Songs About Escaping

A series of popular television commercials not so long ago included the tagline "Wanna Get Away?" And sometimes we do want to "escape," don't we? Far, far away from the troubles of everyday life. That's what these songs are about, for the most part. Four of them are actually songs about fire escapes, for whatever reason. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Rupert Holmes  ~  “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)”

2)  Eisley  ~  “The Escaping Song”

3)  Fastball  ~  “Fire Escape”

4)  Yuna  ~  “Escape”

5)  John Carpenter  ~  “Escape From New York”

6)  Ilse DeLange  ~  “The Great Escape”

7)  Enrique Iglesias  ~  “Escape”

8)  Gwen Stefani ft. Akon  ~  “The Sweet Escape”

9)  KONGOS  ~  “Escape”

10)  Matthew Mayfield  ~  “Fire Escape”

11)  Grace VanderWaal  ~  “Escape My Mind”

12)  Whodini  ~  “Escape (I Need A Break)”

13)  Eva Simons & Sidney Samson  ~  “Escape From Love”

14)  The Weekenders  ~  “Escape”

15)  TINI  ~  “Great Escape”

16)  Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness  ~  “Fire Escape”

17)  Alesso ft. Sirena  ~  “Sweet Escape”

18)  We Are Scientists  ~  “The Great Escape”

19)  Tashwin  ~  “Love Escape”

20)  Journey  ~  “Escape”

21)  Love, Robot  ~  “Fire Escape”

22)  Metallica  ~  “Escape”

23)  Relient K  ~  “Be My Escape”

24)  Megan Nicole  ~  “Escape”

25)  The Rifles  ~  “The Great Escape”

"Naughty" & "Nice" Songs

It's almost that time of year again! He's making his lists, and he's checking them twice – he's gonna find out who's "Naughty" or "Nice." Which list are YOU on? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Gwen Stefani  ~  “Naughty”

2)  The Beach Boys  ~  “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”

3)  John Denver  ~  “Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me”

4)  Filter  ~  “Hey Man, Nice Shot”

5)  Miriam Makeba  ~  “The Naughty Little Flea”

6)  The Small Faces  ~  “Here Comes The Nice”

7)  Holly Valance  ~  “Naughty Girl”

8)  Lyfe Jennings  ~  “Must Be Nice”

9)  Peter Smith, Alex Frank, & John Storie  ~  “Naughty Angeline”

10)  The Front Bottoms  ~  “Be Nice To Me”

11)  Harry Connick, Jr.  ~  “Naughty Children Of Bluesville”

12)  Radiohead  ~  “Nice Dream”

13)  Matilda Cast  ~  “Naughty”

14)  St. Ange  ~  “Nice Guy Lullaby”

15)  McKenna Wells  ~  “Naughty Baby”

16)  The Left Banke  ~  “Nice To See You”

17)  Samantha Fox  ~  “Naughty Girls Need Love, Too”  (This song/video could not be any more stereotypically ’80s if it tried!)

18)  Divine Fits  ~  “Would That Not Be Nice”

19)  Sherrié Austin ft. Shane Stevens  ~  “Naughty Or Nice”

20)  Herman’s Hermits  ~  “It’s Nice To Be Out In The Morning”

21)  The Statler Brothers  ~  “The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane”

22)  Duran Duran  ~  “Nice”

23)  The Sunny Cowgirls  ~  “Naughty Side”

24)  Mass Gothic  ~  “Nice Night”

25)  John Parr  ~  “Naughty Naughty”  (WOW, this is a cheeseball video! Also extremely ‘80s, in this case to its detriment.)

