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Nicki Minaj - Want Some More

Nicki Minaj - Want Some More Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Pinkprint
Released: 2014

Want Some More Lyrics

Want Some More
Want some more
Even though a nigga been getting to it
Want some more
(Still want some more)
Want some more
Want some more
Every time I end up getting to it
Want some more

When they start talking crazy that's when I know that they
(Want some more)
I know that I'm getting it, but fuck it cause I
(Want some more)
When they start talking crazy that's when I know that they
(Want some more)
Every time I end up getting it
(Want some more)

I'm in this bitch, I'm getting money
One minute they hate me then they love me
Ain't got nothing for me, these dudes is funny
That's why I'm throwing shade like it's sunny
Who had Eminem on the first album?
Who had Kanye saying "She a problem"?
Who the fuck came in the game made her own cologne?
Who made Lil Wayne give 'em five million?
Why the fuck I gotta say it, though?
You niggas don't know it yet?
Football touchdown on the Boeing jet
You my son, but I'm just not showing yet
Miss Icy, but it ain't snowing yet
You can tell I'm the illest cause my dividend is the biggest
Bitches ain't sitting with us, all my niggas in Margielas (Oh!)
Is pigs flying? Is these bitches trying me?
They think it's sweet? Oh, these bitches got diabetes!
You seen that list? It was me, Baby, Jay Z and Diddy

Want some more
Want some more
Even though a nigga been getting to it
Want some more
(Still want some more)
Want some more
Want some more
Every time I end up getting to it
Want some more

When they start talking crazy that's when I know that they
(Want some more)
I know that I'm getting it, but fuck it cause I
(Want some more)
When they start talking crazy that's when I know that they
(Want some more)
Every time I end up getting it
(Want some more)

(Yo, yo)
I'm in this bitch I'm hassadiddy
I popped a Perc and I said "thank you"
I'm popping tags everyday, it look like my B-Day
These bitches suck, so I nick name these bitches BJ
They want that union,they want that D. Wade
I tell a ho "just be happy they getting leeway"
My name Barbie, bitch (My name Barbie, bitch)
Alexander, made me Queen
I'm pulling up with the King, I'm late to my own party, bitch
Want it, I get it, I don't be wanting for nothing
I mean, I do what I do and it must be counting for something
I don't be jumping from topic to topic, stay in my pocket
I got your rent in my pocket, so can I pay you to pop it?
Cash money, getting six albums
No bitch niggas want to bitch out
You niggas apologize and a nigga diss you?
That's a big problem

Want some more
Want some more
Even though a nigga been getting to it
Want some more
(Still want some more)
Want some more
Want some more
Every time I end up getting to it
Want some more

Writer/s: WARD, CHRISTIAN / MINAJ, NICKI / WAYNE, LELAND TYLER / DOTSON, XAVIER / FELTON, JEREMIH
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Ultra Tunes
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Minaj remind her rivals on this brag rap tune of some of the accomplishments during her career.

Who had Eminem on the first album?
Who had Kanye saying, 'She a problem'?
Who the f--k in the game made her own cologne?
Who made Lil Wayne give 'em five million?

The rapper goes to question why she has to point out all of her milestones to her doubters.

The song was produced by Metro Boomin and rapper/producer and reality show star Yung Berg. The Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood cast member goes by the name Hitmaka when he's behind the boards. Berg also worked on the Prinkprint tracks "Favorite," "Buy a Heart" and "Shanghai."

Jeremih croons the hook. The R&B singer also provided guest vocals on another Pinkprint track, "Favorite."

Green Day - Longview

Green Day - Longview Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dookie
Released: 1994

Longview Lyrics

I sit around and watch the tube but, nothing's on
I change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old shit
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm fucking lazy

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored, I'm going blind!!!
And I smell like shit

Peel me off this Velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored, I'm going blind!!!
And I smell like shit

I got no motivation
Where is my motivation
No time for motivation
Smoking my inspiration

I sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one she's got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're fucking lonely

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored, I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Slipping away to paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go blind"
But it's just a myth

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is about being bored, lonely, and feeling like a complete loser. In an interview with VH1, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong said: "I was just in a creative rut. I was in-between houses sleeping on people's couches. It's a song about trying not to feel pathetic and lonely. I didn't think that masturbation was really seen from the point of view that I was looking at it. In songs like 'Turning Japanese' it always seemed more about people pulling a pud or something. I was coming from a lonely guy's perspective: No girlfriend, no life, complete loser."

