Most of you have heard the term (and also likely used it) “bubblegum music.” But do you know what that specifically refers to. This video looks at the golden age of bubblegum music, from 1966 to 1970. But its a song genre that continues to this day, if you know what to look for. Here’s more from the YouTube Description: Bubblegum music is typically defined using two sets of criteria…
Boston exploded on the scene in 1976 with its self-titled debut album. But what happened after that? Here’s more from the YouTube Description: Tom Scholz was the mastermind behind Boston. An MIT alumni and following graduation he would end up getting a job with Polaroid working as a product design engineer. Apart from tinkering with electronics, he also was into music, having played in a series of bands in the…
How moved were you by music back in the day? Enough to make your own video of top song, like Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind”? If you were, you were likely the teen who made this 8MM movie, somewhere in rural America. And not just any movie, one that shows a literal translation of the lyrics “all we are is dust in the wind” by having actors simply vanish into…
Has there ever been a more popular song that few people really understood the words to? In fact, the lyrics for “Louie Louie” by the Kingsman are so hard to understand that FBI launched a TWO YEAR investigation into whether the lyrics were obscene or not. On May 17, 1965–more than two years after the song was released–the investigation ends and can was summed up this way: Responding to complaints…
One of the strangest, and most iconic, music videos of the early MTV era was Styx video for “Too Much Time on My Hands.” The song is the second single released from Styx’s 1981 triple-platinum album Paradise Theatre. and was written and sung by Tommy Shaw, who also plays the lead guitar solo during the break in the song. According to some reports, the inspiration for its lyrics came from Shaw’s…
If you grew up in the 70’s you could not miss the incredible voice of singer/songwriter Jackson Browne, who had a string of classic hits including “Running on Empty”, “Take It Easy”, “Somebody’s Baby” and, of course, his 1972 smash “Doctor My Eyes.” But while looking up a great LIVE version of JB performing that song, I came across something I didn’t expect: a cover of the song by none other…
Ever wonder where the idea for some hit tunes come from? Like The Knack’s 1979 hit “My Sharona?” Well, if you believe this video, it was named after a 17-year-old girl who lead singer Doug Fieger, then 25, had just met … even though he already had a girlfriend, but was still so obsessed he wrote a song about her! I’ll let the video tell the rest of the story–and…
Van Halen has always been know as a “guitar group” but how unmistakable is the opening synthesizer portion of “Jump?” I mean, you could “name that tune” after the first chord, couldn’t you? William Kurk not onl takes you through ALL the tips and tricks VH used to create this unique sound, but how to play it yourself, if you so desire. Here’s more from his article at Reverb.com: Given…