Songs About Exile

Here's a bunch of songs about being in exile. Because that's what most of this year feels like anyway. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Taylor Swift & Bon Iver  ~  "Exile"

2)  Rising  ~  "Hunger And Exile"

3)  Enya  ~  "Exile"

4)  Manic Street Preachers  ~  "Love's Sweet Exile"

5)  Soilwork  ~  "Exile"

6)  Sabaton  ~  "Aces In Exile"

7)  Sahara Line  ~  "Exile"

8)  Pale Moon  ~  "Exile"

9)  Elwood Stray  ~  "Exile"

10)  Ty Brasel  ~  "Phoenix In Exile"

11)  Lucky Dube  ~  "House Of Exile"

12)  Johanna Glaza  ~  "Exile"

13)  Forgotten Scream  ~  "Exile"

14)  Daphne And The Fuzz  ~  "Exile"

15)  The Tower  ~  "Exile"

16)  Hurts  ~  "Exile"

17)  Kory Bard  ~  "Exile"

18)  Beirut  ~  "Varieties Of Exile"

19)  White Hills  ~  "Spirit Of Exile"

20)  Audioslave  ~  "Out Of Exile"

"Serious" Songs

A natural follow-up to yesterday's "Funny" songs, here's a small grouping of songs with the word "Serious" in their titles. Try to keep a straight face...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Duran Duran  ~  "Serious"

2)  Duffy  ~  "Serious"

3)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "So Serious"

4)  Richard Hawley  ~  "Serious"

5)  Jasmine V  ~  "Serious"

6)  Lucky Dube  ~  "Serious Reggae Business"

7)  Riff  ~  "If You're Serious"

8)  Aretha Franklin  ~  Dr. Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Business)"

9)  Adam Ant  ~  "Desperate But Not Serious"

10)  Mel Jade  ~  "Not That Serious"

11)  Gyptian  ~  "Serious Times"

12)  POP!  ~  "Serious"

13)  R.E.M.  ~  "Supernatural Superserious"

14)  Donna Allen  ~  "Serious"

15)  Jermaine Jackson  ~  "Let's Get Serious"

A Rigorous Retrospective Of Remarkable Reggae Songs, Vol. 2

If you liked yesterday's collection of reggae music, here's another set of 25 songs. I haven't planned on a Vol. 3, unless any of my reggae-loving friends want to suggest another batch of their favorite songs/artists I haven't featured yet. Which you're certainly welcome to do in the comments below. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Horace Andy  ~  "You Are My Angel"

2)  Hugh Mundell & Augustus Pablo  ~  "In The Hills (Clean Up Your Heart)" / "Nature Provides"

3)  Steel Pulse  ~  "Taxi Driver"

4)  Lucky Dube  ~  "Prisoner"

5)  Gyptian  ~  "Serious Times"

6)  Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley  ~  "Affairs Of The Heart"

7)  SOJA  ~  "Rest Of My Life"

8)  Toots & The Maytals  ~  "Reggae Got Soul"

9)  Yellowman  ~  "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng"  (Hands down, this song wins the weirdest song title ever to ever graces the pages of my blog.)

10)  Israel Vibration  ~  "My Master's Will"

11)  Culture  ~  "Addis Adabba"

12)  Ziggy Marley  ~  "Lighthouse"  (Not really all that reggae, but it's kinda beautiful nonetheless.)

13)  Junior Kelly  ~  "Love So Nice"

14)  Morgan Heritage  ~  "Tell Me How Come"

15)  Beres Hammond  ~  "I Feel Good"

16)  Black Uhuru  ~  "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"  (I wouldn't normally expect this level of guitar solo in a reggae song, but it's fantastic!)

17)  Tony Rebel  ~  "Fire"

18)  Anthony B  ~  "My Yes & My No"

19)  Benjah ft. Dillavou  ~  "Fly Away"

20)  Shelly Thunder  ~  "Break Up"

21)   Bunny Wailer  ~  "Cool Runnings"

22)  Signal Fire  ~  "Another Day"

23)  Don Carlos  ~  "Time"

24)  Dawn Penn  ~  "No, No, No"

25)  Shaggy  ~  "Boombastic"  (Okay, so it's reggae fusion, but it was a still big hit back in the day, so here it is...)