Song Of The Week: The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden

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The cover of the album
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The song of the week for this week is The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden.
I've known the bandname 'Iron Maiden' for as long as I can remember, but I've discovered their music last year, through Guitar Hero, with their song 2 Minutes To Midnight. And only about three weeks ago was when I looked some of their other songs up on YouTube, which resulted in buying two of their CD's last Saturday: Somewhere Back In Time: The Best of 1980-1989 and The Number of The Beast. I think Iron Maiden is really, really awesome and The Number Of The Beast is the song that I've liked the most so far.

I found some background information about The Number Of The Beast on Wikipedia:

According to the song's writer, bassist and band-founder Steve Harris, [The Number Of The Beast] was inspired by a nightmare he had after watching the film Damien: Omen II, in addition to the poem Tam o' Shanter by Robert Burns.

The song opens with a spoken word passage, read by English actor Barry Clayton, which quotes directly from the Book of Revelation. According to lead vocalist, Bruce Dickinson, the band originally asked Vincent Price to read the intro, but decided to hire Clayton after Price refused to do it for anything less than £25,000.

The track is known for its very long, high-pitched and guttural wail at the end of the intro, which Allmusic describes as "the most blood-curdling Dickinson scream on record". In the Classic Albums documentary based on The Number of the Beast album, Dickinson states that it came about through frustration with producer Martin Birch, who forced him to sing the introduction repeatedly for hours on end.

And, according to the website songfacts.com, Steve Harris has also said that 'Basically, this song is about a dream. It's not about devil worship.' 

Personally, the thought of the song being about devil worship never crossed my mind, but well, so, just in case you were wondering, it's not. Don't worry. 

If you are interested in the lyrics to The Number Of The Beast, you can find them here

I hope you like the song as much as I do. See you next time!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Sources used in this post: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_of_the_Beast_(song)

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2347

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Number-of-the-Beast-lyrics-Iron-Maiden/3D938A3A115305F8482568D10026DE51

http://metaldelirium.net/tribute-iron-maiden-number-of-the-beast/

Happy 35th Birthday Gerard Way!

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Source: Tumblr

Today is Gerard Way's birthday. Happy birthday Gerard!
As you all - hopefully - know, Gerard Way is the lead singer from My Chemical Romance, and author of the successful comic 'The Umbrella Academy'. He's awesome.

This Saturday, on April 7th, Frank Iero (the guitarist from My Chemical Romance) tweeted about the birth of his son, Miles Iero. Congrats Frank, and welcome to the world Miles :)

Source: mcrupdates.tumblr.com
This picture was posted Saturday. My mom thought Gerard was 27...

Coming soon are new Song Of The Week posts (sorry for my lack of updating, I've been busy with school and stuff for the past few weeks... Sorry) a new Fashion From My Perspective post and a review from the Black Veil Brides concert I've been to. Bye!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

New Deadmau5 song featuring Gerard Way?

Hello everyone!

Yesterday, I was derping around on Tumblr when suddenly a newsflash from My Chemical Romanceland was all over my dash: apparently Gerard has made a song with Deadmau5.
It has not been officially confirmed that Gerard is actually singing, but I've listened to the song, Professional Griefers, about thirty times and I'm pretty sure it's Gerard.
Honestly, I strongly dislike Deadmau5 and his music. I don't like the whole 'dubstep' thing in general. But Professional Griefers has left me confused. I like the song. I like a dubstep song. I think it's nice, even with the electronical sounds and no use of actual instruments. The lyrics, from what I can hear, are not the typical  shallow 'stupid hoe'like lyrics but are actually quite beautiful.
The song has leaked from a livestream, and as I said, nothing has been officially confirmed yet, but I think it's Gerard. I know it's Gerard.

You can listen to Professional Griefers here

I need to re-evaluate my life and give dubstep a second chance. Thanks for reading and I hope you like the song as much as I do!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Song Of The Week: Jesus Of Suburbia by Green Day

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Sorry for the lack of updating, but I'm currently recovering from a Harry Potter marathon I did with three very good friends of mine and I'm exhausted. It's a bit late, but here's the song of the week for this week!

