K's Choice - 16

So as i mentioned in the previous post their original name was "The Choice". When they learned of another group in the U.S. named The Choice, they changed their name in order to avoid legal problems; they decided upon "K's Choice" by going through the alphabet to see which letter would sound best in front of the word choice. Since they thought they needed a story behind the new name, they used to tell that the K referred to Joseph K. from Kafka's the Trial, but later the band revealed the arbitrariness of choosing the "K".

K'S Choice - Come Live The Life

In the early 1990s, Sarah and Gert played in an amateur band, The Basement Plugs. This led to the discovery of Sarah, who was offered a chance by a label; mainly because of her smoky, enigmatic voice. Under a more English name, Sarah Beth, she appeared on several movie soundtracks with covers including "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (originally by Hank Williams) for the movie Vrouwen Willen Trouwen (Women Want To Marry) and a duet with Frankie Miller, "Why Don't You Try Me", (originally by Ry Cooder) for the movie Ad Fundum.
She was offered a contract and formed a band with her brother Gert. The band was named The Choice and in 1994 they recorded their debut album The Great Subconscious Club.

K's Choice - Everything For Free

K's Choice is a Belgian rock band from Antwerp, formed in the mid-1990s. The band's core members are siblings Sarah Bettens (lead vocals, guitar) and Gert Bettens (guitar, keyboard, vocals). 

Their music can be described as guitar-based singer-songwriter rock or folk-rock. It ranges from very delicate and intimate singer-songwriter songs to songs that are stronger, more active and louder. Sarah's smoky, enigmatic voice is the band's best known characteristic.

Korn - Oildale (Leave Me Alone)

The song's title references Oildale, a suburb of Korn's hometown of Bakersfield, California. Even though the lyrics don't mention the town, they appear to be referring to frontman Jonathan Davis's troubled past.

The song's music video portrays a young boy living in Oildale: "We thought it was fitting to have the first single and video from Korn III – Remember Who You Are be 'Oildale (Leave Me Alone)', since Oildale is near where we grew up as kids," said Davis. "It's a poverty-stricken area surrounded by endless, rich oil fields. The money doesn't really help the local people and it's tough for local kids to get out of there. I feel blessed that our music busted us out."

Keane feat. K'naan - Stop For A Minute

The song is one of two tracks on Night Train EP on which K'naan makes a contribution. Chaplin (the lead singer) told The London Times: "We had two songs we couldn't finish. It turned out K'naan had been a fan for years. He came to the studio, listened to the gaps in both songs and, a few hours later, presented us with fully formed ideas. We didn't give ourselves time to navel-gaze."

The song contains the couplet : "Sometimes I feel like a little lost child/ Sometimes I feel like the chosen one". Keybordist Rice-Oxley told The Independent May 7, 2010 both lines are from the heart. "I'm reading [British comic actor who had a life-long struggle with depression] Kenneth Williams's diaries at the moment," he explained. "I'm really interested in someone like that, with all the mess and depression. I really associate with people who are honest about their fear of failure. If I feel that I've written a really great song, that's pretty much what I live for. My identity's dependent on it. But there are days I'll spiral into thinking: 'I can't write any more. I literally can't finish even a crap song.' I live in fear of the day when everyone turns round and says: 'Actually, you're right!' That really haunts me. That whatever I had is gone. I spend the whole time dreading that feeling that I'm not good enough. And it's that same fear that leads to thinking: 'If in doubt, stick to the well-trodden path and let's do another "Is It Any Wonder".' But then Tom gives me a kick up the arse."

Katie Melua - The Flood

The song was written by Melua, Robbie Williams' longtime writing partner Guy Chambers and one-third of the pop production team the Matrix, Lauren Christy.

Melua told The Sunday Times April 18, 2010, that she decamped to Los Angeles to write with Christy and this was one of the first fruits from their sessions: "Lauren listened to the demo, then played me a piano riff Guy had sent her," she recalled. "I adored the riff. Something in the way it moved reminded me of Georgian music. We used the riff and the song suddenly clicked. At that stage, it was a ballad, but with a very strange structure. That idea of breaking down traditional structures, of taking the songs through lots of twists and turns and tempo changes, became the key for the album."
Melua returned to London and met up with Chambers, who not only agreed to his riff being used, but ended up contributing to a further five tracks for the album.

