Showing posts with label Spoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spoon. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

"Primary" Songs


Here's a moderately conservative collection of songs with the word "Primary" in their titles. As always, I liberally interspersed a variety of different genres and styles into the mix. Hope you will enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Cure  ~  "Primary"




2)  MAGIC!  ~  "Primary Colours"




3)  Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes  ~  "Primary Explosive"




4)  VNV Nation  ~  "Primary"




5)  Teenage Fanclub  ~  "Primary Education"




6)  Spoon  ~  "Primary"




7)  FACS  ~  "Primary"




8)  The Horrors  ~  "Primary Colours"




9)  Black Moth Super Rainbow  ~  "The Primary Color Movement"




10)  The True Blue  ~  "Primary Colors"




11)  Hardware To Halo  ~  "Primary Key"




12)  SOHN  ~  "Primary"




13)  He Is Legend  ~  "The Primarily Blues"



14)  OK Go  ~  "Three Primary Colors"



Wednesday, December 6, 2017

“Lights,” “Camera,” & “Action” Songs, Vol. 3

Well, this has been fun, but all good things must come to an end. One more round of "Lights," "Camera," & "Action" Songs and we fade to black. But don't worry, there's always more music posts where these came from (i.e., my scatter-brained mind). Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Meat Loaf  ~  “Piece Of The Action”




2)  Reba McEntire  ~  “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”




3)  Rise Against  ~  “Voices Off Camera”




4)  Utopia  ~  “Love In Action”




5)  Imagination  ~  “Music And Lights”




6)  Wilco  ~  “Kamera”




7)  Joan As Police Woman  ~  “The Action Man”




8)  Jessie James Decker  ~  “Lights Down Low”




9)  Editors  ~  “Camera”




10)  Above & Beyond ft. Alex Vargas  ~  “Blue Sky Action”




11)  Charlie Cunningham  ~  “Lights Off”




12)  Rhonda  ~  “Camera”




13)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “Right Action”




14)  Elton John  ~  “Turn The Lights Out When You Leave”




15)  The Fixx  ~  “Cameras In Paris”




16)  Kitty, Daisy, & Lewis  ~  “No Action”




17)  Yellowcard  ~  “Lights And Sounds”




18)  Local Natives  ~  “Camera Talk”




19)  Fireflight  ~  “Action”




20)  Boyce Avenue  ~  “When The Lights Die”




21)  Billy Corgan  ~  “The Camera Eye”




22)  Foreigner  ~  “Reaction To Action”




23)  Genevieve  ~  “Lights On”




24)  Spoon  ~  “I Turn My Camera On”




25)  The Get Up Kids  ~  “Action & Action”


Tuesday, June 6, 2017

“Delicate” Songs

These songs are "Delicate." Please handle with care. And enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Uncluded  ~  “Delicate Cycle”




2)  Damien Rice  ~  “Delicate”




3)  Kina Grannis  ~  “Delicate”  (After the 3:10 mark, the song is over. The rest is just shameless self-promotion by the artist. And who can blame her? It’s her livelihood!)




4)  Pelican  ~  “A Delicate Sense Of Balance”




5)  Terence Trent D’Arby ft. Des’ree  ~  “Delicate”




6)  Against Me!  ~  “Delicate, Petite, & Other Things I’ll Never Be”




7)  Exposure ft. Sula Mae  ~  “Delicate Lives”




8)  O.A.R.  ~  “Delicate Few”




9)  Sarah Kendall  ~  “Delicate”




10)  Pink Floyd  ~  “Delicate Sound Of Thunder”




11)  Eatliz  ~  “Violently Delicate”




12)  Spoon  ~  “The Delicate Place”




13)  Shana Halligan  ~  “Delicate Dream”




14)  Les Claypool’s Fancy Band  ~  “Delicate Tendrils”




15)  Social Studies  ~  “Delicate Hands”




16)  Planet Of The Stereos  ~  “Delicate Girl”




17)  Haley Dreis  ~  “Delicate”




18)  Hawksley Workman  ~  “Oh, You Delicate Heart”




19)  Janet Devlin  ~  “Delicate”




