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The New Basement Tapes - When I Get My Hands On You

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Album: Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes
Released: 2014

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Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes is an album featuring a collective of musicians recording under the moniker The New Basement Tapes. The record consists of a series of tracks based on handwritten Bob Dylan lyrics penned in 1967 during the period in which he created The Basement Tapes.

This romantic ode features the voice of Marcus Mumford. "I think Dylan's off-cuts are better than anyone else's prime cuts," Mumford commented to The Daily Telegraph. "Some were undeveloped but others were complete ideas that never saw the light of day. There was enough to write 40 songs, which is extraordinary, because that was like one summer's writing for him. It was a fascinating period of his life. He spent the summer of love holed up in a house while everyone else was down the road at Woodstock dropping acid and taking their clothes off."

The song hinges on the chorus: "Now you know, everywhere on earth you go, you're gonna have me as your man," as Mumford tells his love interest how it is and how it's going to be. "Reading through the lyrics, I think there's a conflict," the Mumford & Sons frontman said. "He has post-tour blues, where you come off the road and it's a weird adjustment to normal life. He was really relishing it, newly married and enjoying domesticity and rural life. But you can see him battle with it too."

Bruce Springsteen - One Step Up

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Album: Tunnel of Love
Released: 1987

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This is one of several songs on Tunnel Of Love that depicts a troubled relationship where every time they take one step up, they take two steps back. Springsteen was having problems with his marriage to Julianne Phillips at the time, and they divorced in 1989.

Patti Scialfa, who became Springsteen's second wife, sang backup.

This song was released as a single only in the US.

Springsteen recorded this in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey.

In 2002, Country singer Kenny Chesney covered this on his No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problems album. Chesney always loved the song and thought the lyrics were very Country, but was afraid to record it because he generally dislikes covers and has a great respect for Springsteen. When he sent his version to Springsteen, Bruce sent him back a note telling Chesney he did a great job with it, bringing a lot of sensitivity to the lyrics.

Nick Jonas - Avalanche

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Album: Nick Jonas
Released: 2014

Avalanche Lyrics

Words like a loaded gun
Shot out from a fire tongue
Love lost from a fight that was won
And I can see you breaking down
The end to a falling out

I got pride you can't hold your breath
We'll crash down like an Avalanche
Look out now, don't take one more step
We'll crash down like an avalanche, avalanche

I never wanted it to turn out this way
Now forever feels like yesterday
Sorry something that I just can't say
Can you see me breaking down
The end to a falling out yeah

I got pride you can't hold your breath (even if we survive)
We'll crash down like an avalanche (crash down, crash down)
Look out now, don't take one more step (even if we survive)
We'll crash down like an avalanche (crash down, crash down)
Avalanche (oh)

We'll crash down, yeah
Like an avalanche

I got pride you can't hold your breath
We'll crash down like an avalanche
I got pride you can't hold your breath (even if we survive)
We'll crash down like an avalanche (crash down, crash down)
Look out now, don't take one more step (even if we survive)(one more step yeah)

We'll crash down like an avalanche
(Crash down, crash down) Avalanche (oh)
(Crash down, crash down) oh
Just like an avalanche

Writer/s: KIRKLAND, JOSEPH / DEAN, JASON / ROUTON, TJ / HEYACA, MICHEL / JONAS, NICHOLAS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Nick Jonas recorded this duet with Demo Lovato after Nick's stint as a creative and musical director for her The Neon Lights Tour. The pair penned the tune with Artist vs. Poet members Joe Kirkland and Jason Dean. "She and I recorded a song that, um, I think is beautiful. It's not necessarily a love song," Nick told MTV News. "It's so easy to do a duet that's a love song because our relationship isn't really that. But there is love there for a friend, you know, and it's beautiful to just talk about."

"Any kind of relationship can hit a point where if it's not stable, it's not secure then it's like an avalanche crashing down and that's what that song is about," he added. "Her voice is amazing on it and, um, it feels good. I'm excited for people to hear it."

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love

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Album: Tunnel of Love
Released: 1987

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This was inspired by the amusement rides on the boardwalk of Asbury Park, New Jersey, where Springsteen hung out and gigged growing up. He used the "Tunnel Of Love" ride as a metaphor for the ups and downs of a relationship. He was having problems with his first marriage at the time, and would later divorce Julianne Phillips.

