Songs About Pointing

Everyone knows it's not polite to point. But nobody told these songs that. They may be rude, but they're sure fun to listen to. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Reason Define  ~  “Pointing Fingers”

2)  We Are Messengers  ~  “Point To You”

3)  Tandem Felix  ~  “Pointing And Laughing”

4)  Heartless Bastards  ~  “No Pointing Arrows”

5)  Mott The Hoople  ~  “Shouting And Pointing”

6)  Justin Moore  ~  “Point At You”

7)  Stacey Jackson  ~  “Pointing Fingers”

8)  April Uprising  ~  “This Is Why Our Feet Are Pointing Forward”

9)  Justifide  ~  “Pointing Fingers”

10)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Follow Your Arrow”  (This song implores you to “follow your arrow, wherever it points…”)

11)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “You Point To The Sky”

12)  Lance King  ~  “Pointing Fingers”

13)  Siouxsie & The Banshees  ~  “Pointing Bone”

14)  The Novelty  ~  “Pointing To The Stars”

15)  Brett Winterford  ~  “Finger Pointing”

16)  The Parlotones ~  “Pointing Fingers”

17)  Gazel  ~  “Pointing At The Moon”

18)  Dream Drop  ~  “Point The Blame”

19)  Dallas Sutherland  ~  “Pointing Flashlights At The Sky”

20)  The Aftergreens  ~  “No Finger Pointing”

Songs About Lizards

What do Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Phish, Jimmy Buffett, and Bruce Springsteen have in common? Right: They're all highly accomplished musicians with long and successful careers in the music industry. What else do they have in common? Right: They all recorded Songs About Lizards. And that's just five of the artists who did. There's plenty other good ones to enjoy here – so git to gittin'!  ~  JH

1)  Pulled Apart By Horses  ~  “Lizard Baby”

2)  à l'aube fluorescente  ~  “Lizard”

3)  ZZ Top  ~  “Lizard Life”

4)  Antlers  ~  “Lizard Man The Holy Rider”

5)  The Mopeds  ~  “Lizard”

6)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Chicken Lips And Lizard Hips”

7)  Robyn Hitchcock ft. Yo La Tengo  ~  “The Lizard”

8)  The August  ~  “Lizard King”

9)  Mott The Hoople  ~  “Lounge Lizard”

10)  Phish  ~  “The Lizards”

11)  Atomic Shadows  ~  “Lizard’s Chord”

12)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “Off To See The Lizard”

13)  Van Der Graaf Generator  ~  “Lizard Play”

14)  Laura Doggett  ~  “Lizard Lady”

15)  Opiuo  ~  “Ginger Lizard”

16)  Aerosmith  ~  “Lizard Love”

17)  John June Year  ~  “Lounge Lizard”

18)  Saigon Kick  ~  “The Lizard”

19)  Magenta  ~  “The Lizard King”

20)  Vacuum  ~  “Lizard”

21)  Mermaidens  ~  “Lizard”

22)  Simpl3jack  ~  “Lizard Wash”

23)  London Elektricity  ~  “Telefunken Lizard Filter”

24)  Miss Kenichi  ~  “Lizard”

25)  American Dinosaur  ~  “Lizard Queen”

Weird Songs About Santa Claus

As if my ongoing series of Weird Christmas Songs weren't enough, here's a set of oddball tunes specifically about That Jolly Old Elf. If you like 'em, there's more where these came from! If you don't like 'em, don't click on the follow-up post. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Yogscast  ~  “Does Santa Claus (Visit Zombie Pig-Men Kids In The Nether In Minecraft At Christmas Time)?”

2)  De La Soul  ~  “Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa”

3)  Aurelio Voltaire  ~  “Santa Claus Is Satan”

4)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  “Get Behind Me, Santa!”

