Here's a bunch of great Songs About Numbers. I don't mean that the songs have have actual numbers in their titles (been there – done that), but rather they have the word "Number" (or "Numbers") in their titles. Herein, you'll find some songs that have "got your number," while others inform you about strength and safety "in numbers," one implores someone named Rikki not to "lose that number," and one guy asks a lady to be his "number two." Sooo...yeah. Enjoy? ~ JH
1) Serena Ryder ~ “Got Your Number”
2) The Police ~ “Murder By Numbers”
3) case/lang/veirs ~ “Atomic Number”
4) Milli Vanilli ~ “Baby, Don’t Forget My Number”
5) BOY ~ “Little Numbers”
6) The Rutles ~ “Number One”
7) Pointer Sisters ~ “Pinball Number Count” (I remember this song SO well from my childhood years of watching Sesame Street!)
8) The Music ~ “Strength In Numbers”
9) Daughter ~ “Numbers”
10) Radiohead ~ “The Numbers”
11) Daisy Dares You ft. Chipmunk ~ “Number One Enemy”
12) Panic! At The Disco ~ “There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought Of It Yet”
13) Aaliyah ~ “Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number”
14) The Cure ~ “Wrong Number”
15) Tegan and Sara ~ “My Number”
16) Deep Purple ~ “I Got Your Number”
17) Jen Cloher & Courtney Barnett ~ “Numbers”
18) Joe Jackson ~ “Be My Number Two” (So…is he asking her to be his poop? If so, ewww!!!)
If you haven't seen/heard your favorite song from 1988 thus fair, do not despair – it might be in this post. Or the final one tomorrow. If neither, I apologize – and please let me know what gem I might have missed. Regardless... Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Terence Trent D’Arby ~ “Wishing Well”
2) George Michael ~ “Kissing A Fool”
3) Belinda Carlisle ~ “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”
4) Poison ~ “Nothin’ But A Good Time”
5) Conway Twitty ~ “That’s My Job”
6) Neneh Cherry ~ “Buffalo Stance”
7) Foreigner ~ “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”
8) John Mellencamp ~ “Cherry Bomb”
9) Cher ~ “I Found Someone”
10) Dokken ~ “Walk Away”
11) Rich Mullins ~ “Awesome God”
12) Sheena Easton ~ “The Lover In Me”
13) White Lion ~ “Wait”
14) INXS ~ “Never Tear Us Apart”
15) Tanya Tucker ~ “If It Don’t Come Easy”
16) Milli Vanilli ~ “Girl, You Know It’s True”
17) Eric Carmen ~ “Hungry Eyes”
18) Highway 101 ~ “Cry, Cry, Cry”
19) New Edition ~ “If It Isn’t Love”
20) David Lee Roth ~ “Just Like Paradise”
21) Pretty Poison ~ “Catch Me (I’m Falling)”
22) Daryl Hall & John Oates ~ “Everything Your Heart Desires”
Here's that blog post I asked for your help in compiling a few days ago. If I didn't pick your band/singer or your song, there was probably a good reason for it. But don't worry – I still love you. At the very least, I still like you as a friend. Commentary is included for each song, for those of you to whom it matters. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ "Simple Man" (No, it's not "Sweet Home Alabama" or "Free Bird," but I've posted both of those here before, and this one never made the blog. But it's way awesome, so here it is.)
2) Oingo Boingo ~ "Weird Science" (Admit it, guys, you had a crush on the "Weird Science" girl when you were a kid. And if you're a girl, you probably tried to look like her so guys would crush on you, too.)
3) Ace Of Base ~ "Don't Turn Around" (Nothing says kitschy-cool like Ace of Base. I used to love them back in the day. I still have a healthy appreciation for their classic pop gems.)
4) Tina Arena ~ "Chains" (This lady was way more popular in her native Australia than she was in the States, but this song charted here and still gets occasional airplay.)
5) Milli Vanilli ~ "Girl, You Know It's True" (Oversized suit jackets with huge shoulder pads paired with skin-tight leggings…what were we thinking, '80s babies?)
6) Right Said Fred ~ "I'm Too Sexy" (This song is ridiculously bad, and the video is even worse. But what OTHER Right Said Fred song would I include here? I mean, really!)
