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6122. Queen - Flash to the Rescue

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From: Flash Gordon: Original Soundtrack by Queen ; Year: 1980; Genre: Rock This is one of only three songs from the soundtrack that featured vocals, and those were mostly the same as the main theme except for more samples from the film that came from the point of the film where our hero is on his way to save the day.     Hear Flash to the Rescue on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Ace - Rock & Roll Runaway   My song pick 2 years ago today: Imagination - Just an Illusion   My song pick 3 years ago today: Alestorm - Fannybaws   My song pick 4 years ago today: Marillion - Seasons End   My song pick 5 years ago today: Dick Dale - Esperanza My song pick 6 years ago today: Kansas - Questions of my Childhood My song pick 7 years ago today: Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Quartet My song pick 8 years ago today: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Radio-Activity My song pick 9 years ago today: Toto - Stranger in Town My song pick 10 years ago today: Dream Theater - Hell's

6121. Waylander - Kindred Spirits

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From: Kindred Spirits ; Year: 2013; Genre: Celtic Folk Metal Thought that I would choose something from Waylander on this St. Patrick's Day; nothing quite like some folk metal with a good helping of Celtic music to get your day going.    Hear Kindred Spirits on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Black 47 - Land Of DeValera   My song pick 2 years ago today: Frank Mackey & The Keltic Cowboys - Rocky Road to Dublin   My song pick 3 years ago today: Black 47 - Bodhráns On The Brain   My song pick 4 years ago today: Waylander - The Vernal Dance   My song pick 5 years ago today: Thin Lizzy - Dublin My song pick 6 years ago today: Black 47 - Paddy's Got a Brand New Reel My song pick 7 years ago today: Croft No Five - The Man of Arran My song pick 8 years ago today: Cruachan - The Morrigan's Call My song pick 9 years ago today: Flogging Molly - (No More) Paddy's Lament My song pick 10 years ago today: Black 47 - The Big Fella My song pick 11 years

6120. Steeleye Span - The Wee Free Men

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From: Wintersmith ; Year: 2013; Genre: Progressive Rock/Folk Rock Out of their more recent offerings I still keep coming back to the concept album based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld Series: Wintersmith . I don't know wot it is exactly, but the music, feeling, subject matter, production and so on, just seems to just "click" with me. This track that serves as a theme of sorts for the Nac Mac Feegle , aka "The Wee Free Men," which are a fairy folk in the vain of Brownies from Scots Folklore.   Hear The Wee Free Men on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Icehouse - Trojan Blue   My song pick 2 years ago today: Miles Davis - Paraphernalia   My song pick 3 years ago today: Utopia - Set Me Free   My song pick 4 years ago today: Nick Gilder - Rated X   My song pick 5 years ago today: Rush - Second Nature My song pick 6 years ago today: Diana Ross & The Supremes - Someday We'll be Together My song pick 7 years ago today: Megadeth - Dre

6119. Cameo - Attitude

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From: Real Men Wear Black ; Year: 1990; Genre: Funk/Rock/New Jack Swing Anytime is a great time to have some Cameo playing in the background, especially on a Funky Friday ! This album and song in particular just puts a smile on my face and fills me up with positive energy; pure fun for the ears, nothing else needed to say.   Hear Attitude on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Lights Go Down   My song pick 2 years ago today: Lawrence Gowan - The Dragon   My song pick 3 years ago today: Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen   My song pick 4 years ago today: U.K. - Rendezvous 6:02   My song pick 5 years ago today: Parliament - Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop) My song pick 6 years ago today: The Enid - And Then There Were None My song pick 7 years ago today: Ted Nugent - Stranglehold My song pick 8 years ago today: Muse - Revolt My song pick 9 years ago today: Vixen - Edge of a Broken Heart My song pick 10 years ago tod

6118. Megadeth - I Thought I Knew It All

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From: Youthanasia ; Year: 1994; Genre: Thrash Metal Heard this album today whilst driving and decided to pick another song from it. Youthanasia is one of the releases from the band that, while not my favourite, it is right up there. Mostly this is due to it being smack dab in the middle of the time I started to listen to Megadeth a lot and I came to love their music.   Hear I Thought I Knew It All on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The Music Explosion - Little Bit O' Soul   My song pick 2 years ago today: Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray   My song pick 3 years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Road   My song pick 4 years ago today: Genesis - The Serpent   My song pick 5 years ago today: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife-Edge My song pick 6 years ago today: UB40 - Rat in mi Kitchen My song pick 7 years ago today: Dust - Learning to Die My song pick 8 years ago today: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind, I&#

6117. Tesla - I Want To Take You Higher

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From: Real to Reel, Vol. 2 ; Year: 2007; Genre: Funk Rock/Hard Rock I have to say, Tesla did an amazing job with both of their albums of cover songs. Heck, and how could you go wrong with doing some Sly & The Family Stone and this epic to boot? I Want To Take You Higher was always among my top favourites from Sly and his band, but Tesla not only covered this fist-pumping and hard dancing classic, but took it even further; or higher ... perhaps.   Hear I Want To Take You Higher on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Pantera - 13 Steps To Nowhere   My song pick 2 years ago today: Till Lindemann - Ich Hasse Kinder   My song pick 3 years ago today: Normaal - Deurdonderen   My song pick 4 years ago today: Bootsy Collins - World Wide Funk   My song pick 5 years ago today: Sam Cooke - Chain Gang My song pick 6 years ago today: King Crimson - Lizard My song pick 7 years ago today: Band of Horses - Lying Under Oak My song pick 8 years ago today: Emerson, Lake & Pal

6116. Ray Stevens - The Rockin' Teenage Mummies

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From: It Only Hurts When I Laugh/The Rockin' Teenage Mummies ; Year: 1965; Genre: Rock 'n Roll/Comedy I really do not believe there are many out there with such an extensive catalogue of original novelty comedy songs than Ray Stevens; he sure did write a lot of classics over the years. This one was the B-Side of a single release that, whilst is original, it contains a lot of musical ideas from his other songs of the time. If you are at all familiar with his hits from this time, you'll surely pick up on them.   Hear The Rockin' Teenage Mummies on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The Hollies - Carrie Anne   My song pick 2 years ago today: Europe - Stormwind   My song pick 3 years ago today: Dazz Band - Let It All Blow   My song pick 4 years ago today: Faith No More - Epic   My song pick 5 years ago today: Stevie Wonder - Too Shy To Say My song pick 6 years ago today: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony My song pick 7 years ago today: Wolfmother - Jok