"Lesser" Songs

I'm of the philosophy that it's always better to under-promise and over-deliver. Sure, if you live up to those expectations, someone's going to be disappointed. But if you exceed those expectations, everyone's surprised and impressed. Case in point: I told you yesterday, upon publishing the "Equal" Songs post, that I wasn't sure if I could find enough good "Lesser" Songs to do that follow-up post. And yet, here it is. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Toyah  ~  “Lesser God”

2)  Barcelona  ~  “Lesser Things”

3)  Dokken  ~  “Lesser Of Two Evils”

4)  Bottomline  ~  “Lesser Me”

5)  Gygax  ~  “Lesser Magick”

6)  Marlene Mendoza ft. John Price  ~  “A Battle Between Two Lesser Evils”

7)  Matthew Good  ~  “In A Place Of Lesser Men”

8)  Flogging Molly  ~  “Us Of Lesser Gods”

9)  Hotel Books  ~  “Lesser”

10)  Dirty Elvis  ~  “The Lesser Of Two”

11)  Jars Of Clay  ~  “Lesser Things”

12)  The Wedding  ~  “The Lesser Worth”

13)  Kerbdog  ~  “Lesser Shelf”

14)  Gena Rowlands Band  ~  “Love, For Want Of A Lesser Word”

15)  Brian Eno  ~  “Lesser Heaven”

16)  Soil  ~  “The Lesser Man”

17)  The Apologist  ~  “The Lesser Gods”

18)  Aijalon Church  ~  “Lesser Loves”

19)  Lennex  ~  “A Lesser None”

20)  Corrington Wheeler ft. Jeremy Gilmore  ~  “The Lesser Key”

Songs About Floods

There's been a lot of talk about flooding in the news of late, some of it not too far from home for me. In spite of that fact, here's a bunch of Songs About Floods that I hope you'll enjoy.  ~  JH

1)  Jars Of Clay  ~  “Flood”

2)  Katie Melua  ~  “The Flood”

3)  Take That  ~  “The Flood”

4)  D1 ft. Jenna G  ~  “Flood Of Emotions”

5)  Vance Joy  ~  “Fire And The Flood”

6)  Hayden Panettiere  ~  “Mississippi Flood”

7)  Billy Lewis, Jr.  ~  “The Flood”

8)  Cheryl Cole  ~  “The Flood”

9)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “Here Comes The Flood”

10)  Stevie Ray Vaughan  ~  “Texas Flood”

11)  Ashmont Hill  ~  “Grace Like A Flood”

12)  Fightstar  ~  “Floods”

13)  Carbon Leaf  ~  “Flood”

14)  69 Chambers  ~  “Bring On The Flood”

15)  Beck  ~  “Fourteen Rivers, Fourteen Floods”

16)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “The Great Flood”

17)  Snarky Puppy  ~  “Flood”

18)  The Derek Trucks Band  ~  “Down In The Flood”

19)  Man Is Not A Bird  ~  “Survived The Great Flood”

20)  Heroes In Hiding  ~  “The Flood”

21)  Getty Domein & Chris Medina  ~  “Here Comes The Flood”

22)  John Orr Franklin  ~  “Flood Dance”

23)  The Soundtrack Of Our Lives  ~  “The Flood”

24)  Anaria  ~  “Into The Flood”

25)  Josh Garrels  ~  “Flood Waters”

Shape-ly Music: Songs About Triangles

Well, this is the last planned "Songs About Shapes" post in the series, unless I change my mind later. Although a cursory search lets me know that most of the other shapes haven't had nearly as many good songs written about them as Squares, Circles, and Triangles have. So this might be it. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Luke Kelly & The Dubliners  ~  "The Auld Triangle"

2)  Weezer  ~  "Pink Triangle"

3)  Fever Ray  ~  "Triangle Walks"

4)  Hardwell  ~  "Three Triangles (Losing My Religion)"

5)  Logistics  ~  "Triangles"

6)  RaeLynn  ~  "Love Triangle"

7)  Jetstream  ~  "Triangle"

8)  Martial Solal ft. Daniel Humair & Jean-François Jenny-Clark  ~  "Triangle"

9)  Echosmith  ~  "Bizarre Love Triangle"

10)  Colours In The Street  ~  "Triangle"

11)  Test Icicles  ~  "Circle Square Triangle"

12)  Norma Jean, George McCormick, & Mack Magaha  ~  "Game Of Triangles"

