Songs About Hostages & Luxury

Continuing in my quasi-series of posts featuring songs about two totally unrelated things (most – curiously – beginning with an "H" and an "L"), here's a sensational set of Songs About Hostages & Luxury. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Billie Eilish  ~  “Hostage”

2)  Jon Bellion  ~  “Luxury”

3)  Sia  ~  “Hostage”

4)  Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band  ~  “Luxury Liner”

5)  Lacuna Coil  ~  “Hostage To The Light”

6)  Arrested Development  ~  “Luxury”

7)  Jack’s Mannequin  ~  “Hostage”

8)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Lap Of Luxury”

9)  Donna Summer  ~  “The Hostage”

10)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Luxury”

11)  Anais Martinez  ~  “Hostage”

12)  Maxwell  ~  “Luxury: Cococure”

13)  Jeremy Lister  ~  “Hostage”  (There’s a lot of mindless chit-chat before the song. If you want to skip that, just jump to the 2:25 mark. The song ends around the 5:50 mark. The rest is more mindless chit-chat.)

14)  ZZ Top  ~  “Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury)”

15)  Empires  ~  “Hostage”

16)  Frida Elsa  ~  “Luxury”

17)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  “Hostage Of Peace”

18)  Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark  ~  “The Punishment Of Luxury”

19)  Razorlight  ~  “Hostage Of Love”

20)  Korn  ~  “Love & Luxury”

21)  Angelicca  ~  “Hostage”

22)  Marillion  ~  “Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury”

23)  The Life And Times  ~  “My Last Hostage”

24)  Wye Oak  ~  “On Luxury”

25)  Big Country  ~  “The Hostage Speaks”

26)  Domenica  ~  “Luxury”

27)  Griffin Oskar  ~  “Hostage”

28)  Azealia Banks  ~  “Luxury”

29)  Alexa  ~  “Hostage”

30)  Keith Urban  ~  “The Luxury Of Knowing”

Songs About Nurses

It's National Nurses Week, and we here at Wax & Tracks ("we" meaning me and my dead bird) are celebrating it with a fresh batch of Songs About Nurses. Listen, share, tag people, and most importantly...Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The White Stripes  ~  “The Nurse”

2)  Bush  ~  “Nurse”

3)  Billy Bragg  ~  “A Nurse’s Life Is Full Of Woe”

4)  Cascada  ~  “Night Nurse”

5)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “She’s A Nurse”

6)  The Sugarcubes  ~  “Happy Nurse”

7)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Nursie”

8)  Sonic Youth  ~  “Dude Ranch Nurse”

9)  Katatonia  ~  “Sweet Nurse”

10)  Cherry Glazerr  ~  “Nurse Ratched”  (This video is unnecessarily brutal. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Well, actually, there is. Whatevs.)

11)  JJ Cale  ~  “Devil’s Nurse”

12)  Carolyn Rodriguez  ~  “Night Nurse”

13)  Failure  ~  “The Nurse Who Loved Me”

14)  Swift  ~  “Nurse”

15)  Gregory Isaacs  ~  “Night Nurse”

16)  Country Joe McDonald  ~  “Thank The Nurse”

17)  Oceansize  ~  “Music For A Nurse”

18)  SSgt. Barry Sadler  ~  “Salute To The Nurses”  (If you just happen to have been a nurse serving in Vietnam during the war, this song is specifically devoted to you.)

19)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Titus And Strident Wet Nurse”

20)  R.E.M.  ~  “Everybody Hurts”  (This song and the next few in this set are less ABOUT nurses but more about what nurses DO. Here, they help you when you’re hurt.)

21)  Evanescence  ~  “Bring Me To Life”  (Yep, they can do that, too.)

22)  Bette Midler  ~  “Wind Beneath My Wings”  (Any nurse who’s ever taken good care of you more than lives up to this song.)

23)  Coldplay  ~  “Fix You”  (Yup, that’s a big part of their job.)

24)  The Fray  ~  “How To Save A Life”  (Oh, they KNOW how!)

25)  Starflyer 59  ~  “Card Games & Old Friends”  (What every nurse does during their day-long breaks at work, right? Of course this song DOESN’T describe nurses, but references one of the most foolish statements ever to come out of the mouth of a politician. If you’re a nurse, or you love one, or you simply pay attention, you know what I’m talking about.)

Songs About Stripping (Not Literally…)

Despite the lurid-sounding title, this post consists primarily of songs with the word "Strip" (in its various forms) in their titles. The "stripping" in question, then, is more or less metaphorical and doesn't actually involve any disrobing. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  "Strip Me"

2)  Disciple  ~  “Stripped Away”

3)  Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot  ~  "Comic Strip"

4)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Stripped”

5)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Strip My Mind”

6)  Julie Grower  ~  “Strip It All Away”

7)  Scarlet Pleasure  ~  “The Strip”

8)  John Lee Hooker  ~  “Stripped Me Naked”

9)  Suzi Quatro  ~  “Strip Me”

10)  Luke Bryan  ~  “Strip It Down”

11)  The Company Stores  ~  “Strip It Away”

12)  Faith No More  ~  “Stripsearch”

13)  Alissa DeGroote  ~  “Strip Away”

14)  Liam Payne ft. Quavo  ~  “Strip That Down”

15)  Sonic Youth  ~  “On The Strip”

16)  Armed Fitness  ~  “C-130 Rolling Down The Strip”

17)  Street Puppets ft. Niko Jane  ~  “Strip Away”

18)  Greg Vail ft. Marc Antoine  ~  “On The Strip”

19)  Roger Waters  ~  “Sunset Strip”

20)  The Standells  ~  “Riot On Sunset Strip”

21)  Clara Mae  ~  “Strip”

22)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Strip Cartoon”

23)  Crawford  ~  “Strip It All Away”

24)  Vicious Rumors  ~  “Strip Search”

25)  Eno • Hyde  ~  “Strip It Down”

BONUS TRACK:  Shiny Toy Guns  ~  “Stripped”  (This is the same song as #4 above, but so uniquely different that it merits inclusion here as well.)

"Assault" & "Battery" Songs

I have to be kidding you, right? These songs are *actually* about physically harming someone? No, not really. Well...most of them aren't, at least. But they all do have either the words "Assault" or "Battery" (or in many cases, both) in their titles. So there's that... Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Genesis  ~  “Robbery, Assault, And Battery”

2)  Blur  ~  “Battery In Your Leg”

3)  John Carpenter  ~  “Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Title)”

4)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Bury Me On The Battery”

5)  Empyray  ~  “Assault”

6)  Metallica  ~  “Battery”

7)  Words From Willis  ~  “Silent Assault”

8)  Pitchshifter  ~  “Dead Battery”

9)  Howard Jones  ~  “Assault And Battery”

10)  Mac McCaughan  ~  “Box Batteries”

11)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Assault Attack”

12)  Stornoway  ~  “We Are The Battery Human”

13)  Ride  ~  “Charm Assault”

14)  Fleet Foxes  ~  “Battery Kinzie”

15)  Moulettes  ~  “Assault”

16)  Millencolin  ~  “Battery Check”

17)  Hawkwind  ~  “Assault & Battery”

18)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Batteries Not Included”

19)  Blasted Mechanism  ~  “New Assault”

20)  Les Dudek  ~  “Assault And Battery”