Black Hole Sun — Soundgarden

SONG OF THE DAY — “Black Hole Sun” by (Supe­run­k­nown, A & M Records, 1994). Writ­ten by Chris Cor­nell. INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — Writ­ten by front­man Chris Cor­nell, “Black Hole Sun” was released in 1994 as the third sin­gle from the band’s fourth stu­dio album, Supe­run­k­nown (1994). It is arguably the band’s most rec­og­niz­able and …

Light You Up — Pilot Speed

SONG OF THE DAY “Light You Up” by Pilot Speed (Wooden Bones, Maple­Mu­sic Record­ings, 2009). INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — Pilot Speed (for­merly known as Pilate) is a Cana­dian rock band that formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario. — The quartet’s debut EP, For All That’s Given,Wasted, was released in 2001 Maple­Mu­sic Record­ings who later signed them. …

Woo Hoo — The 5678’s

SONG OF THE DAY “Woo Hoo” by The 5678’s (Bomb The Twist, Time Bomb Records, 1996). Cover of the 1959 sin­gle by The Rock-A-Teens. INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — “Woo Hoo” is a rock­a­billy song, orig­i­nally released by The Rock-A-Teens in 1959. — The song is dis­tinc­tive for its lack of lyrics apart from its title words, …

Sledgehammer — Peter Gabriel

SONG OF THE DAY “Sledge­ham­mer” by Peter Gabriel (So, Gef­fen Records, 1986). Writ­ten by Peter Gabriel. INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — It peaked at #1 in Canada for 4 weeks on 21 July 1986, #1 on the Bill­board Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986,[1] and #4 in the UK sin­gles chart, …

Only The Good Die Young — Billy Joel

SONG OF THE DAY “Only The Good Die Young” by Billy Joel (The Stranger, Colum­bia Records, 1977). Writ­ten by Billy Joel. INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — The girl’s name, “Vir­ginia,” is a play on “vir­gin.” The boy/narrator believes that the girl is refus­ing him because she comes from a reli­gious Catholic fam­ily and that she believes sex …

Look What You’ve Done — Jet

SONG OF THE DAY “Look What You’ve Done” by Jet (Get Born, Elek­tra, 2004). Writ­ten by Jet. INTERESTING FACTS — “Look What You’ve Done” is the 3rd sin­gle (4th in the U.S.) by the Aus­tralian rock band Jet, from their 2003 album Get Born. It was released in 2004 world­wide, and in 2005 in the US (#37). — …

Marry Me, A Little — Raul Esparza

SONG OF THE DAY “Marry Me, A Lit­tle” as per­formed by Raul Esparza (Com­pany, 2006 Broad­way Revival Cast, None­such Records, 2007). INTERESTING FACTS — From Amazon.com: “There may be no orig­i­nal Broad­way cast record­ing more iconic than 1970’s Com­pany, with its funky organ sound and Elaine Stritch’s not-quite-there high notes, but the Decem­ber 2006 Broad­way revival …

Detroit ’67 — Sam Roberts

SONG OF THE DAY “Detroit ’67″ by Sam Roberts (Love At The End Of The World, Secret Brain Records/ Uni­ver­sal Music Canada, 2008). Writ­ten by Sam Roberts. INTERESTING FACTS — Love at the End of the World is the third full length album from Cana­dian rock musi­cian Sam Roberts. — The album cover is based on …

Walking In Memphis — Marc Cohn

SONG OF THE DAY “Walk­ing In Mem­phis” by Marc Cohn (Marc Cohn, Atlantic, 1991). Writ­ten by Marc Cohn. INTERESTING FACTS — “Walk­ing in Mem­phis” is the sig­na­ture song of Amer­i­can singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, from his self-titled 1991 album. — The song became Cohn’s biggest hit, peak­ing at #13 on the Bill­board Hot 100 and, after being re-released in …

Everything You’ve Done Wrong — Sloan

SONG OF THE DAY “Every­thing You’ve Done Wrong” by Sloan (One Chord To Another, Mur­dere­cords, Canada, 1996) (The Enclave, U.S., 1997). Writ­ten by Chris Mur­phy, Patrick Pent­land, Jay Fer­gu­son, and Andrew Scott. INTERESTING FACTS (from wikipedia) — One Chord to Another was the third album by Cana­dian rock band Sloan. — In 1994 Gef­fen (their label at …