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Duran Duran Songs - Electric Barbarella
Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella


Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Medazzaland
Released: 1997

Electric Barbarella Lyrics


I knew when I first saw you
On the show room floor
You were made for me
I took you home
And dressed you up in polyester
Princess of my dreams
Emotionless and cold as ice
All of the things I like
The way you look
The way you move
The sounds you're making
In Ultrachrome, latex, and steel

[Chorus]
I plug you in
Dim the lights
Electric Barbarella
Your perfect skin
Plastic kiss
Electric Barbarella
Try to resist
Then we touch
Hallucinate and tranquilize

(She's so fine)
(She's all mine)

Our private life is subject to investigation
No time to waste
People say they heard about our deviation
But you never looked so good
Wear the fake fur fake pearls for me
And put on your mystery
The way I feel you know
I never keep you waiting
In Ultrachrome, latex, and steel

[Chorus]

[Chorus]

Princess of my dreams
Princess of my dreams
Majordomo plasticomo Barbarella
(She's so fine)
Pro genetic your Electric Barbarella
(She's all mine)
My pretty pretty
Pretty pretty
Barbarella
Barbarella
Barbarella
Barbarella

Writer/s: NICK RHODES, WARREN CUCCURULLO, SIMON LE BON
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Electric Barbarella Song Chart
  • This song is about a man who falls in love with his robot lover. Duran Duran is named after the mad scientist character Durand-Durand in the 1968 movie Barbarella, but this song has very little to do with the movie's plot, which finds Barbarella traveling through space looking for a device that will save earth. The wacky sound effects from the movie are incorporated into this song.
  • Ellen Von Unwerth, a fashion photographer who worked on the album art, directed the video, in which lead singer Simon Le Bon plugs in a curling iron between the legs of his robot lover (played by a real person).

    Von Unwerth specializes in sensual, striking images of beautiful women; Rihanna, Britney Spears and Claudia Schiffer have all been in front of her lens, but this is most likely the first time she portrayed one as an android.
  • This was the first single from Medazzaland, which sold poorly and marked a low point for Duran Duran. Their fortunes turned after the original five members of the band reunited in 2001 and played some very successful shows. Many contemporary artists came out in support of the band, citing them as an influence, Justin Timberlake and Gwen Stefani among them.

  • J. Cole Songs - Apparently
    J. Cole - Apparently


    J. Cole - Apparently Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: 2014 Forest Hills Drive
    Released: 2014

    Apparently Lyrics


    Oh right, oh
    Oh why na-da-da-da
    I keep my head high
    I got my wings to carry me
    I don't know freedom
    I want my dreams to rescue me
    I keep my faith strong
    I ask the Lord to follow me
    I've been unfaithful
    I don't know why you call on me

    This is my canvas
    I'ma paint it how I want it baby, oh I
    This is my canvas
    I'ma paint it, paint it, paint it, how I want it nigga
    Fuck you cause there
    There is no right or wrong
    Only a song
    I like to write alone
    Be in my zone
    Think back to Forest Hills, no perfect home
    But the only thing like home I've ever known
    Until they snatched it from my mama
    And foreclosed her on the loan
    I'm so sorry that I left you there to deal with that alone
    I was up in New York City chasin' panties gettin' dome
    Had no clue what you was goin' through
    How could you be so strong?
    And how could I be so selfish, I know I can be so selfish
    I could tell by how I treat you with my girl
    Damn she so selfless, but she put up with my way
    Because she loves me like you do
    And though it do not always show I love her just like I love you
    And I need to treat you better
    Wish you could live forever, so we could spend more time together

    I keep my head high
    I got my wings to carry me
    I don't know freedom
    I want my dreams to rescue me
    I keep my faith strong
    I ask the Lord to follow me
    I've been unfaithful
    I don't know why you call on me

    Apparently, you believe in me, you believe in me
    Apparently, you believe in me and I thank you for it

    Another day another rhyme ho
    Another day another time zone
    Today I woke up feelin' horny so it's only right
    I got two bitches playin' on my trumbone
    Keep up, never sure where the words would take me
    Niggas eat em up, and regurgitate me
    Shit trump tight never slurred or lazy
    Give em' words and the urge to raise me
    Nigga please
    Best friends really make great for enemies
    My watch came niggas can't wait for one of these
    I see you nigga, this ain't no Rolex, it's a AP nigga
    I'm hot dog, catch up to me nigga
    Uh, couldn't resist
    Aim for the stars and I shit in the mist
    But I was ridin' on fumes so I stopped by the moon
    Now I'm sittin' on the hood of this bitch
    Like thanks for the view
    Waitin' on thanks from a few cause without me you wouldn't exist
    You know that shit gave you the blueprint don't forget
    Cole is your phone on zero percent
    Going off, now niggas showin' off
    Niggas swear they hard but they flowin' soft
    I'm taking off like boing on a big ass Boeing
    Gettin' head like a coin toss
    Too easy

