Showing posts with label Don McLean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don McLean. Show all posts

Friday, November 18, 2016

More “Angry” Songs

Didn't get your fill of "Angry" Songs last time around? Well, you're in luck! Here's a second and final installment of "Angry" tunes. You're welcome? Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Billy Joel  ~  “Prelude / Angry Young Man”




2)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Angry Johnny & The Radio / Blood Bank”




3)  Mother Mother  ~  “Angry Sea”




4)  Neil Young  ~  “Angry World”




5)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  “Angry People”




6)  Blues Traveler  ~  “Pretty Angry”




7)  The Everly Brothers  ~  “I’m Not Angry”




8)  Apocalyptica  ~  “Angry Birds Theme”




9)  Stonewall Jackson  ~  “Don’t Be Angry”




10)  Generationals  ~  “Angry Charlie”




11)  Anthony Hamilton  ~  “Love Is An Angry Thing”




12)  Noisettes  ~  “Angry Angels”




13)  Steve Earle  ~  “Angry Young Man”




14)  Joanie Sommers  ~  “Johnny Get Angry”




15)  Vixen  ~  “Angry”




16)  Don McLean  ~  “Angry Words”




17)  Radney Foster  ~  “Angry Heart”




18)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Angry Chair” 




19)  Styx  ~  “Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man)”




20)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “Angry White Boy Polka”


Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Songs By People Named Hillary & Donald

For some strange reason, there's been a lot of talk about people named Hillary and Donald of late. Can't figure out why. Anyway, here's a bunch of songs by people who share their names. If you reach the end of the post, you might even hear "tunes" (that's putting it politely) by Hillary and Donald themselves. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Hilary Duff  ~  “Chasing The Sun”




2)  Donald Fagen  ~  “New Frontier”




3)  HillaryJane  ~  “Chimneys”




4)  Donald  ~  “Over The Moon”




5)  Hilary  ~  “Kinetic”




6)  Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers  ~  “Encourage Yourself”




7)  Hillary Lindsey  ~  “This One’s For The Girls”




8)  Donald-D  ~  “Notorious”




9)  Hilary Hahn  ~  “Grand Caprice On Schubert’s Der Erlkönig, Op. 26”




10)  Donald Malloy  ~  “Storms”




11)  Hillary Reynolds Band  ~  “Crossing The Line”




12)  Donald Rubinstein  ~  “Love Of Mine”




13)  Hillary Scott & The Scott Family  ~  “Thy Will”  (In case you were wondering, yes...that IS the "lady" from Lady Antebellum!)




14)  Donald Cumming  ~  “Game Of The Heart”




15)  Rachel Hillary  ~  “Hollow Soul”




16)  Donald Byrd  ~  “Blackbyrd”




17)  Celtic Woman ft. Lynn Hillary  ~  “My Lagan Love”




18)  Childish Gambino  ~  “So Into You”  (Birth name: Donald Glover)




19)  Hillary McBride  ~  “Brave”




20)  Donald Richards  ~  “Nevertheless I’m In Love With You / Tenement Symphony”




21)  Hillary Capps  ~  “Love Love Love”




22)  Donald O’Connor  ~  “Make ‘Em Laugh”




23)  Hilary Weeks  ~  “Beautiful Heartbreak”




24)  Don Henley  ~  “Heart Of The Matter”  (Birth name: Donald Hugh Henley)




25)  Hilary Pradia  ~  “Pretty Girl Anthem”




26)  Donald Brown  ~  “Take The A-Train”




27)  Hillary Keane  ~  “Klutz”




28)  Don McLean  ~  “Vincent”  (Birth name: Donald McLean III)




29)  Hillary Rodham Clinton & Rosie O’Donnell  ~  “The Telephone Hour”




30)   Saturday Night Live Cast ft. Donald J. Trump  ~  “Hotline Bling Parody”

Monday, May 23, 2016

"Beginning" Songs, Vol. 1

Life in general is full of beginnings and endings. We live most of our lives in the middle. In honor of that, or in spite of it, here begins a six-part miniseries featuring songs about the "Beginning," "Middle," and the "Ending." To begin, "Beginning" songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Seal  ~  “The Beginning”




