I CAN'T BE WITH YOU

THE CRANBERRIES

SONGWRITERS: Dolores Mary O'riordan & Noel Anthony Hogan

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: NO NEED TO ARGUE

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1994

 

        The Cranberries were an Irish rock band formed in Limerick, Ireland. Originally named the Cranberry Saw Us, the band were formed in 1989 by lead singer Niall Quinn, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler. Quinn was replaced as lead singer by Dolores O'Riordan in 1990 and they changed their name to the Cranberries. The band classified themselves as an alternative rock group, but incorporated aspects of indie rock, jangle pop, folk rock, post-punk and pop rock into their sound.

       The Cranberries rose to international fame in the 1990s with their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, which became a commercial success. Some of the band's hit singles include "Dreams" (1992), "Linger" (1993), "Zombie" (1994) and "Salvation" (1996). Five of the band's albums reached the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart and eight of their singles reached the Top 20 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

    In early 2009, after a six-year hiatus, the Cranberries reunited and began a North American tour followed by shows in Latin America and Europe. The band's sixth studio album, Roses, was released in February 2012 and its seventh, Something Else, followed in April 2017. On 15 January 2018, O'Riordan was found dead of drowning in a London hotel room. The Cranberries confirmed in September 2018 that they would not continue as a band; their final album, In the End, was released in April 2019 and they disbanded afterwards.

       The Cranberries rank as one of the best-selling alternative acts of the 1990s, having sold nearly 50 million albums worldwide as of 2019. They have received an MTV Europe Music Award, a World Music Award, an International Group nomination at the Brit Awards, a Juno nomination, a Juno Award win, an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement and a BMI Award with a Special Citation of Achievement. In the End earned them a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. With the video for their song "Zombie", the Cranberries became the first Irish band to reach one billion views on YouTube.

       No Need to Argue is the second studio album by Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries, released on 3 October 1994. It is the band's best selling album, and has sold 17 million copies worldwide as of 2014. It contains the band's most successful single, "Zombie". The album's mood is darker and harsher than that on Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, released a year before.

         In some of the songs, the band decided to take on a rockier and heavier side, using distortion and increasing the volume. The song "Yeats' Grave" – incorrectly listed on the album as "Yeat's Grave" and never corrected for any of the album's physical re-releases – is about William Butler Yeats, and quotes one of his poems, No Second Troy. The O'Riordan written track "Zombie" is, according to her, about the Warrington IRA bombings in 1993 that resulted in the death of two children

Lying in my bed again

And I cry 'cause you're not here

Crying in my head again

And I know that it's not clear

Put your hands, put your hands

Inside my face and see that it's just you

But it's bad and it's mad

And it's making me sad

Because I can't be with you

 

Be with you, be with you

Be with you, be with you

Be with you, be with you

Baby, I can't be with you

 

Thinking back on how things were

And on how we loved so well

I wanted to be the mother of your child

And now it's just farewell

Put your hands in my hands

And come with me

We'll find another end

And my head, and my head

On anyone's shoulder

'Cause I can't be with you

 

Be with you, be with you

Be with you, be with you

Be with you, be with you

Baby, I can't be with you

 

'Cause you're not here, you're not here

Baby, I can't be with you

'Cause you're not here, you're not here

Baby, still in love with you

 

Still in love with you

When I'm still in love with you

Na na na na

Still in love with you

When I'm still in love with you

Na na na na

Still in love with you

When I'm still in love with you.

SHOW ME THE MEANING OF BEING LONELY

BACKSTREET BOYS

SONGWRITERS: HERBERT ST CLAIR CRICHLOW & MARTIN MAX

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MILLENNIUM

LABEL: JIVE RECORDS

GENRE: POP MUSIC

YEAR: 1999

 

         The Backstreet Boys(often abbreviated as BSB) are an American boy band consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, and cousins Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson. The group was formed in 1993 in Orlando, Florida.

    The group rose to fame with their debut international album, Backstreet Boys(1996). In the following year, they released their second international album Backstreet's Back(1997) along with their self-titled U.S. debut album, Backstreet Boys(1997), which continued the group's success worldwide. They rose to superstardom with their third studio album Millennium(1999) and its follow-up album, Black & Blue(2000). They also released a greatest hits album, The Hits - Chapter One(2001), with a new single, "Drowning". After a two-year hiatus, they regrouped and released a comeback album Never Gone(2005). After the conclusion of the Never Gone Tour in 2006, Richardson left the group to pursue other interests. The group then released two albums as a quartet: Unbreakable(2007) and This Is Us(2009).

      Richardson permanently rejoined the group in 2012. In the following year, they celebrated their 20th anniversary and released their first independent album, In a World Like This. Their follow-up album DNA(2019) debuted at number one, more than two decades after the group formed, and 19 years after they last topped in 2000. They also became the first boy band to top the U.S. album charts in three different decades.

