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R.E.M. - Orange Crush

R.E.M. - Orange Crush Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Green
Released: 1988

Orange Crush Lyrics

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Orange Crush was an orange flavored soft drink. In this case, though, it was meant to refer to Agent Orange, a chemical used by the US to defoliate the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War. US military personnel exposed to it developed cancer years later and some of their children had birth defects. The extreme lyrical dissonance in the song meant that most people completely misinterpreted the song, including Top Of The Pops host Simon Parkin, who remarked on camera after R.E.M. performed the song on the British TV show, "Mmm, great on a summer's day. That's Orange Crush."

The song does not refer to any single Vietnam-related experience for lead singer Michael Stipe, but simply that he lived in that era of American history. He wrote in Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011: "[The song is] a composite and fictional narrative in the first person, drawn from different stories I heard growing up around Army bases. This song is about the Vietnam War and the impact on soldiers returning to a country that wrongly blamed them for the war."

Stipe's father served in Vietnam in the helicopter corps.

Stipe sometimes introduced this in concert by singing the US Army jingle, "Be all that you can be, in the Army."

The drill sergeant heard in the background during the middle is just an imitation by Stipe. In the traditional Michael Stipe way, the words he says during the imitation are complete nonsense.

This was not the first R.E.M. song to deal with the Vietnam War. That distinction goes to "Body Count," an early unreleased song that they played live many times.

This was used in the 2007 drama Towelhead, starring Maria Bello, Chris Messina and Summer Bishil.

The song's meaning keeps changing for Peter Buck. He wrote in the In Time liner notes:
"I must have played this song onstage over three hundred times, and I still don't know what the f*** it's about. The funny thing is, every time I play it, it means something different to me, and I find myself moved emotionally. [Playwright/composer] Noel Coward made some remark about the potency of cheap music, and while I wouldn't describe the song as cheap in any way, sometimes great songwriting isn't the point. A couple of chords, a good melody and some words can mean more than a seven-hundred-page novel, mind you. Not a good seven-hundred-page novel mind you, but more say, a long Jacqueline Susann novel. Well alright, I really liked Valley of the Dolls."

Garth Brooks - People Loving People

Garth Brooks - People Loving People Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Man Against Machine
Released: 2014

People Loving People Lyrics

Doctor, you ain't got a pill
For whatever's making this world ill
You can't get forgiveness at the store
And peace, it's a politician's war

You won't find no resolution in the bottom of a bottle
In the stars or Aristotle, the only answer to the problem is…

People Loving People
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah

Words aren't what they seem to be
Talk is cheap but lies are free
We fear what we don't understand
And we've been scared since time began

All the colors and the cultures circle 'round us on a spindle
It's a complicated riddle, the solution is so simple…

It's people loving people
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah

You can pawn it off on kings and queens and those behind the curtain
Say what can make a difference in a world so full of hurting
But I believe the remedy starts right here with you and me

People loving people
That's the enemy of everything's that's evil
Ain't no quick fix at the end of a needle
It's just people loving people
It's just people loving people
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
Whoa, woah, woah, woah
It's just people loving people

Writer/s: MILLER, LEE THOMAS / BUSBEE, MICHAEL JAMES RYAN / WALLIN, CHRIS ALLEN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Written by busbee (Rascall Flatts' "Summer Nights"), Lee Thomas Miller (Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This") and Chris Wallin (Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink"), this southern rock anthem finds Brooks preaching love as a solution to the world's ills. The song was Brooks first single release since un-retiring from raising his three daughters.

Frank Zappa - San Ber'dino

Frank Zappa - San Ber'dino Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: One Size Fits All
Released: 1975

San Ber'dino Lyrics

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Portions of this song refer to a character named Bobby who spends time in Tank C in San Bernardino jail. In the early 1960s Zappa spent 10 days in San Bernardino county jail on a trumped up obscenity charge. (thanks, Matthew - Amherst, NY)

This is included on Zappa's compilation album Strictly Commercial.

