Songs About Towns & Villages

Cities get all the attention these days, but towns and villages are really where it's at! So I put together a collection of Songs About Towns & Villages as a meager yet sincere tribute to them. I trust you shall...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus  ~  “Old Town Road”

2)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “Village Ghetto Land”

3)  Thin Lizzy  ~  "The Boys Are Back In Town"

4)  Alpine  ~  “Villages”

5)  The Kooks  ~  “Around Town”

6)  The Kinks  ~  “Village Green Preservation Society”

7)  Sam Hunt  ~  “Break Up In A Small Town”

8)  Blackmore’s Night  ~  “The Village In The Sand”

9)  Jay-Z ft. Kanye West & Rihanna  ~  “Run This Town”

10)  Cam  ~  “Village”

11)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town”

12)  Andy Williams  ~  “Village Of St. Bernadette”

13)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “Famous In A Small Town”

14)  New Order  ~  “The Village”

15)  Adam Lambert  ~  “Ghost Town”

16)  Frank Zappa  ~  “Village Of The Sun”

17)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Goodbye Town”

18)  Bizzle ft. Jin, Sho Baraka, & V. Rose  ~  “It Takes A Village”

19)  Dream Academy  ~  “Life In A Northern Town”

20)  Wrabel  ~  “The Village”

21)  Johnny Rivers  ~  “Poor Side Of Town”

22)  Pete Yorn  ~  “Crystal Village”

23)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Small Town”

24)  Andy Gullahorn  ~  “Village”

25)  Bronski Beat  ~  "Smalltown Boy"

“Siren” Songs, Vol. 1

These songs won't have you looking in your rearview mirror to see what type of emergency vehicle is rapidly heading your way. But listening to them may or may not cause you to crash your ship into the rocks, especially if you are an unwary sailor. Which might apply to some people. Maybe not. They're still good songs, though. So...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Cher Lloyd  ~  “Sirens”

2)  of Montreal  ~  “Sirens Of Your Toxic Spirit”

3)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Sirens”

4)  Kat Krazy ft. elkka  ~  “Siren”

5)  Fleurie  ~  “Sirens”

6)  Rag’n’Bone Man  ~  “Sirens”

7)  Lala Lala & WHY?  ~  “Siren 042”

8)  Stranger Cat  ~  “Sirens”

9)  The Chainsmokers & Aazar  ~  “Siren”

10)  Divinyls  ~  “Siren”

11)  KONA  ~  “Sirens”

12)  The Temper Trap  ~  “Sirens”

13)  Maiah Wynne  ~  “A Siren’s Song”

14)  Nightwish  ~  “The Siren”

15)  Angels and Airwaves  ~  “Sirens”

16)  The Weepies  ~  “Sirens”

17)  Above & Beyond  ~  “Sirens Of The Sea”

18)  Tim Buckley  ~  “Song To The Siren”

19)  Emma Kate Ulveland  ~  “Lost At Sea: A Siren’s Lullaby”

20)  Kelsea Ballerini  ~  “Sirens”

Popular Songs Of 1999, Vol. 3

Another round of twenty-year-old songs to make you feel however old you were back then plus twenty years. Starting...NOW!  ~  JH

1)  Smash Mouth  ~  “All Star”

2)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “I Will Remember You”

3)  Enrique Iglesias  ~  “Bailamos”

4)  Bijou Phillips  ~  “When I Hated Him (Don’t Tell Me)”

5)  Creed  ~  “Higher”

6)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “Ready To Run”

7)  Ricky Martin  ~  “Livin’ La Vida Loca”

8)  Sixpence None The Richer  ~  “Kiss Me”

9)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Last Kiss”

10)  TLC  ~  “No Scrubs”

11)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Larger Than Life”

12)  Chely Wright  ~  “Single White Female”

13)  FFH  ~  “One Of These Days”

14)  Ginny Owens  ~  “If You Want Me To”

15)  Yankee Grey  ~  “All Things Considered”

16)  Dido  ~  “Here With Me”

17)  *NSYNC  ~  “(God Must Have Spent) A Little More Time On You”

18)  Shania Twain  ~  “Come On Over”

19)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Back 2 Good”

20)  Jessica Simpson  ~  “I Wanna Love You Forever”

21)  Silk  ~  “If You (Lovin’ Me)”

22)  Whitney Houston ft. Mariah Carey  ~  “When You Believe”

23)  Kenny Chesney  ~  “How Forever Feels”

24)  Mya ft. Blackstreet, Mase, & Blinky Blink  ~  “Take Me There”

25)  George Strait  ~  “Write This Down”

26)  Total  ~  “Trippin’”

27)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Black Balloon”

28)  98°  ~  “I Do (Cherish You)”

“Sad,” “Sadder,” & “Saddest” Songs

Because in all things there should be a balance of both the good and the bad, the positive and the negative, to follow up the previous "Happy," "Happier," & "Happiest" Songs post, there's this one featuring "Sad," "Sadder," & "Saddest" Songs. Despite the subject matter, I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Metallica  ~  “Sad But True”

2)  Seth MacFarlane  ~  “The Sadder But Wiser Girl”

3)  Céline Dion  ~  “Goodbye’s (The Saddest Word)”

4)  John Denver  ~  “Like A Sad Song”

5)  Robert Cray  ~  “Sadder Days”

6)  Annie Lennox  ~  “The Saddest Song (I’ve Got)”

7)  England Dan & John Ford Coley  ~  “It’s Sad To Belong”

8)  Norma Jean  ~  “Songs Sound Much Sadder”

9)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “The Saddest Thing Of All”

10)  Bat For Lashes  ~  “Sad Eyes”

11)  The Neighbourhood  ~  “Sadderdaze”

12)  Grimes  ~  “My Sister Says The Saddest Things”

13)  Elton John & Pnau  ~  “Sad”

14)  Amy LaVere  ~  “Never Been Sadder”

15)  Sister Hazel  ~  “The Saddest Song (Not Coming Home)”

16)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “Karen, Don’t Be Sad”

17)  Chris McKay And The Critical Darlings  ~  “Sadder Day”

18)  Meiko  ~  “Saddest Song In The World”

19)  Kodie Shane ft. Lil Yachty  ~  “Sad”

20)  Fleming and John  ~  “Sadder Day”

21)  Birds Of Tokyo  ~  “The Saddest Thing I Know”

22)  Merle Haggard  ~  “Sing A Sad Song”

23)  Az Yet  ~  “Sadder Than Blue”

24)  Anastacia  ~  “The Saddest Part”

25)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Sad”

26)  Scenic World  ~  “Sadder Eyes”

27)  The Ataris  ~  “The Saddest Song”

28)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “I Would Be Sad”

29)  Angus & Julia Stone  ~  “Sadder Than You”

30)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  “The Saddest Happiness”