Songs About Palms

Some of these songs are about trees which thrive in tropical temps. Some of them are about the inside of your hand (well, maybe not YOUR hand – but someone's). All of them are enjoyable. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  In The Valley Below  ~  “Palm Tree Fire”

2)  Robert Plant  ~  “29 Palms”

3)  Lowell  ~  “Palm Trees”

4)  Jake Miller  ~  “Palm Blvd.”

5)  Lala Romero  ~  “Palm Tree Dreams”

6)  Hayley Kiyoko  ~  “Palm Dreams”

7)  Smokin’ Ziggurats  ~  “Psychic Palms”

8)  Touché Amoré  ~  “Palm Dreams”

9)  Madison Daley  ~  “Powerlines And Palm Trees”

10)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Palm Trees, Helicopters, And Gasoline”

11)  TALIA  ~  “Royal Palms”

12)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Palm Of Your Hand”

13)  Crvvcks  ~  “Palms”

14)  Jill Sobule  ~  “Palm Springs”

15)  Body Type  ~  “Palms”

16)  Zola Jesus  ~  “Lick The Palm Of The Burning Handshake”

17)  Ioana Ignat & Edward Sanda  ~  “In Palma Ta”

18)   Josh Pyke  ~  “Lines On Palms”

19)  Anna Madsen  ~  “Palm Reader”

20)  Quixotic  ~  “Palms”

21)  MARA  ~  “Palms And Curtains”

22)  Toothless ft. Marika Hackman  ~  “Palm’s Backside”

23)  Spill Gold  ~  “Palms”

24)  Lowland Hum  ~  “Palm Lines”

25)  Xeno & Oaklander  ~  “Palms”

“Bad” & “Worse” Songs

Here's a nice collection of "Bad" and "Worse" Songs – which are actually way better than their titles would indicate – for your listening pleasure. Since I posted some "Good" and "Bad" Songs five-and-a-half years ago (not that you would necessarily remember), there are a few notable exclusions from this set and the one that will follow it. (Apologies to Michael Jackson, George Thorogood, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jim Croce, in particular, for the absence of their iconic songs here.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar  ~  “Bad Blood”

2)  Robert Plant  ~  “Worse Than Detroit”

3)  Justin Timberlake  ~  “Not A Bad Thing”

4)  Anouk  ~  “For Bitter Or Worse”

5)  Halsey  ~  “Bad At Love”

6)  Matthew Sweet  ~  “Worse To Live”

7)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Hurt So Bad”

8)  Bahamas  ~  “What’s Worse”

9)  The Flaming Lips  ~  “Bad Days”

10)  Sunny Sweeney  ~  “Staying’s Worse Than Leaving”

11)  RY X  ~  “Bad Love”

12)  Soundgarden  ~  “Worse Dreams”

13)  Sevyn Streeter  ~  “How Bad Do You Want It?”

14)  Randy Travis  ~  “Only Worse”

15)  Dua Lipa  ~  “Bad Together”

16)  Laura Imbruglia  ~  “It’s Getting Worse”

17)  Chris Isaak  ~  “Baby Did A Bad, Bad Thing”

18)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “For Better Or Worse”

19)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  “Cry For The Bad Man”

20)  Snoh Aalegra  ~  “Sometimes” / “Worse”

21)  Rihanna  ~  “Good Girl Gone Bad”

22)  Clint Black  ~  “Better And Worse”

23)  Milky Chance ft. Izzy Bizu  ~  “Bad Things”

24)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Loneliness Is Worse”

25)  Madonna  ~  “Bad Girl”

"Stolen" Songs

These songs aren't mine. But they're not exactly "Stolen," either. Except that they actually are..."Stolen" Songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Milky Chance  ~  "Stolen Dance"

2)  Beth Orton  ~  "Stolen Car"

3)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  "Stolen"

4)  Metropolis America  ~  "A Stolen Heart In A Stolen Car"

5)  Brandon Heath  ~  "Stolen"

6)  Talia Mar  ~  "Stolen"

7)  Passenger  ~  "Stolen Toys"

8)  Tonia Reeh  ~  "Stolen"

9)  Sting & Mylène Farmer  ~  "Stolen Car"

10)  Michigander  ~  "Stolen"

11)  Loreena McKennitt  ~  "Stolen Child"

