Songs About Ideas, Vol. 2

On this edition of Songs About Ideas, we will explore bad ideas, fresh ideas, terrible ideas, weird little ideas, and much much more! Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  CYN  ~  “Terrible Ideas”

2)  Young Buffalo  ~  “No Idea”

3)  Ariana Grande  ~  “Bad Idea”

4)  The Boxer Rebellion  ~  “Big Ideas”

5)  Danielle Ate The Sandwich  ~  “I Get Ideas (When We Are Dancing)”

6)  Nico & Vinz  ~  “Fresh Idea”

7)  Mary Chapin Carpenter  ~  “Ideas Are Like Stars”

8)  Radiator Hospital  ~  “Weird Little Idea”

9)  Madeline Kenney  ~  “Bad Idea”

10)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “I’ve Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)”

11)  Makaylie Foodey  ~  “No Idea”

12)  Black Books  ~  “The Big Idea”

13)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Bon Idée”

14)  The O’My’s ft. Chance The Rapper  ~  “Idea”

15)  Tessa Violet  ~  “Bad Ideas”

16)  Pepper  ~  “Bad Idea”

17)  Berk & The Virtual Band  ~  “Ma Quale Idea”

18)  Faces  ~  “Open To Ideas”

19)  Jessica Lynn  ~  “Crazy Idea”

20)  The Devil Makes Three  ~  “Bad Idea”

21)  Melis  ~  “Love Song Idea”

22)  King Zebra  ~  “Bad Idea”

23)  Watermark  ~  “No Idea”

24)  Yellow Boulevard  ~  “Have You Got Any Idea?”

25)  Bob Mould  ~  “A Good Idea”

Songs About Cuddling

Sometimes you feel like cuddling. And sometimes you just want to listen to Songs About Cuddling. If it's the former, go find yourself somebody to cuddle. If it's the latter, this post is here for you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Leslie & The LYs  ~  “Power Cuddle”

2)  Dean Martin  ~  “Pretty Baby”

3)  Biffy Clyro  ~  “Kittens, Cakes, And Cuddles”

4)  Jessica Cutter  ~  “Cuddle”

5)  A Perfect Circle  ~  “Get The Lead Out”

6)  Catey Shaw  ~  “Cuddle Up”  (So what if it’s a Christmas song? That doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it all year long!)

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Cuddle Fuddle”

8)  Joan Armatrading  ~  “Thinking Man”

9)  The Monkees  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

10)  Captain & Tennille  ~  “Cuddle Up”

11)  Nat King Cole  ~  “Just You, Just Me”

12)  Judy Garland  ~  “My Melancholy Baby”

13)  Har Mar Superstar  ~  “Gangsters Want To Cuddle Me”

14)  Alice Lon & Dick Dale  ~  “Cuddle Up A Little Closer”

15)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “Screaming Infidelities”

16)  Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley  ~  “The Old Piano Roll Blues”

17)  Roachford  ~  “Cuddly Toy”

18)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Uh-Merica”

19)  Eddy Arnold  ~  “Cuddle Buggin’ Baby”

20)  Doris Day & Gordon MacRae  ~  “By The Light Of The Silvery Moon”

21)  Johnnie Ray  ~  “Walkin’ My Baby Back Home”

22)  Dean Martin & Janet Leigh  ~  “Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey”  (Can you have too many Dean Martin songs in one post? Possibly, but unlikely!)

23)  Wasuremono  ~  “Cuddling”

24)  Judy Garland & Kirby Stone Four  ~  “Whispering”  (Can you have too many Judy Garland songs in one post? Certainly not!)

