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Boney M. - Rasputin 1978

"Rasputin" is a song by Germany-based Afro Caribbean pop and Eurodisco group Boney M. It was released as the second single from their third studio album Nightflight to Venus. The core of the song tells of Grigori Rasputin's rise to prominence in the court of Tsar Nicholas II during the early 1900s, referencing the hope held by Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna that Rasputin would heal her hemophiliac son, Tsarevich Alexei of Russia, and as such his appointment as Alexei's personal healer.

The song claims that Rasputin was Alexandra's paramour, a widespread rumour in Rasputin's time, with which his political enemies intended to discredit him. It accurately states that the conspirators asked him "Come to visit us", and then recounts a widely popular account of the assassination in Yusupov's estate: that Rasputin's assassins fatally shot him after he survived the poisoning of his wine.

"Rasputin" rose to the top of the charts in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Australia, and went to No. 2 in the UK, Argentina, Finland, Spain and Switzerland. It enjoyed great popularity in the Soviet Union, however it was omitted from the Soviet pressing of the album and Boney M. were barred from performing the song during their ten performances in Moscow.

It's pretty safe to say this song put a impressive and unbeatable record in the amounts of votes and reblogs! 💖 This is currently the most liked song on this poll blog with a whooping 94,8% total yes votes.

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Anesti Danelis - I'm So Tired 2024

Anesti Danelis is a Canadian musical comedian from Toronto, Ontario. Previously associated with the sketch comedy troupe FomoSapiens, he premiered his first solo show Songs for the New World Order at the 2017 Toronto Fringe Festival. He toured the show to various other Canadian and international fringe theatre festivals in 2017 and 2018, and received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Variety Act at the 19th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2019.

He returned to the Toronto Fringe Festival in 2019 with his second solo show, Six Frets Under. Later that year, he received international press attention when a video of him quitting his job at Starbucks by singing a song to the patrons about what a bad boss the manager was, went viral. During the COVID-19 pandemic he uploaded songs to social networking platforms, many of which were also released on the comedy album Quarantine Bops.

(For everyone who has ever wondered why this blog isn't more active than it already is, I hope the song can provide some answers 💖)

"I'm So Tired" received a total of 66,6% zzz's.

Asian Kung-Fu Generation - Haruka Kanata 2002

Asian Kung-Fu Generation is a Japanese alternative rockband formed in Yokohama in 1996. Starting out as a college band, Asian Kung-Fu Generation released a series of independent EPs featuring lyrics mostly sung in English. In 2002, they released their major-label EP debut Hōkai Amplifier, from that point singing their lyrics in Japanese. Due to its success, Hōkai Amplifier was re-released in 2003. Although the mini-album didn't release any singles, the intro track "Haruka Kanata" enjoyed immense domestic and international popularity after it came to be used as the second opening theme for the anime series Naruto. In 2014, the album was released again as a 12-inch analog record.

The band's musical style is influenced by seminal Western alternative rock acts as well as their own local Japanese indie rock and punk scene. Their songs incorporate various aspects of the genres, most typically expressing fast tempos and prominent power chord guitar riffs in addition to rhythmic groove and emotional lyrics. Despite the indie nature of their music, the band has enjoyed worldwide commercial success in addition to critical acclaim. Asian Kung-Fu Generation has been cited as one of the best, most balanced modern rock bands to emerge from Japan in the 2000s.

🎁 For my baby pet's first birthday because he's named Naruto, which featured this song lol 🤣🙈 A big thank you for the birthday wishes for him!! 😻💖

"Haruka Kanata" received a total of 80,6% yes votes! Previous Naruto-related polls: #450 "Hero's Come Back!!", #638 "Naruto Main Theme".

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) 1983

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is a song by British synth-pop duo Eurythmics. It was released in January 1983 as the fourth and final single from their second album of the same name. It was their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart in March 1983, and number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 six months later; it was their first single released in the US. According to Dave Stewart, their record label RCA Records did not think the song was suitable as a single in the US as it lacked a chorus. After a radio DJ in Cleveland kept playing the song from the album, and it generated a strong local response, RCA decided to release it in the US. The song also peaked at number one in Canada, and reached the top ten in a number of countries including Australia, West Germany, Spain, and South Africa.

With Annie Lennox appearing with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit in the accompanying music video, the BBC stated Lennox's "powerful androgynous look" was the music video that "broke the mould for female pop stars". In 2020, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2023, it was selected by the US Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry.

