VALENTINE

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER
SONGWRITERS: MIKE ELIZONDO; LUKE HEMMINGS; CALUM HOOD; JUSTIN TRANTER & ASHTON IRWIN
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: YOUNGBLOOD
LABEL: CAPITL RECORDS
GENRE: POP MUSIC
YEAR: 2018
 
   5 Seconds of Summer, often shortened to 5SOS (pronounced as '5 sos'), are an Australian pop rock band from SydneyNew South Wales, formed in late 2011. The group consists of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Luke Hemmings, lead guitarist Michael Clifford, bassist Calum Hood, and drummer Ashton Irwin. Originally beginning their career as YouTube celebrities, they rose to international fame while touring with English-Irish boy band One Direction on their Take Me Home Tour. Since 2014, 5 Seconds of Summer have sold more than 10 million albums, sold over 2 million concert tickets worldwide, and the band's songs streams surpass 7 billion, making them one of the most successful Australian musical exports in history.
        In early 2014, the band released "She Looks So Perfect" which topped the charts in four countries. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2014, peaking at number one in 11 countries. The band released their second álbum Sounds Good Feels Good in 2015, topping the charts in 8 countries. The band's third album Youngblood, released in 2018, was a commercial success and became their third number one album in their home country. In the US, 5 Seconds of Summer became the first Australian act to achieve three number one albums on the Billboard 200 album chart. They also became the first band (not vocal group) to have their first three full-length albums debut at the top in the US. The album's single, "Youngblood" is the fourth highest selling Australian single of the 2010-2019 decade and is the eleventh best-selling single in Australian history, selling over five million adjusted copies worldwide within the first six months of its release. With the release of "Youngblood", 5 Seconds of Summer became the first Australian act in 13 years to top ARIA year-end chart and remain the second longest stint at number one in ARIA chart history. In 2020, the band released their fourth studio álbum Calm. The album was a commercial success, receiving positive reviews from critics, charting in more than 25 countries on multiple charts, peaking in the 10 top on 17 charts and debuting atop the charts in 4 countries. With Calm earning the band their fourth consecutive number one in their home country, 5 Seconds of Summer became the second Australian band in history to have their first four full-length studio albums debut at number one on the ARIA albums chart.
        All singles from the band's four studio albums, as well as all four albums, have charted in multiple countries, received multiple official sale certifications, and have been featured in numerous weekly and year-end charts, as well as making an appearance on decade-end charts. The band has received numerous accolades and awards, including being honored with the prestigious APRA Outstanding International Achievement Award in 2019, being placed on Billboard's Top Artists of the 2010s chart, which lists the most popular and successful artists of the 2010-2019 decade and being credited in the exclusive APRA AMCOS 1,000,000,000 List in 2020. As of mid-2020, the band's estimated net worth is approximately US$81 million.
   Youngblood is the third studio album by Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds of Summer. The album was initially set to be released on 22 June 2018, but was later brought forward to 15 June. Four singles were released in support of the album: "Want You Back", "Youngblood", "Valentine" and "Lie to Me". The album was released to positive reviews, with critics praising the lyrical maturity and the sound change from their previous work. In support of the album, the band embarked on the Meet You There Tour.
            As well as appearing on a multitude of weekly and 2018 and 2019 year-end charts over several countries and receiving multiple certifications, the album's title track, "Youngblood", impacted the ARIA decade-end chart (2010-2019), which ranks the most popular songs of the decade, at number thirty-seven. In the ARIA Australian decade-end chart (2010-2019), ranking the most popular songs of the decade by Australian artists, "Youngblood" ranked at number four. "Youngblood" sold over five million adjusted copies and is the most streamed Australian song of all time on Apple Music. According to ARIA certifications,"Youngblood" is the eleventh best-selling single in Australian history. Youngblood was the most-streamed Australian album of 2018. In February 2020, the band were honored in the APRA AMCOS' The 1,000,000,000 List, for "Youngblood" having been streamed over 1 billion times.
I love the light in your eyes and the dark in your heart
You love our permanent chase and the bite of our bark
We know we're classic together like Egyptian gold
We love us
 