    I keep my head high
    I got my wings to carry me
    I don't know freedom
    I want my dreams to rescue me
    I keep my faith strong
    I ask the lord to follow me
    I've been unfaithful
    I don't know why you call on me

    Apparently, you believe in me, you believe in me
    Apparently, you believe in me and I thank you for it

    Writer/s: TRECCA, FILIPPO / COLE, JERMAINE LAMARR
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Apparently Song Chart
  • This song finds Cole reflecting on some of the mistakes he's made during his life that have ruined some of his most valuable relationships. The rapper acknowledges that he hasn't been the best servant, but he remains faithful to God and knows that his mom has 'apparently' always been rooting for him.
  • A guilty Cole apologizes in the first verse to his mom, Kay Cole, for leaving her to deal with foreclosure at his childhood home, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, in North Carolina, while he was away chasing girls and partying at New York's St. John's University. Eventually, in June 2014 Cole purchased the house back and renovated it to look exactly how it did when he lived there.
  • This was released as the first single from Cole's 2014 Forest Hills Drive LP. Despite being released late in the year on December 9th, it was the best-selling rap album of 2014 in the US.

  • Cyndi Lauper Songs - She Bop
    Cyndi Lauper - She Bop


    Cyndi Lauper - She Bop Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: She's So Unusual
    Released: 1983

    She Bop Lyrics


    Wehell I see them every night in tight blue jeans
    In the pages of a Blue Boy magazine
    Hey I've been thinking of a new sensation
    I'm picking up good vibration
    Ooh She Bop, she bop

    Do I want to go out with a lion's roar
    Huh, yea, I want to go south and get me some more
    Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine
    They say I better stop or I'll go blind
    Ooh she bop, she bop

    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu bop
    I hope he will understand
    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu she bop
    Ohh ohh she do she bop

    Hey, hey they say I better get a chaperon
    Because I can't stop messin' with the danger zone
    Hey, I won't worry, and I won't fret
    Ain't no law against it yet, oh she bop, she bop

    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu bop
    I hope he will understand
    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu she bop
    Ohh ohh she do she bop

    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu bop
    I hope he will understand
    She bop he bop and we bop
    I bop you bop and they bop
    Be bop be bop a lu she bop
    Ohh ohh she did it she bop
    Ohh ohh she dif it she bop

    Writer/s: LAUPER, CYNDI / CHERTOFF, RICK / CORBETT, G. / LUNT, S.B.
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    She Bop Song Chart
  • This song is about masturbation: "They say that if I do it I'm going to go blind...," "I can't stop messin' with the danger zone."
  • Lauper wrote this song with Rick Chertoff, Gary Corbett and Stephen Broughton Lunt. Corbett is a keyboard player who has worked with Lou Gramm and Cinderella; Lunt also co-wrote Lauper's song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough." Chertoff produced the album along with Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, who had some hit songs with their group The Hooters a year later, including "And We Danced" and "Day By Day." They also played backup on the album.
  • The author Lucy O'Brien used the title for a book about women in rock.
  • Lauper wanted kids to think this was about dancing. She was hoping they wouldn't understand the real meaning until they got older.

  • Korn Songs - So Unfair
    Korn - So Unfair


    Korn - So Unfair Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Single Release Only
    Released: 2014

    So Unfair Lyrics


    So Unfair Song Chart
  • This song was inspired by frontman Jonathan Davis' youngest child Zeppelin's battle with Type 1 diabetes. It was recorded to raise funds for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), a major charitable organization dedicated to funding type 1 diabetes research.

    Davis said: "It's a horrible disease and I really wanna do whatever I can do to make a difference to help find a cure for this. 'Cause it just doesn't affect my son. I feel for everyone who has this disease. It's not fair at all. And so I started writing this song, 'So Unfair', about it. Because you're asking a child not to eat candy. I've gotta watch his carbs, I've gotta watch the sugar count, I've gotta watch everything. And how do you tell a child, 'You can't eat this. You can't do this. You can't do that.' So it's been a constant battle with me."

    "I constantly worry about… At night, I've had him… his blood sugar drop really low where it'd scare where he won't look up," he added. It's a very difficult thing to deal with."
  • Another Type 1 diabetes sufferer is Nick Jonas. He wrote the Jonas Brothers single "A Little Bit Longer" about his struggles with the disease.

