“Send” & “Receive” Songs

This one started off simply enough. I really like the newest Adele song and wanted to figure out a feasible way to include it in a post. This seemed like a logical choice, but I had no idea if I'd find enough "Receive" songs to balance out all the good "Send" ones I knew I'd find. Turns out it was possible! I hope you will (I think you will)...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Adele  ~  “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”

2)  Brian Eno  ~  “No One Receiving”

3)  Scorpions  ~  “Send Me An Angel”

4)  XTC  ~  “Are You Receiving Me?”

5)  Rusted Root  ~  “Send Me On My Way”

6)  Guy Sebastian ft. Paulini  ~  “Receive The Power”

7)   Gladys Knight & B.B. King  ~  “Please Send Me Someone To Love”

8)  Morgan Page ft. Carnage & Candice Pillay  ~  “We Receive You”

9)  Journey  ~  “Send Her My Love”

10)  Israel Houghton  ~  “I Receive”

11)  Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, & Jonas Brothers  ~  “Send It On”

12)  Audrey Assad  ~  “Receive”

13)  Sam Cooke  ~  “For Sentimental Reasons / Send Me”

14)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Receive”

15)  Celtic Woman  ~  “Send Me A Song”

16)  Junior Kelly  ~  “Receive”

17)  INXS  ~  “I Send A Message”

18)  World Overcomers Worship  ~  “Receive Me”

19)  Judy Collins ft. Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops Orchestra  ~  “Send In The Clowns”

20)  Morissette  ~  “Take And Receive”

21)  Daryl Hall ft. Dirty Heads  ~  “Send Me”

22)  The Hollowed  ~  “Receiving Satellites”

23)  Dwight Yoakam & Patty Loveless  ~  “Send A Message To My Heart”

24)  Anakin  ~  “Send/Receive”

25)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Send One Your Love”

Songs About Fruit

A few weeks ago, I was brainstorming some ideas for new music posts, and my wife asked if I'd ever done one about songs with fruit in their titles. I replied that of course I had, and that it had gone over quite well. And then I began to second-guess myself. So I looked over my previous music posts and – to my surprise – I was wrong! I had never done a fruit songs post. So here it is. Twenty-five songs, twenty-five different fruits. Every one of them juicy. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tori Amos  ~  "Raspberry Swirl"

2)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "Mango Tree"

3)  Sarah Jaffe  ~  "Clementine"

4)  Mista  ~  "Blackberry Molasses"  (I included this one for my friend, Eric. He knows why.)

5)  First Aid Kit  ~  "Tangerine"

6)  Fats Domino  ~  "Blueberry Hill"

7)  Goldfrapp  ~  "Black Cherry"

8)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  "Peaches"

9)  Margot & The Nuclear So And So's  ~  "Cold, Kind, & Lemon Eyes"

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  "(Old Dogs, Children, And) Watermelon Wine"  (The actual song starts at the 4:00 mark.)

11)  Lady Gaga  ~  "Orange Colored Sky"

12)  Harry Belafonte  ~  "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"

13)  Islander  ~  "Coconut Dracula"

14)  Neil Diamond  ~  "Cherry, Cherry"

15)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"

16)  Coldplay  ~  "Strawberry Swing"

17)  KT Tunstall  ~  "Honeydew"

18)  Los Campesinos!  ~  "Avocado, Baby"

19)  Diana Krall  ~  "Peel Me A Grape"

20)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Queenie Wahine's Papaya"

21)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "3 Pears"

22)  Brooklyn Roebuck  ~  "Lemon & Lime"

23)  Peter Frampton  ~  "Fig Tree Bay"

24)  Herbie Hancock  ~  "Cantaloupe Island"

25)  Kate Nash  ~  "Pumpkin Soup"  (Yes, it's a fruit. I looked it up.)

Songs About Clowns

Let's start off our work week on a wonderfully creepy note, with a delightful collection of songs about everybody's favorite buffoon: the clown! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "Pocket Of A Clown"

2)  Elvis Costello & The Imposters  ~  "Clown Strike"

3)  Emeli Sandé  ~  "Clown"

4)  Placebo  ~  "Pierrot The Clown"

5)  Margot & The Nuclear So And So's  ~  "Dress Me Like A Clown"

6)  Shakira  ~  "Costume Makes The Clown"

7)  The Kinks  ~  "Death Of A Clown"

8)  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  ~  "The Tears Of A Clown"

9)  Reba McEntire  ~  "Cathy's Clown"

10)  Bobby Goldsboro  ~  "See The Funny Little Clown"

