“Inner” & “Outer” Songs

Here's a brand-new collection of songs for your listening pleasure. "Inner" & "Outer" Songs, to be exact. If you like them, let me know. If you don't, don't. I'm better off not knowing. And...GO!  ~  JH



1)  Julia Brennan  ~  “Inner Demons”

2)  t.A.T.u.  ~  “Cosmos (Outer Space)”

3)  Marvin Gaye  ~  “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler)”

4)  IQ  ~  “Outer Limits”

5)  Connie Talbot  ~  “Inner Beauty”

6)  Hands Like Houses  ~  “A Tale Of Outer Suburbia”

7)  Pet Shop Boys  ~  “Inner Sanctum”

8)  Do Make Say Think  ~  “Outer Inner Secret”

9)  Jeff Lynne & Anoushka Shankar  ~  “The Inner Light”

10)  Levi Stubbs  ~  “Mean Green Mother From Outer Space”

11)  Classified ft. Olly Murs  ~  “Inner Ninja”

12)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)”

13)  311  ~  “Inner Light Spectrum”

14)  Catey Shaw  ~  “Outerspace”

15)  Flight Of The Conchords  ~  “Inner City Pressure”

16)  Sparks  ~  “A Fun Bunch Of Guys From Outer Space”

17)  Anathema  ~  “Inner Silence”

18)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Outer Scorpion Squadron”

19)  Diabulus In Musica  ~  “Inner Force”

20)  Janet Devlin  ~  “Outernet Song”

21)  Texas  ~  “Inner Smile”

22)  Default Minds  ~  “Kids From Outer Space”

23)  CloZee  ~  “Inner Peace”

24)  Gregers  ~  “Outer Space”

25)  Sivert Høyem  ~  “Inner Vision”

26)  Skating Polly  ~  “Louder In Outer Space”

"Beautiful" Songs

If I didn't tell you this "theme" was a reboot from four-and-a-half years ago (on my original "The Plural Of Hyena" blog, no less), I'm sure you never would have remembered. But it is. And with good reason. Four-and-a-half years ago, I wasn't quite as adept at finding the perfect mix of well-known and lesser-known songs, which should (in theory) tip slightly in favor of the more well-known ones. Also, some of the really good songs included in this two-parter weren't even released four-and-a-half years ago. So here they are. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lana Del Rey  ~  “Young And Beautiful”

2)  R.E.M.  ~  “At My Most Beautiful”

3)  Sofia Carson ft. Alan Walker  ~  “Back To Beautiful”

4)  Diamond Rio  ~  “Beautiful Mess”

5)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Beautiful”

6)  Zedd ft. Jon Bellion  ~  “Beautiful Now”

7)  Grace VanderWaal  ~  “Beautiful Thing”

8)  Prince  ~  “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”

9)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Beautiful Life”

10)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Beautiful”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”

13)  Ellie Holcomb  ~  “The Broken Beautiful”

14)  The Rascals  ~  “A Beautiful Morning”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Bye Bye Beautiful”

16)  Sean Kingston  ~  “Beautiful Girls”

17)  John Lennon  ~  “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

18)  Aniri  ~  “Beautiful Life”

19)  Jeremy Camp  ~  “Beautiful One”  (To skip all the introductions, proceed directly to the 2:00 mark. Otherwise, you’ll get to know everyone in the band.)

20)  Joydrop  ~  “Beautiful”

21)  Mali Music  ~  “Beautiful”

22)  P!nk  ~  “Beautiful Trauma”

23)  Damian Marley ft. Bobby Brown  ~  “Beautiful”

24)  Tess  ~  “Dark But Beautiful”

25)  Moby  ~  “Beautiful”  (Really good song! Really creepy video!)

