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“Uptown Girl” is from Billy Joel’s 1983 album An Innocent Man. Inspired by doo-wop and Frankie Valli-style pop, the song plays on the fantasy of a working-class guy trying to win over a glamorous, upper-class woman. It became one of Joel’s biggest hits, reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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The video for "Where The Streets Have No Name" was recorded live on the roof of a liquor store in Los Angeles (1987). U2 played the whole song non-stop and the crowd that formed on the street was so large that it caused a gigantic traffic jam. The police arrived, threatened to arrest everyone and turn off the power, but the band finished the song anyway.
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“Loser” was recorded almost entirely in the living room of producer Carl Stephenson and released in 1994 as the lead single from Beck’s album Mellow Gold. Stephenson looped a short slide-guitar part from one of Beck’s songs, added a drum break and his own sitar, then Beck improvised the vocal while trying to rap like Public Enemy’s Chuck D. When he heard the playback he said, “Man, I’m the worst rapper in the world, I’m just a loser,” and the chorus was born. It became the biggest hit of Beck’s career, reaching No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending five weeks at No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The track also samples Johnny Jenkins’ cover of “I Walk on Guilded Splinters.” Beck later said the idea of putting hip-hop beats under folk music had been in his head since the late 1980s, the song just happened to arrive fully formed in one afternoon.
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"Steppin' Out" was inspired by the excitement of New York nightlife after Joe Jackson moved there following his divorce. The sophisticated synth-pop classic became his biggest US hit, peaking at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning Grammy nominations for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. The song found a new audience decades later after being featured on the Flash FM radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002). It later reappeared in Grand Theft Auto V/ GTA Online on Los Santos Underground Radio (as part of The Black Madonna’s set), introducing its sleek 1980s sound to yet another generation of players.
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“Nothing Else Matters” was written by James Hetfield in 1990, during the …And Justice for All tour, while he was missing his girlfriend. He composed it alone in hotel rooms and on the bus. At first he did not want the rest of the band to hear it, He thought Metallica only made songs about destruction, not about a girlfriend. Lars Ulrich heard it and pushed for it. Released as a single from the 1991 album Metallica, it reached No. 11 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and No. 6 in the UK. It remains one of the band’s most played songs worldwide.
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At Live Aid, July 1985, The Cars played “Drive” at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. The song was already a hit: No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 in the UK in 1984, from Heartbeat City. The version that defined the day was not the live one. After David Bowie finished “Heroes” at Wembley, he returned to the microphone and said, “Lest we forget why we’re here,” then introduced a CBC film of the Ethiopian famine. He had dropped a planned song to make room for it. The footage was soundtracked by “Drive.” It played on the giant screens at Wembley and JFK and on the global broadcast. Bob Geldof later said more money was pledged after that transmission than at any other point in the concert. The donation lines in the UK overloaded. A breakup ballad about someone disappearing became for a few minutes, the sound of the reason the concert existed.
Ladytron Fan Account110,514 views • 7 days ago
"Dreams" is from The Cranberries' 1993 debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. Dolores O'Riordan's ethereal vocals and the song's jangly guitar made it the band's breakthrough hit. It reached #27 on the UK Singles Chart, #15 in Ireland, and #42 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Airplay.
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“Don’t Go” was written by Vince Clarke for Yazoo’s debut album, Upstairs at Eric’s (1982). After leaving Depeche Mode, Clarke answered an ad from Alison Moyet, a blues and soul singer from Basildon, and the two formed the duo. In the United States and Canada they were billed as Yaz, because another act already had the name Yazoo. Released on 5 July 1982 as the second single, after “Only You,” it reached No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 1 in Belgium and Iceland, and No. 1 on the US Dance chart. The album took its name from the upstairs room at producer Eric Radcliffe’s studio. The partnership was already over by the time the second album, You and Me Both, reached No. 1 in 1983.
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At Live Aid, on 13 July 1985 at Wembley Stadium, Ultravox played “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes” as the second song of a short early-afternoon set: “Reap the Wild Wind,” “Dancing with Tears in My Eyes,” “One Small Day” and “Vienna.” Midge Ure was not only the singer. He had co-organised the concert with Bob Geldof. The band usually took five hours to soundcheck and carried 25 or 26 synthesizers. At Wembley there was no soundcheck so they chose the simplest songs they could play with the least equipment. Ure later said their heads were not full of the size of the audience or the television audience. They were worried the gear would not work.
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“Love Shack” is from The B-52’s 1989 album "Cosmic Thing". The quirky, upbeat dance-rock track became the band’s signature song and biggest commercial hit, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 in Australia, and #1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was inspired by a real, unheated cabin with a rusted tin roof in the woods outside Athens, Georgia, where Kate Pierson lived and the band threw legendary parties (and worked on early songs like “Rock Lobster”). It was the band’s first major hit following the death of founding guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985. The famous improvised line “Tin roof… rusted!” (sung by Cindy Wilson) almost didn’t make the final cut and the music video featured an early cameo by a pre-fame RuPaul.
