Monday, November 30, 2015

Songs About Biscuits

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I still have food on the brain, apparently. Here's a small collection of songs about biscuits. Dig in and enjoy!  ~  JH


1)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Biscuits”




2)  Helmet  ~  “Biscuits For Smut”




3)  The Jezabels  ~  “Disco Biscuit Love”




4)  Colt Ford  ~  “Chicken & Biscuits”




5)  The Blues Brothers  ~  “Rubber Biscuit”




6)  The White Stripes  ~  “Ball And Biscuit”




7)  The Collins Kids  ~  “Please Pass The Biscuits”




8)  Daron Norwood  ~  “Bad Dog, No Biscuit”




9)  Tyler Rix  ~  “The Biscuit Song”




10)  Chillinuts  ~  “Biscuit”




11)  Spike Jones & His City Slickers  ~  “Pass The Biscuits, Mirandy”




12)  Studio Jams  ~  “Butter Biscuit”




13)  China Drum  ~  “Biscuit Barrel”




14)  The Lonely Biscuits  ~  “The Lonely Biscuit”




15)  Dred Scott Trio  ~  “King Biscuit”



Tuesday, November 24, 2015

"Crap" Songs

In honor of the fact that both yesterday and today, I have felt like total crap, here's a mercifully short collection of songs with the word "Crap" in their titles. Despite what you might think, these are all pretty good songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH


1)  Neil Young  ~  “Piece Of Crap”




2)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me”




3)  Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, & Robert Merrill  ~  “The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)”




4)  Sparks  ~  “I Can’t Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song”




5)  Irma  ~  “Watching Crap On TV”




6)  Custard ft. Daryl Somers  ~  “Music Is Crap”




7)  The Wiyos  ~  “Dying Crap Shooter’s Blues”




8)  Daily Thompson  ~  “Spit Out The Crap”




9)  Bubba Hernandez y Los Super Vatos  ~  “Crappy Boyfriend”


Thursday, November 19, 2015

"Hopeful" & "Hopeless" Songs

Here's an all-in-one (imagine that?) "Opposites" music post featuring songs with the words "Hopeful" and "Hopeless" in their titles. Because it seemed like a good idea at the time, that's why. And it still does, for that matter. Enjoy!  ~  JH


1)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Hopeless”




2)  Josh Ritter  ~  “Hopeful”




3)  Train  ~  “Hopeless”




4)  Bear Mountain  ~  “Hopeful”




5)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “Hopeless Wanderer”




6)  Cord Of 3  ~  “Broken But Undeniably Hopeful”




7)  Imagine Dragons  ~  “Hopeless Opus”




8)  This Century  ~  “Hopeful Romantic”




9)  The Corrs  ~  “Hopelessly Addicted”




10)  M’lissa  ~  “Hopefully”




11)  Good Charlotte  ~  “The Young & The Hopeless”




12)  FoxVille  ~  “Hopeful Serenade”




13)  Lilly Wood & The Prick  ~  “Hopeless Kids”




14)  The Sheriff  ~  “The Hopeful Bluebird”




15)  Widespread Panic  ~  “Hope In A Hopeless World”




16)  Ahad Abid  ~  “Hopeful Silence”




17)  Lee Greenwood & Suzy Bogguss  ~  “Hopelessly Yours”




18)  Infidelities  ~  “Hopeful Kind Of Sad”




19)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Hopelessly Devoted To You”




20)  Emirsian  ~   “Hopeful”




21)  Journey  ~  “The Party Is Over (Hopelessly In Love)”




22)  Hannah Grace  ~  “Hopeful”




23)  Jessica Andrews  ~  “Helplessly, Hopelessly”




24)  Livia Ferri  ~  “Hopefully”




25)  Rick Astley  ~  “Hopelessly”

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

“Puzzle”-ing Songs

Here's a curious bunch of songs which you may find "Puzzle"-ing. Primarily because each tune in this collection contains the word "Puzzle" (or one of its derivatives) in its title. So furrow your brow and enjoy 'em already!  ~  JH