  • Devo Songs - Whip It
    Devo - Whip It


    Devo - Whip It Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Freedom Of Choice
    Released: 1980

    Whip It Lyrics


    Crack that whip
    Give the past the slip
    Step on a crack
    Break your momma's back

    When a problem comes along you must Whip It
    Before the cream sits out too long you must whip it
    When something's going wrong you must whip it

    Now whip it into shape
    Shape it up
    Get straight
    Go forward
    Move ahead
    Try to detect it
    It's not too late to whip it
    Whip it good

    When a good time turns around you must whip it
    You will never live it down unless you whip it
    No one gets their way until they whip it
    I say whip it whip it good
    I say whip it whip it good

    Crack that whip
    Give the past the slip
    Step on a crack
    Break your momma's back

    When a problem comes along you must whip it
    Before the cream sits out too long you must whip it
    When something's going wrong you must whip it

    Now whip it into shape
    Shape it up
    Get straight
    Go forward
    Move ahead
    Try to detect it
    It's not too late to whip it into shape
    Shape it up
    Get straight
    Go forward
    Move ahead
    Try to detect it
    It's not too late to whip it
    Whip it good

    Writer/s: M. MOTHERSBAUGH, G.V. CASALE
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Whip It Song Chart
  • Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh formed Devo when they were at Kent State University. Jerry told us how this song came together:

    "Whip It, like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. The lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in his book Gravity's Rainbow . He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive, cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and 'You're #1, there's nobody else like you' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. I thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I wrote down 'Whip It' one night. Mark had recorded some sketches for song ideas in his apartment, and when we'd get together every day to write, rehearse and practice, we would listen to everybody's snippets of ideas. He had this tape with about eight things on it, and one of them had a drum beat that was very interesting, it became the 'Whip It' drum beat.

    Then three other songs had pieces of what became the 'Whip It' song, except they were in different time signatures and different tempos. I put them all together into one composition. All the parts of the song got rolled into one song. Then we started putting the lyrics over the top of it and liked the idea of how it was working out. We started practicing it every day, until we got it to the point where we really liked it and we thought it was really snappy. Then we recorded it. We didn't like it any better or any less than any of the other songs we were doing, and we had no idea it would become a hit." (Here's our full Devo interview .)
  • This became a hit when it was picked up by a radio programmer from Florida. He played it on some stations there and created the buzz that made it a hit. Says Jerry: "It spread around the country. All the DJs and people hearing it assumed it was a song about beating off or sadomasochism, so we let them think that. We didn't want to ruin it and tell them the truth, because they just wouldn't get off on the truth."
  • When MTV launched in 1981, they had very few videos to choose from. Some European and Australian artists had been making videos, but very few came from US artists, and most of those were concert videos. Devo had been making interesting videos for a while because they thought Laser Discs were going to catch on and wanted to make film shorts with music soundtracks that people could watch on them. Laser Discs never caught on, but MTV did, which gave this video lots of exposure.
  • Jerry Casale: "We made a video to it for like $15,000 that was shot in our rehearsal studio. We kind of magnified that myth that this was a song about whipping and sadomasochism. We decided to make the video feed that popular misconception and had a lot of fun doing it. It was one of the few times Devo worked like that, usually we would start with a visual idea or story and write music to fit it. In this case, we didn't originally have a video idea for 'Whip It,' and when people started thinking it was a song about whacking off or sadomasochism, we had these quack books that we would collect from junk stores or vintage magazine stores that served as inspiration or jokes. There was this one magazine that I found in a store in Santa Monica. It was a 1962 men's girlie mag called Dude, I think.

    There was a feature article on a guy who had been an actor and fell on hard times, he wasn't getting parts anymore. He moved with his wife to Arizona, opened a dude ranch and charged people money to come hang out at the ranch. Every day at noon in the corral, for entertainment, he'd whip his wife's clothes off with a 12-foot bullwhip. She sewed the costumes and put them together with Velcro. The story was in the magazine about how good he was and how he never hurt her. We had such a big laugh about it, we said, 'OK, that's the basis for the video. We'll have these cowboys drinking beer and cheering Mark on as he's in the barnyard whipping this pioneer women's clothes off while the band plays in the corral.'

