“Heart” & “Soul” Songs, Vol. 2

If you liked Vol. 1 of this series, then you'll probably like this one as well. More "Heart" & "Soul" Songs for your listening pleasure. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Phil Collins  ~  “You’ll Be In My Heart”

2)  Anita Baker  ~  “Soul Inspiration”

3)  The Cult  ~  “Painted On My Heart”

4)  Planetshakers  ~  “Sings My Soul”

5)  Culture Club  ~  “Time (Clock Of The Heart)”

6)  JoJo  ~  “Save My Soul”

7)  Extreme  ~  “Hole Hearted”

8)  Gin Wigmore  ~  “Singin’ My Soul”

9)  Billy Corgan  ~  “One Diamond, One Heart”

10)  Valerie June  ~  “Got Soul”

11)  Rixton  ~  “Me And My Broken Heart”

12)  TobyMac ft. Kirk Franklin & Mandisa  ~  “Lose My Soul”

13)  Sting  ~  “Shape Of My Heart”

14)  Vonda Shepard  ~  “Searchin’ My Soul”

15)  Survivor  ~  “Burning Heart”

16)  Grouplove  ~  “Love Will Save Your Soul”

17)  James Blunt  ~  “Bonfire Heart”

18)  Amy Macdonald  ~  “Troubled Soul”

19)  Serpentwithfeet  ~  “bless ur heart”

20)  Jewel  ~  “Who Will Save Your Soul?”

21)  Elton John  ~  “A Good Heart”

22)  Spiritualized  ~  “Soul On Fire”

23)  NoMBe  ~  “Young Hearts”

24)  John Mellencamp ft. Carlene Carter  ~  “My Soul’s Got Wings”

25)  Danny Gokey  ~  “Tell Your Heart To Beat Again”

26)  Lights  ~  “Drive My Soul”

27)  R.E.M.  ~  “Oh My Heart”

28)  Bruce Hornsby & The Range ft. Shawn Colvin  ~  “Lost Soul”

29)  Jack Johnson  ~  “You And Your Heart”

30)  Air Traffic Controller  ~  “What You Do To My Soul”

Songs With Abbreviations In The Title, Vol. 1

Of all the things I've blogged about before, this is not one of them. Until now... Enjoy this first set of songs (of two) featuring some kind of abbreviation, initials, or acronym in the title.  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “P.Y.T.”  (“Pretty Young Thing.” Nice cover of a Michael Jackson hit.)

2)  Foo Fighters  ~  “D.O.A.”  (“Dead On Arrival”)

3)  Bea Miller  ~  “S.L.U.T.”  (It’s not what it looks like. This is shorthand for “Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing.”)

4)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “I.R.S.”  (No double meaning here. It really does stand for “Internal Revenue Service.”)

5)  Mariah Carey  ~  “H.A.T.E.U.”  (“H.A.T.E.U.” actually means “hate you.” So…it’s not really an abbreviation for anything. You tricky trickster, Mariah!) 

6)  Kasabian  ~  “L.S.F.”  (“Lost Souls Forever”)

7)  Melanie Fiona  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Also not technically an abbreviation.)

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “N.I.B.”  (Apparently, “Nib” was the nickname of a band member’s beard. Ozzy put the punctuation marks in there to confuse people. Mission accomplished!)

9)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “BWU”  (“Be With U”)

10)  Noah And The Whale  ~  “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”  (It means what it looks like it means. N.O.T. A.N. A.B.B.R.E.V.I.A.T.I.O.N. *sigh*)

11)  Dua Lipa ft. Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, MØ, & Alma  ~  “IDGAF”  (I’ll let you Google this abbreviation. Although, seeing as this is the sanitized version of the song, the title should have been shortened further to “IDGA.”)

12)  Live  ~  “T.B.D.”  (“Tibetan Book of the Dead”)

13)  Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu  ~  “Q.U.E.E.N.”  (Also not an abbreviation. I’m spotting a pattern here.)

14)  Cream  ~  “N.S.U.”  (Oddly enough, this stands for “Non-Specific Urethritis.”)

