Video hit Vanessa Carlton

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles

"A Thousand Miles", originally titled "Interlude", is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and recorded for her album Be Not Nobody (2002).

It was co-produced and co-arranged by Carlton and Ron Fair, and was released as the album's first single in 2002.

Her signature song, it became Carlton's breakthrough hit and one of the most popular songs of the year. To date, it remains Carlton's biggest hit in the United States, and her only single to reach the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100.

The song had widespread success worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, where it was most successful, the top five in the United States and Ireland, and the top ten in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.

It has been covered by numerous artists including Victoria Justice, Never See Tomorrow, David Archuleta, as well as being sampled by T.I., Terry Crews, Cheryl Cole and James McGee.

The selection of the song's title was accompanied by a minor disagreement between Carlton and Fair, who was reportedly "adamant" about changing it. Fair said, "Vanessa Carlton is an incredible talent, but she's also very stubborn... I had to say, 'Look, I'm the president of the label, we're not calling it "Interlude". ' When you're trying to launch a career, people need a handle to pick things up from, and the word 'Interlude' is never in the song".

In its finished form, the song was first heard during a scene in the Reese Witherspoon film Legally Blonde (2001), and was featured on the film's soundtrack under the title "A Thousand Miles (Interlude)". The final title of the song, "A Thousand Miles", was based on a suggestion by Fair's nephew. After the song's completion, Fair said that he listened to it repeatedly and "it made me weep. That's usually my litmus test. If I cry, I know it's a hit".

Despite this, he was concerned that the song's piano basis would put it at a disadvantage in the marketplace if it were to be released as a single. Fair played "A Thousand Miles" in front of his superior Jimmy Iovine, the co-chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M. Iovine was very impressed with the song, and requested that a music video be filmed immediately for it. After the video had been completed it was presented to Tom Calderone, the Vice President of Programming for MTV, in early 2002.

Calderone expressed a desire to begin broadcasting the video at once and Fair agreed to his request, even though the album was still in production at the time and Carlton's marketing "image" had not yet been developed.

Promotion and chart performance

In the U.S. "A Thousand Miles" was released as a CD single on February 12 and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 later that month; it peaked at number five for three weeks in May and remained on the chart for 41 weeks.

The album Be Not Nobody was released on April 30 and, partly because of the popularity of "A Thousand Miles", debuted in the U.S. top five with first-week sales of over 101,000 copies.

It was 2002's sixth most-played single on U.S. radio (ranking sixth on the Hot 100 2002 year-end chart[6]), and sold well in other countries (where it was promoted and released over the summer months). It was a top five hit in Ireland and France, and managed to reach the top ten in other parts of Europe such as the United Kingdom, Italy and the Netherlands.

It was most popular in Australia, where it became the sixth most successful single of the year and held the number-one position on the ARIA Singles Chart for two weeks, from August 11 to August 24. It replaced a Junkie XL remix of "A Little Less Conversation" by Elvis Presley, and was itself replaced by Avril Lavigne's "Complicated". It also reached the top 20 in Germany. E! Online said the song was "a bona fide hit for good reason. Catchy pop on the surface, it has melodic complexity beneath that bodes well for repeated listening". It failed to chart in Japan.

Carlton told the website Contactmusic.com of the first time she watched the single's music video, in which she is seen playing the piano while traveling through a variety of settings: "I was in the studio and had just taken a break, when someone ran in the room and said, 'You're on MTV!' We put it on and I just stared at the screen. After a few minutes, I just covered my eyes and started to laugh. It seemed so surreal. The night after that, I heard the song on the radio for the first time. It was all so unbelievable."

It received heavy airplay on the channel following its premiere on the top-ten video program Total Request Live in early January, and was popular enough to be retired from the show's countdown.

There was speculation that bluescreen techniques had been utilized during its creation, but according to Carlton it was "100 percent real"; she also said she felt that Marc Klasfeld (the video's director) "captured who I was in that video", and he was selected to direct the video for the album's follow-up single, "Ordinary Day".