5)  Brad Paisley  ~  “Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy”

6)  Fitz and the Tantrums  ~  “Santa Stole My Lady”

7)  B2K  ~  “Santa Hooked Me Up”

8)  Alan Jackson & The Chipmunks  ~  “Santa’s Gonna Come In A Pickup Truck”

9)  Relient K  ~  “Santa Claus Is Thumbing To Town”

10)  Nerf Herder  ~  “Santa Has A Mullet”

11)  Ella Fitzgerald  ~  “Santa Claus Got Stuck In My Chimney”

12)  Mott The Hoople  ~  “Death May Be Your Santa Claus”

13)  Captain Beefheart  ~  “There Ain’t So Santa Claus On The Evening Stage”

14)  Louis Prima  ~  “What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin’)”

Songs About Chicks & Dudes

This is a one-off post – a marginally clever idea I had and decided to pursue. Songs with the words "Chicks" (or "Chick") and "Dudes" (or "Dude") in their titles. Because, really...why not? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  David Guetta ft. Rihanna  ~  "Who's That Chick?"

2)  Aerosmith  ~  "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"

3)  We Are Scientists  ~  "Chick Lit"

4)  Kat Dahlia  ~  "Just Another Dude"

5)  Sammy Kaye  ~  "Chickery Chick"

6)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Dude Ranch Nurse"

7)  MxPx  ~  "Chick Magnet"

8)  Quincy Jones  ~  "The Dude"

9)  All Saints  ~  "Chick Fit"

10)  Mott The Hoople  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

11)  The Pointer Sisters  ~  "How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On The Side)"  (Skip to 3:24 for the song, if you don't want to hear all the pre-banter.)

12)  Mary's Danish  ~  "Can I Have A Smoke, Dude?"

13)  Lovey James  ~  "Don't Be Such A Chick"

14)  Spoon  ~  "I Could See The Dude"

15)  Charlotte Church  ~  "Crazy Chick"

16)  Chords  ~  "The Dude"

17)  Daddy Dewdrop  ~  "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)"

18)  Jessica Pratt  ~  "Moon Dude"

19)  Mariah Carey  ~  "I'm That Chick"

20)  Less Than Jake ft. Kel Mitchell  ~  "We're All Dudes"

21)  Cro  ~  "Bad Chick"

22)  Kula Shaker  ~  "Hey Dude"

23)  Chris Cagle  ~  "Chicks Dig It"

24)  LOTEK  ~  "Rudest Dude"

25)  Rollin Wang  ~  "Chick Chick"  (This is truly one of the weirdest music videos I've ever watched…and I've watched a lot of 'em!)

Songs By What-The-What Bands

Here's yet another music post born out of my desire to include a particular song and having no other good reason to do so. So I made something up. As it will quickly become obvious, all the bands represented here have a word (be it a verb, noun, or preposition), then the word "the", and another word in their names. For example, Foster The People, Minus The Bear, Cage The Elephant, etc. Apparently, this particular band-naming technique has been going on for quite some time yet has become more and more prevalent in recent years – so I had oodles of bands to choose from. These are the ones that made the cut. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Foster The People  ~  "Coming Of Age"

2)  Mott The Hoople  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

3)  Over The Rhine  ~  "The Laugh Of Recognition"

4)  Between The Trees  ~  "The Way She Feels"

5)  Cage The Elephant  ~  "Back Against The Wall"

6)  Walk The Moon  ~  "Tightrope"

7)  Said The Whale  ~  "Camilo (The Magician)"

8)  Minus The Bear  ~  "Hold Me Down"

9)  Saves The Day  ~  "Deranged & Desperate"

10)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  "All I Want"

11)  Young The Giant  ~  "Cough Syrup"

12)  Portugal. The Man  ~  "Evil Friends"

13)  We Are The Fallen  ~  "Bury Me Alive"  (OK, so this one doesn't technically fit the theme [since both a subject and verb precede the "the"], but this post was short on female-fronted bands and this was a good song, so there ya go!)

14)  HORSE The Band  ~  "Shapeshift"

15)  Swallow The Sun ft. Anette Olzon  ~  "Cathedral Walls"

16)  Jukebox The Ghost  ~  "Somebody"

17)  Stone The Crows  ~  "Freedom Road"

18)  After The Fire  ~  "Der Kommissar"

19)  Bomb The Bass ft. The Battle Of Land And Sea  ~  "Up The Mountain"

20)  JEFF The Brotherhood  ~  "U Got The Look"

21)  Dry The River  ~  "No Rest"

22)   Donna The Buffalo  ~  "Locket And Key"

23)  Verb The Noun  ~  "Gary Busey Hairline"  (Great band name and song title! Ha, ha!)

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24)  Haste The Day  ~  "Stitches"

25)   Sound The Alarm  ~  "Suffocating"