15)  Jessie J  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Equally not an actual abbreviation. This may be less the fault of the artists and more the fault of yours truly, the blogger. Sorry…)

16)  Rythm Syndicate  ~  “P.A.S.S.I.O.N.”  (The singer spells out several words in this one. But none of them are abbreviations. He just likes spelling, I guess. Except in the case of his band’s name, which is – apparently – misspelled intentionally. Go figure!)

17)  John Mellencamp  ~  “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.”  (The “R.O.C.K.” part doesn’t mean anything other than “Rock.” If you don’t know what the “U.S.A.” part means, you’re either not from around here or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way…find out for yourself.)

18)  Le Tigre  ~  “TKO”  ("Technical Knockout")

19)  Harry Chapin  ~  “W.O.L.D.”  (These are the call letters of a fictional radio station at which the song’s narrator is an aging deejay. Thus a double meaning with the letters “O.L.D.”)

20)  Florida Georgia Line  ~  “H.O.L.Y.”  ("High On Loving You")

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 4

If you haven't seen/heard your favorite song from 1988 thus fair, do not despair – it might be in this post. Or the final one tomorrow. If neither, I apologize – and please let me know what gem I might have missed. Regardless... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Wishing Well”

2)  George Michael  ~  “Kissing A Fool”

3)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”

4)  Poison  ~  “Nothin’ But A Good Time”

5)  Conway Twitty  ~  “That’s My Job”

6)  Neneh Cherry  ~  “Buffalo Stance”

7)  Foreigner  ~  “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”

8)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Cherry Bomb”

9)  Cher  ~  “I Found Someone”

10)  Dokken  ~  “Walk Away”

11)  Rich Mullins  ~  “Awesome God”

12)  Sheena Easton  ~  “The Lover In Me”

13)  White Lion  ~  “Wait”

14)  INXS  ~  “Never Tear Us Apart”

15)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “If It Don’t Come Easy”

16)  Milli Vanilli  ~  “Girl, You Know It’s True”

17)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Hungry Eyes”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Cry, Cry, Cry”

19)  New Edition  ~  “If It Isn’t Love”

20)  David Lee Roth  ~  “Just Like Paradise”

21)  Pretty Poison  ~  “Catch Me (I’m Falling)”

22)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “Everything Your Heart Desires”

23)  Al B. Sure!  ~  “Nite And Day”

24)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Can’t Stay Away From You”

25)  Van Halen  ~  “Finish What Ya Started”

26)  U2  ~  “Desire”

“Emotional” Songs

So we've passed the "Physical" Songs, transcended the "Mental" Songs, and now things are about to get "Emotional." The third in a four-part series of posts featuring songs relating to the types/states of one's health (or lack thereof) starts...NOW!  ~  JH

1)  Whitney Houston  ~  “So Emotional”

2)  Flux Pavilion ft. Matthew Koma & Kaleidoscope Orchestra  ~  “Emotional”

3)  Charli XCX  ~  “Emotional”

4)  Falco  ~  “Emotional”

5)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Emotional Highway”

6)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Emotional Rescue”

7)  Vanessa Amorosi  ~  “The Simple Things (Something Emotional)”

8)  Black Uhuru  ~  “Emotional Slaughter”

9)  Terri Clark  ~  “Emotional Girl”

10)  Neil Finn  ~  “Love Is Emotional”

11)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Emotional Tangle”

12)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Emotional Love”

13)  Snoh Aalegra  ~  “Emotional”

14)  Hothouse Flowers  ~  “An Emotional Time”

15)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “So Emotional”

16)  Carl Thomas  ~  “Emotional”

17)  Sierra Swan  ~  “Emotional”

18)  The O’Jays  ~  “Emotionally Yours”

19)  Vivian Green  ~  “Emotional Rollercoaster”

20)  Tom Waits  ~  “Emotional Weather Report”

21)  Randy Newman ft. Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Real Emotional Girl”

22)  Luther Vandross  ~  “Emotional Love”

23)  Diana DeGarmo  ~  “Emotional”

24)  The Lone Bellow  ~  “You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional”

25)  June The Girl  ~  “Emotional”  (She could be singing about polka-dotted paper clips for all I know, but it sounds so beautiful in French that I don't even care. In all fairness, parts of the song are in English.)