11)  Korn  ~  "Clown"

12)   Judy Garland  ~  "Be A Clown"

13)  Soprano  ~  "Clown"

14)  Chris Garneau  ~  "Dirty Night Clowns"

15)  Dame Judi Dench  ~  "Send In The Clowns"

16)  Manfred Mann  ~  "Ha! Ha! Said The Clown"

17)  Beecake  ~  "The Clown"

18)  Kathy Mattea  ~  "Clown In Your Rodeo"

19)  Jack Johnson & G. Love  ~  "Rodeo Clowns"

20)  Oingo Boingo  ~  "Clowns Of Death"

21)  Bruce Dickinson  ~  "Shoot All The Clowns"

22)  Wolfgang  ~  "Cast Of Clowns"

23)  Spelling Nadja  ~  "Cloning Clowns"

24)  Edguy  ~  "All The Clowns"

25)  Goldfrapp  ~  "Clowns"

"Dim" Songs

Here are those "Dim" songs I told you about yesterday. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  "Strangely Dim"

2)  The Waiting  ~ "Never Dim"

3)  Donna Summer  ~  "Dim All The Lights"

4)  Johann Johannsson  ~  "The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's Black"

5)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)"

6)  Urbandub  ~  "Dim The Headlights"

7)  Miri Ben-Ari  ~  "Dim The Lights!"

8)  Greenwheel  ~  "Dim Halo"

9)  Grafa & Bobo ft. Pechenkata  ~  "Dim Da Me Niama"

10)  Family  ~  "Dim"

11)  Umphrey's McGee  ~  "Dim Sun"

12)  Absolutely Free  ~  "My Dim Age"

13)  Cold Specks  ~  "When The City Lights Dim"

14)  Deadbolt Zen  ~  "Dim Days"

15)  Blackshield  ~  "Dim"

16)  Goose Rincon  ~  "Dim Thoughts"

17)  Chapel Hill  ~  "When The Lights Begin To Dim"

18)  Glass Oaks ft. Becca Mancari  ~  "Dim Coal Night"

19)  Winston Reedy  ~  "Dim The Lights"

20)  Buriers  ~  "Dim Half Light"

"33" Songs

Well, whaddyaknow! As it turns out, there are a ton of songs with the number "33" (or "Thirty-Three") in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Accordingly, I was able to gather 33 songs here in honor of the fact that my wife is 33 weeks pregnant with our daughter today. Enjoy it, okay?  ~  JH

1)  Coheed and Cambria  ~  "33"

2)  Five For Fighting  ~  "100 Years"

3)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  "Blue Jeans And White T-Shirts"

4)  Sinead O'Connor  ~  "33"

5)  Demon Hunter  ~  "Not Ready To Die"

6)  Sanctus Real  ~  "33"

7)  Counting Crows  ~  "All My Friends"

8)  Miranda Lambert  ~  "What About Georgia?"

9)  Iron & Wine  ~  "Peng! 33"

10)  Blue October  ~  "Hate Me"

11)  Flame ft. Lecrae & John Reilly  ~  "Joyful Noise"  (Does that opening riff sound familiar? It probably should. Katy Perry allegedly "hijacked" it without permission and tweaked it a bit for her hit song, "Dark Horse." There's even a lawsuit over this – look it up.)

12)  G. Hannelius  ~  "4:45"

13)  Kris Kristofferson  ~  "The Pilgrim, Chapter 33"

14)  TobyMac  ~  "Thankful For You"

15)  J. Moss  ~  "Operator"

16)  Little Big Town  ~  "Vapor"

17)  Heartland  ~  "Mustache"  (I can't believe this is even a real song. Hilarious!)

18)  Petra  ~  "Enter In"

19)  John Cage  ~  "4'33""  (This is the dumbest "music" I've ever [not] heard in my entire life. And I've heard a lot.)

20)  The Pretenders  ~  "Middle Of The Road"

21)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues"

22)  Gov't Mule  ~  "Slow Happy Boys"

23)  Randy Travis  ~  "Raise Him Up"

24)  Nanci Griffith  ~  "I Wish It Would Rain"

25)  Vince Gill & Guy Clark  ~  "Almost Home"

26)  The Clarks  ~  "Irene"

27)  Elvis Costello  ~  "45"

28)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Valentine"

29)  Lonnie Donegan  ~  "The Grand Coulee Dam"

30)  Rancid  ~  "Collision Course"

31)  Shovels & Rope  ~  "Hail Hail"

32)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Thirty-Three"

33)  Judy Garland  ~  "The Boy Next Door"