Songs About Stripping (Not Literally…)

Despite the lurid-sounding title, this post consists primarily of songs with the word "Strip" (in its various forms) in their titles. The "stripping" in question, then, is more or less metaphorical and doesn't actually involve any disrobing. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  "Strip Me"

2)  Disciple  ~  “Stripped Away”

3)  Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot  ~  "Comic Strip"

4)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Stripped”

5)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Strip My Mind”

6)  Julie Grower  ~  “Strip It All Away”

7)  Scarlet Pleasure  ~  “The Strip”

8)  John Lee Hooker  ~  “Stripped Me Naked”

9)  Suzi Quatro  ~  “Strip Me”

10)  Luke Bryan  ~  “Strip It Down”

11)  The Company Stores  ~  “Strip It Away”

12)  Faith No More  ~  “Stripsearch”

13)  Alissa DeGroote  ~  “Strip Away”

14)  Liam Payne ft. Quavo  ~  “Strip That Down”

15)  Sonic Youth  ~  “On The Strip”

16)  Armed Fitness  ~  “C-130 Rolling Down The Strip”

17)  Street Puppets ft. Niko Jane  ~  “Strip Away”

18)  Greg Vail ft. Marc Antoine  ~  “On The Strip”

19)  Roger Waters  ~  “Sunset Strip”

20)  The Standells  ~  “Riot On Sunset Strip”

21)  Clara Mae  ~  “Strip”

22)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Strip Cartoon”

23)  Crawford  ~  “Strip It All Away”

24)  Vicious Rumors  ~  “Strip Search”

25)  Eno • Hyde  ~  “Strip It Down”

BONUS TRACK:  Shiny Toy Guns  ~  “Stripped”  (This is the same song as #4 above, but so uniquely different that it merits inclusion here as well.)

Songs About Seagulls

Raise your hand if you thought I, or anyone, could find 25 Songs About Seagulls that are actually worth listening to. Well, I can't see your hands since this is the Internet and all. But I hope you have that kind of confidence in me. Because here they are. I'm sure you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bad Lip Reading  ~  “Seagulls! (Stop It Now)”  (Instant comedy classic right here! I dare ya to only watch/listen once! I sure can’t.)

2)  Saturday Sun  ~  “Seagull”

3)  XTC  ~  “Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her”

4)  Bad Company  ~  “Seagull”

5)  Kite Flying Society  ~  “Love & Seagulls”

6)  Sonnfjord  ~  “Seagull”

7)  Be-Bop Deluxe  ~  “Sister Seagull”

8)  Engelbert Humperdinck  ~  “Lesbian Seagull”  (This song...I can't even. The fact that it was part of the soundtrack to the Beavis And Butthead movie pretty much explains everything, I suppose.)

9)  Davide Buffoli Band  ~  “Seagull Kingdom”

10)  Kimya Dawson  ~  “Angels And Seagulls”

11)  Tuohi Quartet  ~  “Seagull”

12)  Love Sculpture  ~  “Seagull”

13)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Jonathan Livingston Seagull Suite”

14)  Sophie Barker  ~  “Seagull”

15)  Kayak  ~  “Seagull”

16)  Living Hour  ~  “Seagull”

17)  Niall Connolly  ~  “The Seagull”

18)  Steeleye Span  ~  “Seagull”

19)  Ride  ~  “Seagull”

20)  Superwalkers  ~  “Seagulls”

21)  Carnival Youth  ~  “Seagulls On Bicycles”  (By far the strangest video I’ve seen in, oh, at least a week.)

22)  Kate Nash  ~  “I Hate Seagulls”

23)  Van Susans  ~  “Seagulls”

24)  Joni Mitchell  ~  “Song To A Seagull”

25)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Seagull”  (This is the same song as the one by Bad Company above. But it's equally beautiful in its own right, thanks to some gorgeous instrumentation by Joe and his band.)

Songs About Gravy

This week, I'll take a break from the "Popular Songs Of..." posts to regale you with a variety of posts featuring songs about extremely random things. Not that the songs contained within are anything to balk at – they're really good, for the most part – but the subjects I chose for song collections are, well, "interesting." For example: Songs About Gravy. Dig in...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  “Nicotine & Gravy”

2)  Mark Knopfler & Sonny Landreth  ~  “Gravy Train”

3)  Áine Crehan  ~  “Gravy”

4)  George Benson  ~  “Giblet Gravy”

5)  Caballero Reynaldo & The Grand Kazoo  ~  “Lumpy Gravy”

6)  The Soul Motivators  ~  “Gravy Train”

7)  Flyying Colours  ~  “Wavygravy”

8)  Dale Watson & The Texas Two  ~  “My Baby Makes Me Gravy”

9)  Romeo ft. Christina Milian  ~  “It’s All Gravy”

10)  The Sagittarians  ~  “Good Gravy”

11)  Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition  ~  “Who’ll Sop My Gravy”

12)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Biscuits”  (No, the word “gravy” doesn’t appear in the title of this song, but it is prominent throughout. Plus, this is a super-cute ditty, so here it is…)

13)  Paul Kelly  ~  “How To Make Gravy”

14)  Bobby Bare ft. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ray Sawyer, & Shel Silverstein  ~  “Greasy Grit Gravy”

15)  The Manhattan Transfer  ~  “Pork Chops And Gravy”

16)  Climax Blues Band  ~  “Sav’ry Gravy”

17)  Dingus Khan  ~  “Dustbin Gravy”

18)  Phantom Limb  ~  “Gravy Train”

19)  Okey Dokey  ~  “Wavy Gravy”

20)  Pirates Of The Mississippi  ~  “Gravy”

21)  Julie O’Hara  ~  “Gravy Waltz”

22)  Soulfinger  ~  “Grits & Gravy”

23)  Sideline  ~  “Soppin' The Gravy”

24)  Homer & Jethro  ~  “Bread ’N Gravy”

25)  Jo Stafford  ~  “Ridin' On The Gravy Train”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 5

Well, here it is. My last chance to post your favorite song(s) from thirty years ago. Hopefully, I covered all the good ones. If not, let me know what I missed. I hope you will... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “I Get Weak”

2)  Bobby Brown  ~  “My Prerogative”

3)  R.E.M.  ~  “Stand”

4)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “Strong Enough To Bend”

5)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Sign Your Name”

6)  Aerosmith  ~  “Rag Doll”

7)  Vixen  ~  “Edge Of A Broken Heart”

8)  Ricky Van Shelton  ~  “Don’t We All Have The Right”

9)  Bobby McFerrin  ~  “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

10)  Patrick Swayze ft. Wendy Fraser  ~  “She’s Like The Wind”

11)  Rodney Crowell  ~  “I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried”

12)  Amy Grant  ~  “Lead Me On”

13)  Exile  ~  “I Can’t Get Close Enough”

14)  Poison  ~  “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”

15)  Taylor Dayne  ~  “Prove Your Love”

16)  George Michael  ~  “Father Figure”

17)  Def Leppard  ~  “Love Bites”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Just Say Yes”

19)  Richard Marx  ~  “Should’ve Known Better”

20)  Brenda Russell  ~  “Piano In The Dark”

21)  Kix  ~  “Don't Close Your Eyes"

22)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Smooth Criminal”

23)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Paradise City”

24)  Whitney Houston  ~  “One Moment In Time”

25)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Roll With It”

26)  The Judds  ~  “Turn It Loose”