It don't matter, be combative or be sweet cherry pie
It don't matter just as long as I get all you tonight
 
I can take you out, oh-oh
We can kill some time, stay home
Throw balloons, teddy bears and the chocolate eclairs await
Got nothing but love for you, fall more in love every day
Valentine, valentine
 
So deep, your DNA's being messed with my touch
Can't beat us
So real, fueling the fire until we combust
Can't touch us
 
It don't matter, be combative or sweet cherry pie
It don't matter just as long as I get all you tonight
 
I can take you out, oh-oh
We can kill some time, stay home
Throw balloons, teddy bears and the chocolate eclairs await
Got nothing but love for you, fall more in love every day
Valentine, valentine
 
Full plate, don't wait, have your cake and eat it, too
Full plate, don't wait, have your cake and eat it
 
I can take you out, oh-oh
We can kill some time, stay home
Throw balloons, teddy bears and the chocolate eclairs await
Got nothing but love for you, fall more in love every day
Valentine, valentine
Valentine, valentine.

CALL IF YOU NEED ME

VANCE JOY
SONGWRITER: JAMES KEOGH
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA
ALBUM: NATION OF TWO
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: INDIE FOLK
YEAR: 2018
 
       James Gabriel Keogh(born 1 December 1987), known professionally as Vance Joy, is an Australian singer and songwriter. He signed a five-album deal with Atlantic Records in 2013. He released his debut EP God Loves You When You're Dancing in March 2013. His song "Riptide" was voted number 1 on the 2013 Triple J Hottest 100. Joy released his debut studio álbum Dream Your Life Away on 5 September 2014 in Australia and on 9 September 2014 elsewhere. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2015, he won Best Male Artist. His second studio album, Nation of Two, was released in 2018.
       Nation of Two is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Vance Joy. The album was announced on 12 January 2018, with Vance Joy explaining: "Nation of Two describes a perfectly self-contained couple; their world beginning and ending at the bed they share, the car they ride in, or any other place where they're together... the idea that their love for each other gives them their bearings; a point of reference that makes sense of life." The concept originally appeared in the Kurt Vonnegut novel Mother Night.
         At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, Nation of Two won Best Adult Contemporary Album.
I love you in the morning when the blood runs to your cheeks
Babe, you are the first thing and the last thing that I'd see
I was just a boy striking matches upon your heart
I couldn't get no sparks
 
Ask me to go faster, put my foot down to the floor
Standing at the edge, I feel like I've been here before
Loved you in the darkness and I loved you in fluorescent light
If it don't feel right, babe
 
You can run and hide, babe
Like a bird you can take flight
If I've been holding on too tight
If I've been holding on
 
Mmm-hmm, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
 
Your mother always told us we should go out to the dance
You can't get struck by lightning if you're not standing in the rain
Take it as the truth or you can take it with a grain of salt
If it don't work out
 
You were in the shower, we were talking through the glass
Packing up your suitcase, you were humming to yourself
One day you were smiling, I could tell by how you sounded on the phone
You said, "I'm coming home, babe"
 
I'm thinking 'bout coming home, babe
I'm thinking 'bout coming home, babe
I'm thinking 'bout coming home, babe
I'm thinking 'bout coming home
 
I'm thinking 'bout coming home
I'm thinking 'bout coming home.

