This song is by Alice in Chains. It is such a great song and a great album.Layne Staley was an amazing vocalist and performer! ’ve read that Layne wrote this song about his Dad and how he used to punish him when he was naughty by making him sit on a timeout chair in front of a mirror. It’s quite weird for my taste. It can drive a kid crazy. Anyway back to my stupid teenage days stories. My friend and I came back one day from our road adventures and we were hitchhiking in the middle of the night. The only car that stopped was a car driven by 3 guys in their middle 20’s after a night out. It was the only car on the road and we were very cold and dying to get home already and of course back then we were quite brainless. As we got into the car the guy sitting next to us started touching us and he was making signs to his friends and then it clicked – if we won’t get out of the car we might be the next rape victims. Both my friend and I were very scared. My friend was sitting next to the car’s door, I sat in the middle. My friend screamed at the driver “stop the car! “ the driver got confused at the same time his friend told him not to stop. The driver was slowing down but still kept going. My friend looked at me and whispered “I’m going to jump now and you’ll jump straight after me”. The driver was going maybe 70km and my friend opened the door and rolled on the ground, I’ve joined her a few seconds after. That was quite a scary experience; luckily there were no other cars on the road. Nothing happened to us, just a few bruises but nothing serious. It was so scary and I couldn’t believe that my fragile skinny friend would just jump out of a moving car. We felt like we were part of a shitty action movie and it was just crazy! Of course we didn’t learn any lesson from this experience as well. As I’ve mentioned before we didn’t use our brain that often back then. Check out this amazing song…
Link to my previous post on Alice in Chains: Them Bones
What’s this song about? The song was one of the few written entirely by vocalist Layne Staley for the band. In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, guitarist Jerry Cantrell said of the song:Such a brilliant song. I'm very proud of Layne for writing it. When I've stepped up vocally in the past he's been so supportive, and here was a fine example of him stepping up with the guitar and writing a masterpiece. (Wikipedia – Angry Chair)
This is another song by Seether. It’s from my favourite Seether album. I love it very much , I listen to it over and over again. This is a great song, I’m actually learning to play it on my beautiful electric guitar. It’s quite hard! My Hubby is on his way home, it’s been the longest 8 days ever! I’m so happy to see him again. He bought us an angry bird stuffed doll for our leaving room because I’ve asked for a stuffed doll from America; it will go well with the rest of our cushion collection! It’s definitely the right choice to get me the angry bird since I am myself kind of an angry bird; I’m quite a moody person .It doe’s spice up my life but make other people quite annoyed. Oh well no one’s perfect! Anyway I want my hubby back and I’m hoping that this is his last business trip without me, next time I’m definitely joining him. It’s just really boring without him and it’s no fun to play the guitar all by myself … so have a safe flight my love and I’ll see you soon. Check out another wonderful song by Seether.
This song is by Cold. It’s a beautiful song that was written about Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley, Two Grunge legends that have died in a really young age, Layne was only 34 when he died and Kurt was 27 years old. Kurt Cobain has committed suicide on the 05th of April 1994 and Layne Staley has died from overdose on the 05th of April 2002. It is quite bizarre that both Seattle legends died at the same day April 05th. Anyway, it was a huge loss for the music industry, both were drug addict and that’s what led to their death eventually. The lyrics of this song are really sad and they have mentioned “angry chair” a song that was written by Layne Staley about his father. This is my favourite line: “you sat in your angry chair and just tried to be you, the needle became your queen, the drug had become your enemy and music was just a way for you to bleed…” When I was about 17 years old, I had a crush on a boy from my town that was older than me in 3 years. He wasn’t interested in anything serious, in fact he was quite a player, he was dating me and another girl at the same time. I admired him completely and thought that he was a very strong person he made me laugh and it was fun to be around him, at some point I realized that nothing will come out of it and I walked away. He always spoke about his future plans, he was very ambitious and very popular, and everyone in my town knew him and respected him. When he reached 21 he moved to a new city and he was trying to find his way in the world. A year after, he committed suicide, he hanged himself in the hotel that he was working as a security guard, apparently he started to hang out with the wrong crowd and he was taking drugs and he realized that he is not achieving the goals that he set up for himself and he fell into big depression. One of his goals was to buy his mum a house and to be able to provide for her, a promise that he made to her after his Dad died. It was quite a sad story. I was very surprised to hear that he took his own life as I always believed he had such a strong personality. Sometimes you think you know people and they do the unexpected thing, I was totally confused after his death. Anyway, check out this awesome song about two great people that are not with us anymore… Link to the song:Cold – The Day Seattle Died
What’s this song about? Cold's song "The Day Seattle Died" (from the 2003 album, Year of the Spider) was an ode to Staley, as well as Kurt Cobain, who were both figureheads of the grunge movement (Wikipedia – Layne Staley)
