“Cemetery” Songs

While we’re on a dead people kick (is that what this blog has come to?), why not throw in a batch of “Cemetery” Songs for good measure? They’re not as bad as you think. I’m sure you will…enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Pantera  ~  “Cemetery Gates”

2)  Silverchair  ~  “Cemetery”

3)  Missy Higgins  ~  “Cemetery”

4)  COIN  ~  “Cemetery”

5)  Woods Of Ypres  ~  “I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery”

6)  Tierra Whack  ~  “Pet Cemetery”

7)  Strung Out  ~  “Cemetery”

8)  Ramones  ~  “Pet Sematary”

9)  Nicole Dollanganger  ~  “Sleepy Towns And Cemeteries”

10)  Coldplay  ~  “Cemeteries Of London”

11)  Umphrey's McGee  ~  “Cemetery Walk”

12)  Ron Sexsmith  ~  “Pretty Little Cemetery”

13)  Bessie Smith  ~  “Cemetery Blues”

14)  Tom Waits  ~  “Cemetery Polka”

15)  Say Anything  ~  “Cemetery”

16)  Isles & Glaciers  ~  “Cemetery Weather”

17)  Tab  ~  “Cemetery Shakedown”

18)  Fountains Of Wayne  ~  “Cemetery Guns”

19)  Squirrel Nut Zippers  ~  “St. Louis Cemetery Blues”

20)  Midnight Oil  ~  “Cemetery In My Mind”

21)  My Chemical Romance  ~  “Cemetery Drive”

22)  Charlie Simpson  ~  “Cemetery”

23)  Son Volt  ~  “Cemetery Savior”

24)  mewithoutyou  ~  “Cleo’s Ferry Cemetery”

25)  The Front Bottoms  ~  “Historic Cemetery”

Songs About Chasing (Things Or People), Vol. 2

Because you can never have too many Songs About Chasing (Things Or People) – well, maybe you can, but whatevs – there's this post. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alan Jackson  ~  “Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow”

2)  Epica  ~  “Chasing The Dragon”

3)  Dominick Soth ft. Max Landry  ~  “Chasing”

4)  Against The Current  ~  “Chasing Ghosts”

5)  Ramones  ~  “Chasing The Night”

6)  Norah Jones  ~  “Chasing Pirates”

7)  Empire Cast ft. Terrence Howard, Jussie Smollett, & Yazz  ~  “Chasing The Sky”

8)  Sara Bareilles  ~  “Chasing The Sun”

9)  Max Romeo  ~  “Chase The Devil”

10)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Girls Chase Boys”

11)  Wynton Marsalis Septet  ~  “Chasin’ The Bird”

12)  Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell  ~  “Chase The Feeling”

13)  Lecrae  ~  “Chase That (Ambition)”

14)  Delta Rae  ~  “Chasing Twisters”

15)  Marlon Williams  ~  “What’s Chasing You”

16)  Portishead  ~  “Chase The Tear”

17)  Geoff Tate  ~  “Chasing Blue Sky”

18)  Suzy Bogguss  ~  “Let’s Chase Each Other Around The Room”

19)  Jon Pardi  ~  “Chasin’ Them Better Days”

20)  Chuck Mangione ft. Marilyn McCoo  ~  “Chase The Clouds Away”

21)  Santigold  ~  “Chasing Shadows”

22)  The Reverend Horton Heat  ~  “The Devil’s Chasin’ Me”

23)  Sierra Hull  ~  “Chasin’ Skies”  (Holy cow, this young woman can play the snot out of a mandolin! My word, what a talent!)

24)  Hilary Duff  ~  “Chasing The Sun”

25)  Richard Reynolds  ~  “Chasing The Love”

“Sounds Like” Songs

Here's a bunch of songs that "Sound Like"...well, you'll have to listen for yourself to find out what they sound like. Spoiler alert: It's a bunch of different sounds. A shocker, I know. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Michael Franti & Spearhead  ~  “I’m Alive (Life Sounds Like)”

2)  Darryl Worley  ~  “Sounds Like Life”

3)  Alphaville  ~  “Sounds Like A Melody”

4)  Marina Kaye ft. Lindsey Stirling  ~  “Sounds Like Heaven”

5)  The Head And The Heart  ~  “Sounds Like Hallelujah”

6)  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band  ~  “Tulsa Sounds Like Trouble To Me”

7)  The Partridge Family  ~  “It Sounds Like You’re Saying Hello”

8)  Amy Shark  ~  “You Think I Think I Sound Like God”

9)  Bessie Banks  ~  “It Sounds Like My Baby”

10)  Lee Brice  ~  “That Don't Sound Like You”

11)  Bobby Glenn  ~  “Sounds Like A Love Song”

12)  Jenny & The Scalawags  ~  “Sounds Like Maybe”

13)  Ramones  ~  “You Sound Like You’re Sick”  (Their sung words are nearly unintelligible in this live performance. Then again, their sung words are nearly unintelligible in most studio recordings I’ve heard as well. So there ya go…)

14)  Harry Chapin  ~  “Sounds Like America To Me”

15)  Broken Records  ~  “If Eilert Løvborg Wrote A Song, It Would Sound Like This”

16)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Sounds Like Somewhere”

17)  Graham Parker  ~  “Sounds Like Chains”

18)  Jesus Culture  ~  “What Does It Sound Like?”

19)  P.O.D.  ~  “Sounds Like War”

20)  Paper Bird  ~  “Sounds Like Rain”

21)  Matt Nathanson  ~  “Everything You Say Sounds Like Gospel”

22)  Prince  ~  “When Doves Cry”  (Nope, the words “Sounds Like” – in any form – don’t appear in the title of this iconic song. But the phrase “this is what it sounds like” is repeated multiple times throughout, thus becoming an integral part of the song.)

23)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “My Head Sounds Like That”

24)  Trampled By Turtles  ~  “Sounds Like A Movie”

25)  Whosoever South  ~  “Sounds Like Home”

Songs About Growing Up

Most of these are Songs About Growing Up. Some of them are about not growing up, or at least not wanting to. Either way, the theme remains the same. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ramones  ~  “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”

2)  Paramore  ~  “Grow Up”

3)  Dillon Chase  ~  “Grow Up”

4)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Never Grow Up”

5)  Olly Murs  ~  “Grow Up”

6)  Fever Ray  ~  “When I Grow Up”

7)  Waylon Jennings  ~  “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys”

8)  Bebe Rexha  ~  “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up”

9)  Foreigner  ~  “Growing Up The Hard Way”

10)  The Pussycat Dolls  ~  “When I Grow Up”

11)  Phil Lynott ft. John Sykes  ~  “Growing Up”

12)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Little Girl, Don’t Grow Up Too Fast”

13)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “Growing Older But Not Up”

14)  Priscilla Ahn  ~  “When You Grow Up”

15)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Growin’ Up”

16)  Garbage  ~  “When I Grow Up”

17)  Tony Danza  ~  “I Don’t Remember Ever Growing Up”  (Yes, THAT Tony Danza! And he’s pretty good!)

18)  Shirley Temple  ~  “When I Grow Up”

19)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “Growing Up”

20)  Maddie & Tae  ~  “Downside Of Growing Up”

21)  Simple Plan  ~  “Grow Up”  (I don’t understand all the French speaking at the beginning, but – no worries – the song itself is in English.)

22)  Una Healy  ~  “Grow Up Not Old”

23)  Joey + Rory  ~  “Someday When I Grow Up”

24)  Paolo Nutini ft. The Vipers  ~  “Growing Up Beside You”

25)  Roberta Flack & Michael Jackson  ~  “When We Grow Up”