Your Love

So today I performed this song for my school, so I figured, "hey, that's a good song, why not write a post about it?" So here I am. Your Love was written by John Spinks, the guitarist and vocalist for The Outfield. Your Love was released in their debut album, Play Deep, which was released in 1986. The song made it to number six on the Billboard Top 100 Tracks, and is their most popular. Something interesting I came across was that the members of the band are opposed to drug use, which I thought stood out, because, well it was the eighties, and they were an English pop rock band. I can see how these lyrics can be interpreted many different ways by the people who listen to them, but this is my interpretation. I believe this is about a guy who's woman is out of town, and he needs someone, so he calls upon someone from his past, maybe someone he's "been" with before. Clearly he still has feelings for her, and he tries to voice his feelings for what he needs. Hearing this song after playing it makes me feel like our band is inadequate, and does them no justice to perform their music.

Photograph

I know my last post was regarding a Def Leppard song, but I couldn't help myself. Throughout the day, this song has been playing inside my head, and I could not be happier, for this is one of those songs that I could listen to over and over without getting tired of it. Released in Def Leppard's third album, Pyromania, this song reach number one on the billboard's top tracks. I would love to categorize this song as a power ballad, but it's a little heavy to be one, and the vocals just don't quite match those of a power ballad. However, this song has a similar feel to it, and is one of my top Def Leppard tracks. This song is about someone that you just can't get your hands on, someone in your mind, your heart maybe, but they are not tangible to you, they are built up in your mind, due to you being unable to meet them and realize that they are human too.

Hysteria

This is one of my favorite song by Def Leppard, Hysteria. Reaching number ten on Billboard Hot 100 (the US standard for singles), and released in their 1987 album, Hysteria, is what many of us refer to as a power ballad, featuring heavy instruments and a ballad vocal style to it. This song features a classic rock drum beat, and a very clean guitar sound to it on the verse, which makes the chorus very prominent with a light distortion applied to a second guitar. This song is heavily layered, with many vocal tracks, as well as instrumental ones. This song is about wanting to be with someone so bad that it hurts, and you just have to know if they're with someone else, it's about excitement over someone so much so that you can't get them out of your head, and you obsess over them continuously.

No One Like You

This has to be my favorite Scorpions song of all time... The intro itself sends me into a rock n' roll coma, I have a thing for songs that go straight into a solo, but this is just the tops, the combination of the heavy drums and the high end guitar solo is just fantastic, and it really sets the stage for this fantastic song. To those of you who read this and decide not to listen to it, you're making perhaps the largest mistake you've ever made, for this song is a classic, and should not be forgotten. Written by the German metal band, Scorpions, this song was released on their eighth studio album, Blackout. Blackout was released in 1982, and this song reached number one on the US Billboards for rock tracks. This song was originally written in German, but I can't find the original anywhere, and, as a result of the translation, a lot of the song's meaning is lost, which is a little disappointing. But yeah! Great song, please listen.