"Faint" Songs

These are "Faint" Songs. Next up will be "Strong" Songs. See, they're opposites? Neat, huh? No, it's not a novel idea. I've been doing these for five-plus years now. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

2)  The Loom  ~  “A Song Of Faint Praise”

3)  Jenny & Tyler  ~  “Faint Not”

4)  Vince Gill  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

5)  Trixie Whitley  ~  “Faint Mystery”

6)  Relient K  ~  “For Moments I Feel Faint”

7)  She’sophi  ~  “Faint”

8)  Coheed and Cambria  ~  “The Velorium Camper I: Faint Of Hearts”

9)  Jenn Bostic  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

10)  Linkin Park  ~  “Faint”

11)  Kat Frankie  ~  “The Faint-Hearted Ones”

12)  Unbunny  ~  “Swans Are Fainting”

13)  Sister C  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

14)  Tilian  ~  “A Faint Illusion”

15)  The Strike  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

16)  Rise Against  ~  “Faint Resemblance”

17)  The Colour Field  ~  “Faint Hearts”

18)  Sleep Party People  ~  “Fainting Spell”

19)  Azure Ray  ~  “Just A Faint Line”

20)  We Are The Grand  ~  “Faint”

21)  Matt Mays  ~  “Faint Of Heart”

22)  Serenity Broken  ~  “Faint Slit”

Songs About Habits

Whether good or bad, new or old, or what have you, everybody's got habits. Lots of people have written songs about them. I gathered some of the best of those here for your listening enjoyment. So go ahead...  ~  JH

1)  Garbage  ~  “Automatic Systematic Habit”

2)  The Kooks  ~  “Bad Habit”

3)  Marmozets  ~  “Habits”

4)  Chicago  ~  “Hard Habit To Break”

5)  Gabrielle Shonk  ~  “Habit”

6)  Hank Williams, Jr.  ~  “Old Habits”

7)  Diana Krall  ~  “You’re Getting To Be A Habit With Me”

8)  Plested  ~  “Habits”

9)  Chela  ~  “Bad Habit”

10)  Linkin Park  ~  “Breaking The Habit”

11)  Sarah Darling  ~  “Bad Habit”

12)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Habit”

13)  Poliça  ~  “Lime Habit”

14)  Lissie  ~  “The Habit”

15)  Mick Jagger  ~  “Old Habits Die Hard”

16)  Maria Mena ft. Mads Langer  ~  “Habits”

17)  Janis Ian  ~  “Silly Habits”

18)  Foals  ~  “Bad Habit”

19)  k.d. lang  ~  “Habit Of Mind”

20)  Imelda May  ~  “Bad Habit”

21)  Vince Gill  ~  “Down To My Last Bad Habit”

22)  Lucie Silvas  ~  “My Old Habits”

23)  Tove Lo  ~  “Habits (Stay High)”

24)  Gates  ~  “Habit”

25)  Allie X  ~  “Old Habits Die Hard”

Popular Songs Of 2008, Vol. 1

It's that time of year again when I turn back time and post songs from the previous decades. I do this both for the sake of reminiscence and to remind myself, and by extension all of you, how old I am/we are. These songs are, remarkably, ten years old as of this year. As are the ones in the three posts that will follow this. Then we'll move on to the twenty-year-old songs, and boy, will you feel old then! (Stay tuned, as it only gets worse – we will go way back before we're done!) Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Leona Lewis  ~  “Bleeding Love”

2)  Linkin Park  ~  “Shadow Of The Day”

3)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Love Don’t Live Here”

4)  3 Doors Down  ~  “It’s Not My Time”

5)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  “Pocketful Of Sunshine”

6)  Santana ft. Chad Kroeger  ~  “Into The Night”

7)  Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown  ~  “No Air”

8)  David Archuleta  ~  “Crush”

9)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Just A Dream”

10)  Soulja Boy Tell’em  ~  “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”

