Songs About Grabbing

Here's a bunch of Songs About Grabbing. Grabbing what, you might ask. All kinds of things, as it turns out: "Your Heart," "Thy Hand," "The Sunset," "A Girlfriend," "Your Gun," and so much MORE! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Nancy Sinatra  ~  “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?”

2)  Dinosaur Jr.  ~  “Grab It”

3)  Disclosure  ~  “Grab Her”

4)  Julia Lee  ~  “Snatch And Grab It”

5)  Smoking Popes  ~  “Grab Your Heart And Run”

6)  Chevelle  ~  “Grab Thy Hand”

7)  Hundreds  ~  “Grab The Sunset”

8)  Steel Pulse  ~  “Grab A Girlfriend”

9)  Huey Lewis And The News  ~  “Grab This Thing”

10)  Martha Jane & The Talisman  ~  “Grab It”

11)  Ric Ocasek  ~  “Something To Grab For”

12)  My Morning Jacket  ~  “Grab A Body”

13)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  “Grab A Hold”

14)  Anna Sage  ~  “Susan, Grab My Pants”  (I have no idea why this otherwise-innocuous song is called what it is. The phrase appears nowhere in the song’s lyrics.)

15)  Ratham Stone  ~  “Grab The Gold”

16)  Juliette & The Licks  ~  “Smash And Grab”

17)  AC/DC  ~  “Smash ’N’ Grab”

18)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Salamander / Taxi Grab”

19)  Nitty Gritty  ~  “Grab Your Gun”

20)  Buckethead  ~  “Binge And Grab”

21)  Ricardo Rebelo  ~  “Everybody Grab Somebody”

22)  Shotgun Betty  ~  “Grab Your Gun”

23)  Abbey Road Orchestra & USC Trojan Marching Band  ~  “Smash & Grab”

24)  Brian Courtney Wilson  ~  “Grab And Hold”

25)  The White Stripes  ~  “Cash Grab Complications On The Matter”

Songs About Flags

So apparently, it's Flag Day in the United States. In honor of that, here's an incredibly diverse collection of Songs About Flags. Not coincidentally, some of the songs actually refer to the Stars and Stripes, whereas the majority of them are about other kinds of flags (white, black, folded, "chequered," and etc.). Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Dido  ~  “White Flag”

2)  Sonata Arctica  ~  “Flag In The Ground”

3)  Flogging Molly  ~  “What’s Left Of The Flag”

4)  Sabrina Carpenter  ~  “White Flag”

5)  Dispatch  ~  “Flag”

6)  Mary Mary  ~  “Never Wave My Flag”

7)  Jethro Tull  ~  “The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive)”

8)  Chris Tomlin  ~  “White Flag”

9)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Ragged Old Flag”

10)  Oh Land  ~  “Flags”

11)  Neil Young  ~  “Flags Of Freedom”

12)  Thrice  ~  “Flags Of Dawn”

13)  Massive Attack  ~  “False Flags”

14)  Peter Doherty  ~  “Flags Of The Old Regime”

15)  Xavier Rudd & The United Nations  ~  “Flag”

16)  Young Artists For Haiti  ~  “Wavin’ Flag”

17)  Yankee Doodle Dandy Cast  ~  “You’re A Grand Old Flag”

18)  Will Hoge  ~  “Folded Flag”

19)  Flobots ft. Tim McIlrath  ~  “White Flag Warrior”

20)  King’s X  ~  “Black Flag”

Songs About Yesterday, Vol. 1

Today begins a new 6-part series. I know what you're probably thinking. Groan! Not another miniseries! But this one's going to be good, I promise. Turns out, in all the music blogging I've done over the past few years, I've never dedicated a set of songs to the subjects of "Yesterday," "Today," and "Tomorrow." It's high time I did so. There are so many wonderful songs to choose from which contain one or more of these words in their titles, so I had to include a bunch. There's 40 songs for each word, split up into posts of 20 each. We begin with "Yesterday." Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Beatles  ~  “Yesterday”

2)  Leona Lewis  ~  “Yesterday”

3)  30 Seconds To Mars  ~  “From Yesterday”

