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Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne

Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Fog on the Tyne
Released: 1971

Fog on the Tyne Lyrics

Fog on the Tyne

This bittersweet celebration of life on the dole in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne was written by Alan Hull, the lead singer of Tyneside folk rockers Lindisfarne. He originally performed it during his solo folk club shows.

When Lindisfarne learned they would be working on their second album with Bob Dylan producer Bob Johnston, they were delighted. However this rousing number was originally not intended for the record. During recording, that band played a date at the Royal Festival Hall, at which they performed "Fog." "It went down a storm at the Festival Hall," drummer Ray Laidlaw recalled to Uncut magazine, "and when we came back, Bob said, 'How come you haven't played me that?' We said, 'We don't think much of it...' It wouldn't have been on the album if it hadn't been for him."

The song not only became the title track of Lindisfarne's breakthrough album in England, it also became the band's signature tune.

A heavily reworked version of the song with vocals by Geordie footballer Paul Gascoigne was recorded in 1990 under the title "Fog on the Tyne (Revisited)." Released in the wake of Gazza's renown after the 1990 World Cup, it peaked at #2 in the UK singles charts.

Stereolab - John Cage Bubblegum

Stereolab - John Cage Bubblegum Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Refried Ectoplasm
Released: 1995

John Cage Bubblegum Lyrics

see'est le plus beau
et see'est le plus triste
see'est le plus beau
Paysage do monde

It's the most beautiful
and it's the saddest
It's the most beautiful
Landscape in the world

Writer/s: GANE, TIMOTHY JOHN / SADIER, LAETITIA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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John Cage Bubblegum

The lyrics of this song are in French. A rough English translation is: "It's the most beautiful, and it's the saddest, and it's the most beautiful land in the world."

John Cage is one of the most famous experimental music composers in history, known for his avant garde approach to his work. He is quite possibly best known for "4'33", in which a performer sits at a piano for approximately four and a half minutes making no sounds intentionally. What "John Cage Bubblegum" is or what it has to do with this song is not clear, but Stereolab's song titles are almost always nonsensical. (thanks, Matt - pitts, PA, for above 2)

Nina Nesbitt - He's The One I'm Bringing Back

Nina Nesbitt - He's The One I'm Bringing Back Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Peroxide
Released: 2014

He's The One I'm Bringing Back Lyrics

I hear them all say
I'm going crazy
But I don't give a fuss
Cause He's The One I'm Bringing Back

All my life I've
Lived on the sideline
But now I've had enough
And he's the one I'm bringing back

So you can keep all your little remarks
To yourself
I know our ages may be far apart
But you can't tell any reasons not to
He's got eyes up and locked onto
Put your eyes on someone else

I hear them all say
I'm going crazy
But I don't give a fuss
Cause he's the one I'm bringing back

All my life I've
Lived on the sideline
But now I've had enough
And he's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back

Go out together on a Tuesday night
Never rest
He's got a car that goes 100 miles
You'd probably guess
I crash when he holds me
Forgot what you ever told me
Put your eyes on someone else

I hear them all say
I'm going crazy
But I don't give a fuss
Cause he's the one I'm bringing back

All my life I've
Lived on the sideline
But now I've had enough
And he's the one I'm bringing back

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Friday, Saturday, Sunday

I hear them all say
I'm going crazy
But I don't give a fuss
Cause he's the one I'm bringing back

All my life I've
Lived on the sideline
But now I've had enough
And he's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back back back
He's the one I'm bringing back

Writer/s: HODGSON, NICHOLAS JAMES DAVID / NESBITT, NINA
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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He's The One I'm Bringing Back

Nina explained the song's meaning to The Sun: "That song is about being in a relationship that people around you disapprove of," she said. "It's about not listening to anyone's opinions because you loved being with that person. The subject was quite old-fashioned and reminded me of the 1950s romance, so I wanted to give it a retro feel."

Nina wrote the song with former Kaiser Chiefs drummer Nick Hodgson. He quit the band at the end of 2012 to work full-time as a producer and songwriter at his 'Chewdio' studios in East London.

