“Boom” Or “Bust” Songs, Vol. 2

More "Boom" & "Bust" Songs comin' atcha...NOW! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Young MC  ~  “Bust A Move”

2)  Brandon & Leah  ~  “Boom Boom Boom”

3)  Redd Carter  ~  “Bust My Baby Outta Jail”

4)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  “Boom Boom Pow”

5)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Busted”

6)  Miss Li  ~  “My Heart Goes Boom”

7)  Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers  ~  “Bustin’ Loose”

8)  Laleh  ~  “Boom”

9)  Patty Loveless  ~  “Busted”

10)  Shinedown  ~  “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)”

11)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  “Busted Stuff”

12)  Highway 101  ~  “Bing Bang Boom”

13)  Ultramagnetic M.C.’s  ~  “Bust The Facts”

14)  Planetshakers  ~  “Boom”

15)  Vitamin C  ~  “Busted”

16)  Anjulie  ~  “Boom”

17)  The Replacements  ~  “Busted Up”

18)  The Bellamy Brothers  ~  “Kids Of The Baby Boom”

19)  for KING & COUNTRY  ~  “Busted Heart (Hold On To Me)”

20)  Imelda May  ~  “Johnny Got A Boom Boom”

21)  Kevin Simmons Band  ~  “Love Comes Busting In”

22)  Lulu  ~  “Boom Bang-A-Bang”

23)  Foghat  ~  “Bustin’ Up Or Bustin’ Out”

24)  Perry Como  ~  “Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)”

25)  Matthew Price  ~  “Love Or Bust”

“Boom” Or “Bust” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's the first in a two-part series of kinda-sorta "Opposites" posts. Tunes featuring the words "Boom" or "Bust" in their titles. Good luck! And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Charli XCX  ~  “Boom Clap”

2)  Widespread Panic  ~  “Bust It Big”

3)  Pixies  ~  “What Goes Boom”

4)  Jazmine Sullivan  ~  “Bust Your Windows”

5)  Scritti Politti  ~  “Boom! There She Was”

6)  Turbonegro  ~  “Selfdestructo Bust”

7)  Roxette  ~  “Crash! Boom! Bang!”

8)  Mandrill  ~  “Bust Loose”

9)  Simple Plan  ~  “Boom”

10)  Jennifer Paige  ~  “Busted”

11)  John Lee Hooker  ~  “Boom Boom”

12)  AC/DC  ~  “Rock Or Bust”

13)  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince  ~  “Boom! Shake The Room”

14)  Pomplamoose  ~  “Bust Your Knee Caps”

15)  Warren Zevon  ~  “Boom Boom Mancini”

16)  The Black Keys  ~  “Busted”

17)  Beth Hart  ~  “Bang Bang Boom Boom”

18)  Robben Ford and the Blue Line  ~  “Busted Up”

19)  The Moffatts  ~  “Bang Bang Boom”

20)  The Donnas  ~  “Don’t Get Me Busted”

21)  P.O.D.  ~  “Boom”

22)  Crazy Aces  ~  “Busted & Broken”

23)  Anastacia  ~  “Boom”

24)  Carousel Cast  ~  “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over”

25)  The Chords  ~  “Sh-Boom”

Songs About Squirrels

And now for the blog post you've all been waiting for. Well, maybe not ALL of you. But some of you have, you're just too ashamed to admit it. Ladies and gentlemen, a bunch of Songs About Squirrels. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Ray Stevens  ~  “The Mississippi Squirrel Revival”  (This is the quintessential song about squirrels. In case you were wondering.)

2)  Muddy Waters  ~  “Fox Squirrel”

3)  Marcy Playground  ~  “Secret Squirrel”

4)  Metallica  ~  “Black Squirrel”

5)  Chris Thile  ~  “The Squirrel Of Possibility”  (You may not know this guy by name, but he’s a band member of both Nickel Creek and The Punch Brothers. Assuming you’re familiar with either of them, of course.)

6)  Texas Gypsies  ~  “Coco And The Squirrel”

7)  Sesame Street  ~  “The Silly Squirrel Dance”

8)  Dick Dale and His Del-Tones  ~  “The Squirrel”

9)  Rhett & Link  ~  “Squirrel Rights”

10)  Eric Burdon & War  ~  “Bird & The Squirrel”

11)  Idgy Dean  ~  “The Indian Squirrel Dance”

12)  River Raisin Ragtime Revue  ~  “The Squirrel Rag Slow Drag”

13)  Zanilonia  ~  “Squirrel World”  (Well, this was…different. And not at all what I expected after its rather benign beginning.)

14)  Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra  ~  “Pink Squirrel”

15)  Phineas and Ferb  ~  “S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants)”

16)  Cream  ~  “Cat’s Squirrel”

17)  Stackridge  ~  “Red Squirrel”

18)  Jeff Watson  ~  “Squirrels & Kerosene”  (This guy is best-known as the lead guitarist for the hard-rock band, Night Ranger.)

19)  Pink Martini  ~  “The Flying Squirrel”

20)  Charlie Parker & Chet Baker  ~  “The Squirrel”

21)  Outerview  ~  “A Pigeon And A Squirrel”  (Well, that was…also quite unique. Oddly enough, it was exactly what I expected from the title.)

22)  Corn Potato String Band  ~  “Squirrel Heads And Gravy”  (Fear not, squirrel lovers! No actual squirrels were decapitated in the making of this song.)

23)  Ott & The All-Seeing I  ~  “Squirrel And Biscuits”

24)  Billy Corgan  ~  “Squirrels With Tails”  (Avid fans may recognize Corgan as the frontman for The Smashing Pumpkins.)

25)  The Travelin’ McCourys  ~  “The Squirrel Hunters”

Popular Songs Of 1967, Vol. 4

Last but not least, these Popular Songs Of 1967. Hope you've enjoyed this miniseries of posts at least a fraction as much as I have!  ~  JH

1)  The Monkees  ~  “Daydream Believer”

2)  The Turtles  ~  “She’d Rather Be With Me”

3)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “Baby, I Love You”

4)  Herman’s Hermits  ~  “There’s A Kind Of Hush”

5)  The Bar-Kays  ~  “Soul Finger”

6)  The Seekers  ~  “Georgy Girl”

7)  The Beatles  ~  “A Day In The Life”

8)  The Doors  ~  “People Are Strange”

9)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “I Don’t Wanna Play House”

10)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Fugitive”

11)  Bobby Vee & The Strangers  ~  “Come Back When You Grow Up”

12)  Sandy Posey  ~  “I Take It Back”

13)  The Four Tops  ~  “Bernadette”

14)  Cream  ~  “Strange Brew”

15)  The Cowsills  ~  “The Rain, The Park, And Other Things”

16)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon”

17)  The Association  ~  “Never, My Love”

18)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “I Say A Little Prayer”

19)  The Young Rascals  ~  “Groovin’”

20)  Sam & Dave  ~  “Soul Man”

21)  The Buckinghams  ~  “Mercy Mercy Mercy”

22)  Sonny James  ~  “I’ll Never Find Another You”

23)  The Supremes  ~  “Love Is Here And Now You’re Gone”

24)  The Tremeloes  ~  “Here Comes My Baby”

25)  The Grass Roots  ~  “Let’s Live For Today”