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

From: The Polite Force ; Year: 1971; Genre: Progressive Rock This song has some really interesting time signature changes and even more interesting melody. The use of horns to give punctuation/stabs is also a very neat aspect of the track as well.   Hear Contrasong on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Ian Matthews - Don't Hang Up Your Dancing Shoes   My song pick 2 years ago today: Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square My song pick 3 years ago today: Rammstein - Wo Bist Du My song pick 4 years ago today: Ozric Tentacles - Spyroid My song pick 5 years ago today: Joe Tex - I Gotcha My song pick 6 years ago today: Weather Report - Crystal My song pick 7 years ago today: Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl My song pick 8 years ago today: Duke Ellington - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) My song pick 9 years ago today: Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love My song pick 10 years ago today: John Denver - In My Life My s...

From: Egg ; Year: 1970; Genre: Progressive Rock I'm drawing an absolute blank for today, so I'm picking one from my queue of bands in the backlog that I've been meaning to pick another one from. Anyway, here's treat for the ears from the early 1970s Prog-Rock band Egg rather than how many bands do when they cover this piece, instead of using the Toccata section they instead focused on the main Fugue section. You gotta love that organ/keyboard work combined with those drums and a modicum of funkiness. Hear Egg's take on Bach's Fugue in D-Minor on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Last DJ My song pick two years ago today: Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (Including Cog) My song pick three years ago today: Nightwish - Feel for You My song pick four years ago today: Genesis - Keep It Dark My song pick five years ago today: Rush - Lessons My song pick six years ago today: Badfinger - Come and Ge...

From: Egg ; Year: 1970; Genre: Progressive Rock I was intending on picking another song today, but it just didn't feel like a good fit, so I picked one that I've been meaning to for a while now that fit better. This is an interesting piece of earlier prog rock; not as bombastic, but still quite nice. Hear I Will Be Absorbed on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Megadeth - Into the Lungs of Hell My song pick two years ago today: Soundgarden - Bones of Birds My song pick three years ago today: Nightwish - Know Why the Nightingale Sings My song pick four years ago today: Stuart Hamm - Black Ice My song pick five years ago today: Waylander - Brú Na Bóinne My song pick six years ago today: Rammstein - Klavier My song pick seven years ago today: Johnny Rivers - Summer Rain