The lyrics refer to masturbation as means of escape: "Take me away to paradise." Lead singer Billy Joe describes his masturbation habits at the time as "chronic."

This was the first Green Day single released on a major label: Reprise Records. This was not a hit, but their next single, "Basket Case," launched them to popularity. Before Dookie came out, Green Day released two albums on a small label.

In a 1995 Rolling Stone magazine interview, bassist Mike Dirnt revealed that he initially wrote the unique bass riff to this song while on an acid trip. The next day a sober Mike, along with Billie Joe, had a hard time remembering the riff they liked so much the night before. What became the song's bassline was what they could remember to the best of their ability. (thanks, George - Islip Terrace, NY)

Most radio stations aired the edited version with the line "I smell like sh-t" mumbled at the end.

True to the Punk style, most of Green Day's songs to this point were very short. This was one of their longest at 3:59. (thanks, Adrian - Wilmington, DE)

Green Day recorded the Dookie album at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California. Their first attempts at recording "Longview" during these sessions didn't take, but they then went on tour with Bad Religion and performed the song every night, which helped them refine it. When the tour ended, they went back to Fantasy and recorded the proper version of the song.

A lot of consideration went into how this song would flow on the album. The open, which contrary to most Green Day tracks is built with a slow fade up, was designed to follow the previous Dookie track, "Chump," which gradually fades out after a brazen climax.

Oliver Heldens - Last All Night (Koala)

Oliver Heldens - Last All Night (Koala) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Single Release Only
Released: 2014

Last All Night (Koala) Lyrics

When lights are low
High anticipation waiting for the show
Feel my heart is racing, losing all control
Got me so impatient for you
Yeah, yeah

'Cause in my mind
I see you touching me in ways undefined
I don't want to stop it
I gotta press rewind
So baby tell me what we gonna do
Gonna do

Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night

When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night

We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)
We can make this last all night (Baby, baby, baby)

Hmm, feel this energy
Building up inside it's like a sweet release
You play with this emotion, oh, so cleverly
You got me so addicted to you
To you!

'Cause in my head
I know the night doesn't really have to end
I'm ready steady go
I am so prepared for whatever you say boy I do
I do

Oh,
Don't you dance with all the lights
Let's make this last all night, yeah
Oh,
Let's do it till the sky turns bright
Let's make this last all night

When you look into my eyes
The world stops and sparks fly
There's nothing sweeter than this paradise
Sing, oh
Baby set my love on fire
We can make this last all night

We can make this last all night
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night (We can make it, we can make it)
We can make this last all night

Writer/s: HELDENS, OLIVIER J L / EMENIKE, UZOECHI OSISIOMA / HILL, BECKY CLAIRE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was originally an instrumental titled "Koala," which was released as a digital download on July 16, 2014 by Oliver Heldens in the Netherlands. The song peaked #42 in the producer's native country and also reached the Top 50 in Belgium.

Heldens released a vocal version of the song titled "Last All Night (Koala)" as a digital download on December 7, 2014. KStewart is the singer; in case you're wondering she isn't the Twilight actress, but a rising artist from London who is known to her family as Kate.

This was Heldens' second hit in the UK, having shifted his animal of choice from a Gecko to the Koala bear. Here are some koala fun facts:

The Koala bear is not actually a bear, but a marsupial, related to the kangaroo and the wombat

Koalas sleep for up to 18 hours per day and spend about three of their five active hours eating.

Koalas typically inhabit open Eucalyptus woodlands, and the leaves of these trees make up most of their diet.

Koalas do not drink. They get all the moisture they need from the Eucalyptus leaves that they ingest.

The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans.

Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself

Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Vital Idol
Released: 1980

Dancing With Myself Lyrics

On the floor of Tokyo
Or down in London town to go, go
With the record selection
With the mirror reflection

I'm Dancing With Myself
When there's no-one else in sight
In the crowded lonely night
Well I wait so long

For my love vibration
And I'm dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself

Well there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself
If I looked all over the world

And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes
Seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself

So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance

And I'll be dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Well there's nothing to lose

And there's nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself
If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl

But your empty eyes
Seem to pass me by
Leave me dancing with myself
So let's sink another drink

'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
And I'll be dancing with myself

Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance

If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance

Dancing with myself
Dancing with myself
Dancing with myself
Dancing with myself

If I looked all over the world
And there's every type of girl
But your empty eyes
Seem to pass me by

Leave me dancing with myself
So let's sink another drink
'Cause it'll give me time to think
If I had the chance

I'd ask the world to dance
And I'll be dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself
Oh dancing with myself

If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance
If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance

If I had the chance
I'd ask the world to dance

Writer/s: JAMES, TONY / IDOL, BILLY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This song is commonly thought to be about masturbation, but it's really more about dancing by yourself. Billy got the idea after watching Japanese kids at a Tokyo disco "dancing with themselves" in a nightclub. The kids would dance in a pogo style up and down, and there were mirrors in the club so they could watch themselves doing it.

