Hardcore soft porn........ Californicartion!!!

• Released in 2000
• The song is mainly about the dark side of Hollywood and the export of culture through the movie industry
•  #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA
•  #16 on the UK charts
• Hit #1 on both US Mainstream Rock Tracks for 2 weeks and US Modern Rock Tracks for 1 week.
• Band's fourth most performed song with over 490 performances.
•  The song begins "Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." Kiedis says in his book Scar Tissue that he got the inspiration for the line from hearing a woman on a New Zealand street ranting about "psychic spies in China".
• The track also makes references to topics such as pornography ("hardcore soft porn") and plastic surgery ("pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging") and even some pop culture references including Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and David Bowie ("Cobain, can you hear the spheres singing songs off Station to Station?"), The Beach Boys ("They're just another Good Vibration"), Star Wars ("and Alderaan's not far away") and Star Trek ("Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement"). This quote can also be interpreted to be about the conspiracy that Neil Armstrong's original landing on the moon was indeed staged. The phrase "First born Unicorn" refers to Dorothy Stratten, whose life was covered in the book The Killing of the Unicorn.
• The song featured in the film Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005).
• In 2009, Brazilian singer Barbara Mendes made a bossa nova cover of this song in the album Rock Bossa.

• The song is available as downloadable content for the video game Rock Band 3

And the music video is just awesome

Making of the music video:

Don't know what you got, till its gone

Probably the best metal ballad ever

Cinderella

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Song facts:

This was Cinderella's highest charting single, peaking in the US at #12. Dan MacIntosh prefaced in our interview with Tom Keifer of Cinderella that the band offered more depth of emotion and sincerity than their Glam Rock counterparts. This song is a perfect example - using it as a soundtrack you can steal yourself back in time where you remember someone, somewhere, and even now you can never say for sure where it went wrong. Maybe you do know where it went wrong. The pain was still the same.

Keifer commented: "I'm sure some songs I write, people relate to more than others. Probably ones we call hits, right?"

The song was recorded at Bearsville Studios in the rolling hills west of Woodstock, New York. Bands often recorded here so they could reflect and get away from it all. Tom Keifer's lyrics of sorrow and forgiveness are accompanied by soaring minor guitar chords, the chords of sadness. Envision inside your mind the beautiful countryside as a painted background surrounding the band as they recorded this beautiful ballad that stirred our emotions on a personal level.

This song was featured in the 2008 film The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke. It was also used in a 2003 episode of South Park.

credit: songfacts.com

Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones 

You can't always get what you want

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Paranoid (Black Sabbath)

• "Paranoid" is consistently ranked as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time.
• It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also topped the German Singles Chart.
• "Paranoid" was the first Black Sabbath single release, coming six months after their debut album was released.
• Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler (from Guitar World magazine, March 2004):  A lot of the "Paranoid" album was written around the time of our first album,"Black Sabbath". We recorded the whole thing in about 2 or 3 days, live in the studio. The song "Paranoid" was written as an afterthought. We basically needed a 3 minute filler for the album, and Tony came up with the riff. I quickly did the lyrics, and Ozzy was reading them as he was singing.
• The song focuses on a paranoid man and the theme of paranoia, with the driving guitar and bass creating a nervous energy to go along with Butler's lyrics. 
• Paranoid was also used as the name of the album, and somewhat unusually, the word paranoid is never mentioned in the lyrics.
• Originally the band had wanted to call the album "War Pigs" after the song of the same name, but the record company persuaded them to use Paranoid instead because it was less offensive.
• The band waited two years before releasing their second single, "Iron Man", because they did not want to become a "singles band", with kids coming to their show just to hear their hits. This also ensured that fans would buy the albums instead of individual singles.
• In his book Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi stated he and Ozzy probably had no idea what the word "paranoid" even meant at that time. They left the lyrics to bassist Geezer Butler, whom they considered "the intelligent one".
• The band also famously performed the song on Top of the Pops in 1970. In 2002 Ozzy, Iommi, Phil Collins, and Pino Palladino (of The Who) played this song in Buckingham Palace during the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
• "Paranoid" was ranked No. 34 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 11 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Rolling Stone ranked it number 250 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and called the song, "a two-minute blast of protopunk". Johnny Rotten, ex frontman of Sex Pistols, described the song as "one of the world's greatest ever singles".
• The original Black Sabbath recording has been used numerous times in various films and television shows including Sid & Nancy, Dazed and Confused, The Stoned Age, Any Given Sunday, Almost Famous, and We Are Marshall. The song was used in the Sega Mega Drive game Rock n' Roll Racing in 1993.

2CELLOS - Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

So you think you've seen it all?

Okay.....

Time to get thunderstruck!!!
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Facts:

Have you seen these guys play. They are 2cellos.

2Cellos is a Croatian cello duo, consisting of Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 12 April 2011, the two were discovered after uploading a music video of their cello-only cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" to YouTube.

2Cellos is currently signed to record label, Sony Masterworks and have released two albums.
-2Cellos (2011)
-In2ition (2013)

Starting with the Best

Starting with the greatest song in the history. Led Zeppelin... ladies and gentlemen

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