Both the album and single were given substantial promotion on the Internet. AOL Music reported that a 20-minute selection of video content involving Carlton that the website had hosted, including the "A Thousand Miles" video and Carlton's performance of the song for Sessions@AOL, drew over one million requested downloads and streams prior to the release of Be Not Nobody.

The Sessions recording of "A Thousand Miles" was later included on the album Sessions @ AOL, released in October 2003. The single version was featured on the hits compilation Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 10 in the U.S., and the 53rd volume of the NOW! series in the UK.

Music video

The music video was filmed in Newbury Park, California and begins with Carlton going into her garage and throwing a sheet off her piano. She starts playing and the song begins, and while she's playing, the piano starts moving outside near parades downtown, joggers out on the road, through the beach, and other parts of the city. At the end of the video, she's back in her garage where the video began and she gets up and leaves the garage.

The lyrics:

Making my way downtown, walking fast

Faces pass and I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead, just making my way

Making a way through the crowd

And I need you

And I miss you

And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky

Do you think time would pass me by?

'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you

Tonight

It's always times like these when I think of you

And I wonder if you ever think of me

'Cause every thing's so wrong and I don't belong

Living in your precious memory

'Cause I need you

And I miss you

And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky with birdies

Do you think time would pass me by

'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you

Tonight

And I, I

Don't wanna let you know

I, I

Drown in your memory

I, I

Don't wanna let this go

I, I don't

Making my way downtown, walking fast

Faces pass and I'm home bound

Staring blankly ahead, just making my way

Making a way through the crowd

And I still need you

And I still miss you

And now I wonder

If I could fall into the sky

Do you think time would pass us by?

'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you

If I could fall into the sky

Do you think time would pass me by?

'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles

If I could just see you

If I could just hold you

Tonight

Video hit Mr. Mister

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

"Broken Wings" is a song recorded by American pop rock band Mr. Mister.

It was released in September 1985 as the lead single from their second album Welcome to the Real World.

The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1985, where it remained for two weeks.

It was released as the band was just about to embark on a U.S. tour opening for Tina Turner.

The song peaked at number four in the United Kingdom, the highest chart position the group ever achieved in Britain.

The song was co-written with lyricist John Lang, who was inspired by a book called "Broken Wings" written by Kahlil Gibran.

The song is a mix of synth, digitally delayed guitar, bass and drums. The song's hissing intro was an effect created by the sound of crash cymbal played in reverse.

Although sometimes called a "soft tune" the innovative track was sampled by Tupac Shakur.

Music video

The music video for "Broken Wings" was directed by Oley Sassone and filmed in black & white.

It features lead vocalist/bassist Richard Page driving through the desert in a classic Ford Thunderbird, the first allusion to birds. There is a scene where Page is sitting in a church when a Harris's Hawk flies in through the window and lands next to him on the pew and they exchange a gaze.

The full band is also featured in performance scenes. Also appearing in the video are an unknown man and woman dancing tango. They are only shown from the waist down. At the end of the video Page is seen next to the Thunderbird with the vehicle's hood open, symbolizing broken wings.

Notable covers

In 1986, it was covered by Rodney Franklin on his album "It Takes Two".

In 1992, Prince's ex-wife Mayte covered the song, with backing vocals by her older sister Janíce García.

In 1992, short-lived British duo Network released a cover which reached No.46 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 1995, it was covered by John Tesh on his CD "Sax By the Fire".

In 1998, it was covered by C-Block on their CD "Keepin' It Real".

In 2001, this song was sampled for a Tupac Shakur song on his posthumous album Until the End of Time, for the title song.

In 2001, it was sampled and performed on the title song of Foxy Brown's Broken Silence album.

In 2001, it was covered by New Zealand singer K'lee.

In 2002, the song was featured in the game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on fictional station Emotion 98.3 and in the opening scene of the game.

In 2003, the song was covered by American A Cappella group Naturally 7 on their album "What is it?"

In 2003, it was covered for the video game Karaoke Revolution.

