The Connecticut-based indie rock band The Zambonis write and sing exclusively about what?
"The Zambonis The Zambonis are a Connecticut-based indie rock band formed in 1991 by musicians Dave Schneider (The LeeVees), Peter Katis, Jon Aley, and Tarquin Katis. The Zambonis write songs exclusively about ice hockey. Schneider says of the band's musical style: “We’re the only band in the world whose two biggest influences are The Beatles and Wayne Gretzky!” The NHL has commissioned the group to compose theme songs for the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche. The band has toured with the Stanley Cup and fundraised for Matt Cullen's organization, Cullen Children's Foundation. In deference to the ice resurfacer and"
"compilation of rare live cuts, singles and demos. In 2000, the Zambonis single ""Hockey Monkey"" was featured in the Mr. Wong episode ""Meet the Creep, Pt. 2"". In 2002, four Zambonis songs were featured on the Midway video game NHL Hitz 20-03. In March 2006, The Zambonis single ""Hockey Monkey"" (co-written by cartoonist James Kochalka) was chosen by Fox as the theme song to a new sitcom called ""The Loop"". The Zambonis The Zambonis are a Connecticut-based indie rock band formed in 1991 by musicians Dave Schneider (The LeeVees), Peter Katis, Jon Aley, and Tarquin Katis. The Zambonis write songs"
"band members, Fogel maintains a strong Jewish identity, as he is also a songleader for the Garden Empire Region (GER) of the North American Federation of Temple Youths (NFTY). Fogel is also a member of the world's only all hockey rock band The Zambonis. The Zambonis formed in 1991. Fogel joined in 2006. Fogel claims his influences to be his mother's old Beatles LP's and Stevie Wonder, the latter of whom was specifically his inspiration to record his music in a one-man-band fashion. Fogel has recorded four albums, the first two of which are out of print. Millions Of Miles"
"Zamboni (song) ""Zamboni"", also known as ""I Wanna Drive the Zamboni"", is a song written by Martin Zellar and recorded by his band Gear Daddies. The song tells the story of a man's desire to drive an ice resurfacer, popularly known by the brand name ""Zamboni"", and his request to drive the Zamboni for his local ice hockey team. Since its release, it has sometimes been played between periods at hockey games while the Zamboni cleans the ice. It originally appeared as a hidden track on the band's 1990 CD, ""Billy's Live Bait"". The song also appeared on the soundtracks"
"Scott singled out the album's lead single ""Zombies"", a self-described ""electro-punk"" song, as a key example of the record's themes: ""Basically, it's our little dig against the voyeuristic society that we all seem to be trapped in at the moment: ""Big Brother"", ""I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!"", ""Popstars"", even ""Coronation Street"", ""EastEnders"", etc. People seem to forget that they have their own lives to lead. We've all become a bit numb to real experience."" Whilst recording ""Suburban Rock 'N' Roll"", the band made a conscious decision not to repeat the sound of their last two albums, and set"
"Zombie (song) ""Zombie"" is a protest song by Irish rock band The Cranberries, written about the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, and in memory of two young victims, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry. It was released in September 1994 as the lead single from their second studio album, ""No Need to Argue"" (1994). It preceded the release of ""No Need to Argue"" by two weeks. The song was written by the band's lead singer Dolores O'Riordan, and reached No. 1 on the charts in Australia, Belgium, France, Denmark and Germany. It won the ""Best Song"" award at the 1995 MTV"
"Absolutely Free (song) ""Absolutely Free"" is a song written by Frank Zappa and released on the Mothers of Invention album ""We're Only in It for the Money"" in 1968. The song is not to be confused with the Mothers of Invention album of the same name. Like many of the songs on ""We're Only in It for the Money"", ""Absolutely Free"" criticizes the hippie movement and the Summer of Love. The song's lyrics are a parody of psychedelia, especially the idea of expanding one's consciousness through the use of drugs. To this end, the song frequently mentions the word ""discorporate"","
"a pseudo-psychedelic feel. Absolutely Free (song) ""Absolutely Free"" is a song written by Frank Zappa and released on the Mothers of Invention album ""We're Only in It for the Money"" in 1968. The song is not to be confused with the Mothers of Invention album of the same name. Like many of the songs on ""We're Only in It for the Money"", ""Absolutely Free"" criticizes the hippie movement and the Summer of Love. The song's lyrics are a parody of psychedelia, especially the idea of expanding one's consciousness through the use of drugs. To this end, the song frequently mentions"
"also yearning to run away from home. The next song on the album, ""Swallow My Pride"", was a piece written solely by lead singer Joey Ramone, who states that the concept deals with their record company Sire Records; Tommy used the expression ""you gotta swallow your pride"" when signing to their record company. ""What's Your Game"" is one of the band's most melodic songs and was called ""wistful"" by Marcus. It was written by Joey about how he yearns for a girl to be herself instead of something she's not. The album's only cover song, ""California Sun"", was originally written"