Songs About The Month Of July, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of songs about the month of July. If you like 'em, good news, there's more of 'em tomorrow! If you don't like 'em, bad news, there's more of 'em tomorrow! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  311  ~  “Sunset In July”

2)  Laura Veirs  ~  “July Flame”

3)  Uriah Heep  ~  “July Morning”

4)  Kris Wu  ~  “July”

5)  Soundgarden  ~  “4th Of July”

6)  The Bombpops  ~  “CA In July”

7)  Sally Shapiro  ~  “Love In July”

8)  Little Hurricane  ~  “Fourth Of July”

9)  Jason Michael Carroll  ~  “Love Like July”

10)  Bon Jovi  ~  “Miss Fourth Of July”

11)  Ocean Colour Scene  ~  “July”

12)  Wild Pink  ~  “4th Of July / Great Apes”

13)  The Decemberists  ~  “July, July!”

14)  Katatonia  ~  “July”

15)  Aimee Mann  ~  “4th Of July”

16)  Ernie Halter  ~  “In July”

17)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “Fourth Of July”

18)  Charlie Worsham  ~  “Mississippi In July”

19)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  “Fourth Of July”

20)  Sarah Brightman  ~  “Winter In July”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 4

Last but not least (I use that phrase a lot on this blog, don't I?), the final installment in the Popular Songs Of 1997 series. Next week, tune in for what's sure to be an even better bunch of songs. Because, of course, we will be exploring the most Popular Songs Of 1987. Meanwhile, enjoy these great songs!  ~  JH

1)  Green Day  ~  “Hitchin’ A Ride”

2)  En Vogue  ~  “Don’t Let Go (Love)”

3)  Hanson  ~  “MMMBop”

4)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Building A Mystery”

5)  U2  ~  “Staring At The Sun”

6)  Blur  ~  “Song 2”

7)  Robyn  ~  “Show Me Love”

8)  White Town  ~  “Your Woman”

9)  Aaliyah  ~  “The One I Gave My Heart To”

10)  Toby Keith  ~  “Me Too”

11)  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones  ~  “The Impression That I Get”

12)  Spice Girls  ~  “2 Become 1”

13)  Savage Garden  ~  “Truly Madly Deeply”

14)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

15)  Sister Hazel  ~  “All For You”

16)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Sleep To Dream”

17)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Three Marlenas”

18)  Usher  ~  “You Make Me Wanna…”

19)  Bush  ~  “Mouth”

20)  Diamond Rio  ~  “How Your Love Makes Me Feel”

21)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Everlong”

22)  Marcy Playground  ~  “Sex And Candy”

23)  Beck  ~  “The New Pollution”

24)  Az Yet  ~  “Hard To Say I’m Sorry”

25)  Counting Crows  ~  “Daylight Fading”

"Disaster" Songs

Here we have a set of songs which are utterly disastrous! No, not really. But they all do have the word "Disaster" in their titles. For whatever that's worth. Ready, set, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

2)  JoJo ~  “Disaster”

3)  Jon McLaughlin  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

4)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “A Disaster”

5)  Taking Back Sunday  ~  “Your Own Disaster”

6)  Cowboy Junkies  ~  “A Common Disaster”

7)  KRS-One  ~  “Disaster Kit”  (This public service announcement was brought to you by KRS-One, hip-hop artist.)

8)  The Arrows  ~  “Disaster Queen”

9)  Molly Hatchet  ~  “Flirtin’ With Disaster”

10)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Good Disaster”

11)  U2  ~  “Springhill Mining Disaster”

12)  Toy Soldier  ~  “Natural Disaster”

13)  Gnarls Barkley  ~  “Run (I’m A Natural Disaster)”

14)  Kopecky Family Band  ~  “Disaster”

15)  Plain White T’s  ~  “Natural Disaster”

16)  Whitehorse  ~  “Sweet Disaster”

17)  Bee Gees  ~  “New York Mining Disaster 1941”

18)  Kady Z  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

19)  T. Hardy Morris  ~  “Disaster Proof”

20)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

21)  It Bites  ~  “Great Disasters”

22)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Miniature Disasters”

23)  Papa San  ~  “Disaster”

24)  Storyline  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

25)  Steep Canyon Rangers  ~  “Natural Disaster”