honeyhoney Song of the Day

Angel of Death

Last year for about a month before I saw the Foo Fighters and Biffy Clyro in Memphis, I would post a daily video from each of the groups to my Facebook account to show just how excited I was to see both of the groups. I'm doing that now with honeyhoney.

I fell in love with honeyhoney's music a few years ago when "Black Crows" and "Little Toy Gun" popped up on one of my Pandora playlists. I don't remember who I was supposed to be listening to, maybe Fiona Apple? Anyways, I got their first CD First Rodeo and loved it. I was excited when Billy Jack came out last year, but it took me a little while longer to get into it. But I did, and now I think it's awesome, too.

I follow honeyhoney on Facebook, and when they posted news about new tour dates, I checked their site and found out they were going to be at The Cannery Ballroom in Nashville with James Morrison. I had to look him up. Not bad, but I'd be completely satisfied if I left right after honeyhoney.

I've also developed a little crush on lead singer Suzanne Santo. I am a total sucker for beautiful girls who can sing.

Here are two videos for the first track off Billy Jack, "Angel of Death." I really don't know how you'd classify honeyhoney, what genre you'd label their music, but this song twangs and drawls like country. I don't like country music. Really. Living around Nashville has not turned me around on that. But I love this song. Is there more country music that sounds like this? I'd listen to that.

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I needed a little comedy this morning, and then this popped up on my playlist's shuffle.

The youngest of my kiddos started at a new babysitter this morning, and he was extremely clingy and weepy when I dropped him off. I hated leaving, but I had to get the other kiddos where they needed to be, and I needed to get to work. So this song helped put a smile on my face (and the song works better when watching the video, too).

I've been getting photos via text from the babysitter, and it looks like the little guy is settling in quite nicely. Makes me happy.

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There are two things that really get me about this video.

First, from listening to Adele sing I would not expect her to talk like this. It just doesn't sound right. Not bad, just not right.

Second, I cried the first time I heard this. It was the day after my ex-wife told me she was engaged. It hurt. I don't want to get back with her, because we don't/didn't work, but it still hurts to know that this person you were so in love with is now so in love with someone else. I hope to one day be able to be truly happy for her and be good friends with her, but I'm not there yet.

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According to a post by Matt Mahaffey on Facebook yesterday, he's doing the drum work for Animal. Regardless of the drum toss, I think Animal won this battle.

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Okay, today's video/song is...a little crass. Maybe a tad juvenile. But hey, I never said this was a family show.

I love Tool. I love A Perfect Circle. I'm starting to love Puscifer, but it took me until Conditions of My Parole to REALLY get into them...except for this song. I've loved it since the moment I heard it. It's one of the most tongue-in-cheek, awesome things I've ever heard.

This is the first thing that popped up when I searched for the song in YouTube. It's a live recording of the song with some well-timed pictures. Maynard and the rest of the band were in Nashville last month, and I was so disappointed that I couldn't go. A friend said it was one of her top five concerts ever. High praise indeed.




Here's the original song. It's a fan video, so keep that in mind. It's still pretty good, though, and the song is still awesome.



My favorite version of the song, though, is the "Disco Viagra Mix." It's just so damn catchy.

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I don't know what the shuffle setting on Spotify was trying to tell me this morning, but it wasn't encouraging. "Suffocate" by Cold, "Hey, Johnny Park" by Foo Fighters, this song, and "Houdini's Angels" by Seven Mary Three. Ugh. I'm not ashamed to say that this morning's disposition was gloomy, to say the least.

These lyrics didn't help:

"I can't hold on
[To what I want when I'm stretched so thin]
It's all too much to take in
I can't hold on
[To anything watching everything spin]
With thoughts of failure sinking in"

But I'm better now. Friends are a good thing to have. :)

Also, I never realized how depressing Linkin Park can be. I tend to stick with the more upbeat stuff, but I actually listened to this song this morning, and wow.



And just for kicks and giggles, this .gif wall has been me for the past week (if not for the past year and a half). Also, I fail at .gif walls, so just go hereto see the original. The sentiment is still the same.

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"The darkness fell like a shout,
Am I ready to take that chance
Put my faith in someone else"

Gah, when will these guys get big enough in the states to headline their own show? Seeing them for maybe 30 minutes before Foo Fighters last year wasn't enough. If they ever come back to Tennessee, rest assured that I will be going and I will be bringing friends.