20)  Talib Kweli  ~  “Delicate Flowers”




21)  Tamar Kaprelian  ~  “Delicate Soul”




22)  The Long Winters  ~  “Delicate Hands”




23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Delicate Cutters”




24)  Schiller ft. Kim Sanders  ~  “Delicately Yours”




25)  Fauntella Crow  ~  “Delicate”


Monday, July 18, 2016

“Underdog” Songs

This one goes out to all the underdogs out there. While there are a handful of "household names" among these artists, there are also quite a few gems by lesser-known artists (appropriate for an "Underdog" theme, eh?). Nevertheless, I believe you will...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “Underdog”




2)  Turin Brakes  ~  “Underdog (Save Me)”




3)   Europe  ~  “Spirit Of The Underdog” 




4)  Holly  ~  “The Underdog”




5)  12 Stones  ~  “Anthem For The Underdog”




6)  Pastel Lite  ~  “Underdog”




7)  Nellie McKay  ~  “Beneath The Underdog”




8)  Chasing The Jeffrey  ~  “Underdog”




9)  Anna F.  ~  “Underdog”




10)  Sly & The Family Stone  ~  “Underdog”




11)  Martha Redbone  ~  “Underdog”




12)  Sol Driven Train  ~  “Underdog”




13)  Benjamin  ~  “Underdog”




14)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Underdog”




15)  John Doe  ~  “Darling Underdog”  (I'm guessing that's not his real name.)




16)  Kill Paradise  ~  “The Underdog Anthem”




17)  Imagine Dragons  ~  “Underdog”




18)  You Me At Six  ~  “Underdog”




19)  The Lost Trailers  ~  “Underdog”  (Skip to the 3:00 mark if you don’t wish to hear the intro story.)




20)  Doom Unit  ~  “Underdog”




21)  Mudhoney  ~  “Beneath The Valley Of The Underdog”




22)  Spoon  ~  “The Underdog”




23)  Kyle Massey  ~  “Underdog Raps”




24)  Kasabian  ~  “Underdog”




25)  Butthole Surfers  ~  “Underdog”  (Listeners of a certain age might recognize this as the theme song for the TV cartoon…although the original version didn’t sound quite like this one.)


Monday, August 31, 2015

Songs About Chicks & Dudes


This is a one-off post – a marginally clever idea I had and decided to pursue. Songs with the words "Chicks" (or "Chick") and "Dudes" (or "Dude") in their titles. Because, really...why not? Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  David Guetta ft. Rihanna  ~  "Who's That Chick?"




2)  Aerosmith  ~  "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"




3)  We Are Scientists  ~  "Chick Lit"




4)  Kat Dahlia  ~  "Just Another Dude"




5)  Sammy Kaye  ~  "Chickery Chick"




6)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Dude Ranch Nurse"




7)  MxPx  ~  "Chick Magnet"




8)  Quincy Jones  ~  "The Dude"




9)  All Saints  ~  "Chick Fit"




10)  Mott The Hoople  ~  "All The Young Dudes"




11)  The Pointer Sisters  ~  "How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On The Side)"  (Skip to 3:24 for the song, if you don't want to hear all the pre-banter.)




12)  Mary's Danish  ~  "Can I Have A Smoke, Dude?"




13)  Lovey James  ~  "Don't Be Such A Chick"




14)  Spoon  ~  "I Could See The Dude"




15)  Charlotte Church  ~  "Crazy Chick"




16)  Chords  ~  "The Dude"




17)  Daddy Dewdrop  ~  "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)"




18)  Jessica Pratt  ~  "Moon Dude"




19)  Mariah Carey  ~  "I'm That Chick"




20)  Less Than Jake ft. Kel Mitchell  ~  "We're All Dudes"




21)  Cro  ~  "Bad Chick"




22)  Kula Shaker  ~  "Hey Dude"




23)  Chris Cagle  ~  "Chicks Dig It"




24)  LOTEK  ~  "Rudest Dude"




25)  Rollin Wang  ~  "Chick Chick"  (This is truly one of the weirdest music videos I've ever watched…and I've watched a lot of 'em!)