Song of the Day

Song of the Day for 2011

25 April	Adele - Rolling in the Deep	Great song that's stuck in my head right now. As of 8 Oct, my prediction for Grammy Song of the Year
26 April	Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell	Confederate Memorial Day today so here's some Skynyrd
27 April	The Pierces - You'll Be Mine	Prick your finger on a spinning wheel...
28 April	Duffy - Mercy	English is actually her second language
29 April	Kate Rusby - The Village Green Preservation Society	My cousin is getting married today. In honor of this event what could be more english than THIS Kinks cover? Congrats William!
2 May	The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset	Another well-covered Kinks song. Here's the original.
3 May	Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon	Classic College rock
4 May	Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart	Something from the start of the Manchester music scene
5 May	June Tabor - Mississippi	The song that introduced me to June Tabor (and the Oyster Band)
6 May	Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold	It is widely regarded that she made this song her own
9 May	The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight	They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right wing meetings...
10 May	The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace With God	Couldn't believe my ears when I heard this on a TV commercial last week
11 May	Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar	From a traditional Irish band to a traditional Irish song - no one has done it better
12 May	The Stranglers - Golden Brown	I can't believe it took 30 years for me to hear this song
13 May	Everything But the Girl - Missing (Todd Terry remix)	The remix that turned their career around
16 May	Rush - Subdivisions	A week of favorites kicks off with my favorite band
17 May	Al Stewart - Year of the Cat	She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain...
18 May	Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower	Best Cover Ever
19 May	Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
20 May	Styx - Rockin' the Paradise	One of my all time favorites to start the weekend
23 May	Love - Alone Again Or
24 May	Joni Mitchell - Raised on Robbery
25 May	Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years
26 May	Orbital - The Box (part 2)
27 May	Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
30 May	The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations	Memorial Day means summer and nothing says "summer" like The Beach Boys
31 May	Alice Cooper - School's Out	Yeah it's obvious but I decided to throw it in anyway
1 June	Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine	More bouncy summer fun
2 June	Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow	Hawaiian summer fun
3 June	Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine	Watched "Easy A" the other day and got this one stuck in my mind so let's end the week with it
6 June	Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy	D-Day anniversary today
7 June	X - Los Angeles	Punk 1.0
8 June	Don Felder - Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)	The soundtrack was much better than the movie
9 June	Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
10 June	Phoenix - 1901	Best French band since Air
13 June	Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where the Time Goes	The best of the English folk rockers
14 June	Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer	Yes, THOSE Eagles did the theme to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
15 June	Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills	Now for something different
16 June	Massive Attack - Teardrop	Even if you've never heard of Massive Attack, you've heard this
17 June	Ivy - Edge of the Ocean
20 June	Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues (live)	This incredibly hard-to-find track is better than any of the blues or march versions
21 June	Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five	Jazz week continues with some classic cool jazz
22 June	Duke Ellington - Take the 'A' Train
23 June	Miles Davis - So What
24 June	Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing	Before Bonham and Moon there was Krupa
27 June	The Ventures - Walk Don't Run	Surf week!
28 June	The Chantays - Pipeline
29 June	The Shadows - Apache
30 June	The Tornados - Telstar
1 July	Dick Dale & His Del-Tones - Misirlou
4 July	Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture	Because it's July 4th and it's got cannons
5 July	Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time	'bout the only country you're gonna get from me
6 July	Dixie Chicks - White Trash Wedding	More bluegrass than country. And it's funny
7 July	Dynomite Hack - Boys in the Hood	Gangsta meets unplugged. Listening to this will make you understand what utter shite gangsta rap is
8 July	Big Daddy - Eye of the Tiger	50s Doo Wop band captured by Laotian guerillas and held for 20 years (or so they claim)
