Sometimes a song is set in a specific place, was inspired by a location, or is linked to the scene where it was written.
99 Luftballons, Here We Go, In The Year 2525 and more: check out the cities related to these songs through the eyes of Rothko.
Gil Scott-Heron, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Zager & Evans. Songs that described the future before it arrived. The ones who were optimistic about the harmonious tomorrow aged much worse.
Anxiety travels further than hope, apparently.
Written as sarcasm in the worst year of Black’s life. Became one of the most reassuring songs of the decade.
He died in a car crash 30 years later – the same way that worst year had started.
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Wonderful Life, Lust for Life, Spaceman, Bohemian Like You…
The distance between what a song was written about and what it ends up selling can be enormous. Despair, heroin, misrepresentation, obscurity - the ad doesn't care. It just needs a sound that fits thirty seconds.
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Born in the USA: a bitter portrait of a discarded veteran. Politicians used it as an anthem.
Every Breath You Take is a restraining order set to music. It's one of the most played songs at weddings.
Gaps that never close.
@TheCureForever_ Their biggest hit and least representative song.
The 1983 original belongs to the fans.
The 1992 version belongs to everyone else.
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@Schnitzel63 Their biggest hit and least representative song.
The 1983 original belongs to the fans.
The 1992 version belongs to everyone else.
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Temple of Love’ is the Sisters’ biggest hit and their least representative song. The 1983 original belongs to the fans. The 1992 version belongs to everyone else.
Eldritch has spent 30 years avoiding a follow-up to an album released two years before the song that defined him.