Matchbox Twenty - Push

Matchbox Twenty (or Matchbox 20) is an American rock band known for their multi-platinum albums and chart-topping hits like Push, Smooth, and Unwell.

The band current members are: Rob Thomas (vocals, piano), Kyle Cook (lead guitar), Paul Doucette (rhythm guitar), Brian Yale (bass guitar),  and Ryan MacMillan (drums, percussion).

The band's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You, released in 1996 received a diamond certification (the highest category based on the number of record sales) from Recording Industry Association of America.

Meanwhile, their breakthrough single "Push" became a controversial hit when feminist groups claimed that the subject of the song is about abusing women.

"I don't know if I've ever been really loved

By a hand that's touched me,

and I feel like somethings gonna give"

-excerpt from Push

Push - Official Music Video  :

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Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment

Lifehouse is an alternative band that came to mainstream status in 2001 with their hit single “Hanging by a Moment”. The single is part of their first major studio album, No Name Face.

Hanging by a Moment is said to be "one of the biggest pop hits ever by a Contemporary Christian band crossing over into secular pop”.

"I'm desperate for changing

Starving for truth"
-excerpt from Hanging by a Moment

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Coheed and Cambria - Wake Up

Coheed and Cambria is an American rock band known for their progressive rock style of music. They are also known for their concept albums – that tell a science fiction story called The Amory Wars.

Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005 ) is the third studio album of the band which is included in a 2006 issue of Guitar World Magazine. The album is part of the magazine’s list of 100 guitar albums of all time.


Wake Up is Coheed and Cambria’s 8th single from the Good Apollo album.

"So leave yourself intact

'Cause I won't be coming back
In a phrase to cut these lips
I loved you"
-excerpt from Wake Up

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Switchfoot - Only Hope

Switchfoot is an alternative rock band and also referred to as a Christian rock band, due to their involvement in Christian rock scene. However, they disagreed with the “religious label” for they believe that their music is “faith, not a genre”.

The band achieved mainstream recognition in the music industry when their music was featured prominently in a Nicholas Sparks’ movie adaptation, “A Walk to Remember” (2002). A year after, they released their major label debut Beautiful Letdown.
Switchfoot’s best-known singles are “Dare You To Move” (Beautiful Letdown, 2003) and “Only Hope” (New Way to Be Human, 1999).

"I give You my empathy, I'm giving You all of me

I want Your symphony singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs
I'm giving it back"
-excerpt from Only Hope

 

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Incubus - I Miss You

Incubus is an American rock band formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas in 1991. They were later joined by Ben Kenney, and DJ Kilmore as the band’s bassists.

The Incubus has received compliments from music critics, and also reached multi-platinum sales, and number one singles.


I Miss You – a single from the Incubus’ second album – Make Yourself is one of the band’s most popular songs in line with “Drive”, “Are You In?” and “Megalomaniac”.

"You do something to me
That I can't explain
So would I be out of line

If I said... I miss you?"
-excerpt from "I Miss You"

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Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

The Goo Goo Dolls is an American rock band formed in 1985 by John Rzeznik (vocals, guitar) and Robby Takac (vocals, bass guitar). In 1994, Mike Malinin joined the band as the drummer, replacing George Tutuska.

The band reached fame and stardom in 1998 when they released Iris, a song for the City of Angels movie soundtrack. Iris became the longest number one single in Billboard Hot 100 Airplay’s history with a remarkable 18 weeks scoring number one. It is also considered as Goo Goo Dolls’ most popular song.


Iris is included on the band's sixth album Dizzy Up the Girl (1998).

"And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am"


"Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive"
-excerpts from Iris

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Oasis - Wonderwall

Oasis is an English rock band composed of Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine), Paul Arthurs (guitar), Paul McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion), and later joined by Liam’s older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals).

The band has a list of achievements in the music industry – including Guinness Book of World Records’ “Longest Top 10 UK Chart Run By A Group” in 2010 as a recognition to their unprecedented run of 22 successive Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom.


Wonderwall - is Oasis’ most popular song which came from their second album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

"And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
But I don't know how "
-excerpt from Wonderwall

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