Easy

Thank you so much.

And please enjoy our outro song, Easy.

Bye.

I know it sounds funny, but I just can't stand the pain.

Seems to me, girl, you know I've done all I can.

You see, I beg, stole, and I borrowed.

Easy like Sunday morning That's why I'm easy I'm easy like Sunday morning Why in the world would anybody put a chain I'm paid my dues to make it Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be I'm not happy when I try to fake it No I'm easy like Sunday morning I'm easy I'm easy like Sunday morning Just me.

Now getting into the countdown, the basis for the countdown here, is a great example of a metal band covering a non-metal song.

It's Faith No More doing the Commodore's Easy.

Now, either they're playing it straight, or they're doing it so ironically that they may as well be.

This appeared on their four-song EP, Songs to Make Love To, whose cover art was two rhinos humping under a romantic African sunset.

Fear Factory already had keyboards in their sound for Atmosphere because they were an industrial metal band.

So really all they had to do was play the main riff on their sweet electric guitars instead of on Gary Newman's synth.

Easy peasy.

These are great bumpers.

What I bet nobody knows is that the sing-along lyrics came from notes from a business meeting that the lead singer was sitting in, and he used to write this classic to take his band from funk masters to pop crafters.

It's Easy by Lionel Richie and the Commodores.

The first list of a lot of people hear easy as a sweet romantic ballad, but actually Lionel Richie wrote it as something much more personal.

It's all about the emotional relief of finally walking away from a relationship that has drained your happiness dry.

And during that meeting, Lionel started jotting things down in his notebook, his notes.

He was putting down things like, why can't success be easy like a Sunday morning? Why is Motown putting chains on me when I paid my dues to make it already? And I just want to be free from all this pressure.

He later went back to those meeting notes and he turned those into an all-time sing-along classic, Easy.

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Now, in other concerts they'll do, um, Ashes to Ashes and some other songs, and that is kind of, uh, real mellow.

But they did do Easy Like Sunday Morning, which is a popular tune that Faith No More covers.

But, uh, oh yeah, it was, it was a blast, so.

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