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Radiohead - Pyramid Song

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Album: Amnesiac
Released: 2001

Pyramid Song Lyrics

I jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see

All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

I jumped into the river
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the figures I used to see

All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt

There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt
There was nothing to fear, nothing to doubt

Writer/s: YORKE, THOMAS EDWARD/GREENWOOD, JONATHAN RICHARD GUY/O'BRIEN, EDWARD JOHN/SELWAY, PHILIP JAMES/GREENWOOD, COLIN CHARLES
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Lead singer Thom Yorke wrote this. He based it on a song by the Jazz player Charles Mingus called "Freedom."

This originally contained handclaps, but the group didn't like how they came out and erased them.

Radiohead performed this at some of their shows before releasing it on the album. It was known as "Egyptian Song."

Their albums Kid A and Amnesiac were recorded at the same time, but Amnesiac was released a few weeks later.

In 2003, this was used in a public service announcement for forest fire prevention in the US. Radiohead never allows their music to be used for commercial purposes, but Thom Yorke thought this was a good cause so he let them use it for $1.

This was written by Thom Yorke after a visit to an exhibition of Egyptian art, during a two-week sojourn in Copenhagen in 1999. He told MTV: "That song literally took five minutes to write, but yet it came from all these mad places. [It's] something I never thought I could actually get across in a song and lyrically. [But I] managed it and that was really, really tough. [Physicist] Stephen Hawking talks about the theory that time is another force. It's [a] fourth dimension and [he talks about] the idea that time is completely cyclical, it's always doing this [spins finger]. It's a factor, like gravity. It's something that I found in Buddhism as well. That's what Pyramid Song' is about, the fact that everything is going in circles."

According to Colin Greenwood, it was the image of "people being ferried across the river of death" that most affected York. This is reflected in the song's many references to Dante's imaginary journey through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven, Divine Comedy. These include the black-eyed angels, a moon full of stars and jumping into the river.

Yorke hammered out this track's chord progression on a baby grand piano that he had bought, in rejection of Radiohead's guitar-led past.

The siren - like sonic undertow was produced by Jonny Greenwood's ondes Martenot, an unusual Theremin-like device invented in 1928.

The Drums - Magic Mountain

The Drums - Magic Mountain Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Encyclopedia
Released: 2014

Magic Mountain Lyrics

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The nearest to a call-to-arms as anything The Drums have done, the title refers to The Magic Mountain, a 1924 novel by German writer Thomas Mann. The song was released as the lead single from Encyclopedia, their first album in three years. "Let's knock them over the head and see what happens," vocalist Jonathan Pierce said of the track. "It feels like we're sticking our necks out."

"Three years is a long time to wait these days, for a band like us," he added. "I feel like we've been given an amazing opportunity. This is an album about being yourself and protecting yourself. We made this beautiful record, so why be timid now about what we want to say?"

Thomas Mann's novel is set in a Swiss sanatorium high up in the Alps. The action takes place not only there, but also in a figuratively, a reclusive, separate world.

Van Halen - Jump

Van Halen - Jump Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 1984
Released: 1984

Jump Lyrics

I get up, and nothin' gets me down
You got it tough, I've seen the toughest around
And I know, baby, just how you feel
You got to roll with the punches and get to what's real

Ah, can't you see me standin' here
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Ah, can't you see what I mean?

Ah
Might as well Jump
(Jump)
Might as well jump
Go ahead an' jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump

Ow oh
Hey you
Who said that?
Baby, how you been?
You say you don't know
You won't know until you begin

So can't ya see me standing here
I got my back against the record machine
I ain't the worst that you've seen
Ah, can't you see what I mean?

Ah
Might as well jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump
Might as well jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump
Jump

Might as well jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump
Get it in, jump
(Jump)
Go ahead and jump

Jump
Jump
Jump
Jump

Writer/s: DUPRI, JERMAINE/WEBSTER, GREGORY ALLEN/PIERCE, MARVIN R
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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David Lee Roth has given various accounts of the meaning behind the lyrics, but he usually says they are about a TV news story he saw where a man was about to kill himself by jumping off a building (Roth thought, "Might as well jump"). He's also said the song is about a stripper.