"Zambonis. Paul and Joe DeGeorge feel that the songs on the ""Scarred for Life"" are among their ""most badass songs."" By 2007, Harry and the Potters and their unexpected fan based indie music genre of wizard rock have grown into an international phenomenon. Recently, the band has engaged in charity side-projects and activism within the Harry Potter community. In January 2007, Harry and the Potters created the Wizard Rock EP of the Month Club, a mail order subscription club that released an extended play by a different wizard rock band each month. Reflecting wizard rock's literacy focus, the club raises"
"the Headless Thompson Gunner"" by Warren Zevon recounts the exploits of a Norwegian mercenary in the Congo. Similarly his track ""Jungle Work!"" does the same, citing ""le mercenaire"" directly in the lyrics. The Song ""the Hero"" by the death metal band Amon Amarth is about a (dying) mercenary. Also their 2016 released album ""Jomsviking"" is about a historic company of Viking mercenaries. The song ""Straw Dogs"" by The Stiff Little Fingers (as they say themselves in an interview on the re-release of their album ""Nobody's Heroes"" ""a dirty nasty song about a dirty nasty subject"") is about mercenaries. John Cale"
"book ""The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present"". ""Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)"" incorporates elements of African music, continuing an approach used in an earlier Talking Heads song ""I Zimbra."" AllMusic critic Bill Janovitz describes the singer as being ""another alienated, lost soul seeing a world filtered through his delusions and paranoia,"" similar to the protagonists in other Talking Heads' songs. Janovitz points to the following lyrics to support this assessment: Author Ian Gittens also describes the singer as being unstable, describing the song as being about ""a harassed and apparently"
"you're hearing is more reflective of his work than mine."" In his lyrics for ""We're Only in It for the Money"", Zappa speaks as a voice for ""the freaks—imaginative outsiders who didn't fit comfortably into any group"", according to AllMusic writer Steve Huey. Subsequently, the album satirizes hippie culture and left-wing politics, as well as targeting right-wing politics, describing both political sides as ""prisoners of the same narrow-minded, superficial phoniness."" Zappa later stated in 1978, ""hippies were pretty stupid. [...] the people involved in [youth] processes [...] are very sensitive to criticism. They always take themselves too seriously. So anybody"
"topic he has touched on before in ""Radioactive Toy"", a track from their first album, ""On the Sunday of Life..."". The lyrics deal with a sole survivor after a possible apocalyptic war that gets picked up by an exploring spaceship. ""Tinto Brass"" is the only song on the album credited to the whole band, not just Wilson, and was named after Italian director Tinto Brass. The track is an instrumental, with the exception of a spoken word part. Regarding that part of the song, Wilson said: ""Oh, yes, it's spoken in Japanese! It's my girlfriend who's Japanese and she's got"
"the chords so we returned to them, and then we wrote 'I'm Not The Only One' in like an hour."" Lyrically, ""I'm Not the Only One"" talks about infidelity and betrayal in a relationship, where someone decides to stay with a partner they know is cheating on them. In the chorus, Smith admits: ""You say I'm crazy/'Cause you don't think I know what you've done/But when you call me baby/I know I'm not the only one"". Smith revealed to Lewis Corner that the song was the only one on the album that is not about his life, but a marriage"
"songs. At their core ""The Castration of The Idiot"" is about the domestication of the self into human mores and tendencies and traditions such as love. So this changed the writing style, and we wanted to play a sound, or sounds, we don't do very often. From there we just wrote out a story of a human being losing the self, hence the symbolism of castration, and that human eventually belonging to the sea of people, using suicide and water as the eventual metaphor. In an odd way, that's how this album views love, or any such tendency."" According to"
"solo, with a small interlude in the middle. The Music video featured the original member & bass player Brent Young and the version used in the video is the demo version, not the album version, but the demo found previously on the MTV compilation album """". ""This song is about people's attraction to all forms of tragedy. It seems like everywhere you turn to today (e.g., television, newspaper, magazine, movies, etc.) it's all about murder, violence, war, cruelty- and it's because this is what sells; people are totally captivated by subjects in this vein. We are the flies."" - Matt"
