"40" Songs

Yesterday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that number – it's just a number. When my wife was pregnant with our second child, I was doing weekly posts with songs featuring a number in their titles that corresponded with the number of weeks of her pregnancy. Our daughter was born a few days early, so I never got a chance to put together the "40" Songs. For both of those reasons, there's this lengthy post. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “A Pirate Looks At Forty”

2)  Sesame Street  ~  “Forty Blocks From Home”

3)  Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers  ~  “40 Days & 40 Nights”

4)  Royal Crown Revue  ~  “40 Cups Of Coffee”

5)  Alabama  ~  “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’)”

6)  Yonder Mountain String Band  ~  “40 Miles From Denver”

7)  Caedmon’s Call  ~  “40 Acres”

8)  Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks  ~  “40 Days”

9)  U2  ~  “40”

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  “The Ballad Of Forty Dollars”

11)  The Longing  ~  “40 Days”

12)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Psalms 40:2”

13)  Third Day  ~  “40 Days”

14)  Ricky Skaggs  ~  “Highway 40 Blues”

15)  Dido  ~  “See You When You’re 40”

16)  Johnny Horton  ~  “When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”

17)  Franz Ferdinand ~  “40’”

18)  Duane Eddy  ~  “Forty Miles Of Bad Road”

19)  Vienna Teng  ~  “Love Turns 40”

20)  Chris Norman  ~  “Forty Years On”

21)  The Twilight Singers  ~  “Forty Dollars”

22)  Sophie Tucker  ~  “Life Begins At Forty”

23)  Frank Turner  ~  “Love Forty Down”

24)  Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, & Jonny Lang  ~  “Forty Days And Forty Nights”

25)  Newsong  ~  “Psalm 40”

26)  Eric Johnson  ~  “Forty Mile Town”

27)  Porter Wagoner ft. Christie Lynn  ~  “Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff”

28)  Wire  ~  “Forty Versions”

29)  Cursive  ~  “Dorothy At Forty”

30)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Forty Winks Away”

31)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Forty Days”

32)  Paul Kelly  ~  “Forty Miles To Saturday Night”

33)  The Violet Burning  ~  “40 Weight”

34)  Skinny Lister  ~  “Forty Pound Wedding”

35)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Forty Shades Of Green”

36)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “40 Years In The Wilderness”

37)  Spinning Lucy  ~  “Forty”

38)  Modern Kin  ~  “40 Winks”

39)  John Berry  ~  “Forty Again”

40)  Ray Price  ~  “Forty And Fading”

Songs About Evil Twins

They say everyone has a twin. Some of them are evil. These songs are about those. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Galactic Cowboys  ~  “Evil Twin”

2)  Scanners  ~  “Evil Twin”

3)  Thomas Dolby  ~  “My Evil Twin Brother”

4)  Corbin/Hanner  ~  “My Evil Twin”

5)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “My Evil Twin”

6)  Noise Box  ~  “My Evil Twin”

7)  Porcupine  ~  “Evil Twin”

8)  Rachel Bockover  ~  “My Evil Twin”

9)  Freaks On Floor  ~  “Evil Twin”

10)  Stephen EvEns  ~  “Evil Twin”

11)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Evil Twin”

12)  RatRace  ~  “Evil Twin”

13)  The High Dials  ~  “Evil Twin”

14)  Tom Larsen Band  ~  “Evil Twin”

15)  Buddy Guy ft. Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, & Brad Whitford  ~  “Evil Twin”

16)  Six Weeks  ~  “Evil Twin”

17)  Falb  ~  “Evil Twin”

18)  The Magnetic Fields  ~  “I Wish I Had An Evil Twin”

19)  George Montague  ~  “Evil Twin”

20)  Birdengine  ~  “The Evil Twin”

“Chicago” “Cubs” Songs

In honor of tonight's sure-to-be-exciting Game 7 World Series tiebreaker, here's a lively collection of songs with either the word "Chicago" or "Cubs" (sometimes "Cub") in their titles. Don't worry, Indians fans, your post is coming up next. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, Robert Cray, John Mayer, Hubert Sumlin, & Jimmie Vaughan  ~  “Sweet Home Chicago”

2)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Chicago”

3)  Tom Waits  ~  “Chicago”  (This song would have been SO much better if Tom had never started singing! I’m pretty sure he gargles with razorblades on the regular.)

4)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Cubs In Five”

5)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Sidewalks Of Chicago”

6)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  “Chicago”

7)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “My Kind Of Town (Chicago Is)”

8)  Steve Goodman  ~  “Go, Cubs, Go!”

9)  Jason Isbell  ~  “Chicago Promenade”

10)  Ethan Leinwand  ~  “East Chicago Blues”

11)  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  ~  “Born In Chicago”

12)  Thundercat  ~  “Lone Wolf And Cub”

13)  Former Belle  ~  “I Woke Up In Chicago”

14)  Bee Gees  ~  “Living In Chicago”

15)  Count Basie ft. Joe Williams  ~  “Going To Chicago”

16)  The Wooden Birds  ~  “Folly Cub”

17)  Paper Lace  ~  “The Night Chicago Died”

18)  Buddy Guy  ~  “Meet Me In Chicago”

19)  Arek Religa  ~  “Chicago Guitar Knight”

20)  Mew  ~  “Fox Cub”

21)  Screaming Orphans  ~  “City Of Chicago”

22)  Spoon  ~  “Chicago At Night”

23)  Nat King Cole  ~  “Little Joe From Chicago”

24)  Steve Goodman  ~  “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”

25)  Crosby, Stills, & Nash  ~  “Chicago”

Songs About Snakes

HERPETOPHOBES, BEWARE! The following is a collection of songs about snakes – or, more to the point, a collection of songs with "Snake" or "Snakes" in their titles. Some really good jams here! Fear them or enjoy them – it's all up to you!  ~  JH

1)  David Sanborn  ~  "Snakes"

2)  Frank Zappa  ~  "Baby Snakes"

3)  Charley Pride  ~  "The Snakes Crawl At Night"

4)  Pixies  ~  "Snakes"

5)  The Human League  ~  "The Snake"

6)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  "Snake Man"

7)  Johnny Rivers  ~  "The Snake"

8)  ZZ Top  ~  "Tube Snake Boogie"

9)  Buddy Guy  ~  "Crawlin' King Snake"

10)  Soundgarden  ~  "Get On The Snake"

11)  Samuel L. Jackson  ~  "Black Snake Moan Blues"

12)  Duran Duran  ~  "Union Of The Snake"

13)  PJ Harvey  ~  "Long Snake Moan"

14)  Ryan Bingham  ~  "SnakeEyes"

15)  Ray Wylie Hubbard  ~  "Snake Farm"

16)  Daniel Wade  ~  "Snake Rattle"

17)  Midnight Star  ~  "Snake In The Grass"

18)  Meat Puppets  ~  "The Monkey And The Snake"

19)  Tuatara  ~  "Snakecharmer"

20)  Video Game Orchestra ft. Ingrid Gerdes  ~  "Snake Eater"

21)  Lia Rose  ~  "Snake In The Water"

22)  Georgia Fields  ~  "Snakes And Ladders"

23)  Dolly Parton & Tom T. Hall  ~  "Sneaky Snake"

24)  St. Vincent  ~  "Rattlesnake"

25)  Atomic Rooster  ~  "Black Snake"

BONUS TRACK:  Paula Abdul  ~  "Cold Hearted"  (If you're like me, you probably always thought this song DID have "Snake" in its title…but apparently, it doesn't!)