Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

Chris Martin was inspired to write the upbeat song after hearing the dance track "Ritmo de la Noche" by Lorca during a nightclub scene in Javier Bardem's film Biutiful. The track is based on "I Go To Rio," hence Allen and Anderson credits as writers on this tune.
 

Speaking to Mojo magazine Martin explained: "There's a scene (in Biutful) where he walks through a club, and I'm thinking, 'This is the best chord sequence I've ever heard! I've got to find out what it is and make a song out of it!' So I traced it back… I used those two chords and got in touch with his people. It felt very fresh - we'd never sounded like that before."

Chris Martin explained the song's meaning in an interview with Music Week: "The central theme of the record – 'Paradise' is kind of about this as well – is trying to turn bad things into good things somehow. We as a band have been through some funny incidents in terms of people being aggressive towards us or whatever. And a lot of the record is fuelled by a kind of fire which comes from turning that negativity into positivity. And I think everyone in their life has something like that."

Firkin - Firkinful of Beer

Firkin is a Hungarian band playing Irish folk music, their style is similar to Flogging Molly's. Since 2008, they have played more than 400 concerts in 11 countries (CAN, FR, CH, BE, GER, ITA, AUT, CZ, SK, RO, HUN). 

My Morning Jacket - Circuital

Jim James explained the song's meaning to UK newspaper The Sun: "It's about life's circular nature... How we are all born of this crazy void that nobody can really describe or put a name to. Even though we try with religion and new age philosophy, no one really knows for sure.

We are born and we travel around life's 'circuit' then we all complete the circle and return back to the same void from where we came to pass on to something different."

AWOLNATION - Sail

Speaking to Toronto.com, Bruno said the song was initially a diversion that took him less than an hour to record. "That was written at a time where I didn't know what direction I wanted to go," he said. "I was sitting at the studio trying to make these little pop songs for aspiring pop artists for chump change, [with] barely enough money to buy a bean and cheese burrito."

So, he decided to try to come up with something that was quirky and unusual. "I came up with the string section part at the beginning, and the song just came to me," Bruno explained. "I recorded the strings, the beat and the synth — all within 45 minutes. My engineer went down the street to get some sodas for us, and by the time he got back, I'd sung the lyrics and it was done. It happened so quickly it was almost an accident."

Anna And The Barbies - Gombóc

A great love song from one of the most popular Hungarian alternative bands. The title means "dumpling". :)

Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

Producer Todd Rundgren told Mojo magazine February 2009 of Bruce Springsteen's influence on the Bat Out of Hell album. Said Rundgren: "Jim Steinman still denies that record has anything to do with Springsteen. But I saw it as a spoof. You take all the trademarks - over long songs, teenage angst, handsome loner- and turn them upside down. So we made these epic songs, full of the silly puns that Steinman loves. If Bruce Springsteen can take it over the top, Meat Loaf can take it five storeys higher than that - and at the same time, he's this big, sweaty, unappealing character. Yet we out-Springsteened Springsteen. He's never had a record that sold like Bat Out of Hell, and I didn't think that anyone would ever catch on to it. I thought it would be just a cult thing. The royalties from that album enabled me to follow my own path for a long time after that."

Saving Abel - Stupid Girl (Only In Hollywood)

Frontman Jared Weeks explained the meaning of the song in an interview with Shauna O'Donnell on the internet radio station MUEN Talk: "(Producer) Skidd Mills and I wrote that in the studio. We wrote it two days after the Grammy's this year. We were fortunate enough to get to go and be a part of the experience. Two days later we were in the studio and I was reading a quote by Marilyn Monroe that stated 'A wise girl always kisses before she's kissed, leaves before she's left and forgets before she's forgotten.' To me, that says a lot about her because you know she wasn't stupid, she knew what was going on. The message of the song is about one of those Hollywood girls trying to use everybody and work her way up the ladder. It's a simple song and it says a lot. I'm a big Marilyn fan, so I wanted to get her involved in my music somehow. We had the Hollywood theme going in our heads still, so we were excited about writing it. It was one of the last songs on the record that we wrote which ended up being the first single. It was the same with 'Addicted.' We are hoping it follows the same format."

Theory Of A Deadman - Bitch Came Back

In 2010 Tyler Connolly and his wife, the Canadian actress Christine Danielle, divorced. This song is about the ending of their relationship. He told Hard Rock Reviews: "The song on the record that stemmed from that break up is 'The Bitch Came Back.' The moral is, the bitch came back, so it's self explanatory there but there's a lot of people that relate to that song. I actually did an interview with a woman the other day and she said 'I don't think women are going to like these songs.' So I told her, 'I think you're wrong.' If you write a book about women, guys aren't going to buy it but music is so open that they can relate to it no matter what."

 

Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light

Meat Loaf convinced his record label to let him make a video for this song, which was a simple live performance clip, but very effective. Loaf was an established actor and brought his theatrical flair to the video. He also found a clever way to get it seen in the pre-MTV era: he convinced movie theaters to show it before midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a film he starred in and was becoming a cult classic. When MTV launched in 1981, they favored rock videos, but had very few available, especially by American acts, so they put "Paradise" in rotation, which gave the Bat Out of Hell album another bump in sales.

Matthew Morrison - Summer Rain

Morrison admitted in an interview with PopEater that the song is quite a leap from his Glee character: "It's kind of a jump. It's talking about having sex on a roof," he said. "It was the first song I wrote for this album, and it was a story that I really wanted to tell. For me, it's about being young and in love in New York City and kind of appreciating a moment, a memory burn that's been in my head. It's kind of beautiful to put it out there in a song."

KFT - Éljen a szerelem

A strange Hungarian song about love. Enjoy. :)

Suede - To The Birds

This is a b-side from Suede's first single released in 1992. This is the last Suede song on my blog for a while, I'll be going back to a little bit more recent music. :)

Suede - So Young

The video for the song was directed by Andy Crabb and David Lewis, who later went on to direct a series of backdrop films for Suede as well as the live tour film Introducing The Band and features children from the Kent coastal town of Whitstable. Originally intended to have no footage of the band members, a shoot was then arranged at the instigation of the record company who insisted that the band appear.

Suede - Leaving

This is a great B-Side from the single of Everything Will Flow from 1999.

Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

According to guitarist Janick Gers, the song was inspired by the final scene of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, at the end of which "these figures on the horizon start doing a little jig, which is the dance of death." Gers wrote most of the music and explained the concept to Steve Harris, who wrote the lyrics and most of the melodies.