The Gaslight Anthem - Mulholland Drive

This song was inspired by the 2001 David Lynch American psychological thriller Mulholland Drive. Vocalist and songwriter Brian Fallon told Artist Direct: "I watched that movie for the first time when I was writing the record. I was watching it, and I was like, 'I went through something similar.' It wasn't in the same form exactly, but the sentiment was there. It was a great title, so I wanted to use it."

Fallon told NME how Mulholland Drive inspired this song. "You don't know if the characters in the movie are dead or the roles are reversed or who's who," he explained, "and I remember feeling like that in this one particular relationship that I had where I was, 'I don't know where my head's at here.'"

 

Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

Speaking to Billboard magazine the Coldplay vocalist explained why the band's lead guitarist makes a bigger contribution than before: "When we finished the last record Viva La Vida, we were all feeling pretty pleased with ourselves when it was like #1 or whatever. Then… (producer) Brian Eno wrote to us and said, 'Dear Coldplay. I really think we've made a good record here. But I do think we can do a lot better, and I feel we all need to get back to work as soon as possible because I feel like Jonny especially is on the route to something, and he hasn't got there yet.'"

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Tennant said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "We arrived in the studio and Bobby O had programmed Michael Jackson's Billie Jean drum pattern. Chris started to play along and I started playing chords. In terms of the lyrics, the inspiration for West End Girls came from The Message by Grandmaster Flash. I remember once staying at my cousin's house in Nottingham and we were watching some kind of gangster film with James Cagney, and just as I was dropping off to sleep, the lines 'sometimes you're better off dead, there's a gun in your hand and it's pointing to your head' came into my head and I thought 'that's quite good' so I went off to find a pen."

Uncle Kracker - Nobody's Sad On A Saturday Night

This is the lead single from American Country-Rock musician Uncle Kracker's fifth album, Midnight Special. He told The Boot that the LP title isn't a reference to, "the variety show or anything like that." Kracker went on to explain: "A buddy of mine from Texas and I were up in Seattle at the same time and we were going over the album, listening to some of the demo stuff that I had just come out of the studio with. We were kind of kicking it around and he said, 'Man I like that one, it's kind of like a midnight special!' Just meaning like, crack a beer after midnight and listen ... the album's really loose, and that's kind of the whole 'midnight-special' meaning, something you do late."

Tinted Windows - Kind Of A Girl

Tinted Windows is an American rock supergroup formed by guitarist James Iha, previously of The Smashing Pumpkins, singer Taylor Hanson of Hanson, bassist Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Ivy, and Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. In 2009 the band digitally released through their website and on Rolling Stone magazine's website, their debut single "Kind of a Girl" alongside a promotional video, with a segment from a fictional music show Rock After Dark. 

Melodisztik - Milord

An awesome Hungarian acoustic duo covering Milord from Edith Piaf.

The Wallflowers feat. Mick Jones - Reboot The Mission

Former Clash member Mick Jones supplied vocals and guitar for this song, which was made available for free on July 24, 2012. A number of critics have compared the track's groove to that of Clash's 1981 single "The Magnificent Seven."

"It would be preposterous for me to say ('Reboot the Mission') doesn't sound like the Clash. That was our intent. I even mention Joe Strummer in the song," Dylan told Billboard magazine. "So we thought, 'Let's take it all the way home and see if we can't get Mick to participate somehow. I've met him a handful of times throughout the years and just saw him when he played in L.A. with Big Audio Dynamite...so he was fresh on my mind. He mentioned doing something together, so I just called and he was into it."

LGT - Álomarcú lány

Another hungarian song, this time from the 70's. The title means "Girl With A Dream Face".

Junkies - A szerelmedtől lettem ilyen

A great hungarian punk-rock song. The title means "I became like this because of your love".

Tankcsapda - Ez az a ház

A great hungarian hard rock song.

Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

The song's music video was directed by Warren Fu, a former LucasArts art director who previously helmed an alternate clip for the Strokes' "You Only Live Once." It was inspired by the Bruce Lee movie Game of Death, which was released in 1978.

Jewel - Hands

At a February 2008 concert in Las Vegas, Jewel explained that when she was 18, she was living in a van and did some shoplifting. She was going to take a dress when she looked at her hands and realized that she controlled them. Said Jewel, "I realized I was cheating myself. No matter how you work with your hands your own dignity is up to you."

Snow Patrol - Fifteen Minutes Old

A great song from the very first album of Snow Patrol, which was released almost 20 years ago.

 

Shiny Toy Guns - Somewhere To Hide

A great song from Shiny Toy Guns' third album.

Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien

Edith Piaf decided to retire in 1960. A few months later, she was persuaded to make a comeback by Charles Dumont and Michel Vaucaire, two young French songwriters, who had written the song "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien." At first she refused to see them or take their song seriously. Dumont recalls in The Daily Express, June 30, 2007, "When I started playing the piano, Piaf's attitude changed immediately. She made me play it over and over again, maybe 5 or 6 times. She said that it was magnificent, wonderful. That it was made for her."

Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose

The distinctive melody of this song makes it instantly recognizable. With music by Louis Guglielmi and regular Piaf collaborator Marguerite Monnot, it has lyrics by Piaf herself, and was the song that broke through for her internationally. The title translates literally as "life is pink," but is generally taken to mean looking through rose-colored glasses, a well-known saying.

Scooter - 4 A.M.