In 2004, Richard Cheese performed this live in Las Vegas on his album I'd Like a Virgin.

In 2005, Rick Springfield sang this song on his "tribute" album The Day After Yesterday as a duet with original vocalist Richard Page.

In 2006, it was covered by Clay Aiken on his CD A Thousand Different Ways.

In 2006, Joe Budden released a freestyle using the beat and chorus from "Broken Wings".

In 2007, it was covered by The Panic Division on their CD "Songs From The Glasshouse".

In 2007, it was covered by Northern Kings on their CD "Reborn".

In 2008, it was covered by Villa Black and appears on the album "Hôtel Costes A Decade by Stéphane Pompougnac".

In 2010, Jason Donovan recorded a cover version of "Broken Wings" for his 80s covers album "Soundtrack of the 80s".

In 2012, it was covered by Roveena on her debut EP "Perfect World" released on Vintage Green Records Label.

In 2013, it was sampled and performed by Canadian R&B singer Danny Fernandes under the title "Fly Again (Broken Wings)".

The song's various instrumental phrases were sampled in the C64 game 21st century remix of Comic Bakery

The lyrics:

Baby, don't understand

Why we can't just hold on to each other's hands?

This time might be the last if fear unless

I make it all too clear I need you so, oh

Take these broken wings

And learn to fly again, learn to live so free

When we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up and let us in

Take these broken wings

Baby, I think tonight

We can take what was wrong and make it right

Baby, it's all I know that you're half of the flesh

And blood that makes me whole, I need you so.

So take these broken wings

And learn to fly again, learn to live so free

When we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up

And let us in

Yeah, yeah

Let us in

Let us in

Baby, it's all I know that you're half of the flesh

And blood that makes me whole

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

So take these broken wings

And learn to fly again, learn to live so free

And when we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up and let us in

Take these broken wings

You got to learn to fly, learn to live

And live so free

When we hear the voices sing

The book of love will open up for us

And let us in

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh

Video hit Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne - In My Life

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne (born 3 December 1948) is an English rock vocalist, songwriter, and television personality. Osbourne rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the pioneering band Black Sabbath, whose dark and heavy sound has often been cited as key to the development of the heavy metal genre.

Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979 and has since had a successful solo career, releasing 11 studio albums, the first seven of which were all awarded multi-platinum certifications in the US, though he has reunited with Black Sabbath on several occasions, most recently in 2011 to record the album 13, which was released in 2013.

Osbourne's longevity and success have earned him the informal title of "Godfather of Heavy Metal".

Osbourne's total album sales from his years in Black Sabbath combined with his solo work is over 100 million.

As a member of Black Sabbath he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame as both a solo artist and as a member of the band. He has a star on the Birmingham Walk of Stars in his hometown, and also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In the early 2000s, he became a TV star, appearing as himself in the MTV reality program The Osbournes, alongside wife/manager Sharon and two of their three children, Kelly and Jack.

In My Life is a Beatles cover.

The lyrics:

There are places I remember

All my life though some have changed

Some forever not for better

Some have gone and some remain

All these places have their moments

With lovers and friends I still can recall

Some are dead and some are living

In my life I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers

There is no one compares with you

And these memories lose their meaning

When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection

For people and things that went before

I know I'll often stop and think about them

In my life I love you more

In my life I love you more

Video hit OneRepublic

OneRepublic - Counting Stars

Counting Stars is a song by American pop rock band OneRepublic from their third studio album, Native (2013).

The song was written by lead singer Ryan Tedder, and produced by Tedder and Noel Zancanella. Musically, it is a pop song with strong elements of folk music.

It was released as the album's third single on June 14, 2013 in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

The song has been one of the band's most successful singles, reaching No. 1 in many countries including Canada and the United Kingdom, No. 2 in the United States, and top ten in 20 countries.

The song's accompanying music video, directed by James Lees, features the band performing in a basement beneath an ongoing church congregation.

Music video

The music video was filmed on May 10, 2013, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and premiered on May 31, 2013. 

