"Room" & "Board" Songs, Vol. 1

I might have gotten a little carried away with these, but here they are nonetheless. Part 1 of a 3-part miniseries featuring songs with the words "Room" or "Board" in their titles. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  John Mayer  ~  "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room"

2)  Friendly Fires  ~  "On Board"

3)  Au/Ra  ~  "Panic Room"

4)  Sugar Ray  ~  "Boardwalk"

5)  You Me At Six  ~  "Room To Breathe"

6)  The Wombats  ~  "Circuitboard City"

7)  Kim Walker-Smith  ~  "Throne Room"

8)  Elton John  ~  "The Diving Board"

9)  Ailee  ~  "Room Shaker"

10)  The Drifters  ~  "Under The Boardwalk"

11)  Cream  ~  "White Room"

12)  The Oak Ridge Boys  ~  "Baby On Board"

13)  Asking Alexandria  ~  "Alone In A Room"

14)  The Features  ~  "Drawing Board"

15)  Jessie J  ~  "Big White Room"

16)  Baroness  ~  "Board Up The House"

17)  Klymaxx  ~  "Meeting In The Ladies' Room"

18)  Morrissey  ~  "Ouija Board, Ouija Board"

19)  There For Tomorrow  ~  "No More Room To Breathe"

20)  Cowboy Junkies  ~  "Cutting Board"

21)  Tegan and Sara  ~  "Living Room"

22)  Guano Apes  ~  "Lords Of The Boards"

23)  Black Label Society  ~  "Room Of Nightmares"

24)  The Morning Benders  ~  "Boarded Doors"

25)  Heffron Drive  ~  "Living Room"

"Strange," "Queer," & "Odd" Songs

Did you ever see or hear something that didn't sound quite right that caused you to furrow your brow in confusion? Yeah, these songs, too. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Billie Holiday  ~  “Strange Fruit"

2)  Garbage  ~  “Queer"

3)  Boy Willows  ~  “So Odd"

4)  Anna Calvi & David Byrne  ~  “Strange Weather”

5)  Stanley Holloway  ~  “My Word! You Do Look Queer!”  (It's important to note here that the word "queer" both does and doesn't mean what it traditionally did, which is, something or someone that's atypical or different in some way.)

6)  Hey Violet  ~  “O.D.D.”

7)  John Grant  ~  “Is He Strange”

8)  Count Basie  ~  “Queer Street”

9)  Mariah Carey ft. Westlife  ~  “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)”

10)  The Black Keys   ~ “Strange Times”

11)  STRFKR  ~  “Queer Bot”

12)  Molly Hatchet  ~  “Beatin’ The Odds”

13)  Mickey & Sylvia  ~  “Love Is Strange”

14)  Cait and the Critters  ~  “Queer”

15)  Demon Hunter  ~  “Slight The Odds”

16)  Lynsey De Paul  ~  “Strange Changes”

17)  Thee Oh Sees  ~  “Camera (Queer Sound)”

18)  Julia Nunes  ~  “Odd”

19)  Wishbone Ash  ~  “Strange Affair”

20)  Thompson Twins  ~  “Queer”

21)  Daniele Liverani  ~  “Odd Valley”

22)  Bic Runga  ~  “Suddenly Strange”

23)  Fletcher Henderson  ~  “Queer Notions”

24)  Harry Chapin  ~  “Odd Job Man”

25)  Cream  ~  “Strange Brew”

26)  Lazy Eye  ~  “Queer”

27)  Weezer  ~  “Odd Couple”

28)  Aqualung  ~  “Strange And Beautiful”

29)  Alison Rayner Quintet  ~  “Queer Bird”

30)  Carmen Justice  ~  “Against The Odds”

“Anyone” Songs

Another one of those "Any-" posts up in here. There are only one or two more of these planned, so enjoy 'em while they last!  ~  JH

1)  Cream  ~  “Anyone For Tennis”

2)  PVRIS  ~  “Anyone Else”

3)  Stereophonics  ~  “Before Anyone Knew Our Name”

4)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “Anyone Who Had A Heart”

5)  Radiohead  ~  “Anyone Can Play Guitar”

6)  Stevie Nicks  ~  “If Anyone Falls”

7)  Eric Hutchinson  ~  “Anyone Who Knows Me”

8)  Kaki King  ~  “Can Anyone Who Has Heard This Music Really Be A Bad Person?”  (That is an excellent question!)

9)  Deep Purple  ~  “Anyone’s Daughter”

10)  Colour Me Wednesday  ~  “Don’t Tell Anyone”

11)  Duran Duran  ~  “Anyone Out There”

12)  Lance Carpenter & Krystal Keith  ~  “Anyone Else”

13)  A-ha  ~  “Did Anyone Approach You?”

14)  Kenny Rogers & Dottie West  ~  “Anyone Who Isn’t Me Tonight”

15)  Matt Cardle  ~  “Anyone Else”

16)  Irene Cara  ~  “Anyone Can See”

17)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  “Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)”

18)  Delta Rae  ~  “Is There Anyone Out There?”