Interpol - All the Rage Back Home

Interpol - All the Rage Back Home Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: El Pintor
Released: 2014

All the Rage Back Home Lyrics

When she said hey love come over my head abounds
Oh the feeling
And she wept, hold me again, I made no sound
Oh the beating
Then she swore love is never done
So easily
Then we went over again, my head abounds
Oh the feeling

She said you don't need mine
Behave, you won't meet your mate inside
My faith won't lie
He said you don't need time
Be tame, you wanna leave my lady lovers
Of my eighteen summers alone
She said, you don't read minds
Be patient, you won't leave me shakin'
Leave me shakin'

I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
But it's All the Rage Back Home
It's all the rage back home

When she said, love come over my head abounds
Oh, what feeling
She said, you oughtta refine
Be paid, you're gonna see my face in lights
My faith won't lie
My sweet, you don't need mine to
Come away and just say you'll love me,
Say you'll love me alone
She said you don't read minds
Be patient, you won't see me shakin'
You have been mistaken

I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
But it's all the rage back home
It's all the rage back home

All the rage back home
All the rage back home
All the rage back
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
It's all the rage back home
I keep falling, maybe half the time, maybe half the time
It's all the rage back home

Writer/s: Kessler, Daniel Alexander / Fogarino, Samuel J / Banks, Paul Julian
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The lead single from El Pintor, this song was written by frontman Paul Banks on a balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the last day of the band's 2010 tour.

Banks also plays bass guitar on the track. He has been Interpol's bassist since the departure of Carlos Dengler in 2010.

Brandon Curtis of Secret Machines guests on keyboards. He contributed to most of tracks on the El Pintor album.

El Pintor is not only Spanish for "the painter," but did you spot it is also an anagram of Interpol?

The black and white video was co-directed by Banks with Sophia Peer (The National, Paramore, Yeasayer). The clip features dimly lit shots of Interpol performing the tune contrasted against footage of surfers challenging waves.

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach

Madonna - Papa Don't Preach Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: True Blue
Released: 1986

Papa Don't Preach Lyrics

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This song is about teenage pregnancy. Madonna takes the voice of a confused teenager who wants advice from her father at a difficult time. In a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, she said: "It just fit right in with my own personal zeitgeist of standing up to male authorities, whether it's the pope or the Catholic Church or my father and his conservative, patriarchal ways."

The line "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby," caused anti-abortion groups to praise Madonna and abortion-rights groups to criticize her. Madonna refused to take a stance on the issue.

Madonna called this "a message song that everyone is going to take the wrong way."

This was one of the most controversial Madonna songs. Many articles were written about it in the context of abortion. The media attention helped make it a hit and keep it on the charts.

A producer named Brian Elliot wrote this song for a new artist he was working with named Christina Dent, who was on the same label as Madonna. When a record company executive heard it, he convinced Elliot to give it to Madonna instead, because she was an established star.

This was one of the first Madonna songs to take on a political issue. Her previous hits, like "Holiday," "Borderline," and "Lucky Star," stayed well clear of controversy.

The video featured Danny Aiello as Madonna's father. He recorded an answer song from the father's perspective called "Papa Only Wants The Best." Aiello was mostly unknown at the time, but went on to star in Do The Right Thing and Moonstruck.

Around this time, Madonna was working out and had a more toned body that she showed off in the video by wearing a tight black outfit. It was rumored that you could see her nipples when she leaned back.

Ozzy Osbourne's daughter, Kelly, recorded this with Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas from the group Incubus for the soundtrack to The Osbournes, an MTV show about Ozzy's home life. Kelly's mom, Sharon Osbourne, asked her to do it. Her version peaked at #74, making it the first instance of a cover of a Madonna song reaching the Hot 100. Osbourne's rendition also reached #3 in the UK singles chart.

The guy who plays Madonna's boyfriend in the video is Alex McArthur, who is featured in the Desperado movies. (Thanks, Linda - Oudenaarde, Belgium)

In it's review of the album True Blue, Rolling Stone magazine referred to this song as "Madonna's Billie Jean." Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" had a similar theme, about a pregnancy complicating people's lives. Jackson has been called "The King Of Pop," while Madonna has been referred to as "The Queen of Pop."

