"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.)

Songs About Coffee

Start your day off with the beverage of choice for countless sleepyheads and non-morning-people. And while you're sipping away, enjoy this collection of Songs About Coffee.  ~  JH

1)  Blur  ~  “Coffee And TV”

2)  Sylvan Esso  ~  “Coffee”

3)  Landon Pigg  ~  “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop”

4)  Yuna  ~  “Coffee”

5)  All Saints  ~  “Black Coffee”

6)  Squeeze  ~  “Black Coffee In Bed”

7)  Copeland  ~  “Coffee”

8)  Mike & The Mechanics  ~  “Another Cup Of Coffee”

9)  Garbage  ~  “Cup Of Coffee”

10)  All Time Low  ~  “Coffee Shop Soundtrack”

11)  Ryan Calhoun  ~  “Coffee”

12)  Humble Pie  ~  “Black Coffee”

13)  The Cranberries  ~  “Wake Up And Smell The Coffee”

14)  Kim Hoorweg  ~  “Black Coffee”

15)  Eric Burdon  ~  “One More Cup Of Coffee”

16)  Caught A Ghost  ~  “No Sugar in My Coffee” 

17)  Kate Bush  ~  “Coffee Homeground”

18)  Jesper Munk  ~  “Morning Coffee”

19)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Cold Coffee”

20)  Ailbhe Reddy  ~  “Coffee”

21)  Prince  ~  “Starfish & Coffee”  (BLOGGER'S NOTE: All the songs in this post, including this one, were selected prior to Prince's death a few days ago. Its inclusion herein is merely fortuitous. While the entire video is fun to see and hear, the actual song starts in earnest around the 4:50 mark.)

22)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “(Coffee’s For Closers)”

23)   Osibisa  ~  “The Coffee Song”

24)  Marlene Dietrich  ~  “You’re The Cream In My Coffee”

25)  Lacy J. Dalton  ~  “Black Coffee”

Songs About Chicks & Dudes

This is a one-off post – a marginally clever idea I had and decided to pursue. Songs with the words "Chicks" (or "Chick") and "Dudes" (or "Dude") in their titles. Because, really...why not? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  David Guetta ft. Rihanna  ~  "Who's That Chick?"

2)  Aerosmith  ~  "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"

3)  We Are Scientists  ~  "Chick Lit"

4)  Kat Dahlia  ~  "Just Another Dude"

5)  Sammy Kaye  ~  "Chickery Chick"

6)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Dude Ranch Nurse"

7)  MxPx  ~  "Chick Magnet"

8)  Quincy Jones  ~  "The Dude"

9)  All Saints  ~  "Chick Fit"

10)  Mott The Hoople  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

11)  The Pointer Sisters  ~  "How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On The Side)"  (Skip to 3:24 for the song, if you don't want to hear all the pre-banter.)

12)  Mary's Danish  ~  "Can I Have A Smoke, Dude?"

13)  Lovey James  ~  "Don't Be Such A Chick"

14)  Spoon  ~  "I Could See The Dude"

15)  Charlotte Church  ~  "Crazy Chick"

16)  Chords  ~  "The Dude"

17)  Daddy Dewdrop  ~  "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)"

18)  Jessica Pratt  ~  "Moon Dude"

19)  Mariah Carey  ~  "I'm That Chick"

20)  Less Than Jake ft. Kel Mitchell  ~  "We're All Dudes"

21)  Cro  ~  "Bad Chick"

22)  Kula Shaker  ~  "Hey Dude"

23)  Chris Cagle  ~  "Chicks Dig It"

24)  LOTEK  ~  "Rudest Dude"

25)  Rollin Wang  ~  "Chick Chick"  (This is truly one of the weirdest music videos I've ever watched…and I've watched a lot of 'em!)