Welcome to my new blog. Join me on a journey through the greatest of centuries (the 20th), as we look back on the music that shaped and molded our millennium in utero.

What are the rules? It's simple: One song per artist. Apart from that, anything goes.

Every day, I post one song from the 20th century, working my way up year by year until we conclude in 1999. Along the way, we will see musical styles change drastically with the years. We will see entire genres and disciplines rise and fall. An entire century will pass before our ears.

Today, we begin our voyage through time in the year 1900. The late Victorian era, just after the end of the Gay Nineties. Today's recording is Bird in a Gilded Cage by Steve Porter.