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Guano Apes - Hey Last Beautiful 📀

🎶"Hey Last Beautiful"🎶 is a rock song by the German 🇩🇪 alternative rock band Guano Apes. The song was released on May 30, 2014, on their fifth studio album, titled *Offline* 📀.

Song Facts:

Genre: Alternative Rock

Lyrics & Content:

The lyrics 📄 address the destruction of the world 🌐 and a longing for beauty:

"I see the plants we destroyed / And the wars we never thought we would fight again"

"Hey last beautiful, I miss you so / Hey last wonderful, did we lose your soul?"

Streaming & Links:

The official audio 🎶 is available on the Guano Apes YouTube channel.

The track is also available on Spotify.

The full lyrics can be read on Genius.

u/Mr-McKauly — 10 days ago
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Guano Apes - Don't You Turn Your Back on Me 📀

🎶"Don't You Turn Your Back on Me"🎶 is a rock single by the German 🇩🇪 band Guano Apes, released on March 8, 1999. The song, known for its crossover/alternative rock style, does not appear on any standard studio album but was included on the greatest hits album *Planet of the Apes 📀 (2004)*.

Release Date: March 8, 1999 (as a single).

Genre: Alternative Rock / Nu Metal.

Characteristics: The song is distinguished by Sandra Nasić's (🎙) distinctive vocals and an energetic, slightly electronic rock arrangement.

Content: The lyrics explore intense emotions, desire, and a warning not to turn away (🎶"Don't you turn your back on me"🎶).

Formats: The maxi-single featured various versions, including the "Frozen Mix," "String Version," and "Prince P.A.L.-Clubmix."

🎶"Don’t You Turn Your Back on Me"🎶 is the title song for the film *Meschugge* 🎞, starring Dani Levy and Maria Schrader. The CD 💿 was released as a CD-Extra compatible with both Mac and PC, and included—among other content—the music video for the song and the theatrical trailer for the film. In late December 1998, the band recorded the CD at Berlin’s Hansa Studios alongside their sound engineer, Clemens Matznick.

The music video shoot 📽 for the track also took place in Berlin and lasted over 24 hours non-stop, outdoors, in freezing temperatures. The Guano Apes performed amidst smashed television sets and pieces of furniture that were being dropped from a high scaffolding structure positioned above them. The video was directed 🎬 by Daniel Lwowski.

u/Mr-McKauly — 10 days ago

David Lee Roth - One Piece Thermo Molded Country Plastic Chair 📀

🎶"One Piece Thermo-Molded Country Plastic Chair"🎶 is an acoustic song by David Lee Roth 🕺, released in November 2012 as part of his web series 🎬, *The Roth Show*.

The song was co-written by Roth and Scotty Emerick and dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. In the song🎶, Roth celebrates the simplicity and durability of the ubiquitous plastic chair—a place from which one can watch the world go by.

First released on November 1, 2012, in Episode 3 of *The Roth Show*. Style: A quiet, acoustic piece that reveals a more contemplative side of the ❤Van Halen🤍 frontman.

The lyrics describe the chair as the "most common object under the midday sun," from which Roth "rules his kingdom 👑 fairly." He expresses a preference for the green models over those designed to look like wood. Availability: The official video📽 and the song can be found on platforms such as YouTube, as well as via fan sites like the Van Halen News Desk.

u/Mr-McKauly — 11 days ago

Spandau Ballèt - Crashed Into Love 📀

🎶"Crashed Into Love"🎶 is a song by the English 🇬🇧 new wave band Spandau Ballet, released as the fourth single from their 1989 album Heart Like a Sky 📀. It was poorly received and became their fourth consecutive single that failed to make the top 40 in the UK 🇬🇧.

🎶"Crashed Into Love"🎶 is the source for the parent album's name, Heart Like a Sky (1989) 📀, which references lyrics sung during the first verse.

The music video 🎬 for "Crashed Into Love" was filmed 📽 in Los Angeles 🇺🇲.

u/Mr-McKauly — 12 days ago
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🎶"Tattoo"🎶 is the first song and single from the album, A Different Kind of Truth 📀, from American 🇺🇲 rock band Van Halen. The single was released online and to radio stations January 10, 2012. It was their first single to be released on Interscope Records, and the first to feature new bassist Wolfgang Van Halen, of whom is Eddie's (🎸) son and original lead vocalist, David Lee Roth (🎙)since 🎶"Hot for Teacher"🎶.

The song's structure is largely based on 🎶"Down in Flames"🎶, written in 1977 and performed live by Van Halen during their club days and their first world🌐tour in 1978.When the band decided to cover Clint Ballard Jr.'s song 🎶"You're No Good"🎶 for their second album, Van Halen II 📀, they incorporated the intro from 🎶"Down in Flames"🎶 as the intro to their arrangement.

A version of the song was worked on during the aborted 2001 reunion with Roth according to Ray Luzier (🥁).

🎶"Tattoo"🎶 became Van Halen's first single to chart on the American Billboard Hot 💯 in 17 years, and their 23rd overall.

The music video was shot 🎬 at the Roxy Theatre, Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California 🇺🇲 while rehearsing for their then-upcoming tour in late 2011.Their performance was shot 📽 in black and white and starts with a big waving checkered racing flag 🏁 and ending with a hail of confetti and balloons. The song also features reverse effects and other computer special effects. It is their first music video with David Lee Roth (🎙) in almost 30 years, their first music video without Michael Anthony, and their first featuring Wolfgang Van Halen. The video was uploaded to YouTube on January 10, 2012, the same day of the single's release.

A 30-second "teaser" clip 🎞 of the song was posted on January 6, 2012. The official single release was announced as January 10 after Van Halen played an intimate club gig at the Cafe Wha?

Chart (2012)

Peakposition 📈

🇨🇦 Canada (Canadian Hot 💯) *62

🇯🇵 Japan Hot 100 (Billboard) *14

🇺🇲 US Billboard (Hot 💯) *67

🇺🇲 US Billboard (Rock Songs) *16

u/Mr-McKauly — 26 days ago
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🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 is a song by American 🇺🇲 rock band Goo Goo Dolls. It was released in June 1999 as the fourth single from the band's sixth studio album, Dizzy Up the Girl 📀 (1998), and reached No. 3 in Canada 🇨🇦, No. 16 in the United States 🇺🇲, and No. 23 in Iceland 🇮🇸.

The song, according to lead singer John Rzeznik 🎙, is based on a woman who is struggling with a heroin addiction and her lover who is desperately trying to save her. He has also said that it is about "seeing someone you love that is so great just screw up so bad." Speculation had it that the specific person the song was based on was the ex-wife of bassist Robby Takac; she died of a heroin overdose.

Like many other songs by Goo Goo Dolls, 🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 uses an unusual alternate tuning. Several electric guitars used in the introduction and the acoustic rhythm guitar are tuned to an open D-flat fifth chord. It was half-stepped on the album version.

The track reached 📈 No. 13 and No. 28 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts, respectively.🎶"Black Balloon"🎶 was the band's first commercially released single in the US since 🎶"Name"🎶 in 1995, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 💯 with its combined sales and airplay figures.In Canada 🇨🇦, the song reached No. 3 on the RPM 💯 Hit Tracks chart, giving the Goo Goo Dolls their fourth top-three hit there.Outside North America, the song charted in Iceland 🇮🇸 and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, reaching No. 23 in the former country and No. 76 in the latter.

The video 🎬 opens with a woman blowing smoke into a soap bubble. It then moves into showing scenes from a 1950s era swim club while the band performs the song. The video was directed 📽 by Nancy Bardawil.

u/Mr-McKauly — 10 days ago