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Money Changes Everything
"Money Changes Everything" is a song by American rock music, rock band the Brains from their The Brains (album), eponymous debut studio album (1980). Originally released in 1978, the song was reissued as the lead single from the album in 1980, by Mercury Records. Frontman Tom Gray is credited as the sole writer of the song, while production was collectively helmed by the Brains and Bruce Baxter. The song was popularized in 1984 by Cyndi Lauper, who released a cover version of the song as a single from her debut studio album, ''She's So Unusual'' (1983). Background The original single was released in 1978 by the Brains as a 45 rpm single on Gray Matter Records. The B side of the single was a song called "Quick with Your Lip". The initial underground success of the song led to the Brains being signed by Mercury Records. They rerecorded the song under the guidance of producer Steve Lillywhite for their 1980 debut album, ''The Brains''. Critic Greil Marcus, listing it at number 10 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brains
The Brains were an American rock music, rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, led by songwriter Tom Gray in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Their 1980 debut album was entitled ''The Brains'', and was produced by Steve Lillywhite for Mercury Records. The album included "Money Changes Everything", originally released by the band in 1978, which became a hit single for Cyndi Lauper when she covered it in 1983. After a second Mercury recording in 1981, ''Electronic Eden'' (also produced by Lillywhite) and then an independently released EP, ''Dancing Under Streetlights'', the band split up. A song from ''Electronic Eden'', "Heart in the Street", was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band on their 1980 album ''Chance'' as "Heart on the Street." The band appeared many times at Atlanta's premier new wave/alternative rock venue, 688 Club (named for its address, 688 Spring Street), referred to locally as simply "688." The video for ''Dancing Under Streetlights'' was filmed one night in Spring S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post-punk
Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad genre of music that emerged in late 1977 in the wake of punk rock. Post-punk musicians departed from punk's fundamental elements and raw simplicity, instead adopting a broader, more experimental approach that encompassed a variety of avant-garde sensibilities and non-rock influences. Inspired by punk's energy and do it yourself ethic but determined to break from rock cliches, artists experimented with styles like funk, electronic music, jazz, and dance music; the music production, production techniques of dub music, dub and disco; and ideas from art and politics, including critical theory, modernist art, Film, cinema and modernist literature, literature. These communities produced independent record labels, visual art, multimedia performances and fanzines. The early post-punk vanguard was represented by groups including Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wire (band), Wire, Public Image Ltd, the Pop Group, Magazine (band), Magazine, Joy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Body Acoustic
''The Body Acoustic'' is the ninth studio album released by American singer Cyndi Lauper in 2005. It consists of ten previously released songs which have been re-recorded and re-arranged acoustically, as well as two new songs. The album title is a play on Walt Whitman's poem ''I Sing the Body Electric'', with the word ''body'' in this case referring to Lauper's body of work as a recording artist. The album features a number of guest artists, including Adam Lazzara, Shaggy, Sarah McLachlan, Jeff Beck, Vivian Green, Ani DiFranco, and Puffy AmiYumi. A DualDisc edition of the album was released which contained the entire album in enhanced stereo, four new videos directed by Lauper herself as well as a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of the album. The original pressing of the album became the only album from Cyndi Lauper to be copy-protected using Sony's controversial XCP technology. Background and production The album was produced by Rick Chertoff, who worked with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taking Back Sunday
Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Amityville, New York, formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey in late 1999. The band's current members are Adam Lazzara (lead vocals), John Nolan (lead guitar, keyboards, vocals) and Shaun Cooper (bass guitar), accompanied by Nathan Cogan (guitar) for their live performances. The band's former members include Lacey, Reyes, drummer Mark O'Connell, bassist Matthew Rubano, and guitarist-vocalists Fred Mascherino and Matthew Fazzi. Lacey quit Taking Back Sunday in 1999 and in 2000 formed the rock band Brand New, with whom Taking Back Sunday would become embroiled in a highly publicized feud. Lazzara joined prior to the release of the band's 2002 debut album ''Tell All Your Friends,'' while Nolan and Cooper left the band in 2003 to form Straylight Run before returning in 2010. The band's breakthrough album, 2006's ''Louder Now'', featured the popular lead single "MakeDamnSure", sold over 900,000 copies, and pea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Lazzara
Adam Lazzara is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist of the rock band Taking Back Sunday. Along with singing lead vocals, Lazzara plays guitar and occasionally the harmonica. Taking Back Sunday Joining the band Adam Lazzara initially met the members of Taking Back Sunday at a show in Greensboro, North Carolina. At the performance, Phil Hanratty of the band Errortype:11 was filling in for Taking Back Sunday’s bassist. Lazzara, whose high school band had performed in a show earlier that year with Errortype:11, connected with Hanratty before the show. Hanratty informed Lazzara that Taking Back Sunday’s bassist, Jesse Lacey, had recently left to start his own band, " Brand New," and Taking Back Sunday was looking for a new bassist. He stayed after the show to meet them and asked to try out for the open bassist slot. They said yes, and about a month later, Lazzara drove from North Carolina to Long Island to try out. A week after that, Eddie Reyes, the guitarist of Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodica
