Friday, July 29, 2016

“Catch” & “Throw” Songs, Vol. 2

Last but not least in the songs-with-baseball-related-titles series, some more "Catch" & "Throw" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Dave Clark Five  ~  “Catch Us If You Can”




2)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Throw Away Your Television”




3)  Demi Lovato  ~  “Catch Me / Don’t Forget”




4)  U2  ~  “Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World”




5)  P!nk  ~  “Catch Me While I’m Sleeping”  (Ignore the poor video quality and simply enjoy the song. Really, it’s not that difficult.)




6)  Genesis  ~  “Throwing It All Away”




7)  Billy Idol  ~  “Catch My Fall”




8)  Neil Young  ~  “Throw Your Hatred Down”




9)  Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds  ~  “Catch Me If You Can”




10)  Wild Belle  ~  “Throw Down Your Guns”




11)  Ben Lee  ~  “Catch My Disease”




12)  Brandi Carlile  ~  “Throw It All Away”




13)  Donovan  ~  “Catch The Wind”




14)  Delta Goodrem  ~  “Throw It Away”




15)  Motörhead  ~  “The Chase Is Better Than The Catch”




16)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Throw Your Arms Around Me”




17)  Meschiya Lake and the Little Big Horns  ~  “Catch ‘Em Young”




18)  Baskery  ~  “Throw A Bone”




19)  Lita Ford  ~  “Can’t Catch Me”




20)  Sinéad O'Connor ft. Sly and Robbie  ~  “Throw Down Your Arms”


Thursday, July 28, 2016

“Catch” & “Throw” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's part 3 of 4 in my baseball-related songs series. These are "Catch" and "Throw" Songs. Next up, more of the same. Get your glove ready...and enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Passenger  ~  “Catch In The Dark”  (This dude's voice just takes me to another place. I'm not sure where it is, but it's a happy place. In other words, I'm jealous.)




2)  Bee Gees  ~  “Don’t Throw It All Away”




3)  Avicii ft. Matisyahu & Wyclef Jean  ~  “Can’t Catch Me”




4)  Hall & Oates  ~  “Throw The Roses Away”




5)  The Cure  ~  “Catch”




6)  Manafest  ~  “Throw It Away”




7)  Art Department  ~  “Catch You By Surprise”




8)  Patty Griffin  ~  “Love Throw A Line”




9)  Matt Simons  ~  “Catch & Release”




10)  The Magic Numbers  ~  “Throwing My Heart Away”




11)  Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five  ~  “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Cryin’”




12)  Candlebox  ~  “A Stone’s Throw Away”




13)  John Anderson  ~  “Would You Catch A Falling Star”




14)  The Proclaimers  ~  “Throw The ‘R’ Away”  (I don't believe I've ever heard a song entirely about someone's difficult-to-understand accent. Until now.)




15)  Nellie McKay  ~  “Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying”  (Not the same song as the Louis Jordan one above.)




16)  Kina Grannis  ~  “Throw It Away”




17)  Silversun Pickups  ~  “Catch And Release”




18)  Default  ~  “Throw It All Away”




19)  Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar  ~  “Never Catch Me”




20)  Robert Earl Keen  ~  “Love’s A Word I Never Throw Around”


Wednesday, July 27, 2016

“Hit” & “Run” Songs, Vol. 2

Here's part 2 of 4 in my series of songs with baseball-related words in their titles. This time, more "Hit" & "Run" Songs. Next up, "Catch" & "Throw" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “One Hit (To The Body)”




2)  Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner  ~  “Run That By Me One More Time”




3)  Jane Monheit  ~  “Hit The Road To Dreamland”




4)  James Bay  ~  “Running”




5)  Huey Lewis And The News  ~  “It Hit Me Like A Hammer”




6)  The Grateful Dead  ~  “We Can Run”




7)  Leeland  ~  “Chains Hit The Ground”




8)  LIGHTS  ~  “Running With The Boys”




