Songs About "Yourself"

Boy, did I have a lot of songs to choose from with this topic! The number of songs with the word "Yourself" in their titles is staggering. Here are but a few of them. There'll be one more round of these next week, but that's all. Only the best for you, Dear Listener. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Justin Bieber  ~  “Love Yourself”  (I know, I know...I'd pretty much sworn off posting any more Bieber songs since he's become such a joke. But I accidentally starting liking this song quite a bit BEFORE finding out Justin was its singer. So it was either I leave off an obviously good song, or own that junk and put it front and center. I chose the latter. On the plus side, Biebs does NOT appear in the video at all, so there's that.)

2)  David Bowie  ~  “Hang Onto Yourself”

3)  Jess Glynne  ~  “Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself”

4)  Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers  ~  “Lose Yourself To Dance”

5)  Audioslave  ~  “Be Yourself”

6)  Madonna  ~  “Express Yourself”

7)  The Smiths  ~  “Accept Yourself”

8)  Bob Marley & The Wailers  ~  “Lively Up Yourself”

9)  Birdy  ~  “Save Yourself”

10)  Queen  ~  “Keep Yourself Alive”

11)  KRS-One ft. Big Daddy Kane, Freddie Foxxx, Harmony, Kid Capri, LL Cool J, MC Lyte, Ms. Melodie, Run-D.M.C. & Queen Latifah  ~  “Heal Yourself”

12)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Put Yourself In My Place”

13)  Tower Of Power  ~  “Knock Yourself Out”

14)  Jack Garratt  ~  “Surprise Yourself”  (Why haven’t I heard of this guy before now? Because he’s uh…mazing!)

15)  Christina Grimmie  ~  “Get Yourself Together”  (Still hard to believe this talented young lady is gone. Too soon, too soon. #RIPChristina)

16)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Let Yourself Go”

17)  Kaleo  ~  “Save Yourself”  (Amazing live performance…from an ICEBERG! You can’t get much cooler than that! Pun probably intended.)

18)  Diana Krall  ~  “Pick Yourself Up”

19)  Georgia Satellites  ~  “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”

20)  Jackie Chan  ~  “Believe In Yourself”  (My word, that was beautiful! Wonder what he was singing about? And who knew he even could?)

21)  Indigo Girls  ~  “Secure Yourself”

22)  Eric Clapton  ~  “Watch Yourself”

23)  Labrinth  ~  “Express Yourself”

24)  Sharon Van Etten  ~  “Save Yourself”

25)  RATT  ~  “Givin’ Yourself Away”

Songs About Robots

My son is way into robots at the moment – in particular, the Transformers Rescue Bots show. So here's a bunch of Songs About Robots that he would surely appreciate if he were to actually look at my blog. Which he doesn't.  But you do. So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Daft Punk  ~  “Robot Rock”

2)  The Flaming Lips  ~  “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1”

3)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “Robot”

4)  Trip Lee  ~  “Robot”

5)  Styx  ~  “Mr. Roboto”

6)  Röyksopp ft. Robyn  ~  “The Girl And The Robot”

7)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “Robot Parade”

8)  MC Lars ft. MC Bat Commander & Suburban Legends  ~  “This Gigantic Robot Kills”

9)  Marina And The Diamonds  ~  “I Am Not A Robot”

10)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Gold Star For Robot Boy”

11)  Kraftwerk  ~  “The Robots”

12)  Blaze Bayley  ~  “Robot”

13)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Not A Robot, But A Ghost”

14)  Novah  ~  “Robot”

15)  Cage The Elephant  ~  “Tiny Little Robots”

16)  Patrick Watson  ~  “Love Songs For Robots”

17)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Go Robot”

18)  Rick Wakeman  ~  “Robot Man”

19)  Linkin Park  ~  “Robot Boy”

20)  Norma Jean  ~  “Robots 3, Humans 0”

21)  Joe Satriani  ~  “One Robot’s Dream”

22)  Damon Albarn  ~  “Everyday Robots”

23)  The Alan Parsons Project  ~  “I Robot”

24)  Matthew Ebel  ~  “Everybody Needs A Robot”

25)  Umphrey’s McGee  ~  “Robot World”

Songs About Wiping

Whether it's eyes, tears, hands, stains, sadness, noise, smiles, makeup, sweat, tracks, full-of-doubt looks, or what have you – there's plenty of wiping to go around in these songs. Enjoy?!?!  ~  JH

1)  Maroon 5  ~  “Wipe Your Eyes”

2)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Possession”

3)  The Fat Boys ft. The Beach Boys  ~  “Wipeout”

4)  Evanescence  ~  “My Immortal”

5)  The Ventures  ~  “Wipe Out”

