William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Electric Jewels ; Year: 1973; Genre: Hard Rock Here is a hard rocker from the Canadian band April Wine. It's one of those songs that really gets the blood moving on a cold Monday morning.   Hear Weeping Widow on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Blue on Black     My song pick 2 years ago today: Earth, Wind & Fire - They Don't See You   My song pick 3 years ago today: Bon Jovi - Hardest Part is the Night   My song pick 4 years ago today: Rainbow - Fire Dance   My song pick 5 years ago today: The Marvelettes - Beechwood 4-5789 My song pick 6 years ago today: The Who - Don't Let Go The Coat My song pick 7 years ago today: Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night My song pick 8 years ago today: Billy Joel - Big Shot My song pick 9 years ago today: The Allman Brothers Band - Statesboro Blues My song pick 10 years ago today: The Scorpions - The Zoo My song pick 11 years ago today: Hawkwind...

From: Electric Jewels ; Year: 1973; Genre: Hard Rock Yet another band I've recently been meaning to revisit and am finally getting around to it. This is one of my favourites off of one of their earlier albums: Electric Jewels . Whilst they had that raw, hard rock edge by this point, you can hear they were still evolving musically.   Hear Cat's Claw on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Alphaville - Big In Japan   My song pick 2 years ago today: Primus - Mary the Ice Cube   My song pick 3 years ago today: Mastodon - Andromeda My song pick 4 years ago today: Deep Purple - King of Dreams My song pick 5 years ago today: Counting Crows - Round Here My song pick 6 years ago today: Devo - Through Being Cool My song pick 7 years ago today: Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus My song pick 8 years ago today: Larry Graham and Graham Central Station - G.C.S. My song pick 9 years ago today: Rush - Big Money My song pick 10 years ago today: Jethro T...

From: Harder..... Faster ; Year: 1979; Genre: Rock After a little bit of thought I decided on this song from April Wine for today's song choice. I like how this track toys with both harder and softer directions at times, but stays in a groove somewhere in the middle.    Hear Say Hello on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Funkadelic - Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow   My song pick 2 years ago today: Melvins - Heavyness of the Load My song pick 3 years ago today: A-ha - Manhattan Skyline My song pick 4 years ago today: Uriah Heep - Bird of Prey My song pick 5 years ago today: The Who - The Quiet One My song pick 6 years ago today: UPC All Stars - Don't Get Discouraged My song pick 7 years ago today: Stahlhammer - Messerschmied My song pick 8 years ago today: Chet Atkins and Merle Travis - I'll See You In My Dreams My song pick 9 years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - O.D.'d on Life Itself My song pick 10 years ago today:...

From: First Glance ; Year: 1978; Genre: Rock I randomly chose this song today for no other reason that I like it and the band and I have not chosen one from them in a while. The dynamics in how they go back and forth between soft and quiet to loud and hard is really done well and one of the main aspects I like the most.   Hear Comin' Right Down on Top of Me on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Midnight Oil - Now or Never Land   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Grass Roots - Where Were You When I Needed You My song pick 3 years ago today: The Moody Blues - Are You Sitting Comfortably? My song pick 4 years ago today: A-ha - Train of Thought My song pick 5 years ago today: Motörhead - Motorhead My song pick 6 years ago today: Leon Mitchison and the Eastex Freeway Band - Street Scene My song pick 7 years ago today: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) My song pick 8 years ago today: Jane's Addiction - Been C...

From: First Glance ; Year: 1978; Genre: Hard Rock I love the overall melodic aspects of this song; reminds me a bit of hard rock meets Spaghetti Western music. Hear Silver Dollar on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Smokehouse - Polar Funk My song pick 2 years ago today: Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall My song pick 3 years ago today: Audioslave - Like a Stone My song pick 4 years ago today: Rage Against the Machine - Darkness of Greed My song pick 5 years ago today: Martin Barre - Spanish Tears My song pick 6 years ago today: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Communication My song pick 7 years ago today: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Livin' in the Fridge My song pick 8 years ago today: Duran Duran - (Reach Up for the) Sunrise My song pick 9 years ago today: The Offspring - Gone Away My song pick 10 years ago today: Converge - Cruel Bloom My song pick 11 years ago today: Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids - She's So Fine...

From: The Nature of the Beast ; Year: 1981; Genre: Hard Rock Short and sweet, I guess you could say that about this song. I like wot you get to hear throughout it; it really has everything in a small package. Hear Crash and Burn on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Foreigner - Cold As Ice My song pick 2 years ago today: Rush - Everyday Glory My song pick 3 years ago today: Rod Stewart - The Motown Song My song pick 4 years ago today: Zapp - I Can Make You Dance My song pick 5 years ago today: Bachman & Turner - Rock & Roll is the Only Way Out My song pick 6 years ago today: Mortification - Overseer My song pick 7 years ago today: Deep Purple - Highway Star My song pick 8 years ago today: Rush - Not Fade Away My song pick 9 years ago today: Steeleye Span - Shaking of the Sheets My song pick 10 years ago today: Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face My song pick 11 years ago today: Taj Mahal - Fishin' Blues

From: The Nature of the Beast ; Year: 1981; Genre: Hard Rock/Space Rock The Nature of the Beast was the first album from April Wine that I owned and I played most of the songs quite a bit, so I like this one. On this track basically take some thumping Canadian hard rock and throw in some epic science fiction lyrics and you got a great song. Hear Caught in the Crossfire on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Jethro Tull - Ears of Tin My song pick 2 years ago today: Melvins - With Teeth My song pick 3 years ago today: Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls My song pick 4 years ago today: Styx - Do Things My Way My song pick 5 years ago today: Steeleye Span - The Black Freighter My song pick 6 years ago today: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication My song pick 7 years ago today: Queensrÿche - Eyes of a Stranger My song pick 8 years ago today: Bad Company - Holy Water My song pick 9 years ago today: Azteca - Some Day We'll Get By My song pick 10 years ago today...

