Showing posts with label Electric Light Orchestra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Electric Light Orchestra. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2015

"Serious" Songs


A natural follow-up to yesterday's "Funny" songs, here's a small grouping of songs with the word "Serious" in their titles. Try to keep a straight face...and enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Duran Duran  ~  "Serious"




2)  Duffy  ~  "Serious"




3)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "So Serious"




4)  Richard Hawley  ~  "Serious"




5)  Jasmine V  ~  "Serious"




6)  Lucky Dube  ~  "Serious Reggae Business"




7)  Riff  ~  "If You're Serious"




8)  Aretha Franklin  ~  Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)"




9)  Adam Ant  ~  "Desperate But Not Serious"




10)  Mel Jade  ~  "Not That Serious"




11)  Gyptian  ~  "Serious Times"




12)  POP!  ~  "Serious"




13)  R.E.M.  ~  "Supernatural Superserious"




14)  Donna Allen  ~  "Serious"




15)  Jermaine Jackson  ~  "Let's Get Serious"


Wednesday, May 20, 2015

"Evil" Songs

Here's the 2nd half of my latest series of "Opposites" music posts. While these songs are not "evil" in and of themselves, they do bear the word somewhere in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Santana  ~  "Evil Ways"




2)  Ancient Bards  ~  "The Birth Of Evil"




3)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Evil Woman"




4)  Alien Ant Farm  ~  "She's Only Evil"




5)  Nikki Yanofsky  ~  "Necessary Evil"




6)  Iron Maiden  ~  "The Evil That Men Do"




7)  Amorphis  ~  "Evil Inside"




8)  Kobra And The Lotus  ~  "50 Shades Of Evil"




9)  Josh Ritter  ~  "Evil Eye"




10)  Galactic Cowboys  ~  "Evil Twin"




11)  Rose Noire  ~  "Dual Evil"




12)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  "Blue And Evil"




13)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "Evil"




14)  1997  ~  "Garden Of Evil"




15)  The Steve Miller Band  ~  "Evil"




16)  Aretha Franklin  ~  "Evil Gal Blues"




17)  Emerson, Lake, & Palmer  ~  "Karn Evil 9"  (If you like extended drum solos, you're gonna love this one!)




18)  Ladytron  ~  "Evil"




19)  Dream Theater  ~  "The Root Of All Evil"




20)  Eartha Kitt  ~  "I Want To Be Evil"


Tuesday, February 17, 2015

It's About Time! Vol. 3: Hours


And we're back to this longer, ongoing series of songs with time-related names. Here's a collection of tunes with the word "hour" or "hours somewhere in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Green River Ordinance  ~  "Resting Hour"




2)  New Order  ~  "60 Miles An Hour"




3)  Alabama  ~  "Forty Hour Week (For A Livin')"




4)  Norah Jones  ~  "Man Of The Hour"




5)  Enter Shikari  ~  "Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour…"




6)  Wilson Pickett  ~  "In The Midnight Hour"




7)  Sam Robson  ~  "I Need Thee Every Hour"




8)  Lene Marlin  ~  "Fight Against The Hours"




9)  John Mayer ft. Chris Botti  ~  "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning"




10)  Sam Roberts Band  ~  "Golden Hour"




11)  Sea Wolf  ~  "The Violet Hour"




12)  Kimbra  ~  "The Magic Hour"




13)  Tears For Fears  ~  "The Working Hour"




14)  The Cure  ~  "The Holy Hour"




15)  We Are Scientists  ~  "After Hours"




16)  Beach House  ~  "The Hours"




17)  Caribou  ~  "After Hours"




18)  Michael Learns To Rock  ~  "How Many Hours"




19)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Queen Of The Hours"




20)  Reba McEntire  ~  "Eight Crazy Hours (In The Story Of Love)"


Thursday, January 8, 2015

"29" Songs


Today my wife is 29 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's 29 songs with the number "29" (or "Twenty-Nine") somewhere in their titles or lyrics. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Gin Blossoms  ~  "29"




2)  Marc Cohn  ~  "29 Ways"




3)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  "Highway 29"




4)  Mark Chesnutt  ~  "Talkin' To Hank"




5)  Toby Keith  ~  "11 Months And 29 Days"




6)  Anouk  ~  "Together Alone"




7)  Everlast  ~  "Sixty-Five Roses"




8)  Milow  ~  "My Mother's House"




9)  Jeff Buckley  ~  "Everybody Here Wants You"




10)  Frances Langford  ~  "Chattanooga Choo Choo"




11)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Last Train To London"




12)  LIGHTS  ~  "…And Counting"




13)  Feeder  ~  "Waiting For Changes"




14)  Anarbor  ~  "Damage I've Done"




15)  Mary Chapin Carpenter  ~  "He Thinks He'll Keep Her"




16)  Guster  ~  "On The Ocean"




17)  The Sex Pistols  ~  "Seventeen"




18)  Shawn Colvin  ~  "Get Out Of This House"




19)  Charlie Winston  ~  "She Went Quietly"




20)  Corey Smith  ~  "In Love With A Memory"




21)   Joni Mitchell  ~  "Song For Sharon"




22)  Broken Bells  ~   "Mongrel Heart"




23)  The Strokes  ~  "You Only Live Once"




24)  Josh Wilson  ~  "What I See Now"




25)  Robert Plant  ~  "29 Palms"




26)  The Joy Formidable ft. Paul Draper  ~  "Greyhounds In The Slips"




27)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  "Meant To Be"




28)  Blood, Sweat, & Tears  ~  "Over The Hill"




29)  Johnny Cash & The Carter Family  ~  "Worried Man Blues"


Friday, August 15, 2014

Same Name, Different Song: Vol. 10


Another round of these for you folks like me who can't get enough of 'em. For the rest of y'all...stick it out awhile longer, I'll get them all out of my system soon enough.  ~  JH



1)  "Is This Love"

Bob Marley


vs.

Whitesnake




2)  "Lullaby"

Nickelback


vs.

Shawn Mullins


vs.

The Cure




3)  "It's My Life"

Bon Jovi


vs.

No Doubt


vs.

The Animals




4)  "License To Kill"

Gladys Knight


vs.

Bob Dylan




5)  "Lady"

Kenny Rogers


vs.

Styx




5)  "It's Alright"

Matt & Kim


vs.

The Impressions




6)  "Let's Dance"

David Bowie


vs.

Chris Montez




8)  "Little Sister"

Jewel


vs.

Elvis Presley




9)  "It's Over"

Electric Light Orchestra


vs.

Roy Orbison




10)  "Listen"

Beyoncé


vs.

Collective Soul