Songs About Gypsies, Vol. 1

 The sheer number of different songs about gypsies is astounding! That most of these "Gypsy" songs are actually good is even more astonishing! Needless to say, this is going to be a multi-parter. I don't even know how many installments yet. Let's just say "several." Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Morgan Wade  ~  "Other Side"  (This is the song that inspired this series, and it doesn't even have the word "gypsy" in the title. Go figure!)

2)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Gypsy"

3)  Santana  ~  "Gypsy Queen"

4)  Shakira  ~  "Gypsy"

5)  Dio  ~  "Gypsy"

6)  Gordon Lightfoot  ~  "The Gypsy"

7)  Sarah Jarosz  ~  "Gypsy"

8)  Jimi Hendrix  ~  "Gypsy Eyes"

9)  The Waterboys  ~  "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy"

10)  Black Sabbath  ~  "Gypsy"

11)  Cinderella  ~  "Gypsy Road"

12)  Aerosmith  ~  "Gypsy Boots"

13)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  "Gypsy Biker"

14)  Ben Kweller  ~  "Gypsy Rose"

15)  Dolly Parton  ~  "Gypsy, Joe, and Me"

16)  Luscious Jackson  ~  "Gypsy"

17)  The Moody Blues  ~  "Gypsy"

18)  Jan & Dean  ~  "The Gypsy Cried"

19)  Terri Clark  ~  "Gypsy Boots"

20)  Iya Terra  ~  "Gypsy Girl"

21)  Toto  ~  "Gypsy Train"

22)  Chris Norman  ~  "Gypsy Queen"

23)  Van Morrison  ~  "Gypsy in My Soul"

24)  Renaissance  ~  "Ocean Gypsy"

25)  George Strait  ~  "Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me"

"Pleasant" Songs

We could all use some "Pleasant" Songs for a change. So here 's a dozen-and-a-half of them. And there's another dozen-and-a-half coming up soon. So, enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Monkees  ~  "Pleasant Valley Sunday"

2) Kidneythieves  ~  "Pleasant"

3)  Dolly Parton  ~  "Pleasant As May"

4)  The Kinks  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

5)  Intronaut  ~  "The Pleasant Surprise"

6)  Fates Warning  ~  "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray – Part III"

7)  The Vandals  ~  "Goop All Over The Phone (Pleasant All Over The Bill)"

8)  The Mission  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

9)  The Evens  ~  "Mt. Pleasant Isn't"

10)  Wood Of Ypres  ~  "I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery"

11)  Cass McCombs  ~  "Pleasant Shadow Song"

12)  Breakup Shoes  ~  "Perfectly Pleasant"

13)  Rival Sons  ~  "Pleasant Return"

14)  Too Close To See  ~  "Pleasant Days For Me"

15)  Tim Buckley  ~  "Pleasant Street"

16)  Keith McEachern  ~  "Pleasant"

17)  Brock Berrigan  ~  "Point Pleasant"

18)  The Irish Rovers  ~  "Pleasant And Delightful"

Songs About Monkeys

By now, you should come to expect the unexpected from these posts. So you shouldn't be surprised that I'm now blogging a bunch of Songs About Monkeys. Why even ask why? Just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tones And I  ~  "Dance Monkey"

2)  George Michael  ~  "Monkey"

3)  Low  ~  "Monkey"

4)  Coal Chamber ft. Ozzy Osbourne  ~  "Shock The Monkey"  (Music purists, take note: The original version of this Peter Gabriel song appears elsewhere in the post, but these guys' rendition was too unique and interesting to exclude here.)

5)  Catfish  ~  "King Of Monkeys"

6)  Beastie Boys  ~  "Brass Monkey"

7)  T'Pau  ~  "Monkey House"

8)  Foo Fighters  ~  "Monkey Wrench"

9)  Margot Day  ~  "Fire Monkey"

10)  Pixies  ~  "Monkey Gone To Heaven"

11)  The Kills  ~  "Monkey 23"

12)  Peter Gabriel  ~  "Shock The Monkey"  (See, I told ya!)

13)  Ella Hooper ft. Robin Waters  ~  "Monkey Mind"

14)  Aldo Nova  ~  "Monkey On Your Back"

15)  PJ Harvey  ~  "The Orange Monkey"

16)  Mother Mother  ~  "Monkey Tree"

17)  Leo Moracchioli ft. Rabea & Hannah  ~  "Dance Monkey"  (Yeah, we've already heard this song before. But not a kick-butt heavy metal version of it. So...yay!)

18)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Steel Monkey"

19)  Beth Gibbons  ~  "Spider Monkey"

20)  B.B. King  ~  "Sell My Monkey"

21)  Amy Winehouse  ~   "Monkey Man"

22)  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers  ~  "Tweeter And The Monkey Man"

23)  Bette Midler  ~  "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show"

24)  Dolly Parton  ~  "The Monkey's Tale"

25)  The Beach Boys & Annette Funicello  ~  "The Monkey's Uncle"

Songs About Venom & Flies

Remember when I used to post sets of songs with two different themes that had basically nothing to do with each other whatsoever? Yeah, me, too. This is one of those. Try it – you'll like it!  ~  JH

1)  Bullet For My Valentine  ~  "Venom"

2)  Deftones  ~  "Change (In The House Of Flies)"

3)  Icon For Hire  ~  "Venom"

4)  The Judds  ~  "Flies On The Butter"

5)  Richie Kotzen  ~  "Venom"

6)  Alice Cooper  ~  "Halo Of Flies"

7)  My Chemical Romance  ~  "Thank You For The Venom"

8)  Iron Maiden  ~  "Lord Of The Flies"

9)  Leaves' Eyes  ~  "Vengeance Venom"

10)  Ben Howard  ~  "Black Flies"

11)  Ted Nugent  ~  "Venom Soup"

12)  The Joy Formidable  ~  "While The Flies"

13)  Deadlights  ~  "Bathed In Venom"

14)  Nada Surf  ~  "Fruit Fly"

15)  Junior Brown  ~  "Venom Wearin' Denim"

16)  Depeche Mode  ~  "Fly On The Windscreen"

17)  Icarus Falls  ~  "Venom"

18)  Beck  ~  "Lazy Flies"

19)  Impellitteri  ~  "Venom"

20)  AlunaGeorge  ~  "Attracting Flies"

21)  Löve Razër  ~  "Venom"

22)  Benjamin Bates  ~  "Two Flies"

23)  Finn Andrews  ~  "One By The Venom"

24)  Dolly Parton  ~  "Eagle When She Flies"  (OK, so it's not the proper context of "flies," but are you really gonna argue with my including a Dolly Parton classic here?)

25)  Swollen Members  ~  "Venom"

26)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  "Vasoline"  (When I first got the idea for the post, this was the first song that came to mind. Even though the word "flies" doesn't appear in the title – nor does "venom," for that matter – the phrase "flies in the vasoline" [sic] is sung often throughout.)

27)  Eminem  ~  "Venom"

28)  Cherry Blind  ~  "House Of Flies"

29)  Disturbed  ~  "This Venom"

30)  Soundgarden  ~  "Drawing Flies"