Come Together
Beatles Album: Abbey Road 1969
Aerosmith B-side of "Kings and Queens" single Released 31 July 1978

Timothy Leary was a psychologist who became famous for experimenting with LSD as a way to promote social interaction and raise consciousness. Leary did many experiments on volunteers and himself and felt the drug had many positive qualities if taken correctly. When the government cracked down on LSD, Leary's experiments were stopped and he was arrested on drug charges. In 1969, Leary decided to run for Governor of California, and asked John Lennon to write a song for him. "Come Together, Join The Party" was Leary's campaign slogan (a reference to the drug culture he supported) and was the original title of the song. Leary never had much of a campaign, but the slogan gave Lennon the idea for this song.

After Timothy Leary decided against using this song for his political campaign Lennon added some nonsense lyrics and brought it to the Abbey Road sessions. Paul McCartney recalled in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs: "I said, 'Let's slow it down with a swampy bass-and-drums vibe.' I came up with a bass line, and it all flowed from there."

In a 1980 interview with Playboy magazine, John Lennon said: "The thing was created in the studio. It's gobbledygook. 'Come Together' was an expression that Tim Leary had come up with for (perhaps for the governorship of California against Reagan), and he asked me to write a campaign song. I tried and I tried, but I couldn't come up with one. But I came up with this, 'Come Together,' which would've been no good to him - you couldn't have a campaign song like that, right?"

John Lennon was sued for stealing the guitar riff and the line "Here comes old flat-top" from Chuck Berry's "You Can't Catch Me." The lawsuit did not come from Berry, but from Morris Levy, one of the music industry's most infamous characters (see our interview with Tommy James for more on Levy). He owned the song along with thousands of other early rock songs that he obtained from many poor, black, and unrepresented artists. Levy sued the Beatles, or more accurately, John Lennon, over the song around the time the Beatles broke up.

For years, Lennon delayed the trial while he and the Beatles tried to sort out all the legal and business problems that plagued Apple Records. Finally, in an attempt to avoid the court room as much as he could (Lennon felt like he was appearing in court more often than not), he settled with Levy. Lennon agreed to record his Rock N Roll album, which was just a series of cover songs, including three songs Levy owned (including "You Can't Catch Me") on the tracklist.

The deal made sense: Lennon always wanted to make a covers album, and Levy wanted the value of his songs to increase (when a Beatle re-records a song, that is just what happens). To make a long long long story short, Lennon recorded the album over the Lost Weekend, a year-or-two period when he was separated from Yoko Ono text yoko'd

Amnesia Album: Tubthumper (1998)
The Wizard Of Menlo Park Album:Un (2004)
Give The Anarchist A Cigarette Album: Anarchy (1994)
by Chumbawamba

"Amnesia" is the second single from English band Chumbawamba's eighth studio album, Tubthumper (1997). The song's lyrics address the sense of betrayal that English leftists felt during the rise of New Labour. Released on 19 January 1998 by EMI, the song was met with favorable reception from critics, who regarded the song as a highlight from Tubthumper.

The song was a top-10 hit in Canada and the United Kingdom, giving the group their final top-20 entries in both countries. The song also reached number one on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100, becoming the group's final US chart entry. An accompanying music video was also released.

"Amnesia" lyrically explores the dishonesty of politicians and the ignorance of voters who continue to vote them into office. Chumbawamba's Alice Nutter told MTV that the group "wrote "Amnesia' before the general election in England, and we basically wrote it about Blair's new labor [sic]," adding that the song has a universal message, noting that "people forget that what Bill Clinton says before he gets elected is not what Bill Clinton will do when he's in office, and that's not about Bill Clinton, that's about all politicians." At the end of the album version of the song, there is an interlude that samples a UK public service announcement on mad cow disease.

Amnesia was released as a CD single in the UK. A 12-inch single of the song was later released in the US, featuring "Tubthumping" as its B-side. A full-page ad featured in Spin magazine, for the song's parent album mentioned the inclusion of "Amnesia" on the album, was accompanied by partial lyrics.

Un is the eleventh studio album by Chumbawamba, released on 8 June 2004 by Koch Records. The album was written and produced by solely by Chumbawamba. A musical departure from predecessor Readymades (2002), the album incorporates elements of folk, electronic, and world music. Thematically, the album acts as a social commentary on a variety of political and social issues, including individualism and anti-consumerism. Un was promoted with two singles: "The Wizard of Menlo Park" (included here) and "On eBay".

Anarchy is the sixth studio album by Chumbawamba. Many of the tracks address specific social issues, such as homophobia, strikes or otherisms.

Its graphic cover, depicting a baby's head emerging from a vagina, prompted the record to be banned from some shops and stocked in plain sleeves in others. The Spotify and iTunes version of the album replaces the baby picture with a painting of red roses.

The album was a commercial success, giving the group their first top-40 album on the UK Albums Chart. The album debuted and peaked at number 29 on the chart dated 7 May 1994; it spent a total of three weeks on the chart before exiting the top 100.

Give The Anarchist A Cigarette is the first track.

Lowrider Album: Stoned Raiders (2001)
Insane In The Brain Album: Black Sunday (1993)
Rock Superstar Album: Skull & Bones (2000)
by Cypress Hill

1988-
B-Real Lead rapping
DJ Muggs Turntables
Sen Dog Rapping
Eric Bobo Drums 1994-

Cypress Hill started in Cypress Park, California in 1988. The group signed a deal with Columbia Records in 1989 after the label heard their first demo. Black Sunday, Cypress Hill's second album, came out in 1993 and went straight to #1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart. It spent 2 weeks at the top spot, displacing Zooropa by U2 and getting knocked off by the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack.

Cypress Hill was banned from playing Saturday Night Live in 1993 after they smoked marijuana onstage and trashed their instruments after performing the song "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That."

In 1995, Cypress Hill appeared on The Simpsons, performing at a fictional festival called Homerpalooza. The episode poked fun at Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1994, two festivals that the Hip-Hop group had recently headlined.

Cypress Hill attempted to gain a larger audience in 2000 by releasing a guitar-driven single called "Rock Superstar." The group also joined punk bands MxPx and The Offspring on tour the same year.

"Lowrider" is the second single from the album Stoned Raiders. The song is featured in the British TV series Soccer AM. The song was the second part of the double A-Side single it shared with "Trouble" in Europe. "Lowrider" was not released until February elsewhere.

On the album, there is a hidden track. The hidden track is rather ominous as it features a slow drum beat and a low pitched organ that only plays five notes. This lasts for around two minutes.

"Insane in the Brain" is a song released in June 1993 by Ruffhouse and Columbia as the first single from the group's second album, Black Sunday (1993). The song was written by group members Louis Freese, Lawrence Muggerud and Senen Reyes, and produced by Muggerud (DJ Muggs). In addition to hitting number one on the US rap chart, it also was a mainstream hit, reaching number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1993. "Insane in the Brain" earned a 3× platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and sold 3,000,000 copies domestically. The accompanying music video was directed by Josh Taft, featuring the group performing at a rave.