11)  Britney Spears   ~  “Piece Of Me”

12)  Ne-Yo  ~  “Miss Independent”

13)  Rihanna  ~  “Disturbia”

14)  Josh Turner  ~  “Another Try”

15)  Beyoncé  ~  “If I Were A Boy”

16)  Jason Mraz  ~  “I’m Yours”

17)  Fergie  ~  “Clumsy”

18)  Secondhand Serenade  ~  “Fall For You”

19)  Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland  ~  “4 Minutes”

20)  Gavin DeGraw  ~  “In Love With A Girl”

Popular Songs Of 2007, Vol. 1

Right about this time every year for the past few years is when I start reflecting back on the previous decades in music. What songs were popular ten years ago, twenty, thirty years, and so on. It's a new year, so the ten-years-ago in question includes a brand-new set of "old" songs. Sit back, relax, and marvel at how quickly time passes with this initial group of Popular Songs Of 2007. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Rihanna  ~  “Umbrella”

2)  Daughtry  ~  “It’s Not Over”

3)  Fergie  ~  “Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)”

4)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “Thnks fr th Mmrs”

5)  Gwen Stefani ft. Akon  ~  “The Sweet Escape”

6)  Linkin Park  ~  “What I’ve Done”

7)  Colbie Caillat  ~  “Bubbly”

8)  Elliott Yamin  ~  “Wait For You”

9)  Beyoncé  ~  “Irreplaceable”

10)  Nickelback  ~  “If Everyone Cared”

11)  Alicia Keys  ~  “No One”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Grace Kelly”

13)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “So Small”

14)  OneRepublic  ~  “Stop And Stare”

15)  Mandisa  ~  “Only The World”

16)  Dierks Bentley  ~  “Free And Easy (Down The Road I Go)”

17)  Paramore  ~  “crushcrushcrush”

18)  Michael Bublé  ~  “Everything”

19)  Amy Winehouse  ~  “You Know I’m No Good”

20)  Good Charlotte  ~  “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl”

21)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Teardrops On My Guitar”

22)  Needtobreathe  ~  “Washed By The Water”

23)  Britt Nicole  ~  “Believe”

24)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Our Country”

25)  Kenny Chesney  ~  “Don’t Blink”

Songs About Robots

My son is way into robots at the moment – in particular, the Transformers Rescue Bots show. So here's a bunch of Songs About Robots that he would surely appreciate if he were to actually look at my blog. Which he doesn't.  But you do. So, what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Daft Punk  ~  “Robot Rock”

2)  The Flaming Lips  ~  “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1”

3)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “Robot”

4)  Trip Lee  ~  “Robot”

5)  Styx  ~  “Mr. Roboto”

6)  Röyksopp ft. Robyn  ~  “The Girl And The Robot”

7)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “Robot Parade”

8)  MC Lars ft. MC Bat Commander & Suburban Legends  ~  “This Gigantic Robot Kills”

9)  Marina And The Diamonds  ~  “I Am Not A Robot”

10)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Gold Star For Robot Boy”

11)  Kraftwerk  ~  “The Robots”

12)  Blaze Bayley  ~  “Robot”

13)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Not A Robot, But A Ghost”

14)  Novah  ~  “Robot”

15)  Cage The Elephant  ~  “Tiny Little Robots”

16)  Patrick Watson  ~  “Love Songs For Robots”

17)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Go Robot”

18)  Rick Wakeman  ~  “Robot Man”

19)  Linkin Park  ~  “Robot Boy”

20)  Norma Jean  ~  “Robots 3, Humans 0”

21)  Joe Satriani  ~  “One Robot’s Dream”

22)  Damon Albarn  ~  “Everyday Robots”

23)  The Alan Parsons Project  ~  “I Robot”

24)  Matthew Ebel  ~  “Everybody Needs A Robot”

25)  Umphrey’s McGee  ~  “Robot World”