The video features the band performing the song in a gloomy basement surrounded by hanging light bulbs – which is interspersed with scenes of several people in a religious revival service. At the end of the video, one of the people in the service falls through the floor, coming through the ceiling of the room the band is performing in. The video also shows clips of an alligator crawling through the basement.

The lyrics:

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,

Said, no more counting dollars

We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars

I see this life like a swinging vine

Swing my heart across the line

And my face is flashing signs

Seek it out and you shall find

Old, but I'm not that old

Young, but I'm not that bold

I don't think the world is sold

I'm just doing what we're told

I feel something so right

Doing the wrong thing

I feel something so wrong

Doing the right thing

I could lie, coudn't I, could lie

Everything that kills me makes me feel alive

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,

Said, no more counting dollars

We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard,

Said, no more counting dollars

We'll be, we'll be counting stars

I feel the love and I feel it burn

Down this river, every turn

Hope is a four-letter word

Make that money, watch it burn

Oh, but I'm not that old

Young, but I'm not that bold

I don't think the world is sold

I'm just doing what we're told

I feel something so wrong

Doing the right thing

I could lie, could lie, could lie

Everything that downs me makes me wanna fly

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,

Sitting, no more counting dollars

We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,

Sitting, no more counting dollars

We'll be, we'll be counting stars

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Everything that kills me makes feel alive

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,

Sitting, no more counting dollars

We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I've been, I've been playing hard,

Sitting, no more counting dollars

We'll be, we'll be, counting stars

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the river

The lessons are learnt

Take that money

Watch it burn

Sing in the rïver

The lessons are learnt

Video hit Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams - Somebody

Somebody is a rock song written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance for Adams fourth studio album Reckless (1984).

It was the second single released from the album Reckless.

The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Stewart Mason from Allmusic said "Following the Big Rawk Anthem ("Run to You") and the Sensitive Power Ballad ("Heaven"), "Somebody" covers the third base as a straight-ahead singalong pop song with a killer chorus.

A gift to an entire generation of cover bands working the bar circuit, "Somebody" has a chorus so simple and catchy that you can actually sing along to it even if you've never actually heard the song before, and Adams and his indispensable musical partner, Jim Vallance, helpfully point out the feasibility of said activity by incorporating a large, somewhat ragged group of backing vocalists for the lengthy vamp of a fadeout.

Rather like "Run to You," "Somebody" is just slightly too schematic to qualify as an all-time heartland rock classic, but it still sounds good on the radio."

Chart performance

"Somebody" was released in the winter of 1985 and became one of the most successful songs from Reckless on the American rock charts and arguably one of Adams most recognizable and popular songs. "Somebody" was released worldwide in 1984.

The song was Adams second number one hit on the Top Rock Tracks chart and number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Somebody" reached the top twenty on the Canadian album chart and remained in the top twenty for six weeks. "Somebody" was Adams third top twenty hit on the Canadian chart. "Somebody" was released the following month in Europe and peaked at the top twenty in Ireland at number 20 and reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles Chart at 35 and was his third single to chart in Europe.

Music videos

There are two music videos for the song. One features visual footage of Adams and his band performing the song live in a concert hall, with the audience screaming in the background. The other shows Adams walking out of a stadium and through a field, interspersed with shots of him with his guitar, as well as a woman (played by Lysette Anthony) who appears to be having relationship problems with her boyfriend; the video culminates with Adams walking out onto the field of a packed football stadium while a video of him playing the song plays on the big screen.

The lyrics:

I bin lookin' for someone

Between the fire and the flame

We're all lookin' for somethin'

To ease the pain

Now who can you turn to

When it's all black and white

And the winners are losers

You see it every night

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

Everybody needs somebody

When you're out on the front line

And you're watchin' them fall

It doesn't take long to realize

It ain't worth fightin' for

I thought I saw the Madonna

When you walked in the room

Well your eyes were like diamonds

And they cut right through - oh they cut right through

I need somebody

Somebody like you

Everybody needs somebody

I need somebody

Hey what about you

We all need somebody

Another night another lesson learned

It's the distance keeps us sane

But when the silence leads to sorrow

We do it all again - all again 

Video hit Def Leppard

Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me

Pour Some Sugar on Me is a song by English hard rock band Def Leppard from their 1987 album Hysteria.