According to B-Real, the song was actually a diss song aimed at Chubb Rock. The group felt Chubb had ridiculed their style on his 1992 album, I Gotta Get Mine Yo. DJ Muggs credited "Jump Around" by House of Pain, also produced by himself, as a major influence.

According to a live interview aired on Double J during a feature of the Black Sunday album, "insane in the membrane" was a localised gang term used at the time by the Crips when doing something crazy. It was then appropriated into this song. A 2019 interview with The Guardian elaborated further that both Bloods and Crips used a similar phrase as an informal insanity plea textlimit

The Ballad Of Curtis Loew Album: Second Helping (1974)
Double Trouble Album: Gimme Back My Bullets (1976)
Gimme Three Steps Album: Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd (1973)
by Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Ballad Of Curtis Loew was written by Lynyrd Skynyrd frontman Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Allen Collins, who both died young (Van Zant in 1977 at 29, Collins in 1990 at 37). If they spoke about the song, it's been lost to time, but guitarists Gary Rossington and Ed King have both discussed it, and they give conflicting origin stories.

According to King, who joined the band in 1972, Curtis Loew is a composite of different people, including Shorty Medlocke, the grandfather of Ricky Medlocke, who played guitar in an early Lynyrd Skynyrd lineup (Ricky later formed the band Blackfoot). Shorty, according to King, could "play anything," and contrary to the song's lyrics, was not black (In a 1997 interview on the Lyve From Steel Town album, the band was quoted as jokingly saying, "We needed to 'color' the song up").

Rossington a founding member of the band who grew up with Collins and Van Zant in Jacksonville, Florida, says there really was a Curtis Loew, although "Loew" wasn't his last name. "It's a true story," he said in a radio interview. "It's about a Black man who grew up in the west side with us. There was a store called Mulberry Market, and there was a Black man who stayed out there. His name was Curtis and he had an old dobro guitar. He kept it in his house right behind the store, but if you gave him some money - 50 cents or even a quarter - he'd play a song for you. He'd rake out his bottle and play the blues.

We would collect Coke bottles - which the song says - drive all around the neighborhood getting them, then we'd cash them in, get the money and give it to Curtis Loew. He would go right across the street to the wine store and buy a bottle of wine. We'd give him like a quarter and he'd play for a minute and he'd come out straight and just play a song and say, 'give me the money, boy.' But when we'd all get together, three or four of us would put our money together and we'd give him like a dollar, $1.50. I think a bottle of cheap wine back then was $1.25. Then he'd go across the street and buy a bottle, have two or three nips, then he'd play a little song and half a bottle would be gone.

He was into it. He was stomping his foot and he'd take an old Coca-Cola crate, turn it upside down, and that was his beat. He's start playing and he'd drink a little more wine he'd start singing and playing and kicking. That was fun."
"The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" wasn't released as a single and the band rarely played it live, but it still found a following among the Skynyrd faithful and is one of the most popular deep cuts in classic rock. It's part of the band's second album, Second Helping, which also includes "Sweet Home Alabama." The band recorded the album at The Record Plant in Los Angeles at the same time the Eagles were making their third album, text limit

If Miller can't drive your car, you don't want it...
The heart is the green chakra

Hear My Train A Comin' Album: Blues (1969)
Fire Album: Are You Experienced? (1967)
Castles Made Of Sand Album: Axis: Bold As Love (1967)
by Jimi Hendrix

Hear My Train A Comin' is also known as "Getting My Heart Back Together Again," Hendrix often played this song live, but never released the song on an album. Hendrix first played it in studio on December 19, 1967. During a photo shoot session, he was given a guitar and asked to play something for the camera. The original tape was re-discovered in 1993 only and remastered by Eddie Kramer. You can hear it on the Blues compilation, released in 1994. On this album, you can also hear a live version played by Hendrix on May 30, 1970 in Berkeley.

The only Jimi Hendrix Experience studio recording of Hear My Train A Comin' crops up on the 2010 Valleys of Neptune album. Hendrix producer/engineer Eddie Kramer commented to Toronto's The Globe and Mail: "It shows a complete at-oneness with his instrument. Jimi had a thought in his mind, and in a nanosecond it gets through his body, through his heart, through his arms, through the fingers, onto the guitar."

The Hear My Train A Comin' version on Hendrix's posthumous album, People, Hell & Angels, was drawn from Jimi's first ever recording session with his old army pal, Billy Cox, and drummer Buddy Miles. He would later record the groundbreaking album Band Of Gypsys with the powerhouse rhythm duo. Co-producer John McDermott commented to Digital Spy: "Billy and Buddy understood how to set the tempo. If you listen to this recording, they play it the same way as they did on the Live At The Fillmore East album. They knew intuitively that the song should have a great, menacing groove; it shouldn't be old-school, old-tempo, four-bar stuff. They wanted it to have a totally different feel, and that's what makes it exciting."

The main lyrics in Fire ("let me stand next to your fire") came from a time when the band had just finished a gig in the cold around Christmas, 1966. They went to bass player Noel Redding's mother's house in Folkestone, England, and when they got there, Jimi asked Redding's mother Margaret if he could "stand next to her fire" to warm up. The family dog, a German Shepherd, lay by the fire, which inspired the line, "Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over."

The lyrical lightning bolt of Fire was a breakthrough for Hendrix, who had just started writing songs at the request of his manager Chas Chandler. Writing riffs was easy for him, and it turned out he had a talent for crafting lyrics as well, as he was able to turn a simple line into a fiery tale of lustful passion. (This story is verified in Mat Snow's Mojo story on Hendrix that ran in the October 2006 issue.)

Hendrix is legendary for theatrics like setting his guitar on fire and playing it with his teeth (not at the same time). Fire was the song he was (appropriately) playing when he set it on fire for the first time. It happened at a concert in London in March 1967, two months before txtlimi

We Used To Know Track 8 on Album: Stand Up (1969)
Bourée Album: Track 3 Album: Stand Up (1969)
by Jethro Tull

Ian Anderson has speculated that the chord progression in "We Used to Know" was picked up subconsciously by the Eagles when they toured together in 1971 or 1972 and used in their song "Hotel California". However Don Felder, who wrote the music for "Hotel California", did not join the Eagles until 1974. In a 2016 interview, Anderson stated that the chord progression had likely been used in earlier songs and also called "Hotel California" a "much better song" than "We Used to Know". He was probably lying...

Stand Up, released in 1969, is the second studio album by British band Jethro Tull. It was the first Jethro Tull album to feature guitarist Martin Barre, who would go on to become the band's longtime guitarist until its initial dissolution in 2012. Before recording sessions for the album began, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams departed from the band as a result of musical differences with frontman and primary songwriter Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues rock sound of their 1968 debut, This Was, while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock.

The design of the album cover started with a visit to New Haven, Connecticut during a concert tour in late February 1969. Under the direction of producer Terry Ellis, the band met a woodcarver named James Grashow who followed them for a week in order to properly represent them in wood. The resulting gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up, evoking the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969. The pop-up was not carried over to the 1973 album reissue, but is now available on the 180g vinyl issue of the Steven Wilson remixed version of the album, released in 2017.

Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. The result was an eclectic album with various styles and instrumentation appearing in its songs.

The album was released 25th July, and was No. 1 on the UK charts the following week, 3rd August, following up on the success of the non-album single "Living in the Past", which had reached No. 3 in the UK singles chart on the day the album was released. The album was Jethro Tull's first success in the United States, reaching No. 20 on the Billboard 200.

Jethro Tull released their debut album "This Was" in October 1968. During the recording of This Was, frontman Ian Anderson began writing new material which differed from the straight blues/jazz fusion style which the band were known for at the time. Anderson estimated that he wrote "50 percent" of Stand Up during the summer of 1968. Anderson wrote the album's songs on an acoustic guitar in his bedsit in Kentish Town, London, and cited Roy Harper, text limit

Papa Was A Rollin Stone Album: Rare Earth
by Rare Earth

"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by Motown recording act the Undisputed Truth in 1972, though it became much better known after a Grammy-award winning cover by the Temptations was issued later the same year. This latter version of the song became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1971. Whitfield produced the original Undisputed Truth version, which was released as a single in May 1972. This version of the song peaked at number 63 on the Pop Charts and number 24 on the R&B Charts. The song was included on the Undisputed Truth's album Law of the Land (1973).

Later in 1972, Whitfield cut a different version of the song, turning it into a 12-minute track for the Temptations. This version was included on their 1972 album All Directions. The edited 7-inch single release of this Temptations track was issued in September 1972, and this version was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in 1973. While the original Undisputed Truth version of the song has been largely forgotten, the Temptations' version of the song has been regarded as an enduring and influential soul classic. The full-length album version was ranked number 169 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, one of the group's three songs on the list. In retrospect, the Temptations' Otis Williams considers the song to be the last real classic the group recorded (it would be the Temptations' last number one hit and would win them their second and final Grammy Award in a competitive category).

It was the third of September
That day I'll always remember, yes I will
Cause that was the day, that my daddy died
I never got a chance to meet him
Never heard nothin' but bad things about him
Momma I'm depending on you, to tell me the truth
Momma just hung her head and said, son
Papa was a rolling stone
Where ever he laid his hat was his home
and when he died, all he left us was alone
Papa was a rolling stone
Where ever he laid his hat was his home
and when he died, all he left us was alone
Hey Momma!
Is it true what they say that Papa never worked a day, in his life
And Momma, there's some bad talk goin' round town sayin'
that Papa had three outside children
And another wife, and that ain't right
Folks say Papa did some store front preachin'
Talked about saving souls and all the time leaching
Dealing in debt, and stealing in the name of the law
Momma just hung her head and said, son
Papa was a rolling stone
Where ever he laid his hat was his home
and when he died, all he left us was alone
Papa was a rolling stone, son, son
Where ever he laid his hat was his home
and when he died, all he left us was alone
Hey Momma,
I heard Papa called himself a jack of all trades
Tell me is that what sent Papa to an early grave
Folks say Papa would beg, borrow, steal
To pay his bills
Folks say Papa n

Jungle Album: Out of the Blue (1977)
by The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)

The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are a band formed in Birmingham England in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical arrangements with futuristic iconography. After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's sole leader, arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material. For their initial tenure, Lynne, Bevan, and keyboardist Richard Tandy were the group's only consistent members.

Out of the Blue is the seventh studio album, released on 28 October 1977. Written and produced by ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, the double album is among the most commercially successful records in the group's history, selling about 10 million copies worldwide by 2007.

" Jungle " is a song written by Jeff Lynne which first appeared as an album track from the 1977 album Out of the Blue. According to the band members' opinions, recording Jungle was a lot of fun owing to the various types of sound effects, the upbeat tune, and the jungle animal noises provided by Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Kelly Groucutt.

The album had 4 million pre-ordered copies and quickly went multi-Platinum upon release. Out of the Blue spawned five hit singles in different countries, and was ELO's most commercially successful studio album. It was also the first double album in the history of the UK music charts to generate four top twenty hit singles. Lynne considers A New World Record and Out of the Blue to be the group's crowning achievements, and both sold extremely well, reaching multi-platinum according to RIAA Certification. Capital Radio and The Daily Mirror Rock and Pop Awards (forerunner to The Brit Awards) named it "Album of the Year" in 1978. Lynne received his first Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contributions to British Music the same year.

The US release of Out of the Blue was originally distributed by United Artists. This changed after United Artists Records was sold by Transamerica Corporation to an EMI Records-backed partnership, which triggered Jet Records' change of control clause in its distribution contract, and Jet shifted to CBS Records as its new distributor. American cut-out copies of Out of the Blue soon became widely available at discounted prices in record shops in the US and Canada shortly after the album's release, affecting the album's sales and triggering lawsuits by CBS and Jet. The suits were ultimately unsuccessful in stopping the discounted sales.

Jungle
Electric Light Orchestra
Written by: Jeff Lynne
Album: Out of the Blue
Released: 1977

I was standin' in the jungle, I was feeling alright
I was wanderin' in the darkness in the middle of the night
The moon began to shine, I saw a clearing ahead
But what's that goin' on? I think I'm out of my head

(Chooka-chooka, hoo la ley)
(Looka-looka, koo la ley)

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Those Shoes Album: The Long Run (1979)
by Eagles

Cruel Shoes is a collection of essays and short stories by Steve Martin and is also the title of one of the essays included, a satirical short-short story about a woman in a shoe store.

Cruel Shoes was Martin’s first book, released in 1977 as a handmade limited edition of 750 signed and numbered books published by Press of the Pegacycle Lady (Victoria Dailey). The cover is just pale paper over pressboard. It only contained 48 pages and many of the stories that appeared in the trade version were not included.

Table of contents
The works included in the 1979 trade edition of the book are:

"My Uncle's Metaphysics"
"Demolition of Cathedral at Chart
"Annareddy Akshayareddy and her struggle"
"The Boring Leading the Bored"
"Cruel Shoes"
"The Bohemians"
"Serious Dogs"
"The Diarrhea Gardens of El Camino Real"
"Turds"
"The Undertakers"
"The Day the Dopes Came Over"
"The Smokers"
"She Had The Jugs"
"Sex Crazed Love Goddesses"
"Women Without Bones"
"The Children Called Him Big Nose"
"Wrong Number"
"Morse and the Naughty Magnets"
"Dynamite King"
"The Gift of the Magi Indian Giver"
"Poodles... Great Eating"
"Shuckin' the Jive"
"How To Fold Soup"
"The Vengeful Curtain Rod"
"Cows In Trouble"
"The Complete Works of Alfredo Francesi"
"Society In Aspen"
"The Day the Buffalo Danced"
"Things Not To Be"
"No Man's Land"
"Oh Mercy, The Prose-Poem Triptych!"
"Comedy Events You Can Do"
"Dr. Fitzkee's Lucky Astrology Diet"
"The Morning I Got Out of Bed"
"What to Say When the Ducks Show Up"
"The Year Winter Lasted Nine Minutes"
"The Almaden Summer"
"The Nervous Father"
"Dogs In My Nose"
"Awards"
"Rivers of the Dead"
"When Men Shop"
"The Last Thing On My Mind"

Limited 1977 edition
"Confessions"
"Smokers"
"Jugs"
"Women"
"Poodles"
"Alfredo"
"Cows"
"Self-review"
"Serious"
"S.M. Collection of Am. Art"
"Day"
"Sex Crazed"
"Wrong #"
"Morse"
"Gift"
"Fold Soup"
"Dr. Fitzkees"
"Morning"
"Year"
"Last Thing"
"Other Books"
"My Uncle's"
"The Day"
"Children"

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by the Eagles. It was released in 1979, on Asylum in the United States and the United Kingdom. This was the first Eagles album to feature Timothy B. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band's final studio album for Asylum Records. It also turned out to be their last studio album as the Eagles disbanded in 1980 until 2007's Long Road Out of Eden after the band had reformed in 1994.

