Video hit Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Dignity (unplugged)

Dignity is a song by Bob Dylan, first released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 in 1994.
It was recorded during the Oh Mercy studio sessions but didn't make it on to the album. The version released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3 was remixed and overdubbed by Brendan O'Brien (who also played organ on the song on MTV Unplugged the same year). A new rhythm track was recorded and electric guitar and organ were added to the mix. The slide guitar from the original mix was mixed out.

Live versions of the song can be heard on Live 1961-2000: Thirty-Nine Years of Great Concert Performances and MTV Unplugged. A demo-version of the song was included as part of a six-song sampler in promo editions of Chronicles Vol. 1. This demo version along with another version of the song were later released on Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs in 2008.

The song was covered, with some modified lyrics, by R&B artist Mozez on his upcoming album The Absolute.

The lyrics:

Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel

Thin man lookin' at his last meal

Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield

For dignity

Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass

Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass

Poor man lookin' through painted glass

For dignity

Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve

Somebody said dignity was the first to leave

I went into the city, went into the town

Went into the land of the midnight sun

Searchin' high, searchin' low

Searchin' everywhere I know

Askin' the cops wherever I go

Have you seen dignity?

Blind man breakin' out of a trance

Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance

Hopin' to find one circumstance

Of dignity

I went to the wedding of Mary-lou

She said she don't want nobody see me talkin' to you?

Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew

About dignity

I went down where the vultures feed

I would've got deeper, but there wasn't any need

Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men

Wasn't any difference to me

Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade

House on fire, debts unpaid

Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid

Have you seen dignity?

Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears

In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors

Lookin' into the lost forgotten years

For dignity

Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues

Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used

He wanted money up front, said he was abused

By dignity

Footprints runnin' cross the sliver sand

Steps goin' down into tattoo land

I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light

In the bordertowns of despair

Got no place to fade, got no coat

I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat

Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote

About dignity

Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure

Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were

And into every masterpiece of literature

for dignity

Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind

Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin

Bites the bullet and he looks within

For dignity

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed

Dignity never been photographed

I went into the red, went into the black

Into the valley of dry bone dreams

So many roads, so much at stake

So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take

To find dignity

Video hit Doro feat. Lemmy Kilmister

Doro feat. Lemmy Kilmister - Love Me Forever (live, 2003)

Doro Pesch is a German hard rock singer that started her career in native Düsseldorf in the early 80s with the underground bands Snakebite and Beast. In 1982, she joined the German heavy metal band Warlock, which got its first contract with the Belgian independent label Mausoleum Records to record the album Burning the Witches. The new band quickly entered the circuit of the most sought-after support bands in the European boiling panorama of metal live shows of the 80s, receiving enthusiastic reviews and gaining a solid fan base. Warlock soon stepped up to main attraction on European tours and their albums, issued under the Vertigo label, sold well in Germany and caught the attention of US promoters, who organized a tour in the United States. Their fourth album Triumph and Agony was produced in the US and entered the Billboard 200 chart, thanks also to the videos of the songs "All We Are" and "Für Immer" on rotation on MTV. By 1988, all German members of the band, except Doro, were replaced by American musicians and Warlock ceased to exist, because of legal problems about the rights on the name and logo.

Doro started her solo recording career with the album Force Majeure, fulfilling her contract with the Vertigo label until 1995 with other four studio albums. Because of the lack of charting success, her second Gene Simmons' produced eponymous album in 1990 was the last one issued in the USA until Calling the Wild, ten years after. However, Doro's albums always charted in Germany and other European countries, with very good sales of singles in recent years both in Germany and in Spain. The 2004 album Classic Diamonds was a collaboration with The Classic Night Orchestra, which reworked some of her earlier songs with symphonic and acoustic arrangements. Doro is now a very respected veteran singer in the heavy metal world and she often features in duets with other singers and bands.

The compilation Rare Diamonds of 1991 has songs from both Warlock albums and Doro’s first albums and is listed twice.

The lyrics:

Love me forever, or not at all,

End of our tether, backs to the wall,

Give me your hand, don't you ever ask why,

Promise me nothing, live 'til we die,

Everything changes, it all stays the same,

Everyone guilty, no one to blame,

Every way out, brings you back to the start,

Everyone dies to break somebody's heart,

We are the system, we are the law,

We are corruption, worm in the core,

One of another, laugh 'til you cry,

Faith unto death or a knife in the eye,

Everything changes, it all stays the same,

Everyone guilty, no one to blame,

Every way out, brings you back to the start,

Everyone dies to break somebody's heart,

Love me or leave me, tell me no lies,

Ask me no questions, send me no spies,

You know love's a thief, steal your heart in the night,

Slip through your fingers, you best hold on tight.

Everything changes, it all stays the same,

Everyone guilty, no one to blame,

Every way out, brings you back to the start,

Everyone dies to break somebody's heart

Video hit Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode - Somebody

Somebody is the first single with Martin Gore as lead vocals, one of only three.

