"Kind" Songs

Here's the follow-up to yesterday's "Mean" songs post. While not technically an "Opposites" music post (a few different definitions of the word "Kind" are employed here), it's as close to one as I could get based on what I had to work with. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Queen  ~  "A Kind Of Magic"

2)  Carpenters  ~  "There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)"

3)  Emerson Drive  ~  "She's My Kind Of Crazy"

4)  BRAIDS  ~  "In Kind"

5)  Tyler Ward ft. Lindsey Stirling  ~  "Some Kind Of Beautiful"

6)  Miranda Lambert  ~  "All Kinds Of Kinds"

7)  Bigbang  ~  "One Of A Kind"  (This song is from the early '00s, but it has a distinctly '70s "classic rock" sound – nice!)

8)  Mama Cass  ~  "Make Your Own Kind Of Music"

9)  Robert Plant  ~  "Hurting Kind"

10)  Letters To Cleo  ~  "Cruel To Be Kind"

11)  Phil Collins  ~  "A Groovy Kind Of Love"

12)  Girls Aloud  ~  "The Loving Kind"

13)  Mint Condition  ~  "What Kind Of Man Would I Be?"

14)  No Doubt  ~  "Simple Kind Of Life"

15)  Metallica  ~  "Some Kind Of Monster"

16)  Emeli Sandé  ~  "My Kind Of Love"  (WARNING: There are a few instances in this video when a potentially offensive word appears on the screen in close-up – however, after watching the video you'll understand that the use of this word is condemned here, and not glorified.)

17)  Brooks & Dunn  ~  "She's Not The Cheatin' Kind"

18)  Anastacia  ~  "Not That Kind"

19)  Nick Lowe  ~  "Cruel To Be Kind"

20)  Lady Antebellum  ~  "Our Kind Of Love"

21)  Shealeigh  ~  "Be Kind"

22)  Kylie Minogue  ~  "Some Kind Of Bliss"

23)  Confederate Railroad  ~  "Daddy Never Was The Cadillac Kind"

24)  Patty Loveless  ~  "I'm That Kind Of Girl"

25)  Group 1 Crew  ~  "His Kind Of Love"

"Mean" Songs

Just when you thought I'd run out of ideas for "Opposites" music posts, here comes another one. This is – just as it sounds – a collection of songs with "Mean" in the title. Next up, though it's not quite a perfect opposite, per se, is a collection of songs with "Kind" in the title. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Mean Woman Blues"

2)  Spacehog  ~  "In The Meantime"

3)  Alicia Keys  ~  "Doesn't Mean Anything"

4)  The Killers  ~  "Smile Like You Mean It"

5)  Oasis  ~  "D'You Know What I Mean?"

6)  Zara Taylor  ~  "Words Don't Mean The Same Thing To You"

7)  Switchfoot  ~  "Meant To Live"

8)  Taylor Swift  ~  "Mean"

9)  Duke Ellington And His Orchestra  ~  "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"

10)  JJ Heller  ~  "What Love Really Means"

11)  Dean Geyer  ~  "If You Don't Mean It"

12)  Savannah Berry  ~  "Love Me Like You Mean It"

13)  Robert Palmer  ~  "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"

14)  Sky-Pony  ~  "Say You Love Me Like You Mean It"

15)  Stars Go Dim  ~  "Like I Mean It"

16)  Cults  ~  "You Know What I Mean"

17)  Tonic  ~  "Mean To Me"

18)  The Like  ~  "What I Say And What I Mean"

19)  Robert Earl Keen  ~  "What I Really Mean"

20)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "She's So Mean"

Songs For April Fools

Here we have a surprisingly good, albeit hastily-thrown-together grouping of songs which are loosely related, not necessarily to the spirit of the day itself, but rather to the words that make it up. Whatever it is, here it is. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Imaginary Future ft. Kina Grannis  ~  "April"

2)  Cinderella  ~  "Nobody's Fool"

3)  The Mess  ~  "April Showers"

4)  Westlife  ~  "Fool Again"

5)  Rupa & The April Fishes  ~  "Une américaine a Paris"

6)  The Strokes  ~  "Taken For A Fool"

7)  April Verch Band  ~  "Broken"

8)  Elvin Bishop ft. Mickey Thomas  ~  "Fooled Around And Fell In Love"

9)  Delain  ~  "April Rain"

10)  The Ark  ~  "It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane"

11)  April Wine  ~  "I Like To Rock"

12)  Melody Gardot  ~  "Baby, I'm A Fool"

13)  Dragon  ~  "April Sun In Cuba"

14)  The Cardigans  ~  "Lovefool"

15)  April Smith and the Great Picture Show  ~  "Terrible Things"

16)  Doobie Brothers  ~  "What A Fool Believes"

17)  Dead By April  ~  "Calling"  (This song'd be so much better without that bit with the screaming. To each his own, I suppose…)

18)  Peter Cetera  ~  "Even A Fool Can See"

19)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "April Fools"

20)  The Beatles  ~  "The Fool On The Hill"

Songs About Hands

I did a post of "Songs About Feet" awhile back, so this one was bound to show up sooner or later. As with that previous post, this is not some wackadoo fetish thing. Rather, it's just a bunch of songs with "Hand" or "Hands" in the titles. Some classic music here by well-known singers and bands, as well as a few real gems by lesser-known artists. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Fuel  ~  "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"

2)  Breathe  ~  "Hands To Heaven"

3)  Cascada  ~  "The World Is In My Hands"

4)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  "The Hand That Feeds"

5)  The Beatles  ~  "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

6)  Nelly Furtado  ~  "In God's Hands"

7)  The Coronas  ~  "Someone Else's Hands"

8)  Seether  ~  "Tied My Hands"

9)  Alanis Morissette  ~  "Hands Clean"

10)  Michael Jackson & Akon  ~  "Hold My Hand"

11)  Charlie Winston  ~  "In Your Hands"

12)  Nerina Pallot  ~  "Put Your Hands Up"

13)  Hootie & The Blowfish  ~  "Hold My Hand"

14)  Walk Off The Earth  ~  "Red Hands"

15)  Keaton Henson  ~  "Small Hands"

16)  Holly Dunn  ~  "Daddy's Hands"

17)  Benjamin Francis Leftwich  ~  "Atlas Hands"

18)  JJ Heller  ~  "Your Hands"

19)  The Almost  ~  "Hands"

20)  Randy Travis  ~  "Look Heart, No Hands"

21)  Natalie Grant  ~  "In Better Hands"

22)  Milow  ~  "Out Of My Hands"

23)  Chris Tomlin  ~  "I Lift My Hands"

24)  Jewel  ~  "Hands"

25)  Georgia Satellites  ~  "Keep Your Hands To Yourself"