"Chinese" Songs, Vol. 2

It took me a few days, but as promised, here's another set of "Chinese" Songs, neither sung in Chinese nor performed by Chinese artists. Because...there were too many good ones for just one post, that's why. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Passenger  ~  "Paper Cut, Chinese Burn"

2)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  "Chinese Whispers"

3)  Level 42  ~  "The Chinese Way"

4)  Peggy Lee  ~  "Chinese Love Poems: Going Rowing / Like The Moon / The Musicians"

5)  Travis  ~  "Chinese Blues" / "Eyes Wide Open"

6)  Australian Crawl  ~  "Chinese Eyes"

7)  The Trews  ~  "Chinese Kites" / "Beautiful & Tragic"

8)  John Cale  ~  "Chinese Envoy"

9)  Go West  ~  "Chinese Whispers"

10)  Joni Mitchell  ~  "Chinese Café / Unchained Melody"

11)  Sales  ~  "Chinese New Year"

12)  A Silent Film  ~  "Chinese Lanterns"

13)  The Howl & The Hum  ~  "Godmanchester Chinese Bridge"

14)  Cass McCombs  ~  "In A Chinese Alley"

15)  Rickie Lee Jones  ~  "Scary Chinese Movie"

16)  Biz Markie  ~  "Chinese Food"

17)  Robert Earl Keen  ~  "10,000 Chinese Walk Into A Bar"

18)  Finch  ~  "Chinese Organ Thieves"

19)  The Temperance Movement  ~  "Chinese Lanterns"

20)  Scott Helman  ~  "Chinese Restaurant"

"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 "What Happened"

A certain recent presidential candidate just released an entire book on why she didn't get elected. It's called "What Happened." She could have saved herself a lot of time and effort, though, if she'd posted these songs like I just did. Here's actually "What Happened"...according to these tunes, at least. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jessica Mauboy ft. Jay Sean  ~  “What Happened To Us”

2)  Lukas Graham ft. Live Strings & The Rusty Trombones  ~  “What Happened To Perfect”  (True story: I am seriously jealous of this dude's voice. It's uh-MAZING!)

3)  Lena Meyer-Landrut  ~  “What Happened To Me”

4)  The Strokes  ~  “What Ever Happened”

5)  Amanda Ruzza Group  ~  “This Is What Happened"

6)  Forever The Sickest Kids  ~  “What Happened To Emotion?”

7)  Jessi Colter  ~  “What’s Happened To Blue Eyes”

8)  Ezra Henderson  ~  “What Happened”

9)  Emilie & Ogden  ~  “What Happened”

10)  Hoobastank  ~  “What Happened To Us”

11)  Melanie Edwards  ~  “What Happened”

12)  Wyclef Jean ft. Lunch Money Lewis & The Knocks  ~  “What Happened To Love”

13)  Louise Fraser  ~  “What Happened”

14)  Deftones  ~  “What Happened To You”

15)  Algebra Blessett  ~  “What Happened”

16)  The Kolors  ~  “What Happened Last Night”

17)  Brenna Stilwell  ~  “What Happened”

18)  Animal Collective  ~  “What Happened?”

19)  Muddy Magnolias  ~  “Brother, What Happened?"

20)  The Offspring  ~  “What Happened To You?”

21)  Lynsay Ryan  ~  “What Happened To Us”

22)  The Heavy  ~  “What Happened To The Love?”

23)  Erin McKeown  ~  “That’s Just What Happened"

24)  Corey Smith  ~  “What Happened”

25)  Nikki Lickstein  ~  “What Happened Next”

Songs With Football Positions In Their Titles, Vol. 1

As it turns out, there are a lot of these. Vol. 2 to follow tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Monday Morning Quarterback”

2)  Kira Isabella  ~  “Quarterback”

3)  Kopecky  ~  “Quarterback”

4)  Vanessa Williams  ~  “Running Back To You”

5)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “I’ll Come Running Back To You”

6)  Jessica Mauboy ft. Flo Rida  ~  “Running Back”

7)  Thin Lizzy  ~  “Running Back”

8)  Nancy Wilson  ~  “Don’t Come Running Back To Me”

9)  Matt Wertz  ~  “Running Back To You”

10)  Bright Light Bright Light ft. Elton John  ~  “Running Back To You”

11)  For The Foxes  ~  “Running Back To You”

12)  How To Dress Well  ~  “Running Back”

13)  Nazareth  ~  “Turn On Your Receiver”

14)  Huntress  ~  “Receiver”

15)  Tycho  ~  “Receiver”

16)  The Waco Brothers  ~  “Receiver”

17)  Sons And Daughters  ~  “Red Receiver”

18)  Beatenberg  ~  “Beauty Like A Tightened Bow”  (“Tight End”… “Tightened”…maybe a bit of a stretch, but it’s all I’ve got and it’s close enough for me.)

19)  Luke Bryan  ~  “Tackle Box”

20)  Hot Chip  ~  “A Bad Bad Tackle”

21)  Alex G  ~  “Kicker”

22)  Rory Gallagher  ~  “Shin Kicker”

23)  Caroline Castell  ~  “Holder Du”  (Pretty song. Wonder what she’s singing about? I didn’t understand a word of it!)

24)  The Story So Far  ~  “Placeholder”

25)  The Lucksmiths  ~  “Requiem For The Punters Club”

Songs By Awesome Aussie Female Singers, Vol. 2

As I mentioned yesterday, I've always had a strong affinity for Australian female singers. Indeed, many of my all-time favorite female singers hail from Down Under. Yesterday, I posted 20 songs by well-known and lesser-known Aussie ladies. But those weren't the only ones I wanted to post. So here's another 20. (There won't be a Volume 3.) Hope you'll enjoy these as much as or more than yesterday's batch.  ~  JH 

1)  Darlene Zschech  ~  "Hear Our Praises"

2)  Brighter Later  ~  "Come And Go"

3)  Missy Higgins  ~  "Everyone's Waiting"

4)  St. South  ~  "Slacks"

5)  Merril Bainbridge  ~  "Mouth"

6)  Natalie Bassingthwaighte  ~  "Someday Soon"

7)  Clare Bowditch  ~  "One Little River"

8)  Ella Hooper  ~  "Low High"

9)  Samantha Jade  ~  "Soldier"

10)  Kate Ceberano  ~  "Magnet"

11)  Orianthi  ~  "According To You"  (While she's not a bad singer by any means, Orianthi's true claim to fame is her incredible guitar-playing ability.)

12)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  "Never Be The Same"

13)  Emma Hewitt  ~  "Colours"

14)  Brody Dalle  ~  "Don't Mess With Me"

15)  Helen Reddy  ~  "I Am Woman"

16)  Ricki-Lee  ~  "All We Need Is Love"

17)  Betty Who  ~  "Somebody Loves You"

18)  Cosima De Vito  ~  "When The War Is Over"

19)  Delta Goodrem  ~  "In This Life"

20)  Kate DeAraugo  ~  "Maybe Tonight"