Prince Ital Joe feat. Marky Mark - United

Mark Wahlberg is known as a famous actor, but in the early nineties he began his career as a rapper under the name of Marky Mark. In 1994 he teamed up with reggae singer Prince Ital Joe and they released an album named Life In The Streets. Life in the Streets was not released in the United States, but was a huge success in Germany, the song United held the #1 position for weeks.

Magna Cum Laude - Pálinka dal

Magna Cum Laude is a pop band very popular in Hungary, their lyrics are loaded with emotions, the songs characterized by unusually simple, clever lyrics and fine tones.
His one is not an emotional song, it's about the love of pálinka, the special Hungarian alcoholid drink.

Daughtry - One Last Chance

This is a song from the "Leave This Town: The B-Sides" EP, which was released first only on iTunes. One year leater a physical version of the EP was released including one additional unreleased song.

Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra

Prior to the recording of Gold Cobra, Kerrang! magazine asked Fred Durst what he's been inspired by lyrically. He replied: "My inevitably tortured mind. Living the life that I'm living, it's all very inspiring. I'm quite a sponge. I absorb all types of energy and I'm a very sensitive person. There isn't anything that doesn't inspire me in life so the songs run a whole range of thoughts and feelings."

Flogging Molly - Speed Of Darkness

This song was inspired by the experiences of Dino Misetic, the artist who did the CD cover for the album, growing up in the Balkans during the Bosnian War between 1992-1995. Frontman Dave King explained to Alternative Press magazine: "His dad was telling us about how fast war came to the country and how bad it got, so quickly. He showed us a book that Dino was quoted in as a kid, called Sarajevo Marlboro [by Miljenko Jergovic], and [Dino] said, 'In school, they taught us about the speed of light, but they never told us what the speed of darkness is.' It happened so quickly, how things changed and the whole downturn happened—I think an apt title for what we're all about. The war was a devastating time for people. The line from the song, 'We set our course for Americ-ay'—literally, Dino and his family put a backpack on and made it to the United States."

 

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time

This was written by Diane Warren, who has also written songs for Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion ("Because You Loved Me), Barbara Streisand, Tina Turner and Whitney Houston.

The music video was filmed on board the USS Missouri while it was stationed at the former Long Beach Naval Shipyard at Pier D along with the crew. Cher recalled to Q magazine: December 2013: "The 'If I Could Turn Back Time' video we shot for days. There was a whole story – I climbed up stuff, I was running away from a lover. I was in a cage, in a speedboat... And when the director got to the edit, he just said, 'F this, here's the money (shot)' – me on the battleship with the sailors. They were real sailors too. They were funny. They kept calling me 'ma'am.'"

Cher - Believe

Many great songs were written and recorded very quickly in short bursts of inspiration. This wasn't one of them. About 6 years in the making, this song was the result of the painstaking efforts of 6 songwriters and at least 3 producers attempting to create a massive hit for Cher. 

The big breakthrough in the production of this song was the distinctive vocal effect, which the producers claimed was done using a Vocoder device. It was later revealed that they used an Auto-Tune processor, which is a device created by Antares Audio Technologies to correct the pitch in recorded vocals. Rap groups were experimenting with the Vocoder sound, resulting hits like "Intergalactic" and "California Love," but this was the first hit Pop song to use these techniques. The following year, Eiffel 65 had a huge vocoder hit with "Blue (Da Ba Dee)."

David Cook - Fade Into Me

This sweeping power-waltz finds Cook singing of being made whole by love. The singer penned the song with Better Than Ezra's Kevin Griffin and Jamie Houston, whose credits include the High School Musical hit,"Breaking Free."

 

Cook discussed the song's meaning in an interview with Billboard magazine: "It's talking about basically giving yourself completely to another person and that moment when you and me become us. But I've seen it interpreted as little more of a sexual innuendo song, which I think is funny. But to me, I guess, it's a little more delicate than that."

 

 

David Cook - Light On

This power ballad was penned by former Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell along with Brian Howes, who has written for Daughtry, Hinder and Puddle of Mudd. Rob Cavallo, who is best known for his work with Green Day and Kid Rock, produced the track.

David Cook first came across this song after he did a version of Cornell's cover of Billie Jean on American Idol. Cook told MTV News what happened next: "Chris went into the media and said some really, really nice things. And this song actually got pitched to us, which I take as another huge compliment, the fact that he saw something in me with a song of his. Just the fact that somebody of his caliber takes the time out of their day not just to mention my name, but to say something nice, it's kind of out of this world."

Brad Paisley Feat. Carrie Underwood - Remind Me

Paisley told Taste of Country Carrie was the first person he called to sing with him on the song. He said: "I think we've become really close, having toured together and become friends and co-hosting the CMAs for several years. We just get along great and sing great together. She's probably pretty much my first choice to sing with when it comes to a duet with a woman like that. I mean, we just sort of share the same values and get along that well. And also, I just don't think there's a better singer than her, so it's sort of selfish to be able to sing with her and perform. Every take sounded like that [the final recording]."

Breaking Benjamin - Breath

This was the band's fourth charted song on the U.S. Hot 100 overall, and the second from Phobia. Although "Breath" failed to capture to pop success of The Diary of Jane at #50 where "Breath" hit #84 on the Billboard Hot 100, it was more successful on the rock charts where it hit #1 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, making it Breaking Benjamin's first number-one hit staying there for seven weeks where "The Diary of Jane" hit #2 and it also hit #3 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart tying with So Cold as their highest-charting single on the chart where "The Diary of Jane" hit #4.

Breaking Benjamin - The Diary Of Jane

This song is about a guy who loved a girl, but he finds out that she never loved him back, hence: "I'll still try and find my place in the diary of Jane."
The single moved rapidly up the charts in its first week of official release, debuting on the Billboard Hot 100 at #55, making it the fastest added single ever in the history of Hollywood Records.

 

Bowling For Soup - Here's Your Freakin' Song

A funny song from the seventh album of Bowling For Soup. The album was recorded over a three week span in June 2010.