Songs With Abbreviations In The Title, Vol. 1

Of all the things I've blogged about before, this is not one of them. Until now... Enjoy this first set of songs (of two) featuring some kind of abbreviation, initials, or acronym in the title.  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “P.Y.T.”  (“Pretty Young Thing.” Nice cover of a Michael Jackson hit.)

2)  Foo Fighters  ~  “D.O.A.”  (“Dead On Arrival”)

3)  Bea Miller  ~  “S.L.U.T.”  (It’s not what it looks like. This is shorthand for “Sweet Little Unforgettable Thing.”)

4)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “I.R.S.”  (No double meaning here. It really does stand for “Internal Revenue Service.”)

5)  Mariah Carey  ~  “H.A.T.E.U.”  (“H.A.T.E.U.” actually means “hate you.” So…it’s not really an abbreviation for anything. You tricky trickster, Mariah!) 

6)  Kasabian  ~  “L.S.F.”  (“Lost Souls Forever”)

7)  Melanie Fiona  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Also not technically an abbreviation.)

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “N.I.B.”  (Apparently, “Nib” was the nickname of a band member’s beard. Ozzy put the punctuation marks in there to confuse people. Mission accomplished!)

9)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “BWU”  (“Be With U”)

10)  Noah And The Whale  ~  “L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.”  (It means what it looks like it means. N.O.T. A.N. A.B.B.R.E.V.I.A.T.I.O.N. *sigh*)

11)  Dua Lipa ft. Charli XCX, Zara Larsson, MØ, & Alma  ~  “IDGAF”  (I’ll let you Google this abbreviation. Although, seeing as this is the sanitized version of the song, the title should have been shortened further to “IDGA.”)

12)  Live  ~  “T.B.D.”  (“Tibetan Book of the Dead”)

13)  Janelle Monáe ft. Erykah Badu  ~  “Q.U.E.E.N.”  (Also not an abbreviation. I’m spotting a pattern here.)

14)  Cream  ~  “N.S.U.”  (Oddly enough, this stands for “Non-Specific Urethritis.”)

15)  Jessie J  ~  “L.O.V.E.”  (Equally not an actual abbreviation. This may be less the fault of the artists and more the fault of yours truly, the blogger. Sorry…)

16)  Rythm Syndicate  ~  “P.A.S.S.I.O.N.”  (The singer spells out several words in this one. But none of them are abbreviations. He just likes spelling, I guess. Except in the case of his band’s name, which is – apparently – misspelled intentionally. Go figure!)

17)  John Mellencamp  ~  “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.”  (The “R.O.C.K.” part doesn’t mean anything other than “Rock.” If you don’t know what the “U.S.A.” part means, you’re either not from around here or you’ve been living under a rock. Either way…find out for yourself.)

18)  Le Tigre  ~  “TKO”  ("Technical Knockout")

19)  Harry Chapin  ~  “W.O.L.D.”  (These are the call letters of a fictional radio station at which the song’s narrator is an aging deejay. Thus a double meaning with the letters “O.L.D.”)

20)  Florida Georgia Line  ~  “H.O.L.Y.”  ("High On Loving You")

“Right” & “Wrong” Songs, Vol. 2

Continuing with the series I began yesterday, here's another great set of songs with the words "Right" and/or "Wrong" in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Nico & Vinz  ~  “Am I Wrong”

2)  Agnes  ~  “Right Here, Right Now (My Heart Belongs To You)”

3)  Passenger  ~  “The Wrong Direction”

4)  Diplo ft. MØ  ~  “Get It Right”

5)  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  ~  “They Were Wrong”

6)  Maruja Retana  ~  “Right Through Me”

7)  Oasis  ~  “Where Did It All Go Wrong?”

8)  Ariana Grande ft. Big Sean  ~  “Right There”

9)  Hellogoodbye  ~  “How Wrong Can I Be”

10)  Dionne Bromfield ft. Diggy Simmons  ~  “Yeah Right”

11)  San Cisco  ~  “Hey, Did I Do You Wrong?”

12)  SwinGrowers  ~  “That’s Right”

13)  B.J. Thomas  ~  “(Hey, Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song”

14)  Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle  ~  “You’re Right (I’m Wrong)”

15)  Social Distortion  ~  “I Was Wrong”

16)  Elaiza  ~  “Is It Right”

17)  Hot Chocolate  ~  “You’ll Never Be So Wrong”

18)  Rudimental ft. Foxes  ~  “Right Here”

19)  Spin Doctors  ~  “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”

20)  Armin van Buuren ft. Angel Taylor  ~  “Make It Right”

21)  Radiohead  ~  “I Might Be Wrong”

22)  DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora  ~  “Hot Right Now”

23)  The Decemberists  ~  “Wrong Year”

24)  Ali Diane  ~  “Right Now”

25)  ARIZONA  ~  “I Was Wrong”

“Slow” & “Steady” Songs, Vol. 1

First post of the New Year. "Slow" & "Steady" Songs. And....GO!  ~  JH

1)  MØ  ~  “Slow Love”

