The “Look” & “Feel” Of Songs, Vol. 1

In my 6+ years of music blogging, I have posted Songs About Feelings, The Feels, and Feeling It. But since the subject of "feelings" is utterly ubiquitous in music, here's a new variation of previously unposted "Feel" Songs, this time paired with "Look" Songs as well. Because, I mean, why not? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Look What You Made Me Do”

2)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Feel”

3)  Metronomy  ~  “The Look”

4)  Chicago  ~  “Feel”

5)  Roxette  ~  “The Look”

6)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Feel”

7)  Poison  ~  “Look What The Cat Dragged In”

8)  Selah Sue  ~  “Feel”

9)  Galantis  ~  “Mama Look At Me Now”

10)  Hillsong Worship  ~  “I Feel Like I’m Falling”

11)  ABC  ~  “The Look Of Love”

12)  Tonight Alive  ~  “How Does It Feel?”

13)  Jason Aldean  ~  “Tonight Looks Good On You”

14)  Calvin Harris  ~   “Feel So Close”

15)  Whitney Houston  ~  “I Look To You”

16)  Toto  ~  “How Does It Feel?”

17)  Lady Gaga  ~  “Look What I Found”

18)  Naughty By Nature  ~  “Feel Me Flow”

19)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “You Look Good”

20)  Rhye  ~  “Feel Your Weight”

21)  Larkin Poe  ~  “Look Away”

22)  Dierks Bentley  ~  “Feel That Fire”

23)  Paramore  ~  “Looking Up”

24)  The Weeknd  ~  “Can’t Feel My Face”

25)  Sade  ~  “Keep Looking”

Popular Songs Of 1998, Vol. 1

And it begins! The most Popular Songs Of 1998, a year which was apparently quite excellent for a variety of genres of music, many of which are represented here. I hope you'll enjoy listening to and watching these as much as I did when compiling them. And the best part is there's three more posts of these yet to come!  ~  JH

1)  Brandy & Monica  ~  “The Boy Is Mine”

2)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  “One Week”

3)  Shania Twain  ~  “You’re Still The One”

4)  Foo Fighters  ~  “My Hero”

5)  Madonna  ~  “Frozen”

6)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  “Don’t Drink The Water”

7)  Deborah Cox  ~  “Nobody’s Supposed To Be Here”

8)  DC Talk  ~  “Consume Me”

9)  Faith Hill  ~  “This Kiss”

10)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Perfect”

11)  Garbage  ~  “Push It”

12)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”

13)  Loreena McKennitt  ~  “The Mummer’s Dance”

14)  The Offspring  ~  “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)”

15)  Janet Jackson  ~  “I Get Lonely”

16)  Radiohead  ~  “Karma Police”

17)  Sara Evans ft. Vince Gill  ~  “No Place That Far”

18)  Edwin McCain  ~  “I’ll Be”

19)  Hole  ~  “Celebrity Skin”

20)  Garth Brooks  ~  “To Make You Feel My Love”

21)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  “Undo Me”

22)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Real World”

23)  Lauryn Hill  ~  “Doo-Wop (That Thing)”

24)  U2  ~  The Sweetest Thing”

25)  Cher  ~  “Believe”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 1

OK, here we go... If the "Popular Songs Of 2007" posts didn't make you feel old, this post and the next three to follow are sure to do so. Because these, the "Popular Songs Of 1997," are now TWENTY years old! And you (assuming you remember some or all of the songs) are now twenty years OLDER than when you first heard them! Let that sink in a bit, then enjoy some "new oldies"!  ~  JH

1)  Spice Girls  ~  “Say You’ll Be There”

2)  Silverchair  ~  “Abuse Me”

3)  Puff Daddy & Faith Evans ft. 112  ~  “I’ll Be Missing You”

4)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “How Do I Live”

5)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Push”

6)  Coolio ft. 40 Thevz  ~  “C U When U Get There”

7)  Trace Adkins  ~  “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing”

8)  DC Talk  ~  “Colored People"

9)  Texas  ~  “Say What You Want”

10)  Monica  ~  “For You, I Will”

11)  Chumbawamba  ~  “Tubthumping”

12)  Metallica  ~  “The Memory Remains”

13)  Jewel  ~  “Foolish Games”

14)  Elton John  ~  “Candle In The Wind 1997”

15)  The Verve  ~  “Bitter Sweet Symphony”

16)  Whitney Houston  ~  “I Believe In You And Me”

17)  Clay Walker  ~  “Rumor Has It”

18)  Sugar Ray  ~  “Fly”

19)  Cornershop  ~  “Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)”

20)  Céline Dion  ~  “All By Myself”

21)  Savage Garden  ~  “I Want You”

22)  Live  ~  “Turn My Head”

23)  The Offspring  ~  “Gone Away”

24)  Janet Jackson  ~  “Together Again”

25)  Boyz II Men  ~  “4 Seasons Of Loneliness”

“Down” & “Out” Songs, Vol. 3

I promised you a break (of at least one day) from these, and you got one. Now back to our regularly scheduled "Down" & "Out" Songs series. One more round after this one. Enjoy!  ~  JH7

1)  Marina Kaye  ~  “Freeze You Out”

2)  Keri Hilson ft. Kanye West & Ne-Yo  ~  “Knock You Down”

3)  Oasis  ~  “Go Let It Out”

4)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down”

5)  Diana Ross  ~  “I’m Coming Out”

6)  Foals  ~  “What Went Down”

7)  Joe Jackson  ~  “Steppin’ Out”

8)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  “Fall Down”

9)  Young Guns  ~  “I Want Out”

10)  Florence + The Machine  ~  “Breaking Down"

11)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Let It Out”

12)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Hand Me Down”

13)  Grand Funk Railroad  ~  “Inside Looking Out”

14)  Lorde  ~  “Biting Down”

15)  Sharon Van Etten  ~  “Give Out”

16)  Public Enemy  ~  “Shut ‘Em Down”

17)  Hawk Nelson  ~  “Sold Out”

18)  Sylvan Esso  ~  “Come Down”

19)  Mat Kearney  ~  “Breathe In, Breathe Out”

20)  The Dear Hunter  ~  “Bring You Down”

21)  This Wild Life  ~  “Pull Me Out”

22)  Selena Gomez  ~  “Slow Down”

23)  Tinie Tempah  ~  “Pass Out”

24)  Atreyu  ~  “Falling Down”

25)  The Allman Brothers Band  ~  “One Way Out”