Sugarcult - Memory

Sugarcult is an American rock band from Santa Barbara, California formed in 1998. The band currently consists of Tim Pagnotta (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Airin Older (bass guitar, backing vocals), Marko DeSantis (commonly known as "Marko 72") (lead guitar), and Kenny Livingston (drums, percussion).

Tim Pagnotta met ex-drummer Ben Davis during a cigarette break at school. Davis (who then played bass) and Pagnotta started to play together on a regular basis. Pagnotta met Airin Older in a music class where Pagnotta was copying Older's work. They became good friends and Pagnotta invited Older to join his band. Davis moved to the position of drummer and Older filled in for Davis on bass. Marko DeSantis was added into the band after meeting Pagnotta backstage at a Superdrag concert. The pair apparently met because Pagnotta was wearing a suit that resembled the one DeSantis wore to the show. Pagnotta asked DeSantis to join the band before even hearing him play a single note on the guitar.

My Chemical Romance - Sing

Frontman Gerard Way explained to the British newspaper The Sun that the song takes its title from a 1991 Blur song, which later appeared on the Trainspotting soundtrack. Said Way: "Just listen to the track 'Sing' - the notion of singing it out to followers. And I gave it the title because I loved the Blur track 'Sing' and Damon Albarn was so important to me when I was growing up."

Metallica - Fuel

This is about how people sometimes like to drive their cars, or even their lives, too fast. It was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett.
Avril Lavigne performed this on Metallica's MTV Icon special in May 2003.
This track was used as the official theme song for NASCAR on NBC and TNT from the mid-2001 to the 2003 seasons.

Apocalyptica feat. Doug Robb - Not Strong Enough

Brent Smith of Shinedown is the guest vocalist on this Diane Warren penned track. Apocalyptica drummer Mikko Siren explained the hook up: "We met Brent two years ago and we saw Shinedown live. We were really impressed with his voice. So when we had the song we remembered him, we asked him in and we were lucky enough that he agreed."

The song was released as the third single from 7th Symphony. However Smith doesn't appear on the US release of the single because the band didn't do the paperwork. Instead, the American single, which came out on January 18, 2011, features Doug Robb of Hoobastank.

Jimmy Eat World - Coffee And Cigarettes

This story of moving west is a duet between vocalist Jim Adkins and folk singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews, who is on five Invented tracks all together. "She plays around Phoenix," explained guitarist Tom Linton to Chart Attack. "She's a folk artist. Jim met her at a show and started talking to her. He had her come down to the studio and it ended up working out."

The reference to Grateful Dead in this song does not mean Jimmy Eat World are fans of the legendary rockers. Lead singer Jim Adkins said in a track-by track on the Friends or Enemies website: "I can't stand the Grateful Dead. But, I just really thought the character in this song would have one of their bootlegs as they drove across country looking for something new."

 

 

My Chemical Romance - Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)

The music video for this generational call to arms was co-directed by Roboshobo and Gerard Way and premiered on MTV on October 14, 2010 and is an expansion of the pre-release trailer. The clip, which is a homage to camp movies like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! features the band fighting evil "draculoids" (white-masked characters) in a post-apocalyptic desert in the year 2019. Grant Morrison is featured in the clip and members of the band Mindless Self Indulgence also make appearances, with guitarist Steve, Righ? as the DJ, "Dr. Death Defying", and vocalist Jimmy Urine as the "main, tall Draculoid . In an interview with KROQ, Gerard Way revealed that Urine was originally intended to play the roller skater "Ladyboy", but was changed to a Draculoid as he cannot skate.

Guitarist Ray Toro told Spin magazine the concept happened accidentally: the group decided to expand on the theme for the trailer only after seeing an enthusiastic response from their fans. "It was never intended to be a video," he explained. "[But] the response we got was so big that we were like, 'Oh s--t, now we have to do a full video for this thing.' We came up with some more ideas to flesh out the trailer."

The band spent a 15-hour day in the desert filming the video in September 2010, arriving at 6 A.M. and finishing around 9 P.M. that night. "We were shooting out in the desert heat so it was tough," Toro said. "But it was fun."

Metallica - Until It Sleeps

James Hetfield wrote this song about his mother who died from cancer. He was struggling with his mother's death and was looking for a way to cope with his loss and deal with the pain. It has come to mean much more to many people, who relate to the message of general internal pain and loss and the inability to make sense or cope with it.

U2 - Beautiful Day

The lyrics were inspired by Bono's experience with Jubilee 2000, a benefit urging politicians to drop the Third World Debt. Bono describes the song as about "a man who has lost everything, but finds joy in what he still has."