More Songs? Really? No. More "Really" Songs

Did we really need another post of "Really" Songs? Yes, we did. And here's why. Check 'em out for yourself! And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  ~  "You Really Got A Hold On Me"

2)  Janet Jackson  ~  "Doesn't Really Matter" 

3)  The Kinks  ~  "You Really Got Me"  (Sure, I had another version of this song in the first post of this two-part series. But could I really ignore the classic original version? Of course, I couldn't.)

4)  Courtney Barnett  ~  "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party"

5)  Plain White T's  ~  "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)"

6)  Alicia Keys  ~  "She Don't Really Care"

7)  Interpol  ~  "If You Really Love Nothing"

8)  Michael W. Smith & Kari Jobe  ~  "The One That Really Matters"

9)  Jimmy Cliff  ~  "You Can Get It If You Really Want"  (Bonus song in this video: "I Can See Clearly Now", Cliff's biggest hit)

10)  Agnetha Fältskog  ~  "When You Really Loved Someone"

11)  D'Angelo & The Vanguard  ~  "Really Love"

12)  Shakespears Sister  ~  "Break My Heart (You Really)"

13)  Merle Haggard  ~  "Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)"

14)  The Captain & Tennille  ~ "We Never Really Say Goodbye"  (If you want to skip the chit-chat at the beginning, I'll go ahead and tell you that the song actually starts around the 1:57 mark.)

15)  Sarah van den Bergh  ~  "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most"

16)  Red Velvet  ~  "R.B.B. (Really Bad Boy)"

17)  Bethel Music ft. Brian & Jenn Johnson  ~  "I Really Love You"

18)  The Partridge Family  ~  "I Really Want To Know You"

19)  Aimee Mann  ~  "She Really Wants You"

20)  The Wizard Of Oz Cast  ~  "It Really Was No Miracle"

21)  B.B. King  ~  "I Got Some Outside Help (I Don't Really Need)"

22)  The Muffs  ~  "Really Really Happy"

23)  Billy Ocean  ~  "Love Really Hurts Without You"

24)  Cherry Bullet  ~  "Really Really"

25)  Stevie Wonder  ~  "If You Really Love Me"

Songs About “Games” & “Thrones”, Vol. 1

ME: What is this "Game Of Thrones" thing everybody's talking about lately?

ALSO ME: I dunno. I think it's a TV show about naked Vikings or something.

ME: Maybe I should do a music post about it.

ALSO ME: But you've never watched a single episode of the show.

ME: So I'll just do a Songs About "Games" & "Thrones" post and call it a day.

And so it begins... Brace yourself, 'cuz Vol. 2 is coming tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  BANKS  ~  “Waiting Game”

2)  The Devil Wears Prada  ~  “Dead Throne”

3)  ABBA  ~  “The Name Of The Game”

4)  Otherwise  ~  “Coming For The Throne”

5)  Lindsey Buckingham & Christine McVie  ~  “Game Of Pretend”

6)  Don Moen  ~  “Throne Of Praise”

7)  Alyssa Reid  ~  “The Game”

8)  Desperation Band ft. Kari Jobe  ~  “On The Throne”

9)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  “Out Of The Game”

10)  Krewella  ~  “Surrender The Throne”

11)  Shirley Ellis  ~  “The Name Game”

12)  Bring Me The Horizon  ~  “Throne”

13)  Amy Winehouse  ~  “Love Is A Losing Game”

14)  Planetshakers  ~  “God Is On The Throne”

15)  Cat DeLuca  ~  “The Game”

16)  2CELLOS  ~  “Game Of Thrones”

17)  The Alan Parsons Project  ~  “Games People Play”

18)  Greenleaf  ~  “Golden Throne”

19)  Santana ft. Michelle Branch  ~  “The Game Of Love”

20)  Kim Walker-Smith  ~  “Throne Room”

21)  Benny  ~  “Little Game”

22)  Koffee  ~  “Throne”

23)  Say Lou Lou  ~  “Games For Girls”

24)  Our Last Night  ~  “Road To The Throne”

25)  Snow Patrol  ~  “Spitting Games”

"Beautiful" Songs

If I didn't tell you this "theme" was a reboot from four-and-a-half years ago (on my original "The Plural Of Hyena" blog, no less), I'm sure you never would have remembered. But it is. And with good reason. Four-and-a-half years ago, I wasn't quite as adept at finding the perfect mix of well-known and lesser-known songs, which should (in theory) tip slightly in favor of the more well-known ones. Also, some of the really good songs included in this two-parter weren't even released four-and-a-half years ago. So here they are. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lana Del Rey  ~  “Young And Beautiful”

2)  R.E.M.  ~  “At My Most Beautiful”

3)  Sofia Carson ft. Alan Walker  ~  “Back To Beautiful”

4)  Diamond Rio  ~  “Beautiful Mess”

5)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Beautiful”

6)  Zedd ft. Jon Bellion  ~  “Beautiful Now”

7)  Grace VanderWaal  ~  “Beautiful Thing”

8)  Prince  ~  “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World”

9)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Beautiful Life”

10)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Beautiful”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)”

13)  Ellie Holcomb  ~  “The Broken Beautiful”

14)  The Rascals  ~  “A Beautiful Morning”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Bye Bye Beautiful”

16)  Sean Kingston  ~  “Beautiful Girls”

17)  John Lennon  ~  “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”

18)  Aniri  ~  “Beautiful Life”

19)  Jeremy Camp  ~  “Beautiful One”  (To skip all the introductions, proceed directly to the 2:00 mark. Otherwise, you’ll get to know everyone in the band.)

20)  Joydrop  ~  “Beautiful”

21)  Mali Music  ~  “Beautiful”

22)  P!nk  ~  “Beautiful Trauma”

23)  Damian Marley ft. Bobby Brown  ~  “Beautiful”

24)  Tess  ~  “Dark But Beautiful”

25)  Moby  ~  “Beautiful”  (Really good song! Really creepy video!)

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)