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What is the meaning behind *THE NAME* of "Bohemian Rhapsody"?
"Bohemian" in the title doesn't refer to the region in the Czech Republic, but rather to what is known as the the bohemian lifestyle.
Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, ...
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Bands With Eponymous Album and Song
The first answer I can think of is Iron Maiden's Iron Maiden in the album Iron Maiden in 1980 so after Black Sabbath in 1970.
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What is the 'Slight Return' In Voodoo Child referring to?
On the album Electric Ladyland, there's a track called Voodoo Child, around 15 minutes long. There's a sort of reprise later, called Voodoo Child (Slight Return), which is far shorter, at around 5 ...
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What does "clean" mean at the end of the title of an instrumental jazz song on Amazon Music?
According to a discussion here, these are probably censored versions of the songs.
EDIT: Answer from the Amazon support :
The Clean version you see next to some of the Music titles means that the ...
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Bad Company did the same on their 1974 eponymous album. Can’t think of any others at the moment....
...After looking through my music a second time, I found a few ‘almosts’: Gentle Giant has a song ...
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What is "Uma Thurman" in the Fall Out Boy song?
Uma Thurman is an actress. She was in the film Pulp Fiction.
Google is your friend.
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Why are pianists included in The Carnival of the Animals?
Movement 11 doesn't just portray pianists. It portrays beginning pianists playing elementary scales and thirds, badly (the score explicitly says to include errors in execution). So the image is of an ...
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Why are pianists included in The Carnival of the Animals?
Carnival was intended to be a whimsical and satirical piece (Saint-Saëns didn't want it published in his lifetime because he thought it was silly). I conjecture that including pianists is his way of ...
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What does "clean" mean at the end of the title of an instrumental jazz song on Amazon Music?
Hypothetically, and without doing a careful listen to the album...
It's not unusual for music recordings to pick up studio chatter or other unplanned voices. For example, the Kingsmen's classic ...
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Knife Party - Destroy Them With.. Lasers or Lazers?
Knife Partys official YouTube channel lists the song name as "Destroy Them With Lazers" making Last.FM the correct spelling.
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Bands With Eponymous Album and Song
One such example is Motörhead (though the song title is sometimes written without an Umlaut.)
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Weather Report song title "Dara Factor One" – What is “Dara Factor”?
This detailed website Weather Report: the annotated discography describes the two Dara songs like this - both quotes are from Brian Glasser's "In a Silent Way" (shortened to IASW below), Sanctuary ...
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Different artists - same song titles?
This has to be coincidence. Both titles "This Love" and "Daylight" are very generic titles. There are probably dozens of songs with each of these titles.
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Why is "Für Elise" called "La Lettre à Elise" in French?
When Ludwig Nohl discovered "Für Elise" he included the work in his 1867 publication "New Beethoven Letters" (Neue Briefe Beethovens) (pages 28-33). "Für Elise" merely ...
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The closing track ‘The Good, the Bad & the Queen’, on the 2007 album ‘The Good, the Bad & the Queen’ by Damon Albarn led supergroup ‘The Good, the Bad & the Queen’.
Wikipedia
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Bands With Eponymous Album and Song
You know the three obvious ones: Bad Company, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden
I've been at this question for a long time. I often ask it around parties, camp fires, or when people look bored. Another four ...
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Bands With Eponymous Album and Song
I know of Valkeat, a folk metal band from Finland. They released their debut album, named Valkeat, in 2017 and one of the songs in this album is called Valkeat.
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What does "High C's" by Two Steps From Hell have to do with the ocean?
I can't make out the lyrics but the beginning riff is a hornpipe melody. The hornpipe is a country dance that is danced on a single spot, excellent style of dance for sailors looking for recreation. ...
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Weather Report song title "Dara Factor One" – What is “Dara Factor”?
Great News --- Obtained the answer from (Weather Report drummer) Peter Erskine himself ----
“Dara” was a made-up word for something in the band, I don’t remember what exactly … Jaco, and then Joe, ...
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Different artists - same song titles?
Common words and phrases --as well as less common ones that are particularly poetic, clever or evocative --frequently repeat as song names, typically because the songwriters came up with the same ...
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Traditional(?) Italian(?) accordion instrumental waltz
This is the opening and ending theme of "بچههای مدرسه والت" / "Bachehaye Madrese Walt" ("Walt School Kids"), formerly titled "مدرسه عشق: قصهٔ دل" ("School ...
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Why are musicians so obsessed with rivers?
It's not just musicians (or songwriters) but all English literature. But not as much as we have been in the past. Looks like river became very popular around 1750.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/...
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INDK - Livin with even LES; what does LES stand for
The band is from New York and more precisely from the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
This song says:
Today - the Lower East Side is yuppified with fat cats and their poor folk hide
It's also a pun,...
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Bands With Eponymous Album and Song
Also in 1970 Dutch prog band Focus released their debut studio album 'In and Out of Focus' (earlier released as 'Focus Plays Focus'), the first and last tracks of which were instrumental and vocal ...
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Sugarhill Gang - Apache (Jump on it) - real title?
The original song "Apache" was an instrumental, inspired by the film of the same title. A cover version by the Incredible Bongo Band became part of the foundational sound of hip hop after being ...
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Rap songs not having featured artist in title
This is a question that, in my point of view cannot be answered with hard facts, the reason behind the song-name is in the hands of the artist(s) and no artists are the same and all artists have their ...
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What is the meaning of (Paean) in the title of Ed Sheeran's "How Would You Feel (Paean)"?
It's just to label it. It is just personal choice of whether to use it or not. Usually people do not put these labels at the end of the song but you can if you want to. People also sometimes use ...
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What does "Square-O" mean?
There's a rondeau by Henry Purcell (ZT684), originally for the play Abdelazer, that was printed in some harpsichord collections with the title "Round-O". "Square-O" is probably a pun on that.
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What does "Square-O" mean?
There are two answers to this question, whenever it is asked about any piece of art, be it music, sculpture, a novel, or whatever.
1) It means what it means to you.
2) It means what the author had in ...
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