Blue October - The Feel Again (Stay)

The Any Man in America album chronicles the dissolution of vocalist Justin Furstenfeld's marriage and separation from his daughter. The singer explained: "I decided to document everything. If I messed up along the way, I'd tell that too. I called the album my 'Audio Journal' as I was writing. I didn't want the music to just be about me though. I wanted it to help other fathers in America who might be going through the same thing."

 

The video for this song directed by Merritt Fields was posted by Blue October on June 9, 2011 on YouTube. Due to the overwhelming positive response to the clip by fans, the band released the song on iTunes five days later just in time for Father's Day.

 

 

Pulp - Your Sister's Clothes

This was one of four songs featured on The Sisters EP, released in May 1994 as the final single release off of the album His 'N' Hers, and it featured the lead single "Babies" and three songs that missed the cut off the original album: the present song, "Seconds" and title track "His 'n' Hers." Its position of #19 in the UK Singles Chart was at the time the band's highest charting, before it was blown out of the water by the various singles off follow-up album Different Class.

 

"Your Sister's Clothes" is actually a sequel to "Babies," with the younger sister from the first song (whom the narrator would spy on whilst she had sex and went out with her elder sister) gaining revenge for the events of that song four years later by stealing/wearing her sister's clothes (hence the title).

 

 

Blink-182 - After Midnight

Much like their hit single "I Miss You," the lyrics were handled by both Hoppus and DeLonge. "Tom and I divided the responsibility of writing the lyrics — Tom did the verses and I did the chorus — and we didn't necessarily know what the other was writing about, but it fit together pretty well," Hoppus explained to MTV News.

DeLonge threw in some lyrical references to "I Miss You" in his verses. He explained to MTV News: "I threw in a little homage to 'I Miss You,' because, specifically on this song, I remember Travis saying that we should have something in the category of 'I Miss You' [on this album], and that's when he showed us the beat. So when we wrote that, I remember that was in my mind."

 

 

Barenaked Ladies - One Week

The reason why many of the lyrics are just a hotchpotch of cultural references is that the song was written as a freestyle. Singer-guitarist Ed Robertson explained to Billboard magazine: "I wrote the chorus structure of the song, but I couldn't figure out the verses at all. I got together with [singer] Steve [Page] a bunch of times and said 'I have this idea for a song, and I couldn't figure out where to go with it.' And finally Steve said to me at some point, 'Just freestyle it! Just do what you do onstage every night. It's gonna be great.'"

"There were some extra verses and stuff," he added. "I just culled it down to what I thought were my favorite lines. But it was written as a freestyle."

Fittingly, this song spent one week at #1 in the US.

Whiskeytown - Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight

A great song from Whiskeytown, with awsome lyrics. Excuse me... Enjoy!

Pulp - My Legendary Girlfriend

This song originally went under the working title "Barry White Beat," and was more of a band collaboration than most Pulp songs, which would usually be an original idea by Jarvis Cocker presented to the band and worked on by everyone else.

Whiskeytown - 16 Days

Whiskeytown's 1997 major-label debut, Strangers Almanac, helped to establish Adams' reputation as a songwriter.
The band cycled through numerous members throughout the next year, including Brad Rice and Steven Terry, both of whom were involved in the recording of Almanac but left later that year.
Despite the band's internal strife, Almanac was a successful album with critics, with the tracks "16 Days" and the Replacements-esque "Yesterday's News" receiving significant radio play. The positive reviews came from increasingly mainstream publications such as Rolling Stone, who claimed at the time, "If there's to be a nirvana among the bands that are imprecisely dubbed alternative country, look to Whiskeytown.

 

Whiskeytown - Jacksonville Skyline

Whiskeytown began in 1994 in Raleigh, North Carolina. After performing punk rock with a band called The Patty Duke Syndrome, Adams found inspiration in the country-rock of Gram Parsons, and started a band with violinist Caitlin Cary, drummer Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, bassist Steve Grothman and guitarist Phil Wandscher.

Pulp - Razzmatazz

Just around the start of the 1990s (after over a decade in the game), Pulp finally began to garner commercial and critical attention. In this time, they endured multiple lineup changes - with Jarvis Cocker being the one constant. "Razzmatazz" was the band's final single on Gift Records before making the major-label move to Island for their next album His 'n' Hers. Whilst it failed to chart, it gained much critical acclaim - a further sign of the mounting momentum behind the band.

P!nk - Raise Your Glass

Pink explained to Alex James on the UK-based radio show In:Demand that this song is a celebration for those who feel left out from the popular crowd. "I had been on the road for two years and I hadn't written anything and I wanted to write a song about underdogs.
Instead of going and becoming a cover girl and endorsement girl and popular girl and having #1s, I kind of just hit the road and pounded the pavement - and became a touring artist," she said. "You don't have to be popular when you're a touring artist, you just have to be good, and this is just a celebration and a thank you."

Trace Adkins - You're Gonna Miss This

The video for this Country ballad was shot by Peter Zavadil in Adkins' hometown of Sarepta, Louisiana. Zavadil told NWLA News: "The idea of this song is, cherish the moments of your life. It's a powerful song - a great thing. He (Adkins) has a powerful voice, but he sings this song with a tone of he's been there, and he's sincere."

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

This plays over the opening credits of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever while John Travolta struts through the streets of New York City. The movie has come to represent the Disco era, and has made this the song most associated with Disco. The Bee Gees had been singing in a high-falsetto style since their 1975 hit "Jive Talkin'," which was also on the soundtrack, but they were very popular as a vocal harmony group in the late '60s and early '70s. Their contributions to Saturday Night Fever brought them huge success, but marked them as Disco singers.

In a 1989 interview with Q magazine, they talked about this stigma and why they didn't deserve it. "We were not disco," Robin Gibb said. "People who emulated us were disco. All you heard on the radio was that dooo! dooo! syn-drum sound. We never had a syn-drum on one of our records!"

Train - Save Me, San Francisco

This is the title track from California rock band Train's fifth studio album. It was their first release for nearly four years. Lead guitarist Jimmy Stafford told Billboard magazine that he considers Save Me San Francisco, "a comeback record... It's kind of like we're re-introducing the band to everybody. We have to go out there and win back our core fans and also expand our audience with new fans." He added: "We just wanted to get back to our roots on this record. We wanted to do things a little more stripped-down like our first album and get back to the whole San Francisco vibe, which is were the band originally came from. And it's working out great. We've got the same energy and excitement that we had on the first album. Everybody's just on the same page and really excited."

Stafford told The Huffington Post: "When I heard Pat's demo of 'Save Me, San Francisco,' I really got goose bumps, I felt like it was a really impressive hit song. I love the chorus so much, you know, with that gospel singer vibe. It had a Stones attitude, like a loose kind of f--- off rock song. Lyrically, it's a good pop song, but as a whole, it has a good groove and is really fun to play."