It reached number 2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on 23 July 1988, behind "Hold On to the Nights" by Richard Marx. "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was ranked #2 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 80s" in 2006.

Production

Near the end of recording the album Hysteria, singer Joe Elliott was jamming with a riff he had come up with recently on an acoustic guitar. Producer Mutt Lange, expressing great liking of it, suggested that it be developed into another song.

Although already behind schedule Lange felt that the album was still missing a strong crossover hit and that this last song had the potential to be one. Within two weeks the song was completed, smoothed out and included as the twelfth track on Hysteria.

By the spring of 1988, Hysteria had sold 3 million copies, but it still was not enough to cover the album's production costs (the most expensive ever at the time). Thus, the band edited footage from an upcoming concert film to make a new promo clip for "Pour Some Sugar on Me" and finally released it as the fourth single in North America.

Music video

Two different music videos for the song were produced. The first version shows the band playing inside a derelict Irish stately home (Mount Merrion House at Stillorgan, Dublin) while it is being demolished by wrecking-balls and a burly, sledgehammer-wielding, female construction worker. Generally disliked by the band members, and filmed before "Pour Some Sugar on Me" became a huge mega-hit in the US, a second video simply of the band playing the song live was released for American MTV (the original video was only ever shown in the UK). This video was edited together from live concert footage, taken in 1987 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia PA, that would eventually be released as the band's full-length 1989 video Live: In the Round, in Your Face. It also featured an extended, distortion-laden intro in lieu of the album version's "Step inside, walk this way..." line. Most compilations use this extended music video version of the song.

POSTAREA ESTE DEDICATA PRIETENULUI MEU DE SUFLET (care m-a “ajutat” sa demagnetizez caseta cu albmul Hysteria..) Vali, un Nobil prin excelenţă!

The lyrics:

Step inside, walk this way

You and me babe, Hey, hey!

Love is like a bomb, baby, c'mon get it on

Livin' like a lover with a radar phone

Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp

Demolition woman, can I be your man?

Razzle 'n' a dazzle 'n' a flash a little light

Television lover, baby, go all night

Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet

Little miss ah innocent sugar me, yeah

Hey!

C'mon, take a bottle, shake it up

Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me

Ooh, in the name of love

Pour some sugar on me

C'mon, fire me up

Pour your sugar on me

Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet

From my head to my feet, yeah

Listen! red light, yellow light, green-a-light go!

Crazy little woman in a one man show

Mirror queen, mannequin, rhythm of love

Sweet dream, saccharine, loosen up

You gotta squeeze a little, squeeze a little

Tease a little more

Easy operator come a knockin' on my door

Sometime, anytime, sugar me sweet

Little miss innocent sugar me, yeah, yeah

Give a little more

Take a bottle, shake it up

Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me

Ooh, in the name of love

Pour some sugar on me

C'mon fire me up

Pour your sugar on me

Oh, I can't get enough

I'm hot, sticky sweet

From my head to my feet yeah

[guitar solo]

You got the peaches, I got the cream

Sweet to taste, saccharine

'cause I'm hot, say what, sticky sweet

From my head, my head, to my feet

Do you take sugar? one lump or two?

Take a bottle, shake it up

Break the bubble, break it up

Pour some sugar on me

Ooh, in the name of love

Pour some sugar on me

C'mon fire me up

Pour your sugar on me

Oh, I can't get enough

Pour some sugar on me

Oh, in the name of love

Pour some sugar on me

Get it, come get it

Pour your sugar on me

Ooh

Pour some sugar on me

Yeah! Sugar me!

Video hit Emilia

Emilia - Big Big World

Big Big World is a 1998 ballad song recorded by Emilia Rydberg from Sweden.