19)  The Moldy Peaches  ~  “Anyone Else But You”

20)  Ricky Nelson  ~  “There’ll Never Be Anyone Else But You”

21)  Björk  ~  “Anyone Who Had A Heart”

22)  Blake Shelton  ~  “Anyone Else”

23)  Irma Thomas  ~  “Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand)”

24)  Gavin DeGraw  ~  “More Than Anyone”

25)  Marissa Nadler  ~  “Anyone Else”

Songs With Abbreviations In The Title, Vol. 1

Of all the things I've blogged about before, this is not one of them. Until now... Enjoy this first set of songs (of two) featuring some kind of abbreviation, initials, or acronym in the title.  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “P.Y.T.”  (“Pretty Young Thing.” Nice cover of a Michael Jackson hit.)

2)  Foo Fighters  ~  “D.O.A.”  (“Dead On Arrival”)

3)  Bea Miller  ~  “S.L.U.T.”  (It’s not what it looks like. This is shorthand for “Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing.”)

4)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “I.R.S.”  (No double meaning here. It really does stand for “Internal Revenue Service.”)

5)  Mariah Carey  ~  “H.A.T.E.U.”  (“H.A.T.E.U.” actually means “hate you.” So…it’s not really an abbreviation for anything. You tricky trickster, Mariah!) 

6)  Kasabian  ~  “L.S.F.”  (“Lost Souls Forever”)

7)  Melanie Fiona  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Also not technically an abbreviation.)

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “N.I.B.”  (Apparently, “Nib” was the nickname of a band member’s beard. Ozzy put the punctuation marks in there to confuse people. Mission accomplished!)

9)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “BWU”  (“Be With U”)

10)  Noah And The Whale  ~  “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”  (It means what it looks like it means. N.O.T. A.N. A.B.B.R.E.V.I.A.T.I.O.N. *sigh*)

11)  Dua Lipa ft. Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, MØ, & Alma  ~  “IDGAF”  (I’ll let you Google this abbreviation. Although, seeing as this is the sanitized version of the song, the title should have been shortened further to “IDGA.”)

12)  Live  ~  “T.B.D.”  (“Tibetan Book of the Dead”)

13)  Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu  ~  “Q.U.E.E.N.”  (Also not an abbreviation. I’m spotting a pattern here.)

14)  Cream  ~  “N.S.U.”  (Oddly enough, this stands for “Non-Specific Urethritis.”)

15)  Jessie J  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Equally not an actual abbreviation. This may be less the fault of the artists and more the fault of yours truly, the blogger. Sorry…)

16)  Rythm Syndicate  ~  “P.A.S.S.I.O.N.”  (The singer spells out several words in this one. But none of them are abbreviations. He just likes spelling, I guess. Except in the case of his band’s name, which is – apparently – misspelled intentionally. Go figure!)

17)  John Mellencamp  ~  “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.”  (The “R.O.C.K.” part doesn’t mean anything other than “Rock.” If you don’t know what the “U.S.A.” part means, you’re either not from around here or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way…find out for yourself.)

18)  Le Tigre  ~  “TKO”  ("Technical Knockout")

19)  Harry Chapin  ~  “W.O.L.D.”  (These are the call letters of a fictional radio station at which the song’s narrator is an aging deejay. Thus a double meaning with the letters “O.L.D.”)

20)  Florida Georgia Line  ~  “H.O.L.Y.”  ("High On Loving You")

Popular Songs Of 1968, Vol. 4

Fourth and final in this miniseries of posts featuring Popular Songs of 1968. Once more, I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  “Mrs. Robinson”

2)  Steppenwolf  ~  “Magic Carpet Ride”

3)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”

4)  The Rascals  ~  “People Got To Be Free”

5)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “Think”

6)  The Troggs  ~  “Love Is All Around”

7)  Johnny Nash  ~  “Hold Me Tight”

8)  Mason Williams  ~  “Classical Gas”

9)  The Dells  ~  “Stay In My Corner”

10)  Donovan  ~  “Hurdy Gurdy Man”

11)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Just Because I’m A Woman”

12)  Percy Sledge  ~  “Take Time To Know Her”

13)  Henson Cargill  ~  “Skip A Rope”

14)  Otis Redding  ~  “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay”

15)  Glen Campbell  ~  “Wichita Lineman”

16)  Johnnie Taylor  ~  “Who’s Making Love”

17)  The Beatles  ~  “Revolution”

18)  Marvin Gaye  ~  “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”

19)  Gary Puckett & The Union Gap  ~  “Lady Willpower”

20)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “Do You Know The Way To San Jose?”

21)  Cream  ~  “White Room”

22)  James Brown  ~  “I Got The Feelin’”

23)  The 5th Dimension  ~  “Stoned Soul Picnic”

24)  Manfred Mann  ~  “Mighty Quinn”

25)  Diana Ross & The Supremes  ~  “Love Child”