Category: My Sunday Song

My Sunday Song – “Game On” by Disciple

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For My Sunday Song #478, we are going to get you on your feet and ready to fight with “Game On” by the Christian metal band Disciple. The song is off their sixth album called “Scars Remain” which was released on November 7, 2006. The album would go on to win Rock Album of the Year at the Dove Awards. The song, I don’t think was a single, but it was the theme song for the WWE Cyber Sunday 2006. And that should let you know what you are in for with this one.

The song was written by the whole band at the time, Kevin Young, Brad Noah, Joey Fife, Tim Barrett and Travis Wyrick. The song is about spiritual readiness, overcoming our past and getting ready to face life’s challenges it will throw at you. People or problems will attack you and you won’t be expecting it, so be ready to fight back. If someone goes against you, your country, your family, be ready for anything. Get yourself ready spiritually by letting God lead you in how to handle any situation. Don’t hold on to the pain, let God take control. Whenever I need a lift, this song will definitely do that. They lyrics speak of fighting, the bell rings, throwing down…all great tie-in’s to Wrestling so no wonder it was picked up as their theme song that year.

The song is aggressive, to say the least. It has loud guitars and drums and feels like a barrage of punches knocking some sense into you. Lead singer, Kevin Young, screams out the lyrics with an intensity that is matched with the aggressive nature of the song. There is anger, but not like you think. It is more like confidence as God is on his side. The best part is towards the end when Kevin speaks the first couple of lines of the verse, then he gets a little more intense until everything simply explodes, the music and his guttural screams. By the time it is all over, you are ready to take on the world…and then put the song on repeat. A stadium, rock anthem that is a great battle-cry.

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My Sunday Song – “Fight Like This” by Decyfer Down

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For My Sunday Song #477, we are talking about the song from the Christian Metal band Decyfer Down called “Fight Like This”. The album, ‘End of Grey’, was released on June 6, 2006 and the single, “Fight Like This”, and all three other singles went to #1 on the Christian Rock Charts and #43 on the Christian album chart. The band consisted of Caleb Oliver on vocals and bass, Brandon Mills and Christopher Clonts both on guitar and last but not least, drummer Josh Oliver. Strangely, it was the only album to feature Caleb on lead vocals.

The song is credited to all the band members and only consists of two short verses and a lot of choruses. So not much there to go on, but to me the song seems to be about fighting your inner demons or the forces around you that are trying to bring you down. The song appears to be about fighting against those forces and fighting with everything you have. The intensity suggests a fight against spiritual temptation or negative influences that have gone too far, demanding a strong response and according to the lyrics, those temptations or forces have crossed a line that should not be crossed. Let the fight begin.

The intensity of the music shows the fight is going to be hard, heavy and destructive. You can feel the anger, the drive, the fight that is inside of him to go against the demons he is facing. The guitars are roaring, the drums are pounding destructively hard. The bass is thumping the rhythm of the heart and all together the battle sounds like it is going to be epic. The chorus explodes and is really catchy. It is a rock anthem that would make a wonderful stadium anthem as well. Get the players riled up and ready to fight. Caleb’s vocals reflect everything being felt and you can feel he is ready to fight whatever comes at him. The fight is going to be brutal.

Give the song a listen and let me know what you thing. Is it a good work out song or stadium anthem, I think it will give you the drive to push hard and fast. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful and Happy Sunday! May this song get you through whatever you are going through at the moment.

“Fight Like This”

Your time is done, I’m moving in
I’ve come to fight or lose, so go ahead and try me
You know I’ve just begun, just begun

[Chorus:]
You’ve never seen a fight like this before (Like this before)
I take you down and leave you there wanting more (More)
You’ve crossed the line that I cannot ignore (Cannot ignore)
You’ve never seen a fight like this before (Yeah)

Feel the pain, I’m raining down on you
You won’t deny my will, cause what I start I will follow through
Craving all that I can see
Making something out of me

[Chorus:]
You’ve never seen a fight like this before
I’ll take you down and leaver here wanting more, more
You’ve crossed the line that I cannot ignore, cannot ignore
You’ve never seen a fight like this before

[Chorus]

Writer(s): Christopher Paul Clonts, Cooper Jim, Michael Brandon Mills, Joseph Daniel Caleb Oliver, Joshua David Oliver

My Sunday Song – “Wisdom” by Jonny Lang

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For My Sunday Song #476, we are going to go all blues with “Wisdom” by Jonny Lang. In 2017, this Grammy Award winning artist released is stellar album ‘Signs’. And that album blew me away thanks in large part to this song. If you aren’t familiar with Jonny, you are definitely missing out. He is a Blues, Gospel and Rock guitarist, songwriter and singer. There is nothing this man can’t do. He brings in so many influences and crafts them into heartfelt and moving songs that are either blues or straight up rock & roll and when he mixes the two together, watch out!! And this song…Watch The F*&K Out!!