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote the song after the Tourists had broken up and they formed Eurythmics. Although the two of them also broke up as a couple, they continued to work together. They became interested in electronic music and bought new synthesizers to play around with. According to Stewart, he managed to produce the beat and riff of the song on one of their new synthesizers, and Lennox, on hearing it, said: "What the hell is that?" and started playing on another synthesizer, and beginnings of the song came out of the two dueling synths.

According to Lennox, the lyrics reflected the unhappy time after the breakup of the Tourists, when she felt that they were "in a dream world" and that whatever they were chasing was never going to happen. She described the song as saying: "Look at the state of us. How can it get worse?" adding "I was feeling very vulnerable. The song was an expression of how I felt: hopeless and nihilistic." Stewart thought the lyrics too depressing and added the "hold your head up, moving on" line to make it more uplifting.

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" received a total of 96,7% yes votes and is the new most liked song on this poll blog, beating A-ha's long reign! 🥳

Bloodywood - Machi Bhasad 2022

Bloodywood is an Indian metal band from New Delhi, formed in 2016. Their style is primarily described as nu metal but also includes elements of folk metal and metalcore. They began as a parody band that uploaded metal covers of pop songs on Youtube and later wrote their own music.

Rakshak ("Protector") is their debut studio album, independently released on 18 February 2022. The album's music is a blend of Indian folk music and heavy metal, while the lyrics are sung in the English, Hindi and Punjabi languages. The album entered the Billboard charts, making Bloodywood the first Indian metal band to achieve such an accomplishment. The album has been successful on Bandcamp as well, where it topped the album sales of the platform upon release, ranked (as of early March 2022) as the 22nd all-time best-selling new release and as 3rd best-selling metal release.

"Machi Bhasad" ("Expect a Riot"), released in April 2019, was originally composed for the game Beyond Good and Evil 2, but was ultimately rejected. Intended as a call to action to fight injustice, the song was released just as the band revealed 2019 European tour dates.

"Machi Bhasad" received a total of 53,1% yes votes. Previous Bloodywood polls: #679 "Gaddaar".

OK Go - Here It Goes Again 2006

"Here It Goes Again" is a song by American rockband OK Go, the fifth single released from their second studio album, Oh No (2005). It was the band's only single to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 until "I Won't Let You Down" in November 2014 and peaked at number 36 on the UK Singles Chart, giving the band their second UK top-40 hit. It peaked at number 28 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart and number 63 on the Australian ARIA top 100 singles chart, and also topped the Hitseekers chart, which surveys tracks by bands that have not reached into the top 50 of the main chart. Written by the band's lead singer and guitarist Damian Kulash, "Here It Goes Again" was recorded at Gula Studion in Malmö, Sweden, mixed at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles, and finally mastered at Capitol Mastering, also in Los Angeles.

The music video is a performance of the band dancing on eight treadmills, arranged in two rows of four and in alternating opposite directions, in a single continuous take. The video was choreographed and co-directed by Damian Kulash's sister Trish Sie and filmed at her home in Orlando, Florida, between tour stops for the band's Oh No album. It took two to three days of practice and then 17 attempts to complete the video. The band did not inform its managers or Capitol Records of creating the video, fearing they would be refused if they said they were pausing the tour for several days and were spending $4000 to make the video.

The finished video sat for at least a year on Kulash's laptop, as they were worried about being pigeonholed as a "goofy dancing band" following the viral success of their previous video for "A Million Ways"; after about a year, the band's webmaster suggested they upload the video to Youtube, which at the time was just beginning to take off as a video sharing site. The video debuted on Youtube on July 31, 2006, and has been viewed over 69 million times as of January 2026. It premiered on VH1's Top 20 Countdown that same day. OK Go performed the dance routine live at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. The music video won the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video and the 2006 Youtube awards for Most Creative Video. In July 2011, the music video was named one of "The 30 All-Time Best Music Videos" by Time magazine.

During mid-2006, the band recorded a slower version of "Here It Goes Again" in their attic. This version, dubbed "UK Surf" or the "UK Surf Mix", was released on iTunes in the UK the same day as the single. After being featured in the Grey's Anatomy episode "Great Expectations", it was released in the US through iTunes on February 1, 2007, as a digital download.

"Here It Goes Again" received a total of 88,6% yes votes!