The American Idiot album cover
Source: Tumblr

This time, the song of the week is Jesus Of Suburbia from Green Day. I discovered Green Day in 2008/2009. I had heard from them before, but never heard one of their songs, until I watched MTV one morning before school and When I Come Around from Green Day was playing. I really liked the song and the overall sound, so I looked up more songs. At the end of 2009, 21st Century Breakdown from Green Day was the first CD I ever brought.
Even though I loved Green Day, my little sister loved them even more and started collecting their other CD's. At some point she brought American Idiot and we played it in the car. To this day, American Idiot is my favourite Green Day album. Jesus Of Suburbia, Holiday, Letterbomb, Boulevard Of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends, are my favourite songs form the album.

Jesus Of Suburbia is actually called Jesus Of Suburbia/ City Of The Damned/ I Don't Care/ Dearly Beloved/ Tales Of Another Broken Home, but I think everyone gets why it's just called Jesus Of Suburbia most of the time. Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day's singer and guitarist, says Jesus Of Suburbia "broke every rule people thought Green Day were supposed to be. Lyrically, it's everything about my past, but at the same time, written on the outside as well. That song is like purging everything, throwing it out."


And this is what the song means:

Jesus of Suburbia

This is the introduction of the album's leading character. He describes himself as "the son of rage and love", living on a "steady diet of soda pop and Ritalin" and "doing someone else's cocaine". He sarcastically mentions that this messed up life he's living is completely normal for him: "there's nothing wrong with me, this is how I'm supposed to be", and goes on with his story about the "land of make believe" that he lives in.

City of the Damned

The motto says "Home is where your heart is", but it doesn't mean that this works for everyone; some people just don't fit in. Jesus points out that people don't really care about anyone but themselves these days ("Lost children with dirty faces today no one really seems to care"), and surrounded by this indifference he states that now he doesn't care either.

I Don't Care

Jesus gives his opinion on the world - "everyone is so full of shit, born and raised by hypocrites". He says that if no one cares about him, there is no reason for him to care about anyone else ("I don't care if you don't"). He's tired of this "land of make believe" that doesn't believe in him.

Dearly Beloved

This part shows a softer side of Jesus' personality. His disguise of sarcasm covers his cry for help ("Oh therapy, can you please fill the void?"). He's tired of being alone and rejected, of not fitting in. He wants to break free.

Tales of Another Broken Home

Jesus states that he's not living, he's just existing - "to live and not to breathe is to die in tragedy". And he decided to run away and try to find something worth living for. He doesn't want to walk that same line anymore, doesn't want to keep living a life that he has no faith in. He feels no shame for leaving - "running away from pain when you've been victimized". He doesn't know what's waiting for him, he just wants to start a new life.

(Source: geekstinkbreath.net)


I hope that everyone who reads this gives Jesus Of Suburbia a listen, and I hope you'll all like it as much as I do. Thanks for reading!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

This is pretty awesome
Source: Tumblr

Sources used in this post:

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/jesus+of+suburbia

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/american+idiot

http://www.geekstinkbreath.net/greenday/song-meanings/jesus-of-suburbia/

Song Of The Week: Sirensong by The Cure

Hello everyone,

This Song Of The Week post is about Sirensong from The Cure, since it got the most votes on the poll :)

I discovered The Cure in the winter of 2010/2011. I don't really remember why, but I think I just heard their name somewhere and looked them up or something. I found out about their 2008 album, 4:13 Dream, listened to it, and liked it a lot. On my holiday in Czech I found the album in some CD shop (in Czech the music shops have the biggest selection of alternative/rock/metal/deathcore/whatever music ever! They have everything) and brought it immediately. We played it a lot in the car, my parents like The Cure too, it reminds them of the 'good old times' or something, and I listened to it on my iPod as well so whenever I listen to it now it just brings back the holiday feelings and I love it. Sirensong in particular is a very dreamy song, like ocean waves almost. It's really peaceful.
You can find out more about The Cure by clicking here

On the website SongMeanings.com, I found this comment: It's basically someone so wanting to be together and wishing the other one felt the same, but like many of his songs, he doesn't care and is stuck thinking: shall I lie and tell her will love her forever? Sometimes he gets in the game and deceives her, and sometimes shocks her as she's innocent so he can get rid of her, sometimes wants perhaps to abuse her and in the end, he tells her to fuck off. If she dont' get the message that he basically either hates or despises her, which sounds like that to me, then wot? 




