The first song in this set is so darn catchy that I can't get it out of my head - so I decided to get it stuck in yours, too! Along with a few other quality Songs About Heat Waves. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Glass Animals ~ "Heat Waves"
2) Modern Maps ~ "Heatwave"
3) Robin Schulz ft. Akon ~ "Heatwave"
4) There's No Business Like Show Business Cast ft. Marilyn Monroe ~ "Heat Wave"
If you can't tell what "This Is" by the title of the post, then I'm certainly not going to tell you what "this is" all about. By the way, enjoy! ~ JH 1) Taylor Swift ~ "This Is Me Trying"
2) Foo Fighters ~ "This Is A Call"
3) The Greatest Showman Cast ft. Keala Settle ~ "This Is Me"
4) Phil Wickham ~ "This Is Amazing Grace"
5) Katy Perry ~ "This Is How We Do"
6) Childish Gambino ~ "This Is America" (WARNING: This is a deeply disturbing video -- extremely important, but quite violent. Viewer discretion is advised.)
7) Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas ~ "This Is Me"
8) Panic! At The Disco ~ "This Is Gospel"
9) Amy Macdonald ~ "This Is The Life"
10) Montell Jordan ~ "This Is How We Do It"
11) Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna ~ "This Is What You Came For"
12) Florida Georgia Line ft. Luke Bryan ~ "This Is How We Roll"
13) Nina Persson ~ "This Is Heavy Metal"
14) Michael Jackson ~ "This Is It"
15) Francesca Battistelli ~ "This Is The Stuff"
16) The Impressions ft. Clifton Davis ~ "This Is My Country"
17) A Great Big World ~ "This Is The New Year"
18) Billy Joel ft. John Mayer ~ "This Is The Time"
19) Trisha Yearwood ~ "This Is Me You're Talking To"
20) Switchfoot ~ "This Is Your Life"
21) Kenny Loggins ~ "This Is It"
22) Thirty Seconds To Mars ~ "This Is War"
23) Scotty McCreery ~ "This Is It"
24) Inspiral Carpets ~ "This Is How It Feels"
25) Taylor Swift ~ "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things" (Why NOT bookend this post with Taylor songs? Can you think of a reason why not? Yeah, me neither.)
What do you do when you've recently completed a series of songs with "Give" and "Take" in the title, but you still have a lot of good "Give" songs to spare? You create a new two-part series with an obscure (outside the world of basketball, at least)sports phrase pairing the word "Give" with the word "Go" and you just roll with it. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Whitney Houston ~ “You Give Good Love”
2) Maroon 5 ~ “Won’t Go Home Without You”
3) Eve ft. Sean Paul ~ “Give It To You”
4) Crosby, Stills, & Nash ~ “Just A Song Before I Go”
5) Sugarland ~ “What I’d Give”
6) Matt Redman ~ “You Never Let Go”
7) Barry White ~ “I’ve Got So Much To Give”
8) Whitesnake ~ “Here I Go Again”
9) Olivia Newton-John ~ “Not Gonna Give In To It”
10) New Kids On The Block ~ “Please Don’t Go Girl” (I’m willing to bet good money that more than a few ladies in their late 30s or early 40s are singing along to this song – unreasonably loudly, at that – even as they’re reading this sentence.)
11) Jack Garratt ~ “The Love You’re Given”
12) Vince Gill ft. Patty Loveless & Ricky Skaggs ~ “Go Rest High On That Mountain”
13) Sigala ft. John Newman & Nile Rodgers ~ “Give Me Your Love”
14) Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso ft. Florida Georgia Line & Watt ~ “Let Me Go”
15) The Chairmen Of The Board ~ “Give Me Just A Little More Time”
16) Jennifer Knapp ~ “Letting Go”
17) George Harrison ~ “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)”
18) Daryl Hall & John Oates ~ “I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)”
Of all the things I've blogged about before, this is not one of them. Until now... Enjoy this first set of songs (of two) featuring some kind of abbreviation, initials, or acronym in the title. ~ JH
1) Tori Kelly ~ “P.Y.T.” (“Pretty Young Thing.” Nice cover of a Michael Jackson hit.)
2) Foo Fighters ~ “D.O.A.” (“Dead On Arrival”)
3) Bea Miller ~ “S.L.U.T.” (It’s not what it looks like. This is shorthand for “Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing.”)
4) Guns N’ Roses ~ “I.R.S.” (No double meaning here. It really does stand for “Internal Revenue Service.”)
5) Mariah Carey ~ “H.A.T.E.U.” (“H.A.T.E.U.” actually means “hate you.” So…it’s not really an abbreviation for anything. You tricky trickster, Mariah!)
6) Kasabian ~ “L.S.F.” (“Lost Souls Forever”)
7) Melanie Fiona ~ “L.O.V.E.” (Also not technically an abbreviation.)
8) Black Sabbath ~ “N.I.B.” (Apparently, “Nib” was the nickname of a band member’s beard. Ozzy put the punctuation marks in there to confuse people. Mission accomplished!)
9) Tegan and Sara ~ “BWU” (“Be With U”)
10) Noah And The Whale ~ “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.” (It means what it looks like it means. N.O.T. A.N. A.B.B.R.E.V.I.A.T.I.O.N. *sigh*)
11) Dua Lipa ft. Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, MØ, & Alma ~ “IDGAF” (I’ll let you Google this abbreviation. Although, seeing as this is the sanitized version of the song, the title should have been shortened further to “IDGA.”)
12) Live ~ “T.B.D.” (“Tibetan Book of the Dead”)
13) Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu ~ “Q.U.E.E.N.” (Also not an abbreviation. I’m spotting a pattern here.)
14) Cream ~ “N.S.U.” (Oddly enough, this stands for “Non-Specific Urethritis.”)
15) Jessie J ~ “L.O.V.E.” (Equally not an actual abbreviation. This may be less the fault of the artists and more the fault of yours truly, the blogger. Sorry…)
16) Rythm Syndicate ~ “P.A.S.S.I.O.N.” (The singer spells out several words in this one. But none of them are abbreviations. He just likes spelling, I guess. Except in the case of his band’s name, which is – apparently – misspelled intentionally. Go figure!)
17) John Mellencamp ~ “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.” (The “R.O.C.K.” part doesn’t mean anything other than “Rock.” If you don’t know what the “U.S.A.” part means, you’re either not from around here or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way…find out for yourself.)
18) Le Tigre ~ “TKO” ("Technical Knockout")
19) Harry Chapin ~ “W.O.L.D.” (These are the call letters of a fictional radio station at which the song’s narrator is an aging deejay. Thus a double meaning with the letters “O.L.D.”)
20) Florida Georgia Line ~ “H.O.L.Y.” ("High On Loving You")
