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

From: Yesterday and Today ; Year: 1966; Genre: Pop/Rock Just had this one literally pop into my mind as I was making my coffee and took it as a gift from somewhere, so it is today's pick. And an excellent one from the legendary songwriting duo.   Hear We Can Work It Out on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The Band - The Weight   My song pick 2 years ago today: The Four Tops - Reflections   My song pick 3 years ago today: Rare Earth - Hum Along and Dance   My song pick 4 years ago today: Rammstein - Radio   My song pick 5 years ago today: Matthews' Southern Comfort - Tell Me Why My song pick 6 years ago today: Sam & Dave - Hold On, I'm Coming My song pick 7 years ago today: Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman My song pick 8 years ago today: Meat Loaf - Life is a Lemon (and I Want My Money Back) My song pick 9 years ago today: Martin Barre - I Raise My Glass To You My song pick 10 years ago today: ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowin...

From: Extra Texture (Read All About It) ; Year: 1975; Genre: Rock I'm not sure why, but I felt like listening to some of George Harrison's post-Beatles music and picking something from that era as well. From what I can understand, this song is a sequel of sorts to his epic song he recorded with The Beatles that featured Eric Clapton: While Guitar Gently Weeps . It was also apparently written in response to critics who viciously panned his previous tour and record for seemingly nothing more than him not playing material from or music that sounded like The Beatles. This appears to have been a running theme all the former members of the group had to deal with as they went on their own way to other projects and solo work. Personally, whilst I like a goodly amount of The Beatles' music, I really like how they progressed afterwards and continued to evolve artistically. To me, this is another in many instances where music critics show their worthlessness and how their opinions are...

From: Revolver ; Year: 1966; Genre: Rock/Pop Just feels like a good day to choose a song from the pen of John Lennon and Paul McCartney; this one seemed to fit very well. This one is quite intricate in construction and moves along very well, I just wish it was a smidge longer that its just over 2:00 total.    Hear And Your Bird Can Sing on YouTube.         My song pick 1 year ago today: King Crimson - Industry   My song pick 2 years ago today: Parliament - (Gloryhallastoopid) Pin The Tail On The Funky My song pick 3 years ago today: Marillion - That Time of the Night (The Short Straw) My song pick 4 years ago today: The J. Geils Band - Love Stinks My song pick 5 years ago today: Savatage - Of Rage and War My song pick 6 years ago today: Frank Black - Headache My song pick 7 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Two Fingers My song pick 8 years ago today: Paul Simon - Hobo's Blues My song pick 9 years ago today: Megadeth - Sweating Bullets My...

From: All Things Must Pass ; Year: 1970; Genre: Rock Here's another one I was surprised I had not chosen yet; it was one that came on my playlist the other day and I thought I would pick it. A lot of pretty layers of music throughout this one, I really love the steel guitar amongst the other instruments. Hear Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) - The Bouncer My song pick 2 years ago today: Dick Dale - Summer Surf My song pick 3 years ago today: Neil Young - Computer Cowboy (aka Syscrusher) My song pick 4 years ago today: Jethro Tull - The Foot of Our Stairs My song pick 5 years ago today: Peter Tosh - Rumors of War My song pick 6 years ago today: War - Low Rider My song pick 7 years ago today: Midnight Oil - Truganini My song pick 8 years ago today: The Nightwatchman - I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night My song pick 9 years ago today: Van der Graaf Generator - Childlike Fa...

From: The Beatles (The White Album) ; Year: 1968; Genre: Rock/Pop Just a song incessantly running through my mind today; not one of my favourites from the band, but it's got a lot of charm. Hear The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Elvis Presley - You'll Never Walk Alone My song pick 2 years ago today: Carmen - Flamenco Fever My song pick 3 years ago today: Ian Anderson - A Change of Horses My song pick 4 years ago today: Wilson Pickett - Hey Joe My song pick 5 years ago today: The Cosmic Sound Orchestra - Listen to the Beat My song pick 6 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Overhang My song pick 7 years ago today: Hawkwind - Uncle Sam's on Mars My song pick 8 years ago today: Al Di Meola - Suite – Golden Dawn My song pick 9 years ago today: Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Sex in a Pan My song pick 10 years ago today: David Bowie - Space Oddity My song pick 11 years ago today: The Guess Who - No Sugar...