    Back then, nobody cared. MTV had just started up in three cities, we had already shot 5 videos before Whip It, and nobody cared. There was no industry around it, there were no gatekeepers, there was no pecking order, there were no video commissioners, there were no representatives going, 'No, you can't do that, we won't show that.' There wasn't enough money or power involved for anybody to care, so we were just considered crazy artists that went out and did whacko things. So we made the video and one day we started showing it in concerts and then MTV started playing it."
  • Mark Mothersbaugh told us: "We had just done our second world tour when we started writing our third album. The one thing that we were impressed with that we noticed everywhere around the world was that everybody was totally freaked out by American politics and American foreign policy. At the time, Jimmy Carter was in charge. I thought of 'Whip It' as kind of a Dale Carnegie, 'You Can Do It' song for Jimmy Carter."
  • This was one of the first hit songs that used a synthesizer as the lead instrument.
  • Devo's music and videos were based on the concept of "De-Evolution," meaning that mankind is regressing. They dressed alike in their videos to convey the lack of individuality in the world. Said Casale, "I think a lot of Devo is in 'Whip It.' There's Americana mixed with something menacing, there's irony and humor, there's a hook and a big dance beat, there are interesting synth parts, lyrics that aren't the typical lyrics about getting laid or losing your baby. Although we weren't trying, it was a pretty concentrated dose of Devo in 'Whip It.'"
  • Jerry Casale: "From the beginning, on purpose, Devo was a multimedia idea. There was no name for 'Performance Art' at the time. That term didn't exist, although I think that's what we were doing when I look back at it. It's exactly that, Devo represented an attitude, a point of view, a philosophy. It was like combining film-making and theatrics and cutting-edge kind of synthesizers and rock beats all rolled into one big performance with a lifestyle message behind it, which was basically to beware of illegitimate authority and think for yourself. Hardly a revolutionary idea, but it turns out to be more revolutionary as people's freedoms are slowly eaten away."
  • In 2003, this was used in a commercial for Swiffer wet mops. In the ad, a woman cleans the house with a Swiffer while doing robotic motions like Devo. When her daughter, who appears to be a junior-high Goth girl, sees her, she says, "I hope it's not genetic."

    Jerry's thoughts: "The concept of that commercial is a generation gap where 'Whip It' is being used as a put-down of the girl's mother. She's stuck in the '80s and swiffing away to Whip It and the kid thinks she's weird and is embarrassed by her. It's perfect that while Devo, when we came out we were a critical success and loved by people, we were pretty much overlooked by radio and MTV. MTV turned on Devo around 1981 and quit showing stuff and didn't want anything to do with us. They said, 'Unless your song's a hit, we're not playing your videos.' What's funny is, we never made any money, and only through publishing now are we making money, ironically for the wrong reason. But built into Devo was that comment on how society works and how people see things different ways and there is no one explanation of reality and that people do not share one logical idea of reality. This just proves it. We don't feel bad about the little bit of money that trickles to us now that we never got in the first place because they used these songs in a terrible way. It's almost more subversive because you go, 'This can't be, it's all wrong.' By misusing it so badly, they've created something that amuses us, entertains us."
  • Proctor & Gamble, who make the Swiffer, originally had them re-record this for the commercial as "You must swiff it," but their lawyers found out that copyrighting "Swiff It" and the product implications down the line could cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars, so they changed the lyrics to "You must Swiffer" so they wouldn't have to copyright "Swiff It."
  • Because of a bad publishing deal Devo made in 1978, they control only half the rights to their songs. When they allow their songs to be used in commercials, they insist on re-recording them so they can keep all the performance rights. In the Swiffer commercial, that is Mothersbaugh's vocal with lyrics written by Proctor & Gamble.
  • This has also been used in ads for Gateway, Twix and Pringles. In the Gateway commercial, the chairman of the company is driving an 18-wheeler with the Gateway cow riding shotgun. The cow produces a CD labeled "Cow Mix," and when they listen to it, this comes on and the chairman and the cow sing along. That ad is one of Mothersbaugh's favorites.
  • This was Devo's only hit, but they have a large cult following, and many of their songs have been resurrected for commercials. Members of Devo started a company called Mutato Muzika (www.mutato.com) that develops music for movies, TV shows and commercials. Jerry is a successful director, and has worked on videos by Rush, The Foo Fighters, Soundgarden and many others.
  • This song is playable in Donkey Konga for the Nintendo GameCube. (thanks, Matthew - Milford, MA)
  • Senior citizen singers the Del Rubio triplets made this song a big part of their stage show, performing it on acoustic guitars. They made many TV appearances in the '80s, usually performing in a campy style and wearing skimpy outfits.
  • The Brian Welch fronted nu-metal band Love and Death covered this in 2013 for their Between Here & Lost album. Their version features Matt Baird of the Arkanas hard rock band Spoken. Welch recalled to Noisecreep : "He was just in town during the recording and Jaren (Rauch, producer) mentioned it. He said it would be cool to have a guy to scream on there and so I totally tried it. You wouldn't believe it, at nine in the morning, he got up - you're hearing him with morning voice and everything and we just threw him on there."

