Posted February 14, 2011 at 12:00 pm | One comment
When we think of super-groups there is one name that rises to the top, Cream. Featuring the powerhouse trio of Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Slowhand himself, Eric Clapton, the band would dominate the hard-rock genre during the late ‘60s. While they have left an everlasting impression on future generations of fans and musicians, the band was to have only one Gold selling single in the U.S., the powerhouse hit, “Sunshine of Your Love.”
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Posted February 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Released in 2005 on the album of the same name, “Are You Dead Yet” featured several firsts for Finnish Metal band Children of Bodom. The album was the first to feature guitarist Roope Latvala, who took over guitar duties from the departing Alexander Kuoppala. As well, it was the first album to feature Drop C tuning, whereas the band had used the more common Drop D tuning on previous releases.
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Posted February 12, 2011 at 11:00 am | 2 comments
When recording his 1983 smash-hit record Reckless, Canadian singer and guitarist Bryan Adams and producer Jimmy Iovine almost cut one of the album’s most successful songs, “Heaven.” Adams felt that the song was too light for the record, which was more down home rock n roll, a thought that Iovine seconded before the two reconsidered, much to the delight of millions of fans, to include the song on the record.
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Posted February 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Taking influence from Bob Seger’s classic road song “Turn the Page,” Jon Bon Jovi set out to write a song that delved into the lives of both rock stars, and heroes from the Old West, who Jovi greatly admired, the singer sat down one morning and wrote one of the band’s most memorable songs, “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Released on the band’s 1986 smash hit record “Slippery When Wet,”
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Posted February 10, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
As the folk music scene grew out of Greenwich Village in New York and began to spread across the country, a single figure rose about the crowd to become the flag bearer of the movement, Bob Dylan. Well before he shocked people by “going electric,” Dylan won his fans over with softer songs, such as the iconic “Blowin’ in the Wind.”
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Posted February 9, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
It’s telling that Blind Melon’s 1992 hit “No Rain” made both VH1’s “100 Greatest Videos of All Time” and the “100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders” lists. The song was a huge success for the band, launching them to international stardom, while at the same time identifying the band almost exclusively with the single and accompanying video,
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Posted February 8, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
“Let it Be” would end up being one of the most bittersweet songs in the Beatles catalog, or anyone’s musical library for that matter. Released in March of 1970, the song was the last single released by the Fab Four before Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the band.
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Posted February 7, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Telling the story of a time traveller who witnesses the apocalypse, before returning to the present day, being transformed into metal and then after being mocked, starting the very destruction he witnessed in the future, Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” is one of the most memorable and covered songs in rock history.
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Posted February 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm | One comment
Evolving from an earlier song titled “Hey Jules,” which Paul McCartney wrote for John Lennon’s son Julian to comfort him after his parent’s divorce, “Hey Jude” has since become one of the Beatles’ most recognized and best-loved songs. At over 7 minutes in length, it was, at the time, the longest single ever to top the charts.
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Posted February 5, 2011 at 12:00 pm | No comments
Released in 2010, Avenged Sevenfold’s “Nightmare,” was the first single following the death of drummer The Rev. Though he will never be replaced in the minds of AS’s fans, prog-rock drummer extrordinare Mike Portnoy jumped in and took The Rev’s place, who recorded the demo version, on the single.
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