"Sledgehammer" is Peter Gabriel's biggest solo hit and his only #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The groundbreaking music video, directed by Stephen R. Johnsonwith animation by Aardman (later famous for Wallace & Gromit).
To create the iconic effects, Peter Gabriel spent around 16 hours lying beneath a sheet of glass while animators moved objects frame by frame, with the shoot taking nearly a week to complete. The video won a record nine awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, and remains the most-played music video in MTV history.
“Basket Case” was written by Billie Joe Armstrong about the anxiety and panic attacks he experienced for years. He later recalled waking up in the middle of the night in a panic and riding around the neighborhood to calm himself down. At the time he thought he was simply going crazy, but he eventually realised that what he had been experiencing were panic attacks. The song turned those deeply personal experiences into one of Green Day's most enduring anthems.
Released in 1994 as the second single from Dookie, “Basket Case” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and also reached No. 9 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The song was nominated for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group at the 1995 Grammy Awards, while Dookie won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
Uno de los grandes éxitos de la historia de la música!
“Take on Me" de la banda noruega A-ha no es solo uno de los himnos más reconocibles del synth-pop de los años 80, sino un hito histórico que revolucionó la forma de promocionar la música.
El impacto de Take on Me sigue resonando con fuerza en la cultura pop actual debido a varios factores clave.
Demostró definitivamente que en los años 80 el componente visual era tan importante como el musical. La banda hizo videos revolucionarios que tenía el poder de transformar una canción ignorada en un éxito de escala planetaria.
El característico uso del sintetizador Roland Juno-60 definió el sonido de la década.
Actualmente, la canción ha alcanzado cifras astronómicas con más de 1,900 millones de reproducciones en YouTube, siendo uno de los pocos videos del siglo XX en lograr este hito.
Asimismo, fue galardonada en los BMI London Awards tras registrar más de 10 millones de reproducciones en la radio estadounidense.
La estética y la canción han sido homenajeadas, sampleadas y parodiadas de forma incansable en series como Family Guy y The Simpsons, videojuegos como The Last of Us Part II comerciales y videoclips de artistas contemporáneos como Paramore.
Watch the classic music video for “Let Forever Be” directed by the legendary Michele Gondry, now remastered in 4k!
Vocals by the mighty Noel Gallagher, from the album ’Surrender’.
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September 10, 1991 – Nirvana released Smells Like Teen Spirit.
"It was a revolution. A new feeling was in the air, and we were part of it."
— Kurt Cobain
99 Luftballons — NENA (1983)
A German new-wave classic that crossed borders. NENA released it in German and English, and both versions exploded across Europe and Japan.
This live clip still hits: the energy, the clothes, the voice. One of those songs that instantly takes you back.
Did you first hear 99 Luftballons or 99 Red Balloons?
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“For What It’s Worth” was written by Stephen Stills in late 1966 after witnessing the unrest surrounding the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles, where clashes had broken out between young protesters and police over new restrictions on nightlife around clubs such as Pandora���s Box. Released as a single in December 1966, the song quickly became Buffalo Springfield’s breakthrough hit reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1967.
Although it is often remembered today as a Vietnam-era protest anthem, the song was not originally written about the war. Its tense, understated lyrics instead captured the atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and generational conflict in America at the time, which is precisely why it later came to symbolize the wider turbulence of the late 1960s.
Anteayer estuve revisando el serial "Years and years" de Emma Thompson y me pareció que lo que parecía exagerado en su estreno se queda corto ahora.
Me pareció hasta demasiado optimista.
Esto lo confirma.
“El mundo está cambiando, la música está cambiando, las drogas están cambiando, hasta los tíos y tías están cambiando. Dentro de unos años no habrá ni tios ni tías, sólo gilipollas”.
(Trainspotting).