Rock critic Dave Marsh gave this song a glowing review: "that ultimate rarity - a message song that opens with Beatles-esque cellos that you can dance to." (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England, for above 2)

Jeezy - Me OK

Jeezy - Me OK Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Seen It All
Released: 2014

Me OK Lyrics

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that Me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

I'm a fool on that Avion, snow be on that liquor
Approach me if you want to, I will smoke ya like a Swisha
You know my game tizight you know that's all tizzop
Presidential day day, looking like two blocks
They ain't know 2Pac when he was on Death Row
All black glizzock, that 40 says leggo
All my niggas is 'bout it, all my bitches is with it
One call that's all, choppers pay him a visit
Real nigga fo' sho', got a fetish for dough
34 a unit, nine hundred, an O
Break 'em down into zips, that's a hell of a flip
Had 'em now they gone, guess I'm takin' a trip

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

When L.A. Reid was in office made some history up in Def Jam
If Jizzle ain't droppin', nigga, what the fuck is Def Jam?
I know you heard how your boy bossed up at Atlantic
Boss shit, might just drop my next album on Atlantic
I really hope you bitches ready, Vice-prezzy and his Presi
Got some shit up in my bezzy, So what ya sayin'? My wrist is heavy
All white, penthouse, yeah, like the one on Belly
With a brown skin thing swear to God she look like Kelly
Two door Rolls is how I'm rollin', plus you know a nigga totin'
Keep that street nigga paper, rubber band it, it ain't foldin'
First the XXL, read about me in the Forbes
That's a long way from trappin' in that 4-door Accord
Wassup

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

Snow can eyeball a seven, yeah you best believe without the scale
I just want the mansions and the riches, yeah without the jail
You can call me postman, don't go no where without some mail
In and out in 20 minutes, you best believe I'm makin' bail
Put you on designer watches, put you on designer frames
Had you cashin' out, payin' for, you can't pronounce the name
Had that Murcielago, it was green like margaritas
Sold yayo, I sold albums, might as well sell some tequila
Dropped so many Lambos, thought I was a Lam ambassador
Dropped so many Rollies, niggas thought I owned the Rollie store
Snow it's been a while, yeah you know them streets missed you
I don't eat, sleep, or shit without my mothafuckin' pistol

First they tell ya "Motherfucker, trap or die", that me OK
Mister whip or not and get a half a pie, that me OK
Mister if I'm talkin' you should listen, game is free OK
Mister got two whole ones and two half ones, yeah that's three OK
Leave up out of here with two bad ones, yeah, that's me OK
Mister re-in' up with 'bout two phantoms, yeah, that's me OK
On that Avion to the head, hey, but me OK
Never put a bitch before my bread, hey, now me OK

Writer/s: JENKINS, JAY / GHOLSON, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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The first few lines after this song's chorus find Jeezy expressing his frustration with his record label, Def Jam Recordings.

When L.A. Reid was in office, made some history up in Def Jam
If Jizzle ain't droppin', nigga, what the f--k is Def Jam?
I know you heard how your boy bossed up at Atlantic
Boss s--t, might just drop my next album on Atlantic

In late 2013, rumors spread that Jeezy might be leaving Def Jam. The rapper encouraged the talk of the split when he vented on Twitter, threatening to leak his album.

Asked by Billboard magazine what reaction he was going for when he called out Def Jam, Jeezy replied: "I wasn't going for any reaction. That was just the truth. I was basically saying I got options and putting it into the stratosphere that I am really a boss."

"Even for my fans and peers, I'm not going to be the person just all blacked out in hood atmosphere," he continued. "I can go into these buildings and move things around too. I been in that game. I been at Atlantic over there head of A&R. I A&R my own records at Def Jam. It was like, look, here's where I am with it, I can do either or—know that though."

Jeezy explained the concept of the song's visual to MTV News: "The video is basically about touching my town," he said, "getting in the streets and running through the neighborhoods that I often ran through and getting back out with the homies, kids and people of Atlanta."

Blur - You're So Great

Blur - You're So Great Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Blur
Released: 1997

You're So Great Lyrics

Sad, drunk, and poorly
Sleeping really late
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Not feeling so great
Wandering lost in a town full of frowns
Sad, drunk, and poorly
Dogs digging up the ground

And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky's just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it's OK
Cos You're So Great, and I love you

Tea Tea and coffee
Helps to start the day
Tea Tea and coffee
Shaking all the way
City's alive and, surprise, so am I
Tea, tea and coffee
Get no sleep today

And I feel the light
In the night and in the day
And I feel the light
When the sky's just mud and grey
And I feel the light
When you tell me it's OK
Cos you're so great, and I love you

Writer/s: COXON, GRAHAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was the first song from a Blur album that featured guitarist Graham Coxon as a main vocalist. It's the only Blur song that was written and performed by just one member of the band (Coxon).

