Showing posts with label Belinda Carlisle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belinda Carlisle. Show all posts

Friday, January 26, 2018

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”


Thursday, January 25, 2018

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 4

If you haven't seen/heard your favorite song from 1988 thus fair, do not despair – it might be in this post. Or the final one tomorrow. If neither, I apologize – and please let me know what gem I might have missed. Regardless... Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Wishing Well”




2)  George Michael  ~  “Kissing A Fool”




3)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”




4)  Poison  ~  “Nothin’ But A Good Time”




5)  Conway Twitty  ~  “That’s My Job”




6)  Neneh Cherry  ~  “Buffalo Stance”




7)  Foreigner  ~  “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”




8)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Cherry Bomb”




9)  Cher  ~  “I Found Someone”




10)  Dokken  ~  “Walk Away”




11)  Rich Mullins  ~  “Awesome God”




12)  Sheena Easton  ~  “The Lover In Me”




13)  White Lion  ~  “Wait”




14)  INXS  ~  “Never Tear Us Apart”




15)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “If It Don’t Come Easy”




16)  Milli Vanilli  ~  “Girl, You Know It’s True”




17)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Hungry Eyes”




18)  Highway 101  ~  “Cry, Cry, Cry”




19)  New Edition  ~  “If It Isn’t Love”




20)  David Lee Roth  ~  “Just Like Paradise”




21)  Pretty Poison  ~  “Catch Me (I’m Falling)”




22)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “Everything Your Heart Desires”




23)  Al B. Sure!  ~  “Nite And Day”




24)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Can’t Stay Away From You”




25)  Van Halen  ~  “Finish What Ya Started”




26)  U2  ~  “Desire”


Wednesday, November 15, 2017

“Emotional” Songs

So we've passed the "Physical" Songs, transcended the "Mental" Songs, and now things are about to get "Emotional." The third in a four-part series of posts featuring songs relating to the types/states of one's health (or lack thereof) starts...NOW!  ~  JH



1)  Whitney Houston  ~  “So Emotional”




2)  Flux Pavilion ft. Matthew Koma & Kaleidoscope Orchestra  ~  “Emotional”




3)  Charli XCX  ~  “Emotional”




4)  Falco  ~  “Emotional”




5)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Emotional Highway”




6)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Emotional Rescue”




7)  Vanessa Amorosi  ~  “The Simple Things (Something Emotional)”




8)  Black Uhuru  ~  “Emotional Slaughter”




9)  Terri Clark  ~  “Emotional Girl”




10)  Neil Finn  ~  “Love Is Emotional”




11)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Emotional Tangle”




12)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Emotional Love”




13)  Snoh Aalegra  ~  “Emotional”




14)  Hothouse Flowers  ~  “An Emotional Time”




15)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “So Emotional”




16)  Carl Thomas  ~  “Emotional”




17)  Sierra Swan  ~  “Emotional”




18)  The O’Jays  ~  “Emotionally Yours”




19)  Vivian Green  ~  “Emotional Rollercoaster”




20)  Tom Waits  ~  “Emotional Weather Report”




21)  Randy Newman ft. Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Real Emotional Girl”




22)  Luther Vandross  ~  “Emotional Love”




23)  Diana DeGarmo  ~  “Emotional”




24)  The Lone Bellow  ~  “You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional”




25)  June The Girl  ~  “Emotional”  (She could be singing about polka-dotted paper clips for all I know, but it sounds so beautiful in French that I don't even care. In all fairness, parts of the song are in English.)


Friday, October 20, 2017

"Scary" Songs

How many music blogs do you know of where you can find songs by Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Björk, Skrillex, Belinda Carlisle, Will Smith, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Witches In Bikinis all in the same post? Yeah…I didn’t think so. Sounds pretty “Scary” to me, too! Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  David Bowie  ~  “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”




2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Big Scary Animal”




3)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Is It Scary?”




4)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  “Scariest Part”




5)  Dokken  ~  “Mr. Scary”




6)  Skye Sweetnam  ~  “Scary Love”




7)  McFly  ~  “Silence Is A Scary Sound”




8)  Leila Adu  ~  “Scary Love Monster”




9)  Colors And Carousels  ~  “Scary”




10)  Björk  ~  “Scary”




11)  Will Smith  ~  “Scary Story”




12)  George Lynch  ~  “Son Of Scary”




13)  Witches In Bikinis  ~  “A Scary Kind Of Love”




14)  Villagers  ~  “Hot Scary Summer”




15)  Katie Melua  ~  “Scary Films”




16)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Spooky, Scary Skeletons”




17)  Butterfly Boucher  ~  “Scary Fragile”




18)  Skrillex  ~  “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”




19)  Peter Lara  ~  “Scary Love”




20)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Scary World”




21)  Grace Jones  ~  “Scary But Fun”




22)  The Lobbyists  ~  “Scary Night”




23)  The 1975  ~  “Scary Monsters”




24)  Lindbergh Palace  ~  “Scary”




25)  Romain Virgo  ~  “Scary Movie”