  • Ludacris Songs - Burning Bridges
    Ludacris - Burning Bridges


    Ludacris - Burning Bridges Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Burning Bridges
    Released: 2014

    Burning Bridges Lyrics


    When all your love is lost
    And Burning Bridges can't be crossed
    Lord won't you let me know
    Or give me one more reason to go

    When all your love is lost
    And burning bridges can't be crossed
    Lord won't you let me know
    Or give me one more reason to go

    I done took all I could take from you
    Need a little bit more than a break from you
    Matter of fact fuck you, don't need you in my life
    You done did so much wrong I hope you get it right
    But not at my expense, I did all I could do
    You just took me for granted, you thought I was a fool
    When I did everything in my power to help and please you
    But I don't know you no more, fuck it, I caught amnesia
    Too many emotions I try to bury
    But the higher I climb, the less weight I'm trying to carry
    And niggas holdin' on for dear life, bringin' me drama
    But I'm only responsible for my daughters Cai and Karma
    Nigga you's a grown man, get yourself together
    Forget about the past, now's a better time than never
    Matter of fact, it's time to start making better decisions
    So put your fires out, and stop burning 'Cris' bridges
    You little bitches

    When all your love is lost
    And burning bridges can't be crossed
    Lord won't you let me know
    Or give me one more reason to go

    Yeah, this industry's full of bullshitters
    And all this time you thought you had me fooled niggas
    In my Ferrari, partner thought he saw a spaceship
    'Cause I move in speed not to get caught up in this fake shit
    Smiling in my face when I'm around y'all
    But soon as I leave, niggas be prayin' on my down fall
    Is it cause you'll never sell as many records?
    My bitches always look better, you fail at business endeavors?
    Or that people thought you were clever, but now they know you stupid?
    And misery loves company now that you're going through it?
    Somebody tell these rappers I worked hard in these Louis
    So get out of here, you don't want no parts in this shit, do we?
    I see them drugs got y'all trippin' too soon
    That's why you find me in the club, every once in a blue moon
    So while you contemplate making your first million
    I'll be somewhere contemplating on making my first billion
    And then, trillion

    When all your love is lost
    And burning bridges can't be crossed
    Lord won't you let me know
    Or give me one more reason to go

    The biggest mistake we make as individuals
    Is thinking everyone lives by the same principles
    But when I talk by the same teachers or principals
    For you to know it's not the money, it's the principle
    So I can't expect you to know what I'm talkin' 'bout
    Our issues are deep within, we can't just talk 'em out
    Niggas is fighting inside, we can't just walk 'em out
    These bridges burning so fast, we can't just stomp 'em out
    As if you know what I'm talkin' 'bout

    When all your love is lost
    And burning bridges can't be crossed
    Lord won't you let me know
    Or give me one more reason to go

    Writer/s: BRIDGES, CHRISTOPHER / GRANT, ALEXANDER / COMMONS, JAMIE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Burning Bridges Song Chart
  • The title track of Ludacris' Burning Bridges EP, the rapper explained to Billboard magazine the song is about, "where you talk about friends that have crossed you and you think everything is gonna be cool."

    He added: "But you realize being in the industry and having fame and fortune, it's inevitable you're going to have to sacrifice certain relationships just because when you get all this success, people think you're the one changing, but they're the ones that changed based on your success."
  • Ludacris recorded a second version for the deluxe edition of his Ludaversal album, this time featuring vocals by country star Jason Aldean.

  • Chuck Berry Songs - School Day
    Chuck Berry - School Day


    Chuck Berry - School Day Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: After School Session
    Released: 1957

    School Day Lyrics


    Up in the mornin' and out to school
    The teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule
    American history and practical math
    You studyin' hard and hopin' to pass
    Workin' your fingers right down to the bone
    And the guy behind you won't leave you alone

    Ring, ring goes the bell
    The cook in the lunch room's ready to sell
    You're lucky if you can find a seat
    You're fortunate if you have time to eat
    Back in the classroom, open your books
    Keep up the teacher don't know how mean she looks

    Soon as three o'clock rolls around
    You finally lay your burden down
    Close up your books, get outta your seat
    Down the halls and into the street
    Up to the corner and 'round the bend
    Right to the juke joint, you go in

    Drop the coin right into the slot
    You're gotta hear somethin' that's really hot
    With the one you love, you're makin' romance
    All day long you been wantin' to dance,
    Feeling the music from head to toe
    Round and round and round we go

    Drop the coin right into the slot
    You're gotta hear somethin' that's really hot
    With the one you love, you're makin' romance
    All day long you been wantin' to dance,
    Feeling the music from head to toe
    Round and round and round we go

    Hail, hail rock and roll
    Deliver me from the days of old
    Long live rock and roll
    The beat of the drums, loud and bold
    Rock, rock, rock and roll
    The feelin' is there, body and soul

    Writer/s: BERRY
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    School Day Song Chart
  • Many people mistakenly think the title is the first line in the last verse, "Hail, hail, rock 'n' roll." The line was used as the title for a 1988 rock documentary featuring Berry.
  • The song is about high school life in the '50s. Teenagers were the target audience for most rock music in that era, and Berry knew that he could sell a lot of records by appealing to this crowd.
  • This was Berry's first hit in the UK.
  • Berry released a follow-up to this in 1971 called "Lonely School Days (Version 2)."

