"Pleasant" Songs

We could all use some "Pleasant" Songs for a change. So here 's a dozen-and-a-half of them. And there's another dozen-and-a-half coming up soon. So, enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Monkees  ~  "Pleasant Valley Sunday"

2) Kidneythieves  ~  "Pleasant"

3)  Dolly Parton  ~  "Pleasant As May"

4)  The Kinks  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

5)  Intronaut  ~  "The Pleasant Surprise"

6)  Fates Warning  ~  "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray – Part III"

7)  The Vandals  ~  "Goop All Over The Phone (Pleasant All Over The Bill)"

8)  The Mission  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

9)  The Evens  ~  "Mt. Pleasant Isn't"

10)  Wood Of Ypres  ~  "I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery"

11)  Cass McCombs  ~  "Pleasant Shadow Song"

12)  Breakup Shoes  ~  "Perfectly Pleasant"

13)  Rival Sons  ~  "Pleasant Return"

14)  Too Close To See  ~  "Pleasant Days For Me"

15)  Tim Buckley  ~  "Pleasant Street"

16)  Keith McEachern  ~  "Pleasant"

17)  Brock Berrigan  ~  "Point Pleasant"

18)  The Irish Rovers  ~  "Pleasant And Delightful"

More "Steam"-y Songs

If you thought the first set of "Steam"-y Sings was hot, wait'll you hear these! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alyssa Milano  ~  "Teen Steam"  (This is so awful! But gosh, wasn't she a cutie?!?!)

2)  Ty Herndon  ~  "Steam"

3)  Stables  ~  "Steam"

4)  John Lee Hooker  ~  "I Don't Need No Steam Heat"

5)  The Monkees  ~  "Steam Engine"

6)  Johnny Horton  ~  "Coal Smoke, Valve Oil, And Steam"

7)  Pete Doherty  ~  "The Steam"

8)  Wishbone Ash  ~  "Steam Town"

9)  The Kinks  ~  "Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains"

10)  Albert King  ~  "Running Out Of Steam"

11)  Deep Sea Arcade  ~  "Steam"

12)  The Guess Who  ~  "Rock And Roller Steam"

13)  Abney Park  ~  "Building Steam"

14)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Raising Steam"

15)  Murder By Death  ~  "Steam Rising"

16)  Daft Punk  ~  "Steam Machine"

17)  East 17  ~  "Steam"

18)  Scorpions  ~  "Steamrock Fever"

19)  Phish  ~  "Steam"

20)  Noble Jacks  ~  "Ramblers Steam"

21)  So Beast  ~  "Summer Steam"  (This is not particularly good music, but it's rather fascinating watching them making it.)

22)  The Lucksmiths  ~  "Columns O' Steam"

23)  Thelma and the Sleaze  ~  "Hot Steam"

24)  Grice  ~  "Steam"

25)  Andy Clockwise  ~  "Steam Dream"

Songs About Cuddling

Sometimes you feel like cuddling. And sometimes you just want to listen to Songs About Cuddling. If it's the former, go find yourself somebody to cuddle. If it's the latter, this post is here for you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Leslie & The LYs  ~  “Power Cuddle”

2)  Dean Martin  ~  “Pretty Baby”

3)  Biffy Clyro  ~  “Kittens, Cakes, And Cuddles”

4)  Jessica Cutter  ~  “Cuddle”

5)  A Perfect Circle  ~  “Get The Lead Out”

6)  Catey Shaw  ~  “Cuddle Up”  (So what if it’s a Christmas song? That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it all year long!)

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Cuddle Fuddle”

8)  Joan Armatrading  ~  “Thinking Man”

9)  The Monkees  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

10)  Captain & Tennille  ~  “Cuddle Up”

11)  Nat King Cole  ~  “Just You, Just Me”

12)  Judy Garland  ~  “My Melancholy Baby”

13)  Har Mar Superstar  ~  “Gangsters Want To Cuddle Me”

14)  Alice Lon & Dick Dale  ~  “Cuddle Up A Little Closer”

15)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “Screaming Infidelities”

16)  Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley  ~  “The Old Piano Roll Blues”

17)  Roachford  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

18)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Uh-Merica”

19)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby”

20)  Doris Day & Gordon MacRae  ~  “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”

21)  Johnnie Ray  ~  “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home”

22)  Dean Martin & Janet Leigh  ~  “Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey”  (Can you have too many Dean Martin songs in one post? Possibly, but unlikely!)