The song was written by Jon Gordon Langseth (or Jonny Lang) and Andrew Maxwell Ramsey. It talks about how much we need wisdom to avoid those mistakes that we are bound to make. However, that lesson and wisdom tend to come way too late to ever help. It is those mistakes that give us the wisdom not to make them again. It is never there for that young man and generally don’t get it until you are much older and by then it is too late. I love the line…

When he sees he was defeated by
What he believed was only right
Was really just another lie
That’s when he’ll cry out for wisdom

For me, that is a really dark statement. What you believe is the right thing to do isn’t always the case. The lies and demons you face can skew that perception and it is the need for wisdom to help you see the correct choice or path. We have all needed wisdom at some point in time as we’ve all made mistakes. The song talks about when you are at that point where your life is on the and you would pay anything to have wisdom at that point…and it would be worth whatever price you have to pay.

Musically, holy crap! The song starts with a bass drum and snare that sounds will send chills down your spine. It is so hauntingly brilliant. The blues guitar has so much soul and pain. Jonny plays both the drums and and the guitar and those are the only instruments he needs throughout the song to convey the blues, the pain, the misery of not having the wisdom needed. The mistake has already been made. The guitar solo is amazing and probably the best guitar solo on a album that is nothing but great guitar solos. Lang is one of the best blues guitarists out there today. The emotions he can generate from those strings is amazing. Vocally, there is so much pain, so much regret, so much grit and so much life that has been lived. You believe every word he is singing.

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My Sunday Song – “Let The Children Play” by Europe

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For My Sunday Song #475, we are talking about “Let The Children Play” by the band Europe. Don’t think this is an 80’s Europe song…you’d be wrong. This is a more mature and even better sounding band. The song is from their 2006 album, “Secret Society” which might be one of their best albums EVER!! The song was not a single, but it was one of the best songs on the album, if not the best song on the album. It is the fifth song on the album and when you get to it, you realize just how good this whole thing really is.

The song was written by Joey Tempest and Mic Michaeli even though I’ve seen it basically credited to the whole band too. Regardless, the message is something we all need to hear. We get advice from everyone in our life, our mom, our dad, our siblings and even God. The lyric below says it all…

It’s not where we’re coming from
It’s how we turn from here
We know where we want to go
We just need a line, to get us there.

The best advice is simply let the children play and be kids. Maintain that innocence as long as you can. You can only guide them, give them that line to follow. It is up to them to find their own way. They will make bad decisions along the way. It is how they move from that decision that will make them who they are…good or bad.

The song is a rocker, with some gritty riffs, a killer solo and a driving rhythm section with the bass and drum. John Norum’s guitar are definitely a highlight giving us the melodic feel and great guitar sound. Joey Tempest vocals have never sounded better. He gets stronger as he ages. It is such a powerful, catchy chorus that it sucks you right in. The coolest moment is towards the end when the children’s choir comes in with the chorus. It really ties it all together and leaves you wanting more.

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My Sunday Song – “Tall Cool One” by Robert Plant

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For My Sunday Song #474, we are talking Robert Plant’s “Tall Cool One”. The song is from his 1988 album ‘Now And Zen’ and was a change in Robert’s perception of his past…more on that in a minute. The song was released some time in April 1988 and saw Robert get a Top 40 hit as it went to #25 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. What helps makes this song so special is that it brings back Robert’s longtime Led Zeppelin partner, Jimmy Page, on guitar for this song. This might’ve been their fourth collaboration since the band’s breakup. And maybe their most special…up to this point in time.

The song was written by Robert Plant and his keyboardist Phil Johnstone who is in large part key to why this song came about. Robert had been very lackluster about anything to do with his former band Led Zeppelin. He wanted to distance himself from it and be his own person. Phil told him to lighten up about it and embrace that legacy. Maybe working again with Jimmy helped or maybe it was Phil’s encouragement, but Robert did finally lighten up about and as a result we get this really cool rocker “Tall Cool One”. It sounds like he is talking about a woman in the song, but that woman is simply Led Zeppelin. Even the lyrics give a shout out to the past with lines from the songs “When the Levee Breaks” and even “Black Dog”.

If that wasn’t enough, the song is also about Roberts displeasure with sampling at the time. I believe it was The Beastie Boys who sampled a Led Zeppelin song on their album ‘Licensed to Ill”. Robert was none too pleased. At first, Robert thought about sampling some Beastie Boys songs for this one, but instead he sampled his own Led Zeppelin songs such as  “Black Dog”, “Dazed and Confused”, “Whole Lotta Love”,  “The Ocean” and “Custard Pie” which is a much better choice.

