dimanche 31 mai 2015

The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes



Interprète: The Raconteurs
Titre: Steady, As She Goes
Année: 2006
Billboard: #1

The Raconteurs est le projet du chanteur, guitariste et pianiste des White Stripes, Jack White. Il est accompagné de trois amis, issus de la scène rock de Détroit, qu'il a rencontrés en 1998 : le guitariste Brendan Benson, le bassiste Jack Lawrence et le batteur Patrick Keeler. Le groupe s'est formé après que Jack White et Brendan Benson eurent composé leur première chanson : Steady, As She Goes. La particularité de ce groupe est que ses quatre membres ont tous eu un certain succès auparavant : Jack White avec les White Stripes, Benson en solo (trois albums : One Mississippi, Lapalco et Alternative to Love), Jack Lawrence et Patrick Keeler formant la section rythmique des Greenhornes. Néanmoins, des quatre, seul Jack White a explosé, devenant une icône incontournable de la scène rock. Il est pour l'essentiel responsable de la rapidité de la création du groupe.
The Raconteurs est ce que l'on appelle un « supergroupe », à l'image de The Dirty Mac, Audioslave, Blind Faith, Them Crooked Vultures ou encore Velvet Revolver, à savoir que plusieurs musiciens issus de différents groupes s'unissent pour partager leurs talents. Les quatre musiciens ont décidé de se baser dans le Tennessee à Nashville, car pour eux la scène de Détroit est morte.
Ils reprennent différents styles de musique tout en restant dans le rock d'où leur nom, The Raconteurs.

 The Raconteurs /ˌrækɒnˈtɜrz/, also known as The Saboteurs in Australia, are an American rock supergroup that was formed in Detroit, Michigan, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White (formerly of The White Stripes, currently The Dead Weather, as well as solo), Brendan Benson (solo), Jack Lawrence (of The Greenhornes, Blanche and The Dead Weather), and Patrick Keeler (also of The Greenhornes).

Finley Quaye - Sunday Shining



Interprète: Finley Quaye
Titre: Sunday Shining
Année: 1998
Billboard: #26

Finley Quaye (né le 25 mars 1974, à Édimbourg, Écosse) est un musicien écossais. Il a remporté en 1997 un MOBO Awards pour le meilleur morceau reggae, et en 1998 un Brit Award pour le meilleur artiste solo britannique.

Finley Quaye (born 25 March 1974, Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish musician. He won the 1997 Mobo Award for best reggae act, and the 1998 BRIT Award for Best Male Solo Artist.

Jimmy Page - Wasting My Time



Interprète: Jimmy Page
Titre: Wasting My Time
Année: 1988
Billboard: #4

James Patrick Page (né le ) est un guitariste, producteur et compositeur britannique de rock, né à Heston dans la banlieue de Londres. Il est le fondateur, leader et compositeur de la majorité du répertoire original du célèbre groupe de rock, Led Zeppelin. Auparavant, dès 1963, il mène une carrière prolifique comme musicien de studio. Sa virtuosité en fait vite un des musiciens les plus demandés lors des séances d'enregistrement des artistes et des groupes phares jusqu'à son arrivée chez les Yardbirds, fin 1966. En 1968, il fonde le groupe qui va devenir une des plus importantes formations de l'histoire du rock en compagnie de Robert Plant, John Paul Jones et John Bonham.
Avec ses amis Eric Clapton et Jeff Beck, il est considéré comme l'un des trois meilleurs guitaristes britanniques, et comme l'un des plus influents de l'histoire du rock. En 2005, il est élevé au grade d'Officier de l'Ordre de l'Empire britannique pour son travail caritatif au Brésil. Il reçoit, en 2008, le titre de Docteur honoris causa pour son apport à la musique. En 2011, le magazine américain Rolling Stone le classe troisième derrière Jimi Hendrix (1er) et Eric Clapton (2e) dans le palmarès des 100 meilleurs guitaristes rock de tous les temps. Il est très inspiré par le blues, le folk, la musique indienne et la musique orientale.

James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE (born 9 January 1944) is an English musician, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and leader of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and, by the mid-1960s, he had become the most sought-after session guitarist in England. He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968. In late 1968, he founded Led Zeppelin.
Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time.[2][3][4] Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as "the pontiff of power riffing" and ranked him number 3 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2010, he was ranked number two in Gibson's list of "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" and, in 2007, number four on Classic Rock's "100 Wildest Guitar Heroes". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice; once as a member of the Yardbirds (1992) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin (1995). Page has been described by Uncut as "rock's greatest and most mysterious guitar hero." Los Angeles Times magazine voted Jimmy Page the 2nd greatest guitarist of all time.

