Flashback Friday Song of the Day - The Stroke - Billy Squier

Y'all know that I'm mainly a dance floor guy, but I do love a lot of different types of music, and on occasion I do loves me some good ole fashioned rock and roll.  The year was 1981 and Billy Squier was a dude who came out of nowhere with his classic rock voice and good looks and he definitely turned it up for awhile with this one...

Song of the Day - Trouble - Natalia Kills

Every once in awhile you get reminded that there is so much great music out there that we hardly ever get to know, and such is the case with Natalia Kills, the multi-talented and naughty songstress from across The Pond.  Though I downloaded her first album, 2011's Perfectionist, a long, long time ago (and played it out!), I had completely forgotten about her follow-up, 2013's Trouble. I took a listen to the album during my walk last night and I loved every single song, including this one, the title track, which was never released as a single.  Natalia's style is, well, pop with a rockish edge and almost every song has a great hook.  So if you don't know her, now's the time to check her out...

Song of the Day - Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

I used to LOVE Billy Idol, so much so that I saw him in concert on more than one occasion back in the day.  I just happen to share a birthday with the punk rock singer from the 80's who had several nice hits that I loved, including this one.  Idol recently penned an autobiography, Dancing With Myself, which includes the fact that he once lived in Patchogue, NY, where I now reside.  How cool is that?  So happy belated birthday to Mr. Idol!  I actually can't believe I never posted this one before,..

In the midnight hour

She cried more, more, more

With a rebel yell

More, more, more 

Somebody to Love - R.I.P. Freddie Mercury 11/24/91

I work hard every day of my life

I work till I ache my bones

At the end I take home my hard earned pay all on my own

I get down on my knees

And I start to pray

Till the tears run down from my eyes

Lord, somebody, ooh, somebody

Can anybody find me, somebody to love?

Somewhere along my day today I came across a posting that marked the 23rd anniversary of the death of Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury, and had I known earlier I would've given him a Song of the Day tribute, for sure.  Rather than wait until tomorrow, though, I figured I'd mark the day...the real day...to honor someone who left us way too soon.

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a Flashback Friday song of Freddie and Queen with David Bowie doing Under Pressure, a great, great tune. In my search for the video, I came across a video of Queen, sans Bowie, performing the song at Wembley and Mercury played with the audience for about two minutes in his own unique way, yodeling melodies that the crowd would repeat back to him. They were eating it up and for those two minutes Freddie Mercury's greatness shone through.     

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Queen is one rock band that I've always loved, from the early days of the great Bohemian Rhapsody to Another One Bites the Dust, Fat Bottomed Girls, Radio Gaga (from which Lady got her name!), and so many more.  To look back 23 years ago and think of all they might have added to their catalog had he not lost his battle with the now very manageable AIDS.  Anyway, for what it's worth, here's to you Freddie Mercury!

  

Song of the Day - All I Really Want - Alanis Morissette

Do I stress you out?
My sweater is on backwards and inside out
And you say, "How appropriate"

I woke up to this classic opener to Alanis Morissette's breakthrough 1995 album Jagged Little Pill and so I just had to post it.  God, every single song off that record was full of clever lyrics over irresistible rockish-instrumentation.  If you're too young to know it the song or the album, you should definitely take a listen to this one and then go find the whole Jagged Little Pill album somewhere...You're gonna love it!