This is the lead single from Scooter's sixteenth studio album Music for a Big Night Out. The song samples the 1991 single "Promise Me" by Beverley Craven and "Million Voices" by Otto Knows. Vocals credited to Jaye Marshall.

Republic - Egy szó, egy hang

One of the last songs of this great Hungarian band, released just one year before the lead singer died.

 

Monza - Hallo Taxi Nummer 10

The band of Dieter Bohlen before Modern Talking, this song is from 1978.

David Bowie - Afraid

A great song from the Heathen album.

David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

Having not performed live since 2006 and rarely been seen in public since amidst rumors of ill health, Bowie surprised his fans on his 66th birthday when this song's video was uploaded onto his website. The tender ballad was recorded in the singer's now-native New York and produced by his long-time collaborator Tony Visconti.
The haunting music video was directed by Tony Oursler and also harks back to Bowie's time in Berlin. He is seen looking in on footage of the auto repair shop beneath the apartment he lived in, along with stark images detailing the bleak landscape of the city at the time.

 

Buckcherry - Gluttony

Josh Todd told Noisecreep about the song's provocative video, which was directed by Billy Jayne and filmed in a North Hollywood church.: "The concept of the video is excess, consuming everything excessively, and moderation is not even in the equation," he said. "I'm very familiar with that, and a lot of guys in the band are familiar with that. Because the record is called Confessions, we filmed the video in a church, we got Jesus down here - which is killer - and we got a lot of our fans in it, which is amazing - they came out on their own time and have really put in a lot of sweat equity, so thank you to them."

Bon Jovi - Because We Can

The lead single from Bon Jovi's What About Now album was written by Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora from the band with longtime associate Billy Falcon. Other contributions to the Bon Jovi oeuvre co-penned by Falcon include "Just Older", "Last Man Standing", "Everybody's Broken", "When We Were Beautiful," "Superman Tonight" and "Give In To Me."

Bad Religion - Fuck You

Bad Religion vocalist and songwriter Greg Graffin told Billboard magazine regarding this song, that it took him, "32 years as a songwriter to finally be able to write what I feel." Graffin added that he'd had the tune "floating around for a long time," which he'd kept humming to himself. "That's an example of a song that had the music before the lyrics," he said. "The only thing that really fit right there was 'fuck you,' and it actually ended up being just the right sentiment."

Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt

The song's lyrics involve a narrator describing the terrors of nightmares. The opening line of the song's intro and chorus (Nun, liebe Kinder, gebt fein Acht. Ich habe euch etwas mitgebracht, meaning "Now, dear children, pay attention. I have brought something for you") is taken from the 1950s German children's TV show Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman). Every night the show would come on and Das Sandmännchen would tell bedtime stories. This may entail the song's narrator being a darker version of the title character.

Placebo - B3

B3EP was released on 15 October through record label Vertigo, three days later than predicted. It reached no. 65 in the UK album charts.

Zorall - Valaki valamit kevert a piámba

A Hungarian hard rock cover of the classic Ramones song Somebody put something in my drink.

Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue

According to former guitarist Ben Harper, "Ocean Avenue" is written about Jacksonville, Florida. "It’s this place where we used to hang out in Jacksonville. Instead of talking about a girl, it’s talking about a scene and a feeling that we want to get back to: hanging out and writing, before we moved to California."

Jennifer Lopez - Love Don't Cost A Thing

After breaking up with Puff Daddy (as he was then known) in 2001, Lopez dated a dancer named Chris Judd, who she met while shooting the video for this. They married later that year but divorced in 2002.
This was Lopez' first and only # 1 hit in the UK. 

My Chemical Romance - The Light Behind Your Eyes

This song is from the Conventional Weapons compilation album, released as a series of singles between October 2012 and February 2013. It marked the band's final release of studio material before their breakup in March 2013.

Animal Cannibals - Budapest nyáron

A Hungarian rap song about the life in the summer in the city of Budapest.

Muse - Madness

Lead singer Matt Bellamy told Los Angeles radio station KROQ that he considers this to be his favorite of his songs. "I wrote that song having a fight with my girlfriend," said the frontman. "Nothing particularly over the top but just having one of those moments where she leaves you for the day to think about it. I rarely write songs that catharticly. All I had was a drum machine and a synthesizer so I just put this very minimal thing together."

"I wasn't quite sure it would work with the band," he added, "but when we started the album I showed it to Dom and Chris and they loved it. They sort of took it to another level by adding these extra parts at the end and it became a much bigger song. It's a real surprise song for this album. It's probably my favorite song that I've ever written."

Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye

Though the song's title claims there are 50 ways to say goodbye, we can only find 11 lies about his farewell the protagonist tells, all involving his former beau's demise. They are:
1. Went down in an airplane.
2. Fried getting suntan.
3. Fell in a cement mixer full of quicksand.
4. She met a shark under water.
5. Fell and no one caught her.
6. Caught in a mudslide.
7. Eaten by a lion.
8. Got run over by a crappy purple Scion.
9. Dried up in the desert.
10. Drowned in a hot tub.
11. Danced to death at an east side night club.

 

 

The Last Goodnight - Pictures Of You

The song explores the good and bad sides of hope. The first lines talk about parents hoping to hear their baby's first words, but there's also the mother with a son in the army - she just wants him to come home alive. The part about the boxers fighting is the desperate, false hope that maybe they'll win after losing so many times before.

