Showing posts with label Esperanza Spalding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Esperanza Spalding. Show all posts

Monday, November 18, 2019

Songs About Pleasure


Here's a set of songs that's sure to make you feel good. Why? Because they're Songs About Pleasure – DUH! Hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Toro y Moi  ~  “Ordinary Pleasure”




2)  Feist  ~  “Pleasure”




3)  Spandau Ballet  ~  “Pleasure”




4)  Meredith Brooks  ~  “Pleasure"




5)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “Darts Of Pleasure”




6)  Tom Tom Club  ~  “Pleasure Of Love”




7)  Roxy Music  ~  “For Your Pleasure”




8)  Kate Bush  ~  “Moments Of Pleasure”




9)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Pleasure, Little Treasure”




10)  Janet Jackson  ~  “The Pleasure Principle”




11)  Peace  ~  “World Pleasure”




12)  Björk  ~  “Pleasure Is All Mine”




13)  Molly Hatchet  ~  “One Man’s Pleasure”




14)  Ane Brun  ~  “Linger With Pleasure”




15)  Billy Preston  ~  “It’s My Pleasure”




16)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  “Rest In Pleasure"




17)  Jarlath Henderson  ~  “Courting Is A Pleasure”




18)  MS MR  ~  “No Guilt In Pleasure”




19)  Kasabian  ~  “Man Of Simple Pleasures”




20)  Mack  ~  “Underprivileged Pleasure”




21)  Jason Mraz  ~  “Common Pleasure”




22)  Ruby Rose & Gary Go  ~  “Guilty Pleasure”




23)  T. Thomason  ~  “Pleasure”




24)  Melanie C  ~  “Take Your Pleasure”




25)  Tim McGraw  ~  “It’s A Business Doing Pleasure With You”

Monday, October 28, 2019

"Vague" Songs


I'm not gonna say that these songs are not clearly expressed or understood, but they are most certainly "Vague." If the songs' titles are to believed, at least. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Tia Gostelow  ~  "Vague Utopia"




2)  Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks  ~  "Vague Space"




3)  Finger Eleven  ~  "I'll Keep Your Memory Vague"




4)  James McMurtry  ~  "Vague Directions"




5)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  "Vague Suspicions"




6)  of Montreal  ~  "Y The Quale And Vaguely Bird Noisily Enjoying Their Forbidden Tryst / I'd Be A Yellow Feathered Loon"  (Ridiculously long song titles aside, this band makes more than its fair share of oddball but unquestionably interesting music.)




7)  Gates  ~  "A Vague Ambition"




8)  Royal Headache  ~  "Distant And Vague"




9)  Vanessa Paradis  ~  "La Vague à lames"




10)  Julie Delpy  ~  "Something A Bit Vague"




11)  Grammatics  ~  "The Vague Archive"




12)  Tiny Little Shoes  ~  "Vague Truth"




13)  Julie Brown  ~  "Vague"




14)  Marshall Crenshaw  ~  "Like A Vague Memory"




15)  Izia  ~  "La Vague"




16)  Blue Mitchell  ~  "Kinda Vague"




17)  Richard Anthony  ~  "Nouvelle Vague"




18)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  "The Vaguest Of Feeling"




19)  La Femme  ~  "Vagues"




20)  Caroline Loeb  ~  "Vagues"




21)  DRMS & L'Isle  ~  "La Vague"




22)  Amoure  ~  "Vague"




23)  Nana Mouskouri  ~  "La Vague"




24)  Adrien Fruit  ~   "Les Vagues"




25)  Laura Cantrell  ~  "Vaguest Idea"



Friday, October 4, 2019

Songs About The Wind, Vol. 4


Last but not least: Songs About The Wind, Vol. 4. And...you're welcome. Also, while you're at it...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Tina Arena ft. Andrew Lloyd Webber  ~  "Whistle Down The Wind"




2)  The War On Drugs  ~  "Eyes To The Wind"




3)  Timbre  ~  "The Wind May Be Beautiful"




4)  Ryan Bingham  ~  "Direction Of The Wind"




5)  George Baker Selection  ~  "The Wind"




6)  Redd Kross  ~  "Blow You A Kiss In The Wind"




7)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  "Wild Is The Wind"




8)  Cymbals Eat Guitars  ~  "Wind Phoenix"




9)  Joey Dale, Rico, & Miella  ~  "Winds"




10) Fruit Bats  ~  "A Bit Of Wind"




11)  Susie Suh  ~  "Feather In The Wind"




12)  Hanna Sikasa  ~  "Winds Sing"




13)  A Fine Frenzy  ~  "Winds Of Wander"




14)  Alpas  ~  "Gentle Winds"




15)  Mariah Carey  ~  "The Wind"




16)  Sannie Fox  ~  "The Black Winds"




17)  Birdy  ~  "Ghost In The Wind"




18)  Acoustic Folly  ~  "Into The Wind"




19)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  "Idle Wind"




20)  NONONO  ~  "Like The Wind"




21)  Joan Jett and the Blackhearts  ~  "Ashes In The Wind"




22)  Eivør  ~  "Dansaðu Vindur"  (Translation: "Wind Dance")




23)  Natalie Imbruglia  ~  "The Wind"




24)  Ayla Schafer  ~  "Vuela con el Viento"  (Translation: "Fly With The Wind")




25)  Unicat  ~  "Cold Wind"


Wednesday, September 25, 2019

More Songs About The Trees

Because you can never have too many Songs About The Trees (or maybe you can), here's a second and final set. So what are you waiting for? By all means...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Oh Land  ~  "Family Tree"




2)  Pearl Jam  ~  "In My Tree"




3)  Mother Mother  ~  "Monkey Tree"




4)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "The Dreaming Tree"




5)  Judy Garland & Margaret O'Brien  ~  "Under The Bamboo Tree"




6)  Plain White T's  ~  "The Giving Tree"




7)  Eva Cassidy  ~  "Tall Trees In Georgia"




8)  Trevor Hall  ~  "The Lime Tree"




9)  Moby ft. Julie Mintz  ~  "The Sorrow Tree"




10)  Foals  ~  "Birch Tree"




11)  Amy Montgomery  ~  "Tree Song (Branch Out & Nourish My Veins)"




12)  U2  ~  "One Tree Hill"




13)  L.E.J.  ~  "Hanging Tree"  (Yeah, I know there was another version – the original, no less! – of this one in the first post. But this rendition is so much more nuanced, so artsy-fartsy, and just so darn good I couldn't help but include it here as well.)




14)  Lacey Sturm  ~  "Mercy Tree"




15)  Pam Tillis  ~  "Shake The Sugar Tree"




16)  Peter Gabriel & Youssou N'Dour  ~  "Shaking The Tree"




17)  Shirley Bassey  ~  "The Living Tree"




18)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "Mango Tree"




19)  Alela Diane  ~  "The Alder Trees"




20)  Erykah Badu  ~  "Appletree"




21)  Beth Orton  ~  "Poison Tree"




22)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  "Cinnamon Tree"




23)  Basia  ~  "An Olive Tree"




24)  Della Mae  ~  "Pine Tree"




25)  Aurora  ~  "Apple Tree"