I have been looking, but couldn't find an official source to confirm this meaning, but I was thinking the same thing actually. You can find the lyrics from Sirensong here (all the songs from the album are in the list, just scroll down and you'll find Sirensong too)


A nice newsflash is that The Cure will be playing at several European festivals this summer, including Pinkpop in The Netherlands. Which of course is totally awesome and I am going to beg my parents for money for a ticket. Which they are totally not going to give me but I can give it a shot though.

Thank you for reading!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Sources used in this post:

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858745734/
http://www.thecure.com/words/2005-20xx.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cure

Green Day Start Recording A New Album

Best news of 2012 so far. This is what I found on the MTV website:

While you were wasting time with flowers, candy and/or restraining orders on Valentine's Day, Green Day were getting down to business, beginning sessions for a brand-new album.

That's according to frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who broke the news (and a four-month Twitter hiatus) on his personal account Tuesday — and coined a rather amazing euphemism for recording in the process.

"Happy Valentine's Day!" he tweeted. "Officially started recording the new record today. It's F--- TIME!!!!"

Yes, we're aware "It's F--- Time" is also a song by Green Day's side-project, the Foxboro Hot Tubs, though it works well in the recording context too, so we're sticking with it. No word on just who Green Day have brought in to helm said f--- time (an email to their publicist was not responded to by press time), but the sessions will bring forth the first studio album since the band's 2009 effort 21st Century Breakdown. Last year, they played a secretshow in California that included a reported 15 new songs, though it's not known if those songs will make the new album.

Of course, as any Green Day fan will surely tell you, Valentine's Day also holds a rather significant place in the band's lore: In 2003, the band recorded an entire album called Cigarettes and Valentines, though the master tapes were supposedly stolen, and the band decided to scrap the project in favor of the album that would reinvigorate their career: American Idiot. During the band's 21st Century Breakdown world tour, they began working the title track from that lost album into their set list, and it made the cut for the 2011 live album, Awesome as F---.

And with that, we've officially set a new record for most uses of the F-word in an MTV News story. History in the making, people!

Song Of The Week: A Little Piece Of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold

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I decided to start a new series of posts on this blog, and they'll be called Song Of The Week. Since my taste in music ranges from Metallica to Coldplay and from Gothminister to Mika, I figured It'd be a good idea to share the songs that I like with all of you! It's like the Behind The Songs posts I used to do with Muse songs, but with every artist/band I listen to. I pick a song weekly, and tell you the background story. Let's just begin with A Little Piece Of Heaven from Avenged Sevenfold.

Source: Google Images

I discovered the band Avenged Sevenfold (A7X) in the summer of 2010. I needed some new artists on my iPod and someone suggested A7X. I listened to some of the examples of their songs on iTunes and brought the song 'Nightmare'. After a few weeks, I just brought their entire discography because I found them really awesome. The song A Little Piece Of Heaven is from their fourth album, which is simply called 'Avenged Sevenfold'. I didn't like the album at first so I got it off of my iPod, but I listened to it again a couple of weeks ago and discovered that I did like the songs now. A Little Piece Of Heaven is definately my favourite song from the album, and one of my favourite songs in general.

The official music video with lyrics

According to the website songfacts.com, A Little Piece Of Heaven is "a romantic, yet very dark song, this is about a couple living together. The man fears that something will happed and their relationship will break up, so he takes control and kills his girl, preserves her and rapes her dead body when needed. Soon she comes back from the dead and kills her man the same way he did. He is brought back from the dead and they get back together after he feels remorse for what he did. They get married in death for the rest of their unnatural life before they start killing other people." 

The lyrics from A Litte Piece Of Heaven are in the video, but you can also find them here

What do you thing of the first Song Of The Week post? Do you have any advice? You can always leave a comment if you want.

Thank you for reading!

xoxo

Gasoline Diamond

Source: Google Images

Sources used in this post: 

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=9715 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenged_Sevenfold

http://www.google.nl/search?tbm=isch&hl=nl&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=939&q=avenged+sevenfold+album&gbv=2&oq=avenged+sevenfold+al&aq=0&aqi=g1g-S9&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=495l5074l0l6475l20l20l0l11l11l0l114l688l8.1l9l0

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