6)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Heal Over”

7)  Rascal Flatts  ~  “Stand”

8)  Lights  ~  “Cactus In The Valley”

9)  Big Daddy Weave  ~  “Redeemed”

10)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “Signal To Noise”

11)  Adele  ~  “Right As Rain”

12)  Big Head Todd & The Monsters  ~  “Wipeout Turn”

13)  Paloma Faith  ~  “Black & Blue”

14)  The Offspring  ~  “Can’t Repeat”

15)  Anouk  ~  “Don’t Wipe Us Out”

16)  Flame ft. DecembeRadio  ~  “Let Go”

17)  Meredith Andrews  ~  “You’re Not Alone”

18)  Starsailor  ~  “Tie Up My Hands”

19)  Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams  ~  “Lose Yourself To Dance”

20)  Blondie  ~  “Wipe Off My Sweat”

21)  George Thorogood And The Destroyers  ~  “Tail Dragger”

22)  Dick Van Dyke & Janet Leigh  ~  “Put On A Happy Face”

Songs About Dancing, Vol. 1

When you've done as many music posts as I have over the past several years, it becomes increasingly more difficult each time to find something you haven't explored before. Songs about dancing (or more precisely, with the word "dance" or one of its many derivatives in the titles) seems an obvious choice – but as it turns out, I've never done it before! When I recently got the notion to post "Dancing" songs, I didn't realize (though I probably should have) how many good ones there were. Here are but a few of the ones I found. There will be future volumes of these as well. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams  ~  "Lose Yourself To Dance"

2)  Selena Gomez  ~  "Stars Dance"

3)  David Bowie  ~  "Let's Dance"

4)  MØ  ~  "Don't Wanna Dance"

5)  Walk The Moon  ~  "Shut Up And Dance"

6)  Men Without Hats  ~  "Safety Dance"

7)  Milky Chance  ~  "Stolen Dance"

8)  Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga  ~  "I Won't Dance"

9)  Garth Brooks  ~  "The Dance"  (It's almost impossible to find music videos of Garth on YouTube – by his design, I believe. Live performances are scant also and are usually of dubious quality. But this video of one of his best songs, defies the norm. Great song, great quality!)

10)  Delta Rae  ~  "Dance In The Graveyards"

11)  Van Halen  ~  "Dance The Night Away"

12)  The Bird And The Bee  ~  "Will You Dance?"

13)  Luther Vandross  ~  "Dance With My Father"

14)  Duffy  ~  "Too Hurt To Dance"

15)  Sting  ~  "They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)"

16)  Caro Emerald  ~  "Just One Dance"

17)  Genesis  ~  "Dance On A Volcano"

18)  Pam Tillis  ~  "In Between Dances"

19)  Mumford & Sons  ~  "Dust Bowl Dance"

20)  Olivia Newton-John & The Tubes  ~  "Dancin'"

21)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Blood On The Dance Floor"

22)  Beach House  ~  "Holy Dances"

23)  Sting  ~  "When We Dance"

24)  Deana Carter  ~  "We Danced Anyway"

25)  Wilson Pickett  ~  "Land Of 1,000 Dances"

"Crush"-ing Songs

Here's a bunch of songs with the word "Crush" in their titles. No, it's not an "Opposites" post. It's just an entertaining collection of tunes (hopefully entertaining). Nothing more, nothing less. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Paramore  ~  "crushcrushcrush"

2)  Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas  ~  "Instant Crush"

3)  Obama Girl  ~  "I Got A Crush On…Obama"

4)  R.E.M.  ~  "Orange Crush"

5)  The Jets  ~  "Crush On You"

6)  David Archuleta  ~  "Crush"

7)  Rosette  ~  "Crushed"

8)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "Crush"

9)  Jennifer Paige  ~  "Crush"

10)  Punch Brothers  ~  "Packt Like Sardines In A Crush'd Tin Box"

11)  Taryn Southern  ~  "Crush"

12)  Megadeth  ~  "Crush 'Em"

13)  Ballet School  ~  "Crush"

14)  Paul van Dyk  ~  "Crush"

15)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  "I've Got A Crush On You"

16)  Darren Hayes  ~  "Crush (1980 Me)"

17)  Zhané  ~  "Crush"

18)  Outshyne  ~  "Moonlight Crush"

19)  Natalie Imbruglia  ~  "Instant Crush"

20)  Lulu Lewe  ~  "Crush"

21)  R.E.M.  ~  "Crush With Eyeliner"

22)  Little Big Town  ~  "Girl Crush"

23)  Mandy Moore  ~  "Crush"

24)  O.M.D.  ~  "Crush"

25)  Cocteau Twins  ~  "Crushed"