EVIDENCE

FAITH NO MORE

SONGWRITERS: BILL GOULD; MICHAEL ALLEN PATTON; MICHAEL ANDREW BORDIN & PRESTON SPRUANCE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: KING FOR A DAY… FOOL FOR A LIFETIME

LABEL: SLASH RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1995

 

      Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1979. Before settling on the current name in July 1983, the band performed under the names Sharp Young Men and later Faith No Man. Bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist/rhythm guitarist Roddy Bottum and drummer Mike Bordin are the longest-remaining members of the band, having been involved since its inception. The band underwent several early lineup changes, and some major changes later. The current lineup of Faith No More consists of Gould, Bordin, Bottum, lead guitarist Jon Hudson, and vocalist/lyricist Mike Patton.

      After releasing six studio albums, including best-selling records The Real Thing(1989) and Angel Dust(1992), Faith No More officially announced its breakup on April 20, 1998. The band has since reunited, conducting The Second Coming Tour between 2009 and 2010, and releasing its seventh studio album, Sol Invictus, in May 2015. After the touring cycle of Sol Invictus, Faith No More went on hiatus once again. In November 2019, the band announced that it would reunite to embark on a 2020 UK and European tour, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was postponed. Touring was due to recommence with a brief US tour in September 2021, followed by the previously postponed UK and Europe dates in June 2022, but all tour dates were cancelled with Patton citing mental health reasons.

      King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by San Francisco-based band Faith No More, released on March 28, 1995, by Slash and Reprise Records. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album showcased a variety of musical genres, with Rolling Stone calling the result a "genre shuffle". King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime spawned three singles—"Digging the Grave", "Ricochet" and "Evidence".

        Following Martin's departure, Trey Spruance was brought on to perform on the album, having also been in Mr. Bungle with singer Mike Patton. Production of the album was further marred by the band suffering a car accident, and the absence of keyboard player Roddy Bottum, who was affected by the deaths of both his father and Kurt Cobain; Courtney Love, Cobain's wife and a former Faith No More vocalist, remains his close friend. Spruance was replaced on the supporting tour by the band's former roadie Dean Menta. However, Spruance played live with Faith No More for the first time in November 2011, playing the entire album during a show in Chile.

        Critical reception to the album has been mixed, with its varied genres being cited as a detraction by several reviewers. However, retrospective critique has been more positive and the record has subsequently appeared on several publications' "best of" lists. The album earned the band two Bay Area Music award nominations.

If you want to open the hole

Just put your head down and go

Step beside the piece of the circumstance

Got to wash away the taste of evidence

Wash it away

 

I didn't feel a thing

It didn't mean a thing

Look in the eye and testify

I didn't feel a thing

 

Anything you say, we know you're guilty

Hands above your head, and you won't even feel me

You won't feel me

 

I didn't feel a thing

It didn't mean a thing

Look in the eye and testify

Didn't feel a thing

 

I didn't feel a thing

It didn't mean a thing

Look in the eye and testify

I didn't feel a thing

 

I didn't feel a thing

It didn't mean a thing

Look in the eye and testify

I didn't feel a thing.

TWO BLACK CADILLACS

CARRIE UNDERWOOD

SONGWRITERS: HILLARY LINDSEY; CARRIE UNDERWOOD & JOSH KEAR

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: BLOWN AWAY

LABEL: ARISTA NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2012

 

         Carrie Marie Underwood(born March 10, 1983) is an American country singer. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of American Idol in 2005. Her single "Inside Your Heaven" made her the only country artist to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the only solo country artist in the 2000s to have a number-one song on the Hot 100. Her debut album, Some Hearts(2005), was bolstered by the successful crossover singles "Jesus, Take the Wheel" and "Before He Cheats", becoming the best-selling solo female debut album in country music history. She won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. The next studio album, Carnival Ride(2007), had one of the biggest opening weeks of all time by a female artist and won two Grammy Awards. Her third studio album, Play On(2009), was preceded by the single "Cowboy Casanova", which had one of the biggest single-week upward movements on the Hot 100.

         She achieved the second best-selling release by a woman in 2012 and won a Grammy Award with her fourth album, Blown Away(2012). Her compilation Greatest Hits: Decade #1(2014) spawned the crossover single "Something in the Water". Her fifth studio album, Storyteller(2015), made her the only country artist to have all studio albums reach either numbers one or two on the Billboard 200 chart. With her sixth album, Cry Pretty(2018), she became the only woman to top the Billboard 200 with four country albums and had the biggest week for any album by a woman in 2018. She released her first Christmas project, My Gift, in 2020, and first gospel collection, My Savior, in 2021, to critical acclaim.

    Blown Away is the fourth studio album by American singer and songwriter Carrie Underwood. It was released in the United States and Canada on May 1, 2012, by Arista Nashville. After finishing her successful Play On Tour in December 2010 to promote her third studio album Play On, Underwood started working on the album, but took her time, as she "wanted to change things up", and needed to step away from the "celebrity bubble" to "have real things to write about and to sing about". It took her over one year to finish the album, which, according to Underwood, ended up having a "darker storyline" than her previous efforts.

    Met with mostly positive reviews from music critics, the album became a commercial success. It debuted at number one on Billboard 200, with first-week sales of 267,000 copies, achieving the third-largest opening of 2012. With Blown Away reaching number one, Underwood became the third female to chart at number one on the Billboard 200 with three country albums, tying her with Linda Ronstadt and Faith Hill. Like her three previous albums, Blown Away debuted at the top of the Top Country Albums chart. The album remained at number one for a second week on the Billboard 200, becoming her first album to spend more than one week at the top of that chart. It topped the "Top Country Albums" chart for seven weeks.