The album was originally intended to be a double album. The band could not come up with enough songs and the idea was therefore scrapped. The recording was protracted; they started recording in 1978, and the album took 18 months to record in five different studios, with the album finally released in September 1979. According to Don Henley, the band members were "completely burned out" and "physically, emotionally, text limit

In 2002, a former music journalist named Michael Skidmore came into control of California's estate, and 2014 he began proceedings against Led Zeppelin. In 2016, Jimmy Page testified in the case and said that the first time he heard of the controversy when a few years earlier when his son-in-law told him that a debate had been brewing online. Page insisted he had never heard "Taurus" before, and that it was "totally alien" to him.

The jury didn't buy the argument that Page never heard "Taurus," but still ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin, deciding that the chord progression in "Taurus" was common to many other songs dating back decades, and therefore, in the public domain. In 2018, the case was sent back to trial on appeal, but the ruling was upheld two years later. Here's a timeline of the case.
Pat Boone released an unlikely cover on his album In a In a Metal Mood. Boone wanted to see how it would turn out as a jazz waltz, and opened and closed the song with soft flute playing. In a subtle reference to his Christian faith, Boone changed the line "All in one is all and all" to "Three in one is all and all" - a reference to the Christian Trinity (the Father, Son, Holy Spirit).

Before recording the song, he scanned it for devilish references. "I kept looking for allusions to witchcraft or drugs," he said in a Songfacts interview. "And even though there were strange images, like 'in the hedgerows' and all these things, there were no specific mentions of Jimmy Page's involvement in witchcraft or anything like that."

Another notable cover was by an Australian performer called Rolf Harris, who used a wobbleboard (piece of quite floppy wood, held at both sides, arched slightly and wobbled so the arch would continually invert) and changed the line "And it makes me wonder" to "Does it make you wonder."

In the '90s, Australian TV host Andrew Denton had a show on which various artists were asked to perform their version of this song. Their versions were released on an album called The Money or the Gun: Stairways to Heaven. Artists performing it included Australian Doors Show, The Beatnix, Kate Ceberano and the Ministry of Fun, Robyne Dunn, Etcetera Theatre Company, The Fargone Beauties, Sandra Hahn and Michael Turkic, Rolf Harris, Pardon Me Boys, Neil Pepper, The Rock Lobsters, Leonard Teale, Toys Went Berserk, Vegimite Reggae, The Whipper Snappers, and John Paul Young. In reply to Rolf Harris' version, Page and Plant performed his song "Sun Arise" at the end of another Denton TV show.

In January 1990, this song was added to the Muzak playlist in a solo harp version. Unlike the original, the Muzak version, arranged and recorded to provide an "uplifting, productive atmosphere" and "counteract the worker-fatigue curve in the office environment," did not do so well, as even this sanitized version drew a lot of attention to the song, thus undermining the intention of the Muzak programming.

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Big Red Rocket Of Love Album: Martini Time (1996)
Galaxy 500 Album: Lucky 7 (2002)
Five-O Ford Album: Liquor in the front (1994)
by Reverend Horton Heat

1985-
Reverend Horton Heat (Jim Heath) Guitar, lead vocals
"Swingin'" Jack Barton Bass 1985-1989
Jimbo Wallace Bass, backing vocals 1989-
Patrick "Taz" Bentley Drums 1989-1994
Scott Churilla Drums 1994-2006
Paul Simmons Drums 2006-2012

Formed in 1985, this Texas trio has recorded ten studio albums and one live album from 1990 through 2009. The group has sold about one million albums. Originally signed by the indie label Sub Pop, they later moved to Victory Records. The band can be described as some combination of Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Swing, Punk, Blues, Jazz, and even traditional Country.

In a Reverend Horton interview Jim was asked if he was content with the Psychobilly label. "Not really, no. We're really not psychobilly," he replied. He added: "Artists don't want to be pigeonholed, but I would rather be pigeonholed into Rockabilly, because that was really my thing, just being a band that tried to be an ultimate '50's type of thing, which currently is what Psychobilly is."

Reverend Horton Heat has a passion for 1950s greaser memorabilia and nostalgia, including Flame-drenched hot rods and muscle cars, pinups, even button beanies. Think Jughead and Goober Pyle. He writes about his button beanies passion in his "Rant Update" on his website: "I have been obsessed with something for a while (20 years or more). As a fifties enthusiast, I'm always interested in things from that era. Something missing from the new retro explosion is the button beanie. To me, it's a cool retro look." Heat sports one with a RHH patch.

The name, or title if you will, Reverend Horton Heat, was placed on Jim Heath by a club owner. Heat had developed a style of "preaching" while on stage. Over time "The Rev" felt that might be compromising the band's real talent, diminishing their credibility. The preaching has been toned down, but, he has received requests to officiate weddings. All of which he declines.

Reverend Horton Heat has worked with Gretsch Guitars in the development of his signature guitar, the Gretsch 6120RHH hollow body electric guitar. In a video demonstration Heat made with Premier Guitars he explains he wanted a guitar with more stability and one that would allow for easier changing of strings. "The Rev" made another change in his gear, parting ways with his beloved 1978 Fender Super Reverb amplifier to a Gretsch Executive Combo. Not a move taken lightly for any accomplished musician. The Gretsch Executive Amps offered him more clarity in the higher notes.

Heat explained to Guitar Player magazine: "It doesn't matter what guitar you play, it's how you play it. It's what comes out of the heart."

Big Red Rocket Of Love

I got a red car with blue tail lights
Shiny red seats with piping in white
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Been Caught Stealing Album: Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990)
by Jane's Addiction

"Stop" spent two weeks on top of the Modern Rock chart. The Ritual De Lo Habitual album was a huge hit on college radio.

Dave Navarro takes the lead on Stop in a wah-driven guitar solo, taking the #20 spot on Guitar World's 2015 list of greatest wah solos of all time.

Been Caught Stealing is about the rush you get when stealing items from a store just for fun. Jane's Addiction lead singer Perry Farrell has a history of encouraging his listeners to do things that are unlawful or unhealthy: he once told a crowd not to let the threat of AIDS get in the way of their sexual freedom, and he admitted to not just using heroin, but enjoying it. At a time when rappers and dance divas were taking over popular music, Jane's Addiction was a voice of rock rebellion. Farrell points out that he in no way encourages people to follow his advice or example. He explained to BAM magazine in 1990: "I didn't get into this to make sermons or set up structures for others to live by. My intent has nothing to do with teaching. It's to amuse myself on this completely boring planet."

