5 Songs to Get You Through the Week #41

5 Songs to Get You Through the Week is a feature I run on Young Ears, Fresh Perspective on Sundays/early hours of Monday morning where I pick out 5 tunes that I think are notable and tell you a bit about them. The point is to give you some rocking music to help you deal with your weekday blues. You can either listen to one each day, listen to them all at once, or any other combination that you feel. As long as you can get through the week without the man getting you down, that's all I care about. Without further ado, here are the 5 tracks I've picked out for this week:

1. Everyday, by Diane Coffee

Need some glitter and sparkle in your life? Diane Coffee aka former Disney voice actor Shaun Fleming is about to release his second album Everybody's a Good Dog September 4th and it is full of early 70's glam rock goodness. Everyday is the main single for it and it does a pretty good job representing the album. It's just shocking to see that a young artist is out there making new music that sounds almost exactly like it came out of 1971. You seriously need to check this out if you're into stuff like Elton John, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, etc.

2. I Feel Love (Every Million Miles), by The Dead Weather

If glitter and sparkle isn't so much your bag, give Jack White's side project The Dead Weather's new single I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) that will be on their upcoming album Dodge and Burn a shot. It's full of intense bluesy dark magic. The song absolutely pours with powerful emotion from start to finish. Anyone who has an interest in music that explores the darker side of life will be entranced by the beauty of this raw music.

3. How Shall I Know, by Ken Hensley

This is an absolutely beautiful piano ballad from Uriah Heep keyboardist Ken Hensley's 1975 solo album Eager to Please. The harmonized guitar melody is delicious and feels like it is wrapping you in a sense of warmth that only this kind of classic rock could. If you're out there in the world still looking for love and don't think you will ever find it, then you will relate to this song almost immediately.

4. Cradle Rock, by Rory Gallagher

Need some in your face rocking blues from an Irishman? This is just the tune for you. During his life time Rory Gallagher took the blues and brought the genre to a whole new level by just blasting it into outer space; especially in the 1970's. Cradle Rock shows just how insane he could get on a fret board during the height of his career. It's one of his best riffs and has some of his best solos; though naturally it was way better live.

5. Streets, by Avenged Sevenfold

This is one of what I feel is Avenged Sevenfold's most under rated tracks of all time along with quite a few of the other tracks from their 1999 debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet. Streets is a fun ripping and running pseudo-punk metal song that has some pretty decent melodic vocals despite the fact that singer M. Shadows hadn't had professional voice lessons at that point. It doesn't have any of A7X's signature harmonized guitar solos, but really it doesn't need them.