Rydberg wrote the song with Lasse Anderson.

The song is about love, with references to the autumn. It was the first single from the album of the same name and was released in late 1998.

The song was a hit in Europe where it reached the top five in many countries but fared poorly in the US, where it remained at the bottom of the Billboard Hot 100.

The lyrics:

I'm a big big girl

in a big big world

It's not a big big thing if you leave me

but I do do feel that

I do do will miss you much

miss you much...

I can see the first leaf falling

It's all yellow and nice

It's so very cold outside

like the way I'm feeling inside

I'm a big big girl

in a big big world

It's not a big big thing if you leave me

but I do do feel that

I do do will miss you much

miss you much...

Outside it's now raining

and tears are falling from my eyes

Why did it have to happen?

Why did it all have to end?

I'm a big big girl

in a big big world

It's not a big big thing if you leave me

but I do do feel that

I do do will miss you much

miss you much...

I have your arms around me warm like fire

but when I open my eyes

You're gone...

I'm a big big girl

in a big big world

It's not a big big thing if you leave me

but I do do feel that

I do do will miss you much

miss you much...

I'm a big big girl

in a big big world

It's not a big big thing if you leave me

but I do feel I will miss you much...

miss you much...

Video hit Nostalghia

Nostalghia - Cool For Chaos

Nostalghia’s music is best described in palate form; a vulnerable outpour of elemental emotional landscape married to its cinema of sound, birthing what is now coined by fans as, “Post-apocalyptic gypsy punk.”

California-Iranian native Ciscandra Nostalghia was primarily raised by her Persian mother, Persian and German Grandmother, her sister’s Jamaican and English father, and her Irish and Russian father, who spoke fluent French.

Keeping to herself and having difficulty making friends who understood the cultural dynamic of her family, Ciscandra found freedom in self-induced entertainment, the music of language, and the sound of diversity, digesting and expelling it in the form of art, galvanizing her solitude into the vulnerable-behind-veil, intimate yet expansive sound of NOSTALGHIA.

Despite the depth of her work as a singer/songwriter, Ciscandra envisioned larger possibility, a grander environment to exorcise her inner demons, and harness her outer hopes.

Plagued by the hunger for something more, she placed a tersely worded ad on Craigslist (“looking for the real deal,”/ “do not waste my time.”) soon receiving a response from Roy Gnan, a sleepless Philadelphia native, studied drummer who intuitively understood what NOSTALGHIA was-wasn’t. Together they began recording Nostalghia’s first independent release, “I Am Robot, Hear Me Glitch,” (mixed and mastered by three-time Grammy Award winning, Dave Way) receiving praise for its innovatively unique synthesis of Primal Pop and The Avant-Garde, and accolade as a strong force on the rise.

After much experimentation, Nostalghia settled on a three-piece live band, including Ciscandra Nostalghia herself, Roy Gnan, and Cellist Adele Stein. Best described as, naked beneath lights, Nostalghia transports the audience into a cathartic dimension, riding the universal waves of feeling, intensity, and passion; a journey and movement into the unknown, a spiritual transcendence, and a place where all walks of life can connect to the global understanding of love, pain, struggle, and triumph.

Forcing herself into the uncomfortable pitch of questions regarding life, death, taboo, obsession, entrapment, seclusion, and ultimately complete-chaos, Ciscandra spawned the inner workings of what is soon to be Nostalghia’s (Roy Gnan capturing, and together soundscaping) 2013 widespread release; touching, and at times beating, on the intimacy and affliction of love.

When asked the daunting question, “So what do you hope to achieve?”

Nostalghia responds with a smirk and a wink, “Only everything we’ve set out to do.”

The lyrics:

I heard you speak

Like a savaged wolf

And I let, you eat

The closest thing to love

But I'm a useable force

You're gonna' have to push harder

Than that.

I know you, you'll shut my lips

You'll say

Shove yourself down with

But wait,

Are you cool with chaos?

YEAH!