This is the title track to an album Springsteen recorded mostly by himself in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey. One of the last songs recorded for Tunnel Of Love, Springsteen liked the title enough to use it as the name of the album.

The amusement park that helped inspire this is over 100 years old. It is in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.

Pink Floyd - Talkin' Hawkin'

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Album: The Endless River
Released: 2014

Talkin' Hawkin' Lyrics

Speech has allowed the communication of ideas
Enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible
Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking
Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future
With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded

All we need to do is make sure we keep talking

Writer/s: DAVID JON GILMOUR, RICHARD WILLIAM WRIGHT
Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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This features Stephen Hawking's vocals. It uses a sample of the British theoretical physicist's synthesized voice taken from a speech he made for a 1994 British Telecom commercial. (Hawking has suffered from a neuromuscular dystrophy since his early twenties that has left him almost completely paralyzed). Drummer Nick Mason told The Sun: "On one level, it's Stephen Hawking having a problem communicating and yet the sound of that voice is positively interstellar. He can communicate across galaxies with that sound."

This marks the second time Hawking has appeared on a Pink Floyd album. He previously lent his voice synthesizer to The Division Bell track "Keep Talking."

Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than The Rest

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Album: Tunnel of Love
Released: 1987

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This song finds Springsteen telling his lover that he will find a way to stick it out and be there for her.

This was one of the few Springsteen songs to sell better in England than the US.

This was the third single off Tunnel Of Love, an album recorded while Springsteen's first marriage, to Julianne Phillips, was in trouble.

Springsteen recorded this in his home studio in Rumson, New Jersey.

Emmylou Harris covered this in 1990. UK group Everything But The Girl covered it in 1992, and Country singer Chris LeDoux recorded it for his 1994 album Haywire. (thanks, Julian - Oakland, AR)

Rumer - You Just Don't Know People

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Album: Into Colour
Released: 2014

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Rumer told The Independent this song, "is about not letting just one person make you cynical about the whole world."

Tom Waits - Jersey Girl

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Album: Heart Attack And Vine
Released: 1980

Jersey Girl Lyrics

Got no time for the corner boys,
Down in the street makin' all that noise,
Don't want no whores on eighth avenue,
Cause tonight I'm gonna be with you.

'Cause tonight I'm gonna take that ride,
Across the river to the jersey side,
Take my baby to the carnival,
And I'll take you on all the rides,
Sing sha la la la la la sha la la la.

Down the shore everything's alright,
You're with your baby on a Saturday night,
Don't you know that all my dreams come true,
When I'm walkin' down the street with you,
Sing sha la la la la la sha la la la.

You know she thrills me with all her charms,
When I'm wrapped up in my baby's arms,
My little angel gives me everything,
I know someday that she'll wear my ring.

So don't bother me cause I got no time,
I'm on my way to see that girl of mine,
Nothin' else matters in this whole wide world,
When you're in love with a Jersey Girl,
Sing sha la la la la la la.

And I call your name, I can't sleep at night,
Sha la la la la la la.

Writer/s: TOM WAITS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Waits wrote this song about his new wife, Kathleen. He was getting over a 2-year relationship with Rickie Lee Jones when she came into his life and "saved him." (thanks, John - Los Angeles, CA)

Bruce Springsteen covered this song in concert on many occasions. He started performing it at a series of shows in 1981 at the new Meadowlands arena in New Jersey. Even though he did not write this, Springsteen feels the character is the same guy from his earlier songs "Sandy" and "Rosalita," who has now grown up and got the Jersey Girl.

Springsteen released this as the B-side of "Cover Me" in 1984. Two years later, he used the same version, taken from a show at The Meadowlands, on his boxed set Live 1975-1985. This is one of the few cover songs Springsteen released. Usually it was other artists performing his songs.

In 1981, Waits joined Springsteen on stage for this at a show in Los Angeles.

Rumer - Better Place

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Album: Into Colour
Released: 2014

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This is an anti-celebrity song giving props to all the hardworking people who want to make the world a better place rather than seeking fame and fortune. "Let's talk about real people who do amazing things every day, who just quietly go about their business, looking after people's kids, disabled children, nurses, doctors, homeless charities… people who keep the world going," Rumer told The Independent. "So I don't say that's happy, but it's positive."

Patti Smith - Because The Night

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Album: Easter
Released: 1977

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Despite her large cult following and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career (she was inducted in 2007), this was Patti Smith's only hit, making it an anomaly in her discography, which was aimed at a far more narrow audience.