The barking in this song is Farrell's dog, Annie, trying to get into the vocal booth.

The album Ritual de lo Habitual was released with two different covers: one that contained both male and female nudity and the other, and another called "the clean cover" that showed only the band name, album name, and the text of the First Amendment.

The video for Been Caught Stealing was directed by Casey Niccoli, Perry Farrell's girlfriend and creative partner. She appears in the Jane's Addiction short film, Gift, and in the video for "Classic Girl."

The "Been Caught Stealing" video is shot mostly from the perspective of security cameras in a grocery store, as we see shoplifters eluding a hapless security guard.

Been Caught Stealing won for Best Alternative Video at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards. Perry Farrell didn't show up, so director Casey Niccoli accepted the award with a rambling speech. She claimed that Farrell took off with another girl the day before, so she was not of sound mind.

Matt Pinfield, who hosted MTV's alternative music showcase 120 Minutes, said about the transgressive nature of the Been Caught Stealing video and the band in general. "Jane's Addiction changed the LA music scene - things before that were very different," he said. "They were very polarizing when they came out. People who were more into the jangly R.E.M. sound didn't really get them at first, or the hair metal stuff that was going on at the time."

"The thing about the 'Been Caught Stealing' video is it shows the sense of humor and playfulness and the complete lack of fear that the band had," he added. "Like, 'Let's have a good time, let's do something that's crazy.' It's a classic video from that period of time. There wasn't much like it - although a lot of people definitely have tried to use some of those ideas."

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Lookin Out My Back Door Album: Cosmo's Factory (1970)
Run Through The Jungle Album: Cosmo's Factory (1970)
The Midnight Special Album: Willy and the Poor Boys (1969)
by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Lookin Out My Back Door was partly written for John Fogerty's son Josh, who at the time was three years old. Fogerty said: "I knew he would love it if he heard me on the radio singing - doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door." In the song lyrics there is a reference to a parade passing by which John says was inspired by a Dr. Seuss book that he read as a kid titled To Think (That) I Saw It On Mulberry Street.

Much like The Beatles "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," many people thought Lookin Out My Back Door was about drugs when it was really an innocent song inspired by a child. According to the drug theory, the "Flying Spoon" was a cocaine spoon, and the crazy animal images were an acid trip. This was even less plausible than the Beatles misinterpretation, since Creedence Clearwater Revival was never into psychedelic drugs.
This is played in the film The Big Lebowski.

The album cover shows Creedence Clearwater Revival's rehearsal space, which is not their original digs: they started rehearsing in a shed in the backyard of their drummer Doug Clifford's house. Clifford once said it was "better than working in a factory," so their rehearsal rooms became known as "The Factory." Clifford's nickname was Cosmo, so this space was known as "Cosmo's Factory."

John Fogerty played a bit of dobro on Lookin Out My Back Door. He's seen holding the instrument on the cover of the 1969 album Green River, but "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is the only time he played it on a Creedence song. In 1993, he bought a dobro at a vintage guitar show and set out to master the instrument, playing it for hours on end and using it on his 1997 solo album Blue Moon Swamp. He got some help along the way from Jerry Douglas, a preeminent dobro player who was part of Alison Krauss' band Union Station.

This is often believed to be about the Vietnam War, as it referred to a "jungle" and was released in 1970. The fact that previous CCR songs such as "Who'll Stop the Rain?" and "Fortunate Son" were protests of the Vietnam War added to this theory. In response, John Fogerty said: "I think a lot of people thought that because of the times, but I was talking about America and the proliferation of guns, registered and otherwise. I'm a hunter and I'm not antigun, but I just thought that people were so gun-happy - and there were so many guns uncontrolled that it really was dangerous, and it's even worse now. It's interesting that it has taken 20-odd years to get a movement on that position."

This position is best demonstrated in this lyric:

200 million guns are loaded
Satan cries, "Take aim!"

"Run Through The Jungle" opens with jungle sound effects created by, according to Stu Cook, "lots of backwards recorded guitar and piano."
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One Way Or Another Album: Parallel Lines (1978)
Rapture Album: Autoamerican (1980)
by Blondie

One Way Or Another is about a stalker. The lyrics are very dark and go into detail about a guy with evil intentions, but the music is very light and catchy, which masked the meaning of the song. According to Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry, it was inspired by real events. She told Entertainment Weekly: "I was actually stalked by a nutjob, so it came out of a not-so-friendly personal event. I tried to inject a little levity into it to make it more lighthearted. It was a survival mechanism."

Harry says that the title and the idea for the song popped into her head during a rehearsal, and most of the song was hashed out on the spot.

Lead singer Debbie Harry wrote this song with the group's bass player, Nigel Harrison. Harry wrote the lyrics to Blondie's songs, but composer credit for the music was generally given solely to whoever made the biggest contribution. This was often guitarist Chris Stein, who co-wrote "Rapture" and "Heart Of Glass."

This song has appeared in a number of movies and TV shows, often to imply dogged determination, not stalking. Here's a partial list:

Movies:
Little Darlings (1980)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Coyote Ugly (2000 - Piper Perabo sings it to quell a riot in the bar)
The Guru (2002 - performed by Sophie Ellis-Bextor)
Mean Girls (2004)
New York Minute (2004)
Seed of Chucky (2004)
Aquamarine (2006 - performed by Mandy Moore)
Ready Player One (2018)

TV Shows:
The A-Team (1985)
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1998)
Queer as Folk (1999)
Dawson's Creek (2002)
The Simpsons (2004)
Veronica Mars (2005)
ER (2007)
Psych (2008)
Supernatural (2011)

One Way Or Another was featured on a 2011 episode of the TV show Glee in a mashup with "Hit Me With Your Best Shot." The medley by the Glee Cast was released as a single and went to #86 in the US.

With radio-friendly songs like One Way Or Another, Blondie was one of the first Punk bands to have Pop success. They played clubs like CBGB's (stands for Country, BlueGrass, Blues) with bands like The Ramones and Television, but their songs were much lighter and led to mainstream acceptance. The Police and Talking Heads are other groups that came out of that scene.

In 2013 the UK boyband One Direction recorded a new version of this song, mashing it up with The Undertones' "Teenage Kicks." It was recorded to mark the 25th anniversary of the fundraising event Red Nose Day and was a hit in both the UK where it topped the chart and the US where it peaked at #13.

Kristen Bell sings this (quite well) at karaoke in the 2005 Veronica Mars episode "Clash Of The Tritons," where she uses the song to alert a gang of her intentions.

Debbie Harry (Blondie's Lead Vocalist) did a memorable version of this song when she was the guest star on The Muppet Show in 1981.

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I've Seen All Good People Album: The Yes Album (1971)
Roundabout Album: Fragile (1971)
by Yes

I've Seen All Good People is an anti-war song.

