"Bright" Songs

Yay, another "Opposites" music post! Oh, goody, goody, gumdrops! Here's a collection of "Bright" songs. Next time, some "Dim" ones. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Echosmith  ~  "Bright"

2)  The Used  ~  "Together Burning Bright"

3)  Shinedown  ~  "Burning Bright"

4)  Switchfoot  ~  "Burn Out Bright"

5)  Rebelution  ~  "Bright Side Of Life"

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "Bright Lights"

7)  Cloud Cult  ~  "You'll Be Bright"

8)  Placebo  ~  "Bright Lights"

9)  Cee Lo Green & Daryl Hall  ~  "Bright Lights, Bigger City"

10)  Garbage  ~  "Big Bright World"

11)  The Killers  ~  "Mr. Brightside"

12)  Sara Bareilles  ~  "Bright Lights And Cityscapes"

13)  Vanessa Williams  ~  "Star Bright"

14)  Natalie Grant  ~  "Burn Bright (You Were Made To Shine)"

15)  Underoath  ~  "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"

16)  Casey Abrams ft. Orchestra Of People  ~  "Great Bright Morning"  (This is simply gorgeous!)

17)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "Heaven's Bright Shore"

18)  Timbuk 3  ~  "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)"

19)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  "Bright Lights"

20)  Jackson Browne & Eagles  ~  "Your Bright Baby Blues"

Songs About Teachers

I almost forgot to post this one. Today is National Teacher's Day. In honor of that, here's a small collection of songs about Teachers. Sort of. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Teacher"

2)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Good Teacher"

3)  ABBA  ~  "When I Kissed The Teacher"  (These days, that'll get you suspended and get the teacher fired!)

4)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "The Art Teacher"

5)  Big Country  ~  "The Teacher"

6)  Van Halen  ~  "Hot For Teacher"  (Yeah, I went there…sorry, teacher friends.)

7)  Paul Simon  ~  "The Teacher"

8)  George Michael  ~  "One More Try"

9)  Bend Sinister  ~  "Teacher"

10)  Courtni Starr  ~  "Charlie Brown Teacher"

11)  NC.A  ~  "My Student Teacher"  (If you don't speak Korean – like I don't – I'll summarize: She's in love with her teacher. Surprise, surprise!)

12)  Slick Rick  ~  "Teacher, Teacher"

13)  The Police  ~  "Don't Stand So Close To Me"  (Yet another teacher-student romance? Yep.)

14)  Pink Floyd  ~  "Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2"  (Apparently, Pink Floyd thinks you teachers are unnecessary and education is irrelevant.)

15)  Mötley Crüe  ~  "Smokin' In The Boys' Room"  (This one might be a bit of a stretch…)

10 "Awful" Songs

I'd like to tell you that this small collection of "Awful" songs consists entirely of songs which live up to their titles. But, in fact, none of the songs actually qualifies as awful. They range from halfway-decent to just-plain-weird to downright-clever. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Osibisa  ~  "The Coffee Song (They've Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil)"

2)  Ray Stevens  ~  "Erik The Awful"

3)  The Almost  ~  "Awful Direction"

4)  Darryl Worley  ~  "Awful Beautiful Life"

5)  From Indian Lakes  ~  "Awful Things"

6)  Hole  ~  "Awful"

7)  Hurriganes  ~  "An Awful Crime"

8)  Frank Sinatra & Betty Garrett  ~  "You're Awful"

9)  Jackson Scott  ~  "That Awful Sound"

10)  Handsome Handsome  ~  "Awful Truth"

Songs About Dinner And Supper

Here's the third and final installment in my latest miniseries of posts featuring songs about the meals we eat each day. Whatever you call your third meal –  whether it's "Dinner" or "Supper" – here are some songs about it that I hope you'll enjoy.  ~  JH

1)  Big Head Todd & The Monsters  ~  "Dinner With Ivan"

2)  Judy Garland  ~  "Supper Time"