Coxon, at the time, not too confident with his vocal abilities, was so shy that he felt better by singing and playing the song under a table in the studio. (thanks, Phoebe - Rome, Italy for above 2)

The Kooks - It Was London

The Kooks - It Was London Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Listen
Released: 2014

It Was London Lyrics

It was in London
Where we heard the revolution
From Covent Garden
All the way down to Brixton

It was in Tottenham
Man got shot by a policeman
A young girl went to test them
Went up against the system
Oh oh, I don't know

Who are you
Who are you

On the television
Of course they blame the youth for disruption
Cause they took Fortnum & Mason
And nothing said about the shooting
Just the looting

It was in London
It was in London

And it was thunder
Caught between love and anger
From Trafalgar
All the way up to Camden

Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?
Can you believe this is London?

London town, London town
London town, London town

Writer/s: DEAN WYNTON JOSIAH COVER, LUKE PRITCHARD
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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This gritty tune finds Luke Pritchard recounting the 2011 London Riots, which left England's capital city in a state of mayhem. The Kooks vocalist explained to Sound Of Boston how the song tried to capture the band's feelings at the time: "A big city like that, London, Paris, you have this illusion that everything's safe, and that sort of thing happens and the walls come crashing down," he said. "The police brutality that happened around that time… we wrote a song about that."

Thousands of mostly young males rioted in several London boroughs for several days during early August 2011 as well as in other places in England. The resulting chaos generated looting and arson as well as the deaths of five people. The riots inspired a number of songs including:

"Kids" by Mikky Ekko

"Uptight Downtown" by La Roux

In addition the video for Plan B's single "Ill Manors" features footage of the riots.

Bob Marley & the Wailers - No Woman No Cry

Bob Marley & the Wailers - No Woman No Cry Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Natty Dread
Released: 1975

No Woman No Cry Lyrics

No, woman, no cry,
No, woman, no cry,
No, woman, no cry,
No, woman, no cry.

Said, said, said, I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown,
Oba - obaserving the 'ypocrites
As they would mingle with the good people we meet.
Good friends we have, oh, good friends we've lost
Along the way.
In this great future, you can't forget your past,
So dry your tears, I seh.

No, woman, no cry,
No, woman, no cry.
'Ere, little darlin', don't shed no tears,
No, woman, no cry.

Said, said, said, I remember when-a we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
Of which I'll share with you,
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got to push on through.
But while I'm gone, I mean,

Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
I said, everything's gonna be all right-a!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right, now!
Everything's gonna be all right!

So, woman, no cry,
No, no, woman, woman, no cry.
Woman, little sister, don't shed no tears,
No, woman, no cry.

I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
As it was logwood burnin' through the nights.
Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
Of which I'll share with you,
My feet is my only carriage,
So I've got to push on through.
But while I'm gone,

No, woman, no cry,
No, woman, no cry.
Woman, little darlin', say don't shed no tears,
No, woman, no cry.
Eh! (Little darlin', don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.
Little sister, don't shed no tears!
No, woman, no cry.)

Writer/s: KIM, BYOUNG HOON / SKUL1, / FORD, VINCENT
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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This became Marley's first hit when it was released as a single from his album, Live!, which was recorded at the Lyceum in London in 1975. It was a hot July night, and they gave a rousing performance. This tour was a breakthrough for Marley and The Wailers. Their previous tour went horribly, as audiences outside of Jamaica did not appreciate his pure Reggae. He polished and tightened his sound for this tour in order to compete with the slick arena acts that were popular at the time, and got a great response. Glowing reviews led to sold out shows in the US, and by the time the tour hit London, they were a huge success.

Marley developed a powerful stage presence on this tour, and added musicians like Family Man Barrett and Al Anderson to sweeten the sound. The audiences on the tour where the live version was recorded were evenly mixed between black and white people. Marley was one of the few artists to have mass appeal that transcended race. The song became a highlight of Marley's concerts as the crowd always joined in. It is very easy to sing along to.

