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#251
LIVE 3
Pixie Lott - Easy (Live at V Festival 2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUA-C1KsGk8&feature=related0
I knew that she'd seen me 'cause she dropped her bikini
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#253
Puff Daddy - It's All About The Benjamins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcckWzjJMIg
"It's All about the Benjamins" is the fourth single released from the Puff Daddy album No Way Out. The song is about living rich and the importance of having money. "Benjamins" are slang for $100 bills (USD), a reference to Benjamin Franklin's image on the bills.
The song debuted in 1996 on DJ Clue's Holiday Holdup mixtape. This version of the song only featured Puff Daddy and the rap act The LOX (excluding Styles P). The song was later added to Puffy's debut album, No Way Out, in a remix, "It's All about the Benjamins (Remix)", which added two new verses by Lil Kim and Notorious B.I.G. Lil Kim also provided the song with a chorus which the original version lacked. This version of the song also omitted the word "Hebrews" out of Jadakiss' verse, however, the word was left in on the first pressing, subsequent pressings removed the word. Additionally, when it was released on the Bad Boy's Greatest Hits Vol. I album, it retained the word. This single made it to #62 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and its video won a Viewer's Choice award at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards show. Due to the rarity of the obscure mixtape version, the remix featured on No Way Out is often considered the song's definitive version to avoid confusion.
The song samples two pieces of music. The first sample heard up to the end of Lil Kim's verse is taken from the song "I Did It For Love" by the Love Unlimited. The verse performed by Notorious B.I.G. contains a sample from the Jackson 5 song "It's Great to Be Here." This latter sample is exclusive to the No Way Out remix. After the final verse, the song reverts to the first sample and ends shortly after.
In 2008, it was ranked number 32 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Puffy also released a rock version of the song, "It's All about the Benjamins (Rock Remix)". This collaboration, also known as "Shot-Caller Rock Remix" and "Rock Remix I", featured Tommy Stinson, Fuzzbubble, Rob Zombie and Dave Grohl on drums. This remix added guitar riffs and live drums, as well as a more "in your face" approach to the song's chorus. This version had its own music video, directed by Spike Jonze, which was nominated for Best Video Of The Year on MTV Video Music Awards in 1998.
In 1999, Puffy performed this remix with a live band at Giants Stadium for the NetAid benefit concert. This performance featured Slash on guitar as well as Lil' Cease and Lil' Kim on vocals.
There is also a slightly different alternative to this remix called, "It's All about the Benjamins (Rock Remix II)." This lesser known version adds Size 14 to the song's already long collaboration line-up.
Both rock remixes of the song was released as edited versions, the explicit versions were never released or created.
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#254
Puff Daddy "Pain"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMvrkb_X5QI
"Pain" is a song on Puff Daddy's 1997 album No Way Out.
The song is about tragedies from Puff Daddy's life, including the murder of his father Melvin Combs in 1972, the New York City College Stampede of 1991 and the death of his label-mate and friend Notorious BIG in 1997.
The song features audio from Notorious BIG which was recorded before his death when the song was made.
There is a completely different song also entitled Pain on the follow-up album Forever.
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#255
Puff Daddy "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMvrkb_X5QI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMvrkb_X5QI
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" is a hip-hop song by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. It appears on Combs' debut album No Way Out and it was released as the first single in 1997.
Combs was already a successful songwriter, producer and record label owner (Bad Boy Records) before he released his debut album as a performer. His first U.S. chart single, "No Time", was a top-twenty hit for Lil' Kim on which Puff Daddy was credited as a featured vocalist. "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" was the debut chart appearance for Harlem-based rapper Mase.
The song combines elements of several previous singles, the most obvious being a slowed-down rhythm track sampled from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message". The track's chorus is an interpolation of "Break My Stride", a top-five single by Matthew Wilder from 1983.
