“Happy,” “Happier,” & “Happiest” Songs

Here's a bunch of "Happy," "Happier," and "Happiest" Songs to (hopefully) put a smile on your face, or – at the very least – not depress you further. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Zedd & Elley Duhé  ~  “Happy Now”

2)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Happier”

3)  Donna Fargo  ~  “Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.”

4)  Pharrell Williams  ~  “Happy”

5)  Jennifer Trynin  ~  “Happier”

6)  Charley Pride  ~  “The Happiest Song On The Jukebox”

7)  Katie Melua  ~  “A Happy Place”

8)  Marshmello ft. Bastille  ~  “Happier”

9)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Happiest Girl”

10)  Judy Garland  ~  “Get Happy”

11)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Happier Times”

12)  Tom Fowkes  ~  “The Happiest Days”

13)  Mitski  ~  “Happy”

14)  A Fine Frenzy  ~  “Happier”

15)  Pink Floyd  ~  “The Happiest Days Of Our Lives”

16)  Paramore  ~  “Fake Happy”

17)  Bill Withers  ~  “Hope She’ll Be Happier”

18)  Broken Back  ~  “Happiest Man On Earth”

19)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “If It Makes You Happy”

20)  Teddy Geiger  ~  “Happier?”

21)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Happiest Of Days”

22)  Marina And The Diamonds  ~  “Happy”

23)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Happier Than The Morning Sun”

24)  Clare Maguire  ~  “Happiest Pretenders”

25)  Wild Belle  ~  “Happy Home”

26)  The Corrs  ~  “Would You Be Happier”

27)  Sara & Maybelle Carter  ~  “Happiest Days Of All”

28)  Hedegaard ft. Lukas Graham  ~  “Happy Home”

29)  Sophie Zelmani  ~  “Happier Man”

30)  Machel Montano  ~  “H.M.A. (Happiest Man Alive)”

Songs About Skulls

Continuing with what is apparently an Halloween/fall-related theme of late, here's a set of Songs About Skulls. As it turns out, there aren't a whole lot of good songs with the word "Skull" (or "Skulls") in their titles. But there are fifteen of them...and here they are. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Morrissey  ~  “Something Is Squeezing My Skull”

2)  Röyksopp  ~  “Skulls”

3)  Cloakroom  ~  “Starchild Skull”

4)  Hiatus Kaiyote  ~  “Lace Skull”

5)  Bastille  ~  “Skulls”

6)  Sky-Line  ~  “Skull Thumper”

7)  Frightened Rabbit  ~  “Backyard Skulls”

8)  Guerilla Toss  ~  “Skull Pop”

9)  Megadeth  ~  “The Skull Beneath The Skin”

10)  Kiites  ~  “Indian Skull”

11)  Envy On The Coast  ~  “Sugar Skulls”

12)  Kíruma  ~  “Silver Skull”

13)  Astrid  ~  “Plastic Skull”

14)  Skating Polly  ~  “Cosmetic Skull”

15)  Moon Duo  ~  “Free The Skull”

“Real” & “Fake” Songs, Vol. 3

Last but not least, this rousing set of "Real" and "Fake" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bastille  ~  “Fake It”

2)  Angela Winbush  ~  “It’s The Real Thing”

3)  Joyce Manor  ~  “Fake I.D.”

4)  The Higgins  ~  “Real Thing”

5)  Status Quo  ~  “Fakin’ The Blues”

6)  Sarah Connor  ~  “Real Love”

7)  Sticky Fingers  ~  “Fake A Smile”

8)  Jill Scott  ~  “The Real Thing”

9)  Hockey  ~  “Too Fake”

10)  Derek Johnson  ~  “Real Love”

11)  Husky  ~  “Fake Moustache”

12)  Bon Jovi  ~  “Real Life”

13)  Alexander O’Neal  ~  “Fake”

14)  The Cure  ~  “The Real Snow White”

15)  Guano Apes  ~  “Fake”

16)  Jeff Buckley  ~  “So Real”

17)  Foreign Fields  ~  “Fake Arms”

18)  Lisa Stansfield  ~  “The Real Thing”

19)  Pete Townshend  ~  “Fake It”

20)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Real”

21)  HRVRD  ~  “Kids With Fake Guns”

22)  Skyy  ~  “Real Love”

23)  Deleted Scenes  ~  “Fake IDs”

24)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  “Real Love”

25)  Fair Weather Friends  ~  “Fake Love”

"Current" Songs

They may not be the newest songs. They may not be the Top 40 list, song-for-song. But these songs do all have one thing in common: the word "Current" (or "Currents") in their titles. And so they are..."Current" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bastille  ~  “The Currents”

2)  Eisley  ~  “Currents”

3)  The Dodos  ~  “The Current”

4)  East Hundred  ~  “Current Company”

5)  Said The Whale  ~  “Curse Of The Currents”

6)  Sarah Macintosh  ~  “Current”

7)  The Early November  ~  “In Currents”

8)  Noah Gundersen & The Courage  ~  “The Current State Of Things”

9)  Ida Jo  ~  “The Current”

10)  L Marshall  ~  “The Current”

11)  Talia  ~  “Current”

12)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Boats Against The Current”

13)  Rachel Sermanni  ~  “Black Current”

14)  Alvey-Cullen Group  ~  “Jamaican Current”

15)  Mree  ~  “Against The Current”

16)  If And When We Die  ~  “Against The Current”

17)  After Midnight  ~  “AC-DC Current”

18)  Angie Stevens  ~  “The Current That Carries”

19)  Cast Glass  ~  “Current Scenes”

20)  Squeaky Music  ~  “Current”

21)  Blue Man Group ft. Gavin Rossdale  ~  “The Current”

22)  Vetiver  ~  “Current Carry”

23)  Dew  ~   “Current Of Air”

24)  The Silent Signals  ~  “Caught In The Current”

25)  Dream Spectrum  ~  “Black Current”

Songs About “Things”, Vol. 1

How could such a simple idea – such as gathering a collection of songs with the word "Things" (not "Thing," mind you) in their titles – turn out to be so much fun? I don't know, but it did. There were so many good songs I had to break it up into three posts. Stick with me on these – you won't regret it. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alessia Cara  ~  “Wild Things”

2)  blink-182  ~  “All The Small Things”

3)  Tracy Chapman  ~  “Mountains O’ Things”

4)  George Harrison  ~  “All Things Must Pass”

5)  Lily Allen  ~  “Little Things”

6)  The Cowsills  ~  “The Rain, The Park, & Other Things”

7)  Sarah McMillan  ~  “Glorious Things”

8)  Bastille  ~  “Things We Lost In The Fire”

9)  Little Boots  ~  “Get Things Done”

10)  Bush  ~  “Little Things”

11)  Maggie Lindemann  ~  “Things”

12)  Neon Trees  ~  “First Things First”

13)  Emmy Rossum  ~  “These Foolish Things”

14)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  “Things Are Changin’”

15)  April Smith and the Great Picture Show  ~  “Terrible Things”

16)  Jamison Ross Band  ~  “These Things You Are To Me”

17)  Hayley Westenra  ~  “All Things Bright And Beautiful”

18)  Blue October  ~  “Things We Don’t Know About”

19)  Simple Minds ft. Sarah Brown  ~  “Book Of Brilliant Things”

20)  Counting Crows  ~  “Kid Things”

21)  Pebbles  ~  “Love Makes Things Happen”

22)  Gary Moore  ~  “Shapes Of Things”

23)   Eisley  ~  “Marvelous Things”

24)  Jason Mraz  ~  “3 Things”

25)  San Cisco  ~  “Wild Things”