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Jean Knight - You Think You're Hot Stuff

Jean Knight - You Think You're Hot Stuff Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Mr. Big Stuff
Released: 1971

You Think You're Hot Stuff Lyrics

You Think You're Hot Stuff

This can be considered a sequel to Knight's biggest hit, "Mr. Big Stuff." They both have similar subject matter and were both written by the same songwriters - Joe Broussard, Ralph Williams, and Carrol Washington.

Along with five other songs, this was recorded and released after Knight's biggest hit "Mr. Big Stuff" and her album of the same name. When the album was reissued on CD in 1991, the six songs which did not appear on it were included as bonus tracks.

This was Jean Knight's second single for the Stax label. Before recording for Stax, she released a couple of singles that were popular locally but not nationally. (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up)

Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Caustic Love
Released: 2014

Scream (Funk My Life Up) Lyrics

How was I to know you'd just come along?
And funk my life up
Lips like debbie's, sing sex like strawberry songs
Just funk my life up
Never heard her coming, thought it was just another woman
With a shotgun in her hand
Funk my life up

She's the bass, she's the beat, she's the rhythm, she's the band
Just funk my life up
And that girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream hallelujah

Sly hands, spinning wax lights, oh God
Beats are dripping on me like spider milk
And I never heard the warning when I woke up in the morning
With my sunshine on a drip

She's my rock, she's my but, she's the dealer trip
And that girl, so fine
Makes you wanna scream hallelujah

How could I refuse? I'm not fit to chose
Just funk my life up
Said the only way I win is the way I lose
Just funk my life up
And I never got the script, I unzipped
Got a little bit wet up there in my brain
She's your church, she's your sin, she's a comic, she's a
And that girl, so fine
You wanna scream

She gets me sinning, she's like a trick on me
Hell, I don't even know her name but yet she sticks to me
And in the climax she would scream with me
Yeah, she sticks to me
She gets me funny, she doesn't want none of my money
So I pour it over her like gasoline
Light a match and then I'm back in my teens
Me and super girl smoking my green
Me and super girl smoking my green

Oh, Lord, reload, ice bags, scream
Sweet thing, nose ring, jet pack, sing
That girl so fine, makes you wanna scream hallelujah
Hallelujah
Yeah, that girl, so fine you wanna scream

Writer/s: NUTINI, PAOLO GIOVANNI
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Scream (Funk My Life Up)

The song's joyous Nez-directed music video sees Nutini traipsing around Los Angeles as he encounters an array of '70s-themed dancers, beautiful cheerleaders and other unique Hollywood characters on the way. "What a pleasure it was to make … all of those interesting, beautiful people, giving us an insight into how they do what they do and being kind enough to do it on camera," said Nutini. "[I] loved every second of it. Shine on, you crazy diamonds."

Caustic Love was Nutini's third album, and his first with no producer conflict. Nutini clashed with Guy Chambers on his first album, and with Ethan Johns on his second. He told Swide about his positive experience working with producer Dani Castelar on Caustic Love. "He facilitated my ideas, he made them happen beyond my skills," Nutini said. "I kept the record company at bay, I made sure that nobody but me influenced the sessions. He took care of the rest: he found a lot of talented musicians and instruments, he provided a great studio."

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace

Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Yes Album
Released: 1971

Yours Is No Disgrace Lyrics

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, Yours Is No Disgrace.

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,
Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,
Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,
Lost in musing circumstances, that's just where you are.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth,
Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.
Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human, silly human race,
On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,
If the summer change to winter, yours is no,
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.
Yours is no disgrace.

Writer/s: ANDERSON, JON/SQUIRE, CHRIS/HOWE, STEVE JAMES/BRUFORD, WILLIAM SCOTT/KAYE, TONY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Yours Is No Disgrace

The lyric in this song, "Caesar's Palace, morning glory, silly human race," helps explain the story behind it. Caesar's Palace is a casino in Las Vegas, and an interesting reference for a British band to make. When we asked Yes frontman/lyricist Jon Anderson about it, he explained: "I'd just been to Vegas and it was amazing how crazy the place was and how silly we are. Silly human race. It was something to do with how crazy we can be as a human race to be out there flittering money around and gambling, trying to earn that big payout, when actually that's not what life is truly about. Our life is truly about finding our divine connection with God, if you like. You know, that's why we live.