The Killers - Runaways

The song includes the line, "I got the tendency to slip when the nights get wild." The Independent on Sunday asked Flowers if the lyric is storytelling, or autobiographical? "Ah-ha," the committed Mormon frontman replied. "Ah, you know it's… there's a little bit of me in [everything] – it's inevitable that I'm gonna creep my way into these songs. But I am also good at observing what's happening around me. And 'Runaways', that's not some grand statement that I'm here to make. But it is an observation of what I'm seeing every day, and living. I see just…There just seems to be a tough… it's not the coolest subject, I guess… It seems to be harder than ever for people to commit to each other."

Lifehouse - Between The Raindrops

Speaking about the song, lead singer Jason Wade said: "'Between the Raindrops' is a confluence of all these different musical styles coming together. There is this cinematic spaghetti western undercurrent breathing and moving in the confines of a pop rock song. The track started as a complete experiment, a sort of stream of consciousness. Over the next few ensuing months Jude and I rewrote the song at least half a dozen times. We brought our friend Jacob Kasher in to help us finish the lyrics. I feel like the song really was solidified and came to life when Natasha came down to the studio and sang on the track."

The Gaslight Anthem - "45"

The song finds frontman Brian Fallon reflecting back on his own rock 'n' roll experiences. "I think "45" was in there for a long time," he told Spinner. "I was looking for something guttural that could just be yelled at the top of your lungs. It took me years to figure out what I was trying to say was 'hey, just turn the record over, and I'll see you on the flip side.'"

Fallon explained the song's meaning to Artist Direct: "It's about not staying in anything that holds you back or is keeping you down for any extended period of time," he said. "Sometimes, you have to change and move on. That's the essence of the song. There's something waiting for you out there."

 

Sigur Rós - Ekki múkk

The video narrates the story of a man lost in the English countryside. It was directed by Nick Abrahams and featured Aidan Gillen and Shirley Collins. It won the British Council award for Best UK Short at the 10th London Short Film Festival, and it was screened as Official Selection at 'Art Basel Miami 2012', 'Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2013'.

Smash Mouth - Justin Bieber

A nice catchy song from Smash Mouth about how fast time flies. No it's not about Justin Bieber despite the title. :)

Queen - Heaven For Everyone

"Heaven for Everyone" was a track Taylor wrote and tried out with Queen in 1987, although according to some sources it was written with Joan Armatrading in mind to sing it. Whether she turned it down or Taylor withdrew his song is unclear, but it was recorded for his other band The Cross. One night Mercury came to visit The Cross at the studio and after some drinks he gave them ideas of how to sing the song and ended up recording the lead vocals for it. Mercury appeared on the UK version of their album "Shove It" as guest lead vocalist on the song, with Taylor doing backing vocals. The roles were reversed on the single and the American "Shove It" version. Mercury's vocals were then used for the Made in Heaven release, with a couple of different lines and May singing backing vocals instead of Taylor, with Richards adding several arrangement ideas. Released as a single in 1995, the song's music video commemorates Mercury, and also contains footage of Georges Méliès seminal 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon.

Hinder - Save Me

The first single from Hinder's fourth album, Welcome to the Freakshow, along with the rest of the record, was driven by a dark drug binge that frontman Austin Winkler undertook. He told Billboard magazine his struggle is evident in this song. "I was kind of in the mind set of 'Get out of my face. I'm too far gone to be saved' kind of thing," he explained. "I had a really nasty attitude in that song, but I had a blast singing and recording it. I think it's our heaviest single yet, and we're getting a pretty good response."

Queen - The Show Must Go On

Guitarist Brian May wrote this while lead singer Freddie Mercury was dying of AIDS. It was Mercury's last official album with Queen, and when it was released, very few people knew he had the disease.

The lyrics are about the need to press on and make the most out of life while you can still enjoy it. It is inevitably a comment on Mercury's worsening condition, and his attitude towards life - May noted his incredible courage in the Days of our Lives documentary. "He never moaned, he never said 'my life is s--t, this is terrible, I hate it,'" said May. "He had an incredible strength and peace."

The song's placing as the final track on Innuendo is notable, as it's likely that the band thought that this might be the last album Mercury would be healthy enough to perform on before his death. In the sessions, he made enough recordings to provide the band with material to release the posthumous 1995 album Made In Heaven.

Heaven Street Seven - Nem elég

A great Hungarian alternative song by Heaven Street Seven. The band broke up last year after 20 years of making good music.

Halász Judit - Boldog Születésnapot

The most popular birthday song for children in Hungary.

Halász Judit - Micimackó

Judit Halász is a very popular actress and singer, she was also the Goodwill Ambassador of UNICEF in Hungary. She is best known for her several children's songs. This is one of them, from the 80s, about Winnie The Pooh.

Queen - I Want It All

For Brian May to write such a proud and powerful anthem at the time, especially based on something Dobson said, was a statement of intent - his first marriage had broken up partly due to the affair he was having with Dobson. This caused him a great deal of depression, which seemed to come out in songs like this.

Also considering this was one of the first singles off Miracle, which was around the time Mercury revealed to his bandmates that he was suffering declining health, it has all the marks of a band coming out fighting - the accompanying music video also backs this theme up. See "Scandal" (also on the album) for a similar feel, with lyrics more specifically targeted towards those 'against' Queen at that time - largely the mainstream media.