23)  Wasuremono  ~  “Cuddling”

24)  Judy Garland & Kirby Stone Four  ~  “Whispering”  (Can you have too many Judy Garland songs in one post? Certainly not!)

25)  Diana Dors  ~  “A Kiss And A Cuddle”

Songs About Hills & Valleys, Vol. 1

In every lifetime, there are hills and valleys – high point and low points. This set of songs, and the ones in the two volumes to come, will cover all the bases. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Tauren Wells  ~  “Hills And Valleys”

2)  Nneka  ~  “Valley”

3)  Led Zeppelin  ~  “Over The Hills And Far Away”

4)  Marina And The Diamonds  ~  “Valley Of The Dolls”

5)  The Weeknd  ~   “The Hills”

6)  The Head And The Heart  ~  “Down In The Valley”

7)  Julie Andrews  ~  “The Sound Of Music”  (The memorable refrain goes: “The hills are alive with the sound of music…” Close enough for government work.)

8)  Caedmon’s Call  ~  “Valleys Fill First”

9)  Mark Knopfler  ~  “Hill Farmer’s Blues”

10)  Jimi Hendrix  ~  “Valleys Of Neptune”

11)  Celtic Woman  ~  “Hills Of Ireland”

12)  The Civil Wars  ~  “From This Valley”

13)  Passenger  ~  “House On A Hill”

14)  Big Country  ~  “Thirteen Valleys”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Over The Hills And Far Away”

16)  Stevie Nicks & Chris Isaak  ~  “Red River Valley”

17)  The Tallest Man On Earth  ~  “Over The Hills”

18)  The Monkees  ~  “Pleasant Valley Sunday”

19)  Emmylou Harris & Mary Black  ~  “Green Rolling Hills”

20)  Widespread Panic ft. Derek Trucks  ~  “Surprise Valley”

21)  Coldplay  ~  “Violet Hill”

22)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Peace In The Valley”

23)  David Bowie  ~  “Up The Hill Backwards”

24)  Mississippi John Hurt  ~  “You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley”

25)  The Pretty Reckless  ~  “House On A Hill”

Songs About Believers

I hadn’t planned on a follow-up post to yesterday’s Songs About Heathens – it just sort of came about naturally. For what it’s worth, I found twice as many good “Believer” songs as “Heathen” ones. And one group here had two hit songs with that word in their titles. Go figure! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Monkees  ~  “I’m A Believer”

2)  American Authors  ~  “Believer”

3)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Oh, Ms. Believer”

4)  Morcheeba  ~  “Make Believer”

5)  Neil Young  ~  “The Believer”

6)  Giant  ~  “I’m A Believer”

7)   Ronnie Milsap  ~  “True Believer”

8)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  “Believer”

9)  The Black Crowes  ~  “Walk, Believer, Walk”

10)  Bill Anderson  ~  “Liars One, Believers Zero”

11)  Christina Milian ~   “Believer”

12)  Level 42  ~  “Believers”

13)  B.B. King  ~  “Midnight Believer”

14)  Phil Keaggy  ~  “True Believers”

15)  Nanci Griffith  ~  “The Last Of The True Believers”

16)  Freemasons ft. Wynter Gordon  ~  “Believer”

17)  Darius Rucker  ~  “True Believers”

18)  The Cult  ~  “True Believers”

19)  38 Special  ~  “Stone Cold Believer”

20)  Jazzanova  ~  “Believer”

21)  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  ~  “Dear Believer”

22)  Tonéx  ~  “Believer”

23)  Mark Chesnutt  ~  “Thank God For Believers”

24)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Believer”

25)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Stone Believer”

26)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Rock & Roll Believer”

27)   The Monkees  ~  “Daydream Believer”

28)  Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius  ~  “Born Believer”

29)  Paper Lions  ~  “Believer”

30)  Sass Jordan  ~  “Make You A Believer”