The music video was directed by Kevin Godley, who has also directed videos for Eric Clapton and U2, as well as having directed the video for Melua's "Nine Million Bicycles". It features Melua performing the song playing the piano on a spinning platform surrounded by male dancers. You can see some great coreography in this video.

P!nk - So What

The song was P!nk’s first #1 solo hit in the U.S., reaching the top spot in its fourth week on the Hot 100. The lyrics are based on her separation from motocross racer Carey Hart, which occurred six months prior to the release.

P!nk told the story of this song: "So What was a joke. I heard this beat from Max Martin. It's such a fun beat, so fun. And I was actually kidding when I said "I guess I just lost my husband, I don't know where he went." Ha ha, that's really funny. Let's keep it and it just kind of went from there. And it just got more and more wrong. The more lines we wrote, the wronger it was. And we kept it because I don't really care. I don't think about the consequences when I write songs and now I am regretting every second of it. No, I'm not."

The music video for "So What" was directed by longtime collaborator Dave Meyers. It shows P!nk drinking while riding a lawnmower, sawing down a tree, streaking on a red carpet appearance and other activities. The video also features a cameo appearance from Hart.

 

Jimmy Eat World - Seventeen

Another great song form their early days. 
Being dumped by their record label in 1999 may have been the best thing that ever happened to these guys. Since then they have broken through to the mainstream.

This is the last Jimmy Eat World song posted for a while, I promise. :) 

Jimmy Eat World - Digits

A song from the very early days of Jimmy Eat World. Sometimes I love it, sometimes it sounds annoying to me... :) 

Jimmy Eat World - Cautioners

A nice song from the 2001 album of Jimmy Eat World called "Bleed American". 

Contrary to popular belief, the band name acronym (JEW) is not a reference to the band's religious beliefs, nor to singer Jim Adkins. The band's name came from a crayon drawing made after an incident between Linton's (the guitarist) younger brothers, Jim and Ed Linton, who fought frequently. Jim usually won, but Ed sought revenge by drawing a picture of Jim shoving the Earth into his mouth; the picture bore the caption "Jimmy eat world".

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold

The single reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Perry's second consecutive top three single, after her previous worldwide hit "I Kissed a Girl". 

Perry says the song is about a real guy - an ex-boyfriend who she could never get a read on. Said Perry, "One day this person would send me a text and I would be so thrilled about it because I had been waiting for some kind of sign - a smoke signal. He would be all interested and then I would just lose him, or one day he would want to see me and then one day he wouldn't. I didn't know what was wrong with him, if he was bipolar, or if he was wearing a mood ring. I took the theme and the song kind of spilled out of me."

The music video for "Hot n Cold", which was partially filmed at First Christian Church of North Hollywood, casts Perry at a wedding, about to exchange vows with her diffident fiancé Alexander (played by Perry's friend, actor/model Alexander Rodriguez). 

 

Jimmy Eat World - Pain

A song about addiction to painkillers.
The video, which was directed by Paul Fedor, features a young man who constantly does things which cause him pain(including throwing himself down stairs, draping himself in meat and letting attack dogs maul him), but he doesn't appear to feel any of it. He is followed and constantly attacked by two twin children with baseball bats. At the end the young woman featured in flashes through the rest of the video arrives by his side, and when the twins hit him again, he finally has a reaction to pain. At the end of the video they walk off together. The video also featured footage of the band playing from the inside of a garage. For undisclosed reasons, the twins in the video bear a striking resemblance to Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum from the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums.

Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness

This song is about having strong feelings for a person who doesn't feel that way about you. When you are near that person you get a special "sweet" feeling. "The Sweetness Will Not Be Concerned With Me" is saying that that person doesn't feel the same way.
Punknews.org stated that "'Sweetness' is so unbelievably catchy, I'm having trouble coming up with an analogy to get it across."

The video for "Sweetness" features the band performing at various locations, including a bedroom, a bar, and a concert. Some basic computer graphics are also present through the video.

