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Green Day - Basket Case

Green Day - Basket Case Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Dookie
Released: 1994

Basket Case Lyrics

Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned

I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause it's bringing her down

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
A ya-ya-ya

Grasping to control
So I better hold on

Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned?

Writer/s: ARMSTRONG, BILLIE JOE / COOL, TRE / DIRNT, MIKE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Basket Case

This song is about anxiety attacks and a feeling that you are going crazy. Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong suffered from various panic disorders while he was growing up - he would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with a panic attack and walk around his neighborhood to settle down. "Basket Case" was a cathartic song and personal song for him. "The only way I knew how to deal with it was to write a song about it," he explained.

This song stereotypes the whole condition of paranoia and compares it to being stoned.

By the time this came out, Green Day had already released two albums on an independent label. They had a small but ardent following that led to a bidding war for the band, which was won by Reprise Records. "Basket Case" was the third single from the album, following "Longview" and "Welcome To Paradise," and it was their breakout hit, getting airplay on Rock, Top 40, and Alternative radio stations.

The singles from Dookie were not available for sale (an effort to spur sales of the album), but were released to radio, making them ineligible for the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Basket Case" peaked at #26 on the Airplay chart of October 8, 1994, which was around the time of peak frenzy during Green Day concerts. The song also got a nice push from MTV, which put the Mark Kohr directed video in hot rotation.

In their early years, the band was constantly on tour and eating some real bad food. This food didn't always digest well, and the album title is what they called the result when it didn't.

A basket case is slang for an emotionally unstable, dysfunctional or completely useless person. Originally, the word referred to an amputee, especially a soldier, who had lost all four limbs; it was coined during World War I. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Blasting right into the verse at the beginning of this song is something that set it apart. Simplicity was a hallmark of the Dookie album, and while omitting an intro made little marketing sense (DJs couldn't talk up the song), it got right into the meat of the track. Tre Cool of Green Day cites the first Beatles album, Please Please Me, as an influence on Dookie, since those early Beatles songs also got right to the point.

When Billie Joe Armstrong spoke with Rolling Stone in 2014, he explained that this song will always be a part of the band's setlist, but that its meaning has changed for him. "It's about other people now," he said. "When I look at people as we play that song, they're having their own moment. At that point, I'm the audience."

The band played a raucous version of this song when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

Pulled Apart by Horses - Hot Squash

Pulled Apart by Horses - Hot Squash Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Blood
Released: 2014

Hot Squash Lyrics

Hot Squash

Pulled Apart By Horses' vocalist Tom Hudson told NME that lyrically, this song was inspired by Paul Thomas Anderson's film The Master, which is "about trying to control someone else."

The 2012 drama film The Master tells the story of World War II veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), who is struggling to adjust to a post-war society. He meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman,) and gets involved in his religious movement known as "The Cause."

Godsmack - Vampires

Godsmack - Vampires Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Awake
Released: 2000

Vampires Lyrics

Vampires

An instrumental written by Sully Erna and Robbie Merril, this song got a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental.

The dialogue in the beginning was taken from Mysterious Forces Beyond, a series of documentaries exploring the paranormal. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 2)

Röyksopp and Robyn - Sayit

Röyksopp and Robyn - Sayit Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Do It Again
Released: 2014

Sayit Lyrics

Sayit

According to the press release, this House track features a duet between Robyn and an "aroused robot."

The industrial-style music video is a collaboration with H&M and was directed by Swedish design team Sandberg & Timonen. "Just the fact that I'm wearing a dress is quite scary," Robyn said of the clip. "I usually don't."

On the face of it this appears to be an exploration of one of Robyn's favorite themes: the duality between humans and robots ("Fembot," "The Girl and the Robot"). However the singer admitted to NME the song is really about, "as a woman, teaching a guy how to evolve in a relationship."

Korn - Justin

Korn - Justin Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Follow The Leader
Released: 1998

Justin Lyrics

Fuck all that bullshit!
You watch me play.
I look away.
Your lights turn bright.
You found the light.
Take, up in space.
You and I.
Take, up in space.
You and I.

You're gonna die!
What made me whine?
I wish I hadn't drank.
Inside your soul escapes.

Take, up in space.
You and I.
Take, up in space.
You and I.

Cry, into me.
Hold me something alright
The kids that die listening to me.
You are alive!

Take, up in space.
You and I stay
Take, up in space.
You and I.
Take, up in space.
You and I.

Writer/s: DAVIS, JONATHAN HOWSMAN / ARVIZU, REGINALD / WELCH, BRIAN / SHAFFER, JAMES / SILVERIA, DAVID
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Justin

This is about a boy named Justin who was dying of intestinal cancer. His last wish was to meet the members of KoRn.

