Popular Songs Of 1989, Vol. 3

I'll bet you thought I forgot to finish the Popular Songs Of 1989 series after a couple of days' lay-off. Well, I didn't. Here's part 3 of 5 in all its glory. Or something like that... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bon Jovi  ~  “I’ll Be There For You”

2)  Madonna  ~  “Like A Prayer”

3)  Milli Vanilli  ~  “Girl, I’m Gonna Miss You”

4)  Simply Red  ~  “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”

5)  Roxette  ~  “Listen To Your Heart”

6)  Rod Stewart  ~  “My Heart Can’t Tell You No”

7)  Def Leppard  ~  “Armageddon It”

8)  Donna Summer  ~  “This Time I Know It’s For Real”

9)  The Cure  ~  “Lovesong”

10)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Houston Solution”

11)  Karyn White  ~  “The Way You Love Me”

12)  White Lion  ~  “When The Children Cry”

13)  New Kids On The Block  ~  “Cover Girl”

14)  The B-52’s  ~  “Love Shack”

15)  Love And Rockets  ~  “So Alive”

16)  Richard Marx  ~  “Satisfied”

17)  Madonna  ~  “Express Yourself”

18)  Young MC  ~  “Bust A Move”

19)  Michael Damian  ~  “Rock On”  (I remember this guy from The Young & The Restless back in the day. I had to watch that series when I stayed with my grandma during the summer.)

20)  Taylor Dayne  ~  “Don’t Rush Me”

21)  Shenandoah  ~  “The Church On Cumberland Road”

22)  Babyface  ~  “It’s No Crime”

23)  Holly Dunn  ~  “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me?”

24)  Camper Van Beethoven  ~  “Pictures Of Matchstick Men”

25)  Breathe  ~  “How Can I Fall”

"Finest" Songs

This is, without a doubt, the finest collection of "Finest" Songs you'll find anywhere. Because chances are, this is the ONLY collection of "Finest" Songs you'll find anywhere! So if you take a listen, you'll be a part of something special. If you don't, you won't. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Cash Cash ft. Abir  ~  “Finest Hour”

2)  R.E.M.  ~  “Finest Worksong”

3)  The Sundays  ~  “Finest Hour”

4)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Finest Hour”

5)  Submotion Orchestra  ~  “Finest Hour”

6)  Duran Duran  ~  “Finest Hour”

7)  Teen Witch: The Musical Cast ft. Sara Niemietz & Blake Ewing  ~  “Finest Hour”

8)  Better Than Ezra  ~  “Our Finest Year”

9)  The S.O.S. Band  ~  “The Finest”

10)  Rod Stewart  ~ “Finest Woman”

11)  Per Gessle ft. Helena Josefsson  ~  “The Finest Prize”

12)  Hungry Lights  ~  “My Finest Hour”

13)  Sir Rosevelt  ~  “Sunday Finest”

14)  Josh Bray  ~  “The Finest Chance”

15)  Bonnie Raitt  ~  “Finest Lovin’ Man”

16)  Black Star Riders  ~  “Finest Hours”

17)  Esther Maria & The Song Horse  ~  “Finest Hour”

18)  Cee Lo Green & Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra  ~  “Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)”

19)  Ryan Egan  ~  “Finest Hour”

20)  The Courteneers  ~  “Finest Hour”

21)  Conorach  ~  “The Finest Hour”

22)  Mudhoney  ~  “In My Finest Suit”

23)  Mother’s Cake  ~  “Creation’s Finest”

24)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  “Everybody Wake Up! (Our Finest Hour Arrives)”  (This video may have a playback issue. If so, you can view it here.)

25)  Blue October  ~  “Darkest Side Of Houston’s Finest Day”

More “Happen”-ing Songs

Wanna know what’s going to “Happen” next? Check this post out! Oh yeah, and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Make It Happen”

2)  Birth Of Joy  ~  “Make Things Happen”

3)  Roxette  ~  “It Just Happens”

4)  Medina  ~  “Happening”

5)  Johnny Cash  ~  “Guess Things Happen That Way”

6)  The Be Good Tanyas  ~  “It’s Not Happening”

7)  Yes  ~  “It Can Happen”

8)  Veronica Falls  ~  “Waiting For Something To Happen”

9)  Sixx:A.M. & Debbie Harry  ~  “Accidents Can Happen”

