Hollywood Burn!” chimed uncomfortably in the wake of the Californian forest fires that spread the same week the track was released. To an insistent piano vamp she shoots out warnings to each side of the gender divide, rhyming with dextrous speed and singing like a dream. Suckers worldwide clutched it to their hearts and sent it up the mainstream charts in 1997, but it had actually been knocking around for years, an earlier version surfacing as a B-side to the conflated ‘Brain Stew/Jaded’ in 1996. Then, at the same time the Knack started, I met a little girl named Sharona, whom I fell in love with. To this day, it shines as an undimmed soul-trodden elegy, buoyed by some of James Dean Bradfield’s finest fretwork, and topped off with Richey Edwards’ typically brilliant poetic flourishes. 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For a song that David Bowie said “started out as a parody of a nightclub song, a kind of throwaway,” Changes has become one of the rocker’s best known songs. If you’re in a band, you sing and play at the same time.”, 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdTWOf2Kjvo. James Dean Bradfield proffered one of his finest vocal performances too. ‘Sabotage’ paired organic hip-hop beats with an alternative underbelly and the result was brilliant. Lambert suggested that Daltrey stammer like someone high on drugs. Your source for music news, rock & roll, and celebrities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFK6H_CcuX8. For her version, Sinead O’Connor thought about her stormy relationship with her late mother, adding a resonance to the “All the flowers that you planted, mama/ In the backyard/ All died when you went away” line that leads her to cry in the video. All the classic BBs elements were in place – shouting the last syllable of each line, clowning around in boiler suits in the video – and they added up to their only UK Top 5 hit. Stutter Lyrics: I know I never make this easy / It's easier to disappear / You said give me something that I can go on / Together, yeah, anywhere but here / Sing it back / Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh- Bob Seger mixed classic rock with a geography lesson in Katmandu, first released on his 1975 LP Beautiful Loser. A gorgeous, regret-tinged ode that shines the spotlight upon Buckley’s dazzling, once-in-a-generation talent but also gives a tantalising glimpse of what he might have gone on to achieve. “I was already playing the riff, and I was playing with the J. Geils Band and the Rolling Stones,” Thorogood explained in the Quad-City Times. LP when Dean Torrence of surf rock’s Jan & Dean joined the session and shared lead vocals with Wilson. ... Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Linked InShare by Email. But rather than chasing the grunge money train, ‘Sugar Kane’ saw Kim and Thurston stick to their strengths, casually tossing out a knockabout pop melody charged with raucous riffs and scuzzy guitars. “You’ve blackened our name… You should be ashamed!” Whether those were the actual words Gaz Coombes’ mum used when she picked up her 15-year-old son from the nick doesn’t matter. You’d just want to disappear.”, Working with the Special Olympics in 1991, Seger finally got to visit the city he called “K-K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu.” Seger told the Detroit Free Press that he met the King of Nepal, who asked, “What made you write that song, anyway?”, “When I was five, my dad would show me National Geographic. “There was a group called the Sorenson Brothers from California and they did Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow. The grazing electric guitars provide a pillow-soft melody as Rhys coos, “And when the animals gather around you/ Do you ask them for the time, or do you run away and whine?” Off-kilter but pitch-perfect. And who can say they haven’t done that? Singer James Hetfield was so aghast at the prospect of ‘Enter Sandman’ being too catchy that he set about penning some of the most disturbing lyrics he could muster, with lines such as “It’s just the beast underneath your bed” thought to be references to cot death. Oxford shoegazers Ride were more about the songs than their forebears My Bloody Valentine, and no less than on this single from debut album ‘Nowhere’. As if they could…. But it was all worth it, wasn’t it? The kids that missed punk had their own rallying call. “I had this Packard hearse parked outside my house. I always was fascinated by exotic places, and I wrote the song from the perspective of someone who yearned for a place as far from America as anybody could get, someplace exotic and distant.”