And whenever I sing that song, it always comes back to me that I'm singing about that kind of Caesar's Palace, morning glory, sweet human race - it's on a sailing ship to nowhere, planet earth. The planet earth is not going anywhere. It's going around the sun, of course, but we're on this sailing ship to nowhere, leaving anyplace. It's like Earth Mother. So don't worry about stuff, it's not our fault if things go wrong." (Here's our full Jon Anderson interview .)

The Vietnam War was an influence on this song. Governments fight wars, not men and women - therefore yours is no disgrace. The message is that war has no winners and no real meaning - as Jon Anderson has explained, the young people going off to fight the war had no say in the matter, and the war itself was certainly not their fault.

"Death defying, mutilated armies scatter the earth, Crawling out of dirty holes, their morals, their morals disappear" - killing is brutal and cruel, but the disgrace falls not on the soldiers, but on those who orchestrated the war.

Steve Howe devised a completely new opening to this song specifically for the Yessongs live album, a decision that was made at the last minute. (thanks, Adrian - Brookings, SD)

The entire band is credited with writing this song. Steve Howe has said that his guitar part is one of his favorite contributions to Yes. With modern equipment, they were able to do overdubs, which was new to Howe. "It was a 'studioized' solo because it was made up in different sections," he said. "I became three guitarists."

Young Money - We Alright

Young Money - We Alright Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Young Money: Rise of an Empire
Released: 2014

We Alright Lyrics

I couldn't have done it better
I couldn't have done this shit any other way
I made it now when they tried to convince me to make it another day
Glad I can see another day
I do this shit for my squad, my home team
My family, fuck what another say

I'm here now, it's all clear now
Somebody pour up
I'm eating good y'all can't see my competition til I throw up
I'm tore up but I keep shit 100
That's from the toes up
Last night it felt like I ran through four clubs
Stood on the couch and everyone of em' screaming out
"Hoes down and bros up"
It's different when we show up, kicking doors up
I'm a young Stunna, young Wayne, I'm Young Money
I'm growned up like I'm new here but I'm nuclear
That's a bomb threat mothafucker, watch how blow up

I'm good, I'm reminded I'm good
From time to time I'm fine
I be spending time with the Greatest Of All Time all the time
And ever since I'm living life every night like it's '99
I'm way ahead of my time I think I was only 8 at that time
I rep them five letters forever
Will someone just tell the bartender to mix my drink
While I mix my thoughts of business in pleasure, I'm clever
Long money all around me
I just hope I live long enough, long enough to measure
We should take pictures sippin' Cristal in COOGI sweaters
And I'm still getting better nigga, what's better?
They said I never do it now I'm looking around like, nigga what's never?
And now they run from us when they see us, boy that money's pressure
Plots on the wall of every building that I walk into
Phone taps 'cause they curious, careful what you talk into
Living the star life you'll never know you'll run into
Like baby I can change your life
Just leave everything that you been through and rise

Long as my niggas right then We Alright
Long as the women right then we alright
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright
Long as these private flights then we alright
Long as we living right then we alright
Long as it's high life then we alright
'Cause I love it more than anything (anything)
Boy it's money over everything, we've been alright

Yea, it's money over everything
We motivated, flying over everything
We make something out of nuttin, what up 5?
Bag full of every president that ever died
Yea, spraying everything that's in the way
We eating over here extended clips, 50 plates
It's a lifestyle, stunna life, everyday
A million ones we can throw this shit a million ways
Youngin, if you alright then we alright
Night life GTV popping every night
Fly rich in a different city bright lights
With my niggas, rich gang and living high life
Yea, guns in the basement, millions in the wall, GTV cases
If it's fuck em' then it's fuck em' all
Audemars and cigars and them new toys