  • Nicki Minaj Songs - Get on Your Knees
    Nicki Minaj - Get on Your Knees


    Nicki Minaj - Get on Your Knees Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Pinkprint
    Released: 2014

    Get on Your Knees Lyrics


    Get on Your Knees, get on your knees, get on your knees
    Baby, just get on your knees (get on your knees)
    Say pretty please, say pretty please, say pretty please
    Baby just say pretty please

    I'll be back at 11, you just act like a peasant
    Got a bow on my panties because my ass is a present
    Yeah it's gooder than Meagan, you look good when you're beggin'
    I appreciate the gifts like the whips and them bezzles
    Now it's bells and the whistles, now I'm makin' it sizzle
    And it's ready, come and get it, it's takin' off like a missile
    Let me see what you're workin' with, if you're ridin', I'm murkin' it
    Slow grindin', I'm twerkin' it, yeah I bagged him, I Birkin'd it

    I don't need a dozen roses
    You ain't gotta wine and dine me, no
    I don't need a pretty poet
    Ooh, gettin' all emotional
    You gotta beg for it, beg for it
    I wanna see you lookin' up
    Baby I'ma need you to beg, beg beg for it

    Get on your knees, get on your knees, get on your knees
    Baby, just get on your knees (get on your knees)
    Say pretty please, say pretty please, say pretty please
    Baby just say pretty please (pretty please)

    Gimme brain, assume the position
    Make me way smarter like you was a magician
    Paid my dues and tuition, it's good for your nutrition
    Good head like a beautician, got me twitchin', finish your mission
    Finish your mission, you make me cum down, make it run down
    I'ma need you to give these other dudes the run down
    You got that legendary, this shit is freak, scary
    Got me seein' them fireworks, I'm on my Kate Perry

    I don't need a dozen roses
    You ain't gotta wine and dine me, no
    I don't need a pretty poet
    Ooh, gettin' all emotional
    You gotta beg for it, beg for it
    I wanna see you lookin' up
    Baby I'ma need you to beg, beg beg for it (I need you to beg) (let's go)

    'Cause we are just animals
    Baby it's primal
    I want you on all fours
    And before I let you walk, you gotta show me how you crawl
    If you want it all
    It's non negotiable
    So do as I say (I say)
    If you wanna get the job, you better know who's the boss

    (Yeah)
    I don't need a dozen roses
    You ain't gotta wine and dine me, no
    I don't need a pretty poet
    Ooh, gettin' all emotional
    You gotta beg for it, beg for it (beg for it)
    I wanna see you lookin' up (lookin' up)
    Baby I'ma need you to beg, beg beg for it

    Get on your knees, get on your knees, get on your knees
    Baby, just get on your knees (get on your knees)
    Say pretty please, say pretty please, say pretty please
    Baby just say pretty please (pretty please)

    Writer/s: PERRY, KATY / GOTTWALD, LUKASZ / ANGELIDES, CHLOE / MINAJ, NICKI / HUDSON, SARAH / HINDLIN, JACOB KASHER / WALTER, HENRY RUSSELL
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Get on Your Knees Song Chart
  • This song features Ariana Grande, who has form for collaborating with rappers. Her breakthrough single "The Way" features some rhymes from Mac Miller, "Fancy" was a successful collaboration with Iggy Azalea, and she has also worked several times with her boyfriend Big Sean.
  • Asked on Twitter before the song's release what it is like, Minaj replied: "Sexxxy."
  • Nicki Minaj and Ariana Grande collaborated previously in 2014 alongside Jessie J on the "Bang Bang" single.
  • Katy Perry helped write the hook.

  • Chuck Berry Songs - Bye Bye Johnny
    Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny


    Chuck Berry - Bye Bye Johnny Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Rockin' At The Hops
    Released: 1960

    Bye Bye Johnny Lyrics


    She drew out all her money out of the Southern Trust
    And put her little boy aboard a Greyhound bus
    Leaving Louisiana for the Golden West
    Down came the tears from her happiness
    Her own little son name 'o Johnny B. Goode
    Was gonna make some motion pictures out in Hollywood

    Bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye Bye Johnny
    Good bye Johnny B. Goode

    She remembered taking money out from gathering crop
    And buying Johnny's guitar at a broker shop
    As long as he would play it by the railroad side
    And wouldn't get in trouble he was satisfied
    But never thought that there would come a day like this
    When she would have to give her son a goodbye kiss

    Going, bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye bye Johnny
    Bye bye Johnny B. Goode

    She finally got the letter she was dreaming of
    Johnny wrote and told 'er he had fell in love
    As soon as he was married he would bring her back
    And build a mansion for 'em by the railroad track
    So every time they heard the locomotive roar
    They'd be a' standin', a' wavin' in the kitchen door

    Howling, bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye, bye, bye, bye
    Bye bye Johnny
    Good bye Johnny B. Goode

    Writer/s: Hagen, Steinar
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Bye Bye Johnny Song Chart
  • This song follows the same character heard in Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." Johnny is now a grown man and boards a bus to start his life.