The original line of the song is "No, Woman, Nuh cry." Nuh is Jamacian for "don't," so what is meant by the lyric is No, Woman, Don't cry... He's leaving and reassuring her that the slum they live in won't get her down, that everything will be alright and "don't shed no tear." (thanks, Thom - Plymouth, United Kingdom)

The original version on Natty Dread was nothing like the live performances. It was shorter and sped-up, with little of the energy Marley brought to it in concert.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the "Government yard in Trench Town" refers to the Jamaican public-housing project where Marley lived in the late '50s.

Marley wrote this, but gave a composer credit to Vincent "Tartar" Ford, one of his friends from Jamaica who helped him out when he was very poor and ran a soup kitchen in Kingston. By giving Ford the credit, Marley was helping out an old friend by trying to divert royalty checks his way. This was common practice on Marley's later output, as he listed friends and band members as composers, since murky contracts would have made it very hard for him to collect his own royalties (it's unclear how much money ever made it to his proxies). Ford is also listed as the songwriter of "Rastman Vibration."

The female vocals were by backing group the I-Threes, made up of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Bob's wife, Rita Marley. Griffiths went on to sing "Electric Boogie," which became a line dance favorite in America.

Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the group the year before this was released. They were upset at the way Marley was given top billing.

This was included on Legend, a compilation album released three years after Marley's death. It was a #1 album in the UK.

Dakota Moon's lead singer and guitarist, Ty Taylor, appeared on the reality TV series Rockstar INXS and did a cover of this song. (thanks, Annabelle - Eugene, OR)

The Brazilian Tropicalia singer Gilberto Gil recorded this for his 1979 album Realce, putting a Bossa Nova twist on it. Gil later became Brazil's Minister of Culture. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Aston "Family Man" Barrett, bass player of the Wailers, told NME June 30, 2012: "The song is about the strength in the mama of course, strength in the ladies. And we love a woman with a backbone. Something like a wishbone! They have to be like a she lion! Woman strong, you know, not depending on the man. Of course the man is there to help you, then for every successful man, there is a good woman."

In his book Lyrics By Sting, the singer admitted he borrowed the chords to this song for The Police's debut album track "So Lonely."

Lee Brice - Drinking Class

Lee Brice - Drinking Class Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: I Don't Dance
Released: 2014

Drinking Class Lyrics

We're up when the rooster crows
Clock in when the whistle blows
Eight hours ticking slow
And then tomorrow we'll do it all over again

I'm a member of a blue collar crowd
They can never, nah they can't keep us down
If you gotta, gotta label me, label me proud

I belong to the Drinking Class
Monday through Friday, man we bust our backs
If you're one of us, raise your glass
I belong to the drinking class

We laugh, we cry, we love
Go hard when the going's tough
Push back, come push and shove
Knock us down, we'll get back up again and again

I'm a member of a good timing crowd
We get rowdy, we get wild and loud
If you gotta, gotta label me, label me proud

I belong to the drinking class
Monday through Friday, man we bust our backs
If you're one of us, raise your glass
I belong to the drinking class

We all know why we're here
A little fun, a little music, a little whiskey, a little beer
We're gonna shake off those long week blues
Ladies, break out your dancing shoes
It don't matter what night it is, it's Friday
It's Saturday and Sunday
I just want to hear you say
I just want to hear you sing it
Y'all sing it with me

We belong to the drinking class
Monday through Friday, man we bust our backs
If you're one of us, raise your glass
We belong to the drinking class

Yeah, we belong to the drinking class
Monday through Friday, man we bust our backs
And if you're one of us, raise your glass
We belong to the drinking class

Writer/s: FRASIER, DAVID R / KEAR, JOSH / HILL, ED
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., ROUND HILL MUSIC, DO WRITE MUSIC LLC
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This song finds Brice paying tribute to the hard-working man who gets up early and works hard every day. "We had a bunch of production going on that wasn't right," he told Billboard magazine. "It was too new and hip, and had too much electronic stuff going on."

"It hit me one day that the song isn't about drinking, but it's about working class folks," Brice continued. "Working class, to me, seems like it needs to be organic - hands clapping, boots stomping, and it needs to sound like people humming along or whistling while they're working. And, literally, a sledge hammer hitting a railroad tie. So that's what we did. We went back in and took all that stuff out, and created those organic sounds to make it feel like the steel mills or the shipyards. When we got done, we felt we had gotten it right."