Foo Fighters - Low

Foo Fighters - Low Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: One by One
Released: 2002

Low Lyrics

Hey you
Are you in there
I'm stuck outside you, ooh
We could use
One another
Another like you, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you, ooh

Me and you
Going nowhere
I'm right beside you, ooh
Me and you
Going nowhere I'm right beside you, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you

Taking you as Low as you go
As low as you go
Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go
Ooh, ooh, ooh

You be my passerby
I'll be your one to pass through
Screws inside
Turn so tight
Turning on you
I'm hanging on you

Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)
Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
Low as you go
Ooh, ooh

Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go
Taking you as low as you go
As low as you go
Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)
Taking you as low as you go
(Low as you go)
As low as you go
(Low as you go)

Writer/s: GROHL, DAVID / HAWKINS, OLIVER / NATE, MENDEL / SHIFLETT, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Low

Jack Black stars in the video with Dave Grohl. The pair play rednecks who meet up in a motel room, at first doing manly things, but then messing about in women's clothes and having a night of debauchery.

Black had previously appeared in the Foo Fighters video for "Learn to Fly" along with his Tenacious D partner Kyle Gass; both clips were directed by ex-Lemonhead Jesse Peretz. Grohl appeared in the Tenacious D video for "Tribute" in 2001.

This is one of what Dave Grohl considers the "four good songs" on the One by One album, which was a tedious one to record. The other three are "All My Life," "Times Like These" and "Tired Of You."

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Cinnamon and Lesbians

Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Cinnamon and Lesbians Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Wig Out at Jagbags
Released: 2014

Cinnamon and Lesbians Lyrics

Cinnamon and Lesbians

This song fuses Portland resident Steven Malkmus' fantasy about the Green Tortoise bus – a cheap way of getting from San Francisco to Portland in the 1970s – with an encounter he had with a "ne'er-do-well hippy guy," who declared that the people who died in the Twin Towers on 9/11 deserved their fate because they were working for The Man. "It's a Portland song, but it's Portland in the 80s, before I was here," Malkmus explained to Uncut magazine, "when cinema and was avant garde and lesbianism was shocking to some people."

"Joanna (Bolme, bass) was worried the title might be un-PC, so I asked our publicist in New York," he added. "He's like, 'No. Those cinnamon and there's lesbians. What's the problem?'"

Malkmus incorporated the riff from the Grateful Dead's "St. Stephen" into this song. However, the frontman has said in interviews that he's not much of a Deadhead. He told American Songwriter magazine: "Yeah. It's interesting, but it's pretty simple. I like the early stuff, recorded and live, like Pigpen and the acid-y stuff. And I like Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, and I don't really like it after that. And I didn't go to shows, and I don't listen to bootlegs much. I'm approaching things from albums and what they recorded. That's what I know. I'm the suburban guy who just got the albums. I just created my own vision of things; I didn't really get into the scene."

Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes

Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sixpence None The Richer
Released: 1997

There She Goes Lyrics

There She Goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes
There she goes again
Pulsing through my veins
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes (there she goes again)
There she goes again (there she goes again)
Racing through my brain (there she goes again)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes
There she goes again
She calls my name
Pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes (she calls my name)
There she goes again (she calls my name)
Chasing down my lane (she calls my name)
And I just can't contain
This feeling that remains

There she goes (there she goes again)
There she goes (there she goes again)
There she goes

Writer/s: DEAN, ANDREW / WOLFF, BEN / BOBB, LOUISA GABRIELLA / BARSON, BENJAMIN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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There She Goes

This was originally recorded by the The La's, a promising band from England who developed a cult following in America. They released it as a single in 1988, but it didn't chart. In 1990, when The La's finally released their first album, they re-released this as a single - this time it charted at #13 in the UK and #49 in the US. Critics loved the album, but the La's disappeared soon after it was released.

