Thursday, April 23, 2015

What "Life Is"...According To These Artists, At Least

Depending on the artist, you either should or should not take their word for "what life is." Here's a mixed bag of the good, the bad, and the ugly things that  life can be. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Stellar Kart  ~  "Life Is Good"




2)  The Afters  ~  "Life Is Beautiful"




3)  Beth Hart  ~  "Life Is Calling"  (That dude [?] at the beginning is Creepsville!)




4)  Greeley Estates  ~  "Life Is A Garden"




5)  Ronan Keating  ~  "Life Is A Rollercoaster"




6)  Ayo  ~  Life Is Real"




7)  Sixx:A.M.  ~  "Life Is Beautiful"




8)  Coldplay  ~  "Life Is For Living"




9)  Ace Of Base  ~  "Life Is A Flower"




10)  Tom Cochrane  ~  "Life Is A Highway"




11)  Noah And The Whale  ~  "Life Is Life"




12)  Natalie Merchant  ~  "Life Is Sweet"




13)  Faber Drive  ~  "Life Is Waiting"




14)  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  ~  "Life Is Hard"




15)  Carly Simon  ~  "Life Is Eternal"  (You'd think she'd be rich enough to buy a coat that fits! Sheesh!)




16)  Michael Franti & Spearhead  ~  "Life Is Better With You"




17)  The Band  ~  "Life Is A Carnival"




18)  Chaka Khan  ~  "Life Is A Dance"




19)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Life Is A Long Song"




20)  Forgive Durden  ~  "Life Is Looking Up"




21)  Sophie B. Hawkins  ~  "Life Is A River"




22)  Teddy Pendergrass  ~  "Life Is A Song Worth Singing"




23)  Jason Castro  ~  "Life Is Beautiful"




24)  10cc  ~  "Life Is A Minestrone"  (Really? A minestrone? #smh)




25)  Dean Martin & Gisele MacKenzie  ~  "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries"


Wednesday, April 22, 2015

"See" + "Saw" Songs


Rare is the occasion – okay, make that never – when I have come up with an idea for a post for the express purpose of including a Wiz Khalifa song. It hasn't happened before, and probably will never happen again. But it's a good song, and so are the other ones I found, all of which include either the word "See" or "Saw" – or both – in their titles. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Seether  ~  "See You At The Bottom"




2)  Chanté Moore  ~  "Guess Who I Saw Today"




3)  Five Finger Death Punch  ~  "Hard To See"




4)  David Crowder  ~  "I Saw The Light" / "I'll Fly Away"




5)  The Magic Numbers  ~  "I See You, You See Me"




6)  John Mellencamp  ~  "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)"




7)  Passenger  ~  "I See Love"




8)  Johnny Cash  ~  "I Saw A Man"




9)  Coldplay  ~  "How You See The World"




10)  The Beatles  ~  "I Saw Her Standing There"




11)  Mika  ~  "I See You"




12)  Sara Groves  ~  "I Saw What I Saw"




13)  Paramore ft. Joy Williams  ~  "Hate To See Your Heart Break"




14)  Todd Rundgren & Daryl Hall  ~  "I Saw The Light"




15)  Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth  ~  "See You Again"




16)  Warrant  ~  "I Saw Red"




17)  The Kooks  ~  "See Me Now"




18)  Roberta Flack  ~  "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"




19)  Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa  ~  "See Saw"




20)  Ray Stevens  ~  "I Saw Elvis In A U.F.O."




21)  The Script  ~  "If You See Kay"




22)  Gary Barlow  ~  "Since I Saw You Last"




23)  Dido  ~  "See The Sun"




24)  Beth Orton  ~  "I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine"




25)  The Moody Blues  ~  "Ride My See-Saw"


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Songs About Airplanes

Here's a bunch of songs about airplanes, a.k.a. aeroplanes or just-plain planes. Hope you will find them to be – wait for it! – uplifting! Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams  ~  "Airplanes"




2)  Gary Allan  ~  "Watching Airplanes"




3)  Angus & Julia Stone  ~  "Paper Aeroplane"




4)  Status Quo  ~  "Paper Plane"




5)  Brianna Mazzola  ~  "Airplanes"




6)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  "Aeroplane"




7)  Asaf Avidan ft. Rona Kenan  ~  "Jet Plane"




8)  Local Natives  ~  "Airplanes"




9)  M.I.A.  ~  "Paper Planes"




10)  John Mellencamp  ~  "My Aeroplane"




11)  Björk  ~  "Aeroplane"




12)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Astral Planes"




13)  KT Tunstall  ~  "Paper Aeroplane"




14)  Herbert Grönemeyer  ~  "Airplanes In My Head"




15)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Planes"




16)  INXS  ~  "Johnson's Aeroplane"




17)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "Paper Airplane"




18)  The Black Keys  ~  "Aeroplane Blues"




19)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  "Leaving On A Jet Plane"




20)  Balto  ~  "Airplanes"




21)  Céline Dion  ~  "Next Plane Out"




22)  The Legendary Lightness  ~  "Airplane"




23)  Victoria Duffield  ~  "Paper Planes"




24)  Daniel Powter  ~  "Next Plane Home"




25)  Benjamin Francis Leftwich  ~  "Is That You On That Plane?"


Monday, April 20, 2015

Songs About Tools

This...because I have strange ideas for blog posts all the time. And this is yet another one of those. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Imogen Heap  ~  "Rake It In"




2)  AJR  ~  "Pitchfork Kids"




3)  Queen  ~  "Hammer To Fall"




4)  Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers  ~  "Small Axe"




5)  Paul Kelly  ~  "Song Of The Old Rake"




6)  Doomtree  ~  "Bolt Cutter"




7)  Kate Bush  ~  "Hammer Horror"




8)  White Gold  ~  "One Gallon Axe"  (Hilarious!)




9)  Whiskey Myers  ~  "Hard Row To Hoe"




10)  Katie Herzig  ~  "Shovel"




11)  The Breeders  ~  "Divine Hammer"




12)  Fifth Harmony  ~  "Sledgehammer"




13)  The White Stripes  ~  "Screwdriver"




14)  Strand Of Oaks  ~  "Diamond Drill"




15)  Avicii  ~  "Levels"




16)  Pete Seeger  ~  "If I Had A Hammer"




17)  The Sword  ~  "How Heavy This Axe"




18)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn"




19)  Foo Fighters  ~  "Monkey Wrench"




20)  Mr. Big  ~  "Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy (The Electric Drill Song)"




21)  Indigo Girls  ~  "Hammer And A Nail"




22)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Crosscut Saw"




23)  Amy Grant  ~  "Shovel In Hand"




24)  Peter Gabriel  ~  "Sledgehammer"




25)  Smash Mouth  ~  "Justin Bieber"  (What? He IS a "tool," ISN'T he?)