2017 - August 19 - Another One Bites The Dust

Today's song is dedicated to Steve Bannon. Good riddance.

December 27 - Great King Rat

Today we're going to go back in time. The year was 1973, and  after having worked on their debut album for just about a year starting back in December 1971 and finishing The recording of it in the latter part of 1972, Queen's debut album, simply named Queen, was finally released. It didn't sell well initially, having a hard time reaching any of the charts,  but as Queen grew in popularity, so did the album, which finally peaked at number 24 on UK album charts in 1975, the same year they released A Night At The Opera featuring the classic Bohemian Rhapsody. Their debut album is certified gold both in UK in the USA, but it's still not a very well-known album.

 I was introduced to their debut album by Jan Are.  He had both Queen and Queen II on tape, and I borrowed them and play them half to death. I was initially blown away by the sheer aggression and power that I heard on their first two albums. It was very different from the Queen I already was familiar with, like the albums News Of The World and the aforementioned A Night At The Opera.  Of the songs on the album, it is really just Keep Yourself Alive and Seven Seas Of Rhye, which really was an instrumental teaser for the Queen II, that was played live extensively throughout their career. To me, that is a shame because the song like Great King Rat, which is the song of the day, really deserves a broader audience.

April 7 - The Prophet's Song

If I say Queen, most of you will probably automatically think Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, and We Are the Champions - or, if you grew up in the 80s, Radio Ga Ga and Under Pressure. However, there is a very, very wide range of music that is hidden underneath the hits that most of us know and love, and my song of the day is one of those. The choral section of Bohemian Rhapsody is well known, but there was another song on A Night at the Opera that used a similar technique - and I personally hold this one in higher esteem than Bohemian Rhapsody. This is one of those songs that words really can't do justice to, so I encourage you to play it. Hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I do.

March 13 - Stone Cold Crazy

When Metallica released their self-titled album also known as the black album in 1991, they became what undoubtedly is the most commercially successful metal band ever - at least through today, in 2016. The lead single off the album was Enter Sandman, which was a monster of a song and, honestly, shows just how damned good Metallica can be. Looking back at the album as a whole, it hasn't stood the test of time, at least not with me. I always go five years back to find their masterpiece: Master of Puppets. That doesn't mean that Metallica wasn't a good album, but it was the single Enter Sandman that still resonates with me the most. It didn't hurt that they took a great Queen song and made a cover of it to put as the b-side. I bought it when it was released, and I still love Metallica's version. Today's song is dedicated to Donald Trump and all his supporters: Stone Cold Crazy.