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. :)