“Old-Fashioned” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of "Old-Fashioned" songs you're sure to love, like, or tolerate. And if you happen to enjoy them, lucky for you, Volume 2 is coming tomorrow!  ~  JH

1)  Queen  ~  “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy”

2)  Cee Lo Green  ~  “Old-Fashioned”

3)  George Jones & Tammy Wynette  ~  “Good Old-Fashioned Singing”

4)  The Wild Man Of Europe  ~  “Old-Fashioned Flames”

5)  All-4-One  ~  “Ol’ Fashion Lovin’”

6)  Willie Nelson  ~  “A Little Old-Fashioned Karma”

7)  Frightened Rabbit  ~  “Old Old-Fashioned”

8)  The Mills Brothers  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love”

9)  Dawn Sears  ~  “Old-Fashioned Broken Heart”

10)  Steve Goodman  ~  “Old-Fashioned”

11)  Frank Sinatra & Doris Day  ~  “Let’s Take An Old-Fashioned Walk”

12)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Old-Fashioned Girl Like You”

13)  Three Dog Night  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love Song”

14)  John Coltrane  ~  “I’m Old-Fashioned”

15)  Smokey Robinson  ~  “Old-Fashioned Love”

16)  B.J. Thomas  ~  “Whatever Happened To Old-Fashioned Love?”

17)  Teresa Brewer  ~  “A Sweet Old-Fashioned Girl”

18)  Tracy Byrd  ~  “Good Ol’ Fashioned Love”'

19)  Donovan  ~  “In An Old-Fashioned Picture Book”

20)  Eartha Kitt  ~  “Just An Old-Fashioned Girl”

Things These Artists Want, Vol. 4

Finally, we reach the end of this long, drawn-out, but ultimately satisfying miniseries of posts. One last round of songs about Things These Artists Want. And...GO!  ~  JH

1)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “(We Want) The Same Thing”

2)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’”

3)  Jessie Ware  ~  “Want Your Feeling”

4)  A Day To Remember  ~  “All I Want”

5)  Emilie Autumn  ~  “We Want Them Young”

6)  Cee Lo Green  ~  “I Want You (Hold On To Love)”

7)   Terri Clark  ~  “I Just Wanna Be Mad”

8)  NF  ~  “I Just Wanna Know”

9)  Atomic Kitten  ~  “I Want Your Love”

10)  Tracy Byrd  ~  “I Wanna Feel That Way Again”

11)  Billie Davis  ~  “I Want You To Be My Baby”

12)  Paul McCartney  ~  “(I Want To) Come Home”

13)  Tina Arena  ~  “I Want To Love You”

14)  Air Supply  ~  “I Want To Give It All”

15)  Sarah Blasko  ~  “All I Want”

16)  Toby Keith  ~  “I Wanna Talk About Me”

17)  Scandal  ~  “All I Want”

18)  Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  ~  “(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine”

19)  Nightwish  ~  “I Want My Tears Back”

20)  Alesso ft. Nico & Vinz  ~  “I Wanna Know”

21)  Susanna Hoffs  ~  “All I Want”

22)  Marian Hill  ~  "I Want You”

23)  Cher Lloyd  ~  “Want U Back”

24)  Goldfrapp  ~  “I Wanna Life”

25)  Carpenters  ~ “(Want You) Back In My Life Again”

“City” Songs, Vol. 2

Part 2 of a 4-parter, this is the final set of "City" songs. Next up, we depart for the "Country." Which may require a bit of explanation. But that can wait till tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Lovin’ Spoonful  ~  “Summer In The City”

2)  Cee Lo Green  ~  “Bright Lights, Bigger City”

3)  U2  ~  “City Of Blinding Lights”

4)  Tori Kelly  ~  “City Dove”

5)  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band  ~  “New York City Serenade”

6)  Jan & Dean  ~  “Surf City”

7)   Marvin Gaye  ~  “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”

8)  Love & The Outcome  ~  “City Of God”

9)  Journey  ~  “City Of The Angels”

10)  Steve Earle  ~  “This City”

11)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Summer In The City”

12)  The Band  ~  “Atlantic City”

