Tag: Alternative Rock

Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o1SzLtpq0w

“Are You Gonna Be My Girl” is a song by the Australian rock band Jet, featured on their 2003 album Get Born. It was the first single from the album, released in 2003 in Australia and the UK, and in 2004 in the United States. Written by Nic Cester & Cameron Muncey, the song is often cited for similarities to Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” (particularly its drum pattern and near-identical guitar riff).The band, however, argues that “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” has more in common with 60s’ Motown songs, namely “I’m Ready For Love” by Martha And The Vandellas and “You Can’t Hurry Love” by The Supremes.

Pink Floyd – On The Turning Away (live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DODKTN3O2s

“On the Turning Away” is a song from Pink Floyd’s 1987 album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason. The song, a power ballad, references issues of poverty and oppression, lamenting on the tendency of people to turn away from those afflicted with such conditions. It ends on a hopeful note, with the last stanza beginning, “no more turning away …”. It is also a song that recovers the mysticism of songs like “Wish You Were Here” or “Us and Them”, but this time treating topics like the suffering of people; the phrase “weak and the weary” portrays the suffering of people as a big problem in today’s world.

The La’s – There She Goes

“There She Goes” is a song written by British singer/guitarist Lee Mavers and recorded first by Mavers’ band, The La’s. Structurally, the song is very simple and contains no verses, only a single chorus repeated four times and a bridge. The song borrows from The Velvet Underground’s “There She Goes Again”, particularly the accents that separate the choruses.

Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (live)

“Another Brick in the Wall” is the title of three songs set to variations of the same basic theme, on Pink Floyd’s 1979 rock opera, The Wall, subtitled Part 1 (working title “Reminiscing”), Part 2 (working title “Education”), and Part 3 (working title “Drugs”). All parts were written by Pink Floyd’s bassist, Roger Waters. Part II is a protest song against rigid schooling in general and boarding schools in the UK in particular.