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I've been on a bit of a Linkin Park kick. This song isn't new and neither is the video, but sometimes you just have to hop in that Wayback Machine and jump back to...2001. Ah, it was such a simpler time back then. I started my first job out of college, I was engaged, kids weren't even a thought, and I had a very respectable comic book collection. Now, I'm in a different position with the same company, I'm divorced, I've got three kids, and I'm just now starting to replace the comic book collection I sold shortly before my first child was born. Being an adult is HARD.

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A lot of times I'm posting a video because the song is awesome, but in this case, I really hate the song, but the video is just so incredible. Jake Gyllenhaal killing people with a fencing foil, among other things. If this were a movie, I'd watch it.

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Sometimes you just need to let the song speak.

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Another honeyhoney post. Here's a live performance of "Let's Get Wrecked" from a 2011 performance in San Diego. The vocal audio could be a bit clearer, but you take what you get when you're watching videos filmed by audience members.

This is one of my favorite tracks off their latest album, and I really hope they play it when they come to Nashville in May. I'm buying tickets immediately and taking it on faith that I'll be able to drag along a date. Who wouldn't want to see these guys live? I'm betting they put on a kick-ass show. I'll let you know on May 14.

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Paul Rudd in a closet answering questions. Do you really need more than that? Tough, just believe in me.

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Simple video for a wonderful song that gets to me sometimes.

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This, and only this, is the reason I have HBO. Although, HBOGO is kind of awesome.

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I had never heard of Robert Ellis before coming across this video, but after hearing this song I went and added his album Photographs to my Spotify playlist. I haven't listened to it yet (I'm culling in alphabetical order, and I'm cutting out a bunch of Powerman 5000 stuff right now), but I'm planning on giving it a good listen when it comes around.

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Listening to this song and the other fun. song I posted a couple of weeks ago, I find it sad that a guy with a voice this good ends up using autotune for a few songs on the new record. It's a jarring transition, and it really took away from my enjoyment of the album as a whole.

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"I've got a bulletproof heart, you've got a hollow-point smile."

Such violently romantic lyrics.

Danger Days was a fine follow-up to The Black Parade, an album that I consider flawless. This is a live version of "Bulletproof Heart," a song that popped up on my Spotify playlist this morning, and I've been thinking about those lyrics ever since.

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Even though I think he's a damn fine musician, I never went out of my way to buy a White Stripes or Raconteurs album. I was content to hear the occasional single on the radio every now and then. That said, I'm really digging "Love Interruption." It's still not enough to get me to buy an album, but I won't skip the song when it comes up on my Spotify playlist.

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I wanted to post this video last week, but others got in the way.

A good friend introduced me to fun. a couple of years ago, and I became a little smitten with the fun (oh yes, an obvious pun) songs and the stand-out vocals of Nate Ruess. After listening to Aim and Ignite over and over, I found out Ruess used to have another band, The Format.

I didn't like them as much. The songs were as...enjoyable (you thought I was going to say "fun," didn't you?).

So this is the first single from the second album, and if they're all of this caliber, then it's going to be pretty amazing.

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Five people playing one guitar is a gimmick, but when the gimmick is performed flawlessly and the song being sung is haunting and sung by three incredible voice, well, then you get more than 54 MILLION HITS IN JUST OVER A MONTH on YouTube.

Before I saw this, I had no idea who Gotye or Wall Off the Earth were. They're both on Spotify, though. I listened to Gotye's album Making Mirrors, and it's pretty much meh for me. "Somebody That I Used to Know" is arguably the best song on the album.

Walk Off the Earth has one album, Smooth Like a Stone on a Beach, on Spotify and a bunch of single tracks from compilation albums. Again, "Somebody That I Used to Know" is the best thing I've heard by them. That makes me sad, because I was totally blown away by this video and was hoping for more of the same. The album has somewhat of an alterni-pop vibe to it, with a heavy ska/white-people island music feel to it. Anybody remember Len and their one hit "Steal My Sunshine"? Yeah, it's like THAT Canadian group was THIS Canadian group's inspiration. It was really disconcerting to hear Rage Against the Machine's "People of the Sun" sung in that vein. I'm listening to their later release My Rock via Myspace because with as much as I love their cover of "STIUtK," I really want to support them and buy a full album, but I won't for music I just don't like.

This video and song, though, they kick ass. Honestly, this doesn't even sound like it's by the same people. But because of this cover, I will ALWAYS listen to and attempt to like any new release they put out there. That's the power of one performance.