"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at number thirty-two in early 1997 and eventually spent six weeks at number one. It was the beginning of Combs' and Bad Boy Records' chart domination during the year — the Combs-produced "Hypnotize" by The Notorious B.I.G. would follow this song at number one, and the B.I.G. tribute song "I'll Be Missing You" spent eleven weeks at number one during the summer, only to be followed by another B.I.G. song, "Mo Money Mo Problems" and then the Combs-produced "Honey" by Mariah Carey.
The albums from Combs, Mase, B.I.G. and Carey would also dominate the top slots of the Billboard 200 during this time as well.
The packaging for the single stated that the song was from the upcoming album Hell Up in Harlem, retitled as No Way Out prior to its release.
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#256
Puff Daddy "I'll Be Missing You"
"I'll Be Missing You" is a Grammy Award-winning song and hit single recorded by Puff Daddy, Faith Evans and 112, in memory of fellow Bad Boy Records artist Notorious B.I.G. who was murdered on March 9, 1997. Released as the second single from Puff Daddy and the Family's No Way Out album, "I'll Be Missing You" sampled the melody and some of the lyrics of The Police's "Every Breath You Take" from 1983.
The song was listed at #84 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All Time.[1]
The song, a rap ballad, had already been completed before permission was granted to use the sample from the 1983 song. As well as these artists, Sting (vocalist from The Police) joined in at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. Sting owns 100% of the publishing royalties[2]. The single however was not written by Puff Daddy but by Terry "Sauce Money" Carroll, a rapper from the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn who received a Grammy for his efforts in 1997.
As well as using the melody and arrangement of "Every Breath You take" the single also borrows the melody from the well-known American spiritual "I'll Fly Away."
There are several different versions of this song. One being an extended version (choir at beginning), another without the choir and an instrumental version. In the extended version of the song the choir is heard singing in the beginning of "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber.
A slightly altered version of the song was performed by Diddy at the Concert for Diana in Wembley, United Kingdom.
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#258
Classic 45rpm 1
The Ivy League were an English trio, created in 1964, who enjoyed two Top 10 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart in 1965. The group's sound was characterised by rich, three-part vocal harmonies
The Ivy League - Funny How Love Can Be (NME)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmTrKaDrpbwThe Ivy League were an English trio, created in 1964, who enjoyed two Top 10 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart in 1965. The group's sound was characterised by rich, three-part vocal harmonies
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#259
Classic 45rpm 2
THE KINGSTON TRIO- " TOM DOOLEY "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZYjc57V55UThe Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group originated as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33? rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.
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#260
Classic 45rpm 3
Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do - Neil Sedaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbad22CKlB4Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. His career has spanned over 50 years, during which time he has written many songs for himself and others, often working with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.
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#266
2Pac - Trapped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCEmTaWSPTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCEmTaWSPTk
"Trapped" is a song by 2Pac that deals with police brutality. It was a single from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The first verse tells a story of 2Pac being harassed by the police, and one even shooting at him. He then fires back and says he did it, because he would be ridiculed by girls if he didn't. 2Pac then depicts the police chasing after him and eventually cornering him. He then ends the song with the line "I'd rather die then be trapped in the living hell", implying he will go out in a blaze of glory rather than going to jail.
The music video features Shock G singing part of the song's chorus and depicts 2Pac in jail. It appeared as a bonus on the DVD for Tupac: Resurrection.
The song samples "Holy Ghost" by Bar-Kays and "The Spank" by James Brown
"Trapped" was featured on 2Pac's Greatest Hits in 1998.
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#267
Tupac - If My Homies Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2meZCM4Ols
"If My Homie Calls"[1] is the second single by 2Pac from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. A music video was also made for this single. He performed this song in the early 1990s on the famed MTV show Yo! MTV Raps.
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#268
2Pac - Brenda's Got A Baby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl54ABY8VgY
"Brenda's Got a Baby" is the solo debut single by Tupac Shakur, and tenth track from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a fictional twelve-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it. The song explores the issue of teen pregnancy and its effect on the young mothers and their families. Like many of Shakur's songs, "Brenda's Got a Baby" draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the baby's father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a twelve-year-old girl who got pregnant from her cousin and, because she did not want her parents to know about the baby, threw it in a trash can.