The line, "Don't surround yourself with yourself" refers to self-righteous behavior; "Move on back two squares" is a chess term meaning to retreat and rethink your position. The lyrics also refer to the queen, which is the most versatile and powerful chess piece. It talks about how news is captured for use by the queen, which uses forces to take control and manipulate troops against the enemy. War is like a game of chess.

In an interview with Yes frontman Jon Anderson explained: "The song is about initiation of yourself into the idea that there is more to life than war and fighting within religions and things like that. So when we were singing 'see all good people,' it's like, 'we can see you all in the audience because you're good people no matter what, and when you're with music you're enlightened, you're good, you're happy, you're excited.' And music is the kingpin of it all. It's not just Yes, it's music that brings people together like no other energy on such a level."

The song is divided into two sections, which are listed on the album as:

a. Your Move (running 3:35)
b. All Good People (running 3:21)

"Your Move" was written by lead singer Jon Anderson, "All Good People" by bassist Chris Squire.

In America, a single version of I've Seen All Good People was released as "Your Move (I've Seen All Good People)," which reached #40 in December 1971. This version credits lead singer Jon Anderson as the sole composer, and was the first chart hit for Yes. When we asked Anderson what he thought of the cut-down release, he replied, "A bit disjointed." Radio stations typically play the full 6:56 version of the song.

Lead singer/lyricist Jon Anderson says that on the "Your Move" portion of this song, he was using the game of chess in this song as a metaphor for life's spiritual challenges. "Life is a game of strategically placed situations presented to you, and you have to learn to live with them and work with them," he said. "Doors are open and sometimes they're closed. It's the idea that we are surrounded by a spirit or god or energy is in time with our understanding of who we are.

With the line, "Send an instant comment to me, initial it with loving care," this song references "Instant Karma," which was a song recorded by John Lennon a year earlier. Lennon was a huge influence on Yes, who covered The Beatles song "Every Little Thing" on their first album.

The line, "Just remember that the gold is for us to capture all we want, anywhere, Yea, yea, yea," refers to the rich and powerful victimizing the weak and poor. The US was taken off the Gold standard by Richard Nixon August 15, 1971 the same year I've Seen All Good People was released.

"Roundabout" was Yes' breakthrough hit and one of their most well-known songs, but the band wasn't looking for a hit at the time. The album version runs 8:29, textlimt

Changes In Latitudes Changes In Attitudes Album: Same name (1977)
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor Album: Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)
by Jimmy Buffett

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes is the seventh studio album by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett. This is his breakthrough album, which remains the best-selling studio album of Buffett's career, and contains his biggest single, "Margaritaville". It was initially released in January 1977 as ABC AB-990 and rereleased on its successor label, MCA.

Changes was very popular and critically well-received and was a transitional album on several levels for Buffett. In a commercial sense, it ushered in Buffett's greatest period of chart and airplay popularity – changing him from an FM cult favorite and minor hitmaker to a top-draw touring artist whose albums sold in the millions, receiving regular AM airplay at the time. Changes would be followed by equally popular and more grandiose expressions of Buffett's "Caribbean Soul" on Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978) and Volcano (1979). All of these albums would combine pop, bar-band rock, country, folk, and reggae influences with the professional production of Norbert Putnam.

The title track begins with an instrumental introduction which initially resembles "Yellow Bird" (originally a 19th-century Haitian song, which gained popularity in the U.S. through a Hawaiian-flavored instrumental by the Arthur Lyman group in 1961), and then it gradually evolves into the distinctive chorus of the song itself. In the song, the line "good times and riches and son-of-a-bitches, I've seen more than I can recall" was replaced with "good time and riches, some bruises and stitches, I've seen more than I can recall" for the radio edit single release of the title-track, with rather crude (and obvious) editing, although American Top 40 did play the original unedited version only once when it debuted at No. 38 on 10/22/77.

"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" was one of Buffett's more popular songs with fans, and was part of "The Big 8" that he played at almost all of his concerts. Recorded live versions of the song appear on You Had to Be There, and the video Live by the Bay.

Buffett wrote Son Of A Son Of A Sailor about his grandfather, James Delaney Buffett, who was a huge influence on his life. Buffett's grandfather was a sailor born in the town of Rose Blanche in Newfoundland, Canada, later moving to Glace Bay in Nova Scotia and eventually settling in Mobile, Alabama. His death in 1970 also inspired Buffett's early tune "The Captain and the Kid."

Son Of A Son Of A Sailor was the only song Jimmy Buffett performed in his only appearance on Saturday Night Live (May 13, 1978). He had to do it sitting down with his leg propped up in a cast after breaking it in a softball game earlier that week.

Buffett said of the song: "I saw a picture of my grandfather after he had come back from a trip to Nova Scotia. He was born there but left when he was a y

Life's Been Good Album: But Seriously, Folks... (1978)
Rocky Mountain Way Album: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get (1973)
by Joe Walsh

"Life's Been Good" is a humorous look at the spoils of fame and fortune associated with being a rock star. Walsh pokes fun at the lifestyle of wealth and fame, and the spoiled mentality - how it's not him who has changed, but everyone else.

In a 1981 interview with the BBC, Walsh explained of Life's Been Good: "I wanted to make a statement involving satire and humor, kind of poking fun at the incredibly silly lifestyle that someone in my position is faced with – in other words, I do have a really nice house, but I'm on the road so much that when I come home from a tour, it's really hard to feel that I even live here. It's not necessarily me, I think it paraphrases anyone in my position, and I think that's why a lot of people related to it, but basically, that's the story of any rock star – I say that humbly – anyone in my position. I thought that was a valid statement, because it is a strange lifestyle – I've been around the world in concerts, and people say 'What was Japan like?', but I don't know. It's got a nice airport, you know... so it was kind of an overall statement."

Walsh lived up to Life's Been Good, indulging in the hedonism he sang about long after it was released. "I started believing I was who everybody thought I was, which was a crazy rock star," he told Rolling Stone in 2017. "It took me away from my craft. Me and a lot of the guys I ran with, we were party monsters. It was a real challenge just to stay alive."

Life's Been Good is the last song on the But Seriously, Folks... album. On the original album version, the music fades away into silence, then about 30 seconds later there is a really funny secret message from Joe Walsh, who says, "Wha-oh... here comes a flock of wanh-wanhs!", followed by a chorale of "wannh," "wanh," "wahn" (collectively sounding like a bunch of ducks or sheep).

The cover of the But Seriously Folks album shows Walsh eating a meal... under water. In the same BBC interview, he said: "I had to do that a couple of times, but I did go down to the bottom of the pool, and almost drowned... but it was fun. Not at the time, but it was fun to do. We weighted everything down, but it was very involved and it took a long time, and I was real proud of it. As long as you have access to art, or visually presenting something with your record, I would like to use that, pursue it and try to make it an integral part of the music. It was hard to do, but when I look at it, I can't believe it either, I can't believe I was stupid enough to do that, but I was proud of it. I won't be repeating it, I can assure you!"

In 1979, Walsh announced his campaign for President of the United States, promising "Free gas for everyone" if he won (he didn't). Don't blame me. I was thirteen years old, so I couldn't vote.