This was Van Halen's first #1 hit, and their only #1 with David Lee Roth as lead singer.

Eddie Van Halen played this on an Oberheim OB-Xa synthesizer (Oberheim was a large synth manufacturer during the '80s). He was classically trained on piano growing up, and didn't start playing guitar until he was a teenager. (thanks, William - Brentwood, TN)

The synthesizer was a point of contention in the band. Eddie wanted to use it, but Roth thought it would look like they were selling out to get more radio play. Using a synthesizer instead of a guitar as the lead instrument was a huge departure for Van Halen, but most of their fans didn't hold it against them.

As early as 1981, Eddie Van Halen had written the keyboard part that would eventually become this song. David Lee Roth didn't like the idea of Eddie playing keyboards, and it wasn't until Eddie had built his own recording studio (5150) that he recorded the song with Ted Templeman during a late night recording session. When hearing the song, the band decided to include it on the 1984 album - something that is rumored to have contributed to Roth's departure a year later. (thanks, Eric - Atlanta, GA)

The album was released on January 9, 1984, ending (by nine days) Van Halen's streak of releasing one album every year since 1978.

The video was low-budget but highly successful. Directed by Pete Angelus and the band, it was simply 8-millimeter film footage of Van Halen performing, highlighted by Roth's slow motion spread-eagle jump (first seen on MTV in Def Leppard's "Photograph" video).

While it looks kind of ridiculous today, the video was groundbreaking and set the standard for cheap performance videos that hapless directors still try to emulate. To produce such a video, the band is recorded performing the song several times from beginning to end. Then, the band members are shot doing random stage moves without the pretense of actually playing the song (note that Eddie is seen playing the guitar at times when no guitar can be heard). Some candid footage is shot with the band goofing around, and it's off to the edit room where the footage is chopped up into a video.

While most bands lack the charisma to pull off moves like the "bass player duck under the lead singer's leg" and "point guitar directly into the camera," they try lame versions of it anyway, using such tactics as "run to the camera and stop" and "blow a kiss." In an age when anyone can make a video but most bands lack the money and talent to make a good one, these videos have proliferated, and none has lived up to the standard set by Van Halen with "Jump." For a good example of a low budget performance video gone horribly wrong, check out this clip from The Forgotten Rebels.

The video won Best Stage Performance Video at the first MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. MTV quickly discontinued the category as music videos became more creative and relied less on footage of bands performing the song.

The B-side of the US single is "House Of Pain." In 1991, a group called House Of Pain had a hit with a song called "Jump Around."

1984 was David Lee Roth's last album with Van Halen, and the video for "Jump" conflated the tensions that led to his departure. The video was produced by Robert Lombard, who wanted to show the personal side of the band on stage. Roth, however, wanted the performance intercut with footage of him in various hedonistic pursuits, so they shot him doing things like riding a motorcycle and getting arrested while wearing nothing but a towel. Lombard edited the video and used none of the extra Roth footage, taking it to Eddie and Alex for approval. Two days later, the band's manager fired him for bypassing Roth; Lombard says he never received the award the video won from MTV.

Even the performance scenes were delicate. Lombard said in the book I Want My MTV: "I didn't shoot them together until the end of the day. I was trying to keep the peace, because I felt tension amongst them. David thought he was bigger than the rest of them."

Some of the David Lee Roth specialty footage ended up in their video for "Panama." Roth was replaced in the band by Sammy Hagar in 1986.

This was the first album recorded at Eddie Van Halen's 5150 studio. In California, 5150 is police code for a mental case.

Eddie used the outro guitar solo at the very end of this song to come up with the idea for the intro guitar riff to Van Halen's later hit, "Standing On Top (Of The World)." (thanks, Dave - Marieta, GA)

Aztec Camera recorded a mellow, acoustic cover in 1984.

