Song of the Day

'Everybody Wants You'
'Everybody Wants You'
'Everybody Wants You'
For a while there around 1981, Billy Squier had the rock world by the tail. His songs were sonic slammers, produced for maximum radio OOMPH. His lyrics were clever roman a clef's mostly detailing the trials and travails of his time in the music business. And then he made video with a wee bit too much flounce, and it was all pretty much over. Still, he had some quality songs. Like this one. READ ON
'Crazy Love" By Poco
'Crazy Love" By Poco
'Crazy Love" By Poco
Hey there. Your good friend, Dave In The Cave, is having a doo doo kinda day. My mailbox fell down, my lawnmower died, I mowed over twenty five dollars that somebody dropped into my grass. I need mellow right now. I need some yacht rock. I need Poco. READ ON!
'Gloria'
'Gloria'
'Gloria'
Okay. we're gonna Jazzercise now. Er, Fondacise? Everybody feel the energy! The burn! Or...the whatever. I'm fittin' you for a tiger print headband and something in lycra. *CLAPS HANDS* LET'S GO! READ ON!
'Walk This Way'
'Walk This Way'
'Walk This Way'
Until the late nineties and Nu Rock and Limp Bizkit put their baseball caps on backwards and ruined the party, the worlds of guitar banging and mic slinging were famously and quite popularly mashed together by a band from Boston and three guys from Hollis, Queens. For a moment there, 28 years ago, it was perfect. Read on!
'Thing Called Love'
'Thing Called Love'
'Thing Called Love'
Back in 1989. industry vet Bonnie Raitt, though well respected, wasn't selling squat. Then acts were gotten together, ace producers and songwriters were called in and BOOM! Welcome back, Bonnie Raitt. And what was the song that kicked down the wall separating her from the charts and lit the fuse on this miracle? READ ON!
'Peg'
'Peg'
'Peg'
They were like a skeevy Hall And Oates, who rarely left the studio, were way less attractive and whose songs chronicled the seedy cocaine-driven debauchery of 1970's Los Angeles from an outsider's sarcastic viewpoint. Also jazzy. Read on!
'Keep Your Hands To Yourself'
'Keep Your Hands To Yourself'
'Keep Your Hands To Yourself'
For those who remember eighties music as loads of twinkly twanky keyboards and cheap drum machines banging away while ladies in pink leg warmers and tights and headbands exercised, the Georgia Satellites might come as a big surprise with their 1986 top ten hit. Which rocks! Read on!
"Little Green Bag'
"Little Green Bag'
"Little Green Bag'
I am writing this from the edge of internet capability. It could leave me at any second, here on this sunny, then hellaciously rainy, now sunny early evening. So we'll make this a quickie, ladies and gentleman. Our song is about a search, a frantic need to find...a little green back. Or bag. Whatever. Just the kind. To ease my my mind.
'Smuggler's Blues'
'Smuggler's Blues'
'Smuggler's Blues'
Once back in the day, music videos were shot in a couple hours with the band flouncing about on a nondescript set, the monotony broken up by the odd shot of a small person dancing in smoke with a ferret in slow motion. Then, somebody gave these video kids a budget, and things got fancy. Real damn fancy. READ ON!

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