2)  Shooter Jennings  ~  “Steady At The Wheel”

3)  Sarah Jaffe  ~  “Slow Pour”

4)  Billy Idol  ~  “Ready, Steady, Go”

5)  My Morning Jacket  ~  “Slow, Slow Tune”

6)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Steady My Heart”

7)  Boz Scaggs  ~  “Slow Dancer”

8)  Kacey Johansing  ~  “Hold Steady”

9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Slow It Down”

10)  The Staves  ~  “Steady”

11)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Slow Like Honey”

12)  Hey Ocean!  ~  “Steady”

13)  Of Monsters And Men  ~  “Slow Life”

14)  Sting  ~  “Rock Steady”

15)  Nightwish  ~  “Slow Love”

16)  Point Of Grace  ~  “Steady On”

17)  The All-American Rejects  ~  “Fast & Slow”

18)  Aretha Franklin  ~  “Rock Steady”

19)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Slow Train”

20)  Patti Page  ~  “Too Young To Go Steady”

21)  Tori Kelly  ~  “Falling Slow”

22)  George Thorogood  ~  “Steady Rollin’ Man”

23)  Andy Grammer  ~  “Kiss You Slow”

24)  Bonnie Raitt & Bryan Adams  ~  “Rock Steady”

25)  Us The Duo  ~  “Slow Down Time”

Songs About Zombies & Brains

You probably shouldn't be surprised anymore about what topics I come up with for music blog posts. Even so, this one is a bit farther in left field than the norm. Don't think too much – just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Cranberries  ~  “Zombie”

2)  Thom Yorke  ~  “A Brain In A Bottle”

3)  Jamie T  ~  “Zombie”

4)  MØ  ~  “Love On The Brain”  (This is a cover of a popular Rihanna song. However, the original version contains unfortunate “potty words.” But this one’s clean as a whistle!)

5)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Some Kind Of Zombie”

6)  Ramones  ~  “My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down”

7)  The Asteroids Galaxy Tour  ~  “Zombies”

8)  Kidd Funkadelic  ~  “Maggot Brain”

9)  The Aquabats  ~  “Fashion Zombies”

10)  BANKS  ~  “Brain”

11)  Maître Gims  ~  “Zombie”

12)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Check My Brain”

13)  The Pretty Reckless  ~  “Zombie”

14)  The Black Keys  ~  “Bullet In The Brain”

15)  Family Force 5  ~  “Zombie”

16)  Ray Bolger & Judy Garland  ~  “If I Only Had A Brain”

17)  Misfits  ~  “Astro Zombies”

18)  Justin Timberlake  ~  “Still On My Brain”

19)  Imelda May  ~  “Zombie”

20)  N.E.R.D.  ~  “Brain”

21)  C.W. Stoneking  ~  “Zombie”

22)  Enigma  ~  “T.N.T. For The Brain”

23)  Adam Ant  ~  “Cool Zombie”

24)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Monkey Brains”

25)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  “They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!”

Songs By Dynamic Danish Artists, Vol. 1

When you read the title for this post, you may have thought, "Boy, he's REALLY running out of good ideas now!" But that's actually not the case. I have long been a fan of many musicians hailing from Denmark. In fact, fully half of the artists featured here and in the follow-up post have appeared previously on my music blog. Some of the bands/singers are extremely well-known, not only in Europe, but here in the U.S. as well. All of them are immensely talented and more than worthy of being showcased here. I hope you'll enjoy the songs as much as I did in compiling them!  ~  JH

1)  Lukas Graham  ~  “7 Years”

2)  Tina Dico  ~  “Count To Ten”

3)  Michael Learns To Rock  ~  “Sleeping Child”

4)  Aqua  ~  “My Oh My”

5)  D-A-D  ~  “Sleeping My Day Away”

6)  The Raveonettes  ~  “Last Dance”

7)  Alphabeat  ~  “Fascination”

8)  Camille Jones  ~  “The Creeps”

9)  Safri Duo  ~  “Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)”

10)  Oh Land  ~  “Sun Of A Gun”

11)  Kashmir  ~  “Graceland”

12)  Natasha Thomas ft. Sugar Daddy  ~  “It’s Over Now”

13)  Outlandish  ~  “Look Into My Eyes”

14)  Agnes Obel  ~  “Riverside”

15)  The Floor Is Made Of Lava  ~  “Lost In The Woods”

16)  Fallulah  ~  “I Lay My Head”

17)  Phlake  ~  “Angel Zoo”

18)  MØ  ~  “Final Song”

19)  Christopher  ~  “Told You So”

20)  Aura Dione ft. Rock Mafia  ~  “Friends”

21)  Figurines  ~  “The Air We Breathe”

22)  Emmelie de Forest  ~  “Hopes & Fears”

23)  Royal Hunt  ~  “Tears Of The Sun”

24)  The Asteroids Galaxy Tour  ~  “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More”

25)  Pretty Maids  ~  “Little Drops Of Heaven”