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"Snowblind" is a song by Styx that appears on the Paradise Theatre album released in 1981. The song is about the helplessness of cocaine addiction, [1] alternating between slow, brooding verses (sung by James Young) and a faster, harder-edged chorus (sung by Tommy Shaw), representing the addict's cycle of highs and lows.
Snowblind or Snow Blind may refer to: Snow blindness or photokeratitis, ... "Snowblind" (Styx song), 1981 "Snowblind", by +/- from Xs on Your Eyes, 2008
The album was originally to be titled Snowblind in reference to both the song "Snowblind" and the amount of cocaine they took while recording. However, according to Geezer, the record label thought this was too edgy and retitled the album Vol. 4 and changed the artwork while the band was on vacation.
The song was released as a 45 RPM single in a 4:48 single edit, which has the synthesizer intro and a bar at the finale removed (available on Greatest Hits released by PolyTel in Canada in 1992), with the song "Snowblind" (from their previous album Paradise Theatre) as the B-side.
The album featured a cover of Hoyt Axton's "Snowblind Friend", their second cover of one of his antidrug songs (the first being "The Pusher"). Along with "Who Needs Ya", it was one of two singles from the album which made the charts, but fell short of the top 40. [ 5 ]
The song enjoyed a small revival when The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon started talking about the music video after hearing the song on the radio in April 2016. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This culminated with the episode on April 29, 2016, when Fallon showed a shot-by-shot reenactment of the video with him and guest Paul Rudd on the show. [ 12 ]
In Indian cinema, an item number or special song is a musical number inserted into a film that may or may not have any relevance to the plot. The term is commonly used within Indian films ( Telugu , Tamil , Hindi , Kannada , Punjabi , and Bengali cinema) to describe a catchy, upbeat, often provocative dance sequence for a song performed in a ...
Gaana songs are performed at weddings, stage shows, political rallies, and funerals. Performers sing about a wide range of topics, but the essence of gaana is said to be "angst and melancholy" based in life's struggles. [2] In the past few decades, the genre has entered the music of the mainstream Tamil film industry and gained popularity.