Ric Ocasek - Something To Grab For



Interprète: Ric Ocasek
Titre: Something To Grab For
Année: 1983
Billboard: #5

Ric Ocasek est un chanteur, musicien et réalisateur américain né le à Baltimore, dans le Maryland. De son vrai nom Richard Otcasek, il fut le chanteur du groupe new wave The Cars de 1976 à 1988.
Il a par la suite enregistré des albums solos, avant de produire les albums de groupes tels Weezer, Suicide, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Nada Surf ou The Killers.

Ric Ocasek (born Richard T. Otcasek; March 23, 1949) is an American songwriter, musician and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the rock band, the Cars. Ocasek has been married to model Paulina Porizkova since 1989.

Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me



Interprète: Naked Eyes
Titre: Always Something There To Remind Me
Année: 1983
Billboard: #20

Naked Eyes était un groupe britannique de pop/new wave des années 1980, qui connut le succès surtout aux États-Unis, au Canada et en Océanie en 1983 (alors que dans leur pays d'origine le groupe ne connut, paradoxalement, que très peu de succès).
Il était composé à la base de Pete Byrne au chant et de Rob Fisher aux claviers (décédé en 1999), tous deux originaires de Bath en Angleterre. Avant cela, ils firent partie d'une formation nommée Neon, avec des membres du futur Tears for Fears. Leur premier album connut un succès certain, notamment en Amérique du Nord, mais leur second, paru fin 1984 marcha beaucoup moins bien, ce qui entraina de fait la dissolution du groupe en 1985.
Par la suite, Rob Fisher forma avec Simon Climie (au chant), le duo Climie Fisher, qui connut un grand succès au niveau international entre 1987 et 1989, mais aussi en Angleterre, ce que Naked Eyes n'avait pas réussi à obtenir.

Naked Eyes is a British new wave band that rose to prominence in the early 1980s. Originally a duo, the band is known largely for its four top 40 singles.
The first, a cover of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David standard "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" (Bacharach himself has cited the cover as a personal favourite). The band had subsequent hits with their own compositions, "Promises, Promises" (not to be confused with the Bacharach/David musical number), "When the Lights Go Out," and "(What) In the Name of Love."

vendredi 29 mai 2015

Mad At Gravity - Walk Away



Interprète: Mad At Gravity
Titre: Walk Away
Année: 2002
Billboard: #38

Mad at Gravity was a short lived alternative rock band from 2000 to 2003. The band's name came from a poem that lead singer J. Lynn Johnston wrote at age nineteen, stating that it "just jumped out" and "it had so many applications."

Shona Laing - (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy



Interprète: Shona Laing
Titre: (Glad I'm) Not A Kennedy
Année: 1988
Billboard: #14

Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician. She has had several hits in her native country, as well as a few minor international hits, most notably "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" and "Soviet Snow". Laing also contributed to the Manfred Mann's Earth Band album Somewhere in Afrika. Laing also contributed music to, and appeared in, the 1985 action film Shaker Run.
Currently she resides in New Zealand and occasionally plays live shows, enjoying a small but devoted fan base.

Kansas - Play The Game Tonight



Interprète: Kansas
Titre: Play The Game Tonight
Année: 1982
Billboard: #4

Kansas est un groupe de musique rock né dans les années 1970 et originaire de Topeka, dans l'État du Kansas. Il est devenu célèbre avec les morceaux Dust in the Wind et Carry On My Wayward Son.

Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced eight gold albums, three sextuple-platinum albums (Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, The Best of Kansas), one platinum live album (Two for the Show) and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.

