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

From: Cut Above the Rest ; Year: 1979; Genre: Rock/Glam Rock Had another song from another band in mind for today's pick, but had another case of another band's music permeating my mind. This track was from their first record without original vocalist Brian Connolly and is a wee bit different from their popular sound. As this incarnation as a power trio they shared duties at lead vocals, which obviously altered it stylistically, but also the musical arrangements changed a bit as well.   Hear Call Me on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Lou Rawls - Groovy People   My song pick 2 years ago today: Marillion - Dry Land   My song pick 3 years ago today: Ray Davies - The Getaway   My song pick 4 years ago today: Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR) - Keep On Chooglin' My song pick 5 years ago today: The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Luther the Anthropoid (Ape Man) My song pick 6 years ago today: Pallas - Falling Down My song pick 7 years ago today:...

From: Level Headed ; Year: 1978; Genre: Glam Rock/Hard Rock I felt like choosing something rather fun and familiar for today's pick; some late-1970s Sweet just seemed like an excellent song to go with. I really liked how the glam rock pioneers were dabbling in other styles of popular music at this point in their career; you can hear hints of progressive and symphonic rock throughout this piece, which is a bit odd for the time period, but they pulled it off just great.   Hear Love Is Like Oxygen on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Red Rider - Laughing Man   My song pick 2 years ago today: Heart - Straight On   My song pick 3 years ago today: Zones - Mourning Star   My song pick 4 years ago today: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Lenny My song pick 5 years ago today: The Alan Parsons Project - (The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether My song pick 6 years ago today: Golden Earring - Twilight Zone My song pick 7 years ago t...

From: The Sweet ; Year: 1973; Genre: Glam Rock Last night I learned that original band member Steve Priest passed away. I thought that I would revisit the Sweet again with this track, which is a really nice hard rocker. Hear Hell Raiser on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: ZZ Top - I Thank You My song pick 2 years ago today: Bay City Rollers - You Made Me Believe in Magic My song pick 3 years ago today: Jethro Tull - Mother Goose My song pick 4 years ago today: Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV. 1027 - Sonata in G Major My song pick 5 years ago today: Ray Charles - Careless Love My song pick 6 years ago today: Ohio Players - Funky Worm My song pick 7 years ago today: Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare My song pick 8 years ago today: Hawkwind - City of Lagoons My song pick 9 years ago today: Savatage - Surrender My song pick 10 years ago today: Jim Croce - Tomorrow's Gonna Be a Brighter Day My song pick 11 years ago today: The Doors - Crystal Sh...

From Desolation Boulevard (U.S. release); Year: 1974 (1973); Genre: Glam Rock Haven't picked one from Sweet in a while now and since they've also been on my mind I thought I'd go ahead and pick another one. This one's definitely not everybody's cup 'o tea so to speak; I've noted that with this song in particular it seems to be either you like it or you hate it. I'm in with the first group; I think it's a fun song to listen to. Hear Ballroom Blitz on YouTube. My song pick 1 year ago today: Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO) - Don't Let the Blues Get You Down My song pick 2 years ago today: Commodores - Easy My song pick 3 years ago today: Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) My song pick 4 years ago today: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Eat That Question My song pick 5 years ago today: Nocturnal Rites - Ring of Steel My song pick 6 years ago today: The Moody Blues - The Sunset/Twilight Time My song pick 7 ...

From: Fox on the Run (Single); Year: 1975; Genre: Rock/Glam Rock I was surprised when I discovered that I haven't picked a song from The Sweet yet; I thought for sure I'd pick one of their songs at some point. Anyway, this fact made today's pick a little easier to make; this song, which is one of the band's more famous and one of my favourites from their catalogue, had a single release in 1975: (today's song pick number). In actuality there were two versions of the song: the first was released in '74 and was much heavier and had greater length. The second, which was the single from '75 was at a shorter, more radio-friendly length as well as being more pop oriented in its production. Here is the more famous pop single version on YouTube. Here is the original, heavier version on YouTube. My song pick a year ago today: Van der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said? My song pick two years ago today: Steve Vai - Kill the Guy with th...