“Whisper” & “Scream” Songs, Vol. 2

Because doing two posts on a subject is always better than one (depending on whom you ask), there's this follow-up set of Songs About Whispering and Screaming that you don't have to lower or raise your voice to...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson  ~  “Scream”

2)  Missy Higgins  ~  “Warm Whispers”

3)  James Blake  ~  “The Wilhelm Scream”

4)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Whisper In The Night”

5)  Dizzee Rascal ft. Pepper  ~  “Scream”

6)  Chase Rice  ~  “Whisper”

7)  Deep Purple  ~  “Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming”

8)  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers  ~  “Whisper Not”

9)  Billy Idol  ~  “Scream”

10)  Loretta Lynn  ~  “Whispering Sea”

11)  My Morning Jacket  ~  “Touch Me I’m Going To Scream, Part 2”

12)  Skillet  ~  “Whispers In The Dark”

13)  Richard Marx  ~  “Silent Scream”

14)  Golden Earring  ~  “Whisper In A Crowd”

15)  Geri Halliwell  ~  “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster”

16)  Radiohead  ~  “Stop Whispering”

17)  Sebastian Bach  ~  “Kicking And Screaming”

18)  Hayley Westenra  ~  “Gabriel’s Oboe (Whispers In A Dream)”

19)  Mudvayne  ~  “Scream With Me”

20)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “Whispers In The Dark”

21)  The Cure  ~  “The Baby Screams”

22)  Nanci Griffith  ~  “More Than A Whisper”

23)  Bullet For My Valentine  ~  “Scream Aim Fire”

24)  Boy George  ~  “Whisper”

25)  Queensrÿche  ~  “Screaming In Digital”

26)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Whispers In The Wind”

27)  Thousand Foot Krutch  ~  “Scream”

28)  Elton John  ~  “Whispers”

29)  P.O.D.  ~  “Lost In Forever (Scream)”

30)  Crowded House  ~  “Whispers And Moans”

“Beauty” & “Beast” Songs, Vol. 2

More "Beauty" and "Beast" Songs. And...GO!  ~  JH

1)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Beast Of Burden”

2)  Justin Bieber ft. Nicki Minaj  ~  “Beauty And A Beat”

3)  Grace Potter And The Nocturnals  ~  “The Lion, The Beast, The Beat”

4)  LIFEchurch Worship  ~  “Beauty From Pain”

5)  Corrina Repp  ~  “The Beast Lives In The Same Place”

6)  Áine Cahill  ~  “Beauty Is A Lie”

7)  Stevie Nicks  ~  “Beauty And The Beast”

8)  Jamie Lawson  ~  “All Is Beauty”

9)  Ariana Grande & John Legend  ~  “Beauty And The Beast”

10)  Paloma Faith  ~  “Beauty Remains”

11)  Mumford And Sons  ~  “Broad-Shouldered Beasts”

12)  Claire  ~  “You Walk In Beauty”

13)  Jenny & The Scalawags  ~  “The Beast”

14)  August Burns Red  ~  “Beauty In Tragedy”

15)  Agnes Obel  ~  “Beast”

16)  nobigdyl ft. Chad Jones  ~  “beauty.”

17)  Laura Tesoro  ~  “Beast”

18)  Jadea Kelly  ~  “Beauty”

19)  Holly Arrowsmith  ~  “The Beast Called Love”

20)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Bird Of Beauty”

21)  Angus & Julia Stone  ~  “The Beast”

22)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “I Would Like To Call It Beauty”

23)  Karen O  ~  “Beast”

24)  Tift Merritt  ~  “Feeling Of Beauty”

25)  Nightwish ft. Tony Kakko  ~  “Beauty And The Beast”

“Hot” & “Bothered” Songs

These "Hot" and "Bothered" Songs are guaranteed to make you...tap your toes. What did you think I was going to say? Enjoy!  ~  JH

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

2)  Stage Dolls  ~  “Love Don’t Bother Me”

3)  78Violet  ~  “Hothouse”  (These sisters later more of a name for themselves in pop music under their own names: Aly & AJ.)

