buckle up for a load of heavy tracks and beware my friends: it may get loud!
| Title | Artist | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| What I Like About You | The Romantics | “What I Like About You” was written by ‘The Romantics’ band members Palmar, Marinos and Skill around a guitar part by Skill. The song’s “Hey, uh-huh-huh” refrain was influenced by the Yardbirds’ “Over Under Sideways Down” and Chuck Berry’s “Back in the U.S.A.” The song’s riff is slightly similar to Neil Diamond’s “Cherry, Cherry”, the Standells’ 1966 hit “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”, and Joe Jackson’s 1979 single “I’m the Man.” |
| Bohemian Like You | The Dandy Warhols | “Bohemian Like You” was written by The Dandy Warhols’ frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor inspired by a woman he saw in a car stopped at the traffic light below his apartment window and fantasize about a relationship with her. |
| Two Princes | Spin Doctors | “Two Princes” is a song by American rock group Spin Doctors, released in 1992. Spin Doctors bandleader Chris Barron takes the voice of a poor prince (must be a pretty lame kingdom) trying to convince a girl that she should marry him instead of his wealthy counterpart.The line, “I know what a prince and lover ought to be” is often misheard, either as “Princeton lover” (plausible, since Barron lived in Princeton, New Jersey) or “prison lover.” |
| Tainted Love | Gloria Jones | “Tainted Love” is a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of American group the Four Preps, which was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. Jones re-recorded “Tainted Love” in 1976 and British synthpop duo Soft Cell in covered it in 1981. |
| What’cha Gonna Do About It | Small Faces | “Whatcha Gonna Do About It” is the debut single of the English band Small Faces, released in 1965. The melody inspiration came from Solomon Burke’s hit record “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.” |
| Good Thing | Fine Young Cannibals | “Good Thing” is a song by British band Fine Young Cannibals, written by band members Roland Gift and David Steele; Jools Holland played piano on the track, noting that it was “one of the biggest selling records I’ve ever played on” |
| Lust For Life | Iggy Pop | “Lust For Life” by Iggy Pop is co-written and produced by David Bowie (written on a ukulele). The song is known for its opening drumbeat derived from “You Can’t Hurry Love”, released in July 1966 by The Supremes, and “I’m Ready for Love”, released in October 1966 by Martha and the Vandellas and rhythm based on the Armed Forces Network call signal. The drumbeat has since been imitated in numerous songs, including “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet and “Selfish Jean” by Travis. |
| Selfish Jean | Travis | Travis’ Scottish frontman and songwriter Francis Healy sampled the drum intro from the Iggy Pop song “Lust For Life” on his computer and looped it to create a basic rhythm. The title of the song is a reference to The Selfish Gene, a popular science book about evolution by Richard Dawkins. The band name Travis, is named after the main character in the Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas. |
| Are You Gonna Be My Girl | Jet | Australian band Jet’s “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” has similarities with 1960s Motown songs “I’m Ready for Love” by Martha and the Vandellas and “You Can’t Hurry Love” by the Supremes. Jet’s frontman Nic Cester said he was influenced by the stop-start structure of “My Generation” by the Who. |
| My Generation | The Who | ‘My Generation’ by the British band ‘The Who’ is about trying to find a place in society. The song is written by Pete Townshend and includes one of the most quoted—and patently rewritten—lines in rock history is “I hope I die before I get old,” Roger Daltrey’s angry and frustrated stutter is inspired by John Lee Hooker’s “Stuttering Blues”. |
| Rockin’ In The Free World | Neil Young | “Rockin’ In The Free World” written and performed by Canadian artist Neil Young was inspired by a statement of his band member, Frank “Poncho” Sampedro guitarist from The Restless, after a planned concert tour to the Soviet Union was not going to happen: “we’ll have to keep on rockin’ in the free world”. |
| Supernatural Superserious | R.E.M. | “Supernatural Superserious” by R.E.M. is written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. Frontman Michael Stipe considers the song, about adolescent humiliation and the kinds of things that follow you through your life, to be “one of the best things we’ve ever wrote.” The cryptic lyrics have been compared by some critics to “Imitation Of Life.” |
| Mama Weer All Crazee Now | Slade | “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” by British band Slade is written by lead vocalist Noddy Holder and bassist Jim Lea, and produced by Chas Chandler. Holder got the idea for the lyrics at the band’s concert at Wembley Arena in London, when, after the show, he looked at the remains of the auditorium’s smashed seating and thought “Christ, everyone must have been crazy tonight.” |
