Creep

Radiohead are an English rock band that formed in Oxfordshire in 1986. The band’s lineup, which has remained the same since its inception, consists of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway.

Radiohead released their first single, “Creep”, in 1992, followed by their debut album Pablo Honey (1993). Although initially unsuccessful, the song became a worldwide hit when it was re-issued a year later. The band’s popularity in the United Kingdom increased with their second album, The Bends (1995). With dense guitar atmospheres and Yorke’s expressive falsetto singing, the album was warmly received by music critics. Radiohead’s third album propelled them to even greater attention. Featuring an expansive sound and themes of modern alienation, OK Computer (1997) was acclaimed worldwide, and has often been named a landmark record of the 1990s

Kryptonite

3 Doors Down is an American alternative rock band formed in Escatawpa, Mississippi in 1994 by Brad Arnold (vocals and drums), Matt Roberts (guitar) and Todd Harrell (bass). The band signed to Universal Records after the success of their song “Kryptonite”. The band has since sold well over 12 million albums since their debut album, The Better Life, was released in 2000. They also perform more than 300 concerts a year and have performed with other well-known artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Staind on several occasions.band history

I Miss You (live)

Blink-182 was a United States rock trio who played pop punk and punk rock music. The band was originally formed in 1992 by Tom DeLonge (vocals and guitar) who quickly recruited Mark Hoppus (vocals and bass) and Scott Raynor (drums) in Poway, California, a northern suburb of San Diego. Originally, the band’s official name was “Blink”, however, the numerical three digit suffix was appended early in their career following an objection from an Irish band with the same name. Travis Barker replaced Raynor on drums in 1998, midway through a U.S. tour. The group effectively broke up in early 2005, portraying it as an “indefinite hiatus”. DeLonge went on to play a different style of music in a band called Angels and Airwaves, while Hoppus and Barker continued in a similar genre with their band +44.

Blink 182 was known for their catchy, simple melodies and lyrical toilet humor. Songwriters Hoppus and DeLonge cite punk rock bands such as The Descendents and Screeching Weasel as their early influences, however, the band’s songwriting and production was driven by a pop sensibility. Their last album featured more musical experimentation and lyrical sophistication than previous releases.

1979

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“1979″ is an alternative rock song written by Billy Corgan from The Smashing Pumpkins and was the second single from their 1995 third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The song was nominated for the Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video. The song is the highest-charting single of the band’s career, and one of their most well-known songs. According to Corgan, the song is about making the transition from youth to adulthood.

The band took a rather uncharacteristic approach to the song, featuring for the first time loops and samples, with Corgan calling it “not the typical Pumpkins song.” Despite the song’s unconventional style, it was popular with critics and fans, becoming a “somewhat surprising hit.” It proved so popular that it later spawned a second single, “The 1979 Mixes”, featuring remixes of the song. The 1979 single would later be part of the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, and the song would appear on the greatest hits album Rotten Apples.

1979 was the first Smashing Pumpkins song with electronic influences. The release of “1979″, and the later soundtrack songs “The End Is the Beginning Is the End” and “Eye,” foreshadowed the almost exclusively electronic follow-up to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Adore. As James Iha said in 1996, “The future is in electronic music. It really seems boring just to play rock music.”

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Black

Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. The band’s original line-up consisted of Eddie Vedder (lead vocals), Jeff Ament (bass), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Dave Krusen (drums). The band’s current drummer is Matt Cameron, formerly of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.

Formed after the demise of Ament and Gossard’s previous band Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album Ten. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, Pearl Jam was nevertheless criticized early on as being a corporate cash-in on the alternative rock explosion. However, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices as their career progressed, including refusing to make music videos and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. Rolling Stone described the band as having “spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame.”

Pearl Jam was the most popular American rock band of the 1990s. Since its inception, the band has sold 30 million records in the U.S.,and an estimated 60 million albums worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. Pearl Jam continues to generate hit albums, tour successfully, and garner critical acclaim into the 21st century.

One Last Breath

Creed originally came together in Tallahassee, Florida in 1995 as Naked Toddler when Scott Stapp and guitarist Mark Tremonti, former high school friends, got together and started writing songs. They soon added bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips. Brian Marshall came up with the band name “Creed”, taken from the name of his former band, Mattox Creed.

They then found work at a live music bar, where they impressed owner Jeff Hanson enough to let them play at one of his bigger venues known as Floyd’s Music Store on the Tennessee Street Strip in Tallahassee. Hanson liked the band so much that he convinced producer John Kurzweg to produce the band.

