Songs About Living & Learning

Sometimes you have to make mistakes in order not to make the same mistakes in the future. As the phrase goes, "you live, you learn." That's generally what these songs are all about. A few of them just happen to have both the words "Live" and "Learn" (in some form or another) in their titles. They're all good ones, though! So enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “You Learn”  (The refrain is “You live, you learn…” which may as well be its official title anyway.)

2)  Marshall Crenshaw  ~  “Live And Learn”

3)  Elle Carpenter  ~  “Learning How To Live”

4)  Joe Public  ~  “Live And Learn”

5)  Idina Menzel  ~  “You Learn To Live Without”

6)  Private Line  ~  “Live, Learn, And Grow Apart”

7)  Clannad  ~  “Live And Learn”

8)  Jonathan Jackson  ~  “How You Learn To Live Alone”

9)  Lesley Gore  ~  “Live And Learn”

10)  Dream Theater  ~  “Learning To Live”

11)  Sondr ft. Peg Parnevik  ~  “Live Love Learn”

12)  Clint Black  ~  “Live And Learn”

13)  Beth Hart  ~  “Learning To Live”

14)  Ben Folds  ~  “Learn To Live With What You Are”

15)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Live And Learn”

16)  Architects  ~  “Learn To Live”

17)  Kesha  ~  “Learn To Let Go”  (Nope, the word “live” doesn’t appear in the title, but the phrase “live and learn” is repeated several times throughout.)

18)  Billy Squier  ~  “Learn How To Live”

19)  Cyndi Lauper & France Gall  ~  “You Have To Learn To Live Alone”

20)  The Silks  ~  “Live And Learn”

21)  Lady Lush & The Vinyls  ~  “Learn How To Live”

22)  Bill Murray  ~  “When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God?”  (Yes, THAT Bill Murray!)

Songs By Irish Artists

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  ~  JH

1)  U2  ~  "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"

2)  Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains  ~  "The Foggy Dew"

3)  Two Door Cinema Club  ~  "Changing Of The Seasons"

4)  The Cranberries  ~  "Linger"

5)  Hothouse Flowers  ~  "Your Love Goes On"

6)  Samantha Mumba  ~  "Gotta Tell You"

7)  Snow Patrol  ~  "In The End"

8)  Enya  ~  "Anywhere Is"

9)  JEDWARD  ~  "Young Love"

10)  Lisa Hannigan  ~  "I Don't Know"  (Every now and then, I will end up buying someone's music after "discovering" them while doing a music blog post. This might be one of those cases. She's that good!)

11)  The Script  ~  "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"

12)  Carly Hennessy (Smithson)  ~  "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind"

13)  Therapy?  ~  "Nowhere"

14)  Imelda May  ~  "Psycho"

15)  The Pogues  ~  "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"  (Wow, that dude's got some hideous teeth! I thought mine were bad!)*

16)  Clannad  ~  "I Will Find You"  (This one goes out to my wife, Mary, who loves both Clannad and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, the movie from which song originates)

17)  Van Morrison  ~  "Brown Eyed Girl"  (Most "live" versions of this classic song on YouTube are not so good – so here's the original studio version.)

18)  My Bloody Valentine  ~  "Only Shallow"

19)  Thin Lizzy  ~  "The Boys Are Back In Town"

20)  The Corrs  ~  "Breathless"

21)  Damien Rice  ~  "The Blower's Daughter"

22)  Gilbert O'Sullivan  ~  "Alone Again (Naturally)"

23)  Mundy  ~  "Kathy's Song"

24)  Aslan  ~  "Crazy World"

25)  The Boomtown Rats  ~  "I Don't Like Mondays"  (Me neither, Boomtown Rats!)

* Apparently, he got his teeth fixed. See here.