Although "Jump" is fairly light-hearted for a rock single, in January 2010 a DJ who played it at an "inappropriate time" found himself in hot water. The song was requested by a driver stuck in traffic on the M60, and played by Steve Penk, who came underfire because the delay had been caused by police closing several lanes of the motorway while attempting to talk down a woman who was threatening to jump from a bridge. After nearly nine hours, she leapt, shortly after the song was played. Amazingly she survived, albeit with serious leg injuries. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England)

In an interview with Mix magazine, Daryl Hall said that the Hall & Oates song "Kiss On My List" was an influence on this one. Said Hall: "[Eddie] Van Halen told me that he copied the synth part from 'Kiss on My List' and used it in 'Jump.' I don't have a problem with that at all."

Music rights body PRS For Music held a vote among its members to find out the most popular sporting song in the run up to the 2012 London Olympics. "Jump" came top of the poll, with The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up" in second place and Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher" in third.

Jamie T. - Peter

Jamie T. - Peter Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Carry On The Grudge
Released: 2014

Peter Lyrics

Sometimes I feel like there's someone in my head
Sometimes I feel like there's someone in my head
Sometimes I feel like that someone has a name
Sometimes I feel that he wants me dead

(Peter)

(peter)

Peter don't believe in love
Peter doesn't like this song
Peter piss electric fence
Peter doesn't like my friends
Peter doesn't believe in god
Peter just falls apart
Every time he hears you say, hears you say
"jenny, what you on about?"

Last them shake, retake, retake, hey, wilin' up, peter isn't going nowhere
Juice in, juice out, sniffs it out
Shoots about town, with a rocky, such a cool hair
Shouts for the sister, for the backbone gutter
Look him up, down, or someone better go and get her
Used it up, peter's gonna rock this summer
If no one else do it then peter's gonna

Peter don't believe in love
Peter doesn't like this song
Peter piss electric fence
Peter doesn't like my friends
Peter doesn't like your band
Peter says you all sound bland
Peter wants to fuck your girl
Peter wants to fuck the world

(I warned you all)

Peter doesn't like the numpties, making lots of money
Off my ideas then calling them their own
Peter doesn't say he's pretty, in fact damn he's ugly
He doesn't like company he's drinking alone
Screams at the telly to the jukebox fodder
Someone come and get me when you need your going under
And I, life saver, live forever, up a level
Peter's coming for you, gonna hide in the treble

Peter don't believe in love
Peter doesn't like this song
Peter piss electric fence
Peter doesn't like my friends
Peter doesn't believe in god
Peter just falls apart
Every time he hears you say, hears you say
"jenny, what you on about?"

(I warned you all)

Writer/s: TREAYS, JAMIE ALEXANDER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This vicious, semi-auto-biographical slice of punk is about a guy called Jamie who hears a voice, Peter's, in his head. "It's to do with having parts of yourself you don't particularly like," Jamie T explained to The Observer. "Do you suppress it? Or live with it?"

Van Halen - Dancing in the Street

Van Halen - Dancing in the Street Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Diver Down
Released: 1982

Dancing in the Street Lyrics

Woo!
Ah, yeah!
Callin' out, around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat?
Summer's here, and the time is right
For dancin' in the street
They're dancin' in Chicago (They'll be dancin')
Down in New Orleans (Dancin' in the streets)
Up in New York City (Dancing in the Streets)
All we need is music (Sweet sweet)
Sweet music (sweet sweet music)
There'll be music everywhere (sweet music everywhere)
(Ooh-oo-ooh) There'll be swingin', swayin', records playin'
Dancin' in the street
(Ah) Oh, it doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on (Ah) every guy, grab a girl, everywhere, 'round the world
There'll be dancin', dancin' in the street
(Ooh-oo-ooh) It's just an invitation, 'cross the nation
A chance for the folks to meet
There'll be laughin', singin', music swingin'
Dancin' in the street
Philadelphia, PA (Dancin' in the street)
Baltimore, in D.C. now (Dancin' in the streets)
Can't forget the Motor City (Dancin' in the streets)
All we need is music (Sweet sweet)
Sweet music (sweet sweet music)
There'll be music everywhere (sweet music everywhere)
(Oooh-oo-ooh) There'll be swingin', swayin', records playin'
Dancin' in the street, oh!
(Ah) Doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
Come on, (Ah) every guy, grab your girl, everywhere, 'round the world
Wow!
Hey hey hey!
Ow yeah, ow!
(Guitar Solo)
Dancin', they're dancin' in the street
(Dancin' in the streets)
Way down in L.A. everyday
(Dancin' in the streets)
Dancin' in the street
(Dancin' in the streets)
San Francisco way (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Dancin' in the streets)
They do it everyday now
(Dancin' in the streets)
Across the ocean blue, )Ooh-ooh-ooh) me an' you
(Dancin' in the streets)
Dancin' in the street
(Dancin' in the streets)