For many not familiar with Smith's career or the history of Punk, this is the only recognizable song of hers. The producers of the 2013 movie CBGB, played to this audience when they portrayed singing this song at the famous club in 1975 - two years before she recorded it and a year before it was written. In the film, Smith was played by Mickey Sumner, who is Sting's daughter.

Bruce Springsteen wrote this song. He gave it to Patti Smith in 1976 because he thought it would suit her voice. He was also in a legal battle with his manager, Mike Appel, that kept him from recording for almost three years.

Springsteen gave this to Smith with the music and the chorus. She filled in the lyrics one night while waiting for her husband to call.

Springsteen joined Smith on Stage several times in 1976-1977, while legal battles kept him from recording.

Smith bought her dad a new 1978 Cordoba with the money she made from this.

Smith's producer on the Easter album was Jimmy Iovine, who would go on to great things as a producer and entrepreneur, but was still getting started in the business at the time. "Because The Night" was his first hit as a producer, and he credits Bruce Springsteen for granting him the opportunity. Iovine had worked on Bruce's 1975 Born To Run album, and Springsteen have him the song to deliver to Smith. This "really launched by career," Iovine said.

Smith was hesitant to use a song written by someone else, but changed her mind when she heard Springsteen's demo.

After this song became a hit, Smith dismissed it as "commercial sh-t." She admitted that it was a well-written song, but didn't want it to define her career. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)

As The Boss was struggling to finish this song, he agreed to Jimmy Iovine's request that Patti Smith could complete it. Springsteen explained why to Mojo magazine August 2010: "It was a love song and I really wasn't writing them at the time. I wrote these very hidden love songs like For You, or Sandy, maybe even Thunder Road, but they were always coming from a different angle. My love songs were never straight out, they weren't direct. That song needed directness and at the time I was uncomfortable with it. I was hunkered down in my samurai position. Darkness… was about stripping away everything - relationships, everything - and getting down to the core of who you were. So that song is the great missing song from Darkness On The Edge. I could not have finished it as good as she did. She was in the midst of her love affair with Fred 'Sonic' Smith and she had it all right there on her sleeve. She put it down in a way that was just quite wonderful."

Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants

Selena Gomez - The Heart Wants What It Wants Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: For You
Released: 2014

The Heart Wants What It Wants Lyrics

(What the heart wants)
(What the heart wants)
(What the heart wants)

You got me sippin' on something
I can't compare to nothing
I've ever known, I'm hoping
That after this fever I'll survive
I know I'm acting a bit crazy
Strung out, a little bit hazy
Hand over heart, I'm praying
That I'm gonna make it out alive

The bed's getting cold and you're not here
The future that we hold is so unclear
But I'm not alive until you call
And I'll bet the odds against it all
Save your advice 'cause I won't hear
You might be right but I don't care
There's a million reasons why I should give you up
But The Heart Wants What It Wants
The heart wants what it wants

You got me scattered in pieces
Shining like stars and screaming
Lighting me up like Venus
But then you disappear and make me wait
And every second's like torture
Hell over trip, no more so
Finding a way to let go
Baby, baby, no I can't escape

The bed's getting cold and you're not here
The future that we hold is so unclear
But I'm not alive until you call
And I'll bet the odds against it all
Save your advice 'cause I won't hear
You might be right but I don't care
There's a million reasons why I should give you up
But the heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants

This is a modern fairy tale
No happy endings
No wind in our sails
But I can't imagine a life without
Breathless moments
Breaking me down, down, down, down

The bed's getting cold and you're not here
The future that we hold is so unclear
But I'm not alive until you call
And I'll bet the odds against it all
Save your advice 'cause I won't hear
You might be right but I don't care
There's a million reasons why I should give you up
But the heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants, baby
It wants what it wants, baby
It wants what it wants
It wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants, baby
It wants what it wants

Writer/s: DAVID JOST, TIM JAMES, ANTONINA ARMATO
Publisher: DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Walt Disney Music Company
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This song finds Gomez opening up about her relationship troubles with on-again, off-again boyfriend Justin Bieber. "I think the biggest problem I had this year, even with [Justin], is identity… I was trying to figure out what I'm doing. It was the first time I was constantly being kicked down," she told Ryan Seacrest regarding the scrutiny they faced. "I made some decisions that weren't great. So did he. We went through that to only make us better."