7) Tears For Fears ~ "Advice For The Young At Heart" (This might be one of TFF's lesser-known songs, but it hasn't been too many months since I posted "Everybody Wants To Rule The World," so there you go. Besides, people should know this band had more than one good song worth listening to.)
8) Slick Rick ~ "Children's Story" (If I were a kid, I don't know if I could sleep after hearing this story! LOL! On a side note, this beat sounds remarkably similar to the "Fresh Prince" theme song. Who sampled who?)
9) U2 ~ "Window In The Skies" (I've posted a lot of U2 songs here and on my original blog, but never this one. I don't know why not, because the song is excellent and video's even better!)
10) Chumbawamba ~ "Tubthumping" (Hands down, one of the catchiest hooks in a song in the past twenty years. If it's stuck in your head the rest of the day, don't blame me! Well, I guess you could blame me. Just don't HATE me!)
11) Enuff Z'Nuff ~ "Fly High Michelle" (This is one of those rare bands that I somehow managed to not realize existed until I started compiling songs for this post. Apparently, this was one of their biggest hits. Anyone else remember these guys?)
12) Believin' Stephen ft. Calm One ~ "Teddy's Story" (Y'all know I gotta sneak in some Christian rap whenever I get a chance, right? So check it, check it, check it out!)
13) Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs ~ "Li'l Red Riding Hood" (Had to throw in a "golden oldie" in here. It's a good one, too!)
14) Scritti Politti ~ "Perfect Way" (Here's another band I'd never heard of before, but they're not too shabby. This signature synthpop song is very much of its time – mid-1980s – but still manages to look and sound fresh. Neat trick, that.)
15) Haysi Fantayzee ~ "Shiny Shiny" (What the heck did I just watch? And why did I include it here? I don't have an answer for either.)
16) Quiet Riot ~ "Stay With Me Tonight" (Ah, '80s "hair bands"! How much do we miss you? Answer: Not all that much, actually.)
17) Shaquille O'Neal ft. Fu-Schnickens ~ "What's Up, Doc (Can We Rock?)" (OK, so the Fu-Schnickens TOTALLY steal this song from Shaq with their rapid-fire, hip-hop delivery. But for the 30 seconds of the song where he is rapping, the Big Guy actually does pretty well. To listen to a pretty decent Shaq solo song, click here.)
18) Tower Of Power ~ "What Is Hip" (Every so often, it's nice to hear a good band with a bunch of horn players in it. Today must be "every so often.")
19) The Nice Device ~ "Innocent" (This song is what is known in the music industry as a "filler." Basically, I wanted to include 20 songs here, and I was one short. So I found a song by a band that neither I nor anyone else has ever heard of but that fit my criteria and was decent enough to be included here. And it serves its purpose. Be nice, and give it a listen, 'kay?)
20) a-ha ~ "Take On Me" (It seems this post has been a bit heavy on '80s songs. So why not end it off with a classic pop song from that most unique of decades!)
These are songs about rain. They are good songs. You might like them. You might not. Who knows? ~ JH
1) Bruno Mars ~ "It Will Rain"
2) Adele ~ "Set Fire To The Rain"
3) Pitbull ft. Marc Anthony ~ "Rain Over Me"
4) Mariah Carey ~ "Through The Rain"
5) Tay Zonday ~ "Chocolate Rain"
6) Billie Myers ~ "Kiss The Rain"
7) Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ "The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie"
8) James Taylor ~ "Fire And Rain"
9) Trisha Yearwood ~ "Georgia Rain"
10) Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?"
11) MIKA ~ "Rain"
12) Madonna ~ "Rain"(Not the same as the song above)
13) Milli Vanilli ~ "Blame It On The Rain"
14) The Temptations ~ "I Wish It Would Rain"
15) Enya ~ "Trains And Winter Rains"
16) Luke Bryan ~ "Rain Is A Good Thing"
17) Creed ~ "Rain"
18) Ashanti ~ "Rain On Me"
19) Bruce Hornsby & The Range ~ "Mandolin Rain"
20) Tony Bennett & Alejandro Sanz ~ "Yesterday I Heard The Rain"
BONUS TRACK: Natasha Bedingfield ~ "Unwritten" (While it doesn't have "Rain" in the title, rain is mentioned all throughout this one – and it's a great song, so…yeah.)