13)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  “Rock Star City Life”

14)  The Stampeders  ~  “Sweet City Woman”

15)  The Chainsmokers ft. Brittany  ~  “New York City”

16)  David Bowie  ~  “Suffragette City”

17)  Merle Haggard  ~  “Big City”

18)  Sara Bareilles  ~  “City”

19)  Foghat  ~  “Fool For The City”

20)  Queensryche  ~  “Jet City Woman”

21)  The Cars  ~  “Heartbeat City”

22)  The Manhattan Transfer  ~  “The Boy From New York City”

23)  April Wine  ~  “Big City Girls”

24)  Loretta Lynn  ~  “Fist City”

25)  TobyMac  ~  “City On Our Knees”

"Bright" Songs

Yay, another "Opposites" music post! Oh, goody, goody, gumdrops! Here's a collection of "Bright" songs. Next time, some "Dim" ones. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Echosmith  ~  "Bright"

2)  The Used  ~  "Together Burning Bright"

3)  Shinedown  ~  "Burning Bright"

4)  Switchfoot  ~  "Burn Out Bright"

5)  Rebelution  ~  "Bright Side Of Life"

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "Bright Lights"

7)  Cloud Cult  ~  "You'll Be Bright"

8)  Placebo  ~  "Bright Lights"

9)  Cee Lo Green & Daryl Hall  ~  "Bright Lights, Bigger City"

10)  Garbage  ~  "Big Bright World"

11)  The Killers  ~  "Mr. Brightside"

12)  Sara Bareilles  ~  "Bright Lights And Cityscapes"

13)  Vanessa Williams  ~  "Star Bright"

14)  Natalie Grant  ~  "Burn Bright (You Were Made To Shine)"

15)  Underoath  ~  "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"

16)  Casey Abrams ft. Orchestra Of People  ~  "Great Bright Morning"  (This is simply gorgeous!)

17)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "Heaven's Bright Shore"

18)  Timbuk 3  ~  "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)"

19)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  "Bright Lights"

20)  Jackson Browne & Eagles  ~  "Your Bright Baby Blues"

Songs About Crying

Today begins a loosely-related-but-not-really-related series of posts that I thought up over the weekend. We'll start with Songs About Crying, then progress to Songs About Flying, Songs About Lying, Songs About Trying, and maybe even Songs About Dying. The only thing that ties these together is that their titles rhyme. Each post will include a collection of songs with the word from the post's title (or one of its derivatives) in its songs' titles. Get it? Got it? Good! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Roy Orbison  ~  "Crying"

2)  Fergie  ~  "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)"

3)  The Script  ~  "We Cry"

4)  Mariah Carey  ~  "I Don't Wanna Cry"

5)  Aerosmith  ~  "Cryin'"

6)  Faith Hill  ~  "Cry"

7)  Chris Isaak  ~  "Somebody's Crying"

8)  Barbra Streisand & Ray Charles  ~  "Crying Time"

9)  Flo Rida  ~  "I Cry"

10)  Highway 101  ~  "Cry, Cry, Cry"  (Back in the late '80s, or maybe it was the early '90s, when I was a big-time fan of The Judds [see #12 below], I saw this band open for them at Kings Dominion. They were really good, too!)

11)  Guns N' Roses  ~  "Don't Cry"

12)  The Judds  ~  "Cry Myself To Sleep"  (Peep some of these 1980s hairdos – in the audience AND onstage. Wow…just, wow!)

13)  Journey  ~  "Who's Crying Now?"

14)  Katy B  ~  "Crying For No Reason"

15)  Live  ~  "Dolphin's Cry"

16)  Madonna  ~  "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"  (I have no idea why the song starts over without sound around the 5:00 mark…but feel free to stop it there. Nothing new to see after that.)

17)  Cee Lo Green  ~  "Cry Baby"  (If you were wondering, yes, that IS the guy who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters.)

18)  Sheryl Crow  ~  "Can't Cry Anymore"

19)  Santana ft. Sean Paul & Joss Stone  ~  "Cry Baby Cry"

20)  Jimi Hendrix  ~  "The Wind Cries Mary"