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The Stone Roses – Elizabeth My Dear
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This song is a protest song regarding the Royal family, and more specifically the Queen. It uses a traditional English melody from the song “Scarborough Fair”.
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The Flaming Lips (Ft. Kesha) – Elizabeth My Dear
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(The Stone Roses cover) / Tear me apart and boil my bones / I won't rest 'til she's lost her throne / My aim is true, my message is clear / It's curtains for you, Elizabeth, my
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The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
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A lucid album opener spearheaded by the hushed ringing vocal of Ian Brown, repeating selected lines of lyrics throughout the entire song.
The song is a mea culpa to fans of the
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The Stone Roses (Ft. Grooverider) – Fools gold - Grooverider’s Mix
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The gold road's sure a long road / Winds on through the hills for fifteen days / The pack on my back is achin' / The straps seem to cut me like a knife / The gold road's sure a
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The Stone Roses – She Bangs The Drums
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“She Bangs The Drums” was released as the third single off of The Stone Roses.
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The Stone Roses – Made of Stone
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“Made Of Stone” is a starkly brooding and enigmatic element of the eponymous album and captures the roses at their most mysterious. In terms of the narrative, the song allegedly
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The Stone Roses – I Am the Resurrection
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“I Am the Resurrection” is the classic conclusion to the Stone Roses' debut album. It contemplates how false religion is through a human relationship, finishing with a four minute
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The Stone Roses – (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister
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Ian is listing things which are considered impossible, which emphasises how dearly he loves this girl. The sky turning green isn’t something which can be foreseen, and members of
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The Stone Roses – Waterfall
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“Waterfall” was released as the sixth single from The Stone Roses' seminal self-titled debut album.
The following track, “Don’t Stop”, is a reversed version of “Waterfall” with
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The Stone Roses – Bye Bye Badman
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“Bye Bye Badman” centers upon riots in Paris, May 1968. The lemon slice on the album cover is also inspired by these riots, which focused upon the philosophy of situationalism
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The Stone Roses – Shoot You Down
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“Shoot You Down” is the tale of a man that has grown tired of a relationship that he foresees the demise of. He is bitter that he did not turn her down in the beginning.
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The Stone Roses – This is the One
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This song is played ahead of every Manchester United home game in Old Trafford, Ian Brown being a lifelong United supporter.
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The Stone Roses – Don't Stop
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“Don’t Stop” is a reversed version of the previous album track “Waterfall” with new lyrics. If you play “Waterfall” backwards, the reversed lyrics sound a lot like the lyrics to “
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The Weeknd – Heartless
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“Heartless” is the lead single to The Weeknd’s fourth studio album and his first solo single since 2018’s “Call Out My Name.”
The track’s release was first teased on November 25th
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Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
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Nicks wrote “Landslide” while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she’d been building could come crashing down
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The Stone Roses – What the World is Waiting For
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“What the World is Waiting For” was originally released as a B-side to “Fool’s Gold.” It was later included in the 20th anniversary release of The Stone Roses on disc three
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The Stone Roses – Going Down
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“Going Down” was originally released as a B-side to “Made Of Stone”. It was later included in the 20th anniversary release of The Stone Roses on disc three, entitled B-sides.
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway (Part 7)
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It was precisely twelve o’clock; twelve by Big Ben; whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London; blent with that of other clocks, mixed in a thin ethereal way with the
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4 Non Blondes – What's Up?
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“What’s Up” was the second single from the 1992 album Bigger, Better, Faster, More! by 4 Non Blondes. It shot the band into international stardom, topping the charts in seven
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Christine Ebersole (Ft. Original Broadway Cast of War Paint) – Behind The Red Door
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[ARDEN GIRLS] / Enter Miss Arden’s temple to beauty / Serving your every need is our duty / May you enjoy the full day you have in store: / Behind the Red Door! / Kindly remove
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The Stone Roses – Something's Burning
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“Something’s Burning” was originally released as a B-side to “One Love”. It was later included in the 20th anniversary release of The Stone Roses on disc three, entitled B-sides.
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John Foxe – Actes and Monuments (Foxe's Book of Martyrs) Chapter 16
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Persecutions in England During the Reign of Queen Mary / The premature death of that celebrated young monarch, Edward VI, occasioned the most extraordinary and wonderful
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The Stone Roses – Full Fathom Five
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“Full Fathom Five” was originally released as a B-side and was included in the 20th anniversary release of The Stone Roses on disc three, entitled B-sides.
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The Smiths – There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
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“There Is a Light That Never Goes Out” is a sacred Smiths classic by now, one that makes fans across the globe join hands and mope together. To some it is a depressive anthem, to
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Ben Jonson – Every Man out of His Humour - Epilogue
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AT THE / PRESENTATION BEFORE QUEEN ELIZABETH / BY MACILENTE. / Never till now did object greet mine eyes / With any light content
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Histeria! (American animated series) – The Tale of the Tudors
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[Verse 1: Kid Chorus, Elizabeth of York] / Oh listen, ye all to a tale that's true / When the War of the Roses tore England in two / King Richard III one fateful day / Fought Henry
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DreamWorks – Shrek 2 (Script)
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Transcript / A light shines down on a storybook. It opens, and a voice turns the pages and reads it. / CHARMING: Once upon a time in a kingdom far far away, the king and queen were
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Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dalloway (Part 6)
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It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! / Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day. Still, he thought, yawning and beginning to
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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T.F. Thiselton Dyer – Folk-lore of Shakespeare - Chapter VIII. Plants
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CHAPTER VIII. / PLANTS. / That Shakespeare possessed an extensive knowledge of the history and superstitions associated with flowers is evident, from even only a slight perusal of
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Spotify – 2019 and 2020 Fresh Finds: Pop (Playlist)
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This page catalogues each song that Spotify features on their Fresh Finds: Pop playlist, formerly known as Fresh Finds: Poptronix. Check back every Wednesday to see what they add!
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Virginia Woolf – Orlando (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER 1. / He--for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it--was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung
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Traditional Transcriptions – Scarborough Fair
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[Both] / Are you going to Scarborough Fair? / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme / Remember me to one who lives there / For she once was a true love of mine / [Man] / Tell her to
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Sex Pistols – God Save the Queen
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“God Save the Queen” is a song by the English punk rock band Sex Pistols. It was released as the band’s second single and was featured on their only studio album, Never Mind the
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