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 Happy Christmas Eve everyone!! Hope you can take some time today and enjoy some relaxing moments with great friends, great cheer and good music! We here at Song Of The Day are all about that last one! Rob, what do you have for us!

Rob

Charlie Hunter - "Creole feat. Mos Def"

I know it's not Christmas themed yet a laid back track i've been wrapping gifts to tonight!

Mr. Tinsle

Bruce Springsteen - "Merry Christmas, Baby"

G-Rinch Man

Trans Siberian Orchestra - "Christmas Canon Rock"

Did a song by these timeless legends last week and thought, might as well wrap up the holiday season the same way! Happy Xmas everyone!

Doug The Halls

Blink 182 - "I Won't Be Home For Christmas"

Dano Ho Ho

Bad Religion - "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"

Every year. I must.

Jonny HP

TBD

Mike Donner, Dasher, Dancer

Alessia Cara - "Make It To Christmas"

J.Bethlehem

Hey Rosetta! - "Carry Me Home"

Definitely should be considered a Canadian Christmas Classic!

In Every Corner, A Beast. At Every Crossroad, A Snare

Rob

Queen - "You're My Best Friend"

In Honour Of Sebastian.

Mr. T

Elle King - "The Weight"

G-Man

Scissor Sisters - "I Don't Feel Like Dancing"

This is another song that harkens back to that Summer of 2006. Don't know why i'm being transported there by music lately....maybe time will tell

Doug

The Tragically Hip - "Ocean Next"

I Feel like The Hip are my go to choice for Canada Day Weekend and this one has been stuck in my head

Dano

Cymande - "Brothers On The Slide"

Jonny HP

Rise Against - "Gethsemane"

Riiiick

Li'l Dicky - "Professional Rapper" feat. Snoop Dogg

Mike D

Paramore - "Misery Business"

Sight seeing songs in Tobermory!

Cage The Elephant - "Night Running" feat. Beck

Six Times Removed From Respite

Rob

TBD

Mr. T

Greta Van Fleet - "Safari Song"

G-Man

The Kinks - "Around The Dial"

Harkenin' back to my old school radio days..

Doug

Aviici - "Lonely Together" feat. Rita Ora

Stay Awesome.

Dano

Revernd Peyton's Big Damn Band - "Worn Out Shoe"

Jonny HP

The Avett Brothers - "Winter In My Heart"

Songs for the Setting Sun

Rob

Matthew Good Band - "Everything Is Automatic"

Mr. T

Styx - "Lady"

G-Man

High Holy Days - "River Of Styx"

One of the biggest bands to come out of my home town of North Bay, ON. I know it's not much, but this song was great, no matter where they came from. The remixed it for their official debut, but I prefer the one that played on North Bay radio a few years before.

Doug

Macklemore - "Drug Dealer"

Dano

Orange Goblin - "The Filthy and The Few"

Jonny HP

Alexisonfire - "Dead Hearts"

Second Time Past This Planet...

Rob

David Bowie - "Heroes"

J-Roc - "It Can Happen To You 'Cuz It Happened To Me (& T)"

Mr. T

Bob Dylan - "Gotta Serve Somebody"

G-Man

Johnny Hobo & The Freight Trains - "Election Song"

Doug

Starley - "Call On Me"

Dano

LCD Soundsystem - "Time To Get Away"

Jonny HP

The Gaslight Anthem - "Get Hurt"

Super Special Guest Pick!

Sh'Boy Boakes

Dion - "The Wanderer"

Songs of the Deep Freeze

Looks like Rob and Jonny are still frozen...maybe some music will help them thaw out

Rob

TBD

Mr. T

Bag Raiders - "Shooting Stars"

G-Man

MC Chris - "IG-88"

Recently saw the new Star Wars movie. This isn't a Star Wars blog so I won't launch into a lengthy review, but it got the juices flowing enough for me to want to pick a song inspired by that Galaxy far, far away...

Doug

Flowers of Evil - "Introvert"

Nothing to do with Star Wars and nothing to do with the New Year. Just a catchy little diddy I heard the other day

Dano

Mark Knopfler - "Baloney Again"

Mark Knopfler - "El Macho"

Jonny HP

TBD

When Music Can Crumble Memory...

Rob

Hey Rosetta! - "Kintsukuroi"

Mr. T

Brewer & Shipley - "One Toke Over The Line"

G-man

Social Distortion - "Reach For The Sky"

Was talking with Rob today about Living Legends. It's bullshit when an artist dies and everyone acts like they've always been their biggest fan. Where was this love while they were still with us? That's why I like honouring Living Legends from time to time. Social Distortion is on that list for me. Always been a huge fan, mad respect for what they've done for punk music and Mike Ness is a certified individual/bad ass. Bucket list band for sure

Doug

Ed Sheeran - "New Man"

Dano

Radiohead - "I Might Be Wrong"

Jonny HP

Kim Mitchell - "I Am A Wild Party"

A Late Summer's Night Soundtrack

Rob

Rise Against - "Swing Life Away"

Note From G-Man: I Think I picked this once before as well. To me, there is one definitive version of this song...

