30 Day Song Challenge: Day 30 Your Favourite Song At This Time Last Year

Dragonland- Rusty Nail

A heavier cover version of the X-Japan song, while the guitar solo sounds out of place from the rest of the song, the vocals sound really strong and the vocalists ability to hold notes longer gives this version a more epic feel, that and it's strange to hear a Swedish metal group covering a J-Rock song and making it sound convincingly Japanese.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 29 - A Song From Your Childhood

Eiffel 65- Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Ah the 90's with your cheesy Europop music, this was perhaps one of the most infectious song from that era. Well that and MmmBop by Hanson.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 28 - A Song That Makes You Feel Guilty

Gackt- 届カナイ愛ト知ッテイタノニ抑エキレズニ愛シ続ケタ••• (Todokanai Ai To Shitteru No Ni Osae Kirezu Ni Aishitsuzuketa...)

When I did day 23 I completely forgot about this, perhaps one of the most epic rock ballads I have ever heard, ok Todokanai Ai To Shitteru No NBi Osae Kirezu Ni Aishitsuzuketa translates as 'Even Though My Love Will Never Reach You, I Still Love You Uncontrollably' and probably isn't wedding appropriate more stalker territory (though I've not read the translated lyrics) I think it'd still work, maybe.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 27 - A Song That You Wish You Could Play

Dragonforce- Through The Fire And The Flames

Bit of an obvious choice I know, everyone banged on about this when it appeared on Guitar Hero but I wonder how many people actually tried to play this on the guitar?

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 26 - A Song That You Can Play On An Instrument

Bill Conti- Gonna Fly Now

Ok I can only play the opening bars of this song (thanks to someone in woirk showing me how to play it) I was shown how to play a bit more of it but I can't remember how the rest of it goes.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 25 - A Song That Makes You Laugh

'Weird Al' Yankovic- Headline News

Tobe honest I could have picked any of Weird Al's songs, they're all brilliantly funny. A parody of Crash Test Dummies Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm, despite the fact I've listened to this song hundreds of times it's the sound effects used in the song that I always laugh at as well as the situations Al's dreamt up.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 24 - A Song That You Want To Play At Your Funeral

Gackt- Journey Through The Decade

I suppose I could have gone with 'Only The Good Die Young' by Iron Maidne which would be ironic if I died as an old man. However this song seems to be more fitting, the first chorus has always made me think about the metaphor of life being a journey and how we never truly start our journey's nor do we finish them. Journey's are always started by our parents as they create us and put us on the path of life and even though there is the physical sense of death we tend to live on as 'legends', stories passed down to our children and their children.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 23 - A Song That You Want To Play At Your Wedding

T.M Revolution- Meteor

To be honest I don't know if marriage is on the cards for me but if it was I'd like to hear this song being played by the DJ, it doesn't really have anything to do with love or marriage I just think it's one of those songs that should be played at a defining moment in a persons life.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 22 - A Song That You Listen To When You’re Sad

Mai Yamane and The Seatbelts- Gotta Knock A Little Harder

No matter what mood I'm in whether it be sad or melencholy whenever I listen to this song it's as though the troubles of the world just melt away. It's also a great song to listen to when it's raining there's just something about this song which captures that moment perfectly.

30 Day Song Challenge: day 21 - A Song That You Listen To When You’re Happy

Gackt- Uncontrol (Live)

From personal gig experience there are few songs which sound better when performed live compared to the recorded article, Uncontrol is one such song, you can hear Gackt and GacktJob putting energy into their performance, it's one of my favourite songs from Gackt especially the live version on his live album. Even the remix of this track which he performed during his Are You Fried Chickenz tour last year in London to exceed the energy of the original track first found on his Rebirth album.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 20 - A Song That You Listen To When You’re Angry

Blaze- Kill and Destroy

Ah this song got me through so many mornings on top of it being a track that I could listen to when angry, I tend to find that listening to a song with a title that is metaphorical to what people want to do when extremely angry is kind of cathartic.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 19 - A Song From Your Favourite Album

My Chemical Romance- Na Na Na

Ok Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys isn't my favourite album, truth is I don't really have a favourite album so instead this is a song from the last album I bought.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 18 - A Song That You Wish You Heard On The Radio

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.- Whitewash Is Brainwash

I feel that GCWCF in general is vastly underappreciated despite having a following of radio presenters who like his music but considering the music industry is more interested in autotuned artists who appear on glorified talent shows it is these artists who are pushed to the forefront while socially and politically minded artists with something valid to say in their music like GCWCF are left to the lower B and C list in the radio playlists.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 17 - A Song That You Hear Often On The Radio

Jessie J ft B.O.B- Price Tag

Not much I can say about this song execpt that I seem to always hear it whenever I listen to the radio.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 16 - A Song That You Used To Love But Now Hate

Nickelback- Rockstar

I wouldn't call it love per say, more I liked it and then it became boring because at the time I was listening to it heavily because it was on my radio shows back when I did commercial music shows. Listening back to it now I can't really see what the fuss was about.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 15 - A Song That Describes You

Outsider- Alone

As I mentioned in the first of these blogs I found myself relating to some of Outsider's songs particularly this one. It's certain lines of the chorus which really stand out for me including:

I'm really scared of love and people
I'm afraid of being alone, I'm afraid of being forgotten

and

Always a loner, I close the door to my heart
bearing my sadness on my back, I live like a fool

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 14 - A Song That No One Would Expect You To Love

Take That- Shine

I think more than anything else it's the continuous piano playing which I like most, it's like someone recorded a bit of it and just looped it throughout the song, singings not that bad either.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 13 - A Song That Is A Guilty Pleasure

2AM and 2PM- Abracadabra

A Parody of the Brown Eyed Girls track of the same name, it's kinda of embarrassing how these two boy bands can sound quite out of tune in this song, I'm not sure whether that's a comment on them as a group or on the quality of Brown Eyed Girls. Still this song does make me laugh and the video is bizarre.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 12 - A Song From A Band You Hate

Boxer Rebellion- Evacuate

The very simple reason I dislike this band is because I was going to see them live but they cancelled last minute and I couldn't get a refund because apparently the gig hadn't been cancelled according to the box office, despite the venue telling me the gig had been cancelled and the band saying they had cancelled.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 11 - A Song From Your Favourite Band

Muse- Citizen Erased (Live)

Probably one of my favourite non-sing tracks from them its one of the few songs that I think can shift it's tempo and pace so effortlessly especially in a live scenario.