"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”

Songs With Football Positions In Their Titles, Vol. 2

And here are the rest of them. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jasmine Thompson  ~  “Drop Your Guard”

2)  Train  ~  “Son Of A Prison Guard”

3)  Steely Dan  ~  “Change Of The Guard”

4)  JJ Heller  ~  “Let Down Your Guard”

5)  Bowling For Soup  ~  “Guard My Heart”

6)  Bob Mould  ~  “Stand Guard”

7)  Saxon  ~  “Militia Guard”

8)  Beau Black  ~  “Here Comes The Lion Guard”  (If you don’t have a child who watches the Disney Jr. channel, you’ve probably never heard this song. If you do have a child that fits that description, I am SO SORRY! I realize that you have probably heard this song at least 4,000 times already. As have I.)

9)  Iron & Wine  ~  “Baby Center Stage”

10)  Mayday Parade  ~  “Center Of Attention”

11)  Serj Tankian  ~  “Left Of Center”

12)  Chris August  ~  “Center Of It”

13)  Guster  ~  “Center Of Attention”

14)  Indigo Girls  ~  “Center Stage”

15)  Kamelot  ~  “Center Of The Universe”

16)  Jaci Velasquez  ~  “Center Of Your Love”

17)  Chaka Khan  ~  “Journey 2 The Center Of Your Heart”

18)  Men Without Hats  ~  “The Safety Dance”

19)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Safety In Numbers”

20)  We Were Promised Jetpacks  ~  “Safety In Numbers”

21)  5 Seconds Of Summer  ~  “Safety Pin”

22)  Paul Dempsey  ~ “Safety In Numbness”

23)  Bessie Smith  ~  “Safety Mama”

24)  Widespread Panic  ~  “Climb To Safety”

25)  Erasure  ~  “Safety In Numbers”

Songs About Butterflies

After coming up with the idea for this post, I second-guessed myself a bit. I mean, butterflies, come on...how wussy can you get? So, this is (unofficially, at least) a two-parter. First up, Songs About Butterflies. Then later – as un-wussy a subject as I could possibly conceive – Songs About Dragons. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  a-ha  ~  “Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)”

2)  Weezer  ~  “Butterfly”

3)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Butterfly”

4)  HIM  ~  “Wings Of A Butterfly”

5)  Crazy Town  ~  “Butterfly”

6)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “Butterfly”

7)  Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller  ~  “The Butterfly Collector”

8)  Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus  ~  “Butterfly, Fly Away”

9)  Shinedown  ~  “The Crow & The Butterfly”

10)  Heart  ~  “Dog & Butterfly”

11)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

12)  John Denver  ~  “Catch Another Butterfly”

13)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Baby Is A Butterfly”

14)  Bob Carlisle  ~  “Butterfly Kisses”

15)  Procol Harum  ~  “Butterfly Boy”

16)  Deniece Williams  ~  “Black Butterfly”

17)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Butterfly Bleu”

18)  Chaka Khan  ~  “Papillon (a.k.a. Hot Butterfly)”

19)  Muse  ~  “Butterflies And Hurricanes”

20)  Dusty Springfield  ~  “Sometimes Like Butterflies”

21)  Screaming Trees  ~  “Butterfly”

22)  Mads Langer  ~  “Drunken Butterfly”

23)  Tori Amos  ~  “Sleeps With Butterflies”

24)  The Hollies  ~  “Butterfly”

25)  K’s Choice  ~  “Butterflies Instead”

Songs About "Us"

This may or may not be the first part of yet another "Opposites" music post – knowing me, I probably will follow it up with a collection of songs about "Them." For now, though, enjoy what I think is a really good set of songs, by both well-known and lesser-known artists.  ~  JH

1)  Snow Patrol  ~  "The Planets Bend Between Us"

2)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  "Today The Sun's On Us"

3)  Joe Jackson  ~  "Breaking Us In Two"

4)  Paloma Faith  ~  "Never Tear Us Apart"

5)  Passenger  ~  "What Will Become Of Us"

6)  Fallulah  ~  "Give Us A Little Love"

7)  Macklemore & Ryan Lewis  ~  "Can't Hold Us"  (I posted the official music video of this song a mere 3 months ago [on my original blog]. But I decided to include it here because it was interesting to see such a multi-layered song performed live – usually rap songs don't sound nearly as good in person as they do when they were recorded.)

8)  Sade  ~  "Nothing Can Come Between Us"

9)  B.o.B. ft. Taylor Swift  ~  "Both Of Us"  (Interesting collaboration between two über-talented, yet very different artists.)

10)  Christina Milian  ~  "Us Against The World"

11)  Daft Punk  ~  "Something About Us"

12)  t.A.T.u.  ~  "All About Us"

13)  Will Smith  ~  "Just The Two Of Us"

14)  Within Temptation ft. Tarja  ~  "Paradise (What About Us?)"  (Two powerhouse symphonic metal female vocalists in one song? Blisteringly intense!)

15)  Angel  ~  "Us"

16)  Regina Spektor  ~  "Us"

17)  Alabama  ~  "Angels Among Us"

18)  He Is We ft. Owl City  ~  "All About Us"

19)  STRFKR ~   "Bury Us Alive"

20)  Taylor Swift  ~  "The Story Of Us"  (Yeah, another song by Taylor Swift in the same post. What's your point? I like her, so what?)

21)  Joy Division  ~  "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

22)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  "People Like Us"

23)  Elvis Costello & The Roots  ~  "Walk Us Uptown"

24)  Joan Osborne  ~  "One Of Us"  (I have some issues with this song lyrically, but it's a surefire classic from the mid-'90s that belongs in this collection.)

25)  Keith Urban ft. Miranda Lambert  ~  "We Were Us"