  • Pentatonix Songs - That's Christmas to Me
    Pentatonix - That's Christmas to Me


    Pentatonix - That's Christmas to Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: That's Christmas to Me
    Released: 2014

    That's Christmas to Me Lyrics


    The fireplace is burning bright, shining along me
    I see the presents underneath the good old Christmas tree
    And I wait all night 'til Santa comes to wake me from my dreams
    Oh, why? 'Cause That's Christmas to Me

    I see the children play outside, like angels in the snow
    While mom and daddy share a kiss under the mistletoe
    And we'll cherish all these simple things wherever we may be
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me

    I've got this Christmas song in my heart
    I've got the candles glowing in the dark
    I'm hanging all the stockings by the Christmas tree
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me

    I listen for the thud of raindeer walking on the roof
    As I fall asleep to lullabies, the morning's coming soon
    The only gift I'll ever need is the joy of family
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me

    I've got this Christmas song in my heart (song in my heart)
    I've got the candles glowing in the dark
    I'm hanging all the stockings by the Christmas tree
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me

    Oh, the joy that fills our hearts and makes us see
    Oh, why? Cause that's Christmas to me

    I've got this Christmas song in my heart
    I've got the candles glowing in the dark
    And then for years to come we'll always know one thing
    That's the love that Christmas can bring
    Oh, why? 'Cause that's Christmas to me

    Writer/s: OLUSOLA, KEVIN / HOYING, SCOTT
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    That's Christmas to Me Song Chart
  • This heartwarming song celebrates the spirit of a traditional holiday. The title track of Pentatonix's second holiday release following their 2012 EP PTXmas, it is the one original tune on the collection. Katy Lou Clark and Penny Lea Clark of the bluegrass trio Purple Hulls penned the cut.
  • Pentatonix's Kevin Olusola told Billboard magazine why they recorded an original song for the album. "We just wanted a song that focuses on the nostalgia of Christmas," he said. "For us, we are gone so much on the road. The only time we get to spend with family is during Christmas. So we wanted to write a song that kind of focuses on that."

    "We're just so happy how it turned out -- it's a simple song that people can truly gravitate to," Olusola continued. "Musically it's kind of complex, but the simplicity and the musicality is what makes the song come to life."

  • Johnny Rivers Songs - Memphis
    Johnny Rivers - Memphis


    Johnny Rivers - Memphis Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Johnny Rivers At The Whisky a Go Go
    Released: 1964

    Memphis Lyrics


    Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
    Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
    She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call
    Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

    Help me, information, get in touch with my Marie
    She's the only one who'd phone me here from Memphis Tennessee
    Her home is on the south side, high up on a ridge
    Just a half a mile from the Mississippi Bridge

    Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
    Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
    But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
    And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee

    Last time I saw Marie she's waving me good-bye
    With hurry home drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
    Marie is only six years old, information please
    Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee

    Writer/s: C. BERRY
    Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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    Memphis Song Chart
  • Chuck Berry wrote this and recorded it in 1959 as "Memphis, Tennessee." It languished as the B-side of his Back In The U.S.A. single, but was revived when the white blues guitarist Lonnie Mack covered it in 1963. With the title shortened to "Memphis," his version went to #5 in the US.

    Johnny Rivers, who had some success as a songwriter (Rick Nelson's "I'll Make Believe"), but had yet to score a hit as an artist, landed a regular gig in 1963 at the Whisky a Go Go, a popular club on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles (The Doors would later make their mark playing shows at The Whiskey). In 1964 he released a live album recorded at the club called Johnny Rivers At The Whisky a Go Go, with "Memphis" issued as a single. It became a huge hit for Rivers, going to #2 in America and launching a career that included nine Top 10 singles. He also had tremendous influence on the business side; he started a record label called Soul City which signed the Fifth Dimension and Jimmy Webb .
  • This song tells quite a story and has an interesting twist ending. We hear about the singer getting a phone call from a girl who wouldn't leave a number, but he knows it came from Memphis, Tennessee. He calls the operator, trying to locate his girl Marie (which conveniently rhymes with "Tennessee"), who he thinks is the one trying to reach him. At the end of the song, we find out that Marie is his six-year-old daughter, and that he is a divorced father trying desperately to get in touch with her.

