Songs About Ghosts, Vol. 3

ANOTHER "Ghost" post? Yup. And there'll be another one after this. You're welcome. And...enjoy! ~ JH

1)  Hawthorne Heights  ~  “Just Another Ghost”

2)  Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators  ~  “Ghost”

3)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “Walking With A Ghost”

4)  John Grant  ~  “Pale Green Ghosts”

5)  Delia  ~  “U (Fighting With My Ghosts)”

6)  The Jam  ~  “Ghosts”

7)  Regina Spektor  ~  “The Ghost Of Corporate Future”

8)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “Ghosts That We Knew”

9)  Darcy Fox  ~  “Ghost”

10)  August Burns Red ft. Jeremy McKinnon  ~  “Ghosts”

11)  PVRIS  ~  “Ghosts / Let Them In”

12)  Mazzy Star  ~  “Ghost Highway”

13)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  “Ghosts”

14)  blink-182  ~  “Ghost on the Dancefloor”

15)  MKJ  ~  “Ghost”

16)  Live  ~  “Ghost”

17)  Tori Amos  ~  “Your Ghost”

18)  Death Cab For Cutie  ~  “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive”

19)  Kadebostany  ~  “Walking With A Ghost”

20)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “Ghosts Are Everywhere”

21)  Kerion  ~  “Ghost Society”

22)  Coldplay  ~  “Ghost Story”

23)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Ghost”

24)  Shenandoah  ~  “Ghost In This House”

25)  Imelda May  ~  “Ghost Of Love”

Songs About Tradition

To be honest, I'm not big on tradition. Unless it's the kind of traditions you keep with, say, family at the holidays. But I believe that many traditions, like many conventions, are made to be broken. What's that say about me? I don't even want to think about that right now. Meanwhile, enjoy some great Songs About Tradition!  ~  JH

1)  Fiddler On The Roof Cast ft. Topol  ~  “Tradition”

2)  Collective Soul  ~  “Tradition”

3)  Tanita Tikaram  ~  “Good Tradition”

4)  Southcott  ~  “The October Tradition”

5)  A Sunny Day In Glasgow  ~  “In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry In The Tradition Of Passing)”

6)  The Pretenders  ~  “Tradition Of Love”

7)  Live  ~  “Operation Spirit (The Tyranny Of Tradition)”

8)  Nicole Dollanganger  ~  “American Tradition”

9)  Thousand Below  ~  “Tradition”

10)  Stavesacre  ~  “Time Honored Tradition”

11)  The Saxophones  ~  “New Tradition”

12)  Natalie Hemby  ~  “Time Honored Tradition”

13)  Hank Williams, Jr.  ~  “Family Tradition”

14)  The Hush Now  ~  “Traditions”

15)  Idlehands  ~  “Floor Of Tradition”

16)  Kaiser Chiefs  ~  “Time Honoured Tradition”

17)  Senses Fail  ~  “Family Tradition”

18)  The Veils  ~  “Vicious Traditions”

19)  Great White  ~  “In The Tradition”

20)  The Belle Game  ~  “Tradition”

21)  Primus  ~  “To Defy The Laws Of Tradition"

22)  Burning Spear  ~  “Tradition”

23)  Naturally 7  ~  “Tradition”

24)  Heavenly Beat  ~  “Tradition”

25)  Soothsayers  ~  “Tradition”

Songs About Insomnia

I stayed up all night compiling these songs for you people, so you had BETTER listen to them! Just kidding! But seriously, I stayed up way too late listening to these songs because they're just too darn good to "sleep" on. See what I did there? Yeah, that wasn't clever at all. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Daya  ~  “Insomnia”

2)  The Black Koi  ~  “Insomnia”

3)  Kay Cola  ~  “Insomnia”

4)  Emborne Drive  ~  “Insomnia”

5)  Pryti  ~  “Insomnia”

6)  Benjamin Poss  ~  “Insomnia”

7)  Xeno & Oaklander  ~   “Insomnia”

