Pure genius. Listen to a snippet on iTMS. Then spend the 79p to get the full thing. You won’t regret it! A guitar extravaganza.
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Favourite song for a particular day
Song of the Day: The Assumption – George Hrab
This is good. Nice use of QuickTime Player.
Tip of the hat to Bad Astronomy.
Song of the Day: Sometime World – Wishbone Ash
This is a bit of a blast from the past. First released in 1972 on the Argus album by Wishbone Ash. The whole album is stunningly good. I could have picked several of the tracks for the Song of the Day, but Sometime World was chosen as it is very, very good indeed. Wishbone Ash were one of the first bands to use 2 lead guitarists. The guitar parts are multi-layered, complex and, most importantly, sound wonderful. Sometime World has a guitar section that reminds me of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird . If you liked that you’ll love Sometime World.
My advice? Buy Argus 🙂
Song of the Day: In a Broken Dream – Python Lee Jackson with Rod Stewart
I haven’t heard this song for ages. Several years, until it came up on random play in iTunes today. I was working from home writing stuff for work with the music as background. I did something I very rarely do these days and just let iTunes play songs at random from the whole library of between 4 & 5 thousand tracks. That’s just under 20 days of music if I let it play through the whole library.
Anyway it threw up In a Broken Dream by Python Lee Jackson with Rod Stewart as guest vocalist. This is a truly wonderful piece of music. The vocals are fantastic. The guitar is blistering. The bass guitar is stunningly good, and the drumming is a perfect rhythmic complement to the whole thing. It’s tracks like this that remind me what a truly wonderful thing music is. Brilliant.
I can’t find it on iTMS to link to it. There is a YouTube video of about 3 minutes 30 seconds of the track. It’s a video of a vinyl copy being played 🙂
It’ll let you get a good feel for the song. I have it on the best Rock Album in the world…ever. Vol 1.
Song of the Day: Through Your Eyes – Nina Kinert
First heard on the current TV ad for the Saab 93. Grabbed from iTMS.
Taken from the album Let There Be Love.
Song of the Day: Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John & Victoria Bergsman
I thought I’d written about the Swedish group, The Concretes, here on the Soapbox before. But it seems not. I’ve been into the group for a few years now. For several reasons, one of which was the vocals of Victoria Bergsman. I say was, because it seems she has left the group. Not all doom and gloom though, as she has a new solo project called Taken by Trees, plus The Concretes have a new album out and Victoria Bergsman is featured on the wonderful Peter Bjorn and John track called Young Folks.
Victoria Bergsman (Click picture for larger view)
BTW: The Taken by Trees album, Open Field, is excellent. She really does have a wonderful voice.
Song of the Day: Twilight of the Gods – Paul Roland
Thrown up on random play on a flight from San Francisco. It has an excellent guitar solo in the 2nd half of the song. Paul Roland’s stuff is very quirky but I love it. Snippet available on iTMS.
Song of the Day: Back Chat (Live) – Queen
The Song of the Day category is for listing any song or piece of music, that I’ve heard on a particular day, that has reached into my brain and lit up the pleasure centres! There won’t be a post every day I expect.
Today a song that I really enjoyed when it came up on random play on the iPod in the car, was Back Chat live from Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl. Brilliant stuff. John Deacon’s bass playing is superb. I love this track from the Hot Space album. I was at the 1982 Milton Keynes Bowl concert. Right at the front at Brian May’s side of the stage. He does a sizzling lead break in Back Chat 🙂
Little Green Bag – George Baker
Little Green Bag by George Baker. As heard in Reservoir Dogs and, more importantly, Coupling.
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