The singer told Ryan Seacrest the autobiographical cut and its accompanying video was approved by Bieber himself. "He thought it was beautiful. I think it was really hard. I think he was a little jealous of the video guy at first," she joked adding. "Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal."

Gomez also played the song to her good friend Taylor Swift before revealing it to the world. "So she came over to the house, and I played it. She had headphones in, and she watched the video, and then she just looked at me, then she looked back, and then played it three times over and over again," she recalled. "And I'm like, 'I want to know,' and she was like, 'Oh my God. This is amazing. I'm so excited for you.'"

The song title is a phrase that was first coined by Emily Dickinson in 1862 as part of the opening lines of a letter she wrote to a Mrs. Mary Bowles. They were penned by the poet to her friend on an occasion that Mr. Bowles had to travel away from his wife. ("When the Best is gone- I know that other things are not of consequence - the heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care").

The phrase is most closely associated with Woody Allen during a 2001 interview with Time magazine about his relationship with girlfriend Mia Farrow's daughter Soon-Yi. "The heart wants what it wants" was the director/actor's explanation for his behavior.

The emotional video was filmed over a year before the single was released. It opens with a recording of Gomez having an emotional breakdown about her relationship with Bieber, confessing, "You make me feel crazy, you make feel like it's my fault. I was in pain."

"They taped the mic underneath the table when I was shooting the video," Gomez told Ryan Seacrest. "And I had shot the video over a year ago. So, in that state -- where I was in that place emotionally -- I went in and I went into the room by myself, and I looked at the actual mirror in the music video, and I had a conversation [with] myself to every question I had in my mind in that moment: 'Wow, this feeling changes everything and you can't help it.'"

Like many hits of this time, a word in the title is stretched out when it is sung in the chorus. In this case, Gomez does an electronic stutter, singing "The heart wants what it wa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ants." This is a good way to create an earworm, as the vocal becomes far more memorable. Other songs where you can hear this technique include "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift ("That's what they don't see-ee-ee") and "Lips Are Movin" by Meghan Trainor ("You can buy me diamond earrings and deny-eye-eye").

Selena Gomez's performance of the song during the 2014 American Music Awards was powerful and emotionally intense. She recalled her rendition to KAMP-FM's Carson Daly: "That's actually the only time that I've ever performed that song. I think it was a moment in my life where I felt a little attacked publicly a lot, and I was kinda dealing with some stuff," Gomez said. "I felt like it was my time and opportunity to be honest for the first time and not pretend that everything's OK and just kind of get that out there. And now I feel like a huge weight has lifted off of me."

Bruce Springsteen - Fire

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Album: Live 1975-1985
Released: 1986

Fire Lyrics

I'm driving in my car, I turn on the radio
I'm pulling you close, you just say no
You say you don't like it, but girl I know you're a liar
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

Late at night I'm takin' you home
I say I want to stay, you say you want to be alone
You say you don't love me, girl you can't hide your desire
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

You had a hold on me, right from the start
A grip so tight I couldn't tear it apart
My nerves all jumpin' actin' like a fool
Well your kisses they burn but your heart stays cool

Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah
Baby you can bet their love they didn't deny
Your words say split but your words they lie
'Cause when we kiss, Fire

Writer/s: J. WILLIAMS, C. SATCHELL, L. BONNER, M. JONES, W. BECK, R. MIDDLEBROOKS, M. PIERCE, OHIO PLAYERS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Springsteen wrote this for Elvis Presley, his idol growing up. He sent Elvis a demo of it in 1977, but Presley died soon after. The song would have fit well for Elvis, as it's about a passionate lust a couple has for each other.

Springsteen wrote this while he was waiting out litigation with his former manager. He couldn't record his own songs, but still did plenty of writing.

The singer Robert Gordon, who was a friend of Springsteen, was the first to record this - he released it on his 1978 album Fresh Fish Special. The song became a hit when the Pointer Sisters recorded it later in 1978 at the suggestion of their producer Richard Perry, their version hitting #2 in the US.

While many people who heard this song knew it had hit potential, Springsteen did not release it until 1986, as he was more concerned with the continuity of his albums than making hit records. Springsteen's version was included on his boxed set, Live 1975-1985. It was released as a single when the set came out.

Springsteen considered using this on Darkness On The Edge Of Town and The River, but decided it did not fit the mood of either album.