8)  Craig David  ~  “Insomnia”

9)  Audrey Rose  ~  “Insomnia”

10)  Feeder  ~  Insomnia”

11)  Lost In Kiev  ~  “Insomnia”

12)  The Capital  ~  “Insomnia”

13)  ZAYN  ~  “Insomnia”

14)  Ellen Benediktson  ~  “Insomnia”

15)  Wynter Gordon  ~  “Insomnia”

16)  Kamelot  ~  “Insomnia”

17)  Adina  ~  “Insomnia”

18)  AyOwA  ~  “Insomnia”

19)  Trip Lee ft. Andy Mineo  ~  “Insomniac”

20)  L2  ~  “Insomnia”

21)  Honey  ~  “Insomnia”

22)  Live  ~  “Insomnia And The Hole In The Universe”

23)  Jelena Karleuša  ~  “Insomnia”

24)  Megadeth  ~  “Insomnia”

25)  Cellar Darling  ~  “Insomnia”

Songs With Abbreviations In The Title, Vol. 1

Of all the things I've blogged about before, this is not one of them. Until now... Enjoy this first set of songs (of two) featuring some kind of abbreviation, initials, or acronym in the title.  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “P.Y.T.”  (“Pretty Young Thing.” Nice cover of a Michael Jackson hit.)

2)  Foo Fighters  ~  “D.O.A.”  (“Dead On Arrival”)

3)  Bea Miller  ~  “S.L.U.T.”  (It’s not what it looks like. This is shorthand for “Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing.”)

4)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “I.R.S.”  (No double meaning here. It really does stand for “Internal Revenue Service.”)

5)  Mariah Carey  ~  “H.A.T.E.U.”  (“H.A.T.E.U.” actually means “hate you.” So…it’s not really an abbreviation for anything. You tricky trickster, Mariah!) 

6)  Kasabian  ~  “L.S.F.”  (“Lost Souls Forever”)

7)  Melanie Fiona  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Also not technically an abbreviation.)

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “N.I.B.”  (Apparently, “Nib” was the nickname of a band member’s beard. Ozzy put the punctuation marks in there to confuse people. Mission accomplished!)

9)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “BWU”  (“Be With U”)

10)  Noah And The Whale  ~  “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”  (It means what it looks like it means. N.O.T. A.N. A.B.B.R.E.V.I.A.T.I.O.N. *sigh*)

11)  Dua Lipa ft. Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, MØ, & Alma  ~  “IDGAF”  (I’ll let you Google this abbreviation. Although, seeing as this is the sanitized version of the song, the title should have been shortened further to “IDGA.”)

12)  Live  ~  “T.B.D.”  (“Tibetan Book of the Dead”)

13)  Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu  ~  “Q.U.E.E.N.”  (Also not an abbreviation. I’m spotting a pattern here.)

14)  Cream  ~  “N.S.U.”  (Oddly enough, this stands for “Non-Specific Urethritis.”)

15)  Jessie J  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Equally not an actual abbreviation. This may be less the fault of the artists and more the fault of yours truly, the blogger. Sorry…)

16)  Rythm Syndicate  ~  “P.A.S.S.I.O.N.”  (The singer spells out several words in this one. But none of them are abbreviations. He just likes spelling, I guess. Except in the case of his band’s name, which is – apparently – misspelled intentionally. Go figure!)

17)  John Mellencamp  ~  “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.”  (The “R.O.C.K.” part doesn’t mean anything other than “Rock.” If you don’t know what the “U.S.A.” part means, you’re either not from around here or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way…find out for yourself.)

18)  Le Tigre  ~  “TKO”  ("Technical Knockout")

19)  Harry Chapin  ~  “W.O.L.D.”  (These are the call letters of a fictional radio station at which the song’s narrator is an aging deejay. Thus a double meaning with the letters “O.L.D.”)

20)  Florida Georgia Line  ~  “H.O.L.Y.”  ("High On Loving You")