26)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Treat Me Nice”

27)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  “The Naughty Waltz”

28)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Nice ’N’ Easy”

29)  Phi Phi O'Hara  ~  “Naughty Or Nice”

30)  The English Beat  ~  “Too Nice To Talk To”

Songs About Hollering

Sometimes you just feel like hollering. (Or yelling, for you folks who aren’t from around here.) For all the times when you just feel like raising your voice in a screaming fashion, there’s these songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Spice Girls  ~  “Holler”

2)  Randy Travis & Josh Turner  ~  “Deeper Than The Holler”  (Okay, so this one’s not actually *about* hollering. But it’s such a good song that its exclusion from this post would be a crying shame.)

3)  Honey Mustard  ~  “Holler On”

4)  Marvin Gaye  ~  “Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”

5)  Baha Men  ~  “Holla”

6)  Hayes Carll  ~  “Stomp And Holler”

7)  Girls’ Generation  ~  “Holler”  (Because this post – and this blog in general – was suffering a severe deficit of K-Pop songs, there’s this…)

8)  Blue October  ~  “Holler”

9)  Coco Jones  ~  “Holla At The DJ”

10)  The Lost Trailers  ~  “Holler Back”

11)  Social Studies  ~  “Holler Boys”

12)  Taj Mahal  ~  “Strong Man Holler”

13)  Gwen Stefani  ~  “Hollaback Girl”

14)  Johnny Russell  ~  “The Son Of Hickory Holler’s Tramp”  (Nope, not *about* hollering, either. I guess maybe the word “about” in the title of the post should be a bit loosely defined this time around.)

15)  Trin-I-Tee 5:7 ft. J. Moss  ~  “Holla”

16)  John Prine  ~  “Quit Hollerin’ At Me”

17)  Adrienne Young & The Old Faithful  ~  “Hills And Hollers”

18)  Jalen N’Gonda  ~  “Holler (When You Call My Name)”

19)  Dawn and Hawkes  ~  “Holler”

20)  2Pac  ~  “Holler If Ya Hear Me”

21)  European Theater  ~  “The Heart She Hollered”

22)  Dead Sons  ~  “Hollers And The Hymns”

23)  The Shook Twins  ~  “Holler It Down”

24)  Leo “Bud” Welch  ~  “Girl In The Holler”

25)  Rebecca & Fiona  ~  “Holler”  (The Swedes were jealous of the K-Pop entry in this post, so they had to get in on the fun, too. Another Swedish girl group almost made the cut, too, but not enough slots were available.)

“Imaginary” & “Real” Songs, Vol. 2

Part 2 of 2 in this miniseries featuring songs with the words "Imaginary" or "Real" in their titles. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Real World”

2)  Tove Lo  ~  “Imaginary Friend”

3)  Tori Amos  ~  “Real Men”

4)  Lemon Demon  ~  “Imaginary Friend”

5)  Meiko  ~  “Real Real Sweet”

6)  Reel Big Fish  ~  “Imaginary Friend”

7)  The Who  ~  “Real Good Looking Boy”

8)  Nina Schofield  ~  “Imaginary Love”

9)  NF  ~  “Real”

10)  Brennan Heart & Jonathan Mendelsohn  ~  “Imaginary”

11)  Metric  ~  “Dreams So Real”

12)  Jon McLaughlin  ~  “Imaginary Tea”

13)  K-Ci & JoJo  ~  “Tell Me It’s Real”

14)  The Soundtrack Of Our Lives  ~  “Broken Imaginary Time”

15)  Gwen Stefani  ~  “The Real Thing”

16)  Astronaut  ~  “Imaginary Friend”

17)  tUnE-yArDs  ~  “Real Thing”

18)  Big Head Todd And The Monsters  ~  “Imaginary Ships”

19)  K’s Choice  ~  “Live For Real”

20)  John Waite  ~  “Imaginary Girl”

21)  Plumb  ~  “Real”

22)  Mike McKay Band  ~  “Imaginary Stop Signs”

23)  James Morrison  ~  “You Make It Real”

24)  Autolux  ~  “The Science Of Imaginary Solutions”

25)  Beyoncé & Justin Timberlake  ~  “Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing”