The Music 030 - For Nancy

Rapid fire music!  This song, which is part of the continuation of my A-Z's of Ballads series, is by Pete Yorn.  I guess he was more famous that I thought, but this song actually has a music video for it, so I'll be posting that.  While the song is titled after a woman whose name begins with 'N', I'm classifying it as the 'F' post.  I don't need a reason, it's my series of posts.  Anyway, Pete Yorn comes from my collection of "music my dad had that I never really got around to listening until I hit shuffle on iTunes and came across it by coincidence".  So I can't say much, but while a picture is worth a thousand words, a music video is worth your time, so listen!

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 028 - Deborah

Alright, so I'm back from the grave after over two weeks and despite having nearly rotted away, I'm still sharing some music.  So be glad about that, I've been lazy over the past few weeks, and I'm going to try really hard to keep posting from now on.  With that let's continue on.  If you've forgotten I'm trying to do the A-Z's of Ballads, or songs named after women, so let's continue on by a song by Fury in the Slaughterhouse.  Great band, great song (despite the fact that I've only just listened to in for the first time about a week ago).  Despite that, this has gone into the category for 'music from my giant ass collection I'll keep in mind and listen to later'.  Yes I know I need to learn to name these categories a little better.  But who has time for that, I've only got time for good music.  Enjoy!

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 027 - Caroline

Here we go again, can't stop me!  The music continues in my attempt at the A-Z's of Ballads (named after someone) with Caroline by Chicago.  (Double Whammy on the C's there!)  This song comes from Chicago XXX (that's 30, not a porno).  This entire album is both good at being jazzy and rocking it out.  This song proves just that.  When I first heard this album, I immediately went out and looked up all their other recent stuff, since I thought they had slowed down after their early hits.  Boy was I wrong, and am I glad to admit that.  You should also check out their album, Stones of Sisyphus, especially the songs "Mahjong" and "Sleeping in the Middle of the Bed".  For now though, listen to this, and I'll see you later.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 025 - Avelyn

So I'm back from the dead, and it's time to begin the A-Z of Ballads (named after someone).  To start it of we have Avelyn by Trapt.  While Trapt is known for their hard rock and really rough music.  This song, which is acoustic, is probably my personal favorite of theirs.  I'm not sure why, it just caught my attention, and then I couldn't stop listening to it.  This comes from their album, "Reborn" which is also a really good album overall.  I was hoping, since the song was labelled the acoustic version, that it had a non-acoustic version too.  Mainly out of curiosity, but it doesn't look like they do.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm begging you.  Anyway let's get this thing started, I should get through a few more letters in the next hour since I haven't posted in so long.  Enjoy.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 022 - She

Putting my music library on Shuffle always results in some really good music that I've missed popping up.  Here we've got one such song.  This song is by a band called fade.  Yes, lower case 'fade'.  These guys are a mix between alternative and hard rock.  They originate from Japan, but they sing most of their music in English.  This song is entirely in English, so don't worry, I have yet to post foreign music (it'll inevitably happen).  Their music is good.  That's all there is to it, all their music is good.  I may prefer some of their music over the rest, but I don't dislike any of it.  That's why they will be posted here frequently, and you should go out and listen to all their music after you listen to this song.  I mean it, their last album was the only music I listened to during the Summer of 2012.  It's that good.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 013 - From That Point On

I'm back with my first real post of Friday.  I'm gonna post another song after this one because I couldn't choose between them, so you can have my cake and eat it too.  The cake in this case being my music, and the eating would be listening to it.  Unless you think you can eat music, in which case I'd advise you to see a doctor.  Back from that little tangent there, it's Friday so let's enjoy the day with SOME AMAZING MUSIC.  That amazing music happens to be from one of my, if not my, most favorite band, Revis.  These guys had one amazing album, and then they broke up.  They got back together a while ago, put out some aesome tracks they decided wouldn't go on their new album.  Then it went downhill from there.  Their drummer broke his leg during a rock climbing incident and couldn't play, so they postponed production.  Then their record label screwed them over, and they had to postpone it even further, eventually leading to the decision not to pursue making the new album.  While I'm really upset about this, they still released a few really good songs, this being one of them.  Once again, I'll be back in a few with another great song!

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 010 - The Joneses

Here's my first post for Wednesday, and since it's this early in the day, I'll probably post something else again this afternoon, so keep your eyes peeled!  Here we have a song by Nine Days, the guys who you'd probably know from their song "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)".  While I am a fan of most of their music, I like this song a lot.  While it starts off kind of odd, and doesn't seem to meld well, it soon picks up and you can see why they performed it the way they did.  "The Joneses" is not the only song Nine Days does that's like that, but I think it's a prime example.  I'll let you listen and see if you agree.

- Manifiest Destiny

The Music 007 - Home

So, as I said last week, I'm now going to start following a weekly pattern, so today would be softer rock.  Which is what I consider this song by Something to Burn.  These guys know how to make some great hard rock, but I have to say, this song is probably my favorite of theirs.  They have a very interesting way of using the lead singer's rough voice in a softer style of music, and it works really well.

As a side note, take this as an example for future Monday posts.  I also have yet to decide whether or not I'm going to do only one post a day, or if I'm going to write whenever I want, as long as it fits the theme.  I might try the latter, but we'll see.

Anyway, enjoy the song.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 006 - Take a Bow

So today's (first) song is from Sister Hazel's album Release.  Just came across it once again, and decided to make it my next post instead of another song I had in mind, though I might post that anyway.  The 'first' time I heard Sister Hazel I hadn't made the connection to they're big hit "All for You".  I thought "All for You" was a song by Hootie and the Blowfish, since they have a very similar sound.  Of course, now that I know, I can hardly see how I got them confused.  I guess I've learned to tell the difference between one slight country-rock twang and another.  Anyway here's the song.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 005 - Better Days

Alright, so this is the song I said that the last post, "The Music 004 - Monotone", reminded me of.  This song is called Better Days, and is performed by One Less Reason.  I know this song by the title "Labeled' but that's because when my dad first purchased it from iTunes (at least I got it for free), the song titles on the album were all disarranged.  Correct song title or not, however, this song still rocks, just like everything else the band does.  One Less Reason did a strange cover of "When Doves Cry"; it was good for what it was, but a complete 180 from the original.  Anyway, here's the song this post was actually about.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 004 - Monotone

Sorry I didn't get around to posting yesterday but I had my hands full with replacing my car's Alternator.  Boy was that fun... and expensive.  Anyway, today's (first) song is Monotone by Splender.  Splender is probably a top contender for my favorite band, and it makes me sad to know that they'll never make another album.  They tried getting back together again a while back, and weren't able to do it.  Still they put out two amazing albums before they broke up.  Splender is an amazing melodic rock band, with a little more rock, and a little less melody, but still 100% great music.  Anyway, I have to say this song reminds me a lot of another song, so I might post that song later, and link it back to this, but for now enjoy the song.

- Manifest Destiny

The Music 002 - Sweet Suffocation

Alright, so today I decided to put some more rock music on the blog.  In the future the genres will vary, and I'll eventually have a schedule and themes for different days, but until I've build up a number of posts, I'm going to just post whatever I feel like (even though that's the whole reason behind this blog in the first place).

Anyway, today's song is by Edgewater.  Unfortunately these guys haven't been together since they're last album in 2006, but up until then they put out some amazing music.  Especially from their album South of Sideways, which is where this song, Sweet Suffocation, comes from.  I also highly recommenced you check out Inhale from the album, hell I recommend the whole album, but first take a listen.

- Manifest Destiny