Writer/s: GAYE, MARVIN / STEVENSON, WILLIAM / HUNTER, IVY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was originally recorded by Motown group Martha & the Vandellas in 1965. It was written by Marvin Gaye along with songwriters Ivy Hunter and William Stevenson.

Van Halen was looking for a cover song to release as a single following their 1981 "Invasion" tour to fill the gap before their next album. Eddie Van Halen couldn't come up with a guitar riff for this in time, so they did "Pretty Woman" instead. They recorded this with the album and released it at the same time.

This is one of the few songs that Eddie overdubbed his guitar on. Most Van Halen songs at the time were recorded live, with very little overdubbing, but it was the only way Eddie could get the textured sound he wanted.

Diver Down contained 4 other cover songs. The band needed a break from songwriting and chose to fill the album with other people's songs.

Eddie played the synthesizer intro at the beginning. The synthesizer became a big part of the Van Halen sound 2 years later on their album 1984.

The tour to support the album was called the "Hide Your Sheep Tour."

The video was only the second Van Halen made. The first was for "Pretty Woman."

Joe Bonamassa - Never Give All Your Heart

Joe Bonamassa - Never Give All Your Heart Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Different Shades Of Blue
Released: 2014

Never Give All Your Heart Lyrics

She left a letter on the table
Said she'd be home by five
Smell of old coffee lingers on my mind
I won't wait to hear those footsteps
Climb those old creaky stairs
Every lonely night I miss her presence everywhere
Cry to the sky above
Never Give All Your Heart for love
You cry to the sky above
Never give all your heart for love

Familiar places that we went to
Become like dying vines
You should pay for a reminder of love in better times
Such a hard time to get over
Such a deep love that's lost
From the sun the morning dew the moon the heat and frost
Cry to the sky above
Never give all your heart for love
And cry to the sky above
Never give all your heart for love
And cry to the sky above
Never give all your heart for love

The heat of passion will deceive you
Make you a different man
Turns peasants to kings
Draw dirt to fertile land
So jungle walkin' hooligan
Have my gun at my side
Such a lender of this march until they died
Withe powers to give just enough
Never give all your heart for love
You cry to sky above
Never give all your heart for love
And cry to sky above
Never give all your heart for love

Writer/s: JONATHAN CAIN, JOE BONAMASSA
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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This hard-rocking Different Shades Of Blue cut was co-written by Bonamassa with Journey's Jonathan Cain.
"He's a real deep musician," the blues-rock guitarist noted to Billboard magazine. "He knows the blues really well. He gets typecast 'cause he's in Journey, but when you say, 'Let's write something like Free with Paul Rodgers, he's like, 'Yeah, I'm into that!' and it just came out."

R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People

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Album: Out Of Time
Released: 1991

Shiny Happy People Lyrics

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The title and chorus are based on a Chinese propaganda poster. The slogan "Shiny happy people holding hands" is used ironically - the song was released in 1991, two years after the Tiananmen Square uprising when the Chinese government clamped down on student demonstrators, killing hundreds of them. (thanks, Ali - Oxford, England)

Kate Pierson from the B-52's sang backup. She was in demand for her distinctive vocals after the B-52's achieved mainstream success with "Love Shack" in 1989. R.E.M. and The B-52's are both from Athens, Georgia.

This was the second single from the album. A very light, happy song, it was a stark contrast to the very profound "Losing My Religion," which was released first.