Lead singer Jon Davis: "It really freaked me out. That threw a whole bunch of new kind of pressures on my head. That's really intense. Someone's gonna die and his last thing he wants to do is come hang out with us. So I truly just freaked out. It's like why would you want to meet me? What makes me so special?" (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

The first 12 tracks on the CD, which are 5 seconds each, form a minute of silence for Justin. (thanks, Ruud - Nispen, Netherlands)

Roddy Frame - English Garden

Roddy Frame - English Garden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Seven Dials
Released: 2014

English Garden Lyrics

English Garden

Roddy Frame told Q magazine that this poignant croon is, "a song about heartbreak, about leaving the city and hoping the vastness of nature will put the tininess of your troubles into proper perspective."

Nirvana - Sliver

Nirvana - Sliver Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Incesticide
Released: 1992

Sliver Lyrics

Mom and dad went to a show
They dropped me off at Grandpa Joe's
I kicked and screamed, said please don't go

Grandma take me home

Had to eat my dinner there
Mashed potatos and stuff like that
I couldn't chew my meat too good

She said, well, don't you start your crying
Go outside and ride your bike
That's what I did, I killed my toe

After dinner, I had ice cream
I fell asleep and watched TV
I woke up in my mother's arms

Grandma take me home
I wanna be alone

Writer/s: KURT COBAIN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Sliver

This is a semi-autobiographical song about being deserted by your parents. The words were written by Kurt Cobain, and tell the story about a little boy left at his grandparents house and him screaming to go home. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

Dan Peters from the group Mudhoney played drums on this. Like Nirvana, Mudhoney came out of the Seattle music scene, and for a while were doing much better. Nirvana went through a lot of drummers before finding Dave Grohl, and Peters played just one show with the band.

This inspired the Weezer track "Heart Songs." Weezer leeder Rivers Cuomo told Rolling Stone magazine about hearing this song for the first time: "I was working at Tower Records on Sunset Boulevard in the spring of '91, and another cashier, Harold, said, 'Hey, Rivers, I know something you might like. It's called Nirvana.' As soon as I heard 'Mom and Dad went to a show,' I immediately started dancing around. It was exactly how I felt, and they were putting it to music. It inspired me to do the same thing." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

The music video for this song shows clips of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love's daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who was a year old at the time. Directed by Kevin Kerslake, it was shot in their basement using a Super-8 camera, which is a cheap but versatile camera that creates a home movie feel. (thanks, Breanna - Henderson, NV)

Sam Smith - Leave Your Lover

Sam Smith - Leave Your Lover Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Lonely Hour
Released: 2014

Leave Your Lover Lyrics

I don't have much to give, but I don't care for gold
What use is money, when you need someone to hold?
Don't have direction, I'm just rolling down this road
Waiting for you to bring me in from out the cold

You'll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain
Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name

Pack up and leave everything
Don't you see what I can bring
Can't keep this beating heart at bay
Set my midnight sorrow free
I will give you all of me
Just Leave Your Lover, leave him for me
Leave your lover, leave him for me

We sit in bars and raise our drinks to growing old
Oh, I'm in love with you and you will never know
But if I can't have you I'll walk this life alone
Spare you the rising storms and let the rivers flow

You'll never know the endless nights, the rhyming of the rain
Or how it feels to fall behind and watch you call his name

Pack up and leave everything
Don't you see what I can bring
Can't keep this beating heart at bay
Set my midnight sorrow free
I will give you all of me
Just leave your lover, leave him for me
Leave your lover, leave him for me
Leave your lover, leave him for me

Writer/s: SMITH, SAM / ALDRED, SIMON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Leave Your Lover

Many of the songs on Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour album, including this one, were inspired by his unrequited love for one person. He explained to Interview magazine. "My album focuses on unrequited love quite a lot because I don't think it's spoken about enough in music. I've been through it myself and I found it hard to find songs that were about that, so I've definitely tried to make that a part of my album."

Smith added: "When I was going through that, instead of searching for songs by other artists to relate to I could listen to my own music. I'd do a song in the studio and it would explain everything I'm going through so perfectly that when I went home and I felt down I could listen to that to make me feel better. It's a documentation of my life. I think it's just important to put it out there."

The Luke Monaghan-directed video follows a love triangle involving Smith and two close friends set in Paris. The female is played by model Daisy Lowe, who is the daughter of Gavin Rossdale, the lead singer of Bush. The clip marked the first time that Smith publicly addressed his sexuality.