Sixpence None The Richer's version became a hit when it was used in the movie Snow Day. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)

Many people believe the song is about shooting up heroin, with "she" being the drug. (thanks, Ric - London, England)

This was used in commercials for birth control pills Ortho Tri-cylcen LO.

Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider

Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Sundown Heaven Town
Released: 2014

Shotgun Rider Lyrics

Roll, won’t you come roll with me slow, fast, full speed
Girl wherever sweet time takes us
Hang, with me down this old road
Only god knows where we’ll go
Don’t matter long as I’ve got your love

I don’t ever want to wake up
Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
Another Voice calling me baby
On the other end of the phone
A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
Before dinner on Friday night
No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
No other Shotgun Rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, Woohoo Oh O

Slide, slide over nice and close
Lay your head down on my shoulder
You can fall asleep I’ll let you
Dream, life aint nothing but a dream, don’t wanna be
Cruisin’ through this dream without you

I don’t ever want to wake up
Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
Another Voice calling me baby
On the other end of the phone
A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
Before dinner on Friday night
No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, woo hoo oh oh
No other shotgun rider, oh oh

I don’t ever want to wake up
Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
Another Voice calling me baby
On the other end of the phone
A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
Before dinner on Friday night
No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, woo hoo oh oh

No other shotgun rider, oh oh

Singin’ to the radio, oh oh

You’re my shotgun rider

Writer/s: GREEN, MARV / VERGES, TROY / LINDSEY, HILLARY
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC
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Shotgun Rider

This romantic song finds McGraw lovingly singing of never wanting another shotgun rider beside him. He just wants it to be with that special someone.

"I don't ever want to wake up, looking into someone else's eyes.
I don't want no other shotgun rider beside me, singing to the radio."

McGraw is singing of his wife, Faith Hill, whom he's been married to since 1996.

Does the title ring a bell? Back in 2007 McGraw recorded a duet with Faith Hill titled "Shotgun Rider" for his 2007 album Let It Go. This is an entirely different song.

McGraw premiered the song on February 19, 2014 during Jimmy Fallon's first week hosting of The Tonight Show. "I thought since it's Jimmy's first week we should give his audience something they can't get anywhere else," McGraw explained of his choice of a new tune. "It's been a great week for the show already, and I'm honored Jimmy invited me to the party!"

The song was written by Hillary Lindsey (Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take The Wheel"), Marv Green (Lonestar's "Amazed") and Troy Verges (Hunter Hayes' "Wanted").

McGraw said: "This is one of those songs that really paints a picture and sets a mood. In my mind, you look over and see the person that you love next to you sitting in the front seat, and you think, 'How good do I have it? Life is perfect.'"

The live video, which vacillates between black-and-white and color, was directed by Bennett Miller. The filmmaker is best known for directing acclaimed movies such as Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). Previous music clips on Miller's resume include Bob Dylan's 2006 song "When the Deal Goes Down" and Scarlett Johansson's cut "Falling Down."

The clip was shot during McGraw's concert in New York City, which was part of the American Express Unstaged live stream music series.

The song was Tim McGraw's 25th country #1 and his first since "Felt Good On My Lips" topped the charts for three weeks in January 2011.

Queen - Seven Seas of Rhye

Queen - Seven Seas of Rhye Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Queen II
Released: 1974

Seven Seas of Rhye Lyrics

Open up your mind and let me step inside
Rest your weary head and let your heart decide
It's so easy when you know the rules
It's so easy all you have to do
Is fall in love
Play the game
Everybody play the game of love
Ooh yeah

When you're feeling down and your resistance is low
Light another cigarette and let yourself go
This is your life
Don't play hard to get
It's a free world
All you have to do is fall in love
Play the game - yeah
Everybody play the game of love
Ooh yeah

My game of love has just begun
Love runs from my head down to my toes
My love is pumping through my veins
Play the game
Driving me insane
Come come come come come play the game
Play the game play the game play the game

Play the game
Everybody play the game of love
This is your life - don't play hard to get
It's a free free world
All you have to do is fall in love
Play the game
Yeah play the game of love
Your life - don't play hard to get
It's a free free world
All you have to do is fall in love
Play the game yeah everybody play the game of love

Writer/s: MERCURY, FREDDIE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Seven Seas of Rhye

This was Queen's first entry in the UK single chart. Brian May in Q magazine March 2008: "Our first breakthrough, made with the idea that if radio was going to play it, everything had to explode. And it did work."

