"40" Songs

Yesterday, I celebrated my 40th birthday. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of that number – it's just a number. When my wife was pregnant with our second child, I was doing weekly posts with songs featuring a number in their titles that corresponded with the number of weeks of her pregnancy. Our daughter was born a few days early, so I never got a chance to put together the "40" Songs. For both of those reasons, there's this lengthy post. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “A Pirate Looks At Forty”

2)  Sesame Street  ~  “Forty Blocks From Home”

3)  Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers  ~  “40 Days & 40 Nights”

4)  Royal Crown Revue  ~  “40 Cups Of Coffee”

5)  Alabama  ~  “Forty Hour Week (For A Livin’)”

6)  Yonder Mountain String Band  ~  “40 Miles From Denver”

7)  Caedmon’s Call  ~  “40 Acres”

8)  Ronnie Hawkins & The Hawks  ~  “40 Days”

9)  U2  ~  “40”

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  “The Ballad Of Forty Dollars”

11)  The Longing  ~  “40 Days”

12)  The Mountain Goats  ~  “Psalms 40:2”

13)  Third Day  ~  “40 Days”

14)  Ricky Skaggs  ~  “Highway 40 Blues”

15)  Dido  ~  “See You When You’re 40”

16)  Johnny Horton  ~  “When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)”

17)  Franz Ferdinand ~  “40’”

18)  Duane Eddy  ~  “Forty Miles Of Bad Road”

19)  Vienna Teng  ~  “Love Turns 40”

20)  Chris Norman  ~  “Forty Years On”

21)  The Twilight Singers  ~  “Forty Dollars”

22)  Sophie Tucker  ~  “Life Begins At Forty”

23)  Frank Turner  ~  “Love Forty Down”

24)  Buddy Guy, Ronnie Wood, & Jonny Lang  ~  “Forty Days And Forty Nights”

25)  Newsong  ~  “Psalm 40”

26)  Eric Johnson  ~  “Forty Mile Town”

27)  Porter Wagoner ft. Christie Lynn  ~  “Forty Miles From Poplar Bluff”

28)  Wire  ~  “Forty Versions”

29)  Cursive  ~  “Dorothy At Forty”

30)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Forty Winks Away”

31)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Forty Days”

32)  Paul Kelly  ~  “Forty Miles To Saturday Night”

33)  The Violet Burning  ~  “40 Weight”

34)  Skinny Lister  ~  “Forty Pound Wedding”

35)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Forty Shades Of Green”

36)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “40 Years In The Wilderness”

37)  Spinning Lucy  ~  “Forty”

38)  Modern Kin  ~  “40 Winks”

39)  John Berry  ~  “Forty Again”

40)  Ray Price  ~  “Forty And Fading”

Songs About Bumps & Bruises, Vol. 2

Here's a few more Songs About Bumps & Bruises for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Hump de Bump”

2)  Train ft. Ashley Monroe  ~  “Bruises”

3)  Yolanda Be Cool ft. Crystal Waters  ~  “Le Bump”

4)  Band Of Skulls  ~  “Bruises”

5)  Penny McLean  ~  “Lady Bump”

6)  Air Supply  ~  “Love And Other Bruises”

7)  Bill Kirchen  ~  “Bump Wood”

8)  Joy Heng  ~  “Bruises And Cigarettes”

9)  Hue  ~  “The Bump”

10)  Nellie McKay  ~  “Bruise On The Sky”

11)  Eumir Deodato  ~  “Whistle Bump”

12)  Babes In Toyland  ~  “Bruise Violet”

13)  Jonny Lang  ~  “Bump In The Road”

14)  Emily Yacina  ~  “Bruise”

15)  Eve Selis Band  ~  “Bump In The Road”

16)  Fearless Vampire Killers  ~  “Like Bruises”

17)  Big Sugar  ~  “Bump On The Head”

18)  Death Cab For Cutie  ~  “Your Bruise”

19)  allSTARS  ~  “Things That Go Bump In The Night”

“Hit” & “Run” Songs, Vol. 2

Here's part 2 of 4 in my series of songs with baseball-related words in their titles. This time, more "Hit" & "Run" Songs. Next up, "Catch" & "Throw" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “One Hit (To The Body)”

2)  Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner  ~  “Run That By Me One More Time”

3)  Jane Monheit  ~  “Hit The Road To Dreamland”