Idol concedes, however that there is "some sort of masturbatory element" to the song.

Idol originally recorded this in 1980 with his band Generation X, but producer Keith Forsey thought Billy should try releasing it on his own in the States. Forsey set Billy up in New York and thanks to MTV, the song quickly caught on. Idol re-recorded it when he went solo in 1981 and used it as a B-side on various extended singles.

This song is about more than just dancing. Idol told Rolling Stone: "The song really is about people being in a disenfranchised world where they're left bereft, dancing with their own reflections."

Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols played the solo. Steve and Billy remained close friends.

This song was a big deal for Idol because it established him in America. When he left Generation X, he came to the States and tried to get his solo career off the ground. With no idea what to do and a bit of depression creeping in, he went to the New York nightclub Hurrah to drown his sorrows. As Idol tells it, he was in the bar area when suddenly a crowd migrated to the dance floor. The song that got them up and dancing was "Dancing With Myself," which he had recorded with Generation X.

He realized that this was the hot sound - one also being employed by Simple Minds and Depeche Mode - and that he should run with it. With this revelation, Idol was able to evolve his punk sound into a new wave/dance style that made him one of the biggest stars of the '80s.

The video was directed by Tody Hooper, who directed the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (thanks, Saint - New Orleans, LA, for all above)

On Guitar Center Sessions, Idol explained: "With 'Dancing With Myself' I was trying to put back in punk energy, but streamline the music at the same time and make it great to dance to and slightly more sexual - some of the things that punk precluded because it was a sort of gang kind of music. I wanted to put a sexual feeling into it, and that's when I started doing with songs like 'Dancing With Myself.'"

Rich Gang - Tell Me Why

Rich Gang - Tell Me Why Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Rich Gang: Tha Tour Pt. 2
Released: 2014

Tell Me Why Lyrics

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The first of several collaborations between Rich Home Quan and Drake, fans had been waiting for the to pair to get together after Drizzy expressed regret to MTV News that he was unable to jump on the Atlanta rapper's "Type Of Way," calling it 2013's song of the summer. "At first it was through e-mail, and after that I went on tour with Wiz Khalifa, the Under the Influence Tour," Rich Homie told MTV. "We went to Toronto, he hit me up, I pulled up on him at his house and we dropped some music."

Rich Homie starts off his verse by quoting from Drake's "Started from the Bottom." The Atlanta rhymer has truly grinded his way up from the basement, having served 15 months in jail for burglary before his rap career took off.

Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues

Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Bootleg Series
Released: 1991

Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues Lyrics

Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue
I didn't know what in the world I was gonna do
Them Communists they was comin' around
They was in the air
They was on the ground
They wouldn't gimme no peace

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now
Look out you Commies

Now we all agree with Hitlers' views
Although he killed six million Jews
It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist
At least you can't say he was a Communist
That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria

Well, I was lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds
I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed
Looked in the sink, behind the door
Looked in the glove compartment of my car
Couldn't find 'em

I was lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere
I was lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair
I looked way up my chimney hole
I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away

Well, I was sittin' home alone an' started to sweat
Figured they was in my T.V. set
Peeked behind the picture frame
Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain
Them Reds caused it
I know they did, them hard-core ones

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was red stripes on the American flag
That ol' Betty Ross

Well, I investigated all the books in the library
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away
I investigated all the people that I knowed
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go
The other two percent are fellow Birchers, just like me

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American, George Lincoln Rockwell
I know for a fact he hates Commies 'cause he picketed the movie Exodus

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outta things to investigate
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself
Hope I don't find out anything, hm, great God

Writer/s: BOB DYLAN
Publisher: BOB DYLAN MUSIC CO
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Dylan wrote this about the John Birch Society, an ultraconservative political organization formed in 1958 to fight Communist threats in the US. This is a parody of the organization, which Dylan thought was a threat to free speech because they accused anyone they didn't like of being a communist.

