Friday, February 27, 2015

Songs About Dresses


While you're obsessing over whether #thedress is white and gold or blue and black, here's a small collection of Songs About Dresses you can play in the background. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky! But now that your interest is piqued, you're probably going to go and Google it anyway, so...I'm sorry? Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Sylvan Esso  ~  "Dress"




2)  Fleet Foxes  ~  "Bedouin Dress"




3)  Hole  ~  "Best Sunday Dress"




4)  Parachute  ~  "White Dress"




5)  PJ Harvey  ~  "Dress"




6)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  "The Dress Looks Nice On You"




7)  Rosie Thomas  ~  "Pretty Dress"




8)  The Hollies  ~  "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"




9)  Katie Armiger  ~  "Better In A Black Dress"




10)  The Maccabees  ~  "About Your Dress"




11)  Blonde Redhead  ~  "The Dress"




12)  The Dukes Of Stratosphear (aka XTC)  ~  "Your Gold Dress"




13)  Loretta Lynn  ~  "Bargain Basement Dress"


It's About Time! Vol. 5: Weeks

Here's the next installment in this ongoing series of time-related songs. This time, a collection of songs with "Week" or "Weeks" in their titles. Next up, "Months." Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  James Morrison  ~  "6 Weeks"




2)  Matt Nathanson  ~  "Bulletproof Weeks"




3)  Of Monsters And Men  ~  "Six Weeks"




4)  All That Remains  ~  "Two Weeks"




5)  Grizzly Bear  ~  "Two Weeks"




6)  Gentle Giant  ~  "Two Weeks In Spain"




7)  Hozier ft. Alana Henderson  ~  "In A Week"




8)  FKA twigs  ~  "Two Weeks"




9)  Mandy Moore  ~  "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week"




10)  They Might Be Giants  ~  "Seven Days Of The Week"




11)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  "One Week"




12)  Frank Sinatra  ~  "Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week"




13)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  "Days Of The Week"




14)  The Beatles  ~  "Eight Days A Week"




15)  Vanessa Carlton  ~  "Half A Week Before Winter"  (What the world needs now is more songs about vampires and unicorns...)



16)  Left Alone  ~  "4 Weeks"




17)  Lorie  ~  "Week-End"  (I don't speak French, but this song has a nice beat and you can dance to it...so there ya go!)




18)  Isabelle De Leon  ~  "1 Week To Move On"  (I also do not speak Filipino, but at least this song is half in English so I understand most of it.)




19)  Jessica Frech  ~  "No More Shark Week"




20)  Ephemerals  ~  "Six Days A Week"



Thursday, February 26, 2015

"36" Songs

Today, my wife is 36 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's a collection of songs (only 20 this time) with the number "36" (or "Thirty-Six") in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "#36"




2)  Placebo  ~  "36 Degrees"




3)  Mustasch  ~  "6:36"




4)  Third Day  ~  "Your Love, Oh Lord (Psalm 36)"




5)  Eric Church  ~  "A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young"




6)  John Grant  ~  "Pale Green Ghosts"




7)  Carrie Underwood  ~  "Change"




8)  M.I.A.  ~  "Attention"




9)  The Darkness  ~  "The Best Of Me"



10)  Barbra Streisand  ~  "I'm The Greatest Star"




11)  Trace Adkins  ~  "You're Gonna Miss This"




12)  David Gray  ~  "Knowhere"



13)  The Charlie Daniels Band  ~  "Jitterbug"




14)  Jamiroquai  ~  "Rock Dust Light Star"




15)  You, Me, And Everyone We Know  ~  "A Little Bit More"




16)  John Lennon  ~  "Cold Turkey"




17)  Van Morrison  ~  "Cleaning Windows"




18)  Kid Rock  ~  "Roll On"




19)  2raumwohnung  ~  "36 Grad"




20)  10cc  ~  "Good Morning, Judge"


