Artist: The Rolling Stones
Album: Exile on Main Street
The Stones are masters of rock and roll. Those guys have got the blues roots–but they’ve also got the rock and roll soul that you need to put out a song like this one.
Archive for the ‘Random Song’ Category
Random Song: Tumbling Dice
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Random Song: Hammer to Fall
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011Artist: Queen
Album: Live Magic
I love the guitars in the verse of this song. The guitar part isn’t overwhelming, and it isn’t necessarily the most memorable part of the song. But it supports the vocals perfectly. Rather than taking a leading role in the song, it provides the perfect background.
Random Song: Because
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Artist: The Beatles
Album: Abbey Road
This was a song that I heard many times when I was growing up. I’ve said it many times before, but I’ll say it again–when it comes to my musical taste, I owe a lot to my parents. This is a song that I had always accepted as normal. It wasn’t until recently that I realized just how amazing ‘Because’ actually is.
Random Song: I’m Eighteen
Friday, May 27th, 2011Artist: Alice Cooper
Album: Love It To Death
I was actually introduced to this song by my parents, back when I was (you guessed it) eighteen.
Random Song: Top of the World
Monday, May 23rd, 2011Artist: The All-American Rejects
Album: Move Along
The All-American Rejects first caught my attention with the song ‘Dirty Little Secret’. I think it was mostly because it was that I hadn’t really heard this kind of rock sound coming from a new band, so I paid attention.
Random Song: Faithfully
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011Artist: Journey
Album: Frontiers
This song actually came up in conversation a few months ago. I was hanging out with a friend, and discussing (what else?) music and we were joking about the fact that we were in trouble if either of us ever got married, because neither of us knew of any ‘wedding songs’–or at least any that we actually liked enough to allow anywhere near our weddings.
Random Song: Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011Artist: Bad Company
Album: Desolation Angels
This is a song that feels like I’ve known it forever. I know that I’d heard it many, many times on the radio long before I bought my first CD of Bad Company’s music.
Random Song: Born to Run
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011Artist: Bruce Springsteen
Album: Born to Run
Ah, yes. The quintessential Springsteen song. I had to get to this sooner or later, didn’t I? Actually, I didn’t encounter Bruce’s work until relatively recently. His music wasn’t part of my parents’ collection, so this was something that I discovered more or less on my own.
Random Song: Body Talk
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011Artist: Poison
Album: Native Tongue
Even though I usually like more blues-flavored rock, Native Tongue never really thrilled me. If you read this blog regularly, you know that I sometimes have trouble with albums when they don’t deliver exactly what I was expecting. (It took me months to forgive Keep the Faith for not being another New Jersey.)
Random Song: Los Angeloser
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011Artist: Meat Loaf
Album: Hang Cool Teddy Bear
I reviewed Hang Cool Teddy Bear on this blog back when I first got my copy. It’s been several months since then, and somehow this song turned out to be my favorite from the album.