Band: The Runaways
Song: Cherry Bomb
Album: The Runaways (1976)
Genre: Classic Rock
Another song outside my usual wheelhouse today with Cherry Bomb. Choosing this one because I'm gonna be playing it this Saturday, which I'm pretty pumped about. Same group I played the last show with, so it'll be a good time.
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Band: Ringo Starr
Song: Back Off Boogaloo
Album: Goodnight Vienna (1974)
Genre: Classic Rock
A lot of what I spent the last couple nights on (outside of making custom WWE characters to fight each other) was a website for a friend of mine. Jess is a fantastic tattoo artist, and it's been a blast getting to know him over the last few years. Not related to today's post, I just wanted to share his work with y'all in case you were interested in looking at some cool pictures.
The music we're gonna go with is from a certain Ringo Starr. I used to assume he was the worth Beatle cause that's what people would say. I looked into his stuff though and I discovered that he's had a much more prolific career than his compatriots, save perhaps Paul. I'm super happy to have gotten over my initial dislike of the guy, cause he's been a treat to listen to.
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Hey y'all, just wanted to give a little update on how things are gonna go for a bit.
As you may remember, ya boy just finished hair school. The most exciting part of that is that I already have a job lined up in the hair field to go into, I just need to take my test.
The flip side of this is that I was mostly unemployed during school and, as such, my funds are in a bad place. Because of this, I have also picked up a part time third shift job. The hours at the barber shop and the hours at my third shift deal are actually perfect opposites, 10am to 6pm, and 10pm to 6am. Yes, this is a hellish schedule that I know is going to be exhausting. Only two days of work should overlap though, so I think I'll be safe
The effect of that here though, is that the quality of these posts will devolve even more than they are now, which I'm super sorry about. I'll try to write more in advance, but there's always a chance that I'll not do that because I'm not always the most organized when I'm tired.
Here's to that not happening though, amirite? Cheers, enjoy the song.
Band: The Beatles
Song: Lady Madona
Album: Single (1968)
Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Rock
Fun poppy piano stuff, have fun.
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Band: Paul McCartney, Wings
Song: Live And Let Die
Album: Live And Let Die (Single, 1973)
Genre: Classic Rock
I've been watching a lot more movies than usual now that I'm done with school, and one of the things I've been watching a lot of is James Bond. I freaking love all those movies, but Live And Let Die holds a special place in my heart because it's just so weirdly bad. The plot is so much more out there than any of the other ones (including when he went to space) that you just can't take it too seriously.
And it's opening song is probably one of best of the entire series. It's undisputedly popular, seeing as it's been covered by loads of bands to great success.
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Band: Montrose
Song: Bad Motor Scooter
Album: Montrose (1973)
Genre: Classic Rock
Now as I write this, I realize I should have gone with Montrose's song Paper Money. I listened to it all the time, and it put some thoughts in my head about the actual value of most currency.
Instead though I went with Bad Motor Scooter, because it had some fun guitar stuff in it that sounded like a little motor revving. I already had the post queued up in Buffer, so it's far to late to fix, haha
But yeah, this song, Paper Money, and Rock Candy were the only Montrose songs I ever heard, and that'd be all thanks to my dad. He had loads of music in this and similar veins that I just never really got into back in the day. He's moved to new stuff at this point too though, so I have more chances to get caught up on whatever he's into this week.
All in all, I would be remise if I didn't mention Montrose, even though I know nothing about them. They didn't so much shape my musical taste, but they were 100% in my early playlists in relatively big way. I mean, when my player could only hold 100 songs, 3 is a decent amount, haha
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Artist: Jimi Hendrix
Song: Purple Haze
Album: Are You Experienced (1967)
Genre: Blues, Classic Rock
I know for a fact that Jimi is one that my dad gave me. I was originally going to share his take on The Star Spangled Banner since that's what I used to listen to from him the most, but when it comes down to it I only listened to about the first minute for all the fun guitar intro. If we're going for songs I listened to all of, it'd have to be Purple Haze.
See, I was under the impression that Jimi was a Metal musician, I literally only thought that cause he did that version of the Star Spangled Banner. As such, Purple Haze was one of the only songs I found of his that really fit the image I had of him in my head. I have since come to appreciate him for more than that, but dang did it take me ages.
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Band: Queen
Song: We Will Rock You
Album: News Of The World (1977)
Genre: Classic Rock
So here's how this mini theme is gonna go. During the week (Monday through Friday) I'm gonna post some of my earlier music interests. We'll start out with my original jams from when I got my first MP3 that held a whole 415MB of music, and we'll go to the point I got my second iPod. It's gonna be a trip, and I'm gonna d my best to explain what the music meant to me or at least what I got out of it.
With that, we'll hit Queen.
