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Burn Down the Mission," the tenth and final track on Tumbleweed Connection, is the most enduring and frequently played song from the album, the only one played by John on his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour in 2022–23. [25]
This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire. In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the " Entrance of the Gladiators " March, played in a mysterious descending scale, before Russell finishes the last half of the bridge section.
The song charted in two charts in the United States; peaking at number 48 on Billboard ' Hot 100 Airplay, [6] and reaching number 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks [7] "Down by the Water" became a modern rock radio hit due to extensive rotation on MTV and college radio stations. Critical reception to "Down by the Water" was positive.
"Copper Kettle" (also known as "Get you a Copper Kettle", "In the pale moonlight") is a song composed by Albert Frank Beddoe and made popular by Joan Baez. Pete Seeger 's account dates the song to 1946, mentioning its probable folk origin, [ 1 ] while in a 1962 Time readers column A. F. Beddoe says [ 2 ] that the song was written by him in 1953 ...
Ocasek remains standing (and dry) because, as the song title suggests, "it's magic". The Cars shot "Magic" at the Hilton family house in Beverly Hills, which Kathy Hilton had leased to the band. A plexiglass platform sat under the surface of the water. The platform collapsed on the first take and had to be adjusted to support Ocasek's weight.
Starting in October 1998, a "Song of the week" was made available for download. This feature ended sometime in August 1999. The series consisted of 26 tracks in mp3 format, each at a bit rate of 128kbs, except for track 10, which has a bitrate of 160kbs. The compilation is notable for being released with the band's permission and containing ...
"Don't Go Near the Water" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1971 album Surf's Up. Written by Mike Love and Al Jardine, the song puts an ironic, ecological spin on the traditional Beach Boys beach- and surf- based songs: instead of enjoying surfing and other fun activities, this time the listener is advised to avoid the water for environmental reasons.
The "Astral Paddington Mix" is purely instrumental. Regarded as a “proto-‘trip-hop’” track, the song refers in the title to LSD encapsulated in thin gelatin squares, with the lyrics referring to the subjective effects of an LSD trip ("See microscopic, see world view, see the future leaking through; see the person who once was you"). [3]