        The Backstreet Boys have sold over 100 million records worldwide, making them the best-selling boy band of all time, and one of the world's best-selling music artists. They are the first group since Led Zeppelin to have their first ten albums reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200, and the only boy band to do so. The albums Backstreet Boys and Millennium were both certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA), making them one of the few bands to have multiple diamond albums.

       The group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on April 22, 2013. They also released their first documentary movie, titled Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of in January 2015. In March 2017, the group began a residency in Las Vegas that lasted two years, titled Backstreet Boys: Larger Than Life.

       Millennium is the third studio album (second in the United States) by American boy band Backstreet Boys, released by Jive Records on May 18, 1999. It was a highly anticipated follow-up to both their US debut album, and their second internationally released album. It was their first album to be released in both the US and internationally in the same form, at the same time.

         Millennium held the record for most shipments in one year, with 11 million shipments sold in the United States in 1999. It was nominated for five Grammy Awards and became one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling 24 million copies worldwide. The Backstreet Boys promoted Millennium through the Into the Millennium Tour, which became one of the fastest-grossing tours of all time.

Show me the meaning of being lonely

So many words for the broken heart

It's hard to see in a crimson love

So hard to breathe

Walk with me, and maybe

Nights of light so soon become

Wild and free I could feel the sun

Your every wish will be done

They tell me

 

Show me the meaning of being lonely

Is this the feeling I need to walk with?

Tell me why I can't be there where you are

There's something missing in my heart

 

Life goes on as it never ends

Eyes of stone observe the trends

They never say forever gaze, if only

Guilty roads to an endless love (endless love)

There's no control

Are you with me now?

Your every wish will be done

They tell me

 

Show me the meaning of being lonely

Is this the feeling I need to walk with?

(Tell me why) tell me why I can't be there where you are

There's something missing in my heart

 

There's nowhere to run

I have no place to go

Surrender my heart, body, and soul

How can it be

You're asking me

To feel the things you never show

 

You are missing in my heart

Tell me why can't I be there where you are?

 

Show me the meaning of being lonely

Is this the feeling I need to walk with?

(Tell me why) tell me why I can't be there where you are (where you are)

There's something missing in my heart

 

Show me the meaning of being lonely (being lonely)

Is this the feeling I need to walk with?

(Tell me why) tell me why I can't be there where you are (where you are)

There's something missing in my heart.

IRRESISTIBLE

THE CORRS

SONGWRITERS: JAMES CORR; SHARON CORR; CAROLINE CORR; ANDREA JANE CORR & ROBERT JOHN LANGE

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: IN BLUE

LABEL: 143 RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 2000

 

          The Corrs are an Irish family band that combine pop rock with traditional Irish themes within their music. The group consists of the Corr siblings, Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, ukulele), Sharon(violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline(drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). They are from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

        The Corrs have released seven studio albums and numerous singles, which have reached Platinum in many countries, and have sold 40 million albums worldwide. Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-Platinum status in Australia, and in the UK it was the highest selling album of the year. The band is one of only a handful of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two. The latter was the year's third highest selling album in Australia. Their third studio album, In Blue, went to number one in seventeen countries.

     The Corrs have been actively involved in philanthropic activities. They have performed in numerous charity concerts, such as The Prince's Trust event in 2004 and Live 8 in 2005. The same year, they were awarded honorary MBEs for their contributions to music and charity. The band was inactive for almost ten years because Jim and Caroline were raising families, while Andrea and Sharon were pursuing solo careers while raising families of their own. According to Sharon, it was uncertain if and when The Corrs would reunite. Rumours of a reunion sparked in early 2015 and in a radio interview with Chris Evans in June 2015, Andrea confirmed that The Corrs were working on a new album and would play the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park festival. Their sixth studio album, White Light, was released on 27 November 2015, and was accompanied by a European tour. After two years, their seventh studio album, Jupiter Calling, was released on 10 November 2017.

         In Blue is the third studio album by Irish pop rock band The Corrs, released in 2000 which saw the band become known in the United States. The title of the album comes from a lyric in the song "Give Me a Reason". As well as the UK number one single "Breathless", the album also contains new versions of "Radio" and "At Your Side", which had appeared on their previous album The Corrs Unplugged. Mutt Lange co-wrote and produced three songs from the album.

       Several of the tracks were used in various television programmes and films: "Rebel Heart" as the theme for the TV miniseries of the same name; "One Night" in Mad About Mambo; "At Your Side" in Say It Isn't So and the trailer for the film The Holiday; and "All the Love in the World" in the film America's Sweethearts.