This song is by The Wombats. It’s a cool song about Joy Division’s wonderful song Love will tear us apart. This song is like those Russian dolls, a song inside a song inside a song …or maybe not! I’ve read something quite funny on the news not long ago. A 10 years old girl from Britain brought a bag of cocaine to school thinking it’s a bag filled with candy and she was generous enough to share it with her class mates. Luckily the teacher notices the suspicious bag that the girl was holding and confiscated it before any of the kids could reach it. The teacher rang the police and they have raided the girl’s house. Apparently the dad was a serious drug dealer. I found this story very entertaining. My conclusion from this story is “sometimes working from home is not the best option…” this story reminds me of how I told on my mum without even realizing what I was saying. I was maybe 5 years old and I had a really nice twin friends and mum used to drop me off at their house in the afternoons. The thing is, my mum couldn’t stand their mum and she always said horrible things behind her back to my dad. Of course I’ve absorbed everything and one day I told my friend’s mum “I don’t know why my mum hates you, you are such a nice lady…” the woman got offended and confronted my mum. My mum of course had to make up a story so she can get away with it. My mum always reminds me of how I embarrassed her in front of that lady. It’s amazing how honest we are as kids and then we become more and more false as we grow old. Anyway, check out this wonderful song…
What’s this song about? It is based on a drunken night when lead singer Matthew Murphy danced on a table with his girlfriend to "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, and the cover art references that single's art. (Wikipedia – let’s dance to joy division)
This song is by Alter Bridge, This is such a cool song. This is one of their most famous songs, their lead singer Myles Kennedy is featured in Slash’s solo album. He sings “Back from Cali” which is a very good song as well.
This song is about making the world a better place. I don’t really have stories about saving babies from fire or world changing stories but I did have experiences that definitely changed my world. Two of my girlfriend’s and I were catching a ride with a truck driver from a city that was very far from where I lived. We had to get home as soon as possible since our parents were expecting us. What we didn’t know is that the truck driver was a complete nut case and he had a really bad day and wanted to torture us for it. We drove with him for about 4 hours and then he asked us to join him to a supermarket for unloading his merchandise. We agreed to join with a promise that he will drop us off straight after. When he got to the supermarket he had a huge fight with the owner of the supermarket and he started screaming and threatening to kill him. At this point we were very scared. He closed the truck door and he wouldn’t let us out. When he drove away we asked him to drop us off in the next intersection but he refused and said “you are not going anywhere…” he continued to a few different places and locked up the doors and we couldn’t go out , we also couldn’t speak to anyone because he was always around. At some point he got hungry and he made join him for lunch. Of course we couldn’t eat anything because we were terrified. The whole ride lasted about 8 hours. He stopped at 4 different places. Back then there were no mobile phones so we couldn’t phone anyone. At some point one of my girlfriends started panicking and couldn’t stop crying, she begged him to stop the truck and let us go. Eventually he did let us go. We hitchhiked our way home and we were pretty traumatized by this experience. We were very tired and very weak. This experience didn’t stop us from hitchhiking and I cannot say that this horrific experience was the last scary hitchhiking experience we had. We definitely haven’t learned anything from it. Because the next day we were lifting our hand again, and found ourselves in another phsyco’s car and that was the essence of my teenage years… check out this awesome song…
What’s this song about? The song is about making the world a better place ("I want to rise today/And change this world") and raises the question "Was the enemy just your brother all along?" Lyrically, it is one of the band's most uplifting songs.
This next song is by Drowning Pool, discovered by my Hubby and definitely deserves a spot on my blog!!!Their lead singer Dave Williams died in 2002 from a heart disease. It’s quite sad when talents go to waste. I’m not sure what this song is about but I’ve noticed that they keep repeating the following line: “I don’t care about anyone else but me…” it’s probably about a very selfish person! Speaking of being selfish, it’s what kept me alive during my army service. This was part of my survival kit. I didn’t really have a choice. When I reached the age of 18, I had to join the army. It is compulsory in my country. They make you wear unflattering uniform in a disgusting color, learn how to use a rifle and of course obey orders from people that you would never respect outside of the army. Yes, it sucks! It was quite hard for someone as spoiled as me that doesn’t like to listen to anyone but herself and don’t like to be told what to do. It was a struggle. I have plenty of stories of how I’ve managed to survive and I will tell you all about my experiences. I think the main thing that I’ve learned from the army is to manipulate my ways to everything. I have to say that I’ve tried using the same tricks outside of the army and it definitely didn’t work! I miss the army days , It was the first time I had to manage on my own without my parents to save my ass, If I got into trouble and of course I did , I had to bear the consequences and let me tell you – it wasn’t easy ! But what doesn’t kill you definitely makes you stronger …anyway check out this awesome song…
This song is by Motley Crue. I think this one of their best songs. My Hubby went away for a 10 days business trip to America and I’m quite sad without him. The house is so empty without him and even though I keep myself busy with my girlfriend, shopping, eating out, watching TV and playing my guitar it is definitely not the same without him. I hope my hubby is having fun in the land of the free and the rest of the bullshit . I will be here waiting for his return to our home sweet home…check out Tommy Lee’s amazing performance on the Keyboard and the amazing guitar solo by Mick Mars on the live video, still sounds awesome after 25 years!