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In Your Eyes Album: So (1986)
Games Without Frontiers Album: Peter Gabriel (third) (1980)
by Peter Gabriel

According to Gabriel, the lyrics of In Your Eyes could refer to either the love between a man and woman or the relationship between a person and God.

The West African musician Youssou N'Dour sang backup on this track, giving it a distinctive vocal texture. Gabriel learned about him in 1984 when N'Dour was performing in England. They became friends and collaborators, with a mutual respect for each others' music. N'Dour joined Gabriel on the So tour and was very well received - he was part of an extended version of "In Your Eyes" and also sang on "Biko." In 1991 Gabriel performed the song in N'Dour's native country of Senegal before a crowd of 70,000.

This was featured in the 1989 movie Say Anything in a scene where John Cusack plays this from a Boom Box he holds over his head to win the heart of Ione Skye. Cameron Crowe, who directed the film, was going to use Billy Idol's "Got To Be A Lover," but it didn't work with the scene. Crowe got the idea to use this when he played a tape from his wedding which had the song on it. Because it was a deeply personal song, Gabriel did not want to let him use it, but when Crowe called and sent him a tape of the movie, Gabriel loved it and gave his approval.

The producers of Say Anything (see a still) were charged about $200,000 to use the song, but it was worth the price as it became one of the most famous scenes in movie history. The scene became a cultural touchstone, which was a little strange for Gabriel. He told Rolling Stone in 2012: "I've talked to John Cusack about that. We're sort of trapped together in a minuscule moment of contemporary culture."
Gabriel combined various real and electronic instruments to create the song. He worked the Fairlight CMI synthesizer and the Linn drum machine, and also played piano. Other musicians on the track, along with N'Dour, were:

David Rhodes - guitar, backing vocals
Jerry Marotta - drums
Richard Tee - piano
Larry Klein, Tony Levin - bass
Manu Katche - drums, talking drum, percussion
Ronnie Bright - bass vocals
Jim Kerr (from Simple Minds), Michael Been - backing vocals

A special 7:14 mix of this song was released to radio stations by Geffen Records. It features extended singing by Youssou N'Dour. This promotional copy also included a 6:15 version of the song, and an 8:36 of Gabriel's "Biko."

Peter Gabriel produced the So album with Daniel Lanois, who had worked on U2's 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and after finishing up with Gabriel, started work on The Joshua Tree. Lanois will develop an understanding of a song on an emotional level and craft the production accordingly, which lyricists like Bono and Gabriel appreciate. In a Songfacts interview, he explained what this song means to him: "'In Your Eyes,' Peter had this idea that by looking into someone's eyes, you would see, quite specifically in the lyric, the doorway to a thousand churches. txt lmt

"I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" Album: The Nightfly (1982)
by Donald Fagen

"I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)" is a song written and performed by American Donald Fagen. It was the first track on his platinum-certified debut solo album The Nightfly, and was released in September 1982 as its first single. It charted within the top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, Mainstream Rock, R&B Singles and Adult Contemporary charts.

Fagen, along with musician Walter Becker, led the rock band Steely Dan during the 1970s. Between 1972 and 1981, Steely Dan had ten Top-40 singles, including the top-ten hits "Do It Again" (1972), "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (1974) and "Hey Nineteen" (1980). In 1981 Becker and Fagen parted ways. Fagen's first album as a solo artist, The Nightfly, was released the next year.

The "I.G.Y." of the title refers to the "International Geophysical Year", an event that ran from July 1957 to December 1958.: 217  The I.G.Y. was an international scientific project promoting collaboration among the world's scientists. Fagen's lyric discusses the widespread optimistic vision of the future at that time, including futuristic concepts such as solar-powered cities, a transatlantic tunnel, permanent space stations, and spandex jackets.

The song references the vision of postwar optimism in America and the Western world. The "76" referred to in the song is 1976, the U.S. Bicentennial year.

"I.G.Y." has been covered by British singer and musician Howard Jones, who included a version on his 1993 greatest hits album The Best of Howard Jones.

The gospel a cappella group Take 6 covered "I.G.Y." as the title track on their 2002 release Beautiful World. The lyric of Fagen's original song was modified to recast the song with a gospel message.

In 2004 Marcia Hines recorded a version for her album Hinesight.

The song was also used in a scene from the Simpsons sixteenth-season episode "Future Drama" when Homer and Bart are flying around in the 'imperfect Hovercar'.

French DJ Producer Alan Braxe sampled this song for the remix on Benjamin Diamond's "In Your Arms (We Gonna Make It)"

Donald Fagen – vocals, synthesizer, synth-harmonica
Greg Phillinganes – electric piano
Rob Mounsey – synthesizer, horn arrangement
Anthony Jackson – bass
Hugh McCracken – guitar
James Gadson – drums
Jeff Porcaro – additional drums
Roger Nichols – drum/percussion programming
Starz Vanderlocket – percussion
Randy Brecker – trumpet
Dave Tofani – alto saxophone
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone
Ronnie Cuber – baritone saxophone
Dave Bargeron – trombone
Valerie Simpson, Zack Sanders, Frank Floyd, Gordon Grody – backing vocals

"I.G.Y."

Standing tough under stars and stripes, we can tell
This dream's in sight
You've got to admit it
At this point in time that it's clear
The future looks bright

On that train, all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well, by '76 we'll be A-OK

What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free

Federal Funding is the first song on Cake’s 2011 album Showroom of Compassion. The song features a slow, moderately-funky beat, a low single-string guitar riff, whining analog synthesizers, group vocals, and trumpets. Lyrically, it discusses both the positives and negatives of government. Lead singer John McCrea is quoted as saying “There are certain things only government can do, and I think it would be selfish and shortsighted to indiscriminately shut everything down, privatize it all, etc. Although it might be emotionally satisfying for many people, it is probably not the adult thing to do.”

Cake’s website also featured “The Federal Funding March” in which high school and college marching bands could submit videos with the winner being featured in a future Cake music video.

Unknown to most of their fans, the band Cake is named after the verb, not the noun. Rather than referring to desert, the band says the name refers to the point "when something insidiously becomes part of your life. We mean it more as something that cakes onto your shoe and is just sort of there until you get rid of it."

Cake's 2001 album Comfort Eagle was a huge success but the band was forced to cancel a number of live dates in light of the September 11 attacks. The band was planning on doing a second tour of Europe at the time but instead decided that it might not be a good idea to travel overseas. They played their planned US gigs and also streamed a show from the Yahoo! office in California online.

Cake singer John McCrea is a big fan of the forgotten '70s band Bread. McCrea expresses his love for the band by saying "I think Bread was one of those bands that got overlooked at the time by people that were into music. But the songs are beautiful and you can't argue the geometry of the music."

Cake says the key to their unique sound is, ironically, cheap guitars. Guitarist Xan McCurdy elaborates: "McCrea's guitar is a s--tty old starter guitar from the '60s. They probably made a million of them off an assembly line. We never get the exact same tone twice."

