"Cool" Songs

Let's take a brief respite from the "Lonely" Songs series to appreciate some truly "Cool" Songs. A hundred of them, in fact. Spread out over four posts, but still... Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Echosmith  ~  "Cool Kids"

2)  Gwen Stefani  ~  "Cool"

3)  Jonas Brothers  ~  "Cool"

4)  Bing Crosby & Jane Wyman  ~  "In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening"

5)  Blake Shelton  ~  "Sure Be Cool If You Did"

6)  Tones And I  ~  "Ur So...Cool"

7)  Demi Lovato  ~  "Cool For The Summer"

8)  Stevie Wonder  ~  "Be Cool, Be Calm (And Keep Yourself Together)"

9)  Tigers Jaw  ~  "Cool"

10)  John Michael Montgomery  ~  "Cool"

11)  Anthony Hamilton ft. David Banner  ~  "Cool"

12)  Le Youth  ~  "Cool"

13)  New Edition  ~  "Cool It Now"

14)  Soul Asylum  ~  "Cool"

15)  Troye Sivan  ~  "Cool"

16)  Joe Nichols  ~  "Hard To Be Cool"

17)  The Veronicas  ~  "Dead Cool"

18)  Daya  ~  "Cool"

19)  Jennifer Love Hewitt  ~  "Cool With You"

20)  Sabrina Carpenter  ~  "Take Off All Your Cool"

21)  Alesso ft. Roy English  ~  "Cool"

22)  Tori Amos  ~  "Cool On Your Island"

23)  The Beach Boys  ~  "Cool, Cool Water"

24)  Boston  ~  "Cool The Engines"

25)  Yumi Zouma  ~  "Cool For A Second"

“Secret” Songs, Vol. 1

I can't believe I've never dedicated a post entirely to Songs About Secrets! But having double-checked, I found that fact to be true. That being said, let's double up and make this a two-parter. Here's the first set, chock full of tunes you're sure to enjoy. The second half of these will come later. Ready, set, listen...  ~  JH

1)  The Pierces  ~  “Secret”

2)  OneRepublic  ~  “Secrets”

3)  Mary Lambert  ~  “Secrets”

4)  The Weeknd  ~  “Secrets”

5)  Heart  ~  “Secret”

6)  Leonard Cohen  ~  “In My Secret Life”

7)  Madonna  ~  “Secret”

8)  Tiësto & KSHMR ft. Vassy  ~  “Secrets”

9)  Little Mix ft. Jason Derulo  ~  “Secret Love Song”

10)  Chelsea Lankes  ~  “Secret”

11)  The All-American Rejects  ~  “Dirty Little Secret”

12)  Xscape  ~  “My Little Secret”

13)  Semisonic  ~  “Secret Smile”

14)  Faith Hill  ~  “The Secret Of Life”

15)  IAMX ft. Imogen Heap  ~  “My Secret Friend”

16)  Seal  ~  “Secret”

17)  T’Pau  ~  “Secret Garden”

18)  Luther Vandross  ~  “Your Secret Love”

19)  Anna Ternheim  ~  “My Secret”

20)  Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark  ~  “Secret”

21)  Atlantic Starr  ~  “Secret Lovers”

22)  We The Kings  ~  “Secret Valentine”

23)  Mike Mago & Dragonette  ~  “Secret Stash”

24)  New Edition  ~  “My Secret (Didja Gitit Yet?)”

25)  Stevie Nicks  ~  “Secret Love”

Songs About Not Worrying, Vol. 2

More of the same, and why not? Don't worry – listen to these songs instead. Oh, yeah, and...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing”  (This is the same song as the one by Stevie Wonder in the previous post. But both versions were too good to exclude one of them.)

2)  The Beach Boys  ~  “Don’t Worry, Baby”

3)  Ella Eyre  ~  “Worry About Me”

4)  Jason Mraz  ~  “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry)”

5)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  “Do I Look Worried?”