Queen - Radio Ga Ga

Originally, this was "Radio Ca-Ca," which was something Roger Taylor's part-French son Felix exclaimed one day in trying to say the radio was bad ("radio, CACA!). The phrase stuck with Taylor and inspired the anti-commercial radio themes in the lyrics.

Taylor liked the title, but the rest of the group objected and asked for a re-write. As a result, it went from a song condemning radio ("Ca-Ca") to praising it ("Ga Ga"). Interestingly however, even in the final recorded version, the phrase "Ca-Ca" is present - maybe as a compromise for Taylor?

Queen - Body Language

This song is blatantly about sex, featuring lots of groaning by Freddie Mercury and a video that was so racy that MTV wouldn't play it. The song was quite a departure for Queen, as it contained very little guitar and a Disco feel. Queen was always experimenting with different sounds, but this was a pretty drastic departure even by their standards.

Green Day - Oh Love

This song was recorded in Jingletown Studios, Oakland, California and released digitally July 16, 2012, the same date that it impacted radio. It is the final track on ¡Uno!. "What I really wanted to do was write real power-pop kind of music that had that old Green Day energy," explained Armstrong to Billboard magazine, "so the original Green Day sound became '¡Uno!'"

The song deals with matters of the heart and sexual tension. "'Oh Love' is kind of like leading with your heart and not necessarily with your brain as much," Armstrong told MTV News. "And [also] kind of maybe losing your mind, and shooting a little bit more from the crotch area."

 

 

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Freddie Mercury wrote this while Queen were recording The Game in Germany. He wrote it while taking a bubble bath in his room at the Munich Hilton. Peter Hince, the head of Queen's road crew, recalled to Mojo magazine September 2009: "The idea for the song came to him while he was in the bath. He emerged, wrapped in a towel, I handed him the guitar and he worked out the chords there and then. Fred had this knack of knowing a great pop song."

Freddie acknowledged that perhaps his limited talent on the guitar helped shape the song: "'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can't play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It's a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn't work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think."

Queen - Flash

This was the theme tune for the 1980 comic-book movie Flash Gordon. It captured perfectly the tongue-in-cheek element of the film.
Queen wrote the entire soundtrack to the movie. Drummer Roger Taylor explained to Mojo magazine October 2008: "We wanted to write the first rock 'n' roll soundtrack to a non-music film. At the time, rock 'n' roll was not used in movies unless they were specifically about music."
Brian May added: "We wanted a soundtrack album that made you feel like you'd watched the film so we shipped in all the dialogue and effects and wove it together like tapestry."

 

Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls

Queen guitarist Brian May wrote this song, which is about a young man who comes to appreciate women of substantial girth. May told Mojo magazine October 2008: "I wrote it with Fred in mind, as you do especially if you've got a great singer who likes fat bottomed girls… or boys."

This was released as a double A-side single with "Bicycle Race." The songs ran together on the album, and were often played that way by radio stations. The year before, Queen released "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" as a double A-side. They are still usually played together by radio stations.
Each song has a reference to the other in the lyrics: in "Bicycle Race," a lyric runs: "Fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today, so look out for those beauties, oh yeah." In "Fat Bottomed Girls" the closing call shouts "get on your bikes and ride!," linking the two songs together.

 

 

Queen - We Are The Champions

Freddie Mercury stated: "I was thinking about football when I wrote it. I wanted a participation song, something that the fans could latch on to. Of course, I've given it more theatrical subtlety than an ordinary football chant. I suppose it could also be construed as my version of 'I Did It My Way.' We have made it, and it certainly wasn't easy. No bed of roses as the song says. And it's still not easy."

Queen - Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

This song, which was written by Freddie Mercury, features sound engineer and co-producer Mike Stone taking over the lead vocals for one line: "Hey, boy, where'd you get it from? Hey, boy, where did you go?"

Green Day - X-Kid

This song was written for an unnamed pal of the band who committed suicide. Bassist Mike Drint explained to UK newspaper The Sun: "It was a friend of ours who took an early exit. He was a very close friend and he just never grew up. He just lived with his glory days behind him and didn't realize that his glory days were now in front of him. We love him dearly but life happened."

Green Day - Stray Heart

The song was titled "Drama Queen" on early pressings.This song's lighthearted video depicts a leather-jacketed Casanova with a bloody hole in his chest where his heart is supposed to be.

 

 

Queen - Seven Seas Of Rhye

This was Queen's first entry in the UK single chart. Brian May in Q magazine March 2008: "Our first breakthrough, made with the idea that if radio was going to play it, everything had to explode. And it did work."
The song's success enabled Mercury to quit his day job working at a stall in London's Kensington Market.

 

blink-182 - Dogs Eating Dogs

After Neighborhoods, the band felt the recording methods used were inadequate. Tom DeLonge, who originally advocated the method of using separate studios/e-mails to dictate the majority of the recording, admitted that it led to a loss of unity. Travis Barker noted that, "there's some songs on there that I love, but for the most part it was disconnected. It was like, 'You do this part in your studio, and then you're gonna play on it and send it back to me.' When we're not in the studio together, you don't have the opportunity to gel off each other." In addition, Barker was still recovering from his 2008 accident and was still healing. During the band's 20th Anniversary Tour in Europe, Barker was the first to approach DeLonge and Hoppus with the idea of immediately returning to the studio in the fall. "It was like three days after Halloween and Tom was like, 'Dude, we should do that!'" They entered the studio on November 5. They found a flexibility to do things their own way without label intervention and it inspired creativity and agility. Mark Hoppus described: "It was great, ideas falling everywhere. Lots of long hours spent on five new songs. The band is in a great place creatively. Having everyone in the same room at the same time makes all the difference for us." This song is the result of this cooperation.