Michael Jackson - Beat It



Interprète: Michael Jackson
Titre: Beat It
Année: 1982
Billboard: #14

Michael Joseph Jackson, né le à Gary (Indiana) et mort le à Los Angeles (Californie), est un chanteur, danseur-chorégraphe, auteur-compositeur-interprète acteur et réalisateur américain. Il est reconnu par le Livre Guinness des records comme étant l’artiste le plus couronné de succès de tous les temps. Selon le Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, il a été identifié comme étant l'artiste le plus populaire de toute l'histoire de l'industrie du spectacle.
Septième d'une famille de neuf enfants, il chante avec ses frères dès l'âge de six ans et débute une carrière professionnelle à l'âge de onze ans au sein des Jackson Five, groupe formé avec ses frères aînés. Tout en restant membre du groupe, il entame en 1971 une carrière solo. Sept de ses albums solo parus de son vivant figurent parmi les albums les plus vendus au monde : Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory (1995), Blood on the Dance Floor (1997) et Invincible (2001).
Dans les années 1980, Michael Jackson devient une figure majeure de la musique pop et l'une des personnalités les plus célèbres du XXe siècle. Il révolutionne l'industrie du disque, notamment en concevant des clips musicaux comparables à des courts-métrages de cinéma, comme Beat It, Billie Jean, Thriller, Bad ou Smooth Criminal. Au cours de ses concerts, vidéos et apparitions publiques, il popularise largement de nombreux pas de danse, dont le Moonwalk, qui devient sa signature. Ayant fusionné les genres de musique soul, funk et rock, son style vocal et musical continue d'influencer nombre d'artistes de hip-hop, pop et R'n'B contemporain.
Surnommé « The King of Pop » (« Le Roi de la pop »), Michael Jackson a battu nombre de records de l'industrie du disque. Pour l'ensemble de sa carrière, les ventes de ses singles et albums s'élèvent à près d'un milliard d'exemplaires, ce qui le classe parmi les trois plus gros vendeurs de disques de tous les temps, avec les Beatles et Elvis Presley. Thriller, avec des estimations de vente variant entre 51 et 65 millions d'exemplaires, est quant à lui l'album le plus vendu de l'histoire. Michael Jackson a remporté plus de prix que n'importe quel autre artiste et a été élu Artiste du Millénaire aux World Music Awards en 2000.
Michael Jackson a donné plus de 400 millions de dollars à des œuvres caritatives, notamment grâce à sa tournée Dangerous World Tour. Toutefois, son image publique a été considérablement ternie à cause de certains aspects de sa vie privée, notamment ses recours à la chirurgie esthétique, son mode de vie jugé excentrique par les tabloïds, ainsi que deux accusations d'abus sexuel sur mineur. L'une n'a pas connu de suite judiciaire et l'autre a abouti à un procès, au terme duquel Michael Jackson a été acquitté. Ses deux mariages et ses trois enfants sont également à l'origine de polémiques, notamment concernant sa paternité. En 2010, le FBI rend public le dossier de Michael Jackson, dans lequel les autorités soulignent n'avoir trouvé aucune preuve ou comportement chez Jackson qui soutiendrait les accusations passées.
Michael Jackson meurt le , par « homicide accidentel » lié à une overdose de médicaments, au moment même où il prépare avec son groupe et ses danseurs la série de concerts This Is It qui doivent se dérouler à Londres. Le 7 novembre 2011, à l'issue d'un procès de neuf semaines, le Dr Conrad Murray, son médecin personnel, est reconnu coupable d'homicide involontaire par la Cour supérieure de Los Angeles.

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member of the Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were credited with breaking down racial barriers and with transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then-relatively-new television channel MTV to fame. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream", he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop, and rock artists.
Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best selling album of all time. His other albums, including Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), and HIStory (1995), also rank among the world's best selling albums. Jackson is one of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice. He was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Dance Hall of Fame as the first and only dancer from pop and rock music. His other achievements include multiple Guinness World Records; 13 Grammy Awards, as well as the Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award; 26 American Music Awards—more than any other artist—including the "Artist of the Century" and "Artist of the 1980s"; 13 number-one singles in the United States during his solo career, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era; and the estimated sale of over 400 million records worldwide. Jackson has won hundreds of awards, making him the most awarded recording artist in the history of popular music. Jackson became the first artist in history to have a top ten single in the Billboard Hot 100 in five different decades when "Love Never Felt So Good" reached number nine on May 21, 2014. Jackson traveled the world attending events honoring his humanitarianism, and, in 2000, the Guinness World Records recognized him for supporting 39 charities, more than any other entertainer.
Aspects of Jackson's personal life, including his changing appearance, personal relationships, and behavior, generated controversy. In the mid-1990s, he was accused of child sexual abuse, but the civil case was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount and no formal charges were brought. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of further child sexual abuse allegations and several other charges after the jury found him not guilty on all counts. While preparing for his comeback concert series titled This Is It, Jackson died of acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication on June 25, 2009, after suffering from cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled his death a homicide, and his personal physician Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Jackson's death triggered a global outpouring of grief and a live broadcast of his public memorial service was viewed around the world.