You're irresistible, you're mine

 

Don't want you for the weekend

Don't want you for a day

Don't need a love divided

Don't want to feel this way

 

See I want you to need me (the way I need you)

Just like I need you (the way I see you)

And I want you to see me like no one before

 

You're irresistible, you're natural and physical

It's indefinable, magical, illogical

So make-you-mineable, you're mine

 

So can't you see I'm tortured?

Oh, can't you hear my pain?

If you just let me show you (show you)

I'll be your summer rain

 

Then you'll feel that you want me (the way I'm feeling)

Just like I want you (the way I want you)

And you know nothing's better

It's like nothing before

 

You're irresistible, you're natural and physical

It's indefinable, magical, illogical

So make-you-mine-able, you're mine

 

Now you feel what I'm feeling (don't you feel what I'm feeling)

Don't you know that it's more (it can take you places)

It can take you places like never before

 

You're irresistible, you're natural and physical

It's indifineable, magical, illogical

So make-you-mine-able, you're mine (you're irresistible)

You're irresistible, you're natural and physical (indifineable)

So indifineable, magical, illogical (make-you-mine-able)

So make-you-mine-able, you're mine.

ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER

THE CASCADES

SONGWRITER: SHELBY FLINT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: RHYTHM OF THE RAIN

LABEL: VALIANT RECORDS

GENRE: POP MUSIC

YEAR: 1963

 

        The Cascades was an American vocal group best known for the single "Rhythm of the Rain", recorded in 1962, an international hit the following year.

        In 1960, the Silver Strands were a group of United States Navy personnel serving on the USS Jason(AR-8) based in San Diego, California. They recruited John Gummoe, who originally acted as manager, then left the Navy to become The Thundernotes. The group's membership consisted of John Claude "John" Gummoe (born August 2, 1938) (lead vocals), Lenny Green (vocal and lead guitar), Dave Wilson (drums and vocal), Dave Stevens (bass), and Art Eastlick (rhythm guitar). Their first and only recording, "Thunder Rhythm" (and "Payday" on the reverse of the 45rpm) was with DelFi Records of Hollywood, owned and managed by Bob Keane. It was a surf-type instrumental. Lenny left soon after to pursue his own goals and the group acquired Eddie Snyder (guitar), David Szabo (keyboards), Dave Stevens (bass) and Dave Wilson (drums).

         Influenced by the Beach Boys, the group became more interested in vocal harmony. They recorded demos and signed with Barry De Vorzon at Valiant Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., and changed their name to The Cascades – inspired by a nearby box of dishwashing detergent. Their first release, "There's a Reason", became a minor regional hit; in the summer of 1962, they went to Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles to record a song Gummoe wrote in his Navy days on watch during a thunderstorm. The song was to become "Rhythm of the Rain" and the musicians on the recording included the "Wrecking Crew"-including Hal Blaine on drums, Carol Kaye on bass, and Glen Campbell on guitar-arranged by Perry Botkin Jr. "Rhythm of the Rain" was issued in November 1962. It rose to Nº 3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1963, becoming a major hit in over 80 countries. It peaked at Nº 5 in the UK Singles Chart. "Rhythm of the Rain" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

        The Cascades continued to record, produced an album and several additional singles, including the follow-up "The Last Leaf", but did not match the charm or success of their big hit. The group continued to receive major radio airplay in their hometown, San Diego. The Cascades' cover version of Bob Lind's "Truly Julie's Blues" received spins on KCBQ and KGB in 1966, and their song "Maybe the Rain Will Fall" fared well on San Diego radio charts in mid-1969.

        The group was active, played local San Diego clubs like The Cinnamon Cinder, and at other times, toured widely. In 1967, The Cascades appeared onscreen in the Crown International Pictures teen comedy adventure film, Catalina Caper, which included their version of a song written by Ray Davies of the Kinks, "There's A New World Opening For Me".

Got an angel on my shoulder

Got a penny in my pocket

And I found a four-leaf clover

And I put it in my wallet

 

Wished on all the stars above me

And I caught the nearest rainbow

Gonna find someone to love me

Gonna find someone to love

 

Well I tossed a lot o' nickels in a wishing well

And saved the fortunes that the fortune cookies tell

I've got a lucky penny and a mustard seed

But a warm and tender love is all I need

 

And I want a love that lingers

And is stronger through and through

So I'm gonna cross my fingers

That I find a girl to love me true

And I'm gonna love her too

 

Well I tossed a lot o' nickels in a wishing well

And saved the fortunes that the fortune cookies tell

I've got a lucky penny and a mustard seed

But a warm and tender love is all I need

 

And I want a love that lingers

And is stronger through and through

So I'm gonna cross my fingers

That I find a girl to love me true

 

And I'm gonna love her too

And I'm gonna love her too

And I'm gonna love her too

And I'm gonna love her too.