Song-A-Day

Yesterday's post completes 10 full years of song-a-day. With ten years and a day of songs, I'm bringing this blog to a close. And wh...

This is the story of the most petty Regime Change , a tale of middle school drama put into a beautiful pop song. https://songlander.com/res...

The Drummer is Fine, Part 1 creates a calm ambiance out of guitar harmonics and softened feedback. http://sonicyouth.com/archives/mp3-sele...

Demon Seed closes The Slip with a winding song that fits in with late NIN music. https://archive.org/download/The_Slip-2640/Nine_Inch_Nail...

A lingering echo of a guitar and drum sits as voices whisper on Whatchusayin . http://ccmixter.org/content/grapes/grapes_-_whatchusayin.mp3

Closing out Nest is Trans Siberian with the most dramatic flourishes of the record. But it's still at heart an ambient soundscape, chi...

Kara Square on Blues #8 : "Blues goes electro with @nop’s latest remix. Utilizing samples from greyguy, My Free Mickey, and Pitx, this ...

Fuzzed out low-fi garage rock recalls a past that may not have existed Back Then Oh When Oh When . https://archive.org/download/Tiny_Creatu...

Musikpirat calls Relaxing Birds "A very relaxing piece of music crafted around Javolenus’s guitare loop. Some drums, chirping birds an...

With the high vocals strangely backgrounded in its chorus, Cakes is my favorite Song Fight! entry from bgm. http://www.songfight.org/music...

The Robot Is Dreaming to a programmed rhythm with a synthesizer backup, slightly jittered, scattering, as it takes slow, repeating steps wi...

This track starts with ambient tones letting you relax and focus on something else. It then draws you in with a gentle shake and swell befor...

John Benjamin teams up with a friend to create a dance party in Tyson's Corner . "To rule the world all we need is patience." ...

Concept of Energy pumps out infectious electro-pop beats from the stuff of snowflake's Nightmare . http://ccmixter.org/content/THE_CONC...

Glenn wants to be as logical as he can be, "More like Spock with my Fingers Crossed ". https://songlander.com/rest/entries/9C5EB0...

Oriki De Oxum reminds me of the song Kid A. It's quiet, ethereal, dynamic, and haunting. https://archive.org/download/VOL_1-4616/Axial...

Strangelove's Fingers Crossed sounds like a strange amalgam of sounds and samples, densely layered. https://songlander.com/rest/entrie...

Toy Kingdom is some of the most adorably beautiful electro acoustic music I've heard from a ccmixter. http://ccmixter.org/content/VJ_M...

This year's Nur Ein is bringing out many excellent songs from new and old favorites. Merisan's After You is so excellent it deserve...

Nite Jewel's slow moving beat slides along with lyrics giving way to another Obsession . http://www.gorillavsbear.net/files/2017/04/A2-...

That whisper, those pounding drums, that guitar... Fingers Crossed we get another seven songs from Puce Forkbomb Skub this Nur Ein, no ma...

The Worldly Self Assurance's strong showing was Cold Comfort when they were eliminated in Round 6 of Nur Ein VII. http://songlander.co...

Songfight's most recent wave of punk rockers teamed up for last weeks song fight, and came in second place by two votes. So Much For Tha...

Take a relaxing rest with a Pacific Sunset . http://ccmixter.org/content/spinmeister/spinmeister_-_Pacific_Sunset.mp3

Azazel is a vibrant cascading jazz piece by Gepel . https://archive.org/download/Moducue-5343/Gepel_-_02_-_Azazel.mp3 https://archive.org...

Daniel Bautista has a flair for showing just how impeccably the classics rock. This time he gives the treatment to Paganini's Caprice No...

Cow Exchange does a silly cover of a silly song with a silly name: Rockopolousaninjananophone Eternal - The Vishnu Cycle . http://www.song...

Paul Cantrell , on Chopin's Prelude Op 28 No 9 (in E major) : "I love the steady outpouring of energy, the unbrokenness of the flow...

Trans Alp's performance of Gnossienne Nº1 sounds unlike any other rendition of Satie I've ever heard. https://freemusicarchive.org...

Tiny Robots' peppy little vaguely Brazilian cover of L'Occitane is perfect sunny day music. http://songfight.net/cf2016/tinyrobots...

Silueta Porteña moves vigorously through rapid pizzicato through dramatic sliding passages and dramatic refrains. http://www.mandragoratan...

Robot Ninja Zombie Bear does sound like the name of a terrible film. Naked Philosophy's lyrics go in that direction, and Tuners Union g...

Juraj Hubink gets his voice to do an Evil Dance for us. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/download/241ddb9fef56eb52323f6c4c6c8a37323e3ea3...

The Four of Us Are Dying is an instrumental referencing an episode of The Twilight Zone. https://archive.org/download/The_Slip-2640/Nine_I...

Speck has constructed a clicking, clacking machine of sounds that's Just So (Picky) in its harmonious rattle. http://ccmixter.org/cont...

This Praying Mantis is praying for you. But don't worry, she probably won't bite off your head. http://www.songfight.org/music/pra...

Hints of mystery and intrigue permeate Baby Girl 's repeating beats. http://www.gorillavsbear.net/files/2017/04/A3-BABY-GIRL.mp3

Sparse and majestic is Nest's style, and the use of woodwinds makes Cad Goddeau feel all the more subtly majestic. https://archive.org...

Lelê is another lively yet spacious blend of electronic and traditional Brazilian strands of pop. https://archive.org/download/Chico_Corre...

Given the challenge of making a song with obvious flaws, bgm turned cable static into a melodic and rhythmic element of Million Watts . htt...

Machiavélisme Magnifique is a cut up chamber orchestra piece, a classic contemporary work. https://archive.org/download/LArt_du_Dsarroi-77...

Little clicks and soft harmonies makes up the sounds of the Metro inhabited by Tiny Creatures. https://archive.org/download/Tiny_Creatures...

Steadily increasing rhythm and No Suffering here. http://www.luckydragons.org/all/fear_melody/no%20suffering.mp3

This track finds JSR2 Hitched to some destructive routines. http://www.songfight.org/music/hitched/jrs2_hitched.mp3

The wild ride of electronic sounds built up around chopped up spoken word makes Slanted Voices sound positively skewed. http://ccmixter.or...

Snowflake: " The Art of Dying is an artful piece of music that evokes beauty, emotion and retrospection. Featuring the magnificent voc...

Orc March is menacing, battle ready opera. http://ccmixter.org/content/basematic/basematic_-_Orc_March.mp3

Javolenus has put ancient words of Sappho to a melody, capturing her gut wrenching spite with his voice as he spits "you're Nothing...

Stefan Kartenberg: " Blue is a genial dance track made by One Project. The voice of Offlinebouncer fits perfect." http://ccmixte...

Once upon a time I would attend poetry slams where a live jazz band would accompany the poets' performances on stage. I'm taken back...