Songs About Unicorns

To all the unicorn lovers in the audience, this one's for you! Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Unicorns  ~  "I Was Born (A Unicorn)"




2)  Passenger  ~  "The Last Unicorn"




3)  Lady Gaga  ~  "Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)"




4)  Rhett & Link  ~  "Unicorn Rap"




5)  Stuck Lucky  ~  "Unicorn Family Picnic"




6)  Imagination Movers  ~  "I've Never Seen A Unicorn"




7)  The Irish Rovers  ~  "The Unicorn"




8)  America  ~  "The Last Unicorn"




9)  Gamma Ray  ~  "Heart Of The Unicorn"




10)  Andrew Huang  ~  "Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows"  (This guy is creepy!)




11)  Parry Gripp  ~  "Space Unicorn"




12)  Wolfmother  ~  "White Unicorn"




13)  Egg Brain  ~  "Dead Unicorn"




14)  Dizzi  ~  "Dance Of The Unicorn"




15)  Basement Jaxx  ~  "Unicorn"




16)  Five Iron Frenzy  ~  "Battle Dancing Unicorns With Glitter"




17)  Apoptygma Berzerk  ~  "Unicorn"




18)  Gloryhammer  ~  "The Land Of Unicorns"




19)  Rocketships  ~  "Unicorn"




20)  Athens Reich & Isis  ~  "Noah's Unicorn"


Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Songs About Ketchup And Mustard…And One About Mayonnaise

I hope you enjoy this brief collection of songs about your favorite condiments every bit as much as I enjoyed compiling it. Which is to say, at least a little bit.  ~  JH



1)  Las Ketchup  ~  "The Ketchup Song (Asereje)"




2)  Damion Suomi  ~  "Mustard Seed"




3)  Tomatow Sue and the Posse  ~  "Ketchup On Everything"




4)  Cheap Yellow Mustard  ~  "Cheap Yellow Mustard"  (Yes, you read that correctly. The band name and song title are the same.)




5)  Stompin' Joe Connors  ~  "The Ketchup Song"




6)  The Beatles  ~  "Mean Mr. Mustard"




7)  Jenni Rivera  ~  "La Papa Sin Catsup"  (Catsup, ketchup, what's the difference, really?)




8)  Latin Playboys  ~  "Mustard"




9)  Catey Shaw  ~  "Ketchup"




10)  Bill Carlisle  ~  "Too Old To Cut The Mustard"




11)  Silage  ~  "Ketchup Is Mustard"




12)  10cc  ~  "Margo Wants The Mustard"




13)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Mayonaise"  (their deliberate misspelling, not mine)


Tuesday, February 24, 2015

It's About Time! Vol. 4: Days


And we're back to the time-related posts again. This time, songs with the word "Days" in their titles. What else can I say? Enjoy 'em!  ~  JH



1)  Jamiroquai  ~  "Seven Days In Sunny June"




2)  Florence + The Machine  ~  "Dog Days Are Over"




3)  The Drums  ~  "Days"




4)  The Offspring  ~  "Days Go By"




5)  The Maine  ~  "Some Days"




6)  Avicii ft. Robbie Williams  ~  "The Days"




7)  Sugarland  ~  "These Are The Days"




8)  Phantogram  ~  "Black Out Days"




9)  MGMT  ~  "Alien Days"




10)  Sting  ~  "Seven Days"




11)  Taylor Henderson  ~  "Brighter Days"




12)  Queen  ~  "These Are The Days Of Our Lives"




13)  Outlandish  ~  "Better Days"




14)  John Mayer  ~  "Shadow Days"




15)  David Bowie  ~  "Days"




16)  Amos Lee  ~  "Better Days"




17)  Ray LaMontagne  ~  "Three More Days"




18)  Natalie Imbruglia  ~  "Counting Down The Days"




19)  Jackson Browne  ~  "These Days"




20)  A Fine Frenzy  ~   "Last Of Days"