11 July	The Byrds - Eight Miles High
12 July	The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
13 July	Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
14 July	Air - Run	It's Bastille Day so here's something French
15 July	Lily Allen - Not Fair	NSFW
18 July	Roxy Music - Like a Hurricane	This week: cover songs as good or better than the original
19 July	The Outlaws - Ghost Riders in the Sky
20 July	Sundays - Wild Horses
21 July	Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
22 July	Molly Hatchet - Dreams I'll Never See
*******	Hiatus Week - off to Baltimore for Otakon	TV theme week next
1 Aug	The Dandy Warhols - We Used to Be Friends	Veronica Mars. I still miss this show
2 Aug	RJD2 - A Beautiful Mine	Mad Men
3 Aug	Bonobo - Flutter	JPod was a great show that NEVER would have aired on US tv. HBO maybe.
4 Aug	David Bowie - Life on Mars
5 Aug	Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine	Friday Night Lights
*******	Hiatus Week - off to Chicago for Chicago ComicCon
15 Aug	13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me
16 Aug	Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes
17 Aug	The Smiths - How Soon Is Now	Morrisey is a whiny bastard but this is a cool song
18 Aug	Michelle Shocked - Anchorage
19 Aug	Within Temptation - Faster	Dutch band released this back in February
22 Aug	Simon and Garfunkel - America
23 Aug	Blondie - Heart of Glass
24 Aug	Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter	Another cover as-good-or-better
25 Aug	10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
26 Aug	Coldplay - Clocks
29 Aug	The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind
30 Aug	Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
31 Aug	The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love '92
1 Sep	Hole - Celebrity Skin
2 Sep	Muse - Resistance
5 Sep	Atlanta Rythym Section - Homesick	Happy Labor Day
6 Sep	Mother's Finest - Baby Love	This is how Atlanta rocked in the 70s
7 Sep	The Push - You Know It's True (1983)	[Home Cookin' 3] Back when 96 Rock didn't suck, they had local music contests
8 Sep	The Swinging Richards - Look at You Now (1984)	[Home Cookin' 4] and relesed albums of the winners. Which ended with
9 Sep	Borneo - All I Want (1990)	Peach Jam in 1990
12 Sep	Gerry and the Pacemakers - Ferry 'Cross the Mersey
13 Sep	Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
14 Sep	The Cult - Fire Woman
15 Sep	Iron Maiden - Aces High	It's Battle of Britain Day today
16 Sep	The Primitives - Crash '95
19 Sep	Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock	Back to the start of it all
20 Sep	Ides of March - Vehicle
21 Sep	When in Rome - The Promise
22 Sep	Sugar - If I Can't Change Your Mind
23 Sep	Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
26 Sep	Spirit - I Got a Line on You
27 Sep	The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
28 Sep	Yes - Leave It (A Capella Version)
29 Sep	Sidewinders - We Don't Do That Anymore
30 Sep	k.d. Lang - Constant Craving
3 Oct	Dusty Springfield - I Only Want to Be With You
4 Oct	Shooting Star - Last Chance
5 Oct	Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
6 Oct	Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
7 Oct	Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body
10 Oct	The Allman Brothers Band - Hot 'Lanta	Guitar Instrumental Tour week starts in Atlanta
11 Oct	The Ventures - Hawaii 50
12 Oct	Glenn Phillips - Scotland
13 Oct	Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
14 Oct	Santana - Europa
17 Oct	Roy Orbison - Crying
18 Oct	The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
19 Oct	Kirsty MacColl - A New England
20 Oct	The Divine Comedy - Something For the Weekend
21 Oct	Pink - So What
24 Oct	Sam Cooke - You Send Me
25 Oct	Classics IV - Traces (Of Love)
26 Oct	Badfinger - Day After Day
27 Oct	Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain
28 Oct	U2 - All I Want Is You
31 Oct	Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein	Happy Halloween
1 Nov	Cream - White Room
2 Nov	Journey - Any Way You Want It
3 Nov	Queensrÿche - Jet City Woman
4 Nov	311 - Do You Right
7 Nov	Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Find the Cost of Freedom	Remembering our Veterans this week
8 Nov	Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Wooden Ships
9 Nov	June Tabor - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
10 Nov	June Tabor - The Writing of Tipperary & It's a Long Way to Tipperary
11 Nov	June Tabor - No Man's Land (Flowers of the Forest)	Something appropriate for Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day
14 Nov	America - Ventura Highway
15 Nov	The Grateful Dead - Ripple
16 Nov	Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
17 Nov	Sky Cries Mary - Back to the Sea
18 Nov	Annie Lennox - Why
21 Nov	Yardbirds - Heart Full of Soul
22 Nov	Deep Purple - Lazy
23 Nov	Rainbow - Jealous Lover
24 Nov	Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant Massacree	Happy Thanksgiving
25 Nov	Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone
28 Nov	Count Five - Psychotic Reaction
29 Nov	ZZ Top - Heard It on the X
30 Nov	Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
1 Dec	Paul Westerberg - Dyslexic Heart
2 Dec	Lush - Ladykillers
5 Dec	Delfonics - Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
6 Dec	Jefferson Starship - Caroline
7 Dec	Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out
8 Dec	World Party - Is It Like Today
9 Dec	The Cranberries - Linger
12 Dec	The Ronettes - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus	A week of Phil Spector Christmas songs
13 Dec	Darlene Love - Winter Wonderland
14 Dec	The Crystals - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
15 Dec	The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
16 Dec	Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
19 Dec	The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)	Because nothing says "Christmas" like the Ramones
20 Dec	The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
21 Dec	Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite	Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/Chinese Dance/Dance of the Reed Flutes/Arabian Dance/Russian Dance/Waltz of the Flowers
22 Dec	The Kinks - Father Christmas
23 Dec	The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
26 Dec	The Mamas and the Papas - California Dreamin'	Happy Boxing Day everyone
27 Dec	Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
29 Dec	Styx - Snowblind
30 Dec	Rebnaissance - Northern Lights