Queen - Keep Yourself Alive

Queen guitarist Brian May wrote the words and music for this song, which was Queen's first single. It highlighted what would become a common facet of Queen's studio work: May's perfectionism. He noted in a 1983 interview with BBC Radio 1: "The first recording of it ever was in De Lane Lea when we did it ourselves and I've still got that recording and I think it's very good and has something which the single never had. But THEY pressurised us very strongly to redo all the tracks and we redid 'Keep Yourself Alive' with Roy and it was pretty awful, actually. I thought it was terrible and I was very unhappy about it and I thought the De Lane Lea one was better and I eventually managed to persuade Roy that it was better as well. So, we went back in and did it again in a way that was a bit more true to the original. But there is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured and, although we ended up with something that was technically in the playing and perhaps even in the recording a bit better than the De Lane Lea thing. I still think that the De Lane Lea one had that certain sort of magic, so I was never really happy. As it turned out no one else was ever really happy either and we kept remixing it. We thought that it's the mix that's wrong, we kept remixing and there must have been, at least, seven or eight different mixes by different groups of people. Eventually we went in and did a mix with Mike Stone, our engineer, and that's the one that we were in the end happiest with. That's the one we put out.
But, to my mind 'Keep Yourself Alive' was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had."

Anna And The Barbies - Négykézláb

A fun song in Hungarian from Anna And the Barbies.

Melissa Etheridge - Falling Up

This is the only single from the 2012 album of Melissa Etheridge.

Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean

Frontman Rob Thomas explained to Billboard magazine that the song's about, "the wrong kind of girls that we've probably all dated." However, as a band of mostly married men for the past decade, they turned to other sources of inspiration. "Luckily, you have single friends who are making really bad decisions, so you can draw on their experiences," he laughed.

Mark Knopfler - Redbud Tree

The first track from Mark Knopfler's Privateering album released in 2012.

Keane - Sovereign Light Café

This song finds Keane recalling their early days together when the then teenage trio were in the habit of strolling down the Bexhill seafront on England's south coast and drinking tea at the Sovereign Light Café. "It's about a place we used to go to in (nearby) Bexhill," pianist Tim Rice-Oxley told Q magazine. "There's a lot of hope on this album. Sovereign Light Café is about getting back to the start, a time when we were talking about all the great stuff we were going to do with our lives."

Hoobastank - This Is Gonna Hurt

The lead single from Fight Or Flight was penned by Hoobastank frontman Doug Robb and bassist Jesse Charland. Speaking with AntiMusic, Robb told the story of the song: "I remember listening to the music for 'This Is Gonna Hurt,' while sitting in my car with Jesse," he recalled. "He had written the music and I had come up with some melodic ideas and the phrase 'this is gonna hurt.' Each time the phrase was sung it revealed something different.

'This is gonna hurt. This is gonna hurt ME. This is gonna hurt ME... more than it hurts YOU.' That's how it originally was written out," continued Robb. "The song kind of stayed in 'limbo' lyrically for a while because I couldn't find an emotional anchor to ground the song. Later that year we were in Bali, Indonesia playing an acoustic show. We were exhausted from constant travel and continuous shows. During soundcheck our frustrations came to a boil and we had a pretty epic band fight. It wasn't our first and I'm sure it won't be our last. It's just what happens sometimes. After the fight I remember sitting in my hotel room thinking about how difficult it would be for myself or any band member to walk away from Hoobastank. We are truly a family and for as much as it would hurt whoever was left behind, it would hurt even more for the one who left. I finally had a lyrical emotional starting point for 'This Is Gonna Hurt,' and I finished the song that night in Bali. Obviously we all talked it out and everything was fine. During the recording of the song the lyrics got switched a little to make the song a little more 'scathing.' and a little less 'sensitive.' Also more to reflect a relationship between two people rather than a band. The finished product is, 'This is gonna hurt. This is gonna hurt you. This is gonna hurt you more than it hurts me. And I don't want to hurt. That's why I'm going to hurt you. That's why I'm going to hurt you. That's how it's going to be!' Unapologetic and to the point."

Alvin és a Mókusok - Bátorság, nyújtott kéz

A great Hungarian punk-rock song.

 

Everclear - Be Careful What You Ask For

"Always expect the unexpected," said Everclear frontman Art Alexakis regarding the theme of this Invisible Stars track. "Embrace the weird and the wonderful because you are probably going to get both. Don't be afraid, just be careful. Be careful what you ask for, it might come true," he told Spinner.

Első Emelet - A film forog tovább

A very popular Hungarian pop song from the '80s.

Silversun Pickups - Not Dark Yet

"Not Dark Yet" is a song by Bob Dylan, recorded in January 1997 and released in September that year on his album Time Out of Mind. 
Silversun Pickups made an awesome cover of the song for the "Chimes Of Freedom" album.

Dave Matthews Band - Mercy

This is the first single from Away From The World, the eighth studio album from Dave Matthews Band. The group performed the song for the time on TV during the April 24, 2012 episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. "Mercy" was released on July 16, 2012.
Dave Matthews Band made Billboard history when Away From The World landed at #1 on the Billboard 200. It meant that they became the first band to have six consecutive albums debut at the peak position on the album chart.