. His other hits include "Fame" and "All The Man That I Need.". The duo of Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter managed to create a dance track that was almost krautrock in its determination not to deviate from the framework of repeated bass line and vocodered hook. It’s based, clearly, on a sample from Ann Peebles’ ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’, but the portly bassline is all Timbaland and the sexy drawl is all down to Missy, an instant star who went straight into the UK top 20. In many ways ‘The Changingman’ could neatly serve as Weller’s mantra for the era: a recognition of the need for constant evolution and boundary-pushing, backed by a riff-heavy stomp and white-hot licks. ‘Live Forever’’s positive mantra resonated totally with the public and Liam Gallagher’s delivery made it seem as if – in escaping the everyday – the impossible was possible again. Nah, the original version of ‘November Rain’ was (reportedly) only a piffling 18 minutes long; the video cost a mere $1.5 million to make. It’s not quite as friendly as Macca and Jacko’s 1982 cheesefest ‘The Girl Is Mine’, instead featuring two R&B heavyweights piling on the passive aggression – “I’m sorry that you seem to be confused”, amazing. Let us know in our comments section below. “You learn all of these things in school and then you are thrown out into the world and you’re expected to have all of the answers,” Hodgson told Classic Rock Revisited. In its original album form, ‘Ladies And Gentlemen…’ is a shimmering, devotional intro to a record that plucks heartstrings even while whacked out on every chemical under the sun. But it’s that ridiculous bluster that makes ‘November Rain’ such a killer tune, from the highfalutin’ deployment of the orchestra to Slash’s never-ending solo. But in a brief and undistinguished career they put out one stone cold smash: ‘Jump Around’ was irresistible, the ultimate easy floorfiller, and floor-destroyer. Prince penned this track five years earlier for The Family, allegedly inspired by the death of his personal assistant’s father. With a dream team of collaborators (Bootsy Collins, Q-Tip, and a Herbie Hancock sample from which the main riff was built), Deee-Lite’s only real hit was a pretty faultless collage of G-Funk, Daisy Age hip-hop, salsa and dippy disco. Don’t let that innocently jangling melody fool you, folks. Having spent half a decade thumbing their noses at the US invasion, and inventing Britpop in the face of the grunge wave, Blur confounded everyone by turning up in 1997 with an album so American it couldn’t pronounce Edinburgh. Dean wrote the screenplay and lyrics to all the songs in Footloose. Originally recorded with new collaborator Shep Pettibone for the B-side of ‘Like A Prayer’ single ‘Keep It Together’, ‘Vogue”s melding of old Hollywood lyrical references, house pianos and heavy referencing of The Salsoul Orchestra’s ‘Ooh, I Love It (Love Break)’ was too good to go to waste as a mere flipside. ‘Sexy Boy’ was a perfect unification of all these pieces, and, in the repeated hook of the lyrics of the chorus, seemed to also serve as a knowing comment on the vapidity of the fashion industry. Fresh out of kindergarten, Northern Irish trio Ash made the big breakthrough with this paean to a lost Martian love. It revolves around some very Peter Hook bass and looped “ooh”s from Billy Corgan, drifting through hazy nostalgia and, in its stripped back sense of restraint, pointed the way to a future Pumpkins. TLC’s sinuous number flipped the bird at those divvies “hanging out… his best friend’s drive” and sailed by on a bed of looped guitar and creeping synths – but did the scrubs get the message? Lauryn Hill was rarely more soulful and her cohorts keep it simple, trading braggadocio with a deft flow. However, late 90s DJ de jour Norman Cook got hold of it and gave it a fresh lick of paint in the form of speeding the track up and placing some crashing beats behind it, transforming it into a surprise chart smash. “They started scratching around for another track and, because I was there, somebody suggested they should do Barbara Ann and I should sing lead. Highlights are Bowie’s hypnotic saxophone solo and his stuttered “Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes.” Lyrics like “These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds” endeared the song to young fans.