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.