Michael Stipe calls this "A really fruity, kind of bubblegum song." In an interview with The Quietus, he said that he was a bit embarrassed when it became a big hit, but it's an important song because it shows a different side of him. Said Stipe: "Many people's idea of R.E.M, and me in particular, is very serious, with me being a very serious kind of poet. But I'm also actually quite funny - hey, my bandmates think so, my family thinks so, my boyfriend thinks so, so I must be - but that doesn't always come through in the music! People have this idea of who I am probably because when I talk on camera, I'm working so hard to articulate my thoughts that I come across as very intense."

In 1999, R.E.M. performed this on Sesame Street as "Furry Happy Monsters." Kate Pierson's part was performed by a Muppet that looked like her, voiced by Stephanie D’Abruzzo, a Muppeteer who was also a huge fan of the band. Guitarist Peter Buck has two daughters who were big fans of the show.

This appears in Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 while archive footage of both George Bushes shaking hands and posing for photographs with Saudi Arabian oilmen plays. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

Midway into this song, it switches to Waltz time - 3/4. R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck had the idea to do this. He explained why in a 1991 interview with Guitar School: "The song is so relentlessly upbeat, there was nowhere you could really go with the bridge. We tried it a few ways and then I suggested 3/4. They said, 'That's kind of fruity, Peter.' But I thought it was cool. It makes you think, well, what would we not put here? It gives the song a 'Saturday In The Park' feel."

Drummer Bill Berry notes the song's unique elements in the liner notes for Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage and challenges anybody to prove him wrong (unless you're immortal - that wouldn't be fair): "Think what you will about this powerful, God-rock anthem of yore, but at least we managed to conceive a song that starts out as a waltz and closes with the lyric 'dit' more than 140 times in succession. I challenge any mortal to locate another tune that features both of these visionary elements."

The guys can't get away from this one. Peter Buck remembers vacationing in the Amazon years after the song's release and hearing it on the radio. He admits, "It sounded really, really good. If we did one of those per record, I could see how it could get a little embarrassing. But we only did it once."

This was featured on Beverly Hills, 90210 in the 1991 episode "Down and Out of District in Beverly Hills" and on Friends in the 1994 episode "The One with the Monkey." It was also used in the 2008 movie Marley & Me, starring Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson.

Lady Antebellum - Down South

Lady Antebellum - Down South Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 747
Released: 2014

Down South Lyrics

I was born, I was blessed
Right place, right time, I guess
Ain't no good reason why I left
Except to run and roam

Would you take me back and take me in
Let me be your child again?
Kiss my cheek, forgive my sins
And let me call you home?

Oh, I may stay here for awhile

If I'm gonna fly, gonna fly Down South
If I'm gonna drive, I'm gonna find a small town
South is where my momma lives
Where my lil piece of heaven is
If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream your face
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to that place
And figure out what I lost and found down south

Religion and me don't always agree
But I sure love my maker
Sounds just like a gospel song
When I sing my lil prayer

Got rocks in my shoes, holes in my soul
I'm covered in dirt from head to toe
From walking along this winding road
That brought me back to here

Oh, I may stay here for awhile

If I'm gonna fly, gonna fly down south
If I'm gonna drive, I'm gonna find a small town
South is where my momma lives
Where my lil piece of heaven is
If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream your face
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to that place
And figure out what I lost and found down south

Oooooh oh oh oh, nananana
Oooooh oh oh oh, nananana
Oh, I may stay here for awhile

If I'm gonna fly, gonna fly down south
If I'm gonna drive, I'm gonna find a small town
South is where my momma lives
Where my lil piece of heaven is
If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream your face
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to that place
And figure out what I lost and found down south

Down south

Oooooh oh oh oh, nananana
Oooooh oh oh oh, nananana

Down south, born and raised
Down south where I learned to pray
Down south is where I'll stay
Down south

Down south, born and raised
Down south where I learned to pray
Down south is where I'll stay
Down south

Writer/s: THOMSON, DAVID / CHAPMAN, STEPHANIE / RADA, CHRISTIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The song's demo was fortuitously found at the bottom of a pile when Lady Antebellum were picking tracks for their 747 album. "I fell in love with the song, and the track, and the guitars and the vocals, and the message," Dave Haywood recalled to The Boot .