The song itself is an upbeat, blast of a rocker. One of the most fun songs he’s ever done as a solo artist, at least to me. There is that classic Plant vocal, that full on 80’s pop/rock sound and all together makes for a blast of a song. I love the spoken word break that adds some more layers to the song and then you get some some Page guitar work, although, he isn’t in the video. There is a tongue in cheek through-out the song which I think takes it to another level and helps make it stick in your brain. At the end he throws all those Led Zeppelin samples and Zeppelin lyrics in to it letting the song go out with a bang!

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My Sunday Song – “Joker & The Thief” by Wolfmother

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For My Sunday Song #473, we are going to discuss the song “Joker & The Thief” by the band Wolfmother. The song is from their debut album, ‘Wolfmother’, which was released on October 31, 2005. The sixth single was “Joker & The Thief” and it was released on October 28, 2006, almost a year after the release of the album and was one of the highest charting singles from the album. The singles was certified Gold in both Australia and the UK selling over 400,000 copies. Not too bad.

The song was written by Wolfmother, but a majority I am sure was by lead singer and guitarist, Andrew Stockdale. He state he was shopping in a store and heard AC/DC’s song “Thunderstruck” and got the idea to do a rock anthem. From there, he has admittedly stole the characters The Joker and The Thief from Bob Dylan’s song “All Along the Watchtower”. The Joker and The Thief are a representation of rebellion as well as duality. The song references the dark & the light, there is good & evil, sweet & sour…always one contradicting the other. The Joker is always looking for the good, the light, searching for life’s desires while the Thief is a sign for corruption and loss of innocence.

There was one article where someone said the that the Joker was a man searching for love while the Thief was the woman that would steal his heart. He was going through life searching for the sweet in all the sour. He wasn’t going to go home with any woman, but the one that had his heart. He would search all day, flying around and sees her in a field of clover. He wonders what would happen if he took her away. You can make any song mean whatever you want it to mean, I liked this interpretation simply because it was sweet in all the sour interpretations I had read.

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My Sunday Song – “Hip To Be Square” by Huey Lewis & The News

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For My Sunday Song #472, we are going to talk the pop culture powerhouse song, “Hip To Be Square”, by the band Huey Lewis & The News. The song is from their 1986 album ‘Fore!’. This was the second single from the album it was released on October 6, 1986 and it went all the way to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs. It also went to #1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart and helped drive the album to multi-platinum status. Huey and the boys were on a roll. Little did they know at the time, that years down the road, it would become a big part of pop culture.

Yes, in the book, ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis, the song is brought up by the main character Patrick Bateman. Patrick goes on in detail discussing the success of Huey Lewis & The News. That whole piece made it into the movie starring Christian Bale. The character in the movie gives a shorter version of that discussion to his co-worker who was played by Jared Leto. Then I think there was a murder. It is a very memorable and quite funny scene. The song was licensed for the movie, but someone forgot to license it for the soundtrack. When the soundtrack was released, the song was on there, but Huey immediately had them pull the album as it should not have been since the licensing wasn’t done. So, if you have a copy with that on their, good for you!!

The song was written by Bill Gibson, Sean Hopper and Huey Lewis. It talks about how the hippies from the 60’s turned into these square individuals who ended up cutting their hair and working for the man. The turned into Yuppies. The term for them was bourgeois bohemians. It became cool to fit in to a little box and be boring and playing things real straight. Huey was poking fun at that whole lifestyle. The lyrics say they started out as “renegade”, now they are “playing it real straight”. They like their bands in “business suits” which I love that line. All the new wave bands of the 80’s wore suits so that fits and even Huey & the News did it too. It is a comical, yet a thoroughly enjoyable pop song.

Musically, it falls in line with their big hit “Power of Love”. It has that same beat and sound. There is a nice groove, or bounce to it that I find myself rocking back and forth to it. Huey’s vocals, as always, are stellar. He his delivery is always spot on. The saxophone adds some great texture to it and who doesn’t love a sax solo, I mean…really…who doesn’t because you are wrong if you don’t. Huey Lewis & The News could do no wrong at this point in their career.

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My Sunday Song – “Who’s The One” by Winger

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For My Sunday Song #471, we are going to discuss “Who’s The One” by Winger from their 1993 album ‘Pull’. An often overlooked album. By 1993, the music landscaped had completely changed for the 80’s glam metal scene. Gone were the bands I’d had grown up loving and replaced by Grunge, but that didn’t stop bands from putting out albums. In fact, for one band, Winger, it might have produced its best album to date. The band was down to three members with Kip Winger, Rob Morgenstein and Reb Beach. Released on May 18, 1993, ‘Pull” showcased a very mature Winger and a band that wasn’t going to be stopped creating and putting out their best material (even though this was their last album for years to follow).