You can't make up your mind

You're a buzzing fly on this white cell of mine

As the static in my stomach flips

You say,

Shove yourself down with,

But wait

Are you cool with chaos?

YEAH!

The sky catches a breeze

balds the last leaves of the skeleton trees

And we watch the clock tick

You say

Shove yourself down with,

But wait, Are you cool with chaos?

YEAH!

Video hit Doro

Doro Pesch - Unholy Love

Dorothee Pesch (born 3 June 1964, Düsseldorf, Germany), popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a German hard rock vocalist and songwriter, formerly front-woman of the heavy metal band Warlock.

The name Doro has also been associated with the touring band accompanying the singer, whose members have continuously changed in more than twenty years of uninterrupted activity, the most stable presences guaranteed by bassist Nick Douglas and drummer Johnny Dee.

Doro started her career in garage bands in native Düsseldorf underground scene and achieved media visibility and some commercial success with Warlock in the 1980s. Warlock were starting to have an opening in the US market, when they went through many line-up changes and Pesch was left the only original member of the band.

She started a solo career under the name Doro, in order to avoid legal battles between her record label PolyGram and her former manager. She released two albums in the US with producers Joey Balin and Gene Simmons, but they were not the breakthrough that she hoped.

During the rise of grunge and alternative rock in the 1990s, her record label relegated her productions only to the European region, where she continued to tour extensively. She remained a successful charting artist in Germany, despite living and producing her albums in the US. When classic heavy metal found again the favour of the public, she returned to tour all over the world and her popularity as a veteran singer grew considerably, inspiring many new female metal artists. Doro is also known for her duets performed both live and in studio with other singers and musicians of the metal scene, whom she has befriended in her long career.

To this date, she has released sixteen studio albums, the latest being Raise Your Fist in 2012. Doro continues her recording career and is prolific touring artist all over the world. When not on tour, she resides in New York City.

The lyrics:

You make it so easy

When you're making it rough

You won't make no promises

But you can't get enough

I feel like I'm standing

In the headlight beam

You come on like thunder

I know what this means

CHORUS

It's unholy love

Oh can't you see

This unholy love

You know is killing me

The sting of confusion

Then a kiss from your lips

You don't make it painless

And you don't make it quick

I hold on forever

Till I feel the sweet rush start

Then you're holding me closer

While you're breaking my heart

CHORUS

It's unholy love

Baby can't you see

It's unholy love

So good it's killing me

I feel like I'm standing

In the headlight beam

You come on like thunder

I know what this means

It's unholy love 

Video hit Casting Crowns

Casting Crowns - Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)

Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) is a song performed by contemporary Christian band Casting Crowns from their 2009 album Until the Whole World Hears.
While the music was composed by the band, the lyrics come from the hymn "One Day", written in 1910 by John Wilbur Chapman, and the song's verse melody was set by Michael Bleecker at The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas.

The single has been successful on Christian radio, reaching the top spot on the Hot Christian Songs (for a total of nine non-consecutive weeks), Soft AC/Inspirational, and Christian AC charts.

The song has also achieved some inroads on secular charts, peaked at #2 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.

The lyrics:

One day when Heaven was filled with His praises

One day when sin was as black as could be

Jesus came forth to be born of a Virgin

Dwelt among men, my example is He

Word became flesh and the light shined among us

His glory revealed

Living, He loved me, dying, He saved me

Buried, He carried my sins far away

Rising, He justified freely forever

One day He's coming, oh, glorious day, oh, glorious day

One day they led Him up Calvary's mountain

One day they nailed Him to die on a tree

Suffering anguish, despised and rejected

Bearing our sins, my Redeemer is He

Hands that healed nations, stretched out on a tree

And took the nails for me

One day the grave could conceal Him no longer

One day the stone rolled away from the door

Then He arose, over death He had conquered

Now is ascended, my Lord evermore

Death could not hold Him, the grave could not keep Him

From rising again

One day the trumpet will sound for His coming

One day the skies with His glories will shine

Wonderful day, my beloved one, bringing

My Savior, Jesus, is mine