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

1368 Billy Thorpe - East of Eden's Gate From: East of Eden's Gate , Year: 1982 First off, before I make my pick I would like to thank the Blogger team for restoring my post from a few of days ago that was lost during site maintenance. Also, Max has joined my current theme and is picking some songs from bands that haven't made his list since early days of his song-a-day blog. Anyway, on to today's pick! This is day three of my "...And about 1300 day later." theme week, i.e. picking songs from bands that haven't graced my blog since the first 100 song picks. The last song I picked from Billy Thorpe was his epic Space Rock track " Children of the Sun " as my 58th overall pick back on the 28th of October, 2007 . While many can only name that track when asked to name one of his songs, he actually had quite a few singles over the years, mostly with his band: Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs. This is another one of my favourite songs from his dis...

A bunch of songs today were wanting to get picked, however this one won out. This one is very weird and almost everyone that I know hates this song, but I love it. It is another song with a story behind it, this one is about Earth's first contact; the aliens here are called The Children of the Sun . It is very Sci-Fi sounding and a bit repetitive, which probably puts most people off. I heard that Billy Thorpe died earlier this year as well of a heart attack, so this is a good pick for yet another reason. Here is the extended studio version on YouTube. +