 

Cipő és a Lány - Gyere közelebb, menekülj el

The title means "Come closer, run away". 

Szeleczky Zita - Távolból

This is a very old song cover of one of the poems of Sándor Petőfi, a very famous Hungarian poet who lived in the 18th century. This poem brings up a lot of childhood memories for me.

Mark Knopfler - Restless Farewell

A great Bob Dylan cover from Mark Knopfler.

Chris Rea - On The Beach

This single was in hot roation on VH1 in 1986 (one year after the network launched), which helped it become Rea's biggest hit in the United States since "Fool If You Think It's Over." It remains a favorite song of his fans.

Volbeat - A Warrior's Call

This Beyond Hell/Above Heaven track is dedicated to Danish boxing champion Mikkel Kessler. He also provides vocals on the tune.

Speaking to EspyRock in a 2010 interview, vocalist Michael Poulsen explained: "Mikkel is the biggest boxer in Denmark and he was in this tournament called the 'Super Six Tournament' and he needed a song. He had been to some of the Volbeat shows and I had been to some of his fights, so we just started talking and I said, 'You know, you need a good song when you're walking to the ring,' and he said, 'Yeah, if you can come up with something good, let's work on it.'"

"I had this idea for 'A Warriors Call' and Mikkel really liked it, so we were in the studio and we had him sing on the part 'Fight Fight Fight' and now he is walking into the ring with that song," Poulson continued. "I'm really proud of that since I'm a big boxing fan and a boxing fanatic and my father was also an old fighter. Every day, the first thing I do in the morning is load up the computer and go to FightNews.com."

 

 

Rise Against - Satellite

Rise Against have never been afraid to provoke with their lyrics, and this song finds vocalist Tim McIlrath crying: "We can't feel the heat until you hold your hand over the flame / You have to cross the line just to know where it lays / You never know your worth until you take a hit / And you won't find the beat until you lose yourself in it." McIlrath told Spin magazine: "For a band that has always been against popular opinion and been thrown into the world of popular music — it goes without saying our opinions will ruffle feathers."

Chris Rea - Josephine

"Josephine" is one of the most popular and the most successful songs by Chris Rea, released in 1985 on the Shamrock Diaries. "Josephine" was written by Rea for his daughter of the same name. Rea would later pay the same compliment to his youngest daughter, Julia, on the album Espresso Logic (1993).
The song enjoyed popularity on the Balearic beat scene in the 1980s^.

Chris Cagle - Got My Country On

The song's music video was directed by Marcel and filmed on location at the Cagle family's "Big Horse Ranch" in Marietta, Oklahoma and at a boisterous tour stop at Billy Bob's in Fort Worth. The clip illustrates to viewers how Cagle gets his country on: by performing his loud, self proclaimed "redneck rock 'n roll" and by getting some serious work done maintaining his impressive Oklahoma homestead.

Nickelback - Bottoms Up

Surprisingly the band found it more challenging penning drinking songs like this one for Here and Now, rather than the pro-social tunes such as "When We Stand Together." "It's a drinking anthem. I mean, it's harder to write those songs than it is to write those social-awareness type songs, it really is," Kroeger admitted to MTV News. "Because for us, they've got to be good. Some of the stuff's got to be a little tongue-in-cheek, there's got to be some clever stuff there, you know, and you've got to be descriptive. But when you get done listening to it, you need to have the feeling of just wanting to grab a bottle of Jack. And I think we got there, because we'd bring friends over all the time and it was just like, 'You are now a test subject! Hit play; turn it up nice and loud.' And the song's over and they'd be like, 'I want to drink. I want to drink something right now.' And we were like 'Yes!'"

Bob Dylan - Duquesne Whistle

The bluesy song refers to the Duquesne (pronounced doo-kayne) train service that used to run between New York Penn and Pittsburgh Penn Stations, which was named after the eighteenth century Fort Duquesne in the latter city. That route is now served by the daily Amtrack Pennsylvanian service. The lyrics show Dylan's distaste at times a changing'. "Listen to that Duquesne whistle blowing," he demands. "Blowing like it's gonna sweep my world away."

Billy Talent - Viking Death March

This is a live music video compiled from live footage that was shot during the band's performances at the Rock am Ring festival in Nürburg, Germany on June 2 2012, and at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, Netherlands on June 6 2012. 

Ben Folds Five - Draw A Crowd

In 2011, Ben Folds Five reunited to record three tracks for Ben Folds' The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective. Bolstered by the experience, the band reconvened in Folds' Nashville studio and recorded a new album over a six-week period between January and February 2012.

Badly Drawn Boy - I'll Keep The Things You Throw Away

Badly Drawn Boy made the soundtrack for Being Flynn, this is the best song from the album.

Flogging Molly - Revolution

Frontman Dave King explained the song's meaning to Alternative Press magazine: "It doesn't necessary mean, 'Let's all get together and have a huge, big revolution.' It's about changing yourself from within. I know a few people who, in the economic downturn, have lost their jobs and started doing something completely different. They've tried opening a restaurant or opening a petting zoo.
It's about the worst of times and getting through that and rising above it. Sometimes it takes a tragedy for something good to come out of it. It's a positive-energy kind of thing. I want to project a positive energy. I think no matter what you write about, you have to convey an element of hope."

Anna And The Barbies - Álmatlan

Anothe great song from this Hungarian band.