"religious beliefs affected the lyrics with full force"". Musicologist Allan Moore says that Harrison's ""command of the quasi-Indian medium is of a very high order"" and, with regard to the song's message, he writes: ""In its explicit, prescient call to the me-generation, perhaps 'Within You Without You' is a key track [on the album] ... expressing the deepest commitment to the counter-culture."" PopMatters' Ross Langager has attributed a similar significance to the track: ""Sgt. Pepper"" is about Britain, and the Summer of Love was always about America. The only song on the album that approaches the ideology and rhetoric of"
"a negative around into something positive. So, whether it was because I was adopted or my mom's suicide when I was younger or having to take my dad to court so I could take charge of my life, that song kinda stands for dealing with life's problems and never feeling sorry for yourself and actually coming out on top"". He said that ""Inner Strength"" is about ""finding your own road and really developing that 'inner strength' part of your personality""; ""Only the Strong"" is ""really about realizing you have the power to feel about yourself the way you want and"
"I Zimbra ""I Zimbra"" is a song by American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the second single from their 1979 album ""Fear of Music"". According to Sytze Steenstra in ""Song and Circumstance: The Work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the Present"", the music draws heavily on the African popular music Byrne was listening to at the time. The lyrics contain these lines: The lyrics are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball's poem ""Gadji beri bimba"". In an interview, Jerry Harrison named ""I Zimbra"" as his favorite Talking Heads song, and pointed out that the style of"
"and Bonnaroo. In early 2006, Riggs recruited his former Agents of Oblivion bandmate, Alex Bergeron, to play bass on tour. Later that year, the band was primarily a duo of Riggs and Tess Brunet. This line-up was often compared to The White Stripes in reviews, and their music is sometimes referred to as ""swamp rock."" By 2007, Brunet left the band and Riggs went on to a solo career. In 2015, their track ""Stop, I`m Already Dead"" became the theme song for the television series ""iZombie"", currently airing on The CW. Deadboy & the Elephantmen first appeared in late 2000,"
"general concept concerns the story of a relentless zombie apocalypse due to Hranica's strong interest on the subject. The band's metalcore musical style evolved considerably after the release of ""With Roots Above and Branches Below"". Taking note of the EP's speedier approach, The Devil Wears Prada stated that ""Zombie"" has the ""fastest music they've ever written"" and even admitted that it draws a strong influence from the likes of Slayer and Hatebreed. It is also the first release by the band that does not feature humorous song titles. Critically, reception to ""Zombie"" has been met with positive reviews and ratings."
"a confidential settlement in January 2008. The Rubinoos The Rubinoos are an American power pop band that formed in 1970 in Berkeley, California. They are perhaps best known for their singles ""I Think We're Alone Now"" (1977, a cover of the hit by Tommy James & the Shondells), ""I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"" (1979), and for the theme song to the 1984 film ""Revenge of the Nerds"". Although ""I Think We're Alone Now,"" reaching No. 45 in 1977, has been their only charting hit, the group has a significant enduring cult following among fans of the power-pop genre. In November,"
"song ""attempts to bend its central credo— 'no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all I need'— into a noble pursuit ... The song blurs the line between fantasy and reality, sex and romance, love and religion, until no lines exist at all. It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath; a fragile state that can't help but break apart on the very next song"". ""Blame Game"" is a low-key track about a painful domestic dispute. It features piano by producer Mike Dean, additional vocals by John Legend, and a profane skit by comedian Chris Rock. ""Lost in the"
"about love, taking inspiration from their boyfriends, David Gandy [King], Wayne Bridge [Sandford], Marvin Humes [Humes] and Ben Foden [Healy]. White, the only single member of the band, said ""All Fired Up"" is definitely the dancingest song we've ever made and it's the danciest track on the album too but there are lots of different styles on the album. We understand that dance music is very big at the moment and when you're a pop act you can venture into different genres. We've done all sorts in the past, Forever Is Over was pop-rock almost and there are lots of"
"pronounce them. The song is about how ridiculous it is that people have to leave their culture just to fit in in North American society. Looming Moon is about Charles' thoughts when he was considering getting out of the music business. Their second demo, ""Attacker"", was written about the ghost of Charles' brother, who died at age six. Lovers tells the story of Charles' mother's adoption. A naval sailor, ashore for one night, meets a married woman. They have a one-night stand resulting in a pregnancy. When the woman's husband discovers the pregnancy, he forces her to give it up."