The melodica is a handheld free-reed instrument similar to a pump organ or harmonica. It features a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. The keyboard usually covers two or three octaves. Melodicas are small, lightweight, and portable, and many are designed for children to play. They are popular in music education programs, especially in Asia. The modern form of the instrument was invented by Hohner in the late 1950s, though similar instruments have been known in Italy since the 19th century. Description The mouthpiece can be a short rigid or semi-flexible plastic piece or a long flexible plastic tube (designed to allow the player to either hold the keyboard so the keys can be seen or lay the keyboard horizontally on a flat surface for two-handed playing). A foot pump can also be used as an alternative to breathing into the instrument. Melodica keyboards typically ascend from a low F not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohner
Hohner Musikinstrumente GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of musical instruments, founded in 1857 by Matthias Hohner (1833–1902). It is a subsidiary of Matth. Hohner AG. The roots of the Hohner firm are in Trossingen, Baden-Württemberg. Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name ''Lanikai''). Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas. From the 1940s through 1990s, the company also manufactured various electric/electronic keyboards. Especially in the 1960s and 1990s, they manufactured a range of innovative and popular electromechanical keyboard instruments; the cembalet, pianet, basset, guitaret, and clavinet. In the 1980s, several Casio synthesizers (such as the Casio HT-3000/Hohner KS61midi and the VZ-1/HS-2) were sold under the Hohner brand. Nowadays, Hohner produces h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hooters
The Hooters is an American rock music, rock band, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1980. They combine elements of rock, reggae, ska, and folk music. The Hooters first gained major commercial success in the United States in the mid-1980s due to heavy radio airplay and MTV rotation of several songs, including "All You Zombies (song), All You Zombies", "Day by Day", "And We Danced (The Hooters song), And We Danced", and "Where Do the Children Go". In 1985, the band played at the Live Aid benefit concert in Philadelphia. In Europe, the Hooters had success with the singles "All You Zombies" and "Johnny B (song), Johnny B", and the band's breakthrough across Europe came with the single "Satellite (The Hooters song), Satellite". In 1990, the band played at The Wall Concert in Berlin. The Hooters have staged successful tours in Europe. In 2007, the band released its first album of new material since 1993, ''Time Stand Still.'' The band's most recent album, ''Rocking & Swing'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hyman
Robert Andrew Hyman (born April 24, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard and accordion player, producer, and arranger, best known for being a founding member of the rock band the Hooters. Early life Hyman started taking piano lessons at the age of four and grew up playing in local bands in Meriden, Connecticut, including The Trolls and the Pro-Teens. While attending the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, Hyman met future bandmate and composing partner Eric Bazilian and producer Rick Chertoff. In the late 1960s, Hyman and Chertoff, along with local singer David Kagan formed a band called Wax, who recorded an album in the early 1970s. They also released two albums under the group name of Baby Grand in the mid 1970's with Chertoff as the producer. The Hooters Hyman and Eric Bazilian formed The Hooters in 1980. The band played its first show on July 4 of that year. They took the band's name from a ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When You Were Mine (Prince Song)
"When You Were Mine" is a song written and released by Prince on his 1980 album, '' Dirty Mind''. Though not released as a single, the song received a promotional 12" release (which included "Gotta Broken Heart Again" and " Uptown"). "When You Were Mine" was later the B-side for Prince's "Controversy" single in 1981. A live recording was included on his 2002 live album, '' One Nite Alone... Live!'' The original studio version was also included on '' The Hits/The B-Sides'' in 1993. Prince said he was inspired to write the rock song while listening to John Lennon. The track includes a Farfisa-inspired organ sound played on an Oberheim OB-X. Personnel Credits from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud *Prince – lead and backing vocals, Oberheim OB-X, ARP Omni, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums Mitch Ryder version In 1983, Mitch Ryder released a version of the song on the John Mellencamp-produced album ''Never Kick a Sleeping Dog''. The song peaked at number 87 on the U.S. ''Billbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Through The Night (Cyndi Lauper Song)
"All Through the Night" is a song written and recorded by Jules Shear for his 1983 album '' Watch Dog''. It was produced by Todd Rundgren. Elliot Easton of American rock band the Cars helped produce an early version of the song. It was covered by the Cars, who did not use it on any of their albums, and by Cyndi Lauper, who included it on her debut album ''She's So Unusual'' (1983). Lauper's version peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming her fourth top five single in the US. An acoustic version was sung by Lauper on her 2005 album, ''The Body Acoustic'', with additional vocals by Shaggy. Shear said his own idea was that "All Through the Night" was a folk song, but that Lauper's electronic interpretation was more lucrative, paying for his New York apartment. Writing and composition The song was written by Jules Shear for his 1983 debut solo album, ''Watch Dog''. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the song was composed in a medium tempo. Lyrically, "All Through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Chertoff
Richard E. Chertoff (born March 29, 1950) is an American record producer and songwriter. He is credited on the singles Joan Osborne's " One of Us", Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and " Time After Time" and Sophie B. Hawkins' " Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover". Chertoff has received five Grammy Award nominations—twice for Album of the Year, twice for Record of the Year, and also for Producer of the Year. Biography Chertoff attended the University of Pennsylvania, and whilst in Philadelphia he met soon-to-be long-time friends Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian and formed a lasting musical collaboration. Chertoff played drums in a local band "Wax" with Hyman and later produced and played with the band Baby Grand, which included both Hyman and Bazilian. He was a force behind the signing of Hyman and Bazilian's later band, the Hooters to Columbia Records, where he produced their multi-platinum albums, '' Nervous Night'', '' One Way Home'', and '' Zig Zag''. Chertoff's A&R c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