6)  John Mayer  ~  “The Age Of Worry”

7)  En Vogue  ~  “You Don’t Have To Worry”

8)  Talking Heads  ~  “Don’t Worry About The Government”

9)  New Edition ft. Missy Elliott  ~  “You Don’t Have To Worry (Remix)”

10)  Set It Off  ~  “Why Worry”

11)  Frances  ~  “Don’t Worry About Me”

12)  Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin  ~  “Don’t You Worry, Child”

13)  Playing For Change Band  ~  “Don’t Worry”

14)  All-American Rejects  ~  “Why Worry”

15)  Kim Appleby  ~  “Don’t Worry”

16)  Grand Funk Railroad  ~  “Please Don’t Worry”

17)  Shawn Colvin  ~  “That Don’t Worry Me Now”

18)  R. City  ~  “Don’t You Worry”

19)  The Winans  ~  “Ain’t No Need To Worry”

20)  Marty Robbins  ~  “Don’t Worry”

“Still” & “Moving” Songs, Vol. 2

And here's another set of "Still" and "Moving" Songs coming your way. Ready, set, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ray Charles & Travis Tritt  ~  “I’m Movin’ On”

2)  U2  ~  “Running To Stand Still”

3)  My Morning Jacket  ~  “Movin’ Away”

4)  Paramore  ~  “Still Into You”

5)  Rodney Crowell  ~  “Moving Work Of Art”

6)  Eagle-Eye Cherry  ~  “Are You Still Having Fun?”

7)  Meghan Trainor  ~  “Lips Are Movin’”

8)  R.E.M.  ~  “Sitting Still”

9)  Supergrass  ~  “Moving”

10)  Logan Brill  ~  “World Still Round”

11)  The Cribs  ~  “Moving Pictures”

12)  Johnny Rzeznik  ~  “I’m Still Here”

13)  America  ~  “From A Moving Train”

14)  Frank Turner  ~  “I Still Believe”

15)  Deborah Harry  ~  “The Jam Was Moving”

16)  Daughter  ~  “Still”

17)  Heffron Drive  ~  “Art Of Moving On”

18)  New Edition  ~  “I’m Still In Love With You”

19)  Ben Rector  ~  “Life Keeps Moving On”

20)  Brian McKnight  ~  “Still”

21)  Focus  ~  “Movin’ Waves”

22)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Still The One”

23)  The Letter Black  ~  “Moving On”

24)  Hillsong Worship  ~  “Still”

25)  Buzzcocks  ~  “Moving Away From The Pulsebeat”

Songs About Popcorn

Here's a bunch of Songs About Popcorn. Because I felt like it, that's why. Let's get it poppin'....and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Roots  ~  “Pass The Popcorn”

2)  M&H Band  ~  “Popcorn”

3)  Solillaquists Of Sound  ~  “Popcorn”

4)  Cliffie Stone & His Orchestra ft. Bob Roubian  ~  “The Popcorn Song”

5)  Joey Rumble  ~  “Popcorn”

6)  James Brown  ~  “Mother Popcorn”

7)  The Mighty Imperials ft. Joseph Henry  ~  “Joseph’s Popcorn”

8)  Alix Olson  ~  “Popcorn And Laughter”  (I don't usually feature spoken-word recordings on this blog, but this one was good and fit the theme. So there ya go...)

9)  Luiz Henrique & Walter Wanderley  ~  “Popcorn”

10)  New Edition  ~  “Popcorn Love”

11)  Eddie Platt And His Orchestra  ~  “Popcorn”

12)  The Wiggles ft. James Redfern  ~  “Hot Poppin’ Popcorn”

13)  The Supremes  ~  “Buttered Popcorn”

14)  The Searchers  ~  “Popcorn Double Feature”

15)  Eldridge Holmes  ~  “Pop, Popcorn Children”

16)  Everline  ~  “Popcorn Movies”

17)  Brainstorm  ~  “Popcorn”

18)  Parry Gripp  ~  “Hamster On A Piano (Eating Popcorn)”

19)  Otis Spann  ~   “Popcorn Man”

20)  Howdy Doody & The Fontane Sisters  ~  “The Popcorn Song”

BONUS TRACK:  Alanis Morissette  ~  "Front Row"  (No, the word “popcorn” doesn’t appear anywhere in the title of this song, but it does figure prominently into the chorus, and is repeated several times throughout the tune. Besides, I like it – and her.)