Popular Songs Of 1998, Vol. 2

Well, these sure bring back memories for me. How about you? Popular Songs of 1998, Vol. 2 is a go! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Aerosmith  ~  “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”

2)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “I Can Love You Better”

3)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  “Love Of My Life”

4)  Garbage  ~  “I Think I’m Paranoid”

5)  Eve 6  ~  “Inside Out”

6)  All Saints  ~  “Never Ever”

7)  Fastball  ~  “The Way”

8)  Lila McCann  ~  “I Wanna Fall In Love”

9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Iris”

10)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Adia”

11)  Everclear  ~  “Father Of Mine”

12)  Xscape  ~  “The Arms Of The One Who Loves You”

13)  Uncle Sam  ~  “I Don’t Ever Want To See You Again”

14)  Faith Hill ft. Tim McGraw  ~  “Just To Hear You Say That You Love Me”

15)  Jimmy Ray  ~  “Are You Jimmy Ray?”

16)  Destiny’s Child  ~  “No, No, No”

17)  Newsboys  ~  “Entertaining Angels”

18)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Cruel Summer”

19)  Metallica  ~  “The Unforgiven II”

20)  Spice Girls  ~  “Too Much”

21)  Clint Black  ~  “Nothin’ But The Taillights”

22)  Paula Cole  ~  “I Don’t Want To Wait”

23)  Harvey Danger  ~  “Flagpole Sitta”

24)  Jennifer Paige  ~  “Crush”

25)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Heroes”

"Broke" Songs

This post started out featuring only Songs about BEING "broke." But I found that self-imposed restriction to be too limiting, so I expanded it to include all kinds of "Broke" songs. The result was ultimately much more rewarding...in my totally unbiased opinion. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Khalid  ~  “Young, Dumb, & Broke”

2)  Hannah Grace  ~  “Broke”

3)  Hotel Books  ~  “Broke Love”

4)  Priscilla Ahn  ~  “Remember How I Broke Your Heart”

5)  Jacob Whitesides  ~  “Broke Billionaire”

6)  Everclear  ~  “The Man Who Broke His Own Heart”

7)  Yuna  ~  “Broke Her”

8)  Joe Budden  ~  “Broke”

9)  Aloha Radio  ~  “Stoked And Broke”

10)  The Swell Season  ~  “Back Broke”

11)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

12)  Lauren Aquilina  ~  “Broke”

13)  Lecrae  ~  “Broke”

14)  Alexa Goddard  ~  “We Broke The Sky”

15)  Todd Rundgren  ~  “Broke Down And Busted”

16)  Brandy Clark  ~  “Broke”

17)  Machine Gun Kelly ft. James Arthur  ~  “Go For Broke”

18)  Sea Of Bees  ~  “Broke”

19)  Keith Green  ~  “Your Love Broke Through”

20)  Cam  ~  “Half Broke Heart”

21)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “Broke Down On The Brazos”

22)  Sade  ~  “Somebody Already Broke My Heart”

23)  TobyMac  ~  “Love Broke Thru”

24)  Steve Earle & The Dukes  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

25)  Jaida Dreyer  ~  “Half Broke Horses”

"Weird" Songs

Quite surprisingly (even to myself), of all the strange and wonderful (and terribly misguided) ideas I've had for music posts, I've never done a set of songs with the word "Weird" (or "Weirdo") in their titles. Until now. They're not half bad, either (though I may be prejudiced). Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Radiohead  ~  “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”

2)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Nobody Weird Like Me”

3)  GoGo Penguin  ~  “Weird Cat”

4)  The Dollyrots  ~  “Get Weird”

5)  Iggy Pop  ~  “Some Weird Sin”

6)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Weird World”

7)  Miles Davis  ~  “Weirdo”

8)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Still A Weirdo”

9)  All Star United  ~  “Weirdo”

10)  Pixies  ~  “Is She Weird?”

11)  Sebadoh  ~  “Weird”

12)  Veruca Salt  ~  “So Weird”

13)  Pete Yorn  ~  “She Was Weird”

14)  Superchunk  ~  “My Gap Feels Weird”

15)  Fruit Bats  ~  “You’re Too Weird”

16)  Everclear  ~  “Nervous And Weird”

17)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Superstar Wonderful Weirdos”

18)  Steel Train  ~  “I Feel Weird”

19)  Hanson  ~  “Weird”

20)  Oingo Boingo  ~  “Weird Science”

21)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  “Weird Friendless Kid”

22)  Clem Snide  ~  “Weird”

23)  Jayney Klimek  ~  “Weird Feeling”

24)  The Charlatans  ~  “Weirdo”

25)  The Muffs  ~  “Weird Boy Next Door”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 3

Here's another set of Popular Songs Of 1997. (One more to go after today.) This one might be the best in the series so far, but I'll leave that up to you to decide. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “As Long As You Love Me”

2)  Live  ~  “Freaks”  (This was then and still remains a profoundly odd, yet inexplicably engaging tune by one of my favorite mid-‘90s bands.)

3)  No Doubt  ~  “Sunday Morning”

4)  The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Mase & Puff Daddy  ~  “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”

5)  Deana Carter  ~  “We Danced Anyway”

6)  Everclear  ~  “Everything To Everyone”

7)  Sneaker Pimps  ~  “6 Underground”

8)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Criminal”

9)  Paula Cole  ~  “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?”

10)  Rick Trevino  ~  “Running Out Of Reasons To Run”

11)  Babyface  ~  “Every Time I Close My Eyes”  (Listen closely for Mariah Carey’s backing vocals here. I never knew she was on this track, and uncredited no less!)

12)  Oasis  ~  “Stand By Me”

13)  Billie Myers  ~  “Kiss The Rain”

14)  The Verve Pipe  ~  “The Freshmen”

15)  Robyn  ~  “Do You Know (What It Takes)”

16)  Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill  ~  “It’s Your Love”

17)  Warren G  ~  “I Shot The Sheriff”

18)  Céline Dion & Barbra Streisand  ~  “Tell Him”

19)  Smash Mouth  ~  “Walkin’ On The Sun”

20)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “How’s It Gonna Be”

21)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Volcano Girls”

22)  Counting Crows  ~  “A Long December”

23)  Chris Rice  ~  “Deep Enough To Dream”

24)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Monkey Wrench”

25)  Elton John  ~  “Something About The Way You Look Tonight”