4)  Foreigner  ~  “That Was Yesterday”

5)  Boyz II Men  ~  “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday”

6)  Black Country Communion  ~  “Song Of Yesterday”

7)  Chad & Jeremy  ~  “Yesterday’s Gone”

8)  George Jones, Jamey Johnson, & Blackberry Smoke  ~  “Yesterday’s Wine”

9)  Carpenters  ~  “Yesterday Once More”

10)  Jethro Tull  ~  “A New Day Yesterday”

11)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday”

12)  Toni Braxton ft. Trey Songz  ~  “Yesterday”

13)  Spiral Starecase  ~  “More Today Than Yesterday”

14)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Yesterdays”

15)  Tony Bennett ft. Buddy Rich  ~  “Yesterdays”

16)  Fink  ~  “Yesterday Was Hard On All Of Us”

17)  My Chemical Romance  ~  “The Kids From Yesterday”

18)  Spooky Tooth  ~  “That Was Only Yesterday”

19)  Lifehouse  ~  “Yesterday’s Son”

20)  Ryan Adams  ~  “Like Yesterday”

Songs About Murder & Mayhem

This post is not nearly as violent or scandalous as it would seem. It is, however, exactly what it purports to be: a collection of songs either about "Murder" or "Mayhem," or which include one of those words within their titles. Umm...enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “Murder In The City”

2)  Halestorm  ~  “Mayhem”

3)  Michael Bolton  ~  “Murder My Heart”

4)  Imelda May  ~  “Mayhem”

5)  AFI  ~  “Miss Murder”

6)  Rick Springfield  ~  “Miss Mayhem”

7)  PJ Harvey  ~  “The Words That Maketh Murder”

8)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Mayhem Maybe”

9)  Jesca Hoop  ~  “Murder Of Birds”

10)  Kansas  ~  “Mysteries And Mayhem”

11)  Coldplay  ~  “Murder”

12)  Billy May and His Orchestra  ~  “Mayhem”

13)  The Police  ~  “Murder By Numbers”

14)  Julissa Veloz  ~  “Mayhem”

15)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Murder Incorporated”

16)  Universal Sigh  ~  “Marcus Mayhem”

17)  Better Than Ezra  ~  “One More Murder”

18)  Bettie Serveert  ~  “Mayhem”

19)  Counting Crows  ~  “A Murder Of One”

20)  Pop Will Eat Itself  ~  “Chaos And Mayhem”

“Heavy” & “Light” Songs, Vol. 2

More "Heavy" and "Light" songs. Aren't you excited? No? Well, listen to 'em anyway. It'll do you some good. Or at least it'll pass the time enjoyably. Whichever.  ~  JH

1)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “Ain’t It Heavy?”

2)  Joe Satriani  ~  “Light Years Away”

3)  Golden Earring  ~  “Something Heavy Going Down”

4)  Ellie Holcomb  ~  “Marvelous Light”

5)  Phish  ~  “Heavy Things”

6)  Harry Connick, Jr.  ~  “Blue Light, Red Light”

7)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Heavy Horses”

8)  Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  ~  “Blinded By The Light”

9)  Kyla La Grange  ~  “Heavy Stone”

10)  Bethel Music ft. Jeremy Riddle  ~  “In Your Light”

11)  Twenty One Pilots  ~  “Heavydirtysoul”

12)  Orianthi  ~  “Light Of Manos”

13)  The Black Keys  ~  “Heavy Soul”

14)  Rita Ora  ~  “Lover Of The Light”

15)  Andy Grammer  ~  “The Heavy And The Slow”

16)  Joey + Rory  ~  “Turning To The Light”

17)  Damon Albarn  ~  “Heavy Seas Of Love”

18)  Debby Boone  ~  “You Light Up My Life”

19)  Florence + The Machine  ~  “Heavy In Your Arms”

20)  Beck  ~  “Waking Light”

21)  Blake Shelton  ~  “Heavy Liftin’”

22)  Madonna  ~  “Ray Of Light”

23)  Anastacia  ~  “Heavy On My Heart”

24)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘Em Up)”

25)  First Aid Kit  ~  “Heavy Storm”