Songs About Exile

Here's a bunch of songs about being in exile. Because that's what most of this year feels like anyway. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Taylor Swift & Bon Iver  ~  "Exile"

2)  Rising  ~  "Hunger And Exile"

3)  Enya  ~  "Exile"

4)  Manic Street Preachers  ~  "Love's Sweet Exile"

5)  Soilwork  ~  "Exile"

6)  Sabaton  ~  "Aces In Exile"

7)  Sahara Line  ~  "Exile"

8)  Pale Moon  ~  "Exile"

9)  Elwood Stray  ~  "Exile"

10)  Ty Brasel  ~  "Phoenix In Exile"

11)  Lucky Dube  ~  "House Of Exile"

12)  Johanna Glaza  ~  "Exile"

13)  Forgotten Scream  ~  "Exile"

14)  Daphne And The Fuzz  ~  "Exile"

15)  The Tower  ~  "Exile"

16)  Hurts  ~  "Exile"

17)  Kory Bard  ~  "Exile"

18)  Beirut  ~  "Varieties Of Exile"

19)  White Hills  ~  "Spirit Of Exile"

20)  Audioslave  ~  "Out Of Exile"

Songs About Things You'd Find In A First Aid Kit

I think of really weird things to post sometimes. But they generally turn out pretty good. Case in point, this collection of tunes. Enjoy!  ~  JH


1)  Kyra  ~  "Bandages"

2)  Deftones  ~  "Gauze"

3)  Alice Cooper  ~  "Aspirin Damage"

4)  Ezra Furman  ~  "Thermometer"

5)  Hot Hot Heat  ~  "Bandages"

6)  Down The Lees  ~  "Antiseptic Heart"

7)  Red Red Meat  ~  "Gauze"

8)  Journeyman  ~  "Bandage Blues"  (Quite possibly the dullest music video I've ever seen. But the song's pretty good -- his guitar-playing skills, in particular. His vocals could be smoother, though. Haha! I'm one to talk!)

9)  Beirut  ~  "Gauze für Zah"

  
10)  Hey Rosetta  ~  "Bandages"

11)  the HIATUS  ~  "Antibiotic"

12)  Good Grief  ~  "Cold Compress"

13)  Cherry Monroe  ~  "Bandages"

14)  Enter Shikari  ~  "Arguing With Thermometers"

15)  Gleemer  ~  "Gauze"

16)  36 Crazyfists  ~  "Bandage For Promise"

17)  Maddie Poppe  ~  "First Aid Kit"  (And, of course, a song specifically about a First Aid Kit. Figuratively speaking, at least!)

Songs About Curtains

Yet another mundane idea for a post that turned out to be quite delightful. In my opinion, at least. I may be biased. Whatever. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Diana Krall ft. Steve Buscemi  ~  “When The Curtain Comes Down”

2)  Beirut  ~  “After The Curtain”

3)  Tori Amos  ~  “Curtain Call”

4)  Sum 41  ~  “Pull The Curtain”

5)  Rosi Golan  ~  “Curtain Call”

6)  Elton John  ~  “We All Fall In Love Sometimes / Curtains”

7)  Clare Bowen ft. Dana Wheeler-Nicholson  ~  “Curtain Call”

8)  Alan Jackson  ~  “A House With No Curtains”

9)  Danielle Ate The Sandwich  ~  “The Drawing Back Of Curtains”

10)  Matthew Mills  ~  “The Final Curtain”

11)  Bryan Rice ft. Julie  ~  “Curtain Call”

12)  Kevin Spacey  ~  “The Curtain Falls”

13)  Last Lynx  ~  “Curtains”

14)  Chronixx  ~  “Behind Curtain”

15)  Jessi Teich  ~  “The Curtain Call”

16)  Aiden Grimshaw  ~  “Curtain Call”

17)  Phish  ~  “The Curtain”

18)  Pigeon  ~  “Curtain Call”

19)  Billy Talent  ~  “Cut The Curtains”

20)  Timber Timbre  ~  “Curtains?!”