12)  Sunhawk  ~  "Stolen Glances"

13)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "Stolen Away On 55th & 3rd"

14)  The Overslept  ~  "Stolen Car"

15)  Lord Of The Dance  ~  "Stolen Kiss"

16)  Phosphorescent  ~  "Nothing Was Stolen (Love Me Foolishly)"

17)  Lee Ritenour  ~  "Stolen"

18)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  "Stolen Car"

19)  Karen Elson  ~  "Stolen Roses"

20)  Robert Plant  ~  "A Stolen Kiss"

Songs About Hills & Valleys, Vol. 3

Last but definitely not least (because there's an Ed Sheeran song here – hello!), Vol. 3 (of 3) in my Songs About Hills & Valleys series. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Castle On The Hill”

2)  Dionne Warwick  ~  “(Theme From) Valley Of The Dolls”

3)  Bruce Cockburn  ~  “Hills Of Morning”

4)  Fountains Of Wayne  ~  “Valley Winter Song”

5)  U2  ~  “One Tree Hill”

6)  Needtobreathe  ~  “Valley Of Tomorrow”

7)  Kate Bush  ~  “Running Up That Hill”

8)  Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters  ~  “Tin Pan Valley”

9)  The Decemberists  ~  “Grace Cathedral Hill”

10)  LP  ~  “Death Valley”

11)  Fats Domino  ~  “Blueberry Hill”

12)  k.d. lang  ~  “The Valley”

13)  Peter Gabriel  ~  “Solsbury Hill”

14)  House Of Heroes  ~  “In The Valley Of The Dying Sun”

15)  Celtic Thunder ft. Damian McGinty  ~  “Come By The Hills”

16)  The Veils  ~  “Out From The Valley”

17)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Sugar Hill”

18)  Bruce Hornsby & The Range  ~  “The Valley Road”

19)  Thao Nguyen  ~  “Hills”

20)  Christafari  ~  “Valley Of Decision”

21)  Kevin Costner & Modern West ft. Sara Beck  ~  “I Know These Hills”

22)  Duran Duran  ~  “The Valley”

23)  Katie Melua  ~  “Gold In Them Hills”  (Yes, this is the same song as the Ron Sexsmith one in Vol 2. But this version was far too gorgeous not to double-list.)

24)  The Stranglers  ~  “Valley Of The Birds”

25)  PJ Harvey  ~  “On Battleship Hill”

“Country” Songs, Vol. 1: Non-Country Songs

This is part 3 of a 4-part series featuring songs with the words "City" and "Country" in their titles. In researching for this series, I found a disproportionately high number of country songs with "Country" in their titles. I also found quite a few non-country "Country" songs. These are those. The last post in this series, which you'll see tomorrow, consists solely of country-music songs with the word "Country" in their titles. For those of you who enjoy that style of music, I think you'll find much to be pleased with. For those of you who don't particularly enjoy country, today's post is for you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Love Is A Country”

2)  James Taylor  ~  “Country Road”

3)  Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis  ~  “A Day In The Country”

4)  Ani DiFranco  ~  “God’s Country”

5)  Eddie Vedder  ~  “Girl From The North Country”

6)  Cracker  ~  “California Country Boy”

7)   Elton John  ~  “Country Comfort”

8)  Laura Nyro  ~  “Save The Country”

9)  Rory Gallagher  ~  “Country Mile”

10)  Cliff Richard & The Shadows  ~  “In The Country”

11)  Seether  ~  “Country Song”

12)  Bow Wow Wow  ~  “Go Wild In The Country”

13)  Canned Heat  ~  “Going Up The Country”

14)  Robert Plant  ~  “Black Country Woman”

15)  Elvis Costello  ~  “Country Darkness”

16)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  “My Country, ’Tis Of Thee”

17)  Bob Dylan  ~  “North Country Blues”

18)  Big Country  ~  “In A Big Country”

19)  Violent Femmes  ~  “Country Death Song”

20)  Cassandra Wilson  ~  “Another Country”

21)  Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros  ~  “Country Calling”

22)  Blur  ~  “Country House”

23)  Camera Obscura  ~  “Let’s Get Out Of This Country”

24)  U2  ~  “In God’s Country”

25)  Norah Jones  ~  “My Dear Country”