Songs About Fruit

A few weeks ago, I was brainstorming some ideas for new music posts, and my wife asked if I'd ever done one about songs with fruit in their titles. I replied that of course I had, and that it had gone over quite well. And then I began to second-guess myself. So I looked over my previous music posts and – to my surprise – I was wrong! I had never done a fruit songs post. So here it is. Twenty-five songs, twenty-five different fruits. Every one of them juicy. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tori Amos  ~  "Raspberry Swirl"

2)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  "Mango Tree"

3)  Sarah Jaffe  ~  "Clementine"

4)  Mista  ~  "Blackberry Molasses"  (I included this one for my friend, Eric. He knows why.)

5)  First Aid Kit  ~  "Tangerine"

6)  Fats Domino  ~  "Blueberry Hill"

7)  Goldfrapp  ~  "Black Cherry"

8)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  "Peaches"

9)  Margot & The Nuclear So And So's  ~  "Cold, Kind, & Lemon Eyes"

10)  Tom T. Hall  ~  "(Old Dogs, Children, And) Watermelon Wine"  (The actual song starts at the 4:00 mark.)

11)  Lady Gaga  ~  "Orange Colored Sky"

12)  Harry Belafonte  ~  "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)"

13)  Islander  ~  "Coconut Dracula"

14)  Neil Diamond  ~  "Cherry, Cherry"

15)  The Andrews Sisters  ~  "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree"

16)  Coldplay  ~  "Strawberry Swing"

17)  KT Tunstall  ~  "Honeydew"

18)  Los Campesinos!  ~  "Avocado, Baby"

19)  Diana Krall  ~  "Peel Me A Grape"

20)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Queenie Wahine's Papaya"

21)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "3 Pears"

22)  Brooklyn Roebuck  ~  "Lemon & Lime"

23)  Peter Frampton  ~  "Fig Tree Bay"

24)  Herbie Hancock  ~  "Cantaloupe Island"

25)  Kate Nash  ~  "Pumpkin Soup"  (Yes, it's a fruit. I looked it up.)

"Naked" Songs

Merriam-Webster provides a wide variety of definitions for the word "naked." The most common meaning is "not covered by clothing." However, "naked" can also mean "lacking embellishment," "unarmed [or] defenseless," "devoid of concealment or disguise," as well as "unaided by any optical device or instrument." These secondary definitions of "naked" abound in the lyrics of these songs. Indeed, despite its title, this post is about as "PG" as it gets. Sorry to disappoint some of you. And I'm glad I didn't let the rest of you down. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Luscious Jackson  ~  "Naked Eye"

2)  DEV ft. Enrique Iglesias  ~  "Naked"

3)  Iron and Wine  ~  "Naked As We Came"

4)  Tully On Tully  ~  "Naked"

5)  Leona Lewis  ~  "Naked"

6)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  "Naked"

7)  Avril Lavigne  ~  "Naked"

8)  Taylor Dayne  ~  "Naked Without You"

9)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  "Naked And Famous"

10)  Chynna Phillips  ~  "Naked And Sacred"

11)  Loretta Lynn  ~  "Naked In The Rain"

12)  Van Morrison  ~  "Naked In The Jungle"

13)  Sera Cahoone  ~  "Naked"

14)  Leonie Meijer  ~  "Naked"

15)  James Bonamy  ~  "Naked To The Pain"

16)  Jenny May  ~  "Naked"

17)  E.M.P.  ~  "The Naked I"

18)  Melanie Lynx  ~  "Naked Heart"

19)  Jennifer Love Hewitt  ~  "BareNaked"

Songs About Explosives, Vol. 2

Didn't get enough songs about bombs, fireworks, T.N.T., or dynamite last time around? Well, here's more of the same...just in different songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Public Enemy  ~  "Louder Than A Bomb"

2)  Spoon  ~  "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"

3)  Katy Perry  ~  "Firework"

4)  Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors  ~  "Fire And Dynamite"

5)  The Killers  ~  "Miss Atomic Bomb"

6)  Enigma  ~  "T.N.T. For The Brain"

7)  Roxette  ~  "Fireworks"

8)  The Presidents Of The United States of America  ~  "Tiger Bomb"

9)  Aloe Blacc  ~  "Ticking Bomb"

10)  Kelis  ~  "4th Of July (Fireworks)"

11)  Demi Lovato  ~  "Got Dynamite"

12)  Joan Jett And The Blackhearts  ~  "Cherry Bomb"

13)  John Mellencamp  ~  "Cherry Bomb"

14)  Sky Ferreira  ~  "Dynamite State"

15)  Siouxsie & The Banshees  ~  "Fireworks"

16)  Dawn Richard  ~  "Bombs"

17)  Alexia Rodriguez  ~  "Ticking Bombs"

18)  Karise Eden  ~  "Dynamite"

19)  Whitney McClain  ~  "Bombs Away"

20)  Eels  ~  "Bombs Away"

BONUS TRACK:  Sheppard  ~  "Geronimo"  (While the name of an explosive device does not appear in its title, there are several times throughout this song when one of the singers croons, "Bombs away! Bombs away!" Besides that, it's a good song, and I can't figure out any other way to include it in a post, so there ya go...)