As the song fades out, part of a British seaside song called "Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside," is sung. (thanks, Tom - Trowbridge, England, for above 2)

Freddie Mercury penned the song basing it on a fantasy world called Rhye that he had created with his sister, Kashmira. They were brought up on the African island of Zanzibar in the Zoroastrianism religion, founded in Iran, and these fuelled Mercury's flights of fancy. Several other of the Queen singer's early songs feature the mysterious land of Rhye, including Lily Of The Valley, My Fairy King and The March Of The Black Queen.

The song's success enabled Mercury to quit his day job working at a stall in London's Kensington Market.

The success of the single earned Queen their first ever appearance on Top of the Pops, the musical variety show that The Beatles, and many other British bands, aspired to be on when they started. Judging by In the Days of our Lives documentary Queen appears to have mixed view on their appearance. Roger Taylor was critical: "There was a strike on at the BBC so we recorded it in the weather studio. It was rubbish, no one actually played, just some aging disc jockeys. And the drums were plastic, so they made this 'dook' noise when you hit them."

Brian May on the other hand was more positive: "it was an exciting experience, because hey here you are on Top of the Pops and it's all happening."

Trey Songz - Na Na

Trey Songz - Na Na Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Trigga
Released: 2014

Na Na Lyrics

Put your hands in the air (the air)
Trigga put your, put your hands in the air

Ooh Na Na
Look what you did start it
Ooh na na
Why you gotta act so naughty
Ooh na na
I'm 'bout to spend all this cash
Ooh na na
If you keep shaking that (oh yeah)

Ooh na na na
Put your hands in the air if you're lovin' tonight
Ooh na na na
Keep your hands in the air if you're spendin' the night
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say it like
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say

Baby I'm the one you lying
I'mma get you as a liar
Oh yeah
I'mma give it to you right now
Best time oh your life, yeah, oh yeah
Baby when you ready tell the waitress get the check
Girl I know you ready I don't even gotta check
You been through the worst let me show you who the best
You know I'mma get you right, get them boys to the left, like

Ooh na na
Look what you did start it
Ooh na na
Why you gotta act so naughty
Ooh na na
I'm 'bout to spend all this cash
Ooh na na
If you keep shaking that oh oh! (yeah)

Ooh na na na
Put your hands in the air if you're lovin' tonight
Ooh na na na
Keep your hands in the air if you're spendin' the night
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say it like
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say

You the one who sounded bad, yeah
You the one I never had, oh yeah
All the problems you did have
Leave them broke fellas in the past, yeah, oh yeah
Girl you have good, but I could give you better
I'll have you take it bout forever
I'mma make you say

Ooh na na
Look what you did start it (look what you did start it)
Ooh na na (oh na na)
Why you gotta act so naughty (actin' fo)
Ooh na na
I'm 'bout to spend all this cash
Ooh na na
If you keep shaking that oh oh! (yeah!)

Ooh na na na
Put your hands in the air if you're lovin' tonight
Ooh na na na
Keep your hands in the air if you're spendin' the night
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say it like
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say

I'm feeling lucky tonight (everybody say)
When we leave this party
You gon' love me tonight (everybody say, ay)
You feeling lucky tonight, (tonight girl)
When we leave this party, you gon' love me tonight

Ooh na na na
Put your hands in the air if you're lovin' tonight
Ooh na na na
Keep your hands in the air if you're spendin' the night
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say it like
Ooh na na now
Na na nanana na na
Everybody say (ooh na na na nana)

Hands in the air (na na na nana)
Hands in the air (na na na nana)
Hands in the air (na na na nana)

Writer/s: NEVERSON, TREMAINE / MCFARLANE, DIJON / JEAN, SAMUEL / JEAN, WYCLEF / MICHEL, SAMUEL PRAKAZREL / HILL, LAURYN N. / MC GRIER, ALLEN HENRY / BROCK, ANTHONY S. / REMI, SALAAM
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, THE ROYALTY NETWORK INC., SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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Na Na

The first single from Trey Songz's sixth album, starts with the singer proclaiming "Put your hands in the air, Trigga," referencing both his nickname and album title.