Smith told 4Music : "Leave Your Lover is about someone I fell in love with last year. I tried to make this track sound pretty because the message of the song is pretty sad."

Smith felt closure after telling his unrequited love that the In the Lonely album was based on him. "I told him before the album came out and it gave me a lot of closure actually," the singer revealed to ITN News. "It made the whole; it just put a bookend at the end of the record. It was amazing. I'm so happy I did it."

Sam Smith wrote this song with Simon Aldred, who is the frontman of the rock band Cherry Ghost. Smith told Digital Spy the story of the song. "We were in his living room having a cup of tea and I was completely entranced by the chords," he said.

"I immediately came up with that lyric, 'Leave your lover, leave him for me'. I remember feeling so proud that I got the word 'him' in. We just put that down as a demo and it took about an hour to write - then we went and got a bagel together!"

Godsmack - I Stand Alone

Godsmack - I Stand Alone Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Faceless
Released: 2003

I Stand Alone Lyrics

Now I've told you this once before
You can't control me
If you try to take me down you're gonna break
I feel your every nothing that you're doing for me

I'm picking you out of me
You run away
I Stand Alone
Inside

I stand alone
You're always hiding behind your so called goddess
So what you don't think that we can see your face
Resurrected back before the final fallen

Now they've arrest until I can make my own way
I'm not afraid of fading
I stand alone
You and your sting down inside me

I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone

Inside
I stand alone
And now its my time (now its my time)
It's my time to dream (my time to dream)

Dream of the sky (dream of the sky)
Make me believe that this place is inplagued
By the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out

Before you can breathe
Breathe into me
I stand alone
Inside

I stand alone
You and your sting down inside me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone

Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone

Inside
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone

Inside

Writer/s: ERNA, SALVATORE P.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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I Stand Alone

Originally released on the Scorpion King soundtrack in 2002, it was later released on Godsmack's Faceless album in 2003. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), who starred in the movie, is in the video. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)

This song was used in the 2004 video game Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, along with "Straight Out Of Line" (thanks, Neil - Conroe, TX)

Sam Smith - Reminds Me of You

Sam Smith - Reminds Me of You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: In the Lonely Hour
Released: 2014

Reminds Me of You Lyrics

Reminds Me of You

This song was produced by Joel Little, who was the co-songwriter of Lorde's Pure Heroine album. Little told Billboard magazine about how Smith and him worked together in the studio. "We get into the room together and talk about what we've been listening to and what we feel like working on," he said. "I'll just start by putting a beat together. Sometimes I have things, like starting points in songs prepared, and we'll go through those, but if there's nothing getting us particularly excited, I'll just make something. We'll play around with a few chords until he finds something to sing over the top and we'll take it from there."

Sam Smith commented to 4Music : "I feel like this gives a nod to Robyn - an artist I truly adore. It's a dark lonely heavy song."

Metallica - The Unforgiven II

Metallica - The Unforgiven II Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: ReLoad
Released: 1997

The Unforgiven II Lyrics

The Unforgiven II

This is a sequel to their 1991 song "Unforgiven." Both songs start with the same extended note. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

The boy in the video is the same boy from the first "Unforgiven" video. In the first one, he was about 8 years old. In this one, he's about 14.

This was written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 2)

Metallica have rarely played this live. The song was first aired during the band's December 1997 performance at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Metallica performed the track live for the second time ever on May 29, 2015 at the Rock Im Revier festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Sharon Van Etten - Afraid of Nothing

Sharon Van Etten - Afraid of Nothing Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Are We There
Released: 2014

Afraid of Nothing Lyrics

You told me the day
That you show me your face
We'd be in trouble for a long time

I can't wait
'Til we're afraid
Of nothing
I can't wait
'Til we hide
From nothing
Nothing
And you decide
You throw me a lame "wait sh*t out"
You're a little late
I need you
To be Afraid of Nothing

Turning my way
You show me your face
We've known each other for a long time

I can't wait
'Til we're afraid
Of nothing
I can't wait
'Til we hide
From nothing
Nothing
And you decide
You throw me a lame "wait sh*t out"
You're a little late
I need you
To be afraid of nothing

I need you
To be afraid of nothing

Writer/s: SHARON VAN ETTEN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Afraid of Nothing

Sharon Van Etten and Christian, a barman and DJ, decided to commit to each other at the beginning of the touring cycle for the singer's 2012 album Tramp. This followed seven years of drifting in and out of each other's lives. Van Etten told NME they "weren't ready to be together," but on this song, she sings about knowing that there would be, "trouble for a long time" from the moment they met.