2)  Guster  ~  “Beginning Of The End”




3)  The Futureheads  ~  “The Beginning Of The Twist”




4)  Richard Marx & Donna Lewis  ~  “At The Beginning”




5)  Django Django  ~  “Beginning To Fade”




6)  The Decemberists  ~  “A Beginning Song”




7)  Snow Patrol  ~  “It’s Beginning To Get To Me”




8)  Ella Fitzgerald  ~  “I’m Beginning To See The Light / Ordinary Fool”




9)  Emerson, Lake, & Palmer  ~  “From The Beginning”




10)  One OK Rock  ~  “The Beginning”




11)  Emery  ~  “The Beginning”




12)  My Brightest Diamond  ~  “In The Beginning”




13)  Don McLean  ~  “Genesis (In The Beginning)”




14)  Europe  ~  “Just The Beginning”




15)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “The End Is The Beginning Is The End”




16)  Tracy Chapman  ~  “New Beginning”




17)  Jason Becker  ~  “The End Of The Beginning”




18)  Cloverton  ~  “The End Is The Beginning”




19)  Steve Howe & Patrick Moraz  ~  “Beginnings”




20)  Elephant Revival  ~  “Remembering A Beginning”


Friday, January 29, 2016

Songs With Celebrities’ Name In The Titles, Vol. 2

Here you have the second and final installment in a series of Songs With Celebrities' Names In The Titles. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Don McLean  ~  “Vincent”  (Van Gogh, that is)




2)  Pharrell Williams  ~  “Marilyn Monroe”




3)  Dire Straits  ~  “Calling Elvis”




4)  Ryan Adams  ~  “Sylvia Plath”




5)  Elton John  ~  “Oscar Wilde Gets Out”




6)  Warpaint  ~  “Billie Holiday”




7)  Saint Motel  ~  “Benny Goodman”




8)  Johnny Cash  ~  “The Night Hank Williams Came To Town”




9)  CAKE  ~  “Frank Sinatra”




10)  10,000 Maniacs  ~  “Hey Jack Kerouac”




11)  Phantogram  ~  “Bill Murray”




12)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  “Brian Wilson”




13)  Bananarama  ~  “Robert De Niro’s Waiting”




14)  Sleeping With Sirens  ~  “If I’m James Dean, Then You’re Audrey Hepburn”  (Two for the price of one! Too bad the song's only halfway decent.)




15)  DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince  ~  “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson”


Wednesday, April 8, 2015

"Wonderful" Songs

Every so often, there is truth in advertising. While the point of this post was to gather a group of songs with the word "Wonderful" in their titles (a follow-up to my previous "Terrible" songs post), the resulting songs themselves are, for the most part, actually quite wonderful. So enjoy them already!  ~  JH



1)  Angel  ~  "Wonderful"




2)  Gary Go  ~  "Wonderful"




3)  Estelle  ~  "Wonderful Life"




4)  Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman  ~  "The Wonderful Cross"




5)  Black  ~  "Wonderful Life"




6)  Janet Devlin  ~  "Wonderful"




7)  Louis Armstrong  ~  "What A Wonderful World"




8)  Hurts  ~  "Wonderful Life"




9)  Poison Ivory  ~  "Mr. Wonderful"




10)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Wonderful Tonight"




11)  James Morrison  ~  "Wonderful World"




12)  Erakah  ~  "Wonderful"




13)  Everclear  ~  "Wonderful"




14)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Love Is A Wonderful Thing"




15)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  "Wonderful Unknown"




16)  Jason Mraz  ~  "Life Is Wonderful"




17)  Sam Cooke  ~  "Wonderful World"




18)  Sandi Patty & Larnelle Harris  ~  "More Than Wonderful"




19)  Eels  ~  "Wonderful, Glorious"




20)  Desperation Band  ~  "Wonderful"




21)  Diana Krall  ~  " 'S Wonderful"




22)  Don McLean  ~  "Wonderful Baby"




23)  Annie Lennox  ~  "Wonderful"




24)  Marvin Gaye  ~  "You're A Wonderful One"




25)  Joss Stone  ~  "Some Kind Of Wonderful"