“Back To” Songs

Where I live, today is "Back To School" Day. Since most students and all teachers would probably just as soon not celebrate that fact, here's a collection of "Back To" Songs which have absolutely nothing to do with school. Herein, you'll find the artists going back to "me," "you," "the start," "Manhattan," "God," "Earth," and "the '80s," just to name a few. So don't stress out about school. Enjoy these songs instead (or perhaps in addition to)!  ~  JH

1)  Selena Gomez  ~  “Back To You”

2)  Amy Winehouse  ~  “Back To Black”

3)  Lily Allen  ~  “Back To The Start”

4)  Daya  ~  “Back To Me”

5)  Marian Hill ft. Lauren Jauregui  ~  “Back To Me”

6)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Back To December”

7)  Alicia Keys  ~  “Back To Life”

8)  Rusted Root  ~  “Back To The Earth”

9)  Norah Jones  ~  “Back To Manhattan”

10)  Moonchild  ~  “Back To Me”

11)  Tristan Prettyman  ~  “Back To Home”

12)  Reba McEntire  ~  “Back To God”

13)  Weezer  ~  “Back To The Shack”

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

15)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Back To The River”

16)  Steve Aoki ft. Fall Out Boy  ~  “Back To Earth”

17)  Aqua  ~  “Back To The ‘80s”

18)  Lissie  ~  “Back To Forever”  (I adore the carefree, unpretentious spontaneity of this video. The song is also quite good!)

19)  Jason Mraz  ~  “Back To The Earth”

20)  Alice Merton  ~  “Back To Berlin”

21)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Back 2 Good”

22)  Susan Tedeschi  ~  “Back To The River”

23)  D’Angelo & The Vanguard  ~  “Back To The Future”

24)  38 Special  ~  “Back To Paradise”

25)  Louis Tomlinson ft. Bebe Rexha  ~  “Back To You”

“Happen”-ing Songs

These songs are really “Happen”-ing! No, really, they actually are. At least their titles would have you believe that. Ready…set…enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ellie Goulding  ~  “Anything Could Happen”

2)  Elvis Costello & The Attractions  ~  “Accidents Will Happen”

3)  United Pursuit ft. Andrea Marie  ~  “Let It Happen”

4)  Lady Gaga  ~  “Til It Happens To You”

5)  Emmah Toris  ~  “We’re Happening”

6)  Rainbow  ~  “Can’t Happen Here”

7)  Rachel Platten  ~  “Nothing Ever Happens”

8)  Enter Shikari  ~  “Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour…”

9)  Kate Voegele  ~  “Gravity Happens”

10)  Poliça & stargaze  ~  “How Is This Happening”

11)  Morrissey  ~  “I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday”

12)  Desperate Journalist  ~  “Happening”

13)  The Supremes  ~  “The Happening”

14)  The RPMs  ~  “Let Things Happen”

15)  Lily Allen  ~  “Never Gonna Happen”

16)  JES  ~  “Anything Can Happen”

17)  Granger Smith  ~  “Happens Like That”

18)  Bee Bakare  ~  “Waiting To Happen”

19)  Dawes  ~  “Things Happen”

20)  Tayisha Busay  ~  “Nothing’s Happening”

“Blank” Songs

Whether it's blank spaces, blank pages, blank tapes, blank babies (wait, what?), blank expressions, fill in the blanks, or something else entirely, it's probably represented in this collection of...you guessed it..."Blank" Songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Blank Space”

2)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “White Blank Page”

3)  Cherri Bomb  ~  “Drawing A Blank”

4)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Blank Page”

5)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “Blank Page”

6)  From Indian Lakes  ~  “Blank Tapes”

7)  Epica  ~  “Blank Infinity”

8)  Failure  ~  “Blank”

9)  Le Prince Miiaou  ~  “Fill The Blank With Your Own Emptiness”

10)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “Blank Baby”

11)  Loosie  ~  “Blank”

12)  Tim McGraw  ~  “Blank Sheet Of Paper”

13)  Dirty Projectors  ~  “Offspring Are Blank”

14)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Point Blank”

15)  Stove  ~  “Blank”

16)  Richard Hell and the Voidoids  ~  “Blank Generation”

17)  Zola Jesus  ~  “Go (Blank Sea)”

18)  Car Seat Headrest  ~  “Fill In The Blank”

