Songs About Tips & Ash

It really is amazing what you can come up with when you pair songs with two completely unrelated words in their titles. Case in point, these Songs About Tips & Ash. What are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sam Bruno  ~  "Tip Of My Tongue"

2)  Demon Hunter  ~  "Ash"

3)  Bethel Music ft. Steffany Gretzinger  ~  "Tip Of My Toes"

4)  Zola Jesus  ~  "Ash To Bone"

5)  Bright Eyes  ~  "An Attempt To Tip The Scales"

6)  The Milk Carton Kids  ~  "The Ash & Clay"

7)  Steve Wariner  ~  "The Tips Of My Fingers"

8)  LiSA  ~  "Ash"  (No clue what this lady is singing about, but she belts it out with such energy and vocal prowess that, well, who actually cares what she's saying? It's good stuff!)

9)  Finger Eleven  ~  "Tip"

10)  MS MR   ~ "Ash Tree Lane"

11)  The Civil Wars  ~  "Tip Of My Tongue"

12)  Augustana  ~  "Ash And Ember"

13)  The Tubes  ~  "Tip Of My Tongue"  (What in the actual is that singer wearing on his head? Looks like a cobra-shaped bicycle helmet. Or he used three canisters of mousse on his hair. Either way...ICK! Good song, though.)

14)  This Is The Kit  ~  "White Ash Cut"

15)  John Hiatt & The Goners  ~  "Tip Of My Tongue"

16)  Corrosion Of Conformity ft. James Hetfield  ~  "Man Or Ash"

17)  The Cars  ~  "Blue Tip"

18)  Paradise Lost  ~  "Ash & Debris"

19)  Ezra Furman  ~  "Tip Of A Match"  (This may be both the best and worst song by a man in a dress that you'll hear all day.)

20)  Joshua Hyslop  ~  "Ash & Stone"

21)  Sparks  ~  "Tips For Teens"

22)  Steve Hackett  ~  "Emerald And Ash"

23)  The Motels  ~  "Tipping Point"

24)  The Babe Rainbow  ~  "Ash May & Dr. Love Wisdom"

25)  Owl City  ~  "The Tip Of The Iceberg"

"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"

"Above" & "Beyond" Songs

Okay, so maybe this isn't my best "Opposites" music post ever. There are some really good songs here, and there are a few mediocre ones. Maybe it isn't even technically an "Opposites" post. Whatever it is, here it is. Enjoy!   ~  JH

1)  Ben Folds  ~  "From Above"

2)  Celleste  ~  "Beyond Words"

3)  Ali K  ~  "Before The Throne Of God Above"

4)  Rachel Luttrell  ~  "Beyond The Night"

5)  Mishka  ~  "Above The Bones"

6)  Saxon  ~  "Beyond The Grave"

7)  Seether  ~  "Rise Above This"

8)  Bob Dylan  ~  "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"

9)  Aaron Childree  ~  "Above The Norm"

10)  Petra  ~  "Beyond Belief"

11)  Sister Rosetta Tharpe  ~  "Up Above My Head"

12)  R.E.M.  ~  "The Great Beyond"

13)  Michael W. Smith  ~  "Above All"

14)  The Glitch Mob  ~  "Beyond Monday"

15)  Reeve Carney ft. Bono & The Edge  ~  "Rise Above 1"

16)  Bobby Darin  ~  "Beyond The Sea"

17)  Finger Eleven  ~  "Above"

18)  Madness  ~  "One Step Beyond"

19)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  "Above The Clouds"

20)  Enigma  ~  "Beyond The Invisible"