4)  James Bay  ~  “Running”

5)  Huey Lewis And The News  ~  “It Hit Me Like A Hammer”

6)  The Grateful Dead  ~  “We Can Run”

7)  Leeland  ~  “Chains Hit The Ground”

8)  LIGHTS  ~  “Running With The Boys”

9)  Hinder  ~  “Hit The Ground”

10)  Melissa Etheridge  ~  “I Run For Life”

11)  Jonny Lang  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”

12)  Neil Young  ~  “Long May You Run”

13)  Peter Murphy  ~  “Hit Song”

14)  Kate Bush  ~  “Running Up That Hill”

15)  Diana Krall ft. Russell Malone & Paul Keller  ~  “Hit That Jive, Jack”

16)  Tokio Hotel  ~  “Run, Run, Run”

17)  Third Day  ~  “Hit Me Like A Bomb”

18)  Amy MacDonald  ~  “Run”

19)  Keith Urban  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”

20)  Rend Collective  ~  “You Will Never Run”

"34" Songs

A day late – and about 16 songs short – here's a collection of songs with the number "34" (or "Thirty-Four") in their titles or somewhere in their lyrics, in honor of the 34th week of my wife's pregnancy with our daughter. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jessica Jarrell  ~  "Almost Love (24/7)"

2)  Travie McCoy  ~  "Superbad (11:34)"

3)  Alan Jackson  ~  "Dixie Highway"

4)  "Weird Al" Yankovic  ~  "Skipper Dan"

5)  John Hiatt & The Goners  ~  "Learning How To Love You"

6)  Aaron Carter  ~  "That's How I Beat Shaq"  (Man...this song sucks!)

7)  Matisyahu  ~  "Watch The Walls Melt Down"

8)  The Kinks  ~  "Low Budget"

9)  Pam Tillis  ~  "All The Good Ones Are Gone"

10)  Randy Newman  ~  "In Germany Before The War"

11)  Pete Townshend  ~  "Slit Skirts"

12)  Arkells  ~  "11:11"

13)  Sara Evans  ~  "Coalmine"

14)  Junior Boys  ~  "Count Souvenirs"

15)  Sara Groves  ~  "What Do I Know"

16)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "#34"

17)  Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, & Jonny Lang  ~  "634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)"

18)  Mississippi Mass Choir  ~  "Psalm 34"

Songs About Lying

I don't know about you, but I've enjoyed this week's utterly-pointless-yet-somehow-still-fulfilling series of posts featuring Songs About Crying, Flying, and now Lying. (There are two more of these in store after today – Songs About Trying and Songs About Dying.) As always, I welcome your input as to which of your favorite songs I may have missed. Sometimes there may be a good reason for a song's omission, sometimes the song in question may have completely slipped my mind, and sometimes – and these are the best – I've never even heard of the song you suggest and thereby get to discover some wonderful new music (to me, at least). So, basically, it's a win-win situation for all parties involved. But enough preamble – enjoy it already!  ~  JH

1)  The Band Perry  ~  "You Lie"

2)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  "Don't Lie"

3)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Little Lies"

4)  Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean  ~  "Hips Don't Lie"

5)  Charles & Eddie  ~  "Would I Lie To You?"  (NOTE: Though it shares the same title as the Eurythmics song which I posted not too long ago, this is an entirely different song – albeit no less memorable a song.)

6)  Kimberly Anne  ~  "Liar"

7)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Said I Loved You…But I Lied"  (I really don't like Michael Bolton, but this song belonged in this collection.)

8)  En Vogue  ~  "Lies"

9)  Simple Plan  ~  "Your Love Is A Lie"

10)  Reba McEntire  ~  "You Lie"

11)  Thirty Seconds To Mars  ~  "A Beautiful Lie"

12)  Keaton Henson  ~  "Lying To You"

13)  Terri Clark  ~  "Girls Lie, Too"  (No, that's NOT really Johnny Depp, ladies!)

14)  Bon Jovi  ~  "Lie To Me"

15)  Gabriella Cilmi  ~  "Save The Lies"

16)  Linkin Park  ~  "Lies Greed Misery"

17)  Jonny Lang  ~  "Lie To Me"

18)  Cris Cab ft. Pharrell Williams  ~  "Liar, Liar"

19)  Restless Heart  ~  "A Tender Lie"

20)  Eagles  ~  "Lyin' Eyes"