Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

More Songs About Steps

If you thought I was done with Songs About Steps after only one installment, you were whatever the slightly less sadistic version of "sorely mistaken" is. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Dokken  ~  "Step Into The Light"




2)  Caitlin Eadie  ~  "Half Step"




3)  The Crests  ~  "Step By Step"




4)  Rachel Row  ~  "Follow The Step"




5)  Samantha Jade  ~  "Step Up"




6)  Felicia Lu  ~  "One Step Closer"




7)  Moonshine Bandits  ~  "Step"




8)  Blaze Bayley  ~  "One More Step"




9)  Paul Young  ~  "One Step Forward"




10)  Yacht Rock Revue  ~  "Step"




11)  Taj Mahal  ~  "Take A Giant Step"




12)  Kim Greene  ~  "Step By Step"




13)  Tower Of Power  ~  "Step Up"




14)  Majid Jordan  ~  "Every Step, Every Way"




15)  Newsboys  ~  "Step Up To The Microphone"




16)  By The Rivers  ~  "One Step, Two Step"




17)  Rachel Platten  ~  "53 Steps"




18)  Dead Letter Circus  ~  "One Step"




19)  Doug Stone  ~  "Small Steps"




20)  Jordin Sparks  ~  "One Step At A Time"




21)  Miles Davis  ~  "Seven Steps To Heaven"




22)  Happy Mondays  ~  "Step On"




23)  Sawyer Brown  ~  "Step That Step"




24)  Bobby Brown  ~  "Every Little Step"




25)  Souls Of Mischief  ~  "Step To My Girl"



Thursday, November 1, 2018

Songs About Hopscotch & Labyrinths

If there's one that Hopscotch has absolutely nothing to do with, it's Labyrinths. And that's exactly the point of this post – that there is no point. But there are plenty of good songs. So listen to 'em already!  ~  JH



1)  Missing Persons  ~  “Mental Hopscotch”




2)  The Cure  ~  “Labyrinth”




3)  CocoRosie  ~  “Hopscotch”




4)  Smallman  ~  “Labyrinth Of Present”




5)  Fiction & Fables  ~  “Hopscotch Parade”




6)  Asaf Avidan  ~  “The Labyrinth Song”




7)  Eric Lewis  ~  “Hopscotch”




8)  Elisa  ~  “Labyrinth”




9)  Alan Gogoll  ~  “Hopscotch”




10)  BLR  ~  “Labyrinth”




11)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Optical Hopscotch”




12)  Genevieve  ~  “Labyrinth Of Me”




13)  Maya Angelou  ~  “Harlem Hopscotch”




14)  Savatage  ~  “Labyrinths”




15)  Emmelie de Forest  ~  “Hopscotch”




16)  Carole King  ~  “Labyrinth”




17)  Miles Davis  ~  “Hopscotch”




18)  Briana Nadeau  ~  “Labyrinth Of Love”




19)  Waldo  ~  “Hopscotch”




20)  Steve Howe   ~  “Labyrinth”




21)  Gwen Guthrie  ~  “Hopscotch”




22)  Julia Graye  ~  “Labyrinth”




23)  Bastelbande  ~  “Hopscotch”




24)  Poets Of The Fall  ~  “The Labyrinth”




25)  One Girl Shy  ~  “Hopscotch Man”




26)  Toro y Moi  ~  “Labyrinth”




27)  King Of Hawaii  ~  “Hopscotch”




28)  Have I Lost My Mind  ~  “Labyrinth”




29)  Woodpigeon  ~  “Love In The Time Of Hopscotch”




30)  Alesana  ~  “Labyrinth”


Thursday, October 18, 2018

Songs About “Great Expectations”

A couple of weeks ago I started a series of posts featuring songs with the names of famous novels or characters or well-known phrases from literature. The first post featured Songs About "Lolita," then I promptly neglected to do any further literature-themed posts. Well, now is as good a time as any to resume the series. So...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  KISS  ~  “Great Expectations”




2)  Judy Collins  ~  “Great Expectations”




3)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Great Expectations”




4)  Cat Power  ~  “Great Expectations”




5)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  “Great Expectations”




6)  Elbow  ~  “Great Expectations”




7)  Jay Aston  ~  “Great Expectations”




8)  Toto  ~  “Great Expectations”




9)  Wonder  ~  “Great Expectations”




10)  Miles Davis  ~  “Great Expectations”  (Sit back and get comfortable if you hit “play” on this one. The song – suite? – is a whopping 27 minutes long!)




11)  The Strypes  ~  “Great Expectations”




12)  The Modern Electric  ~  “Great Expectations”




13)  Talia Stewart  ~  “Great Expectations”




14)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Great Expectations”




15)  Wild Combination  ~  “Great Expectations”




16)  Birdt  ~  “Great Expectations”




17)  Considering Lily  ~  “Great Expectations”




18)  My Sad Captains  ~  “Great Expectations”




19)  Number Exchange  ~  “Great Expectations”




20)  Greg Friel  ~  “Great Expectations”


Friday, January 27, 2017

"Weird" Songs

Quite surprisingly (even to myself), of all the strange and wonderful (and terribly misguided) ideas I've had for music posts, I've never done a set of songs with the word "Weird" (or "Weirdo") in their titles. Until now. They're not half bad, either (though I may be prejudiced). Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Radiohead  ~  “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”




2)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Nobody Weird Like Me”




3)  GoGo Penguin  ~  “Weird Cat”




4)  The Dollyrots  ~  “Get Weird”




5)  Iggy Pop  ~  “Some Weird Sin”




6)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Weird World”




7)  Miles Davis  ~  “Weirdo”




8)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Still A Weirdo”




9)  All Star United  ~  “Weirdo”




10)  Pixies  ~  “Is She Weird?”




11)  Sebadoh  ~  “Weird”




12)  Veruca Salt  ~  “So Weird”




13)  Pete Yorn  ~  “She Was Weird”




14)  Superchunk  ~  “My Gap Feels Weird”




15)  Fruit Bats  ~  “You’re Too Weird”




16)  Everclear  ~  “Nervous And Weird”




17)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Superstar Wonderful Weirdos”




18)  Steel Train  ~  “I Feel Weird”




19)  Hanson  ~  “Weird”




20)  Oingo Boingo  ~  “Weird Science”




21)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  “Weird Friendless Kid”




22)  Clem Snide  ~  “Weird”




23)  Jayney Klimek  ~  “Weird Feeling”




24)  The Charlatans  ~  “Weirdo”




25)  The Muffs  ~  “Weird Boy Next Door”