Those Dancing Days - Home Sweet Home

The more music I listen to, the most it becomes obvious that I don't actually have a taste...

I like more Opera Metal and a fair bit of Ska Punk but other than that... I like emo music if we're talking Alkaline Trio, not My Chemical Romance. I like some classic metal, if we're talking selected Deep Purple tracks, not as most people seem to define it, anything from the 80's. I even like Cradle of Filth if I'm in a charitable mood.

I think I like anything as long as it's good and (this is probably more important) interesting. This explains why I can have a music collection where my top three songs are:

Telegraph Road by Dire Straights
Believe - Yellowcard
Blood Sugar - Pendulum

I think this is the only sensible approach to music. I don't understand why people would discount whole genres because they don't like some examples. Every genre of music has some shining examples in it. I even found an Ice Cube song I liked the other day, which makes up for Deep Blue Sea somewhat...

Anyhoo, one of my friends recommended this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AgTAS-MJJQ&feature=PlayList&p=3AEFBA0541580780&index=16

Home Sweet Home by Those Dancing Days

Now this song has several things going for it:

1) It's overwhelmingly happy. The cheerful nature of this song smothers you like a lover ending your life with a pillow made out of kittens playing with balls of string.

2) It's upbeat enough for you to dance to but somehow it's also nice to relax to. I'm buggered if I know how they've managed this but it's pretty impressive.

3) The singer is excellent. More bands should employ female singers for the simple reason that their voices sound nicer than mens... they just do. I can only think of one band off the top of my head with a bad female singer (Defenestration) whereas bad male singers? More than I can count. If you actually want some examples, pick three CD's at random from the Metal section of your local HMV.

4) It's whimsical without being pretentious. "Home sweet home, I've been away for too long". That's just... nice. We've all felt like that at times. I hate to use phrases like "universal theme" but... you get the idea.


So yeah. Good song. I'll check out their other stuff now.