Things These Artists Want You To Be, Vol. 4

This is the last set of Songs About Things These Artists Want You To Be. I hope you've enjoyed this miniseries of posts!  ~  JH



1)  Mary J. Blige  ~  "Be Without You"

2)  Old Dominion  ~  "Be With Me"

3)  The Wombats  ~  "Be Your Shadow"

4)  Audioslave  ~  "Be Yourself"

5)  Gene Vincent  ~  "Be-Bop-A-Lula"

6)  Krewella  ~  "Be There"

7)  Jenna Raine  ~  "Be Like You"

8)  Matthew Mole  ~  "Be Gone"

9)  Clara Benin  ~  "Be My Thrill"

10)  What So Not ft. Daniel Johns  ~  "Be OK Again"

11)  Yolanda Adams  ~  "Be Blessed"

12)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "Be Ever Wodnerful"

13)  J. Cole  ~  "Be Free"

14)  The Hawkins Family  ~  "Be Grateful"

15)  Fergie  ~  "Be Italian"

16)  Jessica Simpson  ~  "Be"

17)  Andrew Peterson  ~  "Be Kind To Yourself"

18)  The Dramatics  ~  "Be My Girl"

19)  John Michael Montgomery  ~  "Be My Baby Tonight"

20)  Red Velvet  ~  "Be Natural"

21)  The Front Bottoms  ~  "Be Nice To Me"

22)  Chris Tomlin ft. Brett Young & Cassadee Pope  ~  "Be The Moon"

23)  The Ting Tings  ~  "Be The One"

24)  Mira, Royal Detective Cast  ~  "Be The Music"

25)  Martina McBride  ~  "Be That Way"

Songs About Pain

Because life is a balance of good and bad stuff, here's a follow-up to yesterday's "Pleasure" Songs, a rather spectacular collection of Songs About Pain. Trust me, they're really good. And not too depressing! So...enjoy! ~ JH

1)  Live  ~  “Pain Lies On The Riverside”

2)  Alessia Cara  ~  “Growing Pains”

3)  Three Days Grace  ~  “Pain”

4)  Carly Simon  ~  “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain”

5)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Taste The Pain”

6)  Björk  ~  “Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right)”

7)  Dinosaur Jr.  ~  “Feel The Pain”

8)  Charli XCX  ~  “Set Me Free (Feel My Pain)"

9)  Andy Grammer  ~  “Wish You Pain”

10)  Fergie  ~  “Love Is Pain”

11)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “King Of Pain”

12)  Jimmy Eat World  ~  “Pain”

13)  Patti LaBelle  ~  “Kiss Away The Pain"

14)  Chevelle  ~  “Send The Pain Below”

15)  Birdy  ~  “Growing Pains”

16)  Good Charlotte  ~  “Actual Pain”

17)  Eurythmics  ~  “No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts)”

18)  Method Man  ~  “Bring The Pain”

19)  Lisa Fischer  ~  “How Can I Ease The Pain?”

20)  Bon Jovi  ~  “Something For The Pain”

21)  Sade  ~  “Feel No Pain”

22)  Dio  ~  “Pain”

23)  Lindsay Dunn  ~  “Pain”

24)  1K Phew  ~  “Pain”

25)  Joan Armatrading  ~  “No More Pain”

26)  The Letter Black  ~  “Pain Killer”

27)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “Maintain The Pain”

28)  Van Halen  ~  “House Of Pain”

29)  Lykke Li  ~  “Youth Knows No Pain”

30)  Liza Minnelli  ~  “Love Pains”

31)  Little Big Town  ~  “Pain Killer”

Songs About Going For It

Here's a bunch of Songs About Going For It. Because you can do it, if you only try!!! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Hot Sundae  ~  “Go For It”  (Yep, this IS a Saved By The Bell music video. I’m sure you’re “so excited” to see and hear this one again – or maybe even for the first time.)

2)  Wham!  ~  “Young Guns (Go For It!)”

3)  Kim Wilde  ~  “Go For It (The Second Time)”

4)  Peabo Bryson  ~  “Go For It”

5)  Sidewalk Prophets  ~  “Go For It”

6)  Grandaddy  ~  “The Go In The Go-For-It”

7)  Stacy Ferguson  ~  “Go For It”  (You may not recognize her by that name or that cherubic face, but this young singer would grow up to become Fergie, the lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas. How she had so much confidence and stage presence at such a young age is beyond me!)

8)  The Runaways  ~  “Johnny Guitar”

9)  Lazy Town Cast ft. Julianna Rose Mauriello  ~  “Go For It”

10)  Chicago  ~  “Take A Chance”

11)  Stiff Little Fingers  ~  “Go For It” / “Roots, Radicals, Rockers, And Reggae”  (I couldn’t find a separate version of this song; they seem to come as a package deal in all live and studio performances.)

12)  Die Happy  ~  “Go For It”

13)  Laundry Day  ~  “Go For It, Bud”

14)  The Temptations  ~  “Go For It”

15)  Corey Feldman & The Angels  ~  “Go 4 It”  (This is such a bizarre trainwreck of “singing” and “dancing,” it would be an absolute travesty NOT to include it here! Apologies if you actually like the song…)

16)  Joey B. Ellis & Tynetta Hare  ~  “Go For It! (Heart And Fire)”

17)  Barry Manilow  ~  “Ready To Take A Chance Again”

18)  The Used  ~  “Sometimes I Just Go For It”

19)  We Are Scientists  ~  “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt”

20)  Billy Cobham  ~  “Go For It!”

21)  T. Mills  ~  “Go For It All”

22)  The Busters  ~  “Go For It”

23)  Joe Jackson  ~  “Go For It”

24)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “One Step Ahead”

25)  CRUISR  ~  “Go For It”

Popular Songs Of 2008, Vol. 1

It's that time of year again when I turn back time and post songs from the previous decades. I do this both for the sake of reminiscence and to remind myself, and by extension all of you, how old I am/we are. These songs are, remarkably, ten years old as of this year. As are the ones in the three posts that will follow this. Then we'll move on to the twenty-year-old songs, and boy, will you feel old then! (Stay tuned, as it only gets worse – we will go way back before we're done!) Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Leona Lewis  ~  “Bleeding Love”

2)  Linkin Park  ~  “Shadow Of The Day”

3)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Love Don’t Live Here”

4)  3 Doors Down  ~  “It’s Not My Time”

5)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  “Pocketful Of Sunshine”

6)  Santana ft. Chad Kroeger  ~  “Into The Night”

7)  Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown  ~  “No Air”

8)  David Archuleta  ~  “Crush”

9)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Just A Dream”

10)  Soulja Boy Tell’em  ~  “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”

11)  Britney Spears   ~  “Piece Of Me”

12)  Ne-Yo  ~  “Miss Independent”

13)  Rihanna  ~  “Disturbia”

14)  Josh Turner  ~  “Another Try”

15)  Beyoncé  ~  “If I Were A Boy”

16)  Jason Mraz  ~  “I’m Yours”

17)  Fergie  ~  “Clumsy”

18)  Secondhand Serenade  ~  “Fall For You”

19)  Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland  ~  “4 Minutes”

20)  Gavin DeGraw  ~  “In Love With A Girl”