Grunge Music, Vol. 2

Here's part 2 of 4 featuring the best, most influential, blah-blah-blah "grunge" rock songs from years gone by. Throw on your flannel shirt, don't wash your hair for a few weeks, and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Soundgarden  ~  “The Day I Tried To Live”

2)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Interstate Love Song”

3)  Nirvana  ~  “Heart-Shaped Box”

4)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Jeremy”

5)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Rooster”

6)  Dinosaur Jr.  ~  “Feel The Pain”

7)  Seven Mary Three  ~  “Cumbersome”

8)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “Peaches”

9)  Toadies  ~  “Possum Kingdom”

10)  Bush  ~  “Glycerine”

11)  Sponge  ~  “Plowed”

12)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

13)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Volcano Girls”

14)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Even Flow”

15)  Nirvana  ~  “Come As You Are”

16)  Soundgarden  ~  “Pretty Noose”

17)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Down In A Hole”

18)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Sex Type Thing”

19)  Mudhoney  ~  “Suck You Dry”

20)  L7  ~  “Stuck Here Again”

21)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Disarm”

22)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Clumsy”

23)  Jen Trynin  ~  “Better Than Nothing”

24)  Mother Love Bone  ~  “Stardog Champion”

25)  Skin Yard  ~  “1,000 Smiling Knuckles”

Songs About Hills & Valleys, Vol. 2

Because life is full of "Hills" & "Valleys," here's another set of songs about them. The first one here is one of my all-time favorites. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  LIGHTS  ~  “Cactus In The Valley”

2)  Iron Maiden  ~  “Run To The Hills”

3)  Jeannie C. Riley  ~  “Harper Valley P.T.A.”

4)  Ron Sexsmith ft. Chris Martin  ~  “Gold In Them Hills”

5)  Bread & Wine ft. Ben Smith  ~  “Mountain To Valley”

6)  Jackson Browne  ~  “A Child In These Hills”

7)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Valleys Of The Young”

8)  The Rocket Summer  ~  “Hills And Valleys”

9)  Mudhoney  ~  “Beneath The Valley Of The Underdog”

10)  Johnny Cash ft. Flip Wilson  ~  “Oklahoma Hills”

11)  Laura Marling  ~  “The Valley”

12)  Thom Yorke  ~  “Harrowdown Hill”

13)  Townes Van Zandt & Nanci Griffith  ~  “Tecumseh Valley”

14)  Neil Young  ~  “Mansion On The Hill”

15)  Dawes  ~  “Peace In The Valley”

16)  Kathy Mattea  ~  “Agate Hill”

17)  Steve Hackett  ~  “Valley Of The Kings”

18)  Calamity Jane Cast ft. Doris Day & Howard Keel  ~  “Black Hills Of Dakota”

19)  Midnight Oil  ~  “In The Valley”

20)  George Ezra  ~  “Angry Hill”

21)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “The Valley Runs Low”

22)  Weezer  ~  “Beverly Hills”

23)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Blue Valley Songbird”

24)  Gorillaz  ~  “On Melancholy Hill”

25)  Eisley  ~  “The Valley”

“Underdog” Songs

This one goes out to all the underdogs out there. While there are a handful of "household names" among these artists, there are also quite a few gems by lesser-known artists (appropriate for an "Underdog" theme, eh?). Nevertheless, I believe you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “Underdog”

2)  Turin Brakes  ~  “Underdog (Save Me)”

3)   Europe  ~  “Spirit Of The Underdog” 

4)  Holly  ~  “The Underdog”

5)  12 Stones  ~  “Anthem For The Underdog”

6)  Pastel Lite  ~  “Underdog”

7)  Nellie McKay  ~  “Beneath The Underdog”

8)  Chasing The Jeffrey  ~  “Underdog”

9)  Anna F.  ~  “Underdog”

10)  Sly & The Family Stone  ~  “Underdog”

11)  Martha Redbone  ~  “Underdog”

12)  Sol Driven Train  ~  “Underdog”

13)  Benjamin  ~  “Underdog”

14)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Underdog”

15)  John Doe  ~  “Darling Underdog”  (I'm guessing that's not his real name.)

16)  Kill Paradise  ~  “The Underdog Anthem”

17)  Imagine Dragons  ~  “Underdog”

18)  You Me At Six  ~  “Underdog”

19)  The Lost Trailers  ~  “Underdog”  (Skip to the 3:00 mark if you don’t wish to hear the intro story.)

20)  Doom Unit  ~  “Underdog”

21)  Mudhoney  ~  “Beneath The Valley Of The Underdog”

22)  Spoon  ~  “The Underdog”

23)  Kyle Massey  ~  “Underdog Raps”

24)  Kasabian  ~  “Underdog”

25)  Butthole Surfers  ~  “Underdog”  (Listeners of a certain age might recognize this as the theme song for the TV cartoon…although the original version didn’t sound quite like this one.)