Billy Idol - Hot In The City



Interprète: Billy Idol
Titre: Hot In The City
Année: 1982
Billboard: #31

Billy Idol, né William Michael Albert Broad le à Stanmore dans le Middlesex en Grande-Bretagne, est un chanteur de rock britannique.
Il rejoint brièvement le groupe Siouxsie & The Banshees en 1976 avant d’intégrer comme guitariste le groupe punk Chelsea en 1977, qui deviendra Generation X après le départ de son leader Gene October (en) dont il récupère la place de chanteur-leader. Il entame ensuite avec succès une carrière solo américaine et internationale après la séparation du groupe.

William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English rock musician, songwriter and actor. Born in Stanmore, Middlesex, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X. Unlike other British punk rock artists of his era, Idol was inspired by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Idol then embarked on a successful solo career, and was a member of the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States. A series of music videos for songs such as "Dancing With Myself", "White Wedding", "Rebel Yell" and "Eyes Without a Face" made him one of the first MTV stars. Idol continues to tour with guitarist Steve Stevens.

mardi 26 mai 2015

Haircut One Hundred - Love Plus One



Interprète: Haircut One Hundred
Titre: Love Plus One
Année: 1982
Billboard: #18

Haircut 100 est un groupe de pop britannique actif entre 1981 et 1984, puis de nouveau depuis 2009.
Il est fondé en 1980, après avoir adopté différents noms, par trois amis d'enfance : Nick Heyward au chant, Les Nemes à la basse et Graham Jones à la guitare. Après quelques concerts, Haircut 100 est signé par la maison de disques Arista, et verra sa formation augmenter à six membres avec l'arrivée de trois musiciens de session : Phil Smith aux cuivres, Mark Fox aux percussions et Blair Cunningham à la batterie.

Haircut One Hundred are a British New wave group formed in 1980 by Nick Heyward. The band had four UK Top 10 hit singles between 1981 and 1982, including "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)", "Love Plus One" and "Fantastic Day".

Gamma - Right The First Time



Interprète: Gamma
Titre: Right The First Time
Année: 1982
Billboard: #10

Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison in San Francisco in 1979. They released four albums: Gamma 1 in 1979, Gamma 2 in 1980, Gamma 3 in 1982 (all on Elektra Records) and Gamma 4 in 2000. Some of their best known songs are probably "Fight to the Finish" from their first album, "Meanstreak" and "Voyager" from the second album.

Face To Face - Out Of My Hands



Interprète: Face To Face
Titre: Out Of My Hands
Année: 1984
Billboard: #55

Face to Face was a new wave quintet from Boston, Massachusetts.

Steve Earl & The Dukes - I Ain't Ever Satisfied



Interprète: Steve Earle & The Dukes
Titre: I Ain't Ever Satisfied
Année: 1987
Billboard: #26

Steve Earle, Stephen Fain Earle pour l'état-civil, et né le à Fort Monroe en Virginie, est un musicien américain, apparu au public avec la scène country alternative du début des années 1980.

Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle (/ˈɜrl/) (born January 17, 1955) is an American rock, country and folk singer-songwriter, record producer, author and actor. Earle began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and released his first EP in 1982. His breakthrough album was the 1986 album Guitar Town. Since then Earle has released 15 other studio albums and received three Grammy awards. His songs have been recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris. He has appeared in film and television, and has written a novel, a play, and a book of short stories.

Roger Daltrey - Martyrs And Madmen



Interprète: Roger Daltrey
Titre: Martyrs And Madmen
Année: 1982
Billboard: #38

Roger Harry Daltrey, né le 1er mars 1944 à Shepherd's Bush dans la banlieue de Londres, est un chanteur de Rock britannique, membre fondateur du groupe The Who. Il a également été acteur dans de nombreux films, pièces de théâtre et téléfilms.

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the founder and lead singer of the English rock band The Who, which released fourteen singles that entered the top ten charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including "I Can't Explain", "My Generation", "Substitute", "I'm a Boy", "Happy Jack", "Pictures of Lily", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again", and "You Better You Bet". Daltrey began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of the Who. Since then, he has released eight studio albums, five compilation albums, and one live album. His solo hits include "Giving It All Away", "Walking the Dog", "Written on the Wind", "Free Me", "Without Your Love", "Walking in My Sleep", "After the Fire", and "Under a Raging Moon". In 2010 he was ranked as number 61 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.
Daltrey has long been known as one of the most charismatic of rock's front-men and famed for his powerful voice and energetic stage presence. His persona has earned him a position as one of the "gods of rock and roll".
As a member of the Who, Daltrey received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1988, and from the Grammy Foundation in 2001. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. The Who are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century, selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Daltrey has also been an actor and film producer, with roles in films, theatre and television.

