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"Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" was written by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, who dubbed it his "first climate change song" due to its lyrics about the then-current concern over global cooling. [4] He later explained, This was my first song talking about the issue of ecology and, in this specific case, climate change.
The singer Anne Briggs first popularized the song in the 1960s and recorded it in 1971. It was later learned by Archie Fisher who passed it on to Dick Gaughan. Gaughan recorded it on his Handful of Earth album, the success of which further popularized the song. The song was used in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 'Tess of the D ...
The song was one of a series of comic novelty songs set in "exotic" locations, one of the earliest and most famous being "Oh By Jingo!" The verses of "Ice Cream" talk of a fictional college in "the land of ice and snow, up among the Eskimo", the college cheer being the chorus of the song "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream".
The Wall is the story of Pink, who grows up to become an alienated and embittered rock star, with a failing marriage and feelings of megalomania. [5] " The Thin Ice" can be seen as the introduction to his story, since the previous song, the album's opening track "In The Flesh?" is chronologically placed later in the album's narrative, and then the story is begun via flashback.
"Brick" is a song by American alternative rock group Ben Folds Five. It was released in November 1997 as a single from their album Whatever and Ever Amen and later on Ben Folds Live . [ 2 ] The verses were written by Ben Folds about his high school girlfriend getting an abortion , and the chorus was written by the band's drummer, Darren Jessee .
"No Promises" is a song by Australian band Icehouse, released in October 1985, [1] as the first single issued from the band's 1986 album, Measure for Measure. The single was released in Australia through Regular Records, on 7", 12" and maxi-cassette single formats.
"No Parking (On the Dance Floor)" is the title track from Midnight Star's fourth and most successful album, No Parking on the Dance Floor. In the US, the song reached number 43 on the R&B chart , [ 1 ] number 44 on the dance chart, [ 2 ] and number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 .
"I Melt with You" is a song by the British new wave band Modern English. The song, produced by Hugh Jones , was the second single from their 1982 album After the Snow . It became the band's most successful single, largely in the United States, where it was featured in the film Valley Girl and on MTV .