Love me like

By : Faith Cuneta

Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, with bassist John Deacon joining the following year. Queen rose to prominence during the 1970s and are one of Britain’s most successful bands of the past three decades.

The band is noted for its musical diversity, multi-layered arrangements, vocal harmonies and incorporation of audience participation into their live performances. They are regarded as one of the most accomplished rock acts to ever be on stage.

Queen had moderate success in the early 1970s, with the albums Queen and Queen II, but it was with the release of Sheer Heart Attack in 1974 and A Night at the Opera the following year that the band gained international success. From that album forward, all of the band’s studio albums reached number one on numerous charts around the world. Since 1973, they have released fifteen studio albums, five live albums, and numerous compilation albums and are claimed to have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide,including more than 35.5 million in the United States alone (as of 2004),making them one of the world’s best-selling music artists.

Following Mercury’s death and Deacon’s retirement in the 1990s,May and Taylor collaborated with Paul Rodgers, under the moniker Queen + Paul Rodgers.

Thank You

“Thank You” was the second single by Dido, which was released in June 2001. It is the singer’s biggest hit off her debut album, No Angel. Samples from the track were featured on the song “Stan” by Eminem; a rare example of a song becoming a hit after a track which sampled it did.

Dido recorded a music video for her song “Thank You”. In the video, Dido hasn’t paid her bills, and the government comes to tear down her house. The construction workers put an eviction notice on her door and move her things out. Dido, who is partly oblivious to the fact that her house has been barricaded, is simply singing the song. In the end, she is escorted out of her home and is forced to walk the streets with a backpack and suitcases in tow.

The end of the video implies that her house is being torn down because it was built before the big city district was built (her home is sandwiched between two large skyscrapers).

I REMEMBER YOU

Skid Row is an American heavy metal band which became the glam metal prototypes of the late 1980s metal scene and were successful until they were eclipsed by the Seattle grunge bands in 1991.

As of 2007, Skid Row has released five full-length albums, an EP, a compilation album and a live recording. The band became popular with their first two albums, Skid Row (1989) and Slave to the Grind (1991), which are often considered their best known works to date. Their last full-length album, Revolutions Per Minute, came out on October 24, 2006. The group has sold 20 million albums worldwide, according to then-singer Sebastian Bach.

They are often associated with glam metal, partly due to their appearance and their sound on their debut album, Skid Row, which spawned the hits “18 and Life”, “Youth Gone Wild”, and “I Remember You” for the band.

They would eventually go on to make music more akin to thrash metal with hard rock leanings. The band bought the name Skid Row from Gary Moore’s first band Skid Row.

I LOVE YOU

SAIGON KICK :

The line-up of the band on their first two albums was lead vocalist Matt Kramer, guitarist Jason Bieler, bassist Tom Defile, and drummer Phil Varone. After their second album, The Lizard, Matt Kramer and Tom Defile left the band, and Jason Bieler took up lead vocals as well as guitar for 1993’s Water. Their biggest hit single was “Love Is On The Way”, whose video was in the top 10 MTV countdown for many weeks.

Tom Defile went on to the band Left For Dead, and was replaced by ex-Cold Sweat bassist Chris McLernon as The Lizard hit the stores. They toured from summer 1992 to spring 1993, enjoying gold status sales for The Lizard. They then headed to Sweden to record the follow-up, Water, where Kramer quit the band in mid-recording. The band carried on, finishing in Tampa, Florida.

Screams-n-Dreams guitarist Pete Dembrowski joined the band for their fall 1993 Water tour and performed on the band’s fourth album, Devil in the Details. The band toured to large success globally in 1994, ‘95 and ‘96, but Saigon Kick died on the vine in their home country, the USA. Pete Dembrowski was also reported to have “spray shat” on a fellow band member during the 1993 tour, as part of a running flatualatory joke. Cosequenstially, the bus driver of said tour had allegedly stated, “You just don’t [defacate] on people!”

In July 1997, the band, with Kramer added but Varone replaced by future Super TransAtlantic drummer Ricky Sanders, tried an ill-advised reunion and imploded after two shows.

November Rain

Guns N’ Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band has sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide, including 39 million in the United States.Their 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, sold over 26 million copies worldwide and reached #1 in the United States.

The band’s musical style, onstage presence and bad boy rock image helped usher in a new era of the dominant hard rock and heavy metal scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. While glam metal was the leading genre in record sales, video charts and radio airplay, Guns N’ Roses offered a grittier, more traditional take on rock music, and won many fans who admired their apparent authenticity.

The band enjoyed worldwide success from 1988 to 1993, but clashing personalities of different band members led to the end of the core lineup. Today, frontman Axl Rose is the only original member left in the current Guns N’ Roses line-up, having served as lead singer for twenty-two years since 1985.