Songs About Silverware, Vol. 2: Forks

Here's part 2 of 3 in my latest miniseries, featuring Songs about Silverware. All the songs in this collection feature the word "Fork" or one of its derivatives in their titles. Lesser-known artists abound here, but that doesn't mean the music itself is lesser in quality. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beirut  ~  "Forks And Knives (La Fête)"

2)  The Latency  ~  "Fork In The Road"

3)  Balsam Range  ~  "Caney Fork River"

4)  My Dynamite  ~  "Fork In Your Tongue"

5)  Brand New  ~  "Fork And Knife"

6)  Ewan Dobson  ~  "Forked Tongue Speaketh Lies That Surely It Denies"

7)  Crooks  ~  "Fork In The Road"

8)  Nathan Xander & Witchouse  ~  "My Forked Tongue"

9)  Lindsey Tomasic  ~  "Save Your Fork, There's Pie"

10)  Rebbie Jackson  ~  "A Fork In The Road"

11)  The Fretless  ~  "Forked Deer"

12)  Richard Perso  ~  "A Fork In The Road"

13)  Southern Culture On The Skids  ~  "Too Much Pork For Just One Fork"

14)  The Mommyheads  ~  "Fork"

15)  Tom Brosseau  ~  "Fork In The Road"

16)  Geeks  ~  "Lass Fork"

17)  Viza  ~  "Fork In The Road / Carnivalia"

18)  Typhoon  ~  "Morton's Fork"

Songs About Elephants

After all the crazy stuff I've posted in the past, do you even need to ask why I'm doing a post of songs about elephants. Nope? I didn't think so. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beirut  ~  "Elephant Gun"

2)  Ten Walls  ~  "Walking With Elephants"

3)  Tame Impala  ~  "Elephant"

4)  Ladytron  ~  "White Elephant"

5)  Bindi Irwin  ~  "Elephant Of India"

6)  Warpaint  ~  "Elephants"

7)  Them Crooked Vultures  ~  "Elephants"

8)  Mads Langer  ~  "Elephant"

9)  Moonbeam & Akshai ft. Avis Vox  ~  "Elephant Ride"

10)  Heath Deloach  ~  "An Elephant's Lament"

11)  Blaudzun  ~  "Elephants"

12)  Face Of God  ~  "Elephant"

13)  Damien Rice  ~  "Elephant"

14)  Ishani  ~  "Pelican Elephant"

15)  Boardroom Heroes  ~  "Elephant"

16)  Ingeborg Selnes  ~  "Elephant"

17)  Bird To Beast  ~  "Elephant"

18)  Jimmy Nevis  ~  "Elephant Shoes"

19)  Abandin All Hope  ~  "Elephant"

20)  That Noble Fury  ~  "My Elephant"

BONUS TRACK:  Henry Mancini  ~  "Baby Elephant Walk"  (For my pal, Don, who pointed out the fact that I'd forgotten this instrumental gem.)

Songs With "East" In The Title

This was probably the hardest of the four main compass directions to assemble. Apparently, there just aren't that many songs with "East" in the title. The ones I did find are pretty good, though. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Casting Crowns  ~  "East To West"

2)  Jerry Reed  ~  "East Bound And Down"

3)  Jewel  ~  "Enter From The East"

4)  Beirut  ~  "East Harlem"

5)  a-ha  ~  "East of The Sun"

6)  Diana Krall  ~  "East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon)"

7)  Jackson Browne  ~  "Looking East"

8)  Bob Seger & The Last Heard  ~  "East Side Story"

9)  Simple Minds  ~  "East At Easter"

10)  Wet Wet Wet  ~  "East Of The River"

11)  David Crowder Band  ~  "Eastern Hymn"

12)  Chris De Burgh  ~  "Eastern Wind"

13)  Herman's Hermits  ~  "East-West"

14)  The Stranglers  ~  "Sweden (All Quiet On The Eastern Front)"  (A song about "the only country where the clouds are interesting" and where "fluctuation's at a minimum"? I'm in!)

15)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Go East, Young Man"