In the '50s and '60s, many famous musicians, including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Doors and The Rolling Stones, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. Dylan never did, and this is the song that kept him off. On May 12, 1963, he was scheduled to appear on the show, but refused to go on when they would not let him perform this.

Advance copies of the album Freewheelin' Bob Dylan included this song, but it was removed prior to the official release. It did not officially appear on an album until Bootleg Series in 1991. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.

Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Released: 1993

C.R.E.A.M. Lyrics

What that nigga want God?
Word up, look out for the cops (Wu-Tang five finger shit)
(Cash Rules) Word up, two for fives over here baby
Word up, two for fives them niggas got garbage down the way, word up
Know what I'm sayin'?
(Cash Rules Everything Around Me
C.R.E.A.M. get)
Yeah, check this ol' fly shit out
Word up
(Cash Rules Everything Around Me) Take you on a natural joint
(C.R.E.A.M. get the money) Here we here we go
(Dolla dolla bill y'all) Check this shit, yo!

I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side
Staying alive was no jive
At second hands, moms bounced on old men
So then we moved to Shaolin land
A young youth, yo rockin' the gold tooth, 'Lo goose
Only way, I begin to gee off was drug loot
And let's start it like this son, rollin' with this one
And that one, pullin' out gats for fun
But it was just a dream for the teen, who was a fiend
Started smokin' woolies at sixteen
And running up in gates, and doing hits for high stakes
Making my way on fire escapes
No question I would speed, for cracks and weed
The combination made my eyes bleed
No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough all
Sticking up white boys in ball courts
My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater
Times is ruff and tuff like leather
Figured out I went the wrong route
So I got with a sick ass click and went all out
Catchin' keys from across seas
Rollin in MPV's, every week we made forty G's
Yo nigga respect mine, or anger the tech nine
Ch-chick-POW! Wu from the gate now

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

It's been twenty-two long hard years of still strugglin
Survival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrival
I peep at the shape of the streets
And stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deep
A man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.
Which failed I went to jail at the age of 15
A young buck sellin' drugs and such who never had much
Trying to get a clutch at what I could not, could not,
The court played me short, now I face incarceration
Pacin' going up state's my destination
Handcuffed in back of a bus, forty of us
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so ruff
But as the world turns I learned life is hell
Living in the world no different from a cell
Everyday I escape from Jakes givin' chase, sellin' base
Smokin' bones in the staircase
Though I don't know why I chose to smoke sess
I guess that's the time when I'm not depressed
But I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?
Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth
Who explained working hard may help you maintain
To learn to overcome the heartaches and pain
We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks
And stray shots, all on the block that stays hot
Leave it up to me while I be living proof
To kick the truth to the young black youth
But shorty's running wild smokin sess drinkin' beer
And ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his ear
Neglected, but now, but yo, it gots to be accepted
That what? That life is hectic

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me
C.R.E.A.M.
Get the money
Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Writer/s: JONES, JASPA / BLANK, PIET / KAUFHOLD, ANDREAS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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"C.R.E.A.M.," an acronym for Cash Rules Everything Around Me, is the third single from the hip-hop group's debut album. Method Man, Raekwon, and Inspectah Deck share their stories of survival growing up in the slums and running drugs on the streets, "livin' in the world no different from a cell," in the hope to "kick the truth to the young black youth."

This song has had an enduring influence on rappers. Method Man's hook, "Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., Get the money; dollar, dollar bill, y'all," and other references pop up in countless rap songs. Everyone from The Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac to Kanye West, Nas, and Drake have incorporated send-ups to the song on their own tracks. Eminem also included it on the soundtrack to this 2002 film, 8 Mile.

This samples the Charmels' 1967 song "As Long As I've Got You."

Fifteen years after its release, this song was certified gold in 2009.

This also landed at #32 on the R&B charts and #17 on the Hot Rap Singles chart.

This is referenced in Wyclef Jean's "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)," when guest Akon raps in the chorus: "I'mma tell you, like Wu told me, cash rules everything around me, singing dolla dolla bill y'all."

