“Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)” is a power ballad written and performed by the glam metal band Cinderella, from their second album Long Cold Winter. Released in August 1988, it was their most successful single, peaking at number 12 on US Billboard Hot 100 in November 1988. It is featured in the South Park episode “Raisins”. The song can also be heard on the 2008 film The Wrestler.
The music video for this song was filmed at Mono Lake, California and Bodie California. This fact is revealed in the Tales From the Gypsy Road video collection. This song was also featured on the first installment of the compilation series, Monster Ballads
“You and Me” is a song by American alternative rock band Lifehouse. It is the first single released from their eponymous third studio album, Lifehouse (2005). The track was written by lead singer Jason Wade and American record producer Jude Cole. It was recorded and produced by John Alagía at his home studio in Easton, Maryland. The song was first released via digital download on January 28, 2005. It was then solicited to mainstream radio on March 15, 2005. An extended wedding version of the song was then released on July 26, 2005. Musically, “You and Me” is a melodic pop rock song which, by today’s standards, has a notably high emphasis on acoustics. It also contains influences of adult alternative.
The song received positive reviews from critics, who noted that the song was more mellow and stripped-down than their previous singles. It became a commercial success, charting in the top five in the United States and also charting in Australia and New Zealand. On May 19, 2005, the song was certified Gold by the RIAA for selling more than 500,000 units in the United States. In 2005, it became the ninth most downloaded song, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Because of its success, it appeared as the number one song on Billboard’s list of Top 40 Adult Pop Songs from 1996-2011 on March 16, 2011. A music video for the song premiered on MTV.com on March 21, 2005, and features a couple as Wade sings in a train station. “You and Me” has appeared on many television shows, including Smallville, Grey’s Anatomy, The Vampire Diaries, Cold Case and Gavin & Stacey.
“Lonely Boy” is a song by American rock band The Black Keys. It is the opening track from their 2011 studio album El Camino and was released as the record’s lead single on October 26, 2011. The song is also the A-side of a promotional 12-inch single that was released in commemoration of Record Store Day’s “Back to Black” Friday event. The single was accompanied by a popular one-shot music video of a man dancing and lip-synching the lyrics.
Canadian-American musician and singer Rufus Wainwright had briefly met Jeff Buckley and recorded a tribute to him after his 1997 death. That song, “Memphis Skyline”, referenced Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah”, which Wainwright would later record, though using piano and a similar arrangement to Cale’s. Wainwright’s version was included on the album Shrek: Music from the Original Motion Picture, although it was Cale’s version that was used in the film itself. The Shrek soundtrack, containing Wainwright’s cover, was certified Double Platinum in the United States in 2003 as selling over two million copies.
“Maggie May” is a song written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton and recorded by Stewart in 1971 for his album Every Picture Tells a Story. “Maggie May” expresses the ambivalence and contradictory emotions of a young man involved in a relationship with an older woman, and was written from Stewart’s own experience. In the January, 2007 issue of Q magazine, Stewart recalled: “Maggie May was more or less a true story, about the first woman I had sex with, at the 1961 Beaulieu Jazz Festival.”