13)  Prehistoric Friends  ~  "Bermuda Triangle"

14)  Jars Of Clay  ~  "I Love My Triangle"

15)  Diana King  ~  "Love Triangle"

16)  Sesame Street Cast  ~  "Triangle Song"

17)  Aqueous  ~  "Triangle"

18)  Philomena Begley  ~  "Tra Le La Le La Triangle"

19)  Dredg  ~  "Triangle"

20)  Evergrey  ~  "Mark Of The Triangle"

21)  HTRK  ~  "Love Triangle"

22)  The Brandos  ~  "The Triangle Fire"

23)  Felix Martin  ~  "The Triangle Tune"

24)  The Pillows  ~  "Paper Triangle"

25)  The Computers  ~  "Love Triangles, Hate Squares"

BONUS TRACK:  Frente!  ~  "Bizarre Love Triangle"  (This, to me, is the iconic version of this song, even though New Order [not featured here] was the original artist and up-and-coming band Echosmith – song #9 above – did an outstanding cover of it. But I couldn't NOT include Frente! here.)

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Self Control"

This final entry in the "Fruits of the Spirit" was dogging me, too, making it all but impossible to compile. Finally, I made a breakthrough and came up with more songs than I could use, actually. I tried to narrow it down to the best of the best. While you won't find the phrase "self control" in the titles of these songs (and most often, not in the lyrics either), the spirit and attitude of "self control" as a virtue, or "fruit" as it were, permeates each song in this collection. Did I mention that there are some really great songs here? Because there are. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sanctus Real  ~  "I'm Not Alright"

2)  Jars Of Clay  ~  "Worlds Apart"

3)  Jeremy Camp  ~  "My Desire"

4)  GS Megaphone  ~  "Use Me"

5)  Skillet  ~  "Monster"

6)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Courageous"

7)  Relient K  ~  "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been"

8)  Tedashii  ~  "Make War"

9)  Third Day  ~  "Cry Out To Jesus"

10)  Plumb  ~  "Smoke"

11)  Matt Redman  ~  "Never Once"

12)  Hillsong Live  ~  "From The Inside Out"

13)  DC Talk  ~  "In The Light"

14)  Trip Lee ft. J. Paul  ~  "Fallin'"

15)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Slow Fade"

16)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  "The Way I Am"

17)  Fireflight  ~  "Unbreakable"

18)  116 ft. KB, PRo, Tedashii, & Andy Mineo  ~  "Temptation"

19)  Matt Maher ft. Audrey Assad  ~  "Lord, I Need You"

20)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  "The Struggle"

21)  Lauren Daigle  ~  "How Can It Be"

22)  Pillar  ~  "Further From Myself"

23)  Disciple  ~  "Dear X, You Don't Own Me"

24)  KB ft. Swoope, Trip Lee, & Jai  ~  "Open Letter (Battlefield)"

25)  Love & The Outcome  ~  "He Is With Us"

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Love" (Part 1)

I'm starting a new series within a series with this post – that being a collection of songs about each of the Fruits of the Spirit as listed in Galatians 5:22-23. These will be part of the greater series of posts featuring faith-based songs centered around a unified theme. This is a multi-parter, so dive right in and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Hillsong United  ~  "All For Love"

2)  Moriah Peters ft. Us The Duo  ~  "Know Us By Our Love"

3)  Jeremy Riddle  ~  "More Love, More Power"

4)  Brandon Heath  ~  "Your Love"

5)  Jesus Culture  ~  "Your Love Never Fails"

6)  The Museum  ~  "Love Will Find You"

7)  WorshipMob  ~  "How Deep The Father's Love For Us"

8)  Switchfoot  ~  "Let Your Love Be Strong"

9)  Delirious?  ~  "I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever"

10)  Jars Of Clay  ~  "Show You Love"

11)  Gaither Vocal Band  ~  "The Love Of God"

12)  Echoing Angels  ~  "Love So Beautiful"

13)  Rev. James Moore  ~  "Oh How I Love Jesus"

14)  for KING & COUNTRY  ~  "The Proof Of Your Love"

15)  Hillsong Live  ~  "Our God Is Love"

16)  Jason Crabb  ~  "Love Is Stronger"

17)  Elevation Worship  ~  "The Love Of Jesus"

18)  The City Harmonic  ~  "Love Heal Me"

19)  Chris Tomlin  ~  "Jesus Loves Me"

20)  Crowder  ~  "How He Loves"