Songs About Pleasure

Here's a set of songs that's sure to make you feel good. Why? Because they're Songs About Pleasure – DUH! Hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Toro y Moi  ~  “Ordinary Pleasure”

2)  Feist  ~  “Pleasure”

3)  Spandau Ballet  ~  “Pleasure”

4)  Meredith Brooks  ~  “Pleasure"

5)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “Darts Of Pleasure”

6)  Tom Tom Club  ~  “Pleasure Of Love”

7)  Roxy Music  ~  “For Your Pleasure”

8)  Kate Bush  ~  “Moments Of Pleasure”

9)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Pleasure, Little Treasure”

10)  Janet Jackson  ~  “The Pleasure Principle”

11)  Peace  ~  “World Pleasure”

12)  Björk  ~  “Pleasure Is All Mine”

13)  Molly Hatchet  ~  “One Man’s Pleasure”

14)  Ane Brun  ~  “Linger With Pleasure”

15)  Billy Preston  ~  “It’s My Pleasure”

16)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  “Rest In Pleasure"

17)  Jarlath Henderson  ~  “Courting Is A Pleasure”

18)  MS MR  ~  “No Guilt In Pleasure”

19)  Kasabian  ~  “Man Of Simple Pleasures”

20)  Mack  ~  “Underprivileged Pleasure”

21)  Jason Mraz  ~  “Common Pleasure”

22)  Ruby Rose & Gary Go  ~  “Guilty Pleasure”

23)  T. Thomason  ~  “Pleasure”

24)  Melanie C  ~  “Take Your Pleasure”

25)  Tim McGraw  ~  “It’s A Business Doing Pleasure With You”

“Graveyard” Music

Is it strange for me to say that these Songs About Graveyards are among the most beautiful I’ve heard in quite some time? OK, but that doesn’t make it any less true. There’s some really lovely, surprisingly-not-that-disturbing stuff here. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lucy Schwartz  ~  “Graveyard”

2)  Nothing But Thieves  ~  “Graveyard Whistling”

3)  Delta Rae  ~  “Dance In The Graveyards”

4)  M83  ~  “Graveyard Girl”

5)  Feist  ~  “Graveyard”

6)  Tarrus Riley  ~  “Graveyard”

7)  Veronica Falls  ~  “Found Love In A Graveyard”

8)  Del McCoury  ~  “Over Yonder In The Graveyard”

9)  Gold Frankincense & Myrrh  ~  “Graveyard Of Identities”

10)  Vince Guaraldi  ~  “Graveyard Theme”

11)  The Darts  ~  “My Heart Is A Graveyard”

12)  The Airborne Toxic Event  ~  “The Graveyard Near The House”

13)  Tori Amos  ~  “Graveyard”

14)  Ghostriders  ~  “Rockin’ In The Graveyard”

15)  Amber Rubarth  ~  “Wildflowers In The Graveyard”

16)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Graveyard”

17)  RaeLynn  ~  “Graveyard”

18)  The Cliks  ~  “Walking In A Graveyard”

19)  Sharone And The Wind  ~  “Graveyard”

20)  Bella’s Bartok  ~  “Graveyard Funk No. 2”

21)  Anna & Elizabeth  ~  “Mother In The Graveyard”

22)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  “In A Graveyard”

23)  Billie Joan  ~  “Graveyard Dad”

24)  The Growlers  ~  “The Graveyard’s Full”

25)  Kelsea Ballerini  ~  “Graveyard”

Songs About Hugging

Everybody needs a hug now and then. Even if they claim not to particularly desire one. (NOTE: Always obtain permission first, lest you later be accused of impropriety.) For times like those, there are these Songs About Hugging. I hope you will truly "embrace" them. Yeah, I know...  ~  JH

1)  Jannike  ~  “Hug Me”

2)  Stanek  ~  “Give Me A Hug”

3)  Amy Letitia  ~  “Big Bear Hug”

4)  Stevie Ray Vaughan  ~  “Hug You, Squeeze You”

5)  Saint Etienne  ~  “Hug My Soul”

6)  George Jones  ~  “If You Loved A Liar (You’d Hug My Neck)”

7)  Kanika Kapoor & Raqhav Sachar  ~  “Hug Me”

