"Misunderstood" Songs

These songs don't ask much of you. They merely don't wish to be "Misunderstood." And maybe that's enough... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Mötley Crüe  ~  "Misunderstood"

2)  AJ Michalka  ~  "Misunderstood"

3)  Robbie Williams  ~  "Misunderstood"

4)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  "Misunderstood"

5)  Eric Church  ~  "Mr. Misunderstood"

6)  Keri  ~  "Misunderstood"

7)  Santa Esmeralda  ~  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"

8)  Seether  ~  "Misunderstood"

9)  Sloes  ~  "Misunderstood"

10)  Common  ~  "Misunderstood"

11)  Bon Jovi  ~  "Misunderstood"

12)  Riya ft. Hybrid Minds, BCee, & Bladerunner  ~  "Misunderstood"

13)  Wilco  ~  "Misunderstood"

14)  Carolyn Wonderland  ~  "Misunderstood"

15)  Carvin Winans  ~  "Misunderstood"

16)  Tynisha Keli  ~  "Misunderstood"

17)  Richie Kotzen  ~  "Misunderstood"

18)  Better Than Ezra  ~  "Misunderstood"

19)  Jon Secada  ~  "Misunderstood"

20)  Nina Mahl  ~  "Misunderstood"**

21)  Cliff Richard  ~  "Misunderstood Man"

22)  The Muses  ~  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"  (I try not to post multiple versions of the same song in posts like this, but...an electronica-infused, all-female string-quartet rendition was too unique not to pass up. So here it is...)

23)  D-Day  ~  "Misunderstood"

24)  Parker McCollum  ~  "Misunderstood"

25)  Dream Theater  ~  "Misunderstood"

26)  Liam Gallagher  ~  "Misunderstood"

27)  Richard Thompson  ~  "I Misunderstood"

28)  Micky & The Motorcars  ~  "Misunderstood"

29)  Lucy Licious  ~  "Misunderstood"

30)  Candye Kane & Albertine van Walsem  ~  "Misunderstood"

31)  Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane  ~  "Misunderstood"

32)  Nina Simone  ~  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"  (Here goes that same song again! But honestly, can anybody beat Nina Simone? Nope! Not even The Animals, who had a hit with this song way back when.)

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)

“Brilliant” Songs

These songs are simply "brilliant"! Well...maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But they all DO have the word "Brillant" in their titles. So, there's that. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Simple Minds  ~  “Book Of Brilliant Things”

2)  Elvis Costello & The Imposters  ~  “Brilliant Mistake”

3)  Colin Hay  ~  “My Brilliant Feat”

4)  Slow Club  ~  “Our Most Brilliant Friends”

5)  Fury In The Slaughterhouse  ~  “Brilliant Thieves”

6)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Brilliant Disguise”

7)  Hydria  ~  “Brilliant People”

8)  Deepspace 5  ~  “Brilliant”

9)  David Usher  ~  “Brilliant”

10)  Charlotte Sometimes  ~  “Brilliant Broke And Beautiful”

11)  IQ  ~  “Born Brilliant”

12)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “The Brilliant Dance”

13)  Deborah Conway  ~  “Alive & Brilliant”

14)  Furniture  ~  “Brilliant Mind”

15)  Pete Townshend  ~  “Brilliant Blues”

16)  New Years Day  ~  “Brilliant Lies”

17)  Eric Johnson & Malford Milligan  ~  “Brilliant Room”

18)  T. Graham Brown  ~  “Brilliant Conversationalist”

19)  Rosi Golan  ~  “Everything Is Brilliant”

20)  The Rentals  ~  “Brilliant Boy”

21)  Aaron Shust  ~  “God Of Brilliant Lights”

22)  Toyah ft. Cris Bonacci  ~  “Brilliant Day”

23)  David Sylvian  ~  “Brilliant Trees”

24)  All Star United  ~  “We Could Be Brilliant”

25)  Elvis Costello & The Attractions  ~  “London’s Brilliant Parade”

“Real” & “Fake” Songs, Vol. 3

Last but not least, this rousing set of "Real" and "Fake" Songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bastille  ~  “Fake It”

2)  Angela Winbush  ~  “It’s The Real Thing”

3)  Joyce Manor  ~  “Fake I.D.”

4)  The Higgins  ~  “Real Thing”

5)  Status Quo  ~  “Fakin’ The Blues”

6)  Sarah Connor  ~  “Real Love”

7)  Sticky Fingers  ~  “Fake A Smile”

8)  Jill Scott  ~  “The Real Thing”

9)  Hockey  ~  “Too Fake”

10)  Derek Johnson  ~  “Real Love”

11)  Husky  ~  “Fake Moustache”

12)  Bon Jovi  ~  “Real Life”

13)  Alexander O’Neal  ~  “Fake”

14)  The Cure  ~  “The Real Snow White”

15)  Guano Apes  ~  “Fake”

16)  Jeff Buckley  ~  “So Real”

17)  Foreign Fields  ~  “Fake Arms”

18)  Lisa Stansfield  ~  “The Real Thing”

19)  Pete Townshend  ~  “Fake It”

20)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “Real”

21)  HRVRD  ~  “Kids With Fake Guns”

22)  Skyy  ~  “Real Love”

23)  Deleted Scenes  ~  “Fake IDs”

24)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  “Real Love”

25)  Fair Weather Friends  ~  “Fake Love”