From: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; Year: 1967; Genre: Progressive Rock/Psychedelic Rock I don't believe I've picked a Beatles song in a bit, so I believe I will since they're on my mind. Almost everybody who is or has been into rock/pop in the last 45+ years knows The Beatles' A Day in the Life . It's one of their best and interestingly arranged songs, that's for sure. Hear A Day in the Life on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Paris - Blue Robin My song pick two years ago today: Dick Dale - Third Stone From the Sun My song pick three years ago today: Blue Öyster Cult - The Revenge of Vera Gemini My song pick four years ago today: Queen - Ride the Wild Wind My song pick five years ago today: The Steve Miller Band - Enter Maurice My song pick six years ago today: Mastodon - Capillarian Crest My song pick seven years ago today: Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie My song pick eight years ago today: Rammstein - Frühling i...

From: Let it Be ; Year: 1970; Genre: Blues Rock Listening to some of The Beatles the other day and I thought I should pick another one of their songs. This is one from Harrison's pen; it's a really bluesy track featuring mostly acoustic guitar, but I really, really like Lennon's playing of the lap steel on this track. Hear For You Blue on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: Boston - I Had a Good Time My song pick two years ago today: Sky - FIFO (suite) My song pick three years ago today: Faith No More - Easy My song pick four years ago today: Pallas - Rise and Fall, Part 1 My song pick five years ago today: Counting Crows - Mr. Jones My song pick six years ago today: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back Door My song pick seven years ago today: The Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions My song pick eight years ago today: The Tornadoes - Telstar

From: Magical Mystery Tour ; Year: 1967; Genre: Pop/Rock Finally got my internet working (somewhat), so at least that's handled now, anyway, most of this morning I had this rather popular track from The Beatles earworming me, so as normal, I decided to pick it. Mostly it was their intro from the French National Anthem La Marseillaise that was stuck in my mind, but the rest of the song came along for the ride. Hear All You Need is Love on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: The Offspring - Gotta Get Away My song pick two years ago today: Band of Horses - Knock, Knock My song pick three years ago today: Three Dog Night - Heaven is in Your Mind My song pick four years ago today: Queensrÿche - One & Only My song pick five years ago today: The Spiders - Back   My song pick six years ago today: Nena - Mach Die Augen Auf   My song pick seven years ago today: The Offspring - Feelings

From: Anthology 1 ; Year: 1995; Genre: Pop/Rock For those unaware, I am in the midst of picking songs whose release date coincides with my song pick number; of course today's pick number is 1995. This was amongst and probably the most notable among two of John Lennon's unreleased recordings that were reworked by the remaining members of the band and released on their Anthology discs. Ever since their release I had mixed feelings about these songs; while they were okay tracks, to me it stunk a bit of weaseling another miserable buck out of rabid fans who would probably pay top-dollar for recordings of something like Lennon burping into a microphone. At the time this was only exacerbated in my mind by them releasing the other track separately on Anthology 2 , so, to get the other song you had to buy another complete album. However, since those effected, with the obvious exception of John Lennon, had no problem with it in the end I guess it really doesn't matter tha...

875 ( Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line ) I was thinking about this song most of the morning, so I am adding to my list. It rolls along quite nicely with the nicely defined "locomotive" rhythm. It is a nice unobtrusive song to wake up and clear your mind to. Here is the music video on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: The Doors - Love Her Madly My song pick two years ago today: Rod Stewart - Young Turks (Young Hearts Be Free) +