Songs About Flowers

This could easily be an extremely boring post full of happy little tunes about flowers. But that's not how I roll. Sure, there are a couple of predictable choices here, but there are even more "outside-the-box" songs to give you all kinds of feels. Most by really well-known artists, too. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bruno Mars  ~  “When I Was Your Man”  (This song might as well be called “I Should Have Bought You Flowers” – it’s not, but it easily could be.)

2)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “Dead Flowers”

3)  Radiohead  ~  “Lotus Flower”

4)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Flower”

5)  The Statler Brothers  ~  “Flowers On The Wall”

6)  Roxette  ~  “Fading Like A Flower”

7)  Soundgarden  ~  “Flower”

8)  Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand  ~  “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”

9)  5 After Midnight  ~  “Flowers”

10)  Chelsea Wolfe  ~  “Carrion Flowers”

11)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Supermarket Flowers”

12)  Talking Heads ft. Kirsty MacColl  ~  “(Nothing But) Flowers”

13)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Dead Flowers”

14)  The Lumineers  ~  “Flowers In Your Hair”

15)  Amos Lee  ~  “Flower”

16)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Life Is A Flower”

17)  The Cult  ~  “Wild Flower”

18)  Ward Thomas  ~  “Guilty Flowers”

19)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Automatic Flowers”

20)  Company Of Thieves  ~  “Nothing’s In The Flowers”

21)  Thom Yorke  ~  “Last Flowers”  (Two Thom Yorke sightings in one post? Enjoy, Radiohead fans, as this may never happen again.)

22)  Moby ft. Ingyang Bassey  ~  “Flower”

23)  Erik Hassle  ~  “Don’t Bring Flowers”

24)  Mazzy Star  ~  “Flowers In December”

25)  Cody Simpson  ~  “Flower”

Whistling Songs, Vol. 4

Now we've come to the end of this miniseries. This set of songs is less of the ooh-ooh-I've-been-waiting-to-hear-that-one variety, and more of the I-like-that-song-but-I-never-realized-it-had-whistling-in-it or I've-never-heard-that-song-but-that's-some-darn-fine-whistling type. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Mike & The Mechanics  ~  “Over My Shoulder”

2)  Leonard Cohen  ~  “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong”

3)  De La Soul  ~  “Eye Know”

4)  Nelly Furtado  ~  “All Good Things (Come To An End)”

5)  Roger Miller  ~  “Whistle Stop”

6)  Focus  ~  “Hocus Pocus”

7)  Commodores  ~  “Brick House”

8)  Madonna  ~  “Gambler”

9)  Annibale E I Cantori Moderni  ~  “Trinity (Titoli)”

10)  Fallulah  ~  “Work Song”

11)  Gigi D’Agostino  ~  “The Riddle”

12)  Berlin  ~  “Like Flames”

13)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Go Gentle”

14)  Bruce Johnston  ~  “Disney Girls”

15)  Björk  ~  “Isobel”

16)  Roger Whittaker  ~  “Finnish Whistler”

17)  Bernard Herrmann  ~  “Twisted Nerve”

18)  Wilco  ~  “Dawned On Me”

19)  Meg Myers  ~  “Go”

20)  Daedelus  ~  “Bright Stars”

21)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Workin’ On A Dream”

22)  Guy Mitchell  ~  “Singing The Blues”

23)  Reubens Accomplice  ~  “Field Science”

24)  The Walkmen  ~  “On The Water”

25)  Ace Of Base  ~  “All That She Wants”

“Cruel” & “Unusual” Songs

Here's a refreshing one-off – no "Opposites," no multi-part series. Just a regular-old collection of songs with the words "Cruel" and/or "Unusual" in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Cruel Summer”

2)  Tom Jones  ~  “It’s Not Unusual”

3)  The Veronicas  ~  “Cruel”

4)  Chiodos  ~  “I’m Awkward & Unusual”

5)  Nick Lowe  ~  “Cruel To Be Kind”

6)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  “Unusual”

7)  St. Vincent  ~  “Cruel”

8)  Eli Lieb  ~  “Unusual You”

9)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Don’t Be Cruel”

10)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “An Unusual Kiss”

11)  U2  ~  “So Cruel”

12)  Gail Farrell, Ralna English, Sandi Griffiths, & Sally Flynn  ~  “It’s A Most Unusual Day”

13)  Jessie Ware  ~  “Cruel”

14)  Nicole Kidman  ~  “Unusual Way”

15)  Band Of Horses  ~  “Slow Cruel Hands Of Time”

16)  Mary Costa & Bill Shirley  ~  “An Unusual Prince/Once Upon A Dream”

17)  Foxes  ~  “Cruel”

18)  Front 242  ~  “Quite Unusual”

19)  Tori Amos  ~  “Cruel”

20)  Helen Kane  ~  “He’s So Unusual”  (Bonus Track: “The Prep Step”)

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"

21 Songs With "Twenty-One" In The Title

My wife is 21 weeks pregnant today, so there's this. I keep promising that I'll stop doing these soon, but I keep breaking those promises. So I'll say it again, but you don't have to believe me – this *should* be one of the last of its kind, but...you know how that goes. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Green Day  ~  "21 Guns"

2)  Jack White  ~  "Freedom At 21"

3)  Serj Tankian ft. The F.C.C. & Tom Morello  ~  "Goodbye – Gate 21"

4)  Alanis Morissette  ~  "21 Things I Want In A Lover"

5)  Neon Trees  ~  "Love In The 21st Century"

6)  Coheed and Cambria  ~  "21:13"

7)  Punchline  ~  "21 Forever"

8)  Delilah  ~  "21"

9)  Bad Religion  ~  "21st Century Digital Boy"

10)  RAGE  ~  "Twenty-One"

11)  Corey Smith  ~  "Twenty-One"

12)  Ace Of Base  ~  "C'est La Vie (Always 21)"

13)  Violet Cities  ~  "Twenty-One Tears"

14)  Doug Supernaw  ~  "21-17"

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15)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  "21st Century"

16)  The Cranberries  ~  "Twenty-One"

17)  NGHBRS  ~  "Twenty-One Rooms"

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18)  The Adverts  ~  "No Time To Be 21"

19)  Helix  ~  "Running Wild In The 21st Century"

20)  Chuck Berry  ~  "21 Blues"

21)   Eagles  ~  "Twenty-One"