All the music I started with was from my parents. All I knew for sure that I liked was classical music. I had a radio pen that came tuned into some classical station and I kinda stayed there. When I switched to my MP3 player though I needed some tunes, so I asked my parents to provide some for me, ya know?
So my mom and dad each gave me the same selection they gave my brother. This is one of the ones from my mom I think. This song helped me realize I wanted something heavier in the music realm. The stomps, claps, and gang singing got me pumped up in the same kind of way Metal does. This wasn't one of the songs that sent me tipping in that direction though, we'll get there soon.
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As any of you who have followed me for more than the last month will know, I'm a daily blog. You might have picked up from the fact that this blog is called "Song A Day", but I can totally understand if you would assume I don't actually post daily.
As with years past, my greatest challenge was simply visiting other people's stuff. I had 3 blogs I read every post of this year (which is about 3 blogs more than last year), but other than them I was super bad about making sure to check out other people. I also was still bad at commenting, so apologies if I visited and almost never commented, I promise I probably liked your stuff.
I suppose the biggest issue with that is that I always come into this challenge hoping to find somebody else who talks about music. There's not as many music bloggers here since you all are mostly writers, but as in the past, I have found that's not too big an issue. I also feel a lot better about my posts, since I'm a better writer than I was a few years back. I've also mostly managed to blend my tastes and more publicly enjoyed music for the posts, so I'm sure that helped.
That's a biggie too, this year I managed to post a few more Metal tracks that actually went over well! I did a quick look through years past, and I discovered that this is one of the best years I've had for conversations too! It's just been a great time all around. Even though we had a lot less people signing up than in the past it still was a good year for people like me who just had quick entertainment pieces.
Shoutout to my fellow song blog I found run by Lauren Mayhew too. She had the bomb idea of posting her top iPod song plays, which was just a blast to follow. I'd never heard of The Wanted or McFly before April, but you'd better believe I heard about them by the end of it, haha
I liked the individual sheets for posts too, that's not a bad addition at all. Honestly I loved the Google Forms signup too, it was a really good play that helped fix the issues that arose last year. And the categories? Good options there. Took me a second to see what I qualified under cause "Entertainment" is a pretty broad category, but that's alright. I loved being able to sort people by categories that worked much easier than years past. It kinda helped me find some people that were more in the same vein of posting as I was.
A good year, all things considered. Hope some of y'all will swing by as the year goes on to check out what I have going on. The music selection is generally a bit out there, but I enjoy it, and since this is mostly a passion project that's what really counts. See you guys next time, enjoy the song.
Band: Dire Straits feat. Sting
Song: Money For Nothin
Album: Brothers In Arms (1985)
Genre: Classic Rock
Song wise today we're kicking off a nostalgia trip of the first music I got loaded onto my iPod by a friend of mine. We're gonna walk through the mess of me realizing I liked Metal music with a slew of Hardcore, , Hard Rock, and way more. I'm pumped about this, so I hope y'all enjoy it too! We'll start it out with Dire Straits, who's guitar riff in Money For Nothing made me realize that's what I was after in music.
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Band: Blue Öyster Cult
Song: Harvester Of Eyes
Album: Secret Treaties (2974)
Genre: Classic Rock
Yesterday I had a job interview, and the dude was listening to 70s and 80s rock the whole time. Styx, Bon Jovi, Boston, all that kind of stuff. Because of this, the style is stuck in my head and I need to share it with y'all.
However, my general dislike of that era of music (because of it's stereotypical fanbase) still stands, I'm gonna go with another older Blue Öyster Cult tune. I don't listen to these guys much anymore, but I used to love this album. Speaking of, the next theme I run is going to be nostalgia driven. During the weekdays I'm gonna post nostalgia stuff, and on the weekends I'm gonna post some newer stuff. It's lit my dudes.
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Band: Ringo Starr
Song: Choose Love
Album: Choose Love (2005)
Genre: Classic Rock
Ringo, "starr" drummer of The Beatles! I'm sure you all know at least who he is, but did you know he did a huge solo thing outside of that? Like, he's actively to this day putting out music!
It's not bad stuff either. I came across this stuff by accident one day because Ringo became a sort of punchline to me and my brother's jokes. One day we managed to take the time to look up what he was doing in the music world. I only listened (at the time) to the live album I'm linking a song from, but flipping through his discography has just been a great time.
I chose Choose Love because it's just a fun little tune. When this live album was put out it was one of the newest release so the crowd really gets into it, as does the whole band. Take the time to appreciate an icon of the rock scene. He may not be the best singer, but he's a machine of a drummer and a terrific songwriter.
Side note, the people at school convinced the director that today was Earth Day so they could all wear green. I'm looking forward to seeing if anybody catches on that it's just for 420 and that Earth Day is the 22nd.
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