NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

Nothing beats the foliage in the American Northeast. However, being the first week of November, the colors peaked a few weeks ago, and now the trees are looking bare. When I was young, growing up in Central New York, when the leaves came off the trees, it meant a long winter was on the way. One year we got snow on Halloween which lasted until April. New England is romanticized in America, from movies to books to magazines and even a few songs.  BOSTON, WHERE NO ONE KNOWS MY NAME .  In  Season One of  The Big Bang Theory ,   Leonard is moping after his love interest, Penny, starts seeing another man. He comes into the apartment  singing   Augustana 's  " Boston ,"  quite horribly. "Boston" is Augustana's signature song. It placed on the  Billboard Hot 100 , it was a Top 40 hit, and a top 10 Adult (light rock) hit. The band formed at  Greenville University , a conservative Christian college where  Jars of Clay  formed before them and  Paper Route  after them. 

In  Season One of  The Big Bang Theory ,  Leonard is moping after his love interest, Penny, starts seeing another man. He comes into the apartment singing Augustana 's  " Boston ,"  quite horribly. "Boston" is Augustana's biggest hit. It placed on the Billboard Hot 100 , it was a Top 40 hit, and a top 10 Adult (light rock) hit. The band formed at Greenville University , a conservative Christian college where Jars of Clay formed before them and Paper Route after them. While  the two other bands were comfortable with the Christian circuit, Augustana's lead singer, Dan Layus , talks about breaking free from the strict rules of Christian college and choosing not to be a Christian band.  BOSTON, WHERE NO ONE KNOWS MY NAME . "Boston" is not only a breakup  with a lover, but a place too. If you've never moved to a city where no one knows you, it's freeing. You possess the ability to rebuild your reputation and become whomever you want to be

  When I first heard of The All-American Rejects and their single " Swing, Swing ," I thought they would just be one of the many garage bands that would continue to make cheap videos on Fuse for a few albums before quitting the music industry. I was wrong. The band’s sophomore album Move Along blew up, hitting the Top 40. The band’s major label follow-up to Move Along , When the World Comes Down, had their biggest hit “ Gives You Hell ,” and the other two singles “ I Wanna ” and today’s choice “ The Wind Blows ” were moderately successful, but the band’s fourth record was mostly overlooked. While the TV show appearances ( Smallville Season 6 ) and the tours with Taking Back Sunday and Anberlin may be over, the band's legacy tells of a time when power pop, punk rock, and pop rock impacted the Top 40. I'LL LEAVE WHEN THE WIND BLOWS. Originally written for Gwen Stefani , "The Wind Blows" is one of The Rejects' most poppy songs. The production is inter