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Scary Monsters
Released: 1980

Ashes To Ashes Lyrics

Do you remember a guy that's been
In such an early song?
I've heard a rumor from Ground Control
Oh no, don't say it's true

They got a message from the Action Man
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too
I've loved all I've needed, love
Sordid details following"

The shrieking of nothing is killing, just
Pictures of Jap girls in synthesis and I
Ain't got no money and I ain't got no hair
But I'm hoping to kick but the planet it's glowing

Ashes To Ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low

Time and again I tell myself
I'll stay clean tonight
But the little green wheels are following me
Oh no, not again
I'm stuck with a valuable friend
"I'm happy, hope you're happy too"
One flash of light but no smoking pistol

I never done good things (I never done good things)
I never done bad things (I never done bad things)
I never did anything out of the blue, woh-o-oh
Want an axe to break the ice
Wanna come down right now

Ashes to ashes, funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junkie
Strung out in heaven's high
Hitting an all-time low

My mother said, to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom

My mother said, to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom

My mother said, to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom

My mother said, to get things done
You'd better not mess with Major Tom

Writer/s: BOWIE, DAVID
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, TINTORETTO MUSIC
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This song can be seen as a sequel to Bowie's 1969 hit, "Space Oddity." It revisits the fictional astronaut, Major Tom, who is now in space. He has regained communication with Ground Control and tells them he is happy, but they deem him nothing but a "junkie, strung out in heavens high, hitting an all-time low." Fans believe this to be Bowie's autobiographical piece about his fight against drug abuse and other personal demons.

The closing refrain of this song, "My mama said to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom," suggests that in order to make the best of the future, one should not dwell on the past. It has also been suggested that "Space Oddity" was a thinly veiled reference to a drug trip, and that "Ashes to Ashes" is hinting that in order to move on, Bowie must kick these drug habits. (thanks, Jason - Watford, England)

In his 2003 interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Bowie explains that the song "Inchworm," which was sung by Danny Kaye in the 1952 movie Hans Christian Andersen, was a big influence on "Ashes To Ashes." Said Bowie: "I loved it as a kid and it's stayed with me forever. I keep going back to it. You wouldn't believe the amount of my songs that have sort of spun off that one song. Not that you'd really recognize it. Something like 'Ashes to Ashes' wouldn't have happened if it hadn't have been for 'Inchworm.' There's a child's nursery rhyme element in it, and there's something so sad and mournful and poignant about it. It kept bringing me back to the feelings of those pure thoughts of sadness that you have as a child, and how they're so identifiable even when you're an adult. There's a connection that can be made between being a somewhat lost five-year old and feeling a little abandoned and having the same feeling when you're in your twenties. And it was that song that did that for me."

The music video for "Ashes to Ashes" features Bowie dressed as Pierrot in a variety of bizarre situations. Steve Strange of the New Wave band, Visage, cameos. Bowie has said the shot of himself and other characters marching towards the camera in front of a bulldozer symbolizes "oncoming violence." During this scene, the characters behind Bowie are not bowing, but simply trying to pull their gowns away from the bulldozer so they don't get stuck! This, and many other images in the video suggest that Bowie may be trying to bury the various personas he developed.

The video, which Bowie directed with David Mallet, cost £250,000 to produce, making it the most expensive music video ever made at the time. It was released a year before MTV went on the air.

In 1983, Peter Schilling released "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)," which is based on the Major Tom character. It was a rare instance of someone making a sequel to a song by another artist.

This was sampled on Samantha Mumba's "Body II Body." Bowie gave his seal of approval to Samantha's song, but a lot of his fans hated it. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)

The British BBC TV series, Ashes to Ashes, was named after this song. The series served as the sequel to Life on Mars, which was also named after the Bowie song of the same name.

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) was ranked at #30 on Q Magazine's "100 Greatest British Albums Ever."

Sham 69 - No Entry

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Album: That's Life
Released: 1978

No Entry Lyrics

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This two-and-a-half-minute track is autobiographical. According to Sham 69: History, Discography And Biography (published circa 1978), Sham 69 were lined up for a short US tour, but lead vocalist Jimmy Pursey got involved in an incident at the Vortex which led to him being arrested. In turn this led to the American Embassy refusing him a visa, so with guitarist Dave Parsons he wrote this charming ditty, which ends with the words: "stick America up your arse."

In contrast, if you listen closely you may hear something resembling "The Star Spangled Banner" in the melody at one point.