25)  Diana Dors  ~  “A Kiss And A Cuddle”

Songs About Laughing

It's Monday, and that's hard on everybody. So why not have a laugh? Or at least have a listen to a bunch of Songs About Laughing. Some of which will probably make you laugh. Makes perfect sense to me. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Laughing With”

2)  Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton  ~  “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”

3)  Bastille ~  “Laughter Lines”

4)  Jessie J  ~  “Who’s Laughing Now”

5)  Donald O’Connor  ~  “Make ‘Em Laugh”

6)  Over The Rhine  ~  “The Laugh Of Recognition”

7)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Laughter In The Rain”

8)  The Front Bottoms  ~  “Laugh Till I Cry”

9)  Mary Poppins Cast ft. Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews, & Dick Van Dyke  ~  “I Love To Laugh”

10)  R.E.M.  ~  “Laughing”

11)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  “Laugh About It”

12)  Neil Young  ~  “The Old Laughing Lady”

13)  Nathaniel Rateliff  ~  “Laughing”

14)  Mark Wills  ~  “Don’t Laugh At Me”

15)  Norah Jones  ~  “Once I Had A Laugh”

16)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Nancy (With The Laughing Face)”

17)  Jason Gray  ~  “Laugh Out Loud”

18)  St. Vincent  ~  “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood”  (I know I just posted this song a few weeks ago for an unrelated theme, but it was a perfect fit for this set and far too good to exclude.)

19)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “It’s A Laugh”

20)  Teddy Pendergrass  ~  “The Whole Town’s Laughing At Me”

21)  The Guess Who  ~  “Laughing”

22)  Jason Aldean  ~  “Laughed Until We Cried”

23)  Chelsea Jade  ~  “Laugh It Off”

24)  Quiet Riot ft. Randy Rhoads  ~  “Laughing Gas”

25)  Sarah Vaughan  ~  “They All Laughed”

26)  Clay Walker  ~  “Live Laugh Love”

27)  Mark Knopfler  ~  “Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes”

28)  Gemma Hayes  ~  “Laughter”

29)  Cat Stevens  ~  “If I Laugh”

30)  Paper Route  ~  “Laugh About It”

“Heart” & “Soul” Songs, Vol. 1

I recently got in my head that it'd be a brilliant idea to post songs with the words "Heart" and/or "Soul" in their titles. And it was. But there were SO MANY good songs to choose from, and this thing quickly ballooned from a probable two-parter, to maybe a three-parter, but definitely no more than a four-parter. Yeah, right! This series is going to be six posts in total, with 30 songs each time! So that you don't get too tired of these (even though they're chock full of good tunes), I'll post 'em a couple days in a row, then post something completely different for a couple of days before returning to the series. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kim Petras  ~  “Heart To Break”

2)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Soul To Squeeze”

3)  Sia  ~  “Elastic Heart”

4)  The Album Leaf  ~  “New Soul”

5)  Whitney Houston  ~  “Where Do Broken Hearts Go?”

6)  Rhodes  ~  “Your Soul”

7)  Ariana Grande  ~  “Put Your Hearts Up”

8)  Santana  ~  “Soul Sacrifice”

9)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Bleeding Heart”

10)  Sticky Fingers  ~  “Caress Your Soul”

11)  Björk  ~  “Triumph Of A Heart”  (I’ve seen and heard a lot of plenty of über-weird Björk songs and videos over the years, but this one has got them all topped…by a landslide! Just…wow!)

12)  Oasis  ~  “Meaning Of Soul”

13)  Love & The Outcome  ~  “King Of My Heart”

14)  Slaves  ~  “Running Through The !6! With My Soul”

15)  Adele  ~  “Melt My Heart To Stone”

16)  Tower Of Power  ~  “On The Soul Side Of Town”

17)  Madonna  ~  “Open Your Heart”

18)  Modern Talking  ~  “You’re My Heart, You’re My Soul”

19)  Maggie Lindemann  ~  “Knocking On Your Heart”

20)  You Me At Six  ~  “Heavy Soul”

21)  Indiana  ~  “Heart On Fire”

22)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Souls Of The Departed”

23)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “2 Hearts”

24)  The Temptations  ~  “Soul To Soul”

25)  Sara Bareilles  ~  “Hold My Heart”

26)  Trash Boat  ~  “Old Soul”

27)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “Diving For Hearts”

28)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Soothe My Soul”

29)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  “Total Eclipse Of The Heart”

30)  Spoon  ~  “Rhthm & Soul”  (Yes, it’s misspelled, but apparently that’s how Spoon prefers it. Go figure…)