    Chuck Berry drew on accounts he heard from friends and acquaintances to craft his lyric. "I had known couples who had divorced and the tragedies of the children," he said.
  • Rivers followed up this song with another Chuck Berry cover: "Maybellene," which went to #12 in the US.
  • In February 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week hosting The Mike Douglas Show. During this stint, Lennon performed this song and "Johnny B. Goode" with Chuck Berry, who Lennon referred to as "my hero." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • This song made a return to the charts in 1981 when Fred Knoblock's cover made #10 on the Country charts and bubbled under at #102 on the Hot 100.

  • Rae Sremmurd Songs - Throw Sum Mo
    Rae Sremmurd - Throw Sum Mo


    Rae Sremmurd - Throw Sum Mo Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: SremmLife
    Released: 2014

    Throw Sum Mo Lyrics


    Ass fat, yeah I know, you just got cash? Blow sum mo'
    Blow sum mo', blow sum mo'
    The more you spend it, the faster it go
    Bad bitches, on the floor, it's rainin' hunnid's, Throw Sum Mo'
    Throw sum mo', throw sum mo', throw sum mo'

    Hi, bye hater, I flood the club with paper
    Shawty got a ass, some for now, some for later
    Somethin' like Nicki's, dancin' like Maliah
    I'm throwin' all this money I'ma fuck around and buy her
    I can flick the money all night 'til my wrist tired
    If you put in work, this the night you gon' retire
    You a bad bitch, I ain't even gon' deny her
    She told me "throw that money", I said "make it worth my while"
    I'm 'bout to empty out the ATM
    She doin' tricks that make a nigga wanna' spend
    Girl you know you got me fascinated
    Just keep on dancin' 'til I'm outta paper (Never)

    Ass fat, yeah I know, you just got cash? Blow sum mo'
    Blow sum mo', blow sum mo'
    The more you spend it, the faster it go
    Bad bitches, on the floor, it's rainin' hunnid's, throw sum mo'
    Throw sum mo', throw sum mo', throw sum mo'

    Franklins, rainin' on your body
    Rainin' on your body, rainin' on your body
    Won't you do what I say? Start rubbin' on your body
    You like hunnid's on your body, girl you needs to get naughty
    Hold up, hold on, her eyes on me, is that your ho?
    If so I'ma get her fore' the nights over
    DJ play my shit so I'm finna' crank up off in the V.I.P zone
    See the money go up and she dance on sight
    By the end of the night she on endo'
    Lemme' see you make it clap on tempo
    Lemme' see you get low like limbo

    Ass fat, yeah I know, you just got cash? Blow sum mo'
    Blow sum mo', blow sum mo'
    The more you spend it, the faster it go
    Bad bitches, on the floor, it's rainin' hunnid's, throw sum mo'
    Throw sum mo', throw sum mo', throw sum mo'

    Come in ho, mistletoe, I got birdies, crows
    Flip it a bit, wanna jump on the dick
    I'm like bool let's get it, let's get it
    I got these bitches kissin' on these bitches
    I can't even count em', I fuck by the digits
    Swag terrific, I might fuck that bitch in the kitchen
    Baby don't use dirty dishes or else you might whip up a burr!
    My neck, my wrists is a burr!
    She wanna fuck my dogs I'm like "woof"
    Panoramic roof, I drop the coupe, boo
    Pulled up with a bitch, she look like New New
    It's okay if I lie to you, bitch, I swear the truth
    Hey, she come right back like them divers do
    Fifty thousand off fifty niggas, no caliber

    Ass fat, yeah I know, you just got cash? Blow sum mo'
    Blow sum mo', blow sum mo'
    The more you spend it, the faster it go
    Bad bitches, on the floor, tt's rainin' hunnid's, throw sum mo'
    Throw sum mo', throw sum mo', throw sum mo'

    Writer/s: COBY, KENNETH / MARAJ, ONIKA / FELTON, JEREMY PHILLIP / BROWN, KHALIF / BROWN, AAQUIL / WILLIAMS, JEFFREY LAMAR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Throw Sum Mo Song Chart
  • Slim Jimmy and Swae Lee recruited Nikki Minaj to croon the hook of this strip club banger. The Mississippi rappers previously worked with the Queen Barb when she added a verse to their "No Flex Zone" track. She praised the duo for this cut, tweeting that it goes "hard as f---."
  • Atlanta rapper Young Thug spits the third verse in which he boasts about losing count about the number of women he's had sex with. Slim Jimmy told Complex about the collaboration: "It was DJ Drama's studio and Young Thug was in there," he said. "We went in there and just did it so fast. He's dope. He's funny."
  • This was the first time the Rae Sremmurd duo had met Nicki Minaj. Slim Jimmy recalled to Complex: "She walked in looking like the most beautiful woman on the planet, and everything was in slow motion. Then time stopped. I couldn't say anything because my mouth wouldn't open. I was trying to say Hi, but I couldn't."

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