No One Knows

"No One Knows" is a song by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age written by band members Josh Homme and Mark Lanegan. It was the first single and second track from their third album, Songs for the Deaf, and was released on November 26, 2002. "No One Knows" was a chart success, becoming the band's only single to top the US Modern Rock charts. The song was also critically acclaimed, receiving a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards.

Background and writing

According to Homme, "No One Knows" existed before the recording sessions for Songs for the Deaf:

We have patience with music, a year or five years down the road it may kind of rewrite itself and become what it's supposed to be. There's two songs on this record that are over five years old, you know? 'God is the Radio' and 'No One Knows'.

Recording for Songs for the Deaf began in March 2002 at three studios across California. Though the liner notes credit Homme and Eric Valentine with producing the majority of the album – including "No One Knows" – Homme credits Valentine with merely recording the beginning of the album for contractual reasons.

Kerplunk (album)

Kerplunk is the second studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on January 17, 1992 through Lookout Records.Kerplunk was their last release on Lookout Records and was also the first album to feature Tré Cool on drums. The album has gone on to be among the best selling independently released albums of all time. After debuting the album to their fans in the Berkeley, California area and receiving much approval from the critical 924 Gilman Street crowd, the band packed up in a cramped, converted Book Mobile and headed east. The band developed a fan base on the east coast behind the touring support of grassroots promotor, Jak Werz. The risk paid off as album sales reached over 50,000 copies. Along with the albums sales and the successful live shows, major labels took notice of Kerplunk's phenomenal popularity, as a result, many approached the band. Green Day realized that they had outgrown their record distribution capacity with Lookout! and eventually signed with Reprise Records. With Reprise, Green Day recorded and released their next album Dookie (1994).

No One Knows (song)

"No One Knows" is a song by Cantonese pop singer and Hong Kong actress Stephy Tang (鄧麗欣, 邓丽欣). It was the title song and first single from her No One Knows EP released by Gold Typhoon on July 16, 2010. It was the title song of a second EP, No One Knows (Stephy x Y.E.S.- 3D感官版), recorded in Mandarin and released by Gold Typhoon in 2011. It was written by Roxanne Seeman, Kine Ludvigsen-Fossheim, and Olav Fossheim.

Music video

An accompanying video was released.

Film

"No One Knows" was performed by Terence Siufay on the soundtrack of Hong Kong film Summer Love Love (戀夏戀夏戀戀下), released August 25, 2011.Summer Love Love is a romantic comedy directed by Wilson Chin, starring Lik-Sun Fong, Stephy Tang, Elanne Kwong, Terence Chui, J.J. Jia, Ekin Cheng, Eric Tsang and others.

References

No One

No One may refer to:

Joe Beagle

Joe Beagle, also known as singer-songwriter Joey Parratt, is an award-winning songwriter with various TV, radio and live performances to his name. He was founder member of The Flying Brix, No-one, Champion the Underdog, The (original) Beagles, Awful Racket, Cute Baby Monster and My Mate's Band all of which played almost exclusively his own original songs.

In 1979, as founder member of The Flying Brix, along with John Ashton, David Bradbury, Mark Hamilton, Gary Taylor and his brother Andy Barratt, he recorded, produced and released "Black Colours" a limited edition 7 inch 33 rpm vinyl DIY EP with 9 original songs, distributed by Rough Trade Records and played by John Peel (of BBC, Radio One). One of the songs, "Uniform (I Don't Wanna Be Different)", was later featured on a compilation CD commemorating the era, MESSTHETICS #104 CD: 'D.I.Y.' and indie postpunk from the South Wales and the Z-Block scene: 1977-1981 (part 1).

Rowlands replaced Hamilton and then the band split in 1981 and Rowlands, Ashton, Bradbury and Taylor went on to form 'Fourplay'. Joe stayed with the name of The Flying Brix.

No One (2 Unlimited song)

"No One" is a song recorded by Dutch Eurodance band 2 Unlimited.

Release and reception

"No one" was released as the second single from 2 Unlimited's third album, Real Things.

The release scored chart success in many European countries peaking at #2 in the Netherlands and #3 in Belgium. It was the least successful release to date in the UK hitting #17, but received the more airplay than previous hits from national station BBC Radio 1 due to the change in direction to a much lighter, breezier pop-reggae style.

Appearances

The melody of this song was also sampled in 1996 single by Serbian group Moby Dick with name "Kralj kokaina" ("King of Cocaine").

Track listing

Charts

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