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Everclear

Everclear is a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, USA, in 1992.
Everclear is a type of grain alcohol. It is illegal in some places because it is 95% pure, and dangerous if not mixed properly. Alexakis chose the name for the band because it conveys the intensity with which they play.
Alexakis was 30 when he formed the band. He is 8 years older than Montoya and Eklund.
The band is in the 2000 movie Loser, starring Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari (Both from American Pie).
The results were released as Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile in July 2000. The album yielded the band's most successful single, "Wonderful", and eventually reached platinum status.
The song "Wonderful" was also noteably used as the graduation song for the Columbine High School class of 1999, who had suffered their on tragedy on April 20th 1999 when two fellow students opened fire, killing eleven students and one teacher, plus ending their own lives.

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Santa Monica

Alternative

AM Radio

Album:

Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1 (2000)

Song Details:

Lyrics:

You can hear the music on the am radio

The vcr and the dvd
There wasnt none of that crap back in 1970
We didnt know about a world wide web
It was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid

Wanna get down in a cool way
Picture yourself on a beautiful day
Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair
Just walkin in style with a portable cd player
No, you would listen to the music on the am radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a am radio

Flashback, 72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hangin out with nothing to do
Sometmes wed go drivin around
In my sisters pinto
Cruisin with the windows rolled down
Wed listen to the radio station
We were too damn cool to buy the eight track tapes
There wasnt any good time to want to be inside
My mama wanna watch that tv all goddamn night

Id be in bed with the radio on
I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song
Youd have to wait but you could hear it on the am radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a am radio
I can still hear mama say boy turn that radio down!

aw, mom. not that show again! I dont wanna watch that show! cant we watch good times or chico and the man or something cool? turn it off!

Things changed back in 75
We were all growing up on the in and the outside
We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted gettin high in the back of my friends van

I remember 1977
I started going to concerts and I saw the led zeppelin
I got a guitar on christmas day
I dreamed that jimmy page would come from santa monica and teach me to play
Teach me to play...

There isnt any place that I need to go
There isnt anything that I need to know
I did not learn from the radio

Yeah when things get stupid and I just dont know
Where to find my happy
I listen to my music on the am radio
You can hear the music on a am radio
You can hear the music on a am radio

I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco...

No I never liked disco...

Father of Mine

I Will Buy You A New Life

Wonderful

Album:

Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1 (2000)

Song Details:

Lyrics:

hey, aint life wonderful? wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... isnt it wonderful
Now?

I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope its over when I open them

I want the things that I had before
Like a star wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again

Hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
Hear them scream, I hear them fight
They say bad words that make me wanna cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream of angels who make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when youre little
And the worlds so big
I just dont understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now

Please dont tell me everything is wonderful now

I go to school and I run and play
I tell the kids that its all okay
I laugh aloud so my friends wont know
When the bell rings I just dont wanna go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I dont believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday

Promises mean everything when youre little
And the world is so big
I just dont understand how
You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
When you tell me everything is wonderful now

No
No, I dont wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
No
No, I dont wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now

I dont wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I dont wanna hear you say
You both have grown in a different way
No, no, no, no
I dont wanna meet your friends
And I dont wanna start over again
I just want my life to be the same
Just like it used to be
Some days I hate everything
I hate everything
Everyone and everything
Please dont tell me everything is wonderful now...