"Watch" Songs

In case you haven't heard (where have you been?), there's a pretty good-sized hurricane headed our way. And by "our," I mean the eastern seaboard where I live. With that in mind, here's the first in a two-part series featuring songs with "Watch" and "Warning" in their titles. Ya get it? Huh? If not, I'm not going to explain it to you. First up, "Watch" songs. Prepare yourself...for enjoyment!  ~  JH

1)  Silentó  ~  "Watch Me (Whip / Nae Nae)"  (C'mon, you had to know this song would show up on the blog at some point, right?)

2)  Eisley  ~  "Watch It Die"

3)  Tears For Fears  ~  "Watch Me Bleed"

4)  Kate Voegele  ~  "Just Watch Me"

5)  Matisyahu  ~  "Watch The Walls Melt Down"

6)  Julie Andrews  ~  "Someone To Watch Over Me"

7)  Keane  ~  "Watch How You Go"

8)  Tegan and Sara  ~  "Night Watch"

9)  Dinosaur Jr.  ~  "Watch The Corners"

10)  David Byrne & St. Vincent  ~  "I Should Watch TV"

11)  Alter Bridge  ~  "Watch Over You"

12)  Agnes Obel  ~  "I Keep A Close Watch"

13)  Brett Dennen  ~  "Watch Away, Walk Me Burn"

14)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Watch Her Ride"

15)  Hanson  ~  "Watch Over Me"

16)  Anita Baker  ~  "Watch Your Step"

17)  Stereophonics  ~  "Watch Them Fly Sundays"

18)  Clay Walker  ~  "Watch This"

19)  Lorrie Morgan  ~  "Watch Me"

20)  Eric Hutchinson  ~  "Watching You Watch Him"

21)  'Til Tuesday  ~  "Don't Watch Me Bleed"

22)  Elvis Costello  ~  "Watch Your Step"

23)  Andy Williams  ~  "Music To Watch Girls By"

24)  Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, & Linda Ronstadt  ~  "Gold Watch And Chain"

25)  Trace Adkins  ~  "Watch The World End"

"Plastic" Songs

Here's a bunch of songs with the word "Plastic" in their titles. I don't know why. If I did, I'd tell you. I promise. But I don't. So here they are. And...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Radiohead  ~  "Fake Plastic Trees"  (This may just be the quintessential "Plastic" song.)

2)  Eli Young Band  ~  "Plastic"

3)  Alanis  ~  "Plastic"  (Yes, THAT Alanis…Morissette. Way back when in her bubblegum-pop, pre-alternative rock days in Canada.)

4)  CKY  ~  "Plastic Plan"

5)  The Kinks  ~  "Plastic Man"  (As you will soon see, there are a number of songs by this name. And they're all different.)

6)  Guano Apes  ~  "Plastic Mouth"  (A song by a band with one of the greatest bizarro names of all time.)

7)  The Buggles  ~  "Living In The Plastic Age"

8)  Gorillaz ft. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble  ~  "Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach"  (This is MEGA-weird!)

9)  Ani DiFranco  ~  "Little Plastic Castle"

10)  The Temptations  ~  "Plastic Man"

11)  Seether  ~  "Plastic Man"

12)  The Pretenders  ~  "Boots Of Chinese Plastic"

13)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Plastic Fantastic Lover"

14)  Newton Faulkner  ~  "Plastic Hearts"  (This is one of those artists I never would've heard of had it not been for my music blogging hobby. And that would be a tragedy, because he's a fantastic musician and singer!)

15)  Chela  ~   "Plastic Gun"

16)  Crowded House  ~  "Italian Plastic"

17)  Black Uhuru  ~  "Plastic Smile"

18)  Bootsy Collins  ~  "Party On Plastic"  (Okay, this one out-weirds the Gorillaz song above. By a mile!)

19)  Pluto Jonze  ~  "Plastic Bag In A Hurricane"

20)  The Posies  ~  "Plastic Paperbacks / Flavor Of The Month"

21)  Sonny & Cher  ~  "Plastic Man"

Songs About Airplanes

Here's a bunch of songs about airplanes, a.k.a. aeroplanes or just-plain planes. Hope you will find them to be – wait for it! – uplifting! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  B.o.B. ft. Hayley Williams  ~  "Airplanes"

2)  Gary Allan  ~  "Watching Airplanes"

3)  Angus & Julia Stone  ~  "Paper Aeroplane"

4)  Status Quo  ~  "Paper Plane"

5)  Brianna Mazzola  ~  "Airplanes"