9)  Hinder  ~  “Hit The Ground”




10)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “I Run For Life”




11)  Jonny Lang  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”




12)  Neil Young  ~  “Long May You Run”




13)  Peter Murphy  ~  “Hit Song”




14)  Kate Bush  ~  “Running Up That Hill”




15)  Diana Krall ft. Russell Malone & Paul Keller  ~  “Hit That Jive, Jack”




16)  Tokio Hotel  ~  “Run, Run, Run”




17)  Third Day  ~  “Hit Me Like A Bomb”




18)  Amy MacDonald  ~  “Run”




19)  Keith Urban  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”




20)  Rend Collective  ~  “You Will Never Run”


Tuesday, July 26, 2016

“Hit” & “Run” Songs, Vol. 1

As some of you may already know, I love baseball. Love watching it on TV, and  enjoy catching a couple of games or so live each year. In light of that fact, here begins a four-part series (groan!) featuring songs with baseball-related words in their titles. First up, two posts of "Hit" & "Run" Songs. After that, two "Catch" & "Throw" Songs posts. Batter up...and enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Ray Charles  ~  “Hit The Road, Jack”




2)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Before They Make Me Run”




3)  Hole  ~  “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)”




4)  Sheryl Crow ft. Eric Clapton  ~  “Run, Baby, Run”




5)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Takin’ The Hit”




6)  Hoobastank  ~  “Running Away”




7)  Marmozets  ~  “Hit The Wave”




8)  Carly Simon  ~  “Let The River Run”




9)  George Strait  ~  “Her Goodbye Hit Me In The Heart”




10)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Take The Money And Run / Rock’n Me”




11)  Scorpions  ~  “Hit Between The Eyes”




12)  for KING & COUNTRY ft. Andy Mineo  ~  “Run Wild”




13)  Haley Reinhart  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”




14)  The Allman Brothers Band  ~  “No One To Run With”




15)  Scott Stapp  ~  “Hit Me More”




16)  Epica  ~  “Run For A Fall”




17)  Def Leppard  ~  “Hit And Run”




18)  Bee Gees  ~  “Run To Me”




19)  The Sounds  ~  “Hit Me”




20)  Collective Soul  ~  “Run”


Monday, July 25, 2016

Songs About Robots

My son is way into robots at the moment – in particular, the Transformers Rescue Bots show. So here's a bunch of Songs About Robots that he would surely appreciate if he were to actually look at my blog. Which he doesn't.  But you do. So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Daft Punk  ~  “Robot Rock”




2)  The Flaming Lips  ~  “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1”




3)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “Robot”




4)  Trip Lee  ~  “Robot”




5)  Styx  ~  “Mr. Roboto”




6)  Röyksopp ft. Robyn  ~  “The Girl And The Robot”




7)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “Robot Parade”




8)  MC Lars ft. MC Bat Commander & Suburban Legends  ~  “This Gigantic Robot Kills”




9)  Marina And The Diamonds  ~  “I Am Not A Robot”




10)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Gold Star For Robot Boy”




11)  Kraftwerk  ~  “The Robots”




12)  Blaze Bayley  ~  “Robot”




13)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Not A Robot, But A Ghost”




14)  Novah  ~  “Robot”




15)  Cage The Elephant  ~  “Tiny Little Robots”




16)  Patrick Watson  ~  “Love Songs For Robots”




17)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Go Robot”




18)  Rick Wakeman  ~  “Robot Man”




19)  Linkin Park  ~  “Robot Boy”




20)  Norma Jean  ~  “Robots 3, Humans 0”




21)  Joe Satriani  ~  “One Robot’s Dream”




22)  Damon Albarn  ~  “Everyday Robots”




23)  The Alan Parsons Project  ~  “I Robot”




24)  Matthew Ebel  ~  “Everybody Needs A Robot”




25)  Umphrey’s McGee  ~  “Robot World”