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Rise to fame ( appetite for destruction to use your illusion I & II )

Blaze of Glory

Bon Jovi is a hard rock band originating from Sayreville, New Jersey. Fronted by lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi, the group originally achieved large-scale success in the 1980s. The band has continued its success as one of the world’s most successful rock acts throughout the 1990s and 2000s, selling more than 37 million albums in the United States[citation needed] and over 120 million albums worldwide.[citation needed]

They have also won a Grammy for best Country Collaboration for “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with Jennifer Nettles from Sugarland. They have also been nominated twice for the smash hit “It’s My Life” and two songs from the album Bounce, “Misunderstood” and “Everyday”.

Their numerous hits include: “You Give Love a Bad Name”, “Livin’ on a Prayer”, “Wanted Dead or Alive”, “Bad Medicine”, “I’ll Be There for You”, “Blaze of Glory” (Jon Bon Jovi), “Keep the Faith”, “Bed of Roses”, “In These Arms” “Always”, “This Ain’t a Love Song”, “It’s My Life”, “Everyday”, “Have a Nice Day”, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” and 2007’s “(You Want to) Make a Memory”.

Hotel California (live)

Eagles (commonly referred to as “The Eagles”) are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. With five number-one singles and four number-one albums, the Eagles were among the most successful recording artists of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 and Hotel California, ranked among the ten best-selling albums according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The best-selling studio album Hotel California is rated as the 37th album in the Rolling Stone list “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”, and the band was ranked #75 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. They are also the best-selling American group ever, with Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 being the best-selling album in the U.S. to date. The Eagles also provided the theme tune for The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, with a song called Journey of the Sorcerer.

The Eagles broke up in 1980 and were disbanded for 14 years, but reunited in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over (“For the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourteen year vacation.”). They have toured intermittently since then, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

On June 8, 2007, Don Henley announced at a concert that a new album, Long Road Out of Eden, would be out on October 30, 2007. This will be the first full studio album by the band in 28 years (1994’s Hell Freezes Over was a mix of live and new studio tracks). The Eagles are also planning a tour throughout 2008 after the release of this album.

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in September 1968. Led Zeppelin consisted of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal bands. Their rock-infused interpretation of the blues also incorporated rockabilly,reggae,soul,funk,jazz,classical, Celtic, Indian, Arabic, folk, pop, Latin, and country. The band did not release the popular songs from their albums as singles in Britain, as they preferred to develop the concept of album-oriented rock.

Over 25 years after disbanding following Bonham’s 1980 death, Led Zeppelin continue to be held in high regard for their artistic achievements, commercial success, and broad influence. The band have sold more than 300 million albums worldwide,including 109.5 million sales in the United States, and they are the only band to have had all their albums reach the U.S. Billboard Top 10. Led Zeppelin are ranked No. 1 on VH1’s list of the 100 greatest artists of hard rock.

On September 12, 2007, it was confirmed during a press conference by promoter Harvey Goldsmith that the surviving members of Led Zeppelin will reunite for the Ahmet Ertegun tribute show at The O2 in London on 26 November 2007.

Every rose has its torn

Poison began life in 1984 under the name “Paris” and consisted of lead vocalist Bret Michaels, guitarist Matt Smith, bassist Bobby Dall, and drummer Rikki Rockett. Moving to Los Angeles in 1985, they started playing the club circuit. The name Poison was picked by the band after a T-shirt worn by drummer Mick Shrimpton in This is Spinal Tap, as the band knew that they fit the stereotypes of rock stars in the movie. When asked why they were named Paris, all the members said in unison, “Une prostituee Francaise suggere le nom,” roughly translating to “A French prostitute suggested the name.”

Smith, who was about to father a child and was concerned about the band’s future, returned to Pennsylvania. The band began auditioning replacement guitarists when Smith left the group. After narrowing down the candidates to three – Slash, who would later join Guns N’ Roses, Steve Silva from The Joe Perry Project, and C.C. DeVille – the band eventually agreed that DeVille’s “fire” made him the best choice.

The band began to gain notoriety on the Sunset Strip for its theatrical live shows and striking “glam” image. Without money for effects, they would fill the stage with old Harleys and car parts, blow up car fuses and pour confetti onto themselves from boxes in the ceiling. The band’s live antics were, however, widely considered to have been copied from the band Kix

During this period, Poison’s manager negotiated a deal under which West Hollywood club The Troubadour would pay for shows by covering the band’s monthly rent and “recreation” bill. Ultimately, the shows drew sufficient crowds to enable the band to make a profit from them