More “Beautiful” Songs

Here's the second and final installment of "Beautiful" Songs for your listening pleasure. Some really good stuff here. I'm sure you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  U2  ~  “Beautiful Day”

2)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  “Beautiful, Beautiful”

3)  Ne-Yo  ~  “Beautiful Monster”

4)  Alessia Cara  ~  “Scars To Your Beautiful”

5)  Hugh Jackman  ~  “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning”

6)  Tori Kelly  ~  “Beautiful Things”

7)  Prince  ~  “The Beautiful Ones”

8)  Jenny & Tyler  ~  “This Is Just So Beautiful”

9)  Kings Of Leon  ~  “Beautiful War”

10)  Paloma Faith  ~  “Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?”

11)  The Afters  ~  “Life Is Beautiful”

12)  AWOLNATION  ~  “Run (Beautiful Things)”

13)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Beautiful Morning”

14)  Ben Rector  ~  “Beautiful”

15)  India.Arie  ~  “Beautiful Flower”

16)  One Direction  ~  “What Makes You Beautiful”

17)  Voices Of Lee  ~  “What A Beautiful Name”

18)  Jesse McCartney  ~  “Beautiful Soul”

19)  Labrinth ft. Emeli Sandé  ~  “Beneath Your Beautiful”

20)  A-L-X.  ~  “Beautiful Criminal”

21)  Passenger ft. Birdy  ~  “Beautiful Birds”

22)  Jonny Diaz  ~  “More Beautiful You”

23)  Olly Murs  ~  “Beautiful To Me”

24)  Annie Lennox  ~  “Keep Young And Beautiful”

25)  Ziggy Marley  ~  “Beautiful Day”

"Breaking" & "Entering" Songs

What do you do when you've just posted a set of songs with the word "Break" in their titles and you have too many good ones left over to just waste. You create a "Breaking" and "Entering" songs post and let the rest take care of itself. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Breaking The Girl”

2)  Metallica  ~  “Enter Sandman”

3)  Florence + The Machine  ~  “Breaking Down”

4)  Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley  ~  “As We Enter”

5)  Julie Roberts  ~  “Break Down Here”

6)  Die Antwoord  ~  “Enter The Ninja”

7)  Dokken  ~  “Breaking The Chains”

8)  Marion Cotillard  ~  “Enter The Game”

9)  Chris Isaak & Trisha Yearwood  ~  “Breaking Apart”

10)  Miss FD  ~  “Enter The Void”

11)  Agnes  ~  “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

12)  Within Temptation  ~  “Enter”

13)  Garbage  ~  “Breaking Up The Girl”

14)  Battle Beast  ~  “Enter The Metal World”

15)  Eric Clapton  ~  “Breaking Point”

16)  Petra  ~  “Enter In”

17)  Duffy  ~  “Breaking My Own Heart”

18)  Jewel  ~  “Enter From The East”

19)  Audrey Assad  ~  “Breaking You”

20)  Steve Hackett Band  ~  “Enter The Night”

21)  Lykke Li  ~  “Breaking It Up”

22)  Jenova 7  ~  “Enter The Void” / “Tunnel Rat”

23)  Emeli Sandé  ~  “Breaking The Law”

24)  Mimika  ~  “Enter The Yadhe”

25)  Tonight Alive  ~  “Breaking & Entering”

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"

Planetary Songs, Vol. 5: "Pluto"…Poor Little Guy

Because I don't have the heart to leave Pluto out of this series, here's 10 songs about everyone's favorite dwarf planet. Poor little guy!  ~  JH

1)  Emeli Sandé ft. Aaron Sokell, Becky Thomas, Ladonna Marie, and Sharlene Hector ~  "Pluto"

2)  The B-52's  ~  "Hallucinating Pluto"

3)  DJ Clock ft. Beatenberg  ~  "Pluto (Remember You)"

4)  Vance Gilbert  ~  "Goodbye, Pluto"

5)  My Brightest Diamond  ~  "To Pluto's Moon"

6)  Grace  ~  "Pluto"

7)  Andrew Cisneros  ~  "Pluto"

8)  Björk  ~  "Pluto"

9)  Clare And The Reasons  ~  "Pluto"

10)  The Yes Yes Yalls  ~  "Earth To Pluto"

"Free" & "Bound" Songs

You just had to know we were overdue for another "Opposites" post, right? This one's a bit of a stretch, in that the words "Free" and "Bound" both have multiple meanings, several of which are explored here. But technically they're still opposites. Some really good songs here, if I do say so myself. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Kid Rock  ~  "Born Free"

2)  Christina Aguilera  ~  "Bound To You"

3)  Rudimental ft. Emeli Sandé  ~  "Free"

4)  Hammerfall  ~  "Bloodbound"

5)  Tom Petty  ~  "Free Fallin'"

6)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  "Homeward Bound"

7)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  "To Be Free"

8)  Jerry Reed  ~  "Eastbound And Down"

9)  Graffiti6  ~  "Free"

10)  Paul Brandt  ~  "Alberta Bound"

11)  Haley Reinhart  ~  "Free"

12)  Local H  ~  "Bound For The Floor"

13)  En Vogue  ~  "Free Your Mind"

14)  dc Talk  ~  "Heaven Bound"  (Woooowwww…this is pretty bad! Way back when, you would've never known that TobyMac [the "rapper" here] was headed for bigger and better things if this is all you had to go on!)

15)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  "Free To Be Me"

16)  Indiana  ~  "Bound"

17)  Donavon Frankenreiter  ~  "Free"

18)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  "Bound For Glory"

19)  Daniel Powter  ~  "Free Loop"

20)  Gangstagrass  ~  "Bound To Ride"  (A bluegrass/hip-hop hybrid band? Yes, please!)

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21)  Sheryl Crow  ~  "Love Is Free"

22)   Angry Anderson  ~  "Bound For Glory"  (Not the same as song #18 above.)

23)  Edgar Winter  ~  "Free Ride"

24)  Cake  ~  "Bound Away"

25)   Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Free Bird"