The Psychedelic Furs " Heartbreak Beat" introduced the concept of what a heart sounds like when it's breaking. Many other songs invoke a heartbeat in a less literal sense. Matter of fact it's all dark." The heartbeat is actually a processed kick drum. For the closing track "Eclipse," it is once again peaceful, with just the beating heart ending the album after the parting thought: "There is no dark side of the moon really.
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For the album opener "Speak To Me," the heartbeat is followed by a series of cacophonous sounds, indicating the pressures of real life that lead to insanity. Perhaps the most famous album ever recorded, Dark Side Of The Moon begins and ends with a heartbeat. " Eclipse" - Pink Floyd Heartbeat Appears: 5:17 Porter wrote it for the Broadway musical The Gay Divorce in 1932 and, two years later, Astaire reprised his role for the film The Gay Divorcee and sang it to Ginger Rogers.ġ6. The song was originally written for a Fred Astaire number years before Sinatra made it his first solo hit in 1942. " Night And Day" - Cole Porter Heartbeat Appears: Introductionįrank Sinatra knew a thing or two about obsessive love, what with his infamous all-consuming affair with Ava Gardner, but his various versions bypass the maddening thumping during the build-up to "a voice within me keeps repeating 'you, you, you'" that is prominent in other renditions like Ella Fitzgerald's. As the movie's goth rock theme song, Gerald McMann's "Cry Little Sister" fuels their desire, starting with the intoxicating boom of a heart pumping blood – actually synth drums that just sound like one. In the '80s horror flick The Lost Boys, Kiefer Sutherland leads a pack of teenage vampires on a blood-sucking spree in a California town. "Cry Little Sister" – Gerard McMann Heartbeat Appears: Introduction and throughout Reznor says it's really about self-hatred.ġ2. The controversial music video was accused of promoting animal cruelty, sexual debauchery, blasphemy, misogyny, and all sorts of other –y's. and then hold it captive in a creepy laboratory so it can thump out the beat of this obsessive track. Trent Reznor will steal your heart with this one. " Closer" - Nine Inch Nails Heartbeat Appears: Introduction and throughout Other heartfelt songs from U2: " Two Hearts Beat As One" and " Mothers of the Disappeared"ġ1. " Beautiful Day" - U2 Heartbeat Appears: Introduction and throughoutīono described this as being about "a man who has lost everything, but finds joy in what he still has." Embracing this new zest for life, an invigorating heartline runs through the song, beginning with a Euro kick drum pumping out a faux heartbeat, leading into the lyrics "the heart is a bloom, shoots up through the stony ground."Īccording to The Edge, the guys thought the song was pretty boring until the album's co-producer Brian Eno suggested some changes, including the telltale opener. Their follow-up Wedding Album featured their own heartbeats thudding for almost a half-hour while the two called back and forth to each other on "John & Yoko."ġ0. 2: Life with the Lions in 1968, credited to John Ono Lennon II. While Yoko Ono was miscarrying, John Lennon recorded the baby's waning heartbeat from a heart monitor and later released it as the track "Baby's Heartbeat" on the Unfinished Music No. Music has a tragic history with this kind of thing. Sadly, baby boy Gregory died from a rare skull disease called Pfeiffer's syndrome a week after his birth. Like Clarkson, he recorded the baby's heartbeat from the ultrasound and blended it with the drum beat for "Sex in the Summer." While Prince was recording his Emancipation album, he was also eagerly anticipating the birth of his first child with then-wife Mayte Garcia. "Sex in the Summer" - Prince Heartbeat Appears: Mixed into the percussion Here are 16 more songs with a nice (heart)beat.ġ. The pulsating beat throughout Kelly Clarkson's hit "Heartbeat Song" is actually her daughter River's heartbeat, recorded while she was still in the womb and slowed down for the rhythm of the track.
Plenty of songs use actual heartbeats or pulse-like instrumentation to express the joy of life, the finality of death, and a few heartbreaks in between. Deee-Lite was right: Groove really is in the heart.
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