Anna And The Barbies - Gombóc

A great hungarian alternative love song.

Andrew W.K. - We Want Fun

An awesome party metal song, this was featured in the Jackass Movie.

Zorall - Kedvencek temetője

A hard rock cover of Pet Sematary from Ramones with hungarian lyrics from Zorall. The video has scenes from the original movie.

Foo Fighters - Walk

The Foo Fighters performed this song at the 2012 Grammy Awards. They won five Grammys at the ceremony; Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song for this track, Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for "White Limo," Best Rock Album for Wasting Light and Best Long Form Music Video for the Foo's documentary Back and Forth. Grohl said as he accepted the award for Best Rock Performance: "We made this one in my garage with some microphones and a tape machine. The human element of making music is what's important. Singing into a microphone, learning to play your instrument ... It's not about what goes on in a computer."

Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes

The video for this song featured an extension of the futuristic theme first introduced in the music video for "Can't Get You Out of My Head" the previous year. Minogue and her artistic director William Baker had become interested in the street interpretation of robotic, jerky movements and included this in the video. The costumes also represent this interest and were described by Baker as being a mix of "hip hop chic with sci-fi lunacy".

Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting

Marx wrote this song on the road as a love letter to his wife, actress Cynthia Rhodes. In a 2010 interview, Marx told the Indian newspaper The Indian Express the story behind the song: "I wrote the song for my wife Cynthia who was in South Africa shooting for a film. We were not married then and I wanted to meet her because I had not seen her for a few months. But my visa application was rejected and when I came back I wrote this song which was more of a letter from me to her.
It was the fastest song I wrote, in barely 20 minutes. And this was the time when there was no Skype and Social networking so I had to ship the track to her. The song was very personal and was not intended to go public. But my friends pursued me to record it."

Goran Bregovic - Bubamara

This is the main music from one of the funnies movies of Emir Kusturica. This movie was huge in the '90s in Eastern Europe, and the song also. They even played it in a lot of parties, along with Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive, the song from Zorba the Greek etc. :)

fun. - We Are Young

This song captures the moments of youthful exuberance that come with a memorable night out - the kind of night you tell stories about for many years to come. Lead singer Nate Ruess says the lyrics were inspired by one specific night, after "my worst drinking night of all time." Ruess told Rolling Stone that he was kicked out of a taxi cab for puking all over it. "The cabbie was demanding all this money, and all I could do was stand on the corner with my head against the wall. It took me another day before I was a functioning adult and could actually write down the verses," he said.

Bush - Baby Come Home

The song's music video was directed by Todd Stefani, who is the younger brother of No Doubt singer and Gavin Rossdale's wife, Gwen Stefani. It was Stefani's first full length video, though the band had worked with him on a number of occasions previously. Rossdale explained the clip's concept to Spinner: "The 'Baby Come Home' video is the story of two people, disconnected and lost in the city; unable to find the right words to stay together," he said. "They find comfort in their passions. It stars Katherine Cowgill from the Los Angeles Ballet and was filmed in downtown Los Angeles - the original 'city of dreams.'"

Jack's Mannequin - Release Me

Alternative rock band Jack's Mannequin's third studio album, People and Things is considered by frontman Andrew McMahon to be a "relationship record." He explained: "My goal with many of the songs was to strip away the flowery language and sentiment attached to newer love and replace it with starker, less blinded language about more binding love. In the time following the last Jack's album the people in my world were moving in together, getting married, trying to find 'real jobs' and reconciling new lives that looked a lot less like youth than some of us cared for."
This is the second single from the album.

Nickelback - This Means War

Nickelback open their seventh studio album, Here and Now, with this up-tempo song. Chad Kroeger explained the album title to MTV News: "It's called Here and Now because it just represents a snapshot in time, a snapshot of who we were when we made it," he said. "And of all the names we had, it was better than Wizard Beating."

 

 

Adele - Set Fire To The Rain

Many of the songs on 21 such as this one are about the heartbreaking ending of Adele's first real relationship. She told MTV News in an interview to plug the album's release: "It broke my heart when I wrote this record, so the fact that people are taking it to their hearts is like the best way to recover. 'Cause I'm still not fully recovered. It's going to take me 10 years to recover, I think, from the way I feel about my last relationship. It was the biggest deal in my entire life to date. He made me totally hungry. He was older, he was successful in his own right, whereas my boyfriends before were my age and not really doing much. And he got me interested in film and literature and food and wine and traveling and politics and history, and those were things I was never, ever interested in. I was interested in going clubbing and getting drunk."

Our Lady Peace - As Fast As You Can

Continuing with the motif of trying new things on Curve, Our Lady Peace decided to record the individual drums on this song separately. Guitarist Steve Mazur said in 2012 that the idea behind this was to get "a bombastic live, almost distorted, drum sound" on the track.

Volbeat - Still Counting

"Counting all the assholes in the room, well I'm definitely not alone..." :)

My Chemical Romance - Bulletproof Heart

1980s heavy metal bands such as British outfit Judas Priest inspired this song. Gerard Way explained to Spinner: "That song actually reminded me in an odd way of all the best stuff of '80s what is called cock rock, but not all of it was. Judas Priest is considered metal, but it's great rock 'n' roll. It's having nothing to do with that era of metal, the hair rock, but then having everything to do with like the birth of power-anthem metal."

3 Doors Down - Every Time You Go

"Every Time You Go" never entered the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 4 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, which acts as a 25-song extension to the Hot 100.