The music videos for both songs were directed by Clive Richardson.

"Somebody", which was sung by Martin L. Gore in the studio in the nude, includes one of Gore's "little twists," where the song builds as if it's a song about finding your perfect love, only to have him reveal at the end "though things like this make me sick / in a case like this I'll get away with it.

The lyrics:

I want somebody to share

Share the rest of my life

Share my innermost thoughts

Know my intimate details

Someone who'll stand by my side

And give me support

And in return

She'll get my support

She will listen to me

When I want to speak

About the world we live in

And life in general

Though my views may be wrong

They may even be perverted

She'll hear me out

And won't easily be converted

To my way of thinking

In fact she'll often disagree

But at the end of it all

She will understand me

Aaaahhhhh....

I want somebody who cares

For me passionately

With every thought

With every breath

Someone who'll help me see things

In a different light

All the things I detest

I will almost like

I don't want to be tied

To anyone's strings

I'm carefully trying to steer clear of

Those things

But when I'm asleep

I want somebody

Who will put their arms around me

And kiss me tenderly

Though things like this

Make me sick

In a case like this

I'll get away with it

And in a place like this

I'll get away with it

Aaaahhhhh....

Video hit Taylor Dayne

Taylor Dayne - Love Will Lead You Back (live)

Love Will Lead You Back is a song performed by Taylor Dayne. Released as the second single from Dayne's second album Can't Fight Fate (following the more uptempo "With Every Beat of My Heart"), the ballad debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 27, 1990.

It reached number one on April 7 that same year and spent 15 weeks in the Top 40.

It also reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was certified Gold in the U.S. by the RIAA.

The song was covered by Brazilian singer Sandra de Sá, by Filipina singers Kyla and Nina, by Mexican pop singer Yuri for her 1990 Soy Libre LP, and Australian pop group Young Divas. In 2000, Grammy Award winning artist Patti LaBelle covered the composition for her album, When A Woman Loves.

On American Idol it has been covered three times, by Carmen Rasmusen (season 2), Mikalah Gordon (season 4) and Karen Rodriguez (season 10). All three were eliminated the next night after their performances of that song.

The lyrics:

Saying goodbye is never an easy thing

But you never said, that you'd stay forever

So if you must go

Well, darlin', I'll set you free

But I know in time

That we'll be together

Oh, I won't try

To stop you now from leaving

Cause in my heart I know

(chorus)

Love will lead you back

Someday I just know that

Love will lead you back to my arms

Where you belong

I'm sure, sure as stars are shining

One day you will find me again

It won't be long

One of these days

Our love will lead you back

One of these nights

Well I'll hear your voice again

You're gonna say, oh, how much you miss me

You walked out this door

But someday you'll walk back in

Oh, darling I know

Oh, I know this will be

Sometimes it takes, sometime out on your own now

To find your way back home

(repeat chorus)

But I won't try to stop you now from leaving

Cause in my heart I know...oh yeah

(repeat chorus)

Love will lead you back

Someday I just know that

Love will lead you back to my arms

It won't be long

One of these days

Our love will lead you back

Video hit Terence Trent D'Arby

Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name

Sign Your Name is the name of a famous song written and performed by Terence Trent D'Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya).

Released in his 1987 album Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, it was an international success, reaching number two on the UK Singles Chart in early 1988 and number four on the US Billboard Hot 100.

The song has been covered by several other artists, such as Michael Bolton, Marina Lima, Elliott Yamin, The Dead Science, Human Nature, Night Shift, George Michael, Lexington Bridge, The Flying Pickets, The House Jacks, Cass & Slide, Peter Andre, Joana Zimmer for her 3rd album Showtime, Maria Lawson (B-side of "Breaking Me Down") and Kevin Lyttle.

In 2010, Australian actor/singer Jason Donovan recorded a cover version of "Sign Your Name" for his 1980s covers album Soundtrack of the 80s.

The lyrics:

Fortunately you have got

someone who relies on you

we started out as friends

but the thought of you just caves me in

the synptoms are so deep

it is much to late to turn away

we started out as friends

CHORUS

Sign your name

across my heart

i want you to be my baby

Sign your name

across my heart

i want you to be my lady

Time i'm sure will bring

disappointments in so many things

it seems to be the way

when your gambling cards on love you play

i'd rather be in hell with you baby

than in cool heaven

it seems to be the way

CHORUS

Birds never look intothe sun

before the day is done

but oh the light shines brighter

on a peaceful day

stranger blue leave us alone

we don't want to deal with you

we'll shed our stains showering

in the room that makes the rain

All alone with you

makes the butterflies in me arise

slowly we make love

and the earth rotates

to our dictates

slowly we make love

Video hit Sheryl Crow ft. Sting

Sheryl Crow ft. Sting - Always On Your Side

Always on Your Side is a song by American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, and is featured on her 2005 album, Wildflower.