19)  Lily Allen  ~  “Blank Expression”

20)  Dylan Joel  ~  “Blank”

21)  His Merry Men  ~  “Blank Book”

22)  Seafret  ~  “Blank You Out”

23)  Luthea Salom  ~  “Blank Piece Of Paper”

24)  Sonata Arctica  ~  “Blank File”

25)  Stories In Colours  ~  “Blank Page”

Things These Artists Have “Got,” Vol. 1

A lot of good songs over the years seem to have the words "I Got," "I've Got," "We Got," or "We've Got" in their titles. I notice dumb things like this. And what do I do when I notice them? I post a four-part miniseries featuring said songs, of course! Enjoy? ~  JH

1)  James Brown  ~  I Got You (I Feel Good)”

2)  Jana Kramer  ~  “I Got The Boy”

3)  Pearl Jam  ~  “I’ve Got A Feeling”  (This is a cover of a Beatles song. I had a video of Paul McCartney performing it all ready to post, but I actually ended up liking this version better. Go figure!)

4)  Ciara  ~  “I Got You”

5)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “I Got The Blues”

6)  Ethel Merman  ~  “I Got Rhythm”

7)  Young The Giant  ~  “I Got”  (What've they “got”? You’ll have to listen to find out.)

8)  You Me & Apollo  ~  “We Got A Roof”

9)  Lily Allen  ~  “As Long As I Got You”

10)  Canaan Smith  ~  “We Got Us”

11)  Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, Mandy Moore, & Zachary Levi  ~  “I’ve Got A Dream”

12)  Don Williams  ~  “I’ve Got A Winner In You”

13)  Nina Simone  ~  “Ain’t Got No / I Got Life”

14)  Al Jarreau  ~  “We Got By”  (“By” is not a thing you can literally “get,” but this is a great song so it’s close enough.)

15)  Karmin  ~  “I Got You (Pisces)”

16)  Delbert McClinton  ~  “I’ve Got Dreams To Remember”

17)  The Civil Wars  ~  “I’ve Got This Friend”

18)  Positive K  ~  “I Got A Man”

19)  Lily & Madeleine  ~   “I’ve Got Freedom”

20)  Bon Jovi  ~  “We Got It Going On”

21)  Glenn Miller & His Orchestra ft. Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, The Modernaires, & The Nicholas Brothers  ~  “(I’ve Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo”

22)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  “We’ve Got A Groovy Thing Goin’”

23)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  “I Gotta Feeling”

24)  Jim Croce  ~  “I Got A Name”

25)  Mel Tormé  ~  “We’ve Got A World That Swings”

Songs About “Things”, Vol. 1

How could such a simple idea – such as gathering a collection of songs with the word "Things" (not "Thing," mind you) in their titles – turn out to be so much fun? I don't know, but it did. There were so many good songs I had to break it up into three posts. Stick with me on these – you won't regret it. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alessia Cara  ~  “Wild Things”

2)  blink-182  ~  “All The Small Things”

3)  Tracy Chapman  ~  “Mountains O’ Things”

4)  George Harrison  ~  “All Things Must Pass”

5)  Lily Allen  ~  “Little Things”

6)  The Cowsills  ~  “The Rain, The Park, & Other Things”

7)  Sarah McMillan  ~  “Glorious Things”

8)  Bastille  ~  “Things We Lost In The Fire”

9)  Little Boots  ~  “Get Things Done”

10)  Bush  ~  “Little Things”

11)  Maggie Lindemann  ~  “Things”

12)  Neon Trees  ~  “First Things First”

13)  Emmy Rossum  ~  “These Foolish Things”

14)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  “Things Are Changin’”

15)  April Smith and the Great Picture Show  ~  “Terrible Things”

16)  Jamison Ross Band  ~  “These Things You Are To Me”

17)  Hayley Westenra  ~  “All Things Bright And Beautiful”

18)  Blue October  ~  “Things We Don’t Know About”

19)  Simple Minds ft. Sarah Brown  ~  “Book Of Brilliant Things”

20)  Counting Crows  ~  “Kid Things”

21)  Pebbles  ~  “Love Makes Things Happen”

22)  Gary Moore  ~  “Shapes Of Things”

23)   Eisley  ~  “Marvelous Things”

24)  Jason Mraz  ~  “3 Things”

25)  San Cisco  ~  “Wild Things”