10)  Rachel Foxx  ~  “Happen To Me”

11)  Duran Duran  ~  “What Happens Tomorrow”

12)  Zoë Badwi  ~  “Accidents Happen”

13)  Emeli Sandé  ~  “Happen”

14)  Silver Swans  ~  “Let It Happen”

15)  Tame Impala  ~  “Let It Happen”

16)  Quantic  ~  “Mishaps Happening”

17)  Pebbles ft. Babyface  ~  “Love Makes Things Happen”

18)  Young Divas  ~  “Happening All Over Again”

19)  Agnes Obel  ~  “It’s Happening Again”

20)  Myra  ~  “Miracles Happen (When You Believe)”

"Secret" Songs, Vol. 3

Last but not least, here's Vol. 3 in this miniseries featuring Songs About Secrets. I saved some really good ones for this post, and I hope you will enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Queens Of The Stone Age  ~  “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret”

2)  dodie  ~  “Secret For The Mad”

3)  Bee Gees  ~  “Secret Love”

4)  Katie Melua  ~  “In My Secret Life”  (Yes, I already posted the original version of this Cohen classic in Vol. 1 of this series. But, let’s be honest, Katie sings it so much more beautifully than Leonard ever could have.)

5)  Van Halen  ~  “Secrets”

6)  Doris Day  ~  “Secret Love”

7)  Passion Pit  ~  “Little Secrets”

8)  Roxette  ~  “Secrets That She Keeps”

9)  The Cure  ~  “Secrets”

10)  Phil Wickham ft. Madison Cunningham  ~  “The Secret Place”

11)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “The Secret’s In The Telling”

12)  Kat Graham ft. Babyface  ~  “Secrets”

13)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Secret”

14)  Zara Larsson  ~  “Secret”

15)  Rick Springfield  ~  “What’s Victoria’s Secret?”

16)  Skunk Anansie  ~  “Secretly”

17)  Tears For Fears  ~  “Secrets”

18)  The Veronicas  ~  “Secret”

19)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Secret Garden”

20)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Secret (Take You Home)”  (For some reason, the video repeats without sound around the 3:25 mark. So you can probably just stop it there.)

21)  Pink Floyd  ~  “A Saucerful Of Secrets”

22)  Samantha Jade  ~  “Secret”

23)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Secret Door”

24)  Skillet  ~  “Best Kept Secret”

25)  James Taylor  ~  “Secret O’ Life”

Songs About Flowers

This could easily be an extremely boring post full of happy little tunes about flowers. But that's not how I roll. Sure, there are a couple of predictable choices here, but there are even more "outside-the-box" songs to give you all kinds of feels. Most by really well-known artists, too. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bruno Mars  ~  “When I Was Your Man”  (This song might as well be called “I Should Have Bought You Flowers” – it’s not, but it easily could be.)

2)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “Dead Flowers”

3)  Radiohead  ~  “Lotus Flower”

4)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Flower”

5)  The Statler Brothers  ~  “Flowers On The Wall”

6)  Roxette  ~  “Fading Like A Flower”

7)  Soundgarden  ~  “Flower”

8)  Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand  ~  “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”

9)  5 After Midnight  ~  “Flowers”

10)  Chelsea Wolfe  ~  “Carrion Flowers”

11)  Ed Sheeran  ~  “Supermarket Flowers”

12)  Talking Heads ft. Kirsty MacColl  ~  “(Nothing But) Flowers”

13)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Dead Flowers”

14)  The Lumineers  ~  “Flowers In Your Hair”

15)  Amos Lee  ~  “Flower”

16)  Ace Of Base  ~  “Life Is A Flower”

17)  The Cult  ~  “Wild Flower”

18)  Ward Thomas  ~  “Guilty Flowers”

19)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Automatic Flowers”

20)  Company Of Thieves  ~  “Nothing’s In The Flowers”

21)  Thom Yorke  ~  “Last Flowers”  (Two Thom Yorke sightings in one post? Enjoy, Radiohead fans, as this may never happen again.)

22)  Moby ft. Ingyang Bassey  ~  “Flower”

23)  Erik Hassle  ~  “Don’t Bring Flowers”

24)  Mazzy Star  ~  “Flowers In December”

25)  Cody Simpson  ~  “Flower”