The song's hook samples Teena Marie's 1988 single "Ooo La La La," which was later interpolated on the chorus of the Fugees' 1996 hip hop hit tune "Fu-Gee-La." Songz re-imagines it as an ode to sex.

The song was produced by DJ Mustard, the Californian producer responsible for the beats on such club ready cuts as Tyga's "Rack City," 2 Chainz's "I'm Different" and Kid Ink's "Show Me."

Garbage - The World Is Not Enough

Garbage - The World Is Not Enough Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The World Is Not Enough
Released: 1999

The World Is Not Enough Lyrics

I know how to hurt
I know how to heal
I know what to show
And what to conceal
I know when to talk
And I know when to touch
No one ever died from wanting too much

Chorus:
The World Is Not Enough
But it is such a perfect place to start my love
And if you're strong enough
Together we can take the world apart my love

People like us
Know how to survive
There's no point in living
If you can't feel alive
We know when to kiss
And we know when to kill
If we can't have it all
Then nobody will

Chorus
I...I feel safe
I...I feel scared
I...I feel ready
And yet unprepared

Chorus
The world is not enough
The world is not enough
Writer/s: ARNOLD, DAVID / NORMAN, MONTY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The World Is Not Enough

This is for the theme song to the James Bond movie of the same name. The lyrics were written by Don Black, who also co-wrote "Diamonds Are Forever." David Arnold, who wrote the music, has also composed for British sketch show Little Britain and other Bond films, including Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.

In the music video, Shirley Manson is a robot built to look identical to a singer. She kills the singer and takes her place in a concert. The crowd cheers for her, not knowing she carries a bomb inside her set to detonate at the concert. (thanks, Beth - MN, for above 2)

In 2006, IGN placed the song ninth on their list of the top ten Bond themes.

Wild Beasts - Sweet Spot

Wild Beasts - Sweet Spot Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Present Tense
Released: 2014

Sweet Spot Lyrics

Sweet Spot

This song finds Hayden Thorpe and Tom Fleming singing of a dream state, halfway between asleep and awake over picked guitars and sparse synth. Fleming told NME: "This has a very clean guitar and synth, which we were careful not to overuse. When we sat down to record this album, we realized, 'This wants to be a pop record now.'"

Hayden Thorpe told DIY magazine the tune went through a huge amount of versions. "We almost wrote it off," he said. "We just couldn't get it right. The barometer was flinging either from being this Ibiza thing straight back into this song you couldn't focus on. And we couldn't get it to level out. Like most moments on the record, when we had half an hour of demo time left we scrapped what we had and started again. Within half an hour the dual guitar line came about."

"The song itself has been around for a long time," Thorpe continued. It's about euthanasia, really. What I think a beautiful pop song should be able to do is take a very difficult subject and make it sound completely weightless; throw it up in the air like it's a feather. That's what I wanted 'Sweet Spot' to do. This might sound morbid, but the song also refers to how death and sex are from the same creature. It's the snake's head and the snake's tail."

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9 Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Brain Salad Surgery
Released: 1973

Karn Evil 9 Lyrics

Karn Evil 9

This is ELP's most popular song from their most popular album. The song is most commonly interpreted as ELP's take on a shortened history of the world into a futuristic tale. The First Impression begins on the "Cold and misty morning" of the Earth's birth, through the ice age ("Where the seeds have withered, silent faces in the cold"), and to man's growing lust for money ("Now their faces captured in the lenses of the jackals for gold"), which leads to various wars. Afterwards, the world is described as a carnival, wherein various elements of humanity are reduced to circus sideshows ("A bomb inside a car," "Pull Jesus from a hat"), representing the human race's growing selfishness and indifference toward others. Even human misery is described as a "specialty" in the "show."