"Drinking Class" was penned by regular collaborators Josh Kear, David Frasier and Ed Hill. The working-class anthem came about when the trio were discussing current events and Kear threw out the title to his co-writers. "We know each other so well, any time we get together, we talk about life," Hill told Taste of Country .

"There's hardly any middle class anymore," he lamented. "You have super-rich people, the half-percent, that when they make a billion dollars they just can't seem to think that that's enough. They go and make another billion dollars, and then you have this big Grand Canyon, and you have everybody on the other side. And that's all of us, trying to scrap out a living."

"It's not really a drinking song," Hill added. "It's about people. It just happens to have drinking in the title."

R.E.M. - Pop Song '89

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Album: Green
Released: 1988

Pop Song '89 Lyrics

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This was written as a play on the Doors song "Hello I Love You." Instead of talking to a girl about sex, it's about the weather or politics.

R.E.M. played an early version on their Document tour before this was released. It didn't even have words then, but the band had a lot of trouble keeping themselves from laughing because they had so much fun with it.

The video was directed by lead singer Michael Stipe. It features him and three women all dancing topless as a way to satirize videos that objectify women. When MTV asked for a censored version, Stipe superimposed black bars over the chests of all four dancers. He said, "A nipple is a nipple."

This was REM's 89th recorded track, if you count mini-album "Chronic Town" and B-sides. (thanks, Michael - New York, NY)

Michael Stipe said in the October, 1992 issue of Q magazine: "It's a complete piss-take. I guess it's the prototype of, and hopefully the end of, a pop song. It would be the last pop song ever."

Stipe has described it as one of his "fruit loop songs" along with "Shiny Happy People" and "Stand."

Peter Buck remembers thinking this sounded like a Dream Syndicate song and calling up frontman Steve Wynn to make sure he didn't mind. Wynn gave the OK and agreed it did sound a bit like the group's Karl Precoda on guitar.

This was featured on the TV series Parks and Recreation in the 2014 episode "Prom."

Lenny Kravitz - Believe

Lenny Kravitz - Believe Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Are You Gonna Go My Way Released: 1993

Lenny Kravitz - Believe Lyrics

I am you and you are me
Why's that such a mystery?
If you want it you got to believe
Who are we?
We're who we are
Riding on this great big star
We've got to stand up if we're gonna be free yeah

If you want it you got to believe
Believe in yourself
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

The Son of God is in your face
Offering us eternal grace
If you want it you've got to believe
'Cause being free is just a state of mind

We'll one day leave this all behind
Just put your faith in God
And one day you'll see it
If you want it you got it

You just got to believe
Believe in yourself
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

The future's in our present hands
Let's reach right in
Let's understand
If you want it you've got to believe yeah

If you want it you got it
You just got to believe
Believe in yourself yeah
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

Writer/s: HASSMAN, NIKKI/MILLER, SCOTT /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Believe Song Chart

The second single from Are You Gonna Go My Way, this rock ballad finds Kravitz singing of the power of faith. He explained on a Reddit AMA the song is, "about the power of God, self and positive thinking, which all equates to love."

Lenny Kravitz - Believe

Lenny Kravitz - Believe Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Are You Gonna Go My Way Released: 1993

Lenny Kravitz - Believe Lyrics

I am you and you are me
Why's that such a mystery?
If you want it you got to believe
Who are we?
We're who we are
Riding on this great big star
We've got to stand up if we're gonna be free yeah

If you want it you got to believe
Believe in yourself
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

The Son of God is in your face
Offering us eternal grace
If you want it you've got to believe
'Cause being free is just a state of mind

We'll one day leave this all behind
Just put your faith in God
And one day you'll see it
If you want it you got it

You just got to believe
Believe in yourself
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

The future's in our present hands
Let's reach right in
Let's understand
If you want it you've got to believe yeah

If you want it you got it
You just got to believe
Believe in yourself yeah
'Cause it's all just a game
We just want to be loved

Writer/s: HASSMAN, NIKKI/MILLER, SCOTT /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Believe Song Chart

The second single from Are You Gonna Go My Way, this rock ballad finds Kravitz singing of the power of faith. He explained on a Reddit AMA the song is, "about the power of God, self and positive thinking, which all equates to love."