This next song is by Hole. The band was founded by Courtney Love. They had a few good songs. Of course I had to post them on my website because they were part of the Grunge movement which I love very much and also Courtney Love was Kurt Cobain’s wife so she deserves some respect! Love wrote this song about Billy Corgan Smashing Pumpkins Frontman , apparently she was dating him before she met Cobain.
And now I’ll tell you about how I’ve learned that’s it’s not good to eat food that was dropped on the floor…when I was 5 years old , I’ve developed this habit of escaping out of Kindergarten. Not that I didn’t enjoy getting messy all day and eating sand with the rest of kids , of course I did but I’ve always looked for new challenges and one of them was opening the gates and getting the hell out of there without anyone noticing. Of course I had to convince my friend to come with me because it’s even more challenging to influence someone else. I was very creative back then…anyway, once my friend and I managed to escape we would usually think of ways to get some treats. We had a couple of elderly neighbors who used to feed us ice-cream and other sweets. So usually we spent a lot of time in their house. They never said asked questions about Kindy and they were always happy to see us. One day the old people were out of the house so we just hanged around outside of our building. And there on the floor we found 8 pieces of chocolate, it had a strange color of white and brown , the white parts indicated that it’s was off but we didn’t know that back then , and we just wanted to get our hands on that chocolate. Each of us ate 4 pieces. It had a horrible taste but we ate it anyway. Later on that day both my friend and I had a sore stomach and we were very sick. And from that day onwards, I never eat anything that was dropped on the floor, so if you don’t experience – you never learn anything! Check out this cool anger song…
What’s this song about? Violet" is reputedly about The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, with Love whom had had a relationship prior to her relationship with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. On May 5, 1995, Love introduced the song on Later... with Jools Holland as "a song [that]'s about a jerk, I hexed him and now he's losing his hair",which is seen as a reference to Corgan's hair loss. However, there is some evidence that the song alludes to Love's days as a stripper. She has on occasion made reference to the "violet lights" in a strip club which she used to work in. (wikipedia – Violet)
This next song is by Janis Joplin. Janis died when she was only 27 years old, she overdosed on heroin. Jimmi Hendrix died at the same year and at the same age from overdose of sleeping pills. It was indeed a tough year for the music industry. I used to listen to her a lot when I first discovered the 60’s-70’s music period. My best friend and I used to be big fans of Led Zeppelin. During my Led Zeppelin period, my sister bought a collection of Janis Joplin’s greatest hits. Of course I was very curious about this amazing voice that sang along to an amazing 60’s/70’s guitar sounds. I had to get my hands on that disc! Both my friend and I got really addicted to it. We actually wanted to be like her so bad that we shopped for all special 70’s shoes, pants, necklaces and other accessories. We wanted to be part of that era so much!
During the same period when I was a teenager, my friends and I would hitchhike to all kind of music festivals. We would sleep outside somewhere, meet a lot of new people and simply have fun. If we were stuck with no money then we would ask people on the streets for a few coins. We knew how to get by back in those days and we weren’t scared of anything or anyone. We were free spirits as if we were part of the 70’s scene – only it was 90’s! As usual history repeats itself ! Check out this amazing song by the great Janis Joplin… Link to the song:Move Over Janis Joplin
This next song is by Screaming Trees. They were one of the bands that started Seattle Grunge movement back in the late 80’s.You probably noticed I’m really into Grunge music, I’ve discovered it in an early age and I never got enough of it. This is such a great song, I fell in love with it instantly when it was released. This song was included in the soundtrack of the movie “Singles” I watched this movie several times because the soundtrack is all about Grunge music with most of my favourite bands and it is just awesome. The movie itself features Pearl Jam members, Chris Cornell and a performance of Alice In Chains. The movie is quite crappy but it’s worth watching if you are into the Seattle Grunge Scene. As I’ve mentioned before, I have discovered the Grunge movement right after Pearl Jam released their second album Vs. my sister bought their two albums Ten and Vs. I couldn’t stop listening to it. I never heard anything like it. Back then I was into Heavy Metal and this was something completely different that was quite heavy but was definitely not heavy metal. They didn’t have the look or anything that comes with it. I’ve decided to do a little research. I remember going to my favourite record shop called the “Junk”,I used to spend a lot of time in this shop. I used to travel by bus all by myself it was my special alone time. That’s where I bought my first Soundgaren & Alice in Chains albums and many more albums. That was a great discovery of great bands and sounds . That’s it, back to this awesome song , check it out…
