What I like about “Never There”, and I guess most Cake songs, is that the music is just a tad upbeat, while the lyrics are pretty much depressing, but always manage to speak the truth. Their a clever band.

Check out the video, if you forgot the song.

Oh yeah, the video is pretty entertaining as well.

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“Into Your Arms” was from the 1993 album Come on Feel the Lemonheads and would hot the numero uno spot on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks in November of 1993. The track also appeared on 1998’s The Best of the Lemonheads: The Atlantic Years.

What’s not to like about this track?

I mean it’s a little poppy and sweet, but Evan Dando pulls it off perfectly, as he usually does. If “Into Your Arms” was from another band it probably would get trashed because it just oozes pure pop-rock. But that’s we love the Lemonheads.

Here’s the video for you all to enjoy.

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Don’t remember who Porno for Pyros were?

Well, they were a side project from Perry Farrell and drummer Stephen Perkins after the first break-up of Jane’s Addiction. They were only around from 1992 to 1998, but released two pretty decent albums.

“Tahitian Moon” was the only single released from the band’s second album, 1996’s Good God’s Urge. But, it’s extremely catchy and hypnotic as hell.

I love the chrous: ”I don’t know if I’ll make it home tonight, but I know I can swim under the Tahitian moon”. Good stuff.

 Check it out for yourself.

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The track appears on their second album, The Bends, which was released in 1995 and was the first single from the album here in the States.

Apparently, frontman Thom Yorke recorded the vocals after the band had just seen a show by Jeff Buckley and then proceeded to cry after the recording.

Minus all that, it’s still a fantastic and beautiful song. And although it may be a hit, it’s still one of my favorite Radiohead songs.

See for yourself.

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However, one thing that I really enjoyed about the movie was the use of “You Wanted More” by Tonic. I loved that song then and it’s still a guilty pleasure of mine.

The track got lots of airplay and it even hit #3 on the Billboard Mainstream Tracks. It was also featured on Tonic’s second album Sugar, which was released in November of 1999.

Needless to say the song has now been in head, especially the line “I don’t know when I got bitter, but love is surely better when it’s gone”.

Ah, good stuff.

Anyways, here’s the video for “You Wanted More”.

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Now, this isn’t a political site, it’s about music, so that’s where my mind drifted anyways.

I got to thinking about the last five years and all of the music that has been inspired by Bush and Iraq.

90’s bands like Pearl Jam (“World Wide Suicide”), Foo Fighters (Gas Chamber”) and Green Day (the American Idiot album) have all been outspoken about current events.

While legends like Neil Young (Living With War),Bruce Springsteen (“Devils and Dust”) and Patti Smith (“Without Chains”) have enjoyed success in their criticism.

And newer acts are joining in too, like Kimya Dawson (“Anthrax”), Pink (“Dear Mr. President”) and Devendra Banhart (“Heard Somebody Say”).

However, one song seems to top them all.

“When the President Talks to God” is perhaps one of the greatest protest songs ever written. It defiantly belongs up there with influential tracks from Dylan, Lennon, Billy Bragg and Phil Ochs.

Conor Oberst released the searing track back in 2005 as a free track on iTunes and has since gone on to be released as a 7″ vinyl single. The track also appears on the Body of War soundtrack.

The song features just Conor playing a simple, folksy guitar with lyrics that cut through the current administration. He proves the cliche “the pen is mightier than the sword” is correct.

Here’s his performance on The Tonight Show.

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For the last couple of weeks I’ve had “I Am Mine” in a constant rotation, both on my iPod and just in my head.

“I Am Mine” was the first single from the band’s seventh studio, which was 2002’s Riot Act. Vedder wrote the track in a hotel room right before Pearl Jam’s first show following the unfortunate events at their 2000 performance at the Roskilde Festival. The song then made it’s live debut at the 2001 Bridge School Benefit.

This is what Matt Cameron told Billboard in 2002 about “I Am Mine”, “It seems like it has all the elements this band is known for: strong lyrics, strong hook, and a good sense of melody. It wasn’t a really tough decision to have that be the starting point for the record”.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s a great track, and I’m thinking that it’s becoming one of the band’s strongest tracks.

You can listen to the wonderful live debut of “I Am Mine” right here.

Here’s the video, which was filmed at Seattle’s Chop Suey as a promo for Riot Act.

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Gritty lyrics, sick guitar solos and Matt Cameron holding it down with his drumming skills, “Let Me Drown” is your classic Soundgarden tune, and one of my favorites byt them.

Recently, Cornell has been using it as the opening number during his concerts, while it’s not exactly the same, it still kicked you in the face.

Here are the lyrics:

Stretch the bones over my skin
Stretch the skin over my head
Im going to the holy land
Stretch the marks over my eyes
Burn the candles deep inside
Yeah you know where Im coming from

Give up to greed, you dont have to feed me
Give up to fate, you dont have to need me
So let it go, let it go, wont you let it
Drown me in you, drown me in you, drown me in you

Here’s a live performance from like 1996.

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“Sour Times” appears on the band’s 1994 debut album Dummy. The track was also remixed and released as a double CD in Canada in 1995, along with the track “Glory Box”, for Glory Times. Glory Times features four remixes of “Sour Times”, which are “Sour Sour Times”, “Lot More”, “Sheared Times” and “Airbus Reconstruction”.

The video for “Sour Times” contains clips from the short film “To Kill A Dead Man”, which was an idea the band came up with and would also star in.

Here’s the mentioned video.

However, I like this live version from Roseland NYC, Live.

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You can check out the track, “Supernatural Superseious”, on R.E.M.’s official site.

It’s a pretty standard and straight forward rock song, but it’s still sweet. I think it’s a catchy tune.

Last month the band shot the video for “Supernatural Superserious” in New York City at a restaurant and a sex shop.

Here’s a brief behind the scenes look at the video shoot.

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