Mr. T

Alannah Myles - "Love is"

G-Man

Meat Puppets - "We're Here"

Like most people I heard of these via Nirvana...Kurt Cobain's exclaimation that "All these songs are off their second record" in between "Oh, Me" and "Lake Of Fire" on the unplugged album. It's funny. He actually sounds happy when he talked about music he loved. The record in question is the Meat Puppets' II and man is it a journey. On first listen you might just breeze by "Plateau" and the other songs that Nirvana made famous. It's folk-y, it's grungey, it's odd. It's beautiful. High. HIGH on my recommendation list for any music lover. Like all of us at SOTD.

Doug

Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"

Dano

Thornley - "Come Again"

Thundercat - "Show You The Way" feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins

Jonny HP

Powerman 5000 - "Bombshell"

Summer is for chilling out and listening to tunes! Here are 7 great ones!

Rob

Incubus - "Nimble Bastard"

Mr. T

Don Henley - "Sunset Grill"

G-Man

Metallica - "No Remorse"

I play ultimate twice a week. It wouldn't be Summer without Ultimate Frisbee. Nothing gets me more pumped before a game than my ol' fave Metallica. I always felt Kill 'Em All was a punk/metal infused album. So Good. "No Remorse" is exactly what we gave that team tonight

Doug

Johnny Cash - "One Piece At A Time"

I heard it this week and made me think of an old coworker stuffing his pockets with stainless nuts and bolts from the stock because "No one cares if you only take a few"..

Dano

Mastodon - "Creature Lives"

Mastodon - "Spectrelight"

Jonny HP

For All Those Sleeping - "Hell or Heaven"

April 28, 2017

Rob

Three Days Grace - "Let You Down"

Mr. T

Joe Walsh - "Analog Man"

G-Man

Against Me! - "8 Full Hours Of Sleep"

It's what I need/want right now....

Doug

Dr. Dre & Eminem - "Forgot About Dre"

Dano

The Hives - "Abra Cadaver"

The Hives - "Love In Plaster"

04/20/17

I know this Friday is actually the 21st, but since Thursday was 4/20, us potheads here at Song Of The Day decided to plug into our 14 year old selves and pick songs that are all about smokin' the cheeba! Rob....who ya got??

Rob

Sir Smoke-A-Lot - "Samson Gets Me Lifted"

Musical Youth - "Pass The Dutchie"

Mr. T

Tom Petty - "You Don't Know How It Feels"

Bob Marley - "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"

G-Man

Michael Franti - "Ganja Babe"

I was gonna go with something a little less obvious...but goddamn this is a fantastic song!

Doug

Cypress Hill - "Hits From A Bong"

Dano

Equalizer - "Sweet Mary"

April 7th, 2017

Rob

Nirvana - "Lithium"

Mr. T

Matt Andersen - "My Last Day"

G-Man

Coheed & Cambria - "Welcome Home"

One of my favourite bands. One thing I love about 'em is that they never stick to just one genre. Sometimes it's sweet sounds, sometimes acoustic, sometimes power chord driven rock. "Welcome Home" was the first single from their 3rd album, my personal fave. It's pure guitar squealing metal mayhem!!

Doug

The Counting Crows - "Rain King"

Dano

The Wailin' Jennys - "Deeper Well"

The Wailin' Jennys - "Bird Song"

March 17, 2017

Rob

30 Seconds To Mars - "Closer To The Edge (Acoustic)"

Mr. T

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs - "Mal Bicho"

The Irish Rovers - "Black Velvet Band"

G-Man

R.E.M - "Time After Time (annElise)"

This is an ancient track off their second album Reckoning. It reminds me of how great a band R.E.M really was.

The Real McKenzies - "Chip"

And just because it's St. Patrick's Day....

Doug

TBD

Dano

Spirit Of The West - "The Crawl"

MGMT - "Kids"

February 17,2017

Rob

Jamiroquai - "Automaton"

Mr. T

Local H - "All The Kids Are Right"

G-Man

Queensryche - "Silent Lucidity"

Admittedly I don't know alot about Queensryche, but this song has always been a favourite of mine. Not really one I go to alot though. Just whenever I hear it i'm reminded of how great it is. Really needs to be in heavier rotation on ol' G-Man's list

Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"

Two songs this week! Just 'cuz. Love, love. love this 'Tallica track. Written during the Load/Reload sessions it got shelved then brought back and dusted off for the S&M show that saw Metallica perform with the San Francisco Orchestra. Definition of an epic tune

Doug

Marian Hill - "Down"

Dano

Lisa Leblanc - "You Look Like Trouble (But I Guess I Do Too)"

Lisa Leblanc - "Gold Diggin' Hoedown"

Feb 3rd, 2017

Rob

Moist - "Underground"

Mr. T

Crowbar - "Oh What A Feeling"

G-Man

Big Black - "Kerosene"

I don't know how I can call myself a lover of music and have only heard of these guys now. With so many years behind me that I could've been enjoying this. Jesus.

