least somewhat Batman-related, whether via superheroes (The Avengers) or Prince (Purple Rain) or at least... in the same decade (Dirty Dancing, Fletch, Rocky III). But the one that ultimately leads to an Elfman score is... a 2003 pirate movie. Which at least does not have the "a modicum of good-natured Yo-ho-ho-ing" that Amazon expected. But maybe that's the connection, since 1989 audiences might have been assuming they were in for some "nana-nana-nana-nana-ing"?
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - Purple Rain
Sheila E. - Hold Me
The Jets - You Got It All
Tommy Page - Just Before (I Was Gonna Say I Love You)
Glenn Medeiros - Nada Cambiara Mi Amor Por Ti
Patrick Swayze - She's Like the Wind
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time of My Life [from Dirty Dancing]
Michael Sembello - Maniac [from Flashdance]
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Limahl - Never Ending Story (Club Mix)
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle (Solo Acoustic)
Jan Hammer - Payback
Harold Faltermeyer - theme from Fletch
Bill Conti - Mickey [from Rocky III]
Alan Silvestri - The Avengers
Klaus Badelt - Will and Elizabeth [from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]
Danny Elfman - Simple [from Silver Linings Playbook]