The second part of the First Impression focuses on the growing artificialization of the world, describing something as natural as "A real blade of grass" as some bizarre circus attraction. Despite the fact that the world is becoming more and more consumed by artificiality and given control to computers (see Third Impression), the human race insists that it is still in control, as it created all that the "Carnival" encompasses ("We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown were exclusively our own.").

The Second Impression is an instrumental piece (mostly a piano solo), symbolizing the blissful ignorance of humanity towards the impending danger of the conquest of the computers, which culminates in the Third Impression. At this point, the "machines" have concluded their superiority to humanity and begin to take on mankind's necessity to prove their own superiority. The computers are represented by heavily distorted vocals, while the voice of the all-representative "Man" is clean and without effect. The computers finally wage a violent conquest of the Earth. Mankind is shocked that its own creation is fighting back against him ("Walls that no man thought would fall") and is unprepared for the conflict. Finally the machines determine that they are sentient beings and the new "Humans," or rather the new dominant species ("Load your program. I am yourself."), pushing humanity to the subservient status that they had once occupied. After their victory ("Rejoice! Glory is ours!"), they make sure not to wipe out the human race, but preserve it to demean humanity and gloat about their superiority.

The last stanza of the suite epitomizes the conquest and the arrogance of both the old and new masters of the earth, wherein man struggles to maintain his presence as the dominant species on Earth and the computers assert that they have surpassed their creators: "I am all there is." "Negative! Primitive! Limited! I let you live!" "But I gave you life!" "What else could you do?" "To do what is right." "I'm perfect! Are you?" (thanks, Mike - Long Island, NY)

"Roll up... see the show!" represents the carnival barker. "Roll Up" is a British term inviting people to come check something out - Paul McCartney said it at the beginning of The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour."

When asked in 2009 if he knew how prophetic the lyrics, to this song would be, Greg Lake replied: "Yes we did. The reason for this was that Pete [Sinfield] and I had both written Schizoid Man some years before and could already see the writing on the wall."

Why #9? When we spoke with Greg Lake, we surmised it may have had something to do with John Lennon, who was a big influence on Lake and an affinity for the digit. Greg's response: "I have no f--king clue what number 9's got to do with anything, to be honest with you."

With that theory debunked, we can look to Keith Emerson, who says that he had an idea for lyrics about a planet called Ganton 9. Lyricist Pete Sinfield shot down the planet idea, but perhaps kept the number.

"Karn Evil" is a series of songs on the Brain Salad Surgery album which were conceived as one piece. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 1" runs 8:37 and closes the first side of the album. The second side begins with "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2," which is by far the most famous part of the movement. Running 4:45, it's the section that begins, "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends." This is what radio stations typically play, as it works as a self contained song and is a practical length for airplay.

"Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" follows, running 7:07, and "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" closes out the original album at 9:07.

No part of "Karn Evil" was ever released as a single, but it helped the album reach #2 in the UK and #11 in the US.

The title is a play on the word "Carnival." Pete Sinfield, who wrote some lyrics for the band, came up with the phrase after hearing some music Keith Emerson wrote for the piece - he thought it sounded like something you would hear at a carnival. Sinfield says that the work of the musician Tom Lehrer and the author Kurt Vonnegut were an influence on the words he wrote.

The "Karn Evil" suite was written with live performance in mind, and it served ELP well as a concert favorite. The band's previous album was Trilogy, which contained songs that required sound effects and other assistance to play live. In our interview with Greg Lake , he explained: "We decided that the next album we made, we would make sure that we could perform it live. And so, I know it sounds horribly extravagant, but this is what we did: We bought a cinema in London and we set up on the stage, and we wrote the album, performing it on the stage in the theatre. So as we created the album, we made sure that we could perform it live.

So it came about, this line, 'Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends.' It was a kind of live idea behind it."