Long as my niggas right then we alright
Long as the women right then we alright
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright
Long as these private flights then we alright
Long as we living right then we alright
Long as it's high life then we alright
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Do this shit for riz-zeal
Young Money, Rich Gang, ya heard me, with big ears
You just a crocodile, I drink a full cup of his tears
Can’t recognize you nigga, like Santa cut off his beard
And Tunechi, he gon’ be alright as long as he got his pills
I’m higher than my bitch bill, stop cryin bout' em', bitch chill
And I'm working on that Carter 5, I got this bitch in fifth gear
I can't stand these niggas, I'ma lie down or sit still
Get tied down with that fucking steel, at your eyebrow or your fucking grill
Catch you while you layed up, straight up, bunny ears
I shoot your fucking fade up, badges don't touch me
If that pussy smell like cat fish salmon trout or guppies
I ain't trippin on no ho, treat that ho like a servant
I know that ho better know, how to deep throat like a serpent
But lose lips shink ships, but I just let these hoes Worship
She think I'm a window of opportunity, close curtains, Tunechi

If my niggas right then we alright
If the women right then we alright (we alright)
Them drinks on ice then we alright (we alright)
If it's private flights then we alright (alright alright)
Long as we living right then we alright (alright alright)
Long as it's high life then we alright (alright alright)
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Yeah long as my niggas right then we alright (we alright)
Long as the women right then we alright (you alright)
Long as the drinks on ice then we alright (we alright)
Long as these private flights then we alright (alright alright)
Long as we living right then we alright (alright alright)
Long as it's high life then we alright (fuckin' right)
'Cause I love it more than anything
Boy it's money over everything, we been alright

Writer/s: CARTER, DWAYNE / GUMBLEY, SAM ANDREW / WILLIAMS, BRYAN / RODRIGUEZ, EUFRADIS / WILLIAMS, RONALD
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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We Alright

This song finds New Young money signee, Euro, hooking up with the label's founder Lil Wayne and Cash Money head honcho Birdman. It is one of three Young Money: Rise of an Empire tracks the Rhode Island rapper features on, the others being "Induction Speech" and "Bang."

Speaking to Artist Direct about his contribution to the track Euro said: "I put a lot into that verse. I'm letting people know I'm new, and I'm trying to gain respect. That's the mode I was in. I didn't want to waste time talking about anything crazy. If I would've dreamed about this moment, it would've only fallen short."

The Supremes - I'm Livin' in Shame

The Supremes - I'm Livin' in Shame Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Let the Sunshine In
Released: 1969

I'm Livin' in Shame Lyrics

Mom was cooking bread
She wore a dirty raggety scarf around her head
Always had her stockings low
Rolled to her feet, she just didn't know
She wore a sloppy dress
Oh no matter how she tried, she always looked a mess
Out of the pot she ate, never used a fork or a dinner plate
I was always so ashamed for my uptown friends to see her
Afraid one day when I was grown that I would be her

In a college town, away from home, a new identity I found
Said I was born elite, with maids and servants at my feet
I must have been insane
I lied and said my mom died on a weekend trip to Spain
She never got out of the house, never even boarded a train
I married a guy, was livin' high
I didn't want him to know her
She had a grandson, two years old
I never even showed her

I'm Livin' in Shame, Momma, I miss you
I know you are not to blame, Momma, I miss you

Came the telegram
Mom passed away while making homemade jam
Before she died, she cried to see me by her side
She always did her best, ah! cookin', cleanin'
Always in the same old dress
Workin' hard down on her knees
Always try'n to please
Momma! Momma! Momma, do you hear me
Momma! Momma! Momma, do you hear me

I'm livin' in shame, Momma, I miss you
I know you've done your best
Momma, I miss you
Won't you forgive me Momma
For all the wrong I've done
I know you have done your best
I know you have done your very best you could
But I never understood
Workin' hard on your knees
Momma, you were always, always tryin' to please

Writer/s: Sawyer, Pamela Joan / Wilson, Frank Edward / Gordy Jr, Berry / Cosby, Henry / Taylor, R. Dean
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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I'm Livin' in Shame

In the story of this song, a woman (who was born into alleged poverty) has been ashamed of her mother ever since she was a kid. After she grows up and leaves home, she lies about her past and her socioeconomic status in order to move up into higher societies and then marries a man who's well off. She ostracizes her mother and even makes up a story about her mother dying while going to Spain. On top of that, after she gives birth to her first child, she doesn't even bother to tell her mother about it. Then, one day, the woman receives a telegram saying that her mother died and she now feels extremely guilty about the damages she caused. Talk about learning a lesson the hard way!