1)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  “Puzzle Piece”




2)  Saint Motel  ~  “Puzzle Pieces”




3)  Ane Brun  ~  “The Puzzle”




4)  Slash’s Snakepit  ~  “Jigsaw Puzzle”




5)  Wizzy  ~  “Puzzle Pieces”




6)  Pretty City  ~  “Piece Of The Puzzle”




7)  Ilse DeLange  ~  “Puzzle Me”




8)  Justin Young ft. Colbie Caillat  ~  “Puzzle Pieces”




9)  Lina Ohta  ~  “Puzzle-Riddle”




10)  Tobbe Daun  ~  “Puzzle”




11)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Stuck On The Puzzle”




12)  Friends Electric  ~  “Puzzle Pieces”




13)  Erin & The Wildfire  ~  “Puzzles”




14)  Copious Jones  ~  “Puzzle Box”




15)  Brequette  ~  “Puzzle Together”




16)  Lou Barlow  ~  “Puzzle”




17)  Sarah Bowman  ~  “Puzzle”




18)  Joseph Myers  ~  “Puzzles And Places”




19)  Brittany Ann  ~  “Puzzle Pieces”




20)  Hus Hodja  ~  “Puzzle”



Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Songs About Paris

And now there's this post...for obvious reasons. Vive la France!  ~  JH



1)  Yael Naïm  ~  “Paris”




2)  Morrissey  ~  “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”




3)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “Paris Nights / New York Mornings”




4)  Bénabar  ~  “Paris By Night”




5)  Rupa & the April Fishes  ~  “Une américaine a Paris”




6)  Florence Coste & Julien Dassin  ~  “Sous Le Ciel De Paris”




7)  Karen Souza  ~  “Paris”




8)  Mickey 3d  ~  “Paris T’es Belle”




9)  Little Dragon  ~  “Paris”




10)  Ben Rector  ~  “Paris”




11)  The Hot Sardines  ~  “I Love Paris”




12)  John Denver  ~  “A Country Girl In Paris”




13)  St. Vincent  ~  “Paris Is Burning”




14)  Chris de Burgh  ~  “A Rainy Night In Paris”




15)  Joni Mitchell  ~  “Free Man In Paris”




16)  Swervedriver  ~  “Cars Converge On Paris”




17)  Ella Fitzgerald  ~  “April In Paris”




18)  Raúl Di Blasio  ~  “Luna de Paris”




19)  Ladyhawke  ~  “Paris Is Burning”




20)  Riff Cohen  ~  “A Paris”



Monday, November 16, 2015

Songs About "Singers"

In previous entries, I've done "Songs About Songs," "Songs About Music," and the like. But I've never done a post featuring Songs About Singers. Or, more specifically, songs with the word "Singer" (or its plural) in their titles. Well, now is as good a time as any, so let's go! Enjoy!  ~  JH


1)  Cake  ~  “Opera Singer”




2)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “The Singer”




3)  The Moody Blues  ~  “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)”




4)  Anna Nalick  ~  “The Lullaby Singer”




5)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Pop Singer”




6)  Bee Gees  ~  “The Singer Sang His Song”




7)  The Decemberists  ~  “The Singer Addresses His Audience”




8)  Sonny & Cher  ~  “Mama Was A Rock And Roll Singer”




9)  Teitur  ~  “The Singer”




10)  Animal Collective  ~  “Another White Singer”




11)  The Tallest Man On Earth  ~  “Singers”




12)  Gaither Homecoming ft. Mary Tom Speer-Reid  ~  “When All God’s Singers Get Home”




13)  Ty Segall  ~  “The Singer”




14)  Califone  ~  “Funeral Singers”




15)  David Phelps  ~  “The Singer”




16)  Miranda Colchester  ~  “The Singer”




17)  Jimi Jamison  ~  “It’s The Singer, Not The Song”




18)  Vince Freeman  ~  “The Singer”




19)  Kevin Max  ~  “Return Of The Singer”




20)  Elkie Brooks  ~  “Pearl’s A Singer”