Songs About “Things”, Vol. 3

Okay, here's one last set of Songs About "Things." If you think I missed your favorite song with "Things" in its title, hear this one out. Because it might very well be in here. If not, then let me know what gem I may have missed. Enjoy!  ~  JH

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

2)  The Killers  ~  “All These Things That I’ve Done”

3)  Stockard Channing  ~  “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”

4)  One Direction  ~  “Little Things”

5)  Lea Michele  ~  “My Favorite Things”  (OK, so it’s a commercial. But she does perform the song in its entirety, and sings it beautifully.)

6)  Howard Jones  ~  “Things Can Only Get Better”

7)  JJ Heller  ~  “True Things”

8)  Bob Dylan  ~  “Things Have Changed”

9)  Wild Child  ~  “Silly Things”

10)  The Temptations  ~  “The Way You Do The Things You Do”

11)  Pacha Massive  ~  “All Good Things”

12)  Passenger  ~  “Things You’ve Never Done”

13)  Annie Lennox  ~  “A Thousand Beautiful Things”

14)  Steve Winwood  ~  “The Finer Things”

15)  Julia Stone  ~  “Let’s Forget All The Things That We Say”

16)  Bob Marley & The Wailers  ~  “So Much Things To Say”

17)  Against The Current  ~  “Running With The Wild Things”  (A fantastic song by a dynamic new band!)

18)  Fanfarlo  ~  “Shiny Things”

19)  Colbie Caillat  ~  “The Little Things”

20)  Andy Mineo  ~  “Wild Things”

21)  Avril Lavigne  ~  “Things I’ll Never Say”

22)  Joe Cocker  ~  “The Simple Things”

23)   India.Arie  ~  “Little Things”

24)  Jason Mraz  ~  “1,000 Things”

25)  Nancy Sinatra & Dean Martin  ~  “Things”

Songs About The Jungle

Stylistically speaking, I went way diverse with this dynamic selection of songs. Each of them has the word "Jungle" somewhere in its title, but no two songs are even remotely alike. Well, except for the Bonus Track...but even that's only "remotely" similar. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bob Marley  ~  “Concrete Jungle”

2)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Jungle Love”

3)  John Fogerty  ~  “Run Through The Jungle”

4)  Kool & The Gang  ~  “Jungle Boogie”

5)  Herbie Mann, Dave Valentin, Paquito d’Rivera, Ray Mantilla, & Tito Puente  ~  “Jungle Fantasy”

6)  New York Dolls  ~  “Stranded In The Jungle”

7)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  “It’s A Jungle Out There”

8)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Welcome To The Jungle”

9)  Mike Oldfield  ~  “Jungle Gardenia”

10)  Santana  ~  “Jungle Strut”

11)  Warren Zevon  ~  “Jungle Work”

12)   Emma Louise  ~  “Jungle”

13)  NONONO  ~  “Jungle”

14)  X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons  ~  “Jungle”

15)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  “Jungle Drum”

16)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “George Of The Jungle”

17)  The Tragically Hip  ~  “Greasy Jungle”

18)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Jungletime”

19)  Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears  ~  “Livin’ In The Jungle”

20)  Panama  ~  “Jungle”

BONUS TRACK:  2Cellos  ~  “Welcome To The Jungle”  (This dynamic instrumental rendition of the G N’ R song above was far too fantastic not to include here.)

“Drop” Songs

Here's the other half of that 2-parter I started yesterday. Those were songs with "Lift" in the title, and these are songs that include the word "Drop" in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “The Drop”

2)  The Sweeplings  ~  “Drop By Drop”

3)  Linkin Park  ~  “Devil’s Drop”

4)  The Dead Weather  ~  “Die By The Drop”

5)  Ron Pope  ~  “A Drop In The Ocean”

6)  Joan Armatrading  ~  “Drop The Pilot”

7)  The Specials  ~  “Pressure Drop”

8)  Amaranthe  ~  “Drop Dead Cynical”

9)  Hit The Lights  ~  “Drop The Girl”

10)  Republica  ~  “Drop Dead Gorgeous”

11)  Dan + Shay  ~  “Stop Drop + Roll”

12)   Plumb  ~  “One Drop”

13)  Def Leppard  ~  “Rock! Rock! (Till You Drop)”

14)  Jasmine Thompson  ~  “Drop Your Guard”  (This girl was just 14 years old when she made this song/video a couple of years ago! 14! Un-flippin’-believable!)