 

Jimmy Eat World - Carry You

This song was originally was part of Jim Adkins' previous solo experimental album called Go Big Casino.

Jim Adkins on Rock Louder said: "I wrote this about how, with distance and time, it becomes easier to invent qualities that may not have existed in a relationship. You find yourself falsely believing that those qualities could be included in a current version of the relationship."

Jimmy Eat World - Big Casino

The song title is taken from the name of a previous solo experimental album of front man Jim Adkins called Go Big Casino. Some Go Big Casino songs have later appeared on Jimmy Eat World albums, including "Hear You Me," "My Sundown" and from their Chase This Light album, "Carry You."

 

Jim Adkins comments on this song on flaglive.com: "It is basically a loser's anthem. I picture a burnt out musician who moved to Vegas to work, but is holding on to the dream of a life that just gets farther away. The song is basically that character sitting down and telling an up-and-coming rocker 'how it is.'"

 

The music video was shot at the Las Vegas Neon Museum Boneyard in a single day (with a return for pickups at night), featuring the band playing among the yard's old billboards and casino neon signs. While the band plays during parts of the verses Jim Adkins is seen walking around parts of the yard dragging his guitar with him. As the video progresses it switches between night and day, with many of the billboards and signs being lit up, with the moon also in view.

Jack Johnson - You And Your Heart

Johnson told MTV News: "This song started off with this guitar riff that I had around for a while, actually had it on the last record, and we liked it, but we didn't have any words for it yet, nothing came natural, so I didn't use it. And at some point, some of the books I was reading started leading me in a certain direction, kind of like this broken king character. That area you get in sometimes, where you stop trusting your heart and you start thinking too much about logic and this and that. So it's basically about that separation that can happen between the self and the heart and trying to trust your heart again."

 

Johnson directed the song's music video, which features the singer surfing and floating in the ocean as waves swoop around him. "I was looking at the camera singing and I can't figure out when the wave's going to hit me from behind," he told Billboard magazine. "That was fun to do. It was a physical challenge."

 

 

Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody

This song won three awards at the 2010 Grammies: Record of the Year, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals.

 

Frontman Caleb Followill wrote this song about longing for somebody to have a cuddle with while feeling lonely on the road. He said on his band's website: "It's about being far from home."

Caleb told Uncut magazine October 2008 the story of the song: "The meat of song was written on tour. When I came up with 'I could use somebody,' I didn't know if I was talking about a person or home or God. I felt immediately that it was a big song, and it scared me away. Then, when we were writing the record, Matthew kept sayin', 'What's that song, man?', and I acted like I didn't know what he was talking about. Then, finally, I went, 'All right, we'll do it,' and as soon as we started playin' it, the producers looked up and said, 'Whoa, that's a good song.' I was like, 'OK.'"

 

 

Muse - Resistance

On 21 February 2010, “Resistance” entered the UK Rock Chart at #2. Following from its success on the Rock Chart, on 28 February 2010, the single entered the UK Singles Chart as a new entry at #38, beating previous single: “Undisclosed Desires”, which only peaked at #49. 
When this song climbed to #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, two places above "Uprising" at #3, Muse became the first act in the survey's 21-year history to claim two of the top three spots simultaneously.

The song makes several references to the novel "1984", by George Orwell. Matt Bellamy (the singer-songwriter) said in an interview: "I think if you had to boil it down to one theme, it would be the idea that there's some sort of romance taking place in this, call it contemporary England, with all the b--locks going on everywhere – you just think to yourself, 'It's a bunch of b--locks isn't it?'. So if I was in doubt as to where to go with certain lyric or song I'd go back to those initial thoughts. Like Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. I read the book when I was at school and I only really took in the political side of it, but I read it again and the romance side moved me – this idea that love was the only place where there was some freedom from all the b--locks. The act of love can be a political act in those kind of scenarios, as the one place where the state can't invade your privacy. That love story touched me more than the overall political meaning of the book. So I'd say that was one of the cornerstones of the album, really, the love story in that book."

The music video for "Resistance", which features footage of the band performing live on The Resistance Tour, debuted on 14 January 2010, and was directed by Wayne Isham in Madrid (Palacio de los Deportes, 28-November-2009).