The song was released on 7 May 2008 as the album’s second single, debuting to critical and commercial success. “Viva la Vida” reached the top spot of the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band’s first number-one single and a Transatlantic number-one.Viva la Vida was nominated for “Record of the Year”, and won “Song of the Year”, and “Best Pop Performance by a Duo or a Group” at the 2009 Grammy Awards.
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Basket Case is a song by American punk rock band Green Day from their third album, Dookie, which was released in 1994. After the single was released, the song spent five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Basket Case was released after successful singles, “Longview” and “Welcome to Paradise.” “Basket Case” later became an even bigger hit, spending five weeks at the top of the Modern Rock Tracks chart; five times longer then “Longview”. In 1995, [...]
Here’s another curveball for you, a sleeper track from this other great British metal band’s masterpiece, 1980’s British Steel. There are plenty of more prominent Judas Priest tracks to settle on for this list, but I like this one because it proves beyond a doubt that some heavy metal was of high enough quality to generate deep album cuts that deserve to be revered as classics. Frontman Rob Halford’s vocal performance here is typically powerful and impressively piercing, and the [...]
Because I prefer this quintessential hard rock band’s Bon Scott era to the still successful and ongoing Brian Johnson version, I tried to squeeze AC/DC off this list. But ultimately I had to include a track from one of hard rock’s all-time classics, 1980’s Back in Black. Angus Young clearly lost no riffing chops following the sudden death of Scott, and Johnson jumped right in as a sensible, organic replacement. And even though he lacked the menace of his predecessor, [...]
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Love Song was nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards in categories Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.The pop-punk band, Four Year Strong, covered the song on the 2009 compilation album,is the first single released from Sara Bareilles’s 2007 album Little Voice. She has stated in her live performances that it was actually written in response to her record label Epic requesting that she write a “marketable love song,” rather than about an actual person.Featured initially as the [...]