The Lady A trio were initially unaware that the co-writer and demo singer was one Stephanie Chapman, who happens to be the wife of 747 producer, Nathan Chapman. "We gave it a lot more energy than what the demo had," Charles Kelley said of their version. "The demo was a lot more 'American Honey,' and we gave it a little bit more of a rawness and an edge to it. It's not just about down south. It's about yearning for home, yearning for that familiarity of what you're used to and what you grew up with."

Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions

Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Green Onions
Released: 1962

Green Onions Lyrics

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This is an instrumental with a simple but unusual 2/4 time signature. Booker T. & the MG's were the house band for the Memphis Soul music label Stax Records . They recorded with many of the Stax artists, including Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, and Isaac Hayes, but they also recorded their own material between sessions.

The band developed this song while they were waiting for rockabilly singer Billy Lee Riley (a Sun artist) to show up for a session. In an interview with National Public Radio (NPR), Booker T. Jones said: "That happened as something of an accident. We used the time to record a Blues which we called 'Behave Yourself,' and I played it on a Hammond M3 organ. Jim Stewart, the owner, was the engineer and he really liked it and wanted to put it out as a record. We all agreed on that and Jim told us that we needed something to record as a B-side, since we couldn't have a one-sided record. One of the tunes I had been playing on piano we tried on the Hammond organ so that the record would have organ on both sides and that turned out to be 'Green Onions.'"

As the guys were calling it a night after recording this song, Jim Stewart asked them to listen to what he'd recorded on one particular take. They listened but weren't as impressed as Jim, who asked: "If we released this as a record, what would you want to call it?" "Green Onions," was Booker T. Jones' reply. "Why 'Green Onions'" Jim asked. Booker T: "Because that is the nastiest thing I can think of and it's something you throw away."

The group's guitarist Steve Cropper brought this song to the Memphis radio station WLOK the day after they recorded it. The morning DJ, Rueben Washington, was a friend of Cropper's, and put the song on his turntable to hear off-air. After listening to just part of the song, he cut off the record that was on air and started playing "Green Onions" for his listeners. Says Cropper: "He played it four or five times in a row. We were dancing around the control room and believe it or not, the phone lines lit up. I guess we had the whole town dancing that morning."

The response to the song proved Cropper's point that it should be the A-side of the single instead of "Behave Yourself," and subsequent singles were pressed with the sides flipped.

The group was named after the British MG sports cars, but when the company expressed disapproval, they claimed the initials as "Memphis Group." Members of the band were Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson, and Lewie Steinberg (who was replaced in 1964 by Donald "Duck" Dunn). Jackson was killed in 1975, but the remaining members have gotten together often to play various events, including the "Bobfest" Bob Dylan tribute concert in 1992, and Neil Young's 1993 tour. The band was integrated, which was unusual at the time in Memphis: Three members were black, and one was white (Cropper). When Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis in 1968, igniting already high racial tensions, they had two white and two black members.

The sound is driven by the Hammond Organ played by Booker T. Jones, who was 17 when this was recorded. The Hammond organ was invented in 1934 by Laurens Hammond. Its mournful sound made it the instrument of choice for military chapels, but then in the 1960s the rockers got wind of it and the device became a standard keyboard instrument for jazz, blues, rock and gospel music.

In the UK, this was popular in dance clubs, but didn't become a chart hit until 1979, when it was used in the movie Quadrophenia. A character played by Sting danced to it in the movie. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

