The Push Stars - Any Little Town

The Push Stars have released four studio albums, as well as a live compilation album, and have had several of their songs featured in television, film, and soundtracks. As of now, the band is on hold as frontman Chris Trapper is again working on his solo career and Ryan MacMillan is playing drums with Matchbox Twenty.

The Push Stars - Everything Shines

The Push Stars are an American rock band, formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1996. The band members include Chris Trapper, Ryan MacMillan and Dan McLoughlin. They developed a following playing shows in Boston.

The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)

This song is about people who follow a trend, not because they like it, but because it's popular at the moment.

This samples Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages" from their 1983 Pyromania album.

Weird Al Yankovic did a parody of this entitled "Pretty Fly (For A Rabbi)" for his album Running with Scissors. (thanks, Danny - Franklin, GA)

 

 

Starsailor - Tell Me It's Not Over

This song was written by the band in 2007 and initially they considered titling it "Lights Out."

In a posting on the Starsailor message board, singer James Walsh described this tune as having "a massive drum beat, reminiscent of Doves and U2."

Starsailor performed this for the first time in June 2007 at the Music in my Head Festival at Paard van Troje, Den Haag in Holland.

Lyrically, the track refers to the ending of a relationship because of infidelity.

 

 

Ben Folds And Nick Hornby - From Above

This is the only single from Ben Folds album "Lonely Avenue". This is a collaboration album with english novelist Nick Hornby, who is best know of his books "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy".

Serj Tankian - Gate 21

A great song from the lead singer of System Of A Down. 

Santana - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

This song was originally written by George Harrison, first recorded by the Beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album (also known as The White Album).
Inspiration for the song came to Harrison when reading the I Ching, which, as Harrison put it, "seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else... opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental.^" Taking this idea of relativism to his parents’ home in northern England, Harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. Those words were “gently weeps”, and he immediately began writing the song.

Reamonn - Josephine

In order to secure a recording contract, they set up a showcase at Logo, a small club in Hamburg, in front of 16 representatives from various record labels in 1999. The band was quickly offered several contracts, settling on signing with Virgin Records Germany. As of 2006 they are now releasing their music through Universal Music.

Josephine is a hit single from their debut album Tuseday.

Reamonn - Moments Like This

In 1997, Rea Garvey left his band The Reckless Pedestrians and home town of Tralee, Ireland to go to Germany with not a lot of money and a demo CD in his pocket. He put an ad into local paper Stockacher Anzeiger stating, "Singer requires band for recording and live shows". Mike Gommeringer (Gomezz) saw this ad and accurately assumed it must have been Garvey, whose original band he had once seen play live. The twosome met up and subsequently recruited Uwe, Sebi and Phil. Their first gig was played on New Year's Eve 1998 in Stockach. "Reamonn" is the Irish for "Raymond".

Queen - A Kind Of Magic

Roger Taylor wrote the melody and chords of this song for the Highlander film, then Freddie Mercury wrote a new bass line, added some instrumental spacers, changed the order and produced a new mix with David Richards. Taylor was reportedly very annoyed that Mercury had almost completely re-written the song behind his back (reportedly whilst he was on holiday!), so perhaps that explains why the song was still credited only to Taylor. Roger's version is at the end of the film; Freddie's version is on the album. 

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Amish Paradise

Another Weird Al parody for Sunday. :)

This is a song about the Amish, a Christian religious group who don't believe in any form of violence, profanity, or electricity. This song is a parody of Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio

In Pullman, Washington, an older listener to the local radio station contacted the station manager complaining that the song was insulting and if it was not pulled, she would stop listening and would tell her friends to stop as well. Apparently, her argument was, "What if an Amish person were to hear this song? They would be quite offended!"

 

 

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat It

I was pretty busy in the past two weeks, but I'm back with some fun. :)

On BBC 3's 100 Most Annoying Songs, Weird Al Yankovic said: "I was very surprised to get permission from Michael Jackson, this is 1984 when I did 'Eat It,' when Michael was the king of Pop. We sent him a request, can we do a parody of your song and call it 'Eat It?' We thought we'd never hear back, it took a few weeks but we heard back and he said 'yeah that's fine.'"

In an interview with the Metro newspaper August 1, 2003 Yankovic added: "He was the first megastar to give his blessing. When he let me do 'Eat It,' it raised the bar. I could then phone people who said 'no' and say: 'Well, Michael Jackson doesn't have a problem.'"