        Blown Away was the seventh best selling album overall and second best-selling country album of 2012 in the US. It finished 2012 with over 1.4 million copies sold worldwide, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Blown Away has since sold around 1.8 million copies in the US and over two million copies worldwide. In January 2020, the album was certified 3x-Platinum by the RIAA.

    It spawned the Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 and Country Airplay number-one singles "Good Girl" and "Blown Away", along with the Country Airplay top-two hits "Two Black Cadillacs" and "See You Again". All singles received multi-Platinum or Platinum certifications.

Two black Cadillacs driving in a slow parade

Headlights shining bright in the middle of the day

One is for his wife

The other for the woman who loved him at night

Two black Cadillacs meeting for the first time

 

And the preacher said he was a good man

And his brother said he was a good friend

But the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry

(Bye bye, bye bye)

 

Yeah, they took turns laying a rose down

Threw a handful of dirt into the deep ground

He's not the only one who had a secret to hide

Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye

 

Two black Cadillacs

Two black Cadillacs

 

Two months ago, his wife called the number on his phone

Turns out he'd been lying to both of them for oh so long

They decided then, he'd never get away with doing this to them

Two black Cadillacs waiting for the right time, right time

 

And the preacher said he was a good man

And his brother said he was a good friend

But the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry

(Bye bye, bye bye)

 

Yeah, they took turns laying a rose down

Threw a handful of dirt into the deep ground

He's not the only one who had a secret to hide

Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye

Yeah, yeah

(Two black Cadillacs)

 

It was the first and the last time they saw each other face to face

They shared a crimson smile and just walked away

And left the secret at the grave

 

And the preacher said he was a good man

And his brother said he was a good friend

But the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry

(Bye bye, bye bye)

 

Yeah, they took turns laying a rose down

Threw a handful of dirt into the deep ground

He's not the only one who had a secret to hide

Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

KATMANDU

YUSUF/CAT STEVENS

SONGWRITER: YUSUF ISLAM

HOW: LIVE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: MONA BONE JAKON

LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS

GENRE: POP DEUX

YEAR: 1970

 

      Yusuf Islam(born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style consists of folk, pop, rock, and, later in his career, Islamic music. He returned to making secular music in 2006. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.

         His 1967 debut album and its title song "Matthew and Son" both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman(1970) and Teaser and the Firecat(1971) were certified triple platinum in the US. His 1972 album Catch Bull at Four went to N°1 on Billboard Pop Albums and spent weeks at the top of several major charts. He earned ASCAP songwriting awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest", which has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include "Father and Son", "Wild World", "Moonshadow", "Peace Train", and "Morning Has Broken".

        In December 1977, Stevens converted to Islam and adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all of his guitars for charity, and left his musical career to devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community. He has since bought back at least one of these guitars as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos. He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989 about the death fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. His current stance is that he never supported the fatwa: "I was cleverly framed by certain questions. I never supported the fatwa." He has received two honorary doctorates and awards for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.

     Mona Bone Jakon is the third studio album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, released in April 1970 on the Island Records label in the United Kingdom and on A&M in the United States and Canada.

I sit beside the dark

Beneath the mire

Cold gray dusty day

The mornin' lake

Drinks up the sky

Katmandu, I'll soon be seein' you

And your strange bewilderin' time

Will hold me down

 

Chop me some broken wood

We'll start a fire

White warm light the dawn

And help me see

Old Satan's tree

Katmandu, I'll soon be touchin' you

And your strange bewilderin' time

Will hold me down

 

Pass me my hat and coat

Lock up the cabin

Slow night treat me right

Until I go

Be nice to know

Katmandu, I'll soon be seein' you

And your strange bewilderin' time

Will keep me home.

CONGRATULATIONS

CLIFF RICHARD

SONGWRITERS: MICK JAGGER & KEITH RICHARDS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CONGRATULATIONS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1968

 

   Sir Cliff Richard(born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

       Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song. In the early 1960s, he had a prosperous film career with films including The Young Ones and Summer Holiday. Increased focus on his Christian faith and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.

     Over a career spanning 60 years, Richard has amassed several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles, albums, and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist (behind Presley). He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK Nº 1 singles, and is the only singer to have had a Nº 1 single in the UK in each of five consecutive decades. He also had four UK Christmas Nº 1 singles, two of which were as a solo artist; "Mistletoe and Wine" and "Saviour's Day".

       Richard has never achieved the same popularity in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling "Devil Woman" and "We Don't Talk Anymore". In Canada, he had a successful period in the early 1960s, the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some releases certified gold and platinum. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality at home in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and retains a following in other countries. When not touring, he divides his time between Barbados and Portugal. In 2019, he relocated to New York.

 Congratulations

And celebrations

When I tell everyone that you're in love with me

Congratulations

And jubilations

I want the world to know I'm happy as can be

 

Who would believe that I could be happy and contented?

I used to think that happiness hadn't been invented

But that was in the bad old days before I met you

When I let you walk into my heart

 

Congratulations

And celebrations

When I tell everyone that you're in love with me

Congratulations

And jubilations

I want the world to know I'm happy as can be

 

I was afraid that maybe you thought you were above me

That I was only fooling myself to think you'd love me

But then tonight you said you couldn't live without me

That round about me you wanted to stay

 

Congratulations

And celebrations

When I tell everyone that you're in love with me

Congratulations

And jubilations

I want the world to know I'm happy as can be

 

Congratulations

And jubilations

I want the world to know I'm happy as can be

I want the world to know I'm happy as can be.