Songs About Horses

I just know I will have missed someone's favorite song about horses, or will have included a least-favorite version of someone's favorite song about horses, and that's okay. I don't claim this to be a comprehensive list, but I do think it's a pretty good one. Equestrian enthusiasts – and everyone else, too – on your mark, get set, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alicia Keys & Adam Levine  ~  "Wild Horses"

2)  U2  ~  "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses"

3)  Scissor Sisters  ~  "Only The Horses"

4)  Switchfoot  ~  "Dark Horses"

5)  Tori Amos  ~  "Beauty Queen/Horses"

6)  Andrew Bird  ~  "Three White Horses"

7)  Moby  ~  "Pale Horses"

8)  Ellie Goulding  ~  "Guns And Horses"

9)  Asking Alexandria  ~  "If You Can't Ride Two Horses At Once…You Should Get Out Of The Circus"  (I absolutely abhor "screamo" music, but this song's title was far too ridiculous for me not to include it here.)

10)  PJ Harvey  ~  "Horses In My Dreams"

11)  Elton John ft. Luciano Pavarotti  ~  "Live Like Horses"

12)  Toby Keith ft. Willie Nelson  ~  "Beer For My Horses"  (This video's cheesy as all-get-out, and Toby couldn't act his way out of a Stetson hat, but the song's pretty good.)

13)  Bat For Lashes  ~  "Horse And I"

14)  America  ~  "A Horse With No Name"

15)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Runaway Horses"

16)  John Denver  ~  "Eagles And Horses"

17)  Charlotte Church  ~  "The Little Horses"

18)  The Osmonds  ~  "Crazy Horses"  (Hands down, the weirdest song and the strangest dancing in the bunch!)

19)  The Cardigans  ~  "A Good Horse"

20)  Nazareth  ~  "All The King's Horses"

21)   Shakira  ~  "Poem To A Horse"  (And the runner-up for weirdest title in the post goes to…Shakira!)

22)  Johnny Horton  ~  "Comanche (The Brave Horse)"

23)  Willie Nelson ft. Merle Haggard  ~  "A Horse Called Music"  (Because you can never really have too much Willie Nelson…)

24)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Heavy Horses"

25)  Cowboy Junkies  ~  "A Horse In The Country"

Songs About Hanging

This is not a playlist for a would-be lynch mob. I don't support that kind of behavior. These are not songs for lonely bats dangling upside down in dark, dank caves. They don't need music to make them feel worse about their situation. These are not songs for the brokenhearted. That's Bon Jovi's job. Rather, here's a collection of songs with the word "Hang" (or its derivatives) in their titles. Most of these songs are really good. Some of them are just okay. One of them is really bad, but my wife convinced me that it belonged in this list. (I'll let you figure out which one.) You probably will have heard of a few of them, while others will be as new to you as they were to me. In fact, they're all worth a listen – except that one song. Ready, set, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lifehouse  ~  "Hanging By A Moment"

2)  The Letter Black  ~  "Hanging On By A Thread"

3)  New Kids On The Block  ~  "Hangin' Tough"

4)  Sarah Vaughan  ~  "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most"

5)  The McCoys  ~  "Hang On, Sloopy"

6)  The Supremes  ~  "You Keep Me Hangin' On"

7)  Counting Crows  ~  "Hanginaround"

8)  Robyn  ~  "Hang With Me"

9)  The Four Seasons  ~  "Let's Hang On!"

10)  Britt Nicole  ~  "Hanging On"

11)  Yellowcard  ~  "Hang You Up"  (This video is hilarious!)

12)  Ivy Levan  ~  "Hang Forever"

13)  Phil Collins  ~  "Hang In Long Enough"

14)  Jann Arden  ~  "Hanging By A Thread"

15)  Tesla  ~  "Hang Tough"

16)  Sade  ~  "Hang On To Your Love"

17)  Dr. Dog  ~  "Hang On"

18)  Barbra Streisand  ~  "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home"

19)  Smash Mouth  ~  "Hang On"

20)  Lykke Li  ~  "Hanging High"

21)   The Guess Who  ~  "Hang On To Your Life"

22)  Cheyenne Kimball  ~  "Hanging On"

23)  Marty Robbins  ~  "Don't Let Me Hang Around"

24)  The Cardigans  ~  "Hanging Around"

25)  The Monkees  ~  "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?"

Songs For April Fools

Here we have a surprisingly good, albeit hastily-thrown-together grouping of songs which are loosely related, not necessarily to the spirit of the day itself, but rather to the words that make it up. Whatever it is, here it is. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Imaginary Future ft. Kina Grannis  ~  "April"

2)  Cinderella  ~  "Nobody's Fool"

3)  The Mess  ~  "April Showers"

4)  Westlife  ~  "Fool Again"

5)  Rupa & The April Fishes  ~  "Une américaine a Paris"

6)  The Strokes  ~  "Taken For A Fool"

7)  April Verch Band  ~  "Broken"

8)  Elvin Bishop ft. Mickey Thomas  ~  "Fooled Around And Fell In Love"

9)  Delain  ~  "April Rain"

10)  The Ark  ~  "It Takes A Fool To Remain Sane"

11)  April Wine  ~  "I Like To Rock"

12)  Melody Gardot  ~  "Baby, I'm A Fool"

13)  Dragon  ~  "April Sun In Cuba"

14)  The Cardigans  ~  "Lovefool"

15)  April Smith and the Great Picture Show  ~  "Terrible Things"

16)  Doobie Brothers  ~  "What A Fool Believes"

17)  Dead By April  ~  "Calling"  (This song'd be so much better without that bit with the screaming. To each his own, I suppose…)

18)  Peter Cetera  ~  "Even A Fool Can See"

19)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "April Fools"

20)  The Beatles  ~  "The Fool On The Hill"