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Ukulele Songs is the second solo studio album by American singer and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. It was released on May 31, 2011. [ 1 ] The album is composed of original songs and new arrangements of several standards.
"If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away" is a ballad in which a young man fantasizes about being able to spend a day in Heaven, visiting friends and family members who have died. [2] The man begins his fantasy when he drives across a bridge near a fishing spot where he and his grandfather spent time and bonded, and the grandfather also operated a fruit ...
With his songwriting contributions limited by the dominance of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, Harrison was the first member of the Beatles to release a solo album. [1] Wonderwall Music (1968), a mostly instrumental soundtrack album combining Western and Indian sounds, [2] was followed by Electronic Sound (1969), an experimental album ...
Harrison likened "If I Needed Someone" to "a million other songs" that are based on a guitarist's finger movements around the D major chord. [22] [nb 3] The song is founded on a riff played on a Rickenbacker 360/12, [24] [25] which was the twelve-string electric guitar that McGuinn had adopted as the Byrds' signature instrument after seeing Harrison playing one in A Hard Day's Night.
"Solo" is an alternative R&B song that features church organs played by James Blake. [1] The song is in the key of E♭ major. [2] [3] Ocean sings in falsetto. [4] The track addresses the pain of living a solo life through a coming of age perspective while maintaining an upbeat sound. [5] The title is a double entendre.
The lyrics juxtapose the many marvels and feats of human civilisation with the death of the natural world, constantly emphasising the passing of time — "Time is not a friend, 'cos friends we're out of time". The recording features a lead guitar solo in the style of George Harrison. Lennon originally wrote a guitar solo for the song.
The song spent 26 weeks on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and peaked at No. 3. [4] An acoustic version performed on Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged in 1996 was released in a live album and DVD. "Heaven Beside You" was included on the compilation albums Music Bank (1999), Greatest Hits (2001), and The Essential Alice in Chains (2006).
"If You Wanna Get To Heaven" is a single by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their 1973 album The Ozark Mountain Daredevils. It was the band's debut single and the first of their two Top 40 hits, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. [3] The song sold about 500,000 copies. [4]