In his book Seekers Guide To The Rhythm Of Yesteryear, Shiloh Noone writes about the UK impact of this song: "The 'Green Onions' groove has maintained an epic accountability filtering into a variety of styles, yet its roots have a double-edged sword. Let us chop up the onions and savor the stinging that shed its tears over the last forty years. Strangely the infectious hook never charted in the '60s and took 17 years to reach UK #10. Admittedly Atlantic had slipped up failing to recognize that the instrumental 'Memphis Sound' had conjured a bluesy dance fashion in the '60s. The 1967 'Green Onions' single was backed by the badly recorded 'Bootleg.' The riff took fashion during the mod revival in the '70s and found itself included on The Who's Quadrophenia soundtrack. For many it was the first introduction to Booker T. It was re-issued as a single in 1979 and cracked the UK #10 due to Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn joining the Blues Brothers and featuring in the film of the same name. The stinging riff again re-surfaced in 1985 on 'Old Gold Records,' this time backed by 'Chinese Checkers.' Some of the more definitive versions of 'Green Onions' were featured by Georgie Fame (Fame at Last), the Ventures (Lonely Bull), King Curtis (Memphis Hits). The irresistible groove also hooked the high and mighty as in 'Stoned' by the Rolling Stones that was issued as B-side to 'I Wanna Be Your Man.' The rhythm would move from generation to generation starting with the Blues Brothers (Made in America - 1980), Johnny Thunders (eponymous album 1982) and the acid jazz Penthouse Suite (1990) by the James Taylor Quartet. Barring the original that kicks like a mule, their are four exhilarating interpretations: Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, which has Mike improvising on the decisive Al Kooper Hammond drone. Bloomfield's articulate tone frolics and jostles with absolute ease amazing the crowds at Bill Graham's Fillmore. England's Downliners Sect released the most authentic version and probably the only played purely on guitar in 1964, probably also the first British version and to my knowledge the first cover to wax the globe. For the purists the frenzied guitar solos were reinforced by Muleskinner axeman Ian McLagan, future organist with the Small Faces. Guitar maestro Roy Buchanan recorded this one in 1967 for his Loading Zone. He shares the lead solos with none other than authors Steve Cropper and bassist Donald 'Duck' Dunn."

This song provides broadcasters with a wonderful instrumental bed which they can talk over or leave on its own without losing the audience. The NPR program Fresh Air uses it to great effect, and the song has also appeared in a number of films and TV shows, as well as in TV commercials for Mercedes. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

According to Q magazine, a few years after this was released, Georgie Fame met Booker T and told him that he thought the Hammond sound on this song was amazing and asked him what the levers on the organ were set to. Apparently Booker T had been unaware that the settings could be changed and he replied, "What, those things move?"

Lady Antebellum - One Great Mystery

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Album: 747
Released: 2014

One Great Mystery Lyrics

I don't know how many stars fill the sky
I know we're here, but I don't know why
Maybe there's some other life out there
But as long as you're here with me, baby, I don't really care

There is only One Great Mystery
I keep searching for the answer desperately
Tell me, tell me baby, tell me please
What did I ever do to make you fall for me?

Don't know what happens when we leave this world
I know I'll go right on loving you girl
I'll close my eyes and drift off into the blue
And if I go first, I will wait for you

There is only one great mystery
I keep searching for the answer desperately
Tell me, tell me baby, tell me please
What did I ever do to make you fall for me?

I guess I'll never really know
How I deserve someone that loves me so

There is only one great mystery
I keep searching for the answer desperately
Tell me, tell me baby, tell me please
What did I ever do to make you fall for me?

I'll keep asking through eternity
What did I ever do to make you fall for me?

Writer/s: SCOTT, HILLARY / HAYWOOD, DAVE / KELLEY, CHARLES / KEAR, JOSHUA PETER
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., ROUND HILL MUSIC
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The Lady A trio wrote this poetic ballad with their "Need You Now" collaborator Josh Kear.

Dave Haywood told Billboard magazine this song nearly didn't make it onto the 747 album. "We were in the studio and almost ditched it at the last minute, but the guitar player hit a Vince Gill groove, which kind of became the root of the song," he said. "It took off from there."