This is a sequel to the Supremes' 1968 hit "Love Child." It was inspired by the 1959 film Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner.

The working titles for this song were "The Eyes of Love" and "I Live in Shame." (thanks, Jerro - New Alexandria, PA, for above 2)

Melvins - Hooch

Melvins - Hooch Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Houdini
Released: 1993

Hooch Lyrics

Lost icka toe rest
Might like a sender doe ree
Your make a doll a ray day sender bright like a penalty
Exit ease my ray day member half lost a beat away
Purst in like a one-way sender
War give a heart like a fay
'Cause I can ford a red reed
Only street wide, a reed land
Diamond make a mid-evil bike
A sake like a reed caste
'Cause I can ford a red reed
Only street wide, a reed land
On a reed land
Find a reed land
You sink my swan
Rolly get a worst in
Maybe minus way far central
Poor forty duck a pin
Milk maid dud bean
Master a load a head
Pill pop a dope
A well-run general hash pump gonna led

Writer/s: OSBOURNE, ROGER
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Hooch

Songwriters are asked to submit the lyrics to their songs when they get published, so we can see that Melvins lead singer Buzz Osborne is singing lines like "Lost icka toe rest, might like a sender doe ree" and "You sink my swan, rolly get a worst in" on this track (either that or some pour soul at their publishing company had to interpret them).

The words are mush, but can be interpreted in some kind of existential way if you think hard enough. Osborne, however, didn't have anything deep and meaningful in mind, but insists that they are real words. He told us: "Believe it or not, those are actually lyrics, even though it sounds like nonsense. I'd left the lyrics at home and I couldn't for the life of me remember exactly what they said. I remember that day I was recording the vocal, I had to drive all the way back to my house and get them. I thought that was pretty funny." (Here's our full Buzz Osborne interview .)

One of the most popular Melvins songs, Buzz Osborne tells us that it's the dynamics of the drums that set it apart. "I knew that the riff in and of itself wasn't that interesting," he said.

The Melvins formed in Montesano, Washington in 1983, about 100 miles away from Seattle. Buzz Osborne is from Aberdeen, which happens to be where Kurt Cobain grew up. Cobain was a big fan of the Melvins, and when Nirvana hit it big, he convinced Atlantic Records to give them a deal. Houdini was the Melvins first major label release, and it was co-produced by Cobain. "Hooch" was released as a single and a video, directed by Chel White, was made for the song.

Anyone looking for the roots of Nirvana could find it in the Melvins, who are cited by many musicians as an early influence on the Grunge sound. "They got really heavy, and then a lot of bands decided they would be really heavy, too," Dan Peters of Mudhoney said. On "Hooch," you can hear an unfiltered version of the Grunge sound, which of course had little commercial appeal. The Melvins released two more albums on Atlantic before settling in with the independent label Ipecac. They retained a small but fervent fanbase, and released albums on a regular basis through the '10s.

Rush - Cold Fire

Rush - Cold Fire Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Counterparts
Released: 1993

Cold Fire Lyrics

It was long after midnight
When we got to unconditional love
She said sure, my heart is boundless
But don't push my limits too far

I said if love was so transcendent
I don't understand these boundaries
She said just don't disappoint me
You know how complex women are
I'll be around
If you don't let me down
Too far

It was just before sunrise
When we started on traditional roles
She said sure I'll be your partner
But don't make too many demands

I said if love has these conditions
I don't understand those songs you love
She said this is not a love song
This isn't fantasy-land
I'll be around
If you don't push me down
Too far

