"Strong" Songs

As promised, here's the follow-up to yesterday's post, "Strong" being a common opposite of "Faint" and all. Because I am striving to raise my daughter to be a strong, independent woman (at just three years old, she's already got the independent bit down pat), each of these "Strong" Songs is primarily sung and/or performed by "Strong" women. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)”

2)  London Grammar  ~  “Strong”

3)  Cher  ~  “Strong Enough”

4)  Alice Russell  ~  “Hard & Strong”

5)  Jewel  ~  “Stronger Woman”

6)  CHVRCHES  ~  “Strong Hand”

7)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “Strong Enough”

8)  Kiesza  ~  “Stronger”

9)  Moriah Peters  ~  “Stand Strong”

10)  Kina Grannis  ~  “Strong Enough”

11)  Paula Cole  ~  “Strong Beautiful Woman”

12)  Sugababes  ~  “Stronger”

13)  Sara Evans  ~  “A Little Bit Stronger”

14)  Karmin  ~  “Coming Up Strong”

15)  Britney Spears  ~  “Stronger”

16)  Stacie Orrico  ~  “Strong Enough”

17)  Pixie Geldof  ~  “So Strong”

18)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Big And Strong”

19)  Mary J. Blige  ~  “Stronger”

20)  Clean Bandit ft. Alex Newell & Sean Bass  ~  “Stronger”

21)  Amy Winehouse  ~  “Stronger Than Me”

22)  Judy Collins & Glen Campbell  ~  “Four Strong Winds”

23)  Mandisa  ~  “Stronger”

24)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “Stronger Than Me”

25)  Vertical Worship  ~  “Strong God”

“Ending” Songs, Vol. 2

Now we've finally reached the "Ending." This has been a fun six-part series for me. Hope you have enjoyed it, too!  ~  JH

1)  MIKA  ~  “Happy Ending”

2)  BarlowGirl  ~  “Beautiful Ending”

3)  Ben Lee  ~  “Love Me Like The World Is Ending”

4)  Death Cab For Cutie  ~  “A Movie Script Ending”

5)  Avril Lavigne  ~  “My Happy Ending”

6)  Admiral Radley  ~  “Ending Of Me”

7)  The Eternal  ~  “Means For An Ending”

8)  Joe Jackson & Elaine Caswell  ~  “Happy Ending”

9)  Matt and Kim  ~  “World Is Ending”

10)  Sevenview  ~  “Storybook Ending”

11)  Marksman Lloyd  ~  “Rewrite The Ending”

12)  CHVRCHES  ~  “Never Ending Circles”

13)  Too Close To Touch  ~  “Nerve Endings”

14)  David Wilcox  ~  “Start With The Ending”

15)  Silversun Pickups  ~  “Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings)”

“Do” Or “Die” Songs, Vol. 4

Last but not least, this collection of "Do" or "Die" songs. You know you're curious to see which ones I left out in the first three editions. So go ahead...click and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beach Boys  ~  “Do You Wanna Dance?”

2)  Keaton Henson  ~  “If I’m To Die”

3)  Jessie Ware  ~  “What You Won’t Do For Love”

4)  PM Dawn  ~  “I’d Die Without You”

5)  ABBA  ~  “The Way Old Friends Do”

6)  Wang Chung  ~  “To Live And Die In L.A.”

7)  CHVRCHES  ~  “What Do You Mean?”

8)  Townes Van Zandt  ~  “Waitin’ Around To Die”

9)  Angel Taylor  ~  “Like You Do”

10)  The Human League  ~  “Do Or Die”

11)  OK Go  ~  “Do What You Want”

12)  Morrissey  ~  “First Of The Gang To Die”

13)  Garbage  ~  “Why Do You Love Me?”

14)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “Live And Die”

15)  Only The Young  ~  “I Do”

16)  Shelby Lynne  ~  “I Won’t Die Alone”

17)  Caro Emerald  ~  “Dr. Wanna Do”

18)  Steve Winwood  ~  “John Barleycorn (Must Die)”

19)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “All I Wanna Do”

20)  Katherine Jenkins  ~  “Love Never Dies”

Songs About Guns

Here's a bunch of songs about guns. Don't tell me I can't post them. Remember that little thing called the Second Amendment? Yeah, that's the one. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Vampire Weekend  ~  “Giving Up The Gun”

2)  The Kooks  ~  “Eddie’s Gun”

3)  CHVRCHES  ~  “Gun”

4)  Aerosmith  ~  “Janie’s Got A Gun”

5)  Def Leppard  ~  “Billy’s Got A Gun”

6)  Billy Idol  ~  “Don’t Need A Gun”

7)  Elton John  ~  “Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun”

8)  Chris Cornell  ~  “Cleaning My Gun”

9)  Oh Land  ~  “Sun Of A Gun”

10)  Twenty One Pilots  ~  “Guns For Hands”

11)  Green Day  ~  “21 Guns”

12)  ZZ Ward  ~  “Put The Gun Down”

13)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Don’t Take Your Guns To Town”

14)  Beirut  ~  “Elephant Gun”

15)  Dirty Projectors  ~  “Gun Has No Trigger”

16)  Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  ~  “If I Had A Gun…”

17)  Robert Cray  ~  “Smoking Gun”

18)  Ellie Goulding  ~  “Guns And Horses”

19)  Social Distortion  ~  “Machine Gun Blues”

20)  Ice Cube ft. George Clinton  ~  “Bop Gun (One Nation)”

21)  Metric  ~  “Gold Guns Girls”

22)  The Jesus And Mary Chain  ~  “Blues From A Gun”

23)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  “Shotgun Man”

24)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Little Toy Guns”

25)  The Blues Brothers  ~  “Shotgun Blues”

"Mother" Songs

It would be inaccurate to say that this is a collection of songs about mothers in honor of Mother's Day this Sunday. While most of the songs in this collection are about someone's actual mother, some are using the word "mother" metaphorically to represent a matriarchal idea. So what we actually have here is an eclectic collection of songs which just happen to have the word "mother" in their titles. That being said, there's some good stuff here. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  CHVRCHES  ~  "The Mother We Share"

2)  Tracy Bonham  ~  "Mother Mother"

3)  Era  ~  "Mother"

4)  Mr. T  ~  "Treat Your Mother Right"  (I know I just posted this "classic" song back in January, but it's worth a repeat!)

5)  Christina Aguilera  ~  "Oh Mother"

6)  The Dead Weather  ~  "Treat Me Like Your Mother"

7)  ABBA  ~  "Does Your Mother Know?"

8)  Lauren Alaina  ~  "Like My Mother Does"

9)  Bon Jovi  ~  "If I Was Your Mother"

10)  Journey  ~  "Mother, Father"

11)  Lil' Mo  ~  "Mother Of Your Child"  (Oh, snap! She told HIM!)

12)  Blondie  ~  "Mother"

13)  Pretty Maids  ~  "Mother Of All Lies"

14)  Kingsfoil  ~  "What Your Mother Taught You"

15)  Lita Ford  ~  "Mother"

16)  Terri Small  ~  "From Mother To Daughter"

17)  Vern Gosdin  ~  "Mother Country Music"

18)  Fat Freddy's Drop  ~  "Mother Mother"

19)  The Beatles  ~  "Your Mother Should Know"

20)  Anneke van Giersbergen  ~  "My Mother Said"