Songs About “Things”, Vol. 2

If you liked the first volume of this miniseries of Songs About "Things," there's lots more to entertain you in this set. If you missed the first post, you can tune in here. But we're not done yet. One final set of "Things" songs tomorrow. Enjoy! ~  JH

1)  10cc  ~  “The Things We Do For Love”

2)  Gungor  ~  “Beautiful Things”

3)  Babyface  ~  “Sorry For The Stupid Things”

4)  Meiko  ~  “Bad Things”

5)  Ben Howard  ~  “Small Things”

6)  Terri Clark  ~  “Better Things To Do”

7)  Good Charlotte  ~  “Little Things”

8)  Sarah Jarosz  ~  “1,000 Things”

9)  Elevation Worship  ~  “All Things New”

10)  The Weepies  ~  “Fancy Things”

11)  The Dear Hunter  ~  “Things That Hide Away”

12)  Brandi Carlile  ~  “The Things I Regret”

13)  Yankee Grey  ~  “All Things Considered”

14)  Amy Grant  ~  “Simple Things” 

15)  The Black Crowes  ~  “Seeing Things”

16)  Anastacia  ~  “Stupid Little Things”

17)  Relient K  ~  “Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, & Things Like Chemistry”

18)  Tori Kelly  ~  “Beautiful Things”

19)  Tired Pony  ~  “All Things At Once”

20)  t.A.T.u.  ~  “All The Things She Said”

21)  Robin Thicke  ~  “The Stupid Things”

22)  Mavis Staples  ~  “I Like The Things About Me”

23)   Dawes  ~  “Things Happen”

24)  Rosi Golan  ~  “A Lot Of Things”

25)  dc Talk  ~  “Things Of This World”

Fruits Of The Spirit Songs: "Self Control"

This final entry in the "Fruits of the Spirit" was dogging me, too, making it all but impossible to compile. Finally, I made a breakthrough and came up with more songs than I could use, actually. I tried to narrow it down to the best of the best. While you won't find the phrase "self control" in the titles of these songs (and most often, not in the lyrics either), the spirit and attitude of "self control" as a virtue, or "fruit" as it were, permeates each song in this collection. Did I mention that there are some really great songs here? Because there are. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sanctus Real  ~  "I'm Not Alright"

2)  Jars Of Clay  ~  "Worlds Apart"

3)  Jeremy Camp  ~  "My Desire"

4)  GS Megaphone  ~  "Use Me"

5)  Skillet  ~  "Monster"

6)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Courageous"

7)  Relient K  ~  "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been"

8)  Tedashii  ~  "Make War"

9)  Third Day  ~  "Cry Out To Jesus"

10)  Plumb  ~  "Smoke"

11)  Matt Redman  ~  "Never Once"

12)  Hillsong Live  ~  "From The Inside Out"

13)  DC Talk  ~  "In The Light"

14)  Trip Lee ft. J. Paul  ~  "Fallin'"

15)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Slow Fade"

16)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  "The Way I Am"

17)  Fireflight  ~  "Unbreakable"

18)  116 ft. KB, PRo, Tedashii, & Andy Mineo  ~  "Temptation"

19)  Matt Maher ft. Audrey Assad  ~  "Lord, I Need You"

20)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  "The Struggle"

21)  Lauren Daigle  ~  "How Can It Be"

22)  Pillar  ~  "Further From Myself"

23)  Disciple  ~  "Dear X, You Don't Own Me"

24)  KB ft. Swoope, Trip Lee, & Jai  ~  "Open Letter (Battlefield)"

25)  Love & The Outcome  ~  "He Is With Us"

16 Different Renditions Of "Silver Bells"

I did a couple of these kinds of posts last year around this time, and I'm liable to do a couple more after this one. Here you have 16 unique renditions of the same Christmas song. Reply with your favorite version in the comments. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Dean Martin  (smooth and swingin')

2)  John Denver  (folksy and warm)

3)  Anne Murray  (polished and pretty)

4)  Twisted Sister  (wild and raucous)

5)  Bing Crosby & Carole Richards  (cool and classy)

6)  Meaghan Smith  (indie and adorable)

7)  Kenny Chesney  (tasteful and twangy)

8)  Perry Como  (jolly and jingly)

9)  Paul Simon & Steve Martin  (irreverent and oh-so-wrong)

10)  Relient K  (fresh and modern)

11)  Alan Jackson  (simple and sincere)

12)  Bob Hope & Marilyn Maxwell  (the original version!)

13)  Kenny G  (instrumental and influential)

14)  Elvis Presley  (timeless and touching)

15)  Andy Williams & The Osmonds  (crooner and boyband)

16)  The National, Gregg Allman, & Stephen Colbert  (strange but sweet)

Songs About Lips

Since you already know how random I am capable of being, is there any point in your even asking or my even explaining how and why I came up with this "theme"? No? I didn't think so. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Go-Go's  ~  "Our Lips Are Sealed"

2)  Nightwish  ~  "While Your Lips Are Still Red"

3)  Meghan Trainor  ~  "Lips Are Movin"

4)  Hinder  ~  "Lips Of An Angel"

5)  NEXX  ~  "Synchronize Lips"

6)  Echo & The Bunnymen  ~  "Lips Like Sugar"

7)  OK Go  ~  "C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips"

8)  Garbage  ~  "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)"

9)  Elton John  ~  "Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)"  (The man is dressed up like Donald Duck. Oh. My. Word!)

10)  Regina Spektor  ~  "Blue Lips"

11)  Gord Bamford  ~  "When Your Lips Are So Close"

12)  We Are Twin  ~  "Cold Stone Lips"

13)  Tim McGraw  ~  "Felt Good On My Lips"

14)  Blondie  ~  "Cautious Lip"

15)  Relient K  ~  "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, And Things Like Chemistry"

16)  Ween  ~  "Mutilated Lips"

17)  St. Vincent  ~  "Your Lips Are Red"

18)  Ferras   ~  "Take My Lips"

19)  Kimbra  ~  "Simply On My Lips"

20)  Nirvana  ~  "Molly's Lips"