I've always been fascinated with bleak subjects, so this post featuring Songs About Death shouldn't really come as much of a surprise. Nor should the follow-up post it precedes. Enjoy? ~ JH 1) Powfu ft. beabodoobee ~ "Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)"
2) Stars ~ "Death To Death"
3) The Pretty Reckless ~ "Death By Rock And Roll"
4) Hozier ~ "Angel Of Small Death & The Codeine Scene"
5) Alexa Harley ~ "Death Of A Loved One"
6) Deftones ~ "This Place Is Death"
7) Taylor Swift ~ "Death By A Thousand Cuts"
8) The Kills ~ "Doing It To Death"
9) Panic! At The Disco ~ "Death Of A Bachelor"
10) Sum 41 ~ "Fake My Own Death"
11) blink-182 ~ "Bored To Death"
12) Brandon Jenner ~ "Death Of Me"
13) Slimebby ~ "Love & Death"
14) Motörhead ~ "Killed By Death"
15) Kamelot ft. Amanda Somerville ~ "Love You To Death"
Today (April 20th) would have been Luther Vandross' 68th birthday. Tomorrow (April 21st), Iggy Pop will celebrate his 72nd birthday. To commemorate "The Velvet Voice" and "The Godfather Of Punk"'s birthdays (and because it's really weird but kind of fun to pair two COMPLETELY different artists' work in a single post), here's a selection of the most popular and best-known songs from each of their storied careers. Enjoy! ~ JH
BLOGGER'S NOTE: I didn't bother putting the artist's name alongside the song title of each, because I figured it would be self-evident who's singing when. But just in case you get confused, if you're seeing a skinny white dude with no shirt dancing around wildly onstage and singing somewhat unintelligibly, you're experiencing an Iggy Pop song. If sparkly suits and swooning women are present, it's Luther Vandross.
1) “Never Too Much”
2) “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
3) “If This World Were Mine” (with Cheryl Lynn)
4) “I Got A Right”
5) “How Many Times Can We Say Goodbye” (with Dionne Warwick)
6) “Nightclubbing”
7) “Superstar” / “Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)”
8) “Funtime” (with David Bowie)
9) “'Til My Baby Comes Home”
10) “China Girl” (with Queens Of The Stone Age)
11) “It’s Over Now”
12) “Tonight”
13) “Wait For Love”
14) “Success”
15) “Here And Now”
16) “Lust For Life”
17) "Give Me The Reason"
18) “Passenger” (with Queens Of The Stone Age)
19) "Stop To Love"
20) “Some Weird Sin”
21) "There's Nothing Better Than Love" (with Gregory Hines)
22) “I’m Bored”
23) "Any Love"
24) “Cry For Love”
25) "She Won't Talk To Me"
26) “Real Wild Child (Wild One)”
27) "For You To Love"
28) “Cold Metal”
29) "Don't Want To Be A Fool"
30) “Home”
31) "The Rush"
32) “Candy” (with Kate Pierson)
33) "Sometimes It's Only Love"
34) “Well, Did You Evah!” (with Debbie Harry)
35) "The Best Things In Life Are Free" (with Janet Jackson, Bell Biv DeVoe, & Ralph Tresvant)
These songs are seriously "messed up"! If their titles can be trusted, at least. And they usually can't. But there's still plenty of good stuff to listen to here. So much so that Vol. 2 will follow tomorrow. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Tegan and Sara ~ “Now I’m All Messed Up”
2) Heroes For Hire ~ “All Messed Up”
3) Gary Moore ~ “All Messed Up”
4) Alexander Bone ft. Rory Ingham, Toby Comeau, Felix Moseholm, & Jonathan Mansfield ~ “Messed Up Shape”
5) Jo Dee Messina ~ “He’s Messed Up”
6) The Cyrkle ~ “Straighten Out My Messed Up Life”
7) The Donnas ~ “All Messed Up”
8) Gino Lee ~ “Messed Up”
9) Towne ~ “Messed Up”
10) Floetry ~ “Mr. Messed Up”
11) Anastacia ~ “Beautiful, Messed Up World”
12) Swain ~ “Punk Rock Messed You Up, Kid!”
13) James Carr ~ “You Got My Mind Messed Up”
14) Bella & Lily ~ “Messed Up Avenue”
15) James ~ “Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)”