4)  The Beatles  ~  “Don’t Bother Me”

5)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Too Hot”  (This tune is a genuine throwback from the earliest days of Alanis’ music career, when she was a Paula Abdul wannabe in Canada. She’s come a long way, eh?)

6)  The Charlatans UK  ~  “Can’t Even Be Bothered”

7)  Billy Idol  ~  “Hot In The City”

8)  Shakira  ~  “Don’t Bother”

9)  DJ Valdi ft. Elena  ~  “Hot Bhangra”  (Whatever a “bhangra” is, this is – apparently – a hot one.)

10)  Shaquille O’Neal  ~  “Biological Didn’t Bother”

11)  Allman Brothers Band  ~  “Hot ‘Lanta”

12)  Eleanor Friedberger  ~  “I Don’t Want To Bother You”

13)  Winter Kills  ~  “Hot As Hades”

14)  Weezer  ~  “Why Bother?”

15)  Jenny Owen Youngs  ~  “Hot In Herre”  (If you haven’t heard this tongue-in-cheek folk-pop cover of 50 Cent’s hit song before, you really need to! It’s virtually a word-for-word cover of the original, so there’re a couple of racy bits, but it’s beyond hilarious!)

16)  Itchy  ~  “Why Still Bother”

17)  Creature  ~  “Who’s Hot, Who’s Not”

18)  Lady Gaga  ~  “Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered”

19)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “Hot Gates”

20)  Happy Camper  ~  “Born With A Bothered Mind”

Songs About Storms

Yeah, I went there. I was already thinking about doing a Songs About Storms post when my friend Caleb sent me a playlist he'd put together. I "borrowed" some of the best ones from his list (most of the classic rock tunes you'll find here), added a few of my own, and here it is! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Billy Joel  ~  “Storm Front”

2)  Tracy Lawrence  ~  “One Step Ahead Of The Storm”

3)  Nate Ruess  ~  “Great Big Storm”

4)  SuRie  ~  “Storm”

5)  Smokey Robinson & John Legend  ~  “Quiet Storm”

6)  Elbow  ~  “Gentle Storm”

7)  Deep Purple  ~  “Stormbringer”

8)  Lifehouse  ~  “Storm”

9)  U2  ~  “Electrical Storm”

10)  Brad Paisley  ~  “Perfect Storm”

11)  Jeremy Camp  ~  “Storm”

12)  Dee Snider  ~  “Become The Storm”

13)  Bob Dylan  ~  “Shelter From The Storm”

14)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  “Calm Inside The Storm”

15)  Lena Horne  ~  “Stormy Weather”

16)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Caught In The Storm”

17)  Classics IV  ~  “Stormy”

18)  Lukas Graham  ~  “Take The World By Storm”

19)  The Doors  ~  “Riders On The Storm”

20)  Trapt  ~  “Living In The Eye Of The Storm”

21)  Ryan Stevenson ft. GabeReal  ~  “Eye Of The Storm”

22)  REO Speedwagon  ~  “Ridin’ The Storm Out”

23)  Florence + The Machine  ~  “Various Storms & Saints”  (Really, Jason? Did you have to include a song by a band with the current hurricane’s name in it? Well, I didn’t plan it that way, but…yeah.)

24)  R. Kelly  ~  “The Storm Is Over Now”

25)  Gary Allan ft. Hillary Lindsey  ~  “Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)”

26)  Maddie & Tae  ~  “After The Storm Blows Through”

27)  Kali Uchis ft. Tyler The Creator & Bootsy Collins  ~  “After The Storm”

28)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “After The Storm”

29)  Frank Turner  ~  “The Next Storm”

30)  Casting Crowns  ~  “Praise You In This Storm”