What Love Is, According To These Songs: Vol. 2

Here's another set of songs with distinct theories about what "Love Is." Like the first installment, there're plenty of good, bad, and oddball definitions. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Eurythmics  ~  “Love Is A Stranger”

2)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  “Love Is Here”

3)  Grace Jones  ~  “Love Is The Drug”

4)  Wet Wet Wet  ~  “Love Is All Around”

5)  Keane  ~  “Love Is The End”

6)  Warpaint  ~  “Love Is To Die”

7)  The Seahorses  ~  “Love Is The Law”

8)  Sade  ~  “Love Is Stronger Than Pride”

9)  Sting  ~  “Love Is The Seventh Wave”

10)  Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight  ~  “Love Is”

11)  The Verve  ~  “Love Is Noise”

12)  Joan Baez  ~  “Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word”

13)  Jack White  ~  “Love Is The Truth / You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket”

14)  Donna Summer  ~  “Love Is In Control”

15)  Ziggy Marley  ~  “Love Is My Religion”

16)  Kim Wilde  ~  “Love Is Holy”

17)  Culture Club  ~  “Love Is Love”

18)  Brandy & Diana Ross  ~  “Love Is All That Matters”

19)  Chester See  ~  “Love Is Now”  (You can pretty much stop the video at the 4:45 mark. The rest of the video is REALLY annoying!)

20)  Metric  ~  “Love Is A Place”

21)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Love Is Here To Stay”

22)  Vixen  ~  “Love Is A Killer”

23)  To Kill A King  ~  “Love Is Coal”

24)  Kerli  ~  “Love Is Dead”

25)  We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!  ~  “Love Is The Slug”  (Wait…WHAT??)

"Scary" Songs

How many music blogs do you know of where you can find songs by Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Björk, Skrillex, Belinda Carlisle, Will Smith, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Witches In Bikinis all in the same post? Yeah…I didn’t think so. Sounds pretty “Scary” to me, too! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  David Bowie  ~  “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”

2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Big Scary Animal”

3)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Is It Scary?”

4)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  “Scariest Part”

5)  Dokken  ~  “Mr. Scary”

6)  Skye Sweetnam  ~  “Scary Love”

7)  McFly  ~  “Silence Is A Scary Sound”

8)  Leila Adu  ~  “Scary Love Monster”

9)  Colors And Carousels  ~  “Scary”

10)  Björk  ~  “Scary”

11)  Will Smith  ~  “Scary Story”

12)  George Lynch  ~  “Son Of Scary”

13)  Witches In Bikinis  ~  “A Scary Kind Of Love”

14)  Villagers  ~  “Hot Scary Summer”

15)  Katie Melua  ~  “Scary Films”

16)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Spooky, Scary Skeletons”

17)  Butterfly Boucher  ~  “Scary Fragile”

18)  Skrillex  ~  “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”

19)  Peter Lara  ~  “Scary Love”

20)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Scary World”

21)  Grace Jones  ~  “Scary But Fun”

22)  The Lobbyists  ~  “Scary Night”

23)  The 1975  ~  “Scary Monsters”

24)  Lindbergh Palace  ~  “Scary”

25)  Romain Virgo  ~  “Scary Movie”

Songs About Being Abducted (Well, Sort Of)

Here's a delightful collection of Songs About Being Abducted. Well, not really. While the songs herein ARE about being taken away, carried away, spirited away, stolen, captured, kidnapped, and, yes, even abducted, most of the abductions are figurative and should be interpreted as such. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Blue Oyster Cult  ~  “Take Me Away”

2)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “Stolen”

3)  Grace Jones  ~  “The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game”

4)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “Cowboy, Take Me Away”

5)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Carried Away”

6)  Jimmy Eat World  ~  “I Will Steal You Back”

7)  Napoleon XIV  ~  “They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!”

8)  Passion Pit  ~  “Carried Away”

9)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Spirited Away”

10)  The Plot In You  ~  “Take Me Away”

11)  Dan Fogelberg & Fool’s Gold  ~  “Captured Angel”

12)  Kelly Rowland  ~  “Stole”

13)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  “Take Me Away”

14)  Dash Berlin ft. Alexander Popov & Jonathan Mendelsohn  ~  “Steal You Away”

15)  Cults  ~  “Abducted”

16)  Wild Belle  ~  “Take Me Away”

17)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  “Pocketful Of Sunshine”  (The refrain “take me away” is sung repeatedly, and it’s the most memorable part of the song, so here it is.)

18)  The Nightmare Before Christmas Cast  ~  “Kidnap The Sandy Claws”

19)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “Captured”

20)  Lifehouse  ~  “Take Me Away”

21)  The Digital Age  ~  “Captured”

22)  Simple Minds  ~  “Spirited Away”

23)  Katy McAllister  ~  “Take Me Away”

24)  Akala  ~  “Carried Away”

25)  Fefe Dobson  ~  “Take Me Away”

Keeping Up With The Joneses

Since the name Jones is one of the most common surnames around the world, especially in English-speaking countries, it should come as no surprise that there's no shortage of singers and musicians named Jones. Here's a collection of songs by some of the most well-known Joneses, along with some good ones by a few up-and-comers. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Norah Jones  ~  “Chasing Pirates”

2)  Tom Jones  ~  “She’s A Lady”

3)  Samantha Jones  ~  “You’ve Got Your Troubles”

4)  George Jones  ~  “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

5)  Jim Jones ft. Chink Santana & Logic  ~  “Perfect Day”

6)  Glenn Jones  ~  “Stay”

7)  Grandpa Jones  ~  “Mountain Dew”

8)  Jimmy Jones  ~  “Handy Man”

9)  Quincy Jones ft. Ray Charles & Chaka Khan  ~  “I’ll Be Good To You”

10)  Howard Jones  ~  “What Is Love?”

11)  Shirley Jones  ~  “Till There Was You”

12)  Vivian Jones  ~  “Strong Love”

13)  Forever Jones  ~  “He Wants It All”

14)  Kasi Jones  ~  “Beautiful Liar”

15)  Prophet Jones  ~  “Lifetime”

16)  Davy Jones  ~  “Girl”

17)  Grace Jones  ~  “I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango)”

18)  Justin Jones  ~  “Make Me The Moon”

19)   Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings  ~  “Retreat!”

20)  January Jones  ~  “I’ve Got The World On A String”

21)  Matthew Perryman Jones  ~  “Save You”

22)  Rickie Lee Jones  ~  “Chuck E.’s In Love”

23)  The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra  ~  “The Groove Merchant”

24)  Jack Jones  ~  “Lollipops And Roses”

25)  Spike Jones And His City Slickers  ~  “That Old Black Magic”