Music: January 31 2013

This is a power ballad from 1988, and came from the band’s 1987 début studio album. It hit the top slot of the  Billboard Hot 100 Chart becoming the bands first and only US number one. It reached number six in the UK Singles Chart when it was re-released the following year. The lead guitarist is reported as hating the track as it was just an exercise at the time, but the lead singer heard it and wrote a song for it in five minutes. “The thing about [this song] it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick [the lead guitarist] does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, ‘What is this song? It’s gonna be nothing, it’ll be filler on the record.’ And except that vocal-wise, it’s very sweet and sincere, [the lead guitarist] was just f**kin’ around when he first wrote that lick”. It is number 37 of Guitar World’s list of “100 Great Guitar Solos”, it placed number three of Blender’s “500 Greatest Songs Since you Were Born”, Rolling Stones magazine had it at number 198 of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in 2005, Q had it at number 6 of the 100 greatest guitar tracks. It is in the movies Bad Dreams, The Wrestler, Step Brothers, State of Grace, and in the trailer for Last House on the Left. In 1999, it was covered by a female singer who won a  Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for it.

Guns n Roses – Sweet Child o’ Mine

Music: January 26 2013

This track was released in 2008 and was the theme song to a multi-million dollar film. It is one of the biggest grossing films of the year, and part of a series that has just finished in the cinemas.  The film is about a girl caught in a love triangle with both men harbouring a secret. The soundtrack included artists like Muse, Linkin Park, Collective Soul and The Black Ghosts. The film also has an actor from one of the Harry Potter films. Actors in the film include Michael Welch, Anna Kendrick, Gil Birmingham, Sarah Clarke, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Matt Bushell, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Stewart, Christian Serratos, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Robert Pattinson, Peter Facinelli as well as Edi Gathegi, Elizabeth Reaser, Stephenie Meyer and Catherine Grimme. The film of course is Twilight.

Paramore – Decode

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Music: January 22 2013

This track came from a film in 1995. The only reason I watched the film in the first place was because it has Michelle Pfeiffer in it. The singer was awarded a Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance, two MTV Video Music Award‘s for Best Rap Video and for Best Video from a Film and a Billboard Music Award for the song/album. The film is based on a book – My Posse Don’t Do Homework by former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson. The marine takes on the role as a teacher at a school, only to find that the students are not the normal run of the mill students from a normal run of the mill school. These students are all underprivileged students who are in trouble with gangs and the police. Johnson takes on a new approach and gives the students all an A grade at the beginning of the year and tries to get them to keep it by having them poetry starting from Bob Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man, before progressing to Dylan Thomas. However the school authorities don’t go much on her methods. The film stars Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Richard Grant, Wade Dominguez, Lorraine Toussaint, Beatrice Winde as well as many others. The film is Dangerous Minds

Coolio featuring L.V.. – Gangstas Paradise

Dangerous Minds TRAILER

Stars Wander

Penny – The Why About This – put on a post yesterday in a new series she is doing with elements and emotions. Penny decided to use a track – They Call The Wind Maria from Paint Your Wagon. So I just HAD to put on my favourite song from that film. Hearing Lee Marvin singing with his baritone voice was haunting. Hope you enjoy Wandering Star as much as I do.