Pete McNeal, who drummed for Cake from 2001 to 2004, was sentenced to 15 years to life in California state prison for child molestation on December 2, 2014. The incident occurred during a Thanksgiving party McNeal attended, where he allegedly molested a 3-year-old girl.

1991-
John McCrea Lead vocals, guitar, piano, vibraslap
Vince DiFiore Trumpet, keyboards, melodica, guiro, vocals
Greg Brown Guitar 1991-1997
Gabe Nelson Bass guitar, vocals 1991, 1997-
Paulo Baldi Drums, cowbell, tambourine, vocals 2004-
Xan McCurdy Guitar, vocals 1997-
Pete McNeal Drums 2001-2004

Federal Funding
Cake
Written by: Mc Crea John M, Mccurdy Xan Dieudonne, Nelson Christopher Gabriel
Album: Showroom Of Compassion
Released: 2011

You'll receive the federal funding, you can add another wing
You'll receive the federal funding, you can add another wing
Take your colleagues out to dinner, pay your brother to come and sing
Take your colleagu

MIND CONTROL 101 Introduction to Psychological Warfare GF33 27 1955 US Army
"[US Army] Introduction to Psychological Warfare - GF33-27 (1955)".
Time Stamps posted below for all the topics discussed in the video.

Declassified files on U.S Army tactics. The military applications of PSY-OPS and effective use of propaganda to control a nation. Lot's of information on how Psy-Ops was used in Korean War as well as Normandy Landings.

all audio sources are horrible that I could find. I did the best I could to clean it up.

TIME STAMPS:
00:48 - 1:40 (Intro to PSY OPS.)
1:41 - 2:45 (History of propaganda and how it's used to disseminate U.S foreign policy)
2:46 - 5:51 (Military applications of PSY OPS and how to influence the enemy)
5:52 - 8:25 (Different types of PSY OPS tech used in the battlefield)
8:26 - 11:15 (How "area studies" are used to exploit other nations based on religious, political & ethnic differences giving eg: like Korean war and Normandy Landings)
12:41 - 15:09 (Examples of use of propaganda AGAINST the U.S - and how U.S soldiers are trained to resist propaganda)

Pretzel Logic Album: Pretzel Logic (1974)
by Steely Dan

"Pretzel Logic" reached number 57 in the Billboard charts.

Steely Dan FAQ author Anthony Robustelli describes "Pretzel Logic" as a bluesy shuffle about time travel. Fagen has stated that the lyrics, including anachronistic references to Napoleon and minstrel shows, are about time travel. According to Robustelli, the "platform" referred to in the song's bridge is the time travel machine. But Something Else! critic Victor Aaron describes the lines "I stepped out on the platform, the man gave me the news/He said, 'You must be joking son, where did you get those shoes?'” as a memorable putdown line. Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet hypothesizes that the first verse was inspired by the band's distaste for touring, particularly the tours of the American South on which their record label had sent them the previous year. The Brownsville Herald writer Bobby Alvarez felt the song was about Steely Dan's "quest for stardom" and represented their philosophy about themselves—that whatever they have not done or experienced in the past doesn't matter anymore since the past is gone.

Billboard described "Pretzel Logic" as a "bluesy rock hit" and praised the vocals, production, and the "catchy instrumental refrain." CashBox said that "the accent here is on a funkier jazzy melody than 'Rikki.'" Record World called it "a blues construction trimmed with hall-filling harmonies" and said that "The group's ability to meander and yet keep to a hooky home base once again proves their mastery of rock thought processes." Rolling Stone critic Bud Scoppa describes "Pretzel Logic" as one of the album's most conventional songs, calling it a "modified blues." Aaron regards it as Steely Dan's song that remains most faithful to the blues, but acknowledges that a few non-blues chords are incorporated into the refrain. Scoppa particularly praised the electric guitar improvisations for their originality and for pedal steel guitar parts that don't sound like country music. Scoppa credited Jeff Baxter for this, although according to Steely Dan biographer Brian Sweet, Walter Becker played the guitar solo. This is one of the first Steely Dan songs to feature Becker as a lead guitarist. Eduardo Rivadavia cites "Pretzel Logic" as one of several songs on the album on which Steely Dan hones their trademark sound, "as sweetly infectious as it was deceptively intricate, dark and witty." Alvarez rated it one of the best songs on the album.

Donald Fagen – lead and backing vocals, Wurlitzer electronic piano
Walter Becker – lead guitar
Dean Parks – rhythm guitar
Plas Johnson – saxophone
Ollie Mitchell – trumpet
Lew McCreary – trombone
Michael Omartian – acoustic piano
Wilton Felder – bass guitar
Jim Gordon – drums
Tim Schmit – backing vocals

In 1987, it was covered by Hiram Bullock on his album Give It What You Got.

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Undead Album: Swan Songs (2008)
Bullet Album: American Tragedy (2011)
by Hollywood Undead

Undead was originally released as a song entitled "Out The Way." It not known why this revised version was re-titled.

The synthesiser riff was borrowed from Ozzy Osbourne's debut single as a solo artist, "Crazy Train."

Undead was featured in commercials for the live action film G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Undead was produced by Danny Lohner who is best known for his work with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Lohner also helped produce "Sell Your Soul."

Johnny 3 Tears of Hollywood Undead explained the album title to Artist Direct: "We came up with Swan Songs because there's an irony to it. A swan song is supposed to be the last noise a swan makes before it dies. Even though it's our first record, I thought that it would be cool because of the irony of it. In all honesty, I never know what's going to happen with us, so I thought it was a fitting title. It's very complete, representing the lifespan of something. If we never made another record again, I think we would've done something that most bands haven't done; even though it's only a 14-track record, but it covers a lifetime."

"Bullet" is a song by American band Hollywood Undead. It was recorded as the sixth single and eleventh track from their second studio album American Tragedy (2011). The song was produced by Griffin Boice. This song is one of the few songs by Hollywood Undead to feature a member other than Danny or Deuce as the clean vocalist. Charlie Scene performs the chorus of "Bullet," in addition to "Rain" from Notes from the Underground. The song has received positive reviews from critics due to its cheerful tone and uptempo beat that directly contrast its dark lyrics about suicide and self-harm.

"Bullet" was written by Lewis Edwards. The song contains verses by Terrell and Ragan, and a b-section and chorus sung by Terrell.

The song was produced, recorded, and mixed by Griffin Boice at the Beat Suite in Hollywood, California.

The lyrics detail a teenage male's trouble with suicide. The chorus, which the song opens with, implies past attempts at suicide for the protagonist: "My legs are dangling off the edge, the bottom of the bottle is my only friend. I think I'll slit my wrist again, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone! My legs are dangling off the edge, a stomach full of pills didn't work again. I put a bullet in my head, and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone!" The protagonist continues in the verses to describe the decomposition of his life, stating that his "two best friends" are "a bottle of pills" and "a bottle of Gin". We then learn he is at the top of a twenty story building, and that the polishing of a bottle is "pushing [me]" off and he describes how asphalt has never "looked so soft". The protagonist begins to express concern that his mother found his suicide note and had called the police. He starts realising he needs to move fast, as he hears "sirens and they're off text limit

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