 COME BACK TO ME

URIAH HEEP
SONGWRITER: KEN HENSLEY & LEE KERSLAKE
COUNTRY: U. K
ALBUM: FALLEN ANGEL
LABEL: CASTLE COMUNICATIONS
GENRE: HARD ROCK
YEAR: 1978
 
         Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969. Their current lineup consists of lead and rhythm guitarist Mick Box, keyboardist Phil Lanzon, lead vocalist Bernie Shaw, drummer Russell Gilbrook, and bassist Dave Rimmer. They have experienced numerous lineup changes throughout their 52-year career, leaving Box as the only remaining original member. Notable former members of the band are vocalists David Byron, John Lawton, John Sloman, Peter Goalby, and Steff Fontaine, bassists Gary Thain, Trevor Bolder, John Wetton, Bob Daisley, Paul Newton, and John Jowitt, drummers Nigel Olsson, Lee Kerslake and Chris Slade, and keyboardists Ken Hensley and John Sinclair.
      Uriah Heep were part of the early 1970s rock scene, and have been referred to as pioneers of the hard rock, heavy metal and progressive rock genres. The band has sold over 40 million albums worldwide, where its best-known songs include "Gypsy", "Easy Livin'", "The Wizard", "Sweet Lorraine", and "Stealin'". They also maintain a significant following and perform at arena-sized venues in the Balkans, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Finland and Scandinavia.
       Uriah Heep have released twenty-four studio albums of original material, twenty live albums and forty-one compilation albums (including two greatest hits albums). Twelve of the band's studio albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached Nº 7 in 1975), while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums, Demons and Wizards was the most successful (Nº 23, 1972). In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit.
           Fallen Angel is the 12th studio album by British rock band Uriah Heep, released in September 1978 by Bronze Records in the UK and Chrysalis Records in USA. It is the last album to feature John Lawton on vocals, before his firing in 1979. Fallen Angel only reached Nº 186 in the US Billboard 200, but in Germany, the band were at the height of their popularity. On this album, the band moved toward na AOR sound, as opposed to the progressive rock of previous albums.
      The album was remastered and reissued by Castle Communications in 1997 with four bonus tracks, and again in 2004 in an expanded deluxe edition.
Alone again I feel so alone again
With this emptiness I just can't hide
Picture me with a broken heart
See the tears run down my face
 
Everything I had has gone
Loneliness... still lingering on
Everything I thought was mine...
Come back to me can't, we try it one more time
Come back to me
 
I know I'll find another love in time
But you'll always be there in the back of my mind
The power of love can bring such pain
I still love you I just love you
 
Alone again I'm so alone again
With nothing but you in my mind
Can't you see what you've done to my life
What can I do to win you back again
 
Everything I had has gone
Loneliness... still lingering on
Everything I thought was mine...
Come back to me can't we try it one more time
Come back to me, take a piece of my heart
Come back to me.

ECHOES

PINK FLOYD
SONGWRITERS: DAVID GILMOUR; GEORGE WATERS; NICHOLAS MASON & RICHARD WRIGHT
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: MEDDLE
LABEL: HARVEST RECORDS
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1971
 
         "Echoes" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd, and the sixth and final track from their 1971 album Meddle. It is 23 and a half minutes long and takes up the entire second side of the original LP. The track was composed by combining a variety of different musical themes and ideas, including instrumental passages and studio effects, resulting in a side-long piece. The music was written by the group, while Roger Waters' lyrics addressed themes of human communication and empathy, which he returned to in later work.
           The song was performed live regularly by Pink Floyd from 1971 to 1975, including a performance in the film Live at Pompeii(1972). It was used for the opening shows on the 1987 A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour but dropped from subsequent performances. David Gilmour revived "Echoes" for his 2006 On an Island Tour, which featured Richard Wright, but retired the piece after Wright's death in 2008. The studio recording was used in the film Crystal Voyager(1973) while an edited version is included on the greatest-hits album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd(2001).
       "Echoes" has been regarded by critics as an important song that transitions between Pink Floyd's early experimental material as a cult band, and later mainstream success. Several publications have remarked it as one of the best songs by the group. The group have mixed views of the track, but it was a particular favourite of Wright's.
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
 
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the where's or why's
But something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb toward the light
 
Strangers passing in the street
By chance, two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can?
 
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around the sun
 
Cloudless everyday
You fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
 
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.