dimanche 24 mai 2015

John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side



Interprète: John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band
Titre: On The Dark Side
Année: 1984
Billboard: #1

John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band is an American rock band from Rhode Island which began its career in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s. Originally known as simply Beaver Brown, they got their name from longtime friend William Bosworth. classic lineup of the group (consisting of John Cafferty on vocals and guitar, Gary Gramolini on lead guitar, Pat Lupo on bass, Kenny Jo Silva on drums, Bobby Cotoia on keyboards, and Michael "Tunes" Antunes on saxophone) started out as a New England bar band based in Narragansett, Rhode Island and established a following up and down the Northeast corridor with strongholds in the beach resort towns of Narragansett and Misquamicut, Rhode Island; New York City; New Haven, Connecticut; Boston, Massachusetts; and Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Bad Company - Electricland



Interprète: Bad Company
Titre: Electricland
Année: 1982
Billboard: #2

Bad Company est un groupe de hard rock britannique formé en 1973 par deux anciens membres du groupe Free : le chanteur Paul Rodgers et le batteur Simon Kirke, avec Mick Ralphs (ancien guitariste de Mott the Hoople) et Boz Burrell (ancien bassiste de King Crimson).

Bad Company are a British rock supergroup formed in Westminster, London in 1973 by two former Free band members – singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke – as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell. Peter Grant, who managed the rock band Led Zeppelin, also managed Bad Company until 1982.
Bad Company enjoyed great success throughout the 1970s. Their first three albums, Bad Company (1974), Straight Shooter (1975) and Run With the Pack (1976), reached the top five in the album charts in both the UK and US. Many of their singles, such as "Bad Company", "Can't Get Enough", "Good Lovin' Gone Bad", and "Feel Like Makin' Love", remain staples of classic rock radio.

Accept - Balls To The Wall



Interprète: Accept
Titre: Balls To The Wall
Année: 1984
Billboard: #21

Accept est un groupe de heavy metal allemand, originaire de Solingen. Il est fondé par le chanteur Udo Dirkschneider et par le guitariste Michael Wagener (devenu producteur depuis). Le groupe débute sous le nom de Band X, en 1968, avant de prendre le nom d'Accept, en 1971. Il ne commence une carrière professionnelle qu'à la fin des années 1970. Le groupe se dissout et se reforme plusieurs fois ; dernièrement en 2009. Il est notamment reconnu pour avoir joué un rôle important dans l'essor du speed metal, avec leur chanson Fast as a Shark. L'album Balls to the Wall, sort en 1983, et est vu comme l'un des disques classiques de l'histoire du metal.
Au niveau esthétique, leur musique est plus particulièrement connue pour un style de heavy metal incisif et puissant. Elle est aussi marquée par de nombreuses références à la musique classique. Le groupe a également exploré différentes possibilités stylistiques (entre autres dans le hard FM, le speed metal, le hard rock, le metal alternatif, etc.). Au niveau des paroles, une partie importante du répertoire est marquée par des textes engagés liés aux questions sociales et aux droits de l'homme (l'oppression des minorités dans le monde, la dénonciation du racisme, des préjugés, de la peine de mort, de la guerre et du militarisme, du fondamentalisme religieux ou, encore, du conformisme social, etc.).
Le groupe connaît un succès important au cours des années 1980. Il est souvent considéré comme la seconde figure importante du heavy metal allemand, après Scorpions. Il fait également l'objet de controverses au cours des années 1980, dans lesquelles il est accusé, sans fondement, de sympathies nazies (en France et en Pologne), de sympathies soviétiques (aux États-Unis), d'attitudes anti-soviétiques (en URSS). Il leur est également reproché la thématique apparemment gay-friendly de certaines chansons et imageries. Ces controverses se dissipent avec le temps.

Accept is a German heavy metal band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled by former vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, guitarist Wolf Hoffmann and bassist Peter Baltes. Their beginnings can be traced back to the late 1960s. The band played an important role in the development of speed and thrash metal, being part of the German heavy metal scene, which emerged in the early to mid-1980s. Accept achieved commercial success with their fifth studio album Balls to the Wall (1983), which remains the band's only album to be certified gold in the United States and Canada, and spawned their well-known hit "Balls to the Wall".
Following their disbandment in 1997 and short-lived reunion in 2005, Accept reunited again in 2009 with former T.T. Quick frontman Mark Tornillo replacing Dirkschneider and released their three highest charting albums to date, Blood of the Nations (2010), Stalingrad (2012) and Blind Rage (2014), the latter of which was Accept's first album to reach number one on the charts in their home country.