Train - Drive By

Monahan is singing about a guy who is attempting to convince a girl that their one-night-stand was not just a "drive by." The protagonist insists that he wants a lasting relationship. Speaking with Digital Spy
the Train frontman admitted that it is "an indirect song about meeting [his] wife." Monahan added: "I really did not expect I was going to fall in love with her that day. I said I'm never going to move to Washington where you live and I'm never going to have kids or get married, just so you know. So we've been married five years, we live in Washington and we have two children and that whole threat worked out great."

Thriving Ivory - Where We Belong

This is the last single from Thriving Ivory released in 2010. Let's hope they return someday and make more great songs.

The Tea Party - Heaven Coming Down

This single reached No.1 on the Canadian mainstream charts in 1999. The Tea Party has a very unique sound, I love their songs. 

The Offspring - Days Go By

Speaking with Rolling Stone, Dexter Holland said that the Offspring are trying to impart a message through the Days Go By album. "Part of why I chose 'Days Go By' as the single and the title of the album is because it really kind of shows – not only with me – that the world has been through a sh--ty few years and it's been really tough on a lot of people," he explained. "People have really gotten hurt and, at the end of the day, no one's gonna pick you up.

You've gotta pick yourself up and figure out how to move on," he continued. "So I guess acknowledging that it's been tough, but also having a message of hope, is what I really wanted people to take away from this record."

Theory Of A Deadman - Out Of My Head

A fun song from the fourth album of Theory Of A Deadman.

Neon Trees - Animal

During an interview with myYearbook, Tyler Glenn was asked what inspired this song. He replied: "Vicious women. Does that sound sexist? I don't intend it that way, but particular vicious girls that claw you up but you love it so much anyway, if that makes any sense.…"

stellastarr* - My Coco

The biggest hit from stellastarr*. Enjoy!

Shinedown - Bully

This song is an anthem that addresses bullying. It sends a message of strength to those who are victims, reassuring them that they're not alone and there are many who have made it through. "We don't have to take this back against the wall, we don't have to take this we can end it all," sings frontman Brent Smith. Kerch told Bravewords.com that there wasn't any specific event that prompted to write a song about bullying. "I think we've all witnessed it in our lives," he said. "It's definitely more in the news; it's a hot ticket item right now. But I think that also exists because of the social media outlets – Facebook and Twitter, things like that. Really the song wasn't about one specific occasion, just bullying in general. You can't let yourself get bullied in life; you have to stand up for yourself and have a sense of pride in yourself and don't take it anymore. It's for anybody of any age group, whether you're a kid being bullied around, or even in your work place being bullied by your boss; it's universal, it's for everyone."

Jake Owen - Barefoot Blue Jean Night

It was Owen's former girlfriend who convinced him to record the song. He recalled to The Boot: "I was almost finished with my record. I had that song on my email. I listened to it over and over one night when my girlfriend at the time came downstairs, and we were breaking up. She said, 'You're an idiot if you don't record this.' I think she thought I was an idiot anyway, which is why she was leaving, but I did listen. [Laughs] She liked it, and for a girl who never mentioned much about my music, because I think my music is the one thing that kept me away from her, so she never complimented me much on it - for her to say that, I knew. I already knew in my mind it was a good song, but when she said that, I was like, all right, I'm cutting it. So it worked out. It's weird, I knew it would be a hit, but I didn't know it would be this big. I don't know what else to base it off of, because I've never had anything like that. I've had hits on the radio, but this is different. I keep telling folks, there's a difference between a hit song and a career song, and this is a career song."

Serj Tankian - Harakiri

System of a Down leader Serj Tankian's third solo album, Harakiri, is titled after the Japanese term signifying ritualistic suicide. It was inspired by reports he heard in early January 2011 of mass bird and fish deaths around the world. "The omen was not lost on me," he said. "Varied creatures on earth were committing massive hara-kiri. Do they know something we don't about the coming times or the sustainability of the environment?" The symbolism of entire species eradicating themselves on a large scale is an underlying theme on the entire record.

 

 

Santana - Shape Shifter

Shape Shifter is the title song from the twenty-first studio album (thirty-sixth album overall) by Santana. This album is the first from his new record label Starfaith Records, which is distributed by Sony Music Entertainment, owners of most of Santana's albums (except those recorded for Polydor Records which are owned by Universal Music Group).It is also the first album since 1992's Milagro that does not feature guest singers in any of the songs, a style that characterized Santana's albums since Supernatural. The album contains only one song with vocals ("Eres La Luz").

The Script - For The First Time

Danny O'Donoghue of The Script told the story behind the song in an interview with Merrick, Dools & Ricki-Lee on Sydney radio station Nova 96.9. Said O'Donoghue: "The song 'For the First Time' was about a time when we got back after touring around the world. We wanted to press palms with the people who had really gotten us there, and we got home and realised there's a stark reality out there, the recession has hit, people are losing their jobs and their valuable things, and we thought, this almost pales in comparison to our news. We started the song, and it ended up being a bit bleak and we felt we really needed a great message in these, to turn it around... so we needed a message of hope, as being are being stripped of all these things they're realising what's really important. It's all about going back to basics, drinking cheap wine, eating your dinner off the floor. That's when you meet each other for the first time, when you have nothing."

Richard Cheese - Die Motherfucker Die

A great lounge cover of an aggressive and wild Dope song. :)