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The Beach Boys – Here Today
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“Here Today” is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, released on their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the tenth track on the album. It was later released as the B-side to
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Prince and the Revolution – Let's Go Crazy
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“Let’s Go Crazy” opens Purple Rain, both the movie and the album. The song opens with a eulogy-style sermon.
Counter to what you might expect from the song’s title, the song calls
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The Beach Boys – Hang On to Your Ego
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This is the original version of “I Know There’s an Answer”. Mike Love thought the original to be too much of a “druggie” song, so he changed the lyrics of the chorus so that the
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The Beach Boys – Here She Comes
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[Verse 1: Ricky Fataar] / Here she comes, breathing life into my thoughts / There she goes, leaves a portrait in my soul / I'm rolling in her madness, she does everything to me
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The Beach Boys – Here Comes The Night
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[Verse 1] / My heart was breaking / Till you started making me / Feel like a natural man / My mind was a mess / Until you brought happiness / And that's not hard to understand
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Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
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London in the 80s was divided (and still is) into the wealthy West End and the more down-at-heel, East End.
The major entertainment centre of London is based around the West End
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The Jam – Going Underground
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Going Underground is the first British number-one chart single by the band, released in 1980. It went straight in at number one in the UK Singles Chart, spending three weeks at the
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The Beach Boys – Shut Down
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[Chorus] / Tach it up, tach it up / Buddy going to shut you down / [Verse 1] / It happened on the strip where the road is wide / (Oooo rev it up now) / Two cool shorts standing
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The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
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“God Only Knows” is a song by American rock band The Beach Boys. It is the eighth track on the group’s 11th studio album, Pet Sounds, and one of their most widely recognized songs.
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Tyler, The Creator (Ft. A$AP Rocky) – WHARF TALK
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[Intro: DJ Drama] / (Call Me If You Get Lost) / [Verse 1: Tyler, The Creator] / If God was here with us today / I think I know what He would say (Some shit like) / "You're so
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The Beach Boys – That's Not Me
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“That’s Not Me” is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, taken from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the third track on the album.
Mike Love takes the lead vocals
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The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
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The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson recounted the genesis of the title “Good Vibrations” in his 1995 biopic, I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times, and at other times. When he was a child
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The Beach Boys – Be Here in the Mornin'
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[Verse 1] / It's been such a long day so you better hurry home / Lit all my incense and I wish you were home / Only five minutes and you walk through my door / [Pre-Chorus] / Be
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Lewis Capaldi – Old Navy Blue
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[Verse 1] / Cut my teeth on memories from playgrounds to the bars / There's bigger boys with broken hearts who throw their weight around / But settle down, and be here now, just
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The Beach Boys – Please Let Me Wonder
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[Verse 1: Brian Wilson] / Now here we are together / This would've been worth waiting forever / I always knew it'd feel this way / And please forgive my shaking / Can't you tell my
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JAY-Z (Ft. Gloria Carter) – Smile
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Smile is the third and longest track on JAY-Z’s 13th album, 4:44 at 4 minutes and 50 seconds.
Jay looks back onto bad memories and how they have helped him change his future for
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Katy Perry (Ft. Snoop Dogg) – California Gurls
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In 1965 The Beach Boys recorded the original “California Girls.” Their lyrics proclaimed that none of the other girls in the US could top California girls. In Perry’s number one
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The Beatles – Here, There and Everywhere
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Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney from the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver.
A simple love song and Mojo Magazine’s 4th best song ever written, “Here, There And Everywhere
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The Beach Boys – Christmas Time Is Here Again
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It's that time of year again / That Christmas time feeling is here again / 'Cause Christmas, Christmas, Christmas time is here again / Yes, the Christmas time feeling is in the air
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The Oak Ridge Boys – Here's A Song For The Man
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Many songs today are written to deceive you / There are many songs that talk about the way / If you'll listen to this song, you'll find the answer / For Jesus is the Truth, the
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The Beach Boys – Bull Session With "Big Daddy"
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[Verse] / Well, are we on? / Yeah, well, we're kind of on / We just introduce Earl Leaf so / Earl Tree / Hi, Fig / Food / You get my cheese sandwich? / Give me / Uh-huh, they had
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Jasiah – Surfs Up
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“Surf’s Up” was first teased by Jasiah on August 11, 2020, when he posted a snippet of the track onto Instagram.
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The Beach Boys – You Still Believe in Me
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A dream-like introduction to this song is produced by Brian and Asher. One person was on the keys while someone was holding the strings in the piano, creating the unique sound
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The Beach Boys – I Know There's an Answer
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“I Know There’s an Answer” is a song by the American rock band The Beach Boys, taken from their 1966 album Pet Sounds. It is the ninth track on the album. The song was composed and
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The Beach Boys – Deirdre
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[Intro] / Deirdre / [Verse 1] / The trouble you had / It wasn't so bad / It's only life and what you're living for / Sit down right here / I'll send away your tears / Well we don't
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The Beach Boys – All Summer Long
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This exuberant track tells of the fun times that were had by a couple during the summer. It is a quintessential 1960s song about teen romance.
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Japanese Breakfast – Kokomo, IN
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This breezy, serene ballad with orchestration that channels Brian Wilson features Michelle singing about the sweet loneliness of teenage love, waiting for your crush to return
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The Beach Boys – Shut You Down
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Tach it up, tach it up / Buddy gonna shut you down / It happened on the strip where the road is wide / Two cool shorts standin' side by side / Yeah, my fuel injected Stingray and a
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Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
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“The Boys of Summer” is track #1 on Don Henley’s 1984 LP Building the Perfect Beast.
It was a huge hit earning numerous awards including the MTV Video of the Year in 1985 and the
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Fat Boys (Ft. The Beach Boys) – Wipeout
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[Intro] / Hehehehehehee, wipeout / [Chorus: The Beach Boys & Fat Boys] / Wiping out, wipeout / Wiping out, wipeout / Wah, wah, wah / Wiping out, wipeout / Wiping out, wipeout / Wah
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The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun
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“Here Comes the Sun” is a George Harrison-penned track from Abbey Road. Following a period of disillusionment with the music industry, he skipped a day at Apple’s offices and went
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Future (Ft. Drake) – Where Ya At
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“Where Ya At” is the only song on Future’s album DS2 to feature another artist—at one point he had said there would be no features, but he had to make an exception for Drake. The
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The Beach Boys – In The Parkin' Lot
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[Verse 1] / We're always first to hit the lot / And wave to the man in blue now / (Doo run de run de doo run de run de) / It's still so early in the morning / The grass is all
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The Beach Boys – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
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[Intro] / (All right.) / Here I stand / (There you go.) / Head in hand... / (Denny!) / Hide your tears / (Let him sing it) / (Oh!) / (He knows it better than I do.) / Ooom pom pom
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The Beach Boys – Oh Sweet Something
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[Verse 1] / Oh, you better get here soon / I can’t take much lookin’ at the moon / I’ve been standin’ here with my hands inside my pockets / Oh, so many days have gone by / I feel
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