No blogging on a Sunday.
See you Monday!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011: Snow Patrol - Run
To hell with Leona Lewis.
This is the real deal, the original, and still the best by miles and miles
It's Friday. It's been a long week.
Run.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011: Yoko Ono - Yang Yang
Yes. CSOTD is featuring Yoko Ono today.
Because Yoko is cool.
I know, I know, haters gonna hate.
But I always feel the need [for speed?] to shake things up a bit.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
CSOTD Bonus Edition: Rachel Sweet - Shadows Of The Night
Yes, THAT Shadows Of The Night. A full year before Pat Benatar's version was released (and won 1982's Grammy for Best Song), Akron, Ohio's own Rachel Sweet released this song, the opening track on and the third single from her "...And Then He Kissed Me" album.
This song is an original composition by D.L. Byron that Rachel gets a co-writing credit on.
It's blasphemy, I know, but I really like this a lot better than the bombastic, overblown, big 80's style of Benatar's version.
Listen for yourself, and I think you'll find the slight restraint in her voice and the overall production serve the song a lot better.
But, hey, that's just me and I might be wrong
Wednesday, April 6: Pat Benatar - We Belong
A children's choir is usually the death knell of a pop song.
Mike and the Mechanics' The Living Years, anyone? God in heaven, I would rather jump naked into a swimming pool filled with shards of broken glass than listen to that song.
Ok, I'll grant you Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall, Part II, though the kids were more shouting than singing, to be honest.
You Can't Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones is another contender for survivable pop song with children's choir, though they did their bit in the beginning and got the hell out before they became really annoying.
Then there's the brilliant People Ain't No Good by The Cramps. But, honestly, who's ever heard of that?
Which leaves, really, only one decent song left.
Enjoy.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011: Guru feat. Donald Byrd - Loungin'
Released in 1993, Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 is a jazz rap album, one of the first albums to combine a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping.
This is one of those records where I know exactly where I was and who I was with when I first heard it.
Some songs I post on my humble blog to make you get up and dance, or go to the window and shout.
Today, however, I implore you, gentle reader, to just stop what you are doing and learn the lesson of Loungin'.
It seldom gets more chill than this.
Enjoy
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