8)  Daveede  ~  “Hug The World”

9)  Broken Social Scene ft. Feist  ~  “Hug Of Thunder”

10)  Ra Ra Riot  ~  “Every Time I’m Ready To Hug”

11)  Irene & The Disappointments  ~  “Hugs”

12)  Dead Vibrations  ~  “Chemical Hug”

13)  Dodie  ~  “A Permanent Hug From You”

14)  Big Black Delta  ~  “Huggin’ & Kissin’”

15)  Even Numbers  ~  “Hugs”

16)  Tom Rosenthal  ~  “Hugging You”

17)  Ó  ~  “A Hug Too Long”

18)  Booker T & The MG’s  ~  “Hip-Hug Her”

19)  Tabar  ~  “Hugs”

20)  Riverland  ~  “Hugs”

“Melody” Songs, Vol. 2

Here's a second and final set of songs with the word "Melody" in the titles. But we're not done yet. Next up, "Harmony Songs," of course! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kenny Rogers  ~  “The World Needs A Melody”

2)  Chaka Khan  ~  “And The Melody Still Lingers On (A Night In Tunisia)”

3)  Dave Days ft. Jake Broido  ~  “Your Melody”

4)  Donna Summer  ~  “Winter Melody”

5)  The Black Angels  ~  “Melanie’s Melody”

6)  Lena Meyer-Landrut  ~  “Beat To My Melody”

7)  Leeland  ~  “Sound Of Melodies”

8)  Cadmium ft. Jon Becker  ~  “Two-Tone Melody”

9)  Squeeze  ~  “Melody Motel”

10)  Mavis Staples  ~  “Melody Cool”

11)  Liberace  ~  “A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody”

12)  Clark Owen ft. Lena Katina  ~  “Melody”

13)  Talking Heads  ~  “Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place)”

14)  Feist  ~  “Bittersweet Melodies”

15)  Bing Crosby & Harry Crosby  ~  “Play A Simple Melody / Gone Fishin’”

16)  Kirk Franklin  ~  “Melodies From Heaven”

17)  Iris DeMent  ~  “Sweet Is The Melody”

18)  Gossip  ~  “Melody Emergency”

19)  Nico & Vinz  ~  “My Melody”

20)  Bleached  ~  “Wednesday Night Melody”

"Down" & "Out" Songs, Vol. 1

When I decided to do a set of "Down" & "Out" Songs, I had no idea there'd be a googolplex of songs to choose from. So I limited the scope to only songs whose titles end in either the word "Down" or "Out." Which brought the number of songs to choose from down to merely a centillion. Many of which were solid choices. So this will be a four-parter. But don't worry. One now, one tomorrow, skip a day or two, and then the rest. I don't want to bring you "Down" or wear you "Out" with these. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Chainsmokers ft. Daya  ~  “Don’t Let Me Down”

2)  Eve 6  ~  “Inside Out”

3)  Halsey  ~  “Hold Me Down”

4)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Tenth Avenue Freeze Out”

5)  Sam Smith  ~  “Lay Me Down”

6)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Stressed Out”

7)  Sanctus Real  ~  “Lay It Down”

8)  Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force  ~  “All Cried Out”

9)  David Bowie  ~  “Never Let Me Down”

10)  LL Cool J  ~  “Mama Said Knock You Out”

11)  OneRepublic  ~  “All Fall Down”

12)  Pixie Lott  ~  “Cry Me Out”

13)  Pillar  ~  “Bring Me Down”

14)  The Riptide Movement  ~  “All Works Out”

15)  The Band  ~  “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”

16)  Feist  ~  “Inside And Out”

17)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “Anything But Down”

18)  REO Speedwagon  ~  “Ridin’ The Storm Out”

19)  Echo and the Bunnymen  ~  “Don’t Let It Get You Down”

20)  The Beatles  ~  “We Can Work It Out”

21)  Sophie B. Hawkins  ~  “As I Lay Me Down”

22)  The Police  ~  “Fall Out”

23)  The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus  ~  “Face Down”

24)  Flyleaf  ~  “Call You Out”

25)  Bob Dylan  ~  “When The Deal Goes Down”