Friday, November 21, 2008

"Edge of 17"


This is a song by American Singer Steve Nicks the third single from her successful 1981 solo debut album Bella Donna. Written by Nicks to express the grief resulting from the death of her uncle Jonathan and the murder of John Lennon during the same week of December 1980, the song features a distinctive, chugging 16th-note guitar riff, and a simple chord structure typical of Nick’s songs. The album track had previously made the Top 5 of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in 1981, peaking at number four It is one of Nicks' most enduring and recognizable songs, and has been covered by many artists. The distinctive riff was sampled by destiny's child in their song bootylicious, with Nicks in a cameo appearance in the music video. Nicks herself also played the introductory guitar riff for "Bootylicious" The song is featured in

the movie School Of Rock with Jack Black.


"Sweet child of mine"


American woman originally recorded by the Hard Rock group Band The Guns N Roses. The song was on their first album Appetite for Destruction in 1987. The song Sweet child of mine is the only to date number one single that they had released it has spent 2 weeks on the billboard hot 100 at #1. In 1999 had made solo artist Sheryl Crow won a Grammy with the cover of that song which was the theme song of the movie Big Daddy. The Sheryl version sound more acoustic than the Guns N Roses one.





“I Shot The Sheriff”

I shot the sheriff is a world-shattering song written by the Reggae legend Bob Marley, in 1973 for the Wailers album “Burnin”. Eric Clapton did a cover version the next year according to his "461 Ocean Boulevard" album in fact that was the most successful version of the song, it did reached #1 place on Billboard Charts.


"ALONE"
Composed by a Rock band from Seattle USA, the lead singers of the band were Nancy and Ann two sister during their career they had sold over 30 million album worldwide. One of their very popular hit was in 1987 “alone” appears on the ninth Heart album “taking a cold look” it was the most successful single in the United Kingdom. Exactly 20 years later Celine Dion covered it for her album Taking Chances. The sound is very different from both version Celine Dion interpreted it more like a ballade comparing to Heart where we can really feel the hard rock vibe. Celine Dion reached the billboard chart at the third position for that second single of the album.

"Ain't No Sunshine"

A song by Billy Withers from his 1971 album Just as Iam . The song was released as a single in 1971 and became a breakthrough hit for Billy, reaching number six on the r&b chart. He originally intended to write more lyrics for the part of the song where he repeats the phrase "I know 26 times, but the other musicians told him to leave it. “Ain’t no sunshine” is the song who was been the most covering over the past 20 years over 100 different artist covered it during a show interview TV special or others but it never been re-re-covered in a studio as a cover. On the other it has been sampled by famous Rapper DMX in 2001 the song was released for his movie Exit wonders it has been a good success for a new rap artist. The piano use is picked from the original version as well as some repetition of “Ain’t no sunshine” and “I know” less repeated then the Billy version. The song has also been translated into German by songwriter Lukas Hilbert; this version, entitled "Mein Tag, Mein Licht".

























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