Songs With Abbreviations In The Title, Vol. 1

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")

“Melody” Songs, Vol. 1

Odd that I've never thought of this "theme" before now. But...here's a collection of songs with the word "Melody" (or "Melodies") somewhere in their titles. One more set of these is coming tomorrow. And then..."Harmony" Songs, of course! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kate Earl  ~  “Melody”

2)  Butch Walker  ~  “Pretty Melody”

3)  Sixpence None The Richer  ~  “Melody Of You”

4)  Caribou  ~  “Melody Day”

5)  Blonde Redhead  ~  “Melody”

6)  The Grass Roots  ~  “A Melody For You”

7)  Oliver Heldens  ~  “Melody”

8)  Beck  ~  “Dead Melodies”

9)  Madison Beer  ~  “Melodies”

10)  Kendall Schmidt  ~  “Memories And Melodies”

11)  Katie Sky  ~  “Sweet Sweet Melody”

12)  The Osborne Brothers  ~  “Bluegrass Melodies”

13)  Paramore  ~  “Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)”

14)  Alphaville  ~  “Sounds Like A Melody”

15)  India.Arie  ~  “Complicated Melody”

16)  Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings  ~  “Melody”

17)  Brenda Lee  ~  “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody”

18)  Righteous Brothers  ~  “Unchained Melody”

19)  Anna Nalick  ~  “More Than Melody”

20)  Harry Chapin  ~  “Stranger With The Melodies”

"37" Songs

As of today, my wife is 37 weeks pregnant with our daughter. So here's an unnecessarily large collection of 37 songs with the number "37" (or "Thirty-Seven") in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  AFI  ~  "Rabbits Are Roadkill On Rt. 37"

2)  Drowning Pool  ~  "37 Stitches"

3)  Florida Georgia Line ft. Luke Bryan  ~  "This Is How We Roll"

4)  A Tribe Called Quest  ~  "Bonita Applebum"

5)  Bridgit Mendler  ~  "Ready Or Not"

6)  Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers  ~  "Guitar Town"

7)  Army Of Freshmen  ~  "Juliet"

8)  Manchester Orchestra  ~  "Pensacola"

9)  The Velvet Underground & Nico  ~  "Femme Fatale"

10)  Ricky Nelson  ~  "Ain't Nothin' But Love"

11)  Architecture In Helsinki  ~  "B4 3D"

12)  Harry Chapin  ~  "Sniper"

13)  Rory Gallagher  ~  "Cruise On Out"

14)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  "We Real Cool"

15)  Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  ~  "Home Again In My Heart"

16)  Rival Sons  ~  "Good Things"

17)  Fefe Dobson  ~  "Can't Breathe"

18)  Rodney Atkins  ~  "He's Mine"

19)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Travelin' Band"

20)  Liz Phair  ~  "Jealousy"

21)  King Kobra  ~  "Tough Guys"

22)  The Guess Who  ~  "Glamour Boy"

23)  Reggie And The Full Effect  ~  "37"

24)  Komputer  ~  "Valentina"

25)  Turin Brakes  ~  "Underdog (Save Me)"

26)  The Low Anthem  ~  "Boeing 737"

27)  Heaven 17  ~  Come Live With Me"

28)  Squeeze  ~  "853-5937"

29)  Alisa Vox  ~  "37"

30)  Marianne Faithfull  ~  "The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan"

31)  Novel Nature  ~  "1937"

32)  August Burns Red  ~  "Thirty And Seven"

33)  DMA's  ~  "Feels Like 37"

34)  Icicle Works  ~  "What She Did To My Mind"

35)  Lizzy Borden  ~  "Red Rum"

36)  Sebastian Ciceri  ~  "Scorpio ThirtySeven"

37)  Nina Hagen  ~  "1985 Ekstasy Drive"

Popular Songs Of 1975, Vol. 2

Can't get enough of the biggest hits of 1975? Good, because here's 20 more of them. Rock on!  ~  JH

1)  Carpenters  ~  "Only Yesterday"

2)  The Isley Brothers  ~  "Fight The Power"

3)  America  ~  "Lonely People"

4)  Barry Manilow  ~  "Mandy"

5)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  "(I'd Be A) Legend In My Time"

6)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  "Have You Never Been Mellow?"

7)  Harry Chapin  ~  "Cat's In The Cradle"

8)  Michael Martin Murphey  ~  "Wildfire"

9)  Wings  ~  "Listen To What The Man Said"

10)  Jessi Colter  ~  "I'm Not Lisa"

11)  10cc  ~  "I'm Not In Love"

12)  Barry White  ~  "You're The First, The Last, My Everything"

13)  KC & The Sunshine Band  ~  "Get Down Tonight"

14)  Don Williams  ~  "You're My Best Friend"

15)  Linda Ronstadt ~   "When Will I Be Loved?"

16)  James Taylor  ~  "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"

17)  Conway Twitty  ~  "Touch The Hand"

18)  The Three Degrees  ~  "When Will I See You Again?"

19)  Queen  ~  "Killer Queen"

20)  Willie Nelson  ~  "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"