It was released as the second single from the album (see 2006 in music). While the original album version features only herself on lead vocals, the radio version is a duet with British musician Sting.

The song debuted at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and stayed inside the Billboard Hot 100 for 8 weeks), her third highest debut ever. The single also peaked in the top 20 of the UK airplay chart, while the single debuted and peaked at No. 8. The single also hit at #2 on the Canadian Singles Chart.

Sheryl Crow's Web site offered a free download of the new single to anyone who had already purchased the Wildflower-album. A subsequent edition of the parent album features the duet version.

The duet received a Grammy Award-nomination in 2007 as Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals.

The song was used as the theme for the 2006 telenovela Desire on the MyTV Network.

The lyrics:

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away

But every now and then you come to mind

'Cause you were always waiting to be picked to play the game

But when your name was called, you found a place to hide

When you knew that I was always on your side

Well everything was easy then, so sweet and innocent

But your demons and your angels reappeared

Leavin' all the traces of the man you thought you'd be

Leavin' me with no place left to go from here

Leavin' me so many questions all these years

But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear

Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear

Or are you left to wonder, all alone, eternally

This isn't how it's really meant to be

No it isn't how it's really meant to be

Well they say that love is in the air, but never is it clear,

How to pull it close and make it stay

Butterflies are free to fly, and so they fly away

And I'm left to carry on and wonder why

Even through it all, I'm always on your side

But is there someplace far away, someplace where all is clear

Easy to start over with the ones you hold so dear

Or are we left to wonder, all alone, eternally

But is this how it's really meant to be

No is it how it's really meant to be

Well if they say that love is in the air, never is it clear

How to pull it close and make it stay

If butterflies are free to fly, why do they fly away

Leavin' me to carry on and wonder why

Was it you that kept me wondering through this life

When you know that I was always on your side

Video hit The Cranberries

The Cranberries - Just My Imagination

Just My Imagination is an acoustic pop song by Irish band The Cranberries.

It is the third single from the band's fourth album, Bury the Hatchet, released in 1999.

A music video, directed by Phil Harder, was released to promote the single.

The Cranberries sing this song in Charmed, episode She's a Man, Baby, a Man! (season 2).

The lyrics:

There was a game we used to play

We would hit the town on friday night

And stay in bed until sunday

We used to be so free

We were living for the love we had and

Living not for reality

It was just my imagination x3

There was a time I used to pray

I have always kept my faith in love

It's the greatest thing from the man above

The game I used to play

I've always put my cards upon the table

Let it never be said that I'de unstable

It was just my imagination x3

There is a game I like to play

I like to hit the town on friday night

And stay in bed until sunday

We'll always be this free

We will be living for the love we have

Living not for reality

It's not my imagination x3

Not my x18

Video hit Cowboy Junkies

Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane 

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins (vocalist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Alan Anton (bassist).

The Junkies first performed publicly at the Beverley Tavern and other clubs in Toronto's Queen Street West, including The Rivoli. Their 1986 debut album, produced by Canadian producer Peter Moore, was the blues-inspired Whites Off Earth Now!!, recorded using an ambisonic microphone in the family garage.

The group's fame spread with their second album, The Trinity Session, recorded in 1987 at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity. Their sound, again using the ambisonic microphone, and their mix of blues, country, folk, rock and jazz earned them both critical attention and a cult following. The Los Angeles Times named the recording as one of the ten best albums of 1988.

The band was nominated for Group of the Year at the Juno Awards in 1990 and 1991. In the early 1990s Margo Timmins was named "one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world" by People Magazine. The group has continued to tour North America, Europe, Japan and Australia with extensive North American and European tours following album releases in 2002 and 2004.

In 2008, they released Trinity Revisited in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original recording of The Trinity Session

The lyrics:

Anyone who's ever had a heart

Wouldn't turn around and break it

And anyone who's ever played a part

Wouldn't turn around and hate it

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

You're waiting

For Jimmy down in the alley

Waiting there

For him to come back home

Waiting down on the corner

And thinking of ways

To get back home

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Anyone who's ever had a dream

Anyone who's ever played a part

Anyone who's ever been lonely

And anyone who's ever split apart

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Heavenly widened roses

Seem to whisper to me

When you smile

Heavenly widened roses

Seem to whisper to me

When you smile

La la la la, la la la,

Sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Anyone who's ever had a heart

Wouldn't turn around and break it

And anyone who's ever played a part

Wouldn't turn around and hate it

Sweet Jane

You're waiting for Jimmy down in the alley

Waiting there for him to come back home

Waiting down on the corner

And thinkin' of ways to get back home

Sweet Jane

Heavenly wine and roses

Seem to aspire to me

When you smile

Sweet Jane

Cowboy Junkies (Original version by Lou Reed).