6)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  "Aeroplane"

7)  Asaf Avidan ft. Rona Kenan  ~  "Jet Plane"

8)  Local Natives  ~  "Airplanes"

9)  M.I.A.  ~  "Paper Planes"

10)  John Mellencamp  ~  "My Aeroplane"

11)  Björk  ~  "Aeroplane"

12)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Astral Planes"

13)  KT Tunstall  ~  "Paper Aeroplane"

14)  Herbert Grönemeyer  ~  "Airplanes In My Head"

15)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Planes"

16)  INXS  ~  "Johnson's Aeroplane"

17)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "Paper Airplane"

18)  The Black Keys  ~  "Aeroplane Blues"

19)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  "Leaving On A Jet Plane"

20)  Balto  ~  "Airplanes"

21)  Céline Dion  ~  "Next Plane Out"

22)  The Legendary Lightness  ~  "Airplane"

23)  Victoria Duffield  ~  "Paper Planes"

24)  Daniel Powter  ~  "Next Plane Home"

25)  Benjamin Francis Leftwich  ~  "Is That You On That Plane?"

It's About Time! Vol. 1: Seconds

Today begins the first in what will be a multi-part series (how many parts is yet to be determined) featuring songs with units of time in their titles. We'll start with Seconds, progress to Minutes, then Hours, Days, and so on and so forth. I had a lot of fun in compiling these. I hope you will enjoy them, too!  ~  JH

1)  U2  ~  "Seconds"

2)  Twin Shadow  ~  "Five Seconds"

3)  K's Choice  ~  "20,000 Seconds"

4)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  "Four Seconds"

5)  The Human League  ~  "Seconds"

6)  Little Dragon  ~  "Seconds"

7)  Sugar Ray  ~  "10 Seconds Down"

8)  Survivor  ~  "When Seconds Count"

9)  Jazmine Sullivan  ~  "10 Seconds"

10)  O.M.D.  ~  "88 Seconds In Greensboro"

11)  Bee Gees  ~  "Every Second, Every Minute"

12)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds"

13)  Saybia  ~  "The Second You Sleep"

14)  Anathema  ~  "Pulled Under At 2,000 Metres A Second"

15)  Youssou N'Dour ft. Neneh Cherry  ~  "7 Seconds"

16)  Paradise Lost  ~  "One Second"

17)  Son Volt  ~  "Ten Second News"

18)  Rihanna, Kanye West, & Paul McCartney  ~  "FourFiveSeconds"

19)  Switchfoot  ~  "Dirty Second Hands"

20)  Gurf Morlix  ~  "One More Second"

"27" Songs

Today is Christmas. Today also marks the beginning of Week 27 of my wife's pregnancy with our daughter, whose arrival seems much nearer than it once did. In honor of that, here's a collection of songs with the number "27" either in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Faith Hill  ~  "The Lucky One"

2)  Passenger  ~  "Twenty-Seven"

3)  Rihanna ft. Jeezy  ~  "Hard"

4)  Matt Redman & LZ7  ~  "Twenty-Seven Million"

5)  Doris Day  ~  "The Deadwood Stage"

6)  Ryan Adams  ~  "Let It Ride"

7)  GLEE Cast  ~  "Getting Married Today"

8)  Daughtry  ~  "Long Live Rock & Roll"

9)  Katy Perry  ~  "By The Grace Of God"

10)  Tenth Avenue North ft. Derek Minor & KB  ~  "For Those Who Can't Speak"

11)  The Cardigans  ~  "Communication"

12)  Sawyer Brown  ~  "Travelin' Band"

13)  Emmylou Harris  ~  "Red Dirt Girl"

14)  Status Quo  ~  "Spinning Wheel Blues"

15)  Erasure  ~  "Breathe"

16)  Bob Dorough  ~  "Three Is A Magic Number"

17)  Charlotte Gainsbourg  ~  "AF607105"

18)  Blue Oyster Cult  ~  "The Vigil"

19)  KB ft. Jasmine Le'Shea  ~  "Heart Song"

20)  Green Day  ~  "Amy"

21)   The Shins  ~  "Port Of Morrow"

22)  Johnny Cash  ~  "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes"

23)  Huey Lewis & The News  ~  "I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock 'N' Roll)"

24)  Leonard Cohen  ~  "Tower Of Song"

25)  The Pogues & The Dubliners  ~  "The Irish Rover"

26)  Steve Earle & The Dukes  ~  "Billy Austin"

27)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Lather"