Big Black - "Bad Penny"

Doug

Barenaked Ladies - "What A Good Boy"

Dano

Dave Lindley - "Soul Of A Man"

Neil Young - "Dead Man Theme"

January 6th, 2017

Welcome to 2017!! Song of the day is still going strong! Happy to bring music new and old from our lips to your ears!! Let's see what Rob is spinning this week!

Rob

De La Soul - "Much More"

Mr. T

Neon Dreams - "Marching Bands" feat. Kardinal Offishal

G-Man

Bob Dylan - "Most Of The Time"

One of my all time favourite Bob Dylan songs. It's stands very well on it's own without needing to  be saddled with a complete album. Living Legend

Doug

Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"

Note from G-Man: Rob and Mr. T pick hip-hop tracks? Doug picks a classic rock song? No, none of this adds up. 2017.....strange days are coming

Dano

DJ Shadow & Run The Jewels - "Nobody Speak"

December 16, 2016

It's still theme month December!! This week Mr. T thought it would be a neat idea to discuss songs that we were convinced were done by one artist only to discover who they were really sung by later on! Let's get it Rob!

Rob

Bon Jovi - "Always"
Thought it was: Bryan Adams

Mr. T

The Animals - "House Of The Rising Sun"
Thought it was: The Rolling Stones

XMAS BONUS!

The Pointer Sisters - "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
Thought it was: Richard Simmons 

Note from G-Man: Fantastic!

G-Man

Ian Thomas - "Painted Ladies"
Thought it was: America

Really it does sound like it, the vocals are almost identical and I might have been getting it confused with "Ventura Highway". Kinda sounds like it

XMAS BONUS!

The Royal Guardsmen - "Snoopy's Christmas"
Thought it was: The Beatles

Seriously...doesn't the Baron kinda sound like Sgt. Pepper?

Doug

TBD

Dano

Equalizer - "Sweet Mary"
Thought it was: Bradley Nowell (Sublime)

November 25th, 2016

Rob

Death Cab For Cutie - "Photobooth"

Mr. T

Billy Joel - "52nd Street"

G-Man

Metallica - "Here Comes Revenge"

Metallica - "Moth Into Flame"

Doug

TBD

Dano

3 Inches Of Blood - "Revenge Is A Vulture"

3 Inches Of Blood - "Crazy Nights"

November 4th, 2016

Rob

Blink 182 - "Dammit"

Mr. T

Michael Jackson - "Man In The Mirror"

This song has been bouncing around in my head for a few weeks. Ow. It's carrys an all around good message and the part I like most, the uplifting melody. Easy to remember and fun to listen to.

I still think G-man may have lost a bet.

G-Man

Nickelback - "If Everyone Cared"

No Mr. T and I didn't purposely both pick songs about changing the world. Sometimes the planets just line up that way. I don't subscribe to the blind hatred that Nickelback gets. It's toothless and misguided. I don't follow trends and I am not going to jump on that train. They have a wide selection of great songs. Exhibit A

Doug

Kings Of Leon - "Hands To Myself"

Dano

Royal Blood - "Figure It Out"

October 28, 2016

Halloween is this Monday, so here at SOTD Fridays we're showcasing some of our favourite spooky songs, Halloween themed or even favourite costumed bands! Let's kick 'er off!!

Robenstein

Dave Matthews Band - "Halloween"

Tracy Jordan - "Werewolf Bar Mitzah"

Mr. Trick or Treat

Blue Oyster Cult - "(Don't Fear) The Reaper"

The Cramps - "Surfin' Dead"

The Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstein"

Ghost-Man

Misfits - "Scream!"

Though I prefer the demo version of this song, the official video is kick ass! Made before all the recent zombie-apocalypse jerk-off fest was everywhere too. This song was written for the Scream soundtrack but not used

Cradle Of Filth - "Her Ghost In The Fog"

One of the best modern metal songs out there. The song is more about avenging a murdered lover than about ghosts n' stuff, but still creepy video, creepy scary vibe. Saw these guys live on Devil's Night with Gwar back in 2007. Great show

Dougula

Will Smith - "Nightmare On My Street"

Eminem - "Monster" feat. Rhianna

Dano-Lantern

Rob Zombie - "Mars Needs Women"

Holy Grail - "Exciter"