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.