65 Songs You Will Never Be Able To Listen To The Same Way Again

[JulesMaximus]

Adams might say that, but Vallance, his co-author, doesn't agree

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2759

Kind of funny he says that because Bryan Adams would have been all of 10 years old in 1969. :whiste:

 

[nageov3t]

Eh, I'd prefer MJ and Prince over MJ and Madonna. But, I was never a huge fan of the material girl.


Also, '4. ALSO “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is a cover by some dude. The original is by a guy named Robert Hazard.' puzzles me. Are they not aware it is Cyndi Lauper?

Robert Hazard is the credited writer and recorded his own version in 1979; don't know if he ever commercially released it, though.

I don't think it's considered a cover since Lauper changed the lyrics around (as it was originally written from a male POV)... though Hazard is still the credited writer and probably was the one to profit from the song (like Dolly Parton and "I Will Always Love You")

 

[Pheran]

#11 (Only the Good Die Young) should be blatantly obvious to anyone who's listened to the lyrics. Seriously, this is supposed to be a revelation?

 

[smackababy]

Robert Hazard is the credited writer and recorded his own version in 1979; don't know if he ever commercially released it, though.

I don't think it's considered a cover since Lauper changed the lyrics around (as it was originally written from a male POV)... though Hazard is still the credited writer and probably was the one to profit from the song (like Dolly Parton and "I Will Always Love You")

I am just puzzled by the "is a cover by some dude". What dude? Cyndi Lauper is the only person I know of that covered that song, and even if thousands of others have, whose ever heard of them?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

58. Usher’s “Burn” is about Chilli from TLC.

That one is pretty obvious if you ever watched the music video.

 

[SirStev0]

Adams might say that, but Vallance, his co-author, doesn't agree

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2759

Well Bryan Adams was 9 in the Summer of '69... sooo I am going to say he wasn't doing any of those things.
That was always the take home message for me.
Convo per my Imagination:
Adams: Lololol lets call it the summer of "69" lollololol
Vallance: /old man nostalgia. Yeah let's.

 

[SamQuint]

42. “You Oughta Know” by Alanis Morissette is about Dave Coulier (from Full House).


The former Full House star claims he isn't 'Mr Duplicity'

It’s a legendary anthem that expresses the full vitriol of someone who has been dumped, but former Full House star Dave Coulier is now insisting that Alanis Morissette’s Grammy winning ‘You Oughta Know’ isn’t about him.

“First of all, the guy in that song is a real a-hole, so I don’t want to be that guy,” Coulier told Buzzfeed in a recent interview. “Secondly, I asked Alanis and she said ‘Well, you know, it could be a bunch of people.’”

But, as People magazine notes, Coulier has taken the credit in the past as being the inspiration, saying, “I listened to the song over and over again and I said ‘I think I have really hurt this person.’”

 

[lupi]

Skimmed over list. Zero impact found on song listening ability.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

32. Bruce Springsteen wrote “Blinded by the Light.”

and it is INFINITELY better than the cover version by Manfred Mann.

 

[SamQuint]

The one abut Tutti Fruitti might be true

http://www.shmoop.com/tutti-frutti-little-richard/meaning.html

 

[BUTCH1]

and it is INFINITELY better than the cover version by Manfred Mann.

AOR (album orientated rock) overplayed the living shit out of MM's version which kinda ruined it. I really think that MM had a lot of respect for Springsteen though, they also covered " I came for you" and it's done very well IMO, they pumped a lot of energy into the song which sounds kinda flat when Bruce recorded it for the "Asbury Park" album..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfnQ1iv_lGo

 

[Ns1]

19. “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It” was written by Nas.

Wow if true.

 

[smackababy]

Wow if true.

According to Nas, it isn't. He said this during an AMA on reddit, "Alright, let's clear this up once and for all. I hung out with Will in the studio. And watched him write it. It was a fun studio session, and I said a line or two or three to him. It wasn't that serious. Will Smith wrote that song. But seriously, I watched him have fun making that record on his own, and Will is a true MC."

 

[Perknose]

66. The song, "The Star Spangled Banner" was about Francis Scott "Off" Key's cock. It was originally entitled "The Star Spangled Banger." The clues to this are profuse in his first draft lyrics: "My rockets red glare", "Bursting in air", "O say does my star-spangled banger yet wave", not to mention, "So gallantly creaming."

 

[Atomic Playboy]

47. The song “Hey Ya” by Outkast is actually about a man stuck in a loveless relationship.

I didn't feel like reading an entire list, so I went to one random "fact," and it happened to be this. Now, I have to say, the only people who don't know that "Hey Ya" is about someone in a loveless relationship are people who have never heard the song. "If they say 'nothing lasts forever' then what makes love the exception? Why are we so in denial when we know we're not happy here?" Can't make heads nor tails of that dense symbolism! Do they have a "fact" that "Last Kiss" is about someone dying in a car crash? Oh, hey, did you know that "Closer" is about someone who wants to fuck you like an animal? It's true!

What an appallingly stupid list. Or at least that entry was. Couldn't be bothered with the rest of it.