What inspires you? While you ponder over that very existential question, here's a lovely collection of Songs About Muses to enjoy! You're welcome! ~ JH
1) Sarah Jarosz ~ "My Muse"
2) Prince ~ "Black Muse"
3) Haviland ~ "Muse"
4) Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott ~ "I Am Not A Muse"
5) The Wood Brothers ~ "The Muse"
6) Dani and Lizzy ~ "Muse"
7) Metric ~ "Sick Muse"
8) Belle and Sebastian ~ "The Everlasting Muse"
9) Laura Marling ~ "The Muse"
10) Dead Can Dance ~ "Summoning Of The Muse"
11) Van Morrison ~ "Northern Muse"
12) Eliza Gilkyson ~ "Her Melancholy Muse"
13) Austra ~ "Annie (Oh Muse, You)"
14) Elton John ~ "The Muse"
15) Abandoned Pools ~ "Suburban Muse"
16) Toto ~ "The Muse"
17) Over The Rhine ~ "Betting On The Muse"
18) G. Love & Special Sauce ft. Citizen Cope ~ "Muse"
Because one set of "Hot" & "Bothered" Songs is never enough, there's this... Enjoy? ~ JH
1) Sussy ~ “Why Bother?”
2) Katy Perry ~ “Hot N Cold”
3) The Derek Trucks Band ~ “Down Don’t Bother Me”
4) Nick Gilder ~ “Hot Child In The City”
5) Over The Rhine ~ “Bothered”
6) The B-52’s ~ “Hot Corner”
7) Stone Sour ~ “Bother”
8) Inna ~ “Hot”
9) Soul Asylum ~ “Don’t Bother Me”
10) Diamante ~ “Coming In Hot”
11) The Fight ~ “Can’t Be Bothered”
12) Girls Aloud ~ “Long, Hot Summer”
13) Lucy Woodward ~ “Hot And Bothered”
14) Avril Lavigne ~ “Hot”
15) Miranda Lambert ~ “I Can’t Be Bothered”
16) Foreigner ~ “Hot Blooded”
17) EVE ~ “Hot ’N’ Bothered”
18) Sirens Of Lesbos ~ “Long Days, Hot Nights”
19) The Tams ~ “Hey Girl, Don’t Bother Me”
20) Fiona Apple ft. Maura Maggart ~ “Hot Knife” (FYI: The lady on the left, on high harmony with Fiona, is her sister Maura, who’s also a singer. Obviously.)
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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