Friday, September 29, 2017

"Naive" Songs

This one goes out to the "Naive" among us, of which I am one in many ways about many things. If you can relate, take a listen. (Even if you can't relate, still listen, you can sympathize.) Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Grace Wood  ~  “Young Naive & Reckless”




2)  The Kooks  ~  “Naive”




3)  Vonda Shepard  ~  “Naiveté”




4)  Jónsi  ~  “Saint Naive”




5)  Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox ft. Sara Niemietz  ~  “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”




6) Anberlin  ~  “Naive Orleans”




7)  Mutya Buena  ~  “Naive”




8)  Villagers  ~  “So Naive”




9)  Sequin  ~  “Naive”




10)  Sleeping At Last  ~  “Naive”




11)  Axelle Red  ~  “Naive”




12)  Chris Rice  ~  “Naive”




13)  Izzy Bizu  ~  “Naive Soul”




14)  Micky & The Motorcars  ~  “Naive”




15)  Jamie O’Neal  ~  “Naive”




16)  BYRØN  ~  “So Naive”




17)  Plumb  ~  “Nice, Naive, And Beautiful”




18)  The Mary Onettes  ~  “Naive Dream”




19)  Iman  ~  “Naive”




20)  A Day To Remember  ~  “Naivety”




21)  The xx  ~  “Naive”




22)  Speak Low If You Speak Love  ~  “Naive”




23)  Laura Welsh  ~  “Naive”




24)  Cinemon  ~  “So Naive”




25)  Des’ree  ~  “Innocent & Naive”


Thursday, September 28, 2017

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"




2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”




3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”




4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”




5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”




6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”




7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”




8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”




9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”




10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”




11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”




12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”




13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”




14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”




15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”




16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”




17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”




18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”




19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”




20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”




21)  October  ~  “Pure”




22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”




23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”




24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”




25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”





BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)


Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Songs About "You Know What"

Here we have an eclectic collection of songs about "You Know What." What exactly are we talking about? A variety of things, actually. You'll have to listen to find out. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Robyn  ~  “Do You Know (What It Takes)”




2)  Oasis  ~  “D’You Know What I Mean?”




3)  The Weeklings  ~  “You Know What To Do”




4)  Cults  ~  “You Know What I Mean”




5)  Grandmaster Flash  ~  “U Know What Time It Is”




6)  The Turtles  ~  “You Know What I Mean”




7)  Roberta Flack  ~  “You Know What It’s Like”




8)  Cracker  ~  “Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is)”




9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “You Know What I Mean”




10)  Billie Holiday  ~  “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?”




11)  Neil Diamond  ~  “If You Know What I Mean”




12)  Incredible String Band  ~  “You Know What You Could Be”




13)  Liza  ~  “Let You Know What”




14)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do?”




15)  Lee Michaels  ~  “Do You Know What I Mean?”




16)  Madeline Juno  ~  “You Know What?”




17)  Darryl Worley  ~  “Do You Know What That Is?”




18)  Stryper  ~  “You Know What To Do”




19)  Carly Simon  ~  “You Know What To Do”




20)  Rick Nelson  ~  “You Know What I Mean”




21)  David Kitt  ~  “You Know What I Want To Know”




22)  Tina Turner  ~  “You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What)”




23)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “I Think You Know What I Mean / When The Levee Breaks”




24)  Atmosphere  ~  “Let Me Know That You Know What You Want Now”  (That's a tongue-twister!)




25)  Phil Collins ft. Nicholas Collins  ~  “You Know What I Mean”


Monday, September 25, 2017

Songs About Lobsters & Comic Books

Today is, apparently, National Lobster Day. It's also, apparently also, National Comic Book Day. Since I seriously doubted that there were enough good songs about either of these things to post them individually, I decided to "lump" the two together into one "edition" for your listening enjoyment. Umm...you're welcome?  ~  JH



1)  The B-52’s  ~  “Rock Lobster”




2)  Debbie Harry  ~  “Comic Books”




3)  The Aquabats!  ~  “Lobster Bucket”




4)  Consequence  ~  “Comic Book Flow”




5)  MomusMcClymont  ~  “Charles The Lobster Man”




6)  Overtone  ~  “Comic Book Hero”




7)  Ruby Cube  ~  “Lobsters & Cherries”




8)  Caravan Palace  ~  “Comics”




9)  Pinkard & Bowden  ~  “I Lobster But Never Flounder”




10)  Amy Dallen ft. Jason Charles Miller  ~  “Comic Book Store”




11)  Fairport Convention  ~  “The Lobster”




12)  Rio Grande  ~  “Comic Book Hero”




13)  Amoy Fanray  ~  “Lobster”




14)  Extreme  ~  “Tragic Comic”  (OK, so this one's not technically about comic books or comics. But it’s a good song, and maybe that’s enough.)




15)  Bertram Wooster  ~  “The Lobster”




16)  Nustalja  ~  “A Comic Book”




17)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “The Lobster Quadrille”




18)  Tripod  ~  “Hot Girl In The Comic Shop”




19)  Reggie and the Full Effect  ~  “Image Is Nothing, Lobsters Are Everything”




20)  Antonio Buell  ~  “Comic Book Hero”




21)  Snowblind Traveler  ~  “Lobster”




22)  Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot  ~  “Comic Strip”




23)  Jonathan Coulton  ~  “Furry Old Lobster”




24)  Ariel, Zoey, & Eli  ~  “Take Me To Comic Con”