From: The Nature of the Beast ; Year: 1981; Genre: Hard Rock I remember when I first got this record in an unlabeled box among many others; this is one of the albums I immediately cabbaged on to. There's a lot of good music on it; this song in particular is good party music and you can tell that it was written to be played live, most likely towards the end of a show. Hear One More Time on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Riggs - Heartbeat My song pick 2 years ago today: Dazz Band - To the Roof My song pick 3 years ago today: Jan & Dean - The Little Old Lady from Pasadena My song pick 4 years ago today: Buddy Holley and the Crickets - Maybe Baby My song pick 5 years ago today: Lou Reed - Satellite of Love My song pick 6 years ago today: Alestorm - Barrett's Privateers My song pick 7 years ago today: Sly and the Family Stone - Sing a Simple Song My song pick 8 years ago today: Miles Davis - So What My song pick 9 years ago today: Ray Charl...

From: Harder..... Faster ; Year: 1980; Genre: Hard Rock/Progressive Rock Was listening to this King Crimson cover and knew I had to choose it. They definitely make the song their own whilst keeping true to the original; it really shows off how good of musicians April Wine are. Hear 21st Century Schizoid Man on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Mr. Big - The Monster in Me My song pick two years ago today: Jaco Pastorius - Liberty City My song pick three years ago today: Primus - The Air is Getting Slippery My song pick four years ago today: Soundgarden - Halfway There My song pick five years ago today: Jim Croce - Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) My song pick six years ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - Last Train to London My song pick seven years ago today: Jaco Pastorius - Kuru/Speak Like a Child My song pick eight years ago today: The Grass Roots - Let's Live For Today My song pick nine years ago today: The Ventures - Walk...

From: Power Play ; Year: 1982; Genre: Hard Rock Some early '80s Canadian hard rock exemplified here. If you're into that retro, but non-electronic synth sound of that era, this is definitely one to hear. Hear Enough is Enough on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Faith No More - Falling to Pieces My song pick two years ago today: The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches My song pick three years ago today: The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler My song pick four years ago today: The Five Stairsteps - O-o-o Child My song pick five years ago today: The Delgados - Mr. Blue Sky My song pick six years ago today: Muse - Citizen Erased My song pick seven years ago today: The Darkness - Is It Just Me My song pick eight years ago today: Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground My song pick nine years ago today: Devo - Come Back Jonee My song pick ten years ago today: Weather Report - A Remark You Made

From: The Nature of the Beast ; Year: 1981; Genre: Rock Yeah, it's an early '80s rock ballad, but I love the song; especially that guitar. Hear Just Between You and Me on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Sky - Chiropodie No.1 My song pick two years ago today: Queen - Headlong My song pick three years ago today: The Chakachas - Jungle Fever My song pick four years ago today: The Outlaws - The Valley of the Sioux My song pick five years ago today: Candlebox - Far Behind My song pick six years ago today: Buckethead - Final Wars My song pick seven years ago today: Megaherz - Heuchler My song pick eight years ago today: Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway My song pick nine years ago today: Oasis - Wonderwall

From: Harder..... Faster ; Year: 1979; Genre: Hard Rock It's yet another one of those picks where I had the song in my head and decided to choose it; so wot else is new. :P Anyway, I've always really like this straight up hard rock track with that driving bass and wailing guitars; definitely a good one to start off a busy workweek. Watch the video clip of I Like to Rock at the fabled "Le Studio" on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown My song pick two years ago today: Luther - Funky Music (Is a Part of Me) My song pick three years ago today: Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show My song pick four years ago today: Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell My song pick five years ago today: Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime My song pick six years ago today: Glenn Miller - In The Mood My song pick seven years ago today: Tarot - Ashes To The Stars My song pick eight years...

1667 April Wine - Future Tense From: The Nature of the Beast , Year: 1981 Genre: Hard Rock I had another song in mind for today, but after I saw the title of the song I picked last night it brought this April Wine's The Nature of the Beast album to mind. Plus some Canadian Hard Rock just felt perfect for this Monday, so I'm going ahead and picking one of favourite tracks off of the album. Hear Future Tense on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: The Darkness - Hazel Eyes My song pick two years ago today: The O'Jays - Back Stabbers My song pick three years ago today: Tarja Turunen - Enough My song pick four years ago today: Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain +

1366 April Wine - Sign of the Gypsy Queen From: The Nature of the Beast , Year: 1981 I'm embarking on another theme of sorts this week: I'm picking songs from bands that I have not chosen another song from since my first 100 picks. I guess that I will call this theme week: "...and about 1300 days later." Anyway, what has truly amazed me is not just the number of bands, but which bands I have neglected since the first 100; there are some that I really like that I've only picked one song from over 1300 days ago. I figured I would start this week off with another song from the Canadian Hard Rock band April Wine; the last song I picked from this great band was " Roller " on October 1st of '07; it was my 31st overall pick . There are quite a few songs from April Wine that like, so I had some trouble narrowing down my pick, but I finally settled on this cover of Lorence Hud's "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" off of their The Nature of the ...

Okay, for number 31, today I am choosing " Roller " by April Wine. This is off of their " First Glance " album; the album cover shown above is different from the one that I own. I believe that I have the American release, however I like this cover better. Anyway, this is another great late 70's rock anthem. Here is the studio version on YouTube. +