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"Dammit" is from Blink-182's 1997 album Dude Ranch. The fast-paced pop-punk anthem became the band's breakthrough hit, reaching #11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and helping define the late '90s pop-punk explosion. Written by Mark Hoppus after a breakup with his girlfriend, the song perfectly captures the awkwardness of young adulthood. Its original title was "Dammit (Growing Up)", but the subtitle was later dropped, and the catchy line "Well, I guess this is growing up" became one of Blink-182's most iconic lyrics.
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“Would?” was written by Jerry Cantrell for Alice in Chains’ 1992 album Dirt. It first appeared on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s film Singles, in which the band made a cameo as a bar band. Cantrell wrote it as a tribute to his friend Andrew Wood, the Mother Love Bone singer who passed away in 1990. Released to US radio in June 1992, it reached No. 31 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In the UK it peaked at No. 19, the band’s highest position there at the time. The track has stayed in regular rotation ever since, and in 2019 a trailer for the second season of The Punisher sent it back onto Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart at No. 15.
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"Ordinary World" is from the album Duran Duran (1993), also known as The Wedding Album. The song marked Duran Duran's return to the top of the charts in the 90s and became one of the band's biggest hits, proving that they could evolve without losing the emotional essence. Released as a single, it was a major hit: #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #6 on the UK Singles Chart.
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“Kiss from a Rose” was written by Seal around 1987 but only became a worldwide phenomenon after its inclusion in the 1995 film Batman Forever. Originally released on his 1994 album Seal II, the song attracted only modest attention before director Joel Schumacher insisted on featuring it during the film's end credits and in its promotional campaign. The renewed exposure propelled the song to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while it also reached the Top 10 in the UK and several other countries. At the 1996 Grammy Awards, it won Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.
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“Back in Black” was written by Angus Young, Malcolm Young and Brian Johnson as a tribute to AC/DC's former lead singer Bon Scott, who died in February 1980. Rather than creating a mournful song, the band wanted to celebrate Scott's life with something powerful and triumphant. The track became the title song of AC/DC's seventh studio album, produced by Robert John “Mutt” Lange and released later that year. Although “Back in Black” was not initially a major singles-chart hit in the US, the album became a monumental commercial success and eventually one of the best-selling albums in music history. The title track has since become one of AC/DC's most recognisable songs and one of the defining anthems ofrock. Malcolm Young originally used the famous opening guitar riff as a warm-up exercise before it evolved into the foundation of the song.
Ladytron Fan Account64,397 views • 6 days ago
"Into the Groove" was released in 1985 (track from the film Desperately Seeking Susan and single that became Madonna's first UK #1). On July 13, 1985, she took the stage at Live Aid in Philadelphia (JFK Stadium) and delivered one of the most iconic performances in the festival's history.
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Cliff Burton had already written the bass intro to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” before joining Metallica. He had performed an early version of the riff with his pre-Metallica band, Agents of Misfortune, at a Battle of the Bands in 1981. When Burton brought the idea to Metallica, James Hetfield added the heavy guitar accents, helping turn Burton's unusual bass line into one of the band's most recognisable openings. Recorded for Metallica's 1984 album Ride the Lightning, the song was inspired by Ernest Hemingway's novel of the same name. And the “bell” heard at the beginning isn't actually a traditional bell: at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, drummer Lars Ulrich struck a huge cast-iron anvil with a metal hammer to create the sound. The recording was combined with a bell sound from a sound-effects reel, giving the intro its distinctive metallic character. The album credits list Ulrich as playing “drums, anvil.”
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"Message in a Bottle" was written by Sting and inspired by the image of a lone castaway throwing bottles into the sea in the hope that someone would find them. The song's distinctive guitar riff originated with Sting, but guitarist Andy Summers rearranged and transformed it into the intricate part heard on the recording. "Message in a Bottle" became The Police's first No. 1 single on the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the top in 1979. It also topped the charts in Ireland and reached No. 5 in Australia and No. 2 in Canada. Surprisingly it peaked at only No. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
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“Candyman” was written by Christina Aguilera and Linda Perry for Aguilera's 2006 album Back to Basics. Inspired by the sound of 1940s swing and the vocal harmonies of The Andrews Sisters, particularly “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” the song combines vintage jazz, blues and pop with Aguilera's provocative modern style. It also incorporates a sample from “Tarzan & Jane Swingin' on a Vine,” a U.S. Marines cadence, giving the track its instantly recognisable military-style chant. The track became a major international hit, reaching No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 17 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 9 on the Canadian Hot 100. The music video, co-directed by Aguilera and Matthew Rolston, embraces a 1940s World War II aesthetic and presents Aguilera as a three-woman singing group inspired by The Andrews Sisters. The video also features references to classic Hollywood pin-up culture and the famous “We Can Do It!” poster, while Benji Schwimmer appears as her dance partner.
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