"In December 2005, the band began to produce a twice-monthly podcast. Early on, Linnell frequently contributed humorous spoken-word pieces to the program. Since 1994, Linnell has done some solo work: in that year he released the ""State Songs"" EP, which he expanded to a full-length album in 1999. The concept of the ""State Songs"" project is intentionally misleading: U.S. states feature prominently in the title and chorus of each song, but have very little to do with their actual narratives. ""Montana"", for instance, is about the insane ramblings of somebody who is about to die; ""Idaho"" explores a famous rock"
"studio and recorded their next effort on their own time and finances. The band recorded ""Go"" without a label, and put it upon themselves to pay for mixing and mastering and have conversations with distributors later. Frontman Justin Pierre composed the lyrics for ""Go"", which is themed around mortality, growing older, and learning to live in the moment. The reflective tone includes subjects such as procrastination, relationship miscommunication, and optimism, but also personal struggles such as the death of loved ones. Many songs on ""Go"" were developed over years at a time, and several date to the band's first few"
"their problems. The opening track ""First World Problems"" alludes to the time that Eubanks was homeless. The closing track ""I Won't Say Goodbye"" was written around Odell's experience as a teenager regarding the denial he felt during the sickness, and eventual death, of his mother. While primarily in regards to Odell, the lyrics also touched on sentiments regarding lost loved ones of Eubanks and producer Drew Fulk as well. The band's music has primarily been described as hard rock. Odell felt that some of the tracks, such as ""The Ghost Inside"" even had a bit of an ""industrial"" feel to"
"the four members of the band. ""Living With the Ghost"" is a song that deals with the subject of loss. ""Knockout"" is about the fight between man and his hope. ""Labor of Love"" is a song about love and relationships. ""Born Again Tomorrow"" is a song about looking back on life and asking yourself: Would you change anything or would you live it the same way?. ""Roller Coaster"" is a song about Jon's life, the love and all the low blows along the way. With provocative lyrics like ""life ain't a merry go round"" and ""What goes up might take"
"musical styles, while its lyrics often feature satirical or humorous commentary on American society and politics. It addresses themes of individualism, free will, censorship, the music industry and human sexuality, while criticizing government and religion, and satirizing Catholicism and Scientology. ""Joe's Garage"" is noted for its use of xenochrony, a recording technique that takes guitar solos from older live recordings and overdubs them onto new studio recordings. All of the guitar solos on the album are xenochronous except for ""Crew Slut"" and ""Watermelon in Easter Hay"", a signature song that Zappa has described as the best song on the album,"
"smearing gold paint on a glass pane between the two of them. After the guitar solo, she etches ""1-15-18"", the date of O'Riordan's death, into the paint. The woman's appearance (gold body paint, gold dress, and gold beaded headdress) is nearly identical to that of O'Riordan in The Cranberries' original Zombie music video. The video ends with a quote by Vext. Zombie (song) ""Zombie"" is a protest song by Irish rock band The Cranberries, written about the 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, and in memory of two young victims, Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry. It was released in September 1994"
"is one of the best known songs on the album and was released as a single. ""Death Requiem"" contains a gloomy speaking voice interpreting a funeral event. The lyrics on ""Scrolls of the Megilloth"" are as extreme as the music, dealing with the common themes of death metal such as death, violence, occult, and horror from a Christian point of view: On ""Eternal Lamentation"", the ungodly scream their pain in the fiery pits of hell; ""Terminate Damnation"" is about spiritual warfare against evil and moral impurity, and ""Necromanicide"" warns against communicating with the dead through spiritism because ""only demons answer"