ABC - The Look Of Love




Interprète: ABC
Titre: The Look Of Love
Année: 1982
Billboard: #32

ABC est un groupe de musique new wave britannique créé en 1980.

ABC are an English new wave group that first came to prominence in the early 1980s. Their 1982 debut album, The Lexicon of Love, was a UK number one and they achieved ten UK and five US Top 40 hit singles between 1981 and 1990. The band, now essentially singer Martin Fry, continues to tour and released their eighth studio album, Traffic, in 2008.

Baby Animals - Painless



Interprète: Baby Animals
Titre: Painless
Année: 1982
Billboard: #29

Baby Animals are a 1990s hard rock band from Australia.

samedi 23 mai 2015

Caesars - Jerk It Out



Interprète: Caesars
Titre: Jerk It Out
Année: 2005
Billboard: #40

Caesars est un groupe de rock alternatif suédois. Il est d'abord connu sous le nom de Caesars Palace dans son pays natal, ou encore Twelve Caesars dans le reste de la Scandinavie.
Le groupe est créé à l'origine en 1995 par deux amis : Cesar Vidal et Jocke Ahlund. Ceux-ci sont rejoints après par David Lindqvist et Jens Orjenheim. Mais Jens décide de quitter le groupe, et fut remplacé par Nino Keller. Leurs trois premiers albums ne se sont vendus qu'en Scandinavie mais ils se sont fait connaitre en dehors de celle-ci grâce à leur chanson Jerk It Out qui s'est répandue entre autres par la publicité à la télévision.
En 2005, Jerk It Out a été repris par Apple pour la promotion de son baladeur iPod Shuffle. Depuis, le single est entré dans les meilleures ventes et les titres de Paper Tigers sont joués sur différentes radios.
Leur 6e album, intitulé Strawberry Weed est sorti le 24 mars 2008.

Caesar was a Dutch indie rock trio from Amsterdam, consisting of Roald van Oosten, Marit de Loos and Sem Bakker. The band was founded in 1994. Caesar released four studio albums, plus one retrospective release in 2006, Before My Band Explodes. The band was stopped in 2008. They were named for Julius Caesar who is famous for being a Roman Dictator.

dada - Dizz Knee Land



Interprète: dada
Titre: Dizz Knee Land
Année: 1992
Billboard: #5


Eagles - Get Over It


Interprète: Eagles
Titre: Get Over It
Année: 1994
Billboard: #4

Eagles est un groupe californien formé en 1970, aux influences country et Bluegrass, pionnier du country rock.

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971 by Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner. With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone‍ '​s list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
The Eagles are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, having sold more than 150 million records—100 million in the U.S. alone—including 42 million copies of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and 32 million copies of Hotel California. "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" was the best selling album of the 20th century in the U.S. They are the fifth-highest-selling music act and highest-selling American band in U.S. history. No American band sold more records than the Eagles during the 1970s.
The Eagles released their self-titled debut album in 1972, which spawned three top 40 singles: "Take It Easy", "Witchy Woman", and "Peaceful Easy Feeling". Their next album, Desperado (1973), was less successful than the first, only reaching number 41 on the charts; neither of its singles reached the top 40. However, the album contained two of the band's most popular tracks: "Desperado" and "Tequila Sunrise". They released On the Border in 1974, adding guitarist Don Felder midway through the recording of the album. The album generated two top 40 singles: "Already Gone" and their first number one, "Best of My Love".
It was not until 1975's One of These Nights that the Eagles became arguably America's biggest band. The album included three top 10 singles: "One of These Nights", "Lyin' Eyes", and "Take It to the Limit", the first hitting the top of the charts. They continued that success and hit their commercial peak in late 1976 with the release of Hotel California, which would go on to sell more than 16 million copies in the U.S. alone and more than 32 million copies worldwide. The album yielded two number-one singles, "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California". They released their last studio album for nearly 28 years in 1979 with The Long Run, which spawned three top 10 singles: "Heartache Tonight", "The Long Run", and "I Can't Tell You Why", the lead single being another chart-topping hit.
The Eagles disbanded in July 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks. They have toured intermittently since then and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their first full studio album in 28 years and their sixth number one album. The next year they launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour in support of the album. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the band's documentary release, History of the Eagles.