Don't go too far
The phosphorescent wave on a tropical sea
Is a Cold Fire
Don't cross the line
The pattern of moonlight on the bedroom floor
Is a cold fire
Don't let me down
The flame at the heart of a pawnbroker's diamond
Is a cold fire
Don't break the spell
The look in your eyes as you head for the door
Is a cold fire

Love is blind if you are gentle
Love can turn to a long, cold burn

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Cold Fire

Geddy Lee (from the Counterparts World Radio Premiere): "We rewrote that song quite a bit. And thankfully, I think Peter Collins' presence really pulled that song together. He came in and he pointed out certain strengths in the previous versions of the songs that we had, and he really helped us reorganize that song. It wasn't until he got there, I think, that we finally locked in on a feel for those verses that enabled Alex to play those great kind of steel guitar lines -- steel guitar-like lines -- that he's playing, and enabled me to open up harmonically. I was having trouble with the verses, you know, it's a tough song, when you're dealing with this issue of male/female relationships, which is such a foreign subject for us to deal with, in a song. You want to make sure it doesn't sound trite or hackneyed or you're not just doing yet another -- who needs another song about relationships? It took us a while to get the right mood, and I was really happy with the mood we ended up with in the verses, and I think, oddly enough, as much as it was a nightmare, that song for me, when I hear the record now, I think the verses are one of the strongest parts of the album, in that song."

Neil Peart (from Network Magazine, November 1993): "In 'Cold Fire' I have the woman speaking to the man and she's smarter than he is. It was a difficult technical challenge lyrically, but those are the kind of things that now, after all these years, you start to feel you have the craft to take on. I don't mind writing about love now, where I would have avoided that in the previous years just because of the inability to get beyond clichés." (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington, for above 2)

Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Somewhere East of Eden

Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Somewhere East of Eden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Somewhere East of Eden
Released: 2013

Somewhere East of Eden Lyrics

Somewhere East of Eden

The album name, along with its title song, was inspired by one of Grushecky's favorite books, John Steinbeck's East of Eden. Borrowing from the biblical tale of Adam and Eve and their two rivalrous sons Cain and Abel, the 1952 novel follows the tumultuous lives of the Trasks and the Hamiltons through generations of hardship to inevitable tragedy.

Grushecky was still mulling over the Steinbeck book when he was reading about soldiers return home from Iraq, one of the proposed locations of the Garden of Eden. He explained in a Songfacts interview :

"I thought, 'These guys are returning to the United States from somewhere east of Eden.' And that phrase just struck in my head."

Rush - Speed Of Love

Rush - Speed Of Love Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Counterparts
Released: 1993

Speed Of Love Lyrics

Love is born with lightning bolts
Electro-magnetic force
Burning skin and fireworks
A storm on a raging course

Like a force of nature,
Love can fade with the stars at dawn
Sometimes it takes all your strength
Just to keep holding on
At the Speed Of Love
A radiance that travels
At the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

Love is born with solar flares
From two magnetic poles
It moves towards a higher plane
Where two halves make two wholes

Like a force of nature,
Love shines in many forms
One night we are bathed in light
One day carried away in the storms
At the speed of love
Nothing changes faster
Than the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

We don't have to talk
We don't even have to touch
I can feel your presence
In the silence that we share
Got to keep moving
At the speed of love
Nothing changes faster
Than the speed of love
Got to keep on shining
At the speed of love
Nothing changes faster
Than the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

Writer/s: NEIL PEART, GEDDY LEE WEINRIB, ALEX LIFESON
Publisher: OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT
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Speed Of Love

Neil Peart (Modern Drummer magazine, February 1994): "'The Speed Of Love' is kind of mid-tempo, more sensitive rock song. That song probably took me the longest to find just the right elements I wanted to have in a drum part. What made it a challenge is that I wanted the feel and the transitions between sections to be just right. I played that song over and over, refining it until I was satisfied. I don't think a listener will hear all the work that went into that track. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington)

Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers - Homestead

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Album: American Babylon
Released: 1995

Homestead Lyrics

Homestead

This was one of two songs (the other is "Dark and Bloody Ground") Bruce Springsteen co-wrote for the American Babylon album, which he also produced. While working on the album, The Boss encouraged Grushecky to put more effort into his songwriting. "So I went home and I was on a mission to write some good songs," he explained in our interview . "I had this lyric for something about Homestead, which is like the quintessential steel mill town here in Pittsburgh. I knew a lot of guys that worked there personally, and our families worked there. So I had to come up with a really good lyric."

