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.