| Paradise City (ft. Fergie and Cypress Hill) | Slash | “Paradise City” only features on the deluxe versions of the “Slash” studio album and features Fergie (former Black Eyed Peas) and American hip hop group Cypress Hill. Saul “Slash” Hudson, best known as the lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses stated about Guns N’ Roses’ hard rock masterpiece “Paradise City.” that the original line was ‘Take me down to the Paradise City where the girls are fat and they got big titties.’ “We all thought it was funny but it wasn’t going to make it on the album…”, hence the other guys changed it. Equipped with a one-string flamenco guitar given to him by his grandmother, he began taking classes with Wolin. He vividly recalls the feeling after learning “Come Dancing” from Wired by Jeff Beck, his greatest influence, which he described as “fucking awesome” |
| Dark Necessities | Red Hot Chili Peppers | “Dark Necessities” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a song that the band has written with Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, which “speaks to the beauty of our dark sides and how much creativity and growth and light actually comes out of those difficult struggles that we have on the inside of our heads that no one else can see.” Danger Mouse produced, performed on, and co-wrote songs for the eleventh studio album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers titled The Getaway. Brian Burton formed Gnarls Barkley with CeeLo Green. |
| Feel Good Inc. | Gorillaz | In 2005, De La Soul collaborated with Gorillaz on the hit single “Feel Good Inc.”, the lead single from the band’s second studio album, Demon Days. Danger Mouse produced the second Gorillaz album. |
| Eye Know | De La Soul | De La Soul’s stage names include Trugoy (reversed spelling for yogurt) and Posdnuos (“sound sop” spelled backwards) underpinning the “D.A.I.S.Y. Age” (an acronym standing for “da inner sound, y’all”) concept. The song is filled with samples that the members had heard: Steely Dan’s “Peg” is heavily sampled throughout the song, providing the backing beat and some backup vocals for the chorus. The Mad Lads’ “Make This Young Lady Mine” provides the sample for both the guitar and the horn heard throughout the track. The whistling heard throughout the track is an Otis Redding sample from his song “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay” And drums from “Sing a Simple Song” by Sly & the Family Stone are also sampled in the track. |
| The Sound of C | Confetti’s | “The Sound of C” stands for the Belgian club Confetti’s in Brasschaat, near Antwerp. Barmen at Confetti’s (Peter Renkens) became the frontman of the band. Dj Serge Ramaekers composed the song upon request by club owner Peter Vanderhallen making reference to his girlfriend Chrisje. |
| Pump Up The Jam | Technotronic | “Technotronic” is a music project of Belgian musician, songwriter, and record producer Jo Bogaert (born in 1956 in Aalst, Belgium). “Pump Up The Jam”, co-written by Congolese–Belgian singer Ya Kid K (born Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi, 26 January 1972) was released in 1989 with Congolese model Felly Kilingi as cover-girl for the promotion of the song. |
| The Milky Way | 2 Fabiola | 2 Fabiola is a project of Pat Krimson (born Patrick Claessen on April 17, 1965 in Hasselt), a Belgian musician/composer, former Leopold 3 (a Belgian band, performing only in Dutch, now defunct) with Zohra (born Zohra Bent Ali Aït-Fath on September 8, 1975 in Hasselt) is a Belgian artist of Moroccan descent. The first production by Pat Krimson under the name of 2 Fabiola was “The Milky Way” (a tribute to the Belgian royal family). |
| Get Ready | 2 Unlimited | 2 Unlimited is the brainchild of two Belgian producers Phil Wilde and Jean-Paul de Coster in the nineties with Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and vocalist Anita Doth. “Get Ready” has become one of the most frequently played songs at sporting events around the world. Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde met in their hometown of Antwerp, Belgium, and created 2 Unlimited in their studio, initially without any performers or vocalists. To release ‘Get Ready’ in 1992, they engaged Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and vocalist Anita Doth (born Anita Daniëlle Dels on 28 December 1971 in Amsterdam, Netherlands). |
| Désenchantée | Kate Ryan | Belgian Katrien Verbeeck (born on July 22, 1980 in Tessenderlo, Belgium), alias Kate Ryan, had massive success in France and around Europe with Mylène Farmer’s “Désenchantée” in 2002. “Disenchanted” or “Disappointed” was initially released in 1991 during the student demonstrations in France and the Gulf war. |
| I Fail (Radio Mix) (ft. Scala) | Regi | Belgian Regi Penxten ‘milkes’ the music industry since his success with La Vache in 1996 in France. DJ / media phenomenon in Belgium, wine lover, dad of two kids and hitmaker, Regi (Reginald Paul Stefan) Penxten (born on March 4th, 1976 in Hasselt) is known as one of the founders, producer & frontman of Belgian act Milk Inc.Milk Inc. In 2007 he recorded ‘I Fail’ with SCALA, a Belgian all-girls choir that performs and records classical arrangements of popular rock, metal, dance, hiphop and pop songs, conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied on piano by Steven Kolacny, who also arranges the songs. |
Sources
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