I have a lot of favorites on here and the final track from pull might be #1. This one was written by Kip Winger and Reb Beach. It seems to have some socio-political leanings towards it as well as a crisis of faith. It feels as the song is about a complete lost of faith in religion and the government. There are is an utter darkness to the lyrics with lines like “When all the colors begin to fade” and “What will be your savior now / Dragon or machine”. The Dragon usually means drugs and the machine is quite possibly the government. Both depressing saviors.

There are so many religious lines and so many lines about guns and armies. This is 1993 and the U.S. was involved in Somalia which was a horrific event. This could all stem from his thoughts on that political matter. I don’t really know, but I do know the lyrics carry a lot weight. The video for the song, gives you a good idea of all the crap we were dealing with at the time.

The song is an acoustic ballad that is my all time favorite ballad by the band. Kip’s vocals with the acoustic guitars are a perfectly blend of melodies and harmonies between a voice and an instrument. He also is feeling the song as he sings as he pulls a lot of emotion in to it. It is one of the most beautiful songs the band has ever done. The chorus is a huge payoff as the percussion done by Rob also adds some beautiful flavors to the song. But it is the emotion coming off those acoustic guitars where you feel that weight of the lyrics. If a song can be perfect, this would be as close as you could get. What a way to go out, leave me wanting more.

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My Sunday Song – “Let There Be Shred” by Megadeth

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For My Sunday Song #470, we are tackling the new single “Let There Be Shred” from the brand new and final Megadeth album, ‘Megadeth’. The song was dropped as a single on December 19, 2025, but I didn’t hear it until I bought the new album which was released on January 23, 2026. I have not stopped listening to this album and song ever since. The song helped propel Megadeth to their First #1 Album in their 40 year history. What a way to go out as this is their last album, according to Dave Mustaine. Go out on top…not many bands can do that.

The song was written by Dave Mustaine, Teemu Mäntysaari and Dirk Verbeuren. All members of Megadeth. The only one missing is James LoMenzo. The song is a blistering fun romp down memory lane. It is a nostalgic driven song about their love for Thrash metal. It is about the destruction of playing guitar with a fierce, adrenaline-filled passion that leaves everyone else in your dust. “Clawing at Fretboards”, “Smash my guitar”, “Thunderous command”, “Guitars are all screaming”, “A machine gun on meth”…all ways of describing their playing and it fits it perfectly.

Musically, the song is total fire. This is a guitar showcase song for sure. You get two solos, one from Teemu Mantysaari and one from Dave himself. During the second solo, the whole feel of the song changes and the solo obliterates your ears. The drums, from Dirk, pummel you until you are black and blue. Dave’s gravely, dirty vocals are masterful and reminds you that although he isn’t the best singer out there, he is perfect for this type of music. I can’t imagine anyone else singing this song. But again, the highlight are the frightening brutal riffs, screaming solos and wall-to-wall destruction by the guitar. These guys were definitely born with a guitar in their hand!!

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My Sunday Song – “Afterlife” by Switchfoot

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For My Sunday Song #469, we are talking “Afterlife” by the band Switchfoot. The song is off their 8th studio album ‘Vice Verses’ which came out on September 27, 2011. The song was the third single off the album and came out on February 28, 2012 and though it didn’t chart, it was such a powerful song and set the tone as it kicked off the album. It was written by brothers and band members, Tim and Jon Foreman. The song helped propel the album to #8 on the Billboard 200 album chart, #3 on the Rock & Alternative Charts and #1 on the Christian Charts!!

The song sends a powerful message. It reminds us that we are not here for very long, but if we want to feel like we are living forever, we must live our life to the fullest. How we do that is surrender to Jesus and live a life that serves him and others. Don’t be so focused on the future and what happens after we die. Believing in Christ will get allow you to live forever in the afterlife, but start living that way now to make it feel like you are already really living. We are all broken, so surrender now and experience the Joy and embrace the journey of faith.

The music is as powerful as the lyrics. The song is an anthem that starts off with an extended guitar note, then a distorted guitar riff with Jon Foreman singing that first verse like he is calling us to action. The full band comes in and the song goes to another level with an electrifying intensity. The chorus is bombastic and one big hook. Short and sweet. The guitar riff throughout is intense and the little riffs and notes tossed in throughout give the song a punch. The solo is not as in your face and more fit to the song. I like how near the end, there is a moment where the music softens and Jon belts out another verse before the band comes back in and they carry us home.

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