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#269
Public Enemy - You're Gonna Get Yours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYblg4i2HD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYblg4i2HD8
"You're Gonna Get Yours" (sometimes subtitled "My 98 Oldsmobile") is a 1987 single by hip hop group Public Enemy from their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show (1987). Chuck D references the Oldsmobile 98 automobile in the song's lyrics. It peaked at number 88 on the UK Singles Chart.
M|A|R|R|S sampled the song on their 1987 song "Pump Up the Volume". Red Hot Chili Peppers sometimes played a short version of the song as an intro during live performances of Give It Away.
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#270
Public Enemy & Anthrax - Bring tha noise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBA-xi8WuCU
In 1991, Public Enemy recorded a new version of "Bring the Noise" in a collaboration with the thrash metal band Anthrax. Chuck D has stated that upon the initial request of Anthrax, he "didn't take them wholehearted seriously", but after the collaboration was done, "it made too much sense".[2] It was included on the Anthrax album Attack of the Killer B's and on Public Enemy's own Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Black, and was followed by a joint tour by the two bands, with shows escalating in a dual performance of the song at the very end of the set. Chuck D went on to say that shows on the tour were "some of the hardest" they ever experienced, but when the two bands joined on stage for "Bring the Noise", "it was shrapnel".[2]
As one of the first and most admired rap metal songs, the Anthrax version of "Bring the Noise" is considered highly influential. It attempted to bridge the gap between hip hop and heavy metal and paved the way for other attempts to mix the two genres. It was ranked #12 on VH1's 2006 list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs [3] and is featured in the video games WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW, WWE Wrestlemania 21 , WWE Day of Reckoning, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x.
The title of the Anthrax version is sometimes spelled "Bring tha Noise" or "Bring tha Noize".
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#271
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-hEyVQDRA
"Master of Puppets" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It is the title track and was released as the first single from their album of the same name.
The album's structure is similar to Metallica's previous album Ride the Lightning, it is the second track, preceded by a shorter, high-speed typical thrash metal track. There are several such similarities between Metallica's albums Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for All. Master of Puppets is also notable for its extensive use of downpicking and its long instrumental section, beginning about three and a half minutes into the song.
The song, as lead singer James Hetfield explained, "deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you." [1]
This song is featured in the video game Guitar Hero: Metallica.
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#272
Metallica - Enter Sandman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QP-SIW6iKY
"Enter Sandman" was the first music video from Metallica, and the band's second ever. It was also the first of six Metallica music videos directed by Wayne Isham.[38] Recorded on July 3, 1991 in Los Angeles, it premiered on July 30, 1991, two weeks before the release of the album.[17] The plot of the music video directly relates to the theme of the song, combining images of a child having nightmares and images of an old man with shots of the band playing the song.[39] The child dreams that he is drowning, falling from the top of a building, being chased by a truck and finally falling from a mountain while escaping the truck. During the part of the song in which the child recites a prayer, he is being watched by the Sandman. Throughout the video, the picture flickers continuously. The music video won Best Hard Rock Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards and was nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Editing.[21] Andrew Blackie of PopMatters has said the video's "narrative suits the sludgy riffs and James Hetfield’s twisted lullaby lyric".[39]
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#274
Metallica - One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzgGTTtR0kc
"One" is a song by the American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released as the fourth and final single from their fourth album ...And Justice for All. "One" was also the band's first Top 40 hit single, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100. It is one of their most popular songs and has remained a permanent live staple since the release of the album. Like "Fade to Black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "The Day That Never Comes", the song starts off slow and clean, but as the song goes on, becomes heavier and faster, leading up to a tapping solo by Kirk Hammett, and a dual guitar solo by Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield. Despite being a big hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the music video receiving heavy airplay on MTV, the song itself received very little to no radio airplay, due to its "violent" lyrics and length of over seven minutes.[citation needed]
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