Phish - You Enjoy Myself

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Album: Junta
Released: 1988

You Enjoy Myself Lyrics

Boy
Man
God
Shit
Boy man
Boy man
Wash uffitze drive me to firenze

Writer/s: BYRNE, DAVID / FRANTZ, CHRIS / WEYMOUTH, TINA / HARRISON, JERRY / ENO, BRIAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This Phish classic came to define their live shows and is probably their most popular song. Rolling Stone magazine named it #85 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar songs, where they explained that Trey Anastasio wrote the song in the summer of 1985 when he was 20 years old and traveling in Europe with Phish drummer Jon Fishman. Said Anastasio: "I was coming up with these little bits, but I never really sat down to write anything. We'd be sitting around the bonfire with, like, 20 people, watching the stars and listening to the waves crash, and I'd be strumming along. I'd play something like the opening part of the song, and it would stick in my head. And the next week, we'd be standing on the street, and I'd come up with another part. I would just glue them together - the song is like a travel journal." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was the last song Phish played before going on hiatus. On October 7, 2000, they played an extended version in their encore at a show in Mountain View, California. After the show, the 4 band members locked themselves in a trailer and stayed there for about 4 hours. When they came out, they had decided to quit, feeling that the grind of touring and the size of their operation had gotten so they couldn't enjoy the music anymore. They regrouped in 2002, but made sure to limit their touring schedule.

At some shows, Anastasio and bass player Mike Gordon bounce on little trampolines while performing this. They saw the trampolines at a yard sale one day and thought they would be great for their show. This is not all that unusual in the world of Phish.

At their last concert in Coventry, Vermont, the trampolines were given out to the crowd in a farewell gesture at the end of the song. The trampolines were passed back and fans jumped and danced on them during the show. (thanks, HooHah - Tenfaly, NJ)

The first half of the song is instrumental. The second half of the song includes understandable lyrics, "Boy. Man. God. Sh-t." and a phrase sung in the background in a very mumbled, unintelligible manner. The most common interpretation of the mumble is "Wash Ufizzi, drive me to Ferenzi" referring to the Ufizzi museum, Italy and the town of Ferenzi, also in Italy. The band members lately say they forgot what it is. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)

When Phish broke up in 2004, Anastasio explained he was sick of playing the same songs over and over: "I gotta do something new. I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself.'"

Lenny Kravitz - Frankenstein

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Album: Strut
Released: 2014

Frankenstein Lyrics

A lie he broke and beaten
And better have alive
My heart is slowly beating
Don’t leave me here to die

'Cause I need love (love)
Yeah, I need love (love)
You say that I’m your baby
But I feel like Frankenstein
I need love

I try so hard to please you
You’re never satisfied
Will you ever release me yeah?
I’m tossin’ twirls to swine

But I need love (love)
Sister, I need love (love)
You say that I’m your baby
But I feel like Frankenstein
I need love

The lie that you are leading
Will never let you shine
Your words are so deceiving
But yet they taste like wine

Can’t help yourself from creeping
Can’t help yourself from lying
One more day of this shit and I‘ll lose my mind

But I need love (love)
Baby, I need love (love)
You said I was your savior
But I feel like Frankenstein

The life that you are living
Will never let you shine
Your words are so deceiving
But yet they taste like wine

I need love (love)
But, I need love (love)
Yeah, I need love (love) sister
Yeah
But I need love
But I need love
Sugar, uh
But I need love (but I need love)
Uh, baby
But I need love
Can you give some
I need love (but I need love)
I beg you baby
But I need love
I need, I need, I need love

Writer/s: LENNY ALBERT KRAVITZ
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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After Lenny Kravitz had finished filming Hunger Games, he went home to the Bahamas to record his Strut album. He named each of the songs before he wrote any words, purely on the impressions he got when he recorded the basic tracks. Kravitz then wrote lyrics to correspond to his instinctive titles.

He said regarding this song about Mary Shelley's famous man-made creature, "He was a loving character, but he was also a monster. It's a great metaphor for misunderstood love."

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was just 19-years-old when she came up with the idea for Frankenstein during a trip to the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. It came out of an evening spent with her travelling companions, which included her future husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. They started discussing ghosts and the supernatural fuelled perhaps by laudanum and Byron's doctor, John Polidori, suggested they should have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. Mary couldn't think of one at the time but that night she dreamt of a scientist who created life and was horrified by the result. Percy was impressed and he got Mary to write it out in full. "I busied myself to think of a story which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror," she said.

The first edition of Frankenstein was published anonymously in 1818. Mary Shelley's name appears on the second edition, which was published five years later. After Frankenstein Mary wrote another six novels. The Last Man, a pioneering science fiction novel of the human apocalypse in the distant future, is considered by some to be her best work.