3)  Ronald Isley  ~  "Dinner And A Movie"

4)  The Hoppers  ~  "The Marriage Supper Of The Lamb"

5)  Nikki Nikki  ~  "Home For Dinner"

6)  Greensky Bluegrass  ~  "Less Than Supper"

7)  Motive  ~  "Nobody Eats My Dinner"

8)  VeggieTales  ~  "Supper Hero"

9)  Oasis  ~  "Digsy's Dinner"

10)  Jesus Christ Superstar Cast  ~  "The Last Supper"

11)  Donna Summer  ~  "Dinner With Gershwin"

12)  Jimmie Davis  ~  "Suppertime"

13)  Gene Kelly  ~  "Dig-Dig-Dig-Dig For Your Dinner"

14)  Edens Edge  ~  "Last Supper"

15)  Phish  ~  "Dinner And A Movie"

16)  The Mamas & The Papas  ~  "Sing For Your Supper"

17)  O.A.R.  ~  "Dinner Last Night"

18)  10cc  ~  "Second Sitting For The Last Supper"

19)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "Dinner At Eight"

20)  Genesis  ~  "Supper's Ready"  (This is not your radio-friendly, Phil Collins-era Genesis…This is a 26-minute-long acid trip in the guise of a multi-part song…or something like that.)

Songs About Birds

Apparently, it's Bird Day in the United States. Not National Bird Day, mind you (that's celebrated in early January) – just plain-old Bird Day. So in honor of that, here's a wonderful collection of songs about birds. I say "wonderful" because I had literally hundreds of songs about birds that I could choose from, so I was easily able to choose only the best (in my opinion, at least). No fillers necessary. Enjoy! No, really...enjoy them! Do it now!  ~  JH

1)  Nelly Furtado  ~  "I'm Like A Bird"

2)  The Used  ~  "The Bird And The Worm"

3)  Lindsey Stirling  ~  "Song Of The Caged Bird"

4)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Free Bird"

5)  Far East Movement  ~  "Little Bird"

6)  Angus Stone  ~  "Bird On The Buffalo"

7)  R.E.M.  ~  "King Of Birds"

8)  Leonard Cohen  ~  "Bird On The Wire"

9)  Wild Child  ~  "Crazy Bird"

10)  The Wailin' Jennys  ~  "Bird Song"

11)  Misty Edwards  ~  "Little Bird"

12)  Birdy  ~  "Strange Birds"

13)  Current Swell  ~  "I Want A Bird"

14)  Elvis Costello & The Brodsky Quartet  ~  "The Birds Will Still Be Singing"

15)  Laura Marling  ~  "Little Bird"

16)  Florence + The Machine  ~  "Bird Song"

17)  Iron & Wine  ~  "Flightless Bird, American Mouth"

18)  KT Tunstall  ~  "White Bird"

19)  Goldfrapp  ~  "Little Bird"

20)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  "Bird Of Winter Prey"

21)  Elton John  ~  "High Flying Bird"

22)  Anouk  ~  "Birds"

23)  Grateful Dead  ~  "Bird Song"

24)  Sinéad O'Connor  ~  "Singing Bird"

25)  Regina Spektor  ~  "Two Birds"

Songs About Lunch

Apparently, there haven't been too many good songs written about "Lunch." I was only able to find 10 of them. And here they are. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Caro Emerald  ~  "Liquid Lunch"

2)  You Say Party  ~  "Lonely's Lunch"

3)  Sunshine Anderson  ~  "Lunch Or Dinner"

4)  Jack Bruce & Friends  ~  "Out To Lunch"

5)  Fame Cast  ~  "Hot Lunch"

6)  Captain! Captain!  ~  "Don't Forget Your Lunch!"

7)  Elaine Stritch  ~  "The Ladies Who Lunch"

8)  Savo  ~  "Take You To Lunch"

9)  The Van Allen Belt  ~  "Out To Lunch"

10)  Banana Slug String Band  ~  "Dirt Made My Lunch"