Springsteen and Grushecky first met in 1980 through Steven Van Zandt, Springsteen's E Street Band guitarist who also produced Have a Good Time but Get out Alive! for Grushecky's Iron City Houserockers band that same year. The two have been friends ever since.

Buddy Guy - Midnight Train

Buddy Guy - Midnight Train Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Heavy Love
Released: 1998

Midnight Train Lyrics

I was standin' at the station,
ten to midnight in the rain
I was mindin' my own bus'ness,
waiting for that Midnight Train

Nobody in sight, starin' at my shoes,
I took out my paper to find me some good news
Mindin' my own bus'ness,
when the ticket man calls my name
Yeah, yeah, babe

There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
Comin' down the line

So I say, "If it ain't too much trouble,
when's the local out of town?"
His reply: "Two a.m."
If I'm leavin' local-bound

I can catch it in forty minutes,
if I want to grab the express
But the local trains are hard to come by,
this time of night, more or less
Listen, said

There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
Comin' down the line

So I stood for forty minutes,
it was raining and it was cold
When the express rolled down the track,
I did not care where it was gonna go
Yeah, yeah

He said
There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
There ain't no midnight train
Comin' down the line

Writer/s: TIVEN, JON / REALE, ROGER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Midnight Train

Roger Reale wrote this song with Jon Tiven. Roger was a schoolteacher in Branford, Connecticut, and played in a band called The Manchurians. Jon had a band called The Jon Tiven Group, and recorded this song on their 1999 album Yes I Ram. They pitched the song to Paul Rogers, but he was writing most of his own material at the time. Buddy heard the song when his producer, David Z, brought it to his attention. Buddy made some changes to the intro and released it as the first single from the album.

Roger Reale told us regarding this song: "When I met Buddy Guy and he sang the song, I told him that I bought my first Buddy Guy album at 15. If someone had told me when I was in high school that he would be singing one of my songs, I would have said they were crazy. He said the lyrics to 'Midnight Train' appealed to him because he actually went to Chicago by train at 19, and that's what it felt like - he just had his guitar and no money. He said at that time in his life it was going from club to club - that's the way these guys did it, if you wanted to play, you had to cut the guy who was playing. You'd go up and play, and if they liked you, you stayed. If they didn't, you really knew because they'd tell you to get the hell out and not come back. These guys were all older, he was 19. Muddy and those guys were all older guys. They were in their late-30s and 40s, and they ruled that whole South Side. Here's me writing lyrics that he identified with, so you never know."

This is a duet with Jonny Lang, a young Blues guitarist who had a hit in 1997 with "Lie To Me."

Jon Tiven tells us that this song came from personal experience. Said Tiven: "I was waiting at the station, waiting for the midnight train, and it seemed like it never was going to come. I didn't know if that was a great song idea, but Roger and I, we just did this one chord jam, couple of riffs in it, and I said, 'I have this lyric that I wrote a couple of days ago that I didn't have any place for. Maybe this'll fit.' So I sang it and it seemed to have resonance with that music, and worked out great." (Here's our full interview with Jon Tiven .)

Iron City Houserockers - Pumping Iron

Iron City Houserockers - Pumping Iron Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Have a Good Time but Get Out Alive!
Released: 1980

Pumping Iron Lyrics

Pumping Iron

Written by lead singer Joe Grushecky , this song was inspired by his hometown. "Pittsburgh's a real good city," he told Musician in 1981. "We got all these steel mills down by the river. When you grow up there, you can do two things. You can work like hell to stay out of those mills or you can spend your life pumping iron." At the time of this album's release, however, a devastating recession was killing off the steel industry, which was the beating heart of the city since the 1830s, turning the choice to "stay out of those mills" into a grim reality.