Songs

The chords of this song are basically David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” played backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo

And here it is being performed by Tom Cruise & Julianne Hough (from Dancing with the Stars) for the movie Rock of Ages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wTYEtHYbgs I’ve got to warn you: it’s crazy cakes

Mick Jones (The Clash’s guitarist) plays on this track, and I love what Wakeling (the singer) has said about this song: “The notion was that you were driving around in there, in America, searching for the tenderness - whereas, of course, it's in your heart all the time. So it's like you're looking in the outside world for something that can only be discovered in yourself - because love is a verb, not a noun.”

You probably recognize this because it’s one of the songs Tori covers on Strange Little Girls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UazvXSLFNc

This was Turner's breakout solo hit at the age of 45. She also doesn't appreciate that people usually assume it's about a prostitute because she danced for private parties and certainly wasn't a hooker. Jeff Beck plays guitar on this

Apparently, Sally Maclennane is a brand of stout

Mann wrote this with all female pronouns indicating a lesbian relationship, but the studio made her switch it

Madonna still performs this in concert and considers it her "disco tart" song

This song was inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land

There's supposed to be a sequel video where the band is menaced by sea creatures and an octopus plays the horn part, but I couldn't find it

This song was written for Janet Jackson but she turned it down. Fun fact: Aretha Franklin is Whitney Houston's godmother

Prince really liked The Bangles and used to show up to their concerts and play guitar with them and hang out backstage afterwards. He wrote this for a different band but then gave it to them