"No Entry" was released on the Polydor label in October 1978 as the B-side of "Hurry Up Harry." (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2)

Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass

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Album: Diva
Released: 1992

Walking On Broken Glass Lyrics

You were the sweetest thing that I ever knew
But I don't care for sugar, honey if I can't have you
Since you've abandoned me
My whole life has crashed
Won't you pick the pieces up
'Cause it feels just like I'm Walking On Broken Glass

Walking on, walking on broken glass

The sun's still shining in big blue sky
But it don't mean nothing to me
Oh let the rain come down
Let the wind blow through me
I'm living in an empty room
With all the windows smashed
And I've got so little left to loose
That it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass

Walking on, walking on broken glass

And if you're trying to cut me down
You know that I might bleed
'Cause if you're trying to cut me down
I know that you'll succeed
And if you want to hurt me
There's nothing left to fear
'Cause if you want to hurt me
You're doing really well my dear

Now everyone of us was made to suffer
Everyone of us was made to weep
But we've been hurting one another
And now the pain has cut too deep
So take me from the wreckage
Save me from the blast
Lift me up and take me back
Don't let me keep on walking
Walking on broken glass

Walking on, walking on broken glass.

Writer/s: LENNOX, ANNIE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The video was based on the 1988 movie Dangerous Liaisons, with elaborate costumes inspired by film, which was set in France during the 1700s. John Malkovich, who starred in the movie, also appeared in the video, as does Hugh Laurie, who went on to star in the TV show House. With the string section and harpsichord sound, the music fit the theme.

Contrary to the lilting melody, the lyrics describe a woman who is anguished over a breakup.

The elaborate photography on the Diva album was done by Anton Corbijn, who also worked with U2 and Depeche Mode. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Annie Lennox recalled the song's promo in a blog promoting her 2009 greatest hits album: "This was a wonderful video to create. There were some wonderful people involved-- John Malkovich and Hugh Laurie (before he had an American accent)! That was tremendous fun. The idea of it being a period piece, like Les Liaisons Dangereux. The alternative title for 'Broken Glass' could easily have been 'Hell hath no more fury than a woman scorned.' The video is very wry and tongue-in-cheek. People can take me a little seriously sometimes, but I do actually have a rather radical sense of humor."

Sham 69 - Red London

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Album: released as a b-side
Released: 1977

Red London Lyrics

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This short, uptempo track - 1 minute 55 seconds - was written by guitarist Dave Parsons; along with "Ulster" it made up the B-side of the first Sham 69 single: "I Don't Wanna."

Like the other two tracks, it was recorded at Pathway Studios, North London, produced by John Cale and released as both 7-inch and 12-inch singles. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

The Rolling Stones - Saint Of Me

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Album: Bridges To Babylon
Released: 1997

Saint Of Me Lyrics

Saint Paul the persecutor
Was a cruel and sinful man
Jesus hit him with a blinding light
And then his life began
I said yeah
I said yeah

Augustin knew temptation
He loved women, wine and song
And all the special pleasures
Of doing something wrong
I said yeah
I said yeah

I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a Saint Of Me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
He'll never make a saint of me

And could you stand the torture
And could you stand the pain
Could you put your faith in Jesus
When you're burning in the flames

And I do believe in miracles
And I want to save my soul
And I know that I'm a sinner
I'm gonna die here in the cold
I said yes, I said yeah

I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me

I thought I heard an angel cry
I thought I saw a teardrop falling from his eye

John the Baptist was a martyr
But he stirred up Herod's hate
And Salome got her wish
To have him served up on a plate
I said yeah
I said yeah

I said yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me
Oh yeah, oh yeah
You'll never make a saint of me

I thought I heard an angel cry
I thought I saw a teardrop falling from his eye
I thought I saw an angel cry

You'll never make a saint of me
You'll never make a saint of me

Writer/s: KEITH RICHARDS, MICK JAGGER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This song was written as a tribute to legendary R&B performer Billy Preston, who plays keyboards on this track. Preston has had a long history of run-ins with the law for charges such as assault and drug possession. The only man ever to have recorded songs with both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Preston played the famous keyboard solo on the Fab Four's "Get Back." (thanks, Tony - Sunshine Coast, Qld, Australia)

Husband and wife duo Mark Gaillard and Mary Anderson sued The Stones, claiming that this was a rip-off of a song they wrote called "Oh Yeah." They claimed Stones engineer John Bernard was in the studio when they recorded "Oh Yeah" in 1996 and brought the idea to The Stones.

Meshell Ndegeocello played bass on this track. She had a popular song as a solo artist with "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" and played on sessions with Madonna and Indigo Girls. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)