15)  Bob Marley  ~  “One Drop / Zimbabwe / Get Up, Stand Up”

16)  April Smith and the Great Picture Show  ~  “Drop Dead Gorgeous”

17)  Hudson Taylor  ~  “Drop Of Smoke”

18)  Jennifer Lopez  ~  “Hold It, Don’t Drop It”

19)  Tracy Lawrence  ~  “Stop, Drop, And Roll”

20)  Laura Bell Bundy  ~  “Drop On By”

21)  Cracker  ~  “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”

22)  Frankie Avalon  ~  “Beauty School Drop-Out”

23)  Anya Marina  ~  “Drop Dead Blues”

24)  Rick Springfield  ~  “Bop ’Til You Drop”

25)  Hawk Nelson  ~  “Drops In The Ocean”

"Trouble"-ing Songs

Ya got trouble? I do. Right here. Twenty-five songs about trouble, in fact. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Iggy Azalea ft. Jennifer Hudson  ~  "Trouble"

2)  Coldplay  ~  "Trouble"

3)  Taylor Swift  ~  "I Knew You Were Trouble"

4)  Ray LaMontagne  ~  "Trouble"

5)  Lenka  ~  "Trouble Is A Friend"

6)  Bob Marley  ~  "War/No More Trouble"

7)  Tori Amos  ~  "Trouble's Lament"

8)  P!nk  ~  "Trouble"

9)  American Authors  ~  "Trouble"

10)  Paloma Faith  ~  "Trouble With My Baby"

11)  Seth MacFarlane  ~  "Ya Got Trouble"

12)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  "The Trouble With Love Is"

13)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Trouble"

14)  Christina Aguilera  ~  "I Got Trouble"

15)  10,000 Maniacs  ~  "Trouble Me"

16)  Dave Matthews  ~  "Trouble"

17)  Natalia Kills  ~  "Trouble"

18)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Little Trouble Girl"

19)  Whitesnake  ~  "Trouble"

20)  Dixie Chicks  ~  "There's Your Trouble"

21)  Lilly Wood & The Prick  ~  "Into Trouble"

22)  Travis Tritt  ~  "T-R-O-U-B-L-E"

23)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  "Trouble Sleeping"

24)  Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions  ~  "Trouble"

25)  TV On The Radio  ~  "Trouble"

A Rigorous Retrospective Of Remarkable Reggae Songs, Vol. 1

Recently, I found myself craving some island flavor. And the best way I could figure to do that would be to listen to some good reggae music. I also noticed an appalling lack of representation of the genre on this blog over the past...well, forever, actually. So I enlisted the help of my friend Eric Murphy, a diehard reggae fan, to pick some of his favorite tunes/artists (all of which are included in this set), and added a lot more on my own that I liked and/or discovered along the way. The result is a 50-song collection (split up into two posts) of smooth jams that I had lots of fun compiling. I hope you'll enjoy them, too!  ~  JH

1)  Chronixx  ~  "Smile Jamaica"

2)  New Kingston  ~  "Life"

3)  Tribal Seeds  ~  "Moonlight"

4)  Stephen Marley ft. Capleton & Sizzla  ~  "Rock Stone"

5)  Sister Nancy  ~  "Bam Bam"

6)  Tarrus Riley  ~  "She's Royal"

7)  Peter Tosh  ~  "Downpressor Man"

8)  Eek-A-Mouse  ~  "Rude Boy Jamaican"

9)  Buju Banton  ~  "Murderer"

10)  Kabaka Pyramid  ~  "Worldwide Love"

11)  Protoje ft. Chronixx  ~  "Who Knows"

12)  Freddie McGregor  ~  "Push Comes To Shove"

13)  The Abyssinians  ~  "Satta Massagana"

14)  Johnny Clarke  ~  "Warrior"

15)  Bob Marley  ~  "No Woman, No Cry"

16)  Sara Lugo ft. Protoje  ~  "Really Like You"  (This is a fairly "poppy" reggae song, but it technically qualifies and I like it, so it's here.)

17)  Burning Spear  ~  "Slavery Days"

18)  Dennis Brown  ~  "Rocking Time"

19)  Max Romeo  ~  "Chase The Devil"

20)  Tanya Stephens ft. Sanjay  ~  "Corners Of My Mind"

21)   Gregory Isaacs  ~  "Tune In"

22)  Lady G  ~  "'Nuff Respect"

23)  Inner Circle ft. Junior Reid  ~  "Blood-A-Run"

24)  Chaka Demus & Pliers  ~  "Murder She Wrote"

25)  Shabba Ranks  ~  "Ting-A-Ling"