What Love Is, According To These Songs: Vol. 2

Here's another set of songs with distinct theories about what "Love Is." Like the first installment, there're plenty of good, bad, and oddball definitions. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Eurythmics  ~  “Love Is A Stranger”

2)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  “Love Is Here”

3)  Grace Jones  ~  “Love Is The Drug”

4)  Wet Wet Wet  ~  “Love Is All Around”

5)  Keane  ~  “Love Is The End”

6)  Warpaint  ~  “Love Is To Die”

7)  The Seahorses  ~  “Love Is The Law”

8)  Sade  ~  “Love Is Stronger Than Pride”

9)  Sting  ~  “Love Is The Seventh Wave”

10)  Vanessa Williams & Brian McKnight  ~  “Love Is”

11)  The Verve  ~  “Love Is Noise”

12)  Joan Baez  ~  “Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word”

13)  Jack White  ~  “Love Is The Truth / You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket”

14)  Donna Summer  ~  “Love Is In Control”

15)  Ziggy Marley  ~  “Love Is My Religion”

16)  Kim Wilde  ~  “Love Is Holy”

17)  Culture Club  ~  “Love Is Love”

18)  Brandy & Diana Ross  ~  “Love Is All That Matters”

19)  Chester See  ~  “Love Is Now”  (You can pretty much stop the video at the 4:45 mark. The rest of the video is REALLY annoying!)

20)  Metric  ~  “Love Is A Place”

21)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Love Is Here To Stay”

22)  Vixen  ~  “Love Is A Killer”

23)  To Kill A King  ~  “Love Is Coal”

24)  Kerli  ~  “Love Is Dead”

25)  We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It!!  ~  “Love Is The Slug”  (Wait…WHAT??)

"Broke" Songs

This post started out featuring only Songs about BEING "broke." But I found that self-imposed restriction to be too limiting, so I expanded it to include all kinds of "Broke" songs. The result was ultimately much more rewarding...in my totally unbiased opinion. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Khalid  ~  “Young, Dumb, & Broke”

2)  Hannah Grace  ~  “Broke”

3)  Hotel Books  ~  “Broke Love”

4)  Priscilla Ahn  ~  “Remember How I Broke Your Heart”

5)  Jacob Whitesides  ~  “Broke Billionaire”

6)  Everclear  ~  “The Man Who Broke His Own Heart”

7)  Yuna  ~  “Broke Her”

8)  Joe Budden  ~  “Broke”

9)  Aloha Radio  ~  “Stoked And Broke”

10)  The Swell Season  ~  “Back Broke”

11)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

12)  Lauren Aquilina  ~  “Broke”

13)  Lecrae  ~  “Broke”

14)  Alexa Goddard  ~  “We Broke The Sky”

15)  Todd Rundgren  ~  “Broke Down And Busted”

16)  Brandy Clark  ~  “Broke”

17)  Machine Gun Kelly ft. James Arthur  ~  “Go For Broke”

18)  Sea Of Bees  ~  “Broke”

19)  Keith Green  ~  “Your Love Broke Through”

20)  Cam  ~  “Half Broke Heart”

21)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “Broke Down On The Brazos”

22)  Sade  ~  “Somebody Already Broke My Heart”

23)  TobyMac  ~  “Love Broke Thru”

24)  Steve Earle & The Dukes  ~  “You Broke My Heart”

25)  Jaida Dreyer  ~  “Half Broke Horses”

“Taboo” Songs

Here's a bunch of "Taboo" Songs for your listening pleasure. No, there's nothing to be found here that's prohibited or restricted by social custom. Nothing forbidden, illegal, illicit, unmentionable, or unspeakable, either. Nonetheless, the word "taboo" – which, of course, means what all of the aforementioned terms and phrases describe – does appear in the title of each tune. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  September  ~  “Taboo”

2)  Santana ft. Derek Trucks  ~  “Taboo / The Calling”

3)  There Is No Mountain  ~  “Wave Of Taboo”

4)  CocoRosie  ~  “Smokey Taboo”

5)  Karne Murta  ~  “Swingin’ Taboo”

6)  Bloom Twins  ~  “Taboo”

7)  Alena Toymintseva  ~  “Taboo To Love”

8)  Don Omar  ~  “Taboo”

9)  Good Lovelies  ~  “Taboo”

10)  Dinah Shore  ~  “Is It Taboo?”

11)  Arthur Lyman Group  ~  “Taboo”

12)  Hannah Trigwell  ~  “Taboo”

13)  Jimi Sobara  ~  “Taboo”

14)  Emma van Heyn  ~  “Taboo”

15)  White Heart  ~  “No Taboo”

16)  Phy  ~  “Taboo”

17)  Flamingods  ~  “Taboo Groves”

18)  Sade  ~  “The Sweetest Taboo”

19)  Hugh Cornwell  ~  “Totem & Taboo”

20)  Connie Francis  ~  “Taboo”

21)  House Of Wallenberg ft. Ari Up  ~  “Sunshine Taboo”

22)  Sandra  ~  “No Taboo”

23)  Palladium Electric Band  ~  “Taboo”

24)  Tristan Prettyman  ~  “Taboo”

25)  Black Sugar Transmission  ~  “Taboo”

“Haunt”-ing Songs

Not everything has to be an "Opposites" post or a series. Case in point, this one-off collection of songs with the word "Haunt(s)," "Haunted," or "Haunting" in their titles. Why? I don't know. But you might as well enjoy them anyway!  ~  JH

1)  Stone Sour  ~  “Say You’ll Haunt Me”

2)  Evanescence  ~  “Haunted”

3)  Crash Test Dummies  ~  “The Ghosts That Haunt Me”

4)  Tanya Stephens  ~  “Back To Haunt Me”

5)  Sir Sly  ~  “You Haunt Me”

6)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Haunted”

7)  The New Regime  ~  “Haunt My Mind”

8)  Poe  ~  “Haunted”

9)  Bastille  ~  “Haunt”

10)  Kamelot ft. Simone Simons  ~  "The Haunting (Somewhere In Time)”

11)  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.  ~  “A Haunting”

12)  Sade  ~  “Haunt Me”

13)  Anberlin  ~  “Haunting”

14)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Old Haunts”

15)  Royal Bliss  ~  “It Haunts Me”

16)  Stars  ~  “I Died So I Could Haunt You”

17)  Deep Purple  ~  “Haunted”

18)  Spencer McGillicutty  ~  “You Haunt Me”

19)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  “Haunted Heart”

20)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  “Came Back Haunted”

Popular Songs Of 1986, Vol. 3

And now for something completely expected...Part 3 (of 4) of the most Popular Songs of 1986. There's plenty of good stuff to be heard here. So dive right in, and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Genesis  ~  “Invisible Touch”

2)  The Jets  ~  “Crush On You”

3)  INXS  ~  “What You Need”

4)  The Bangles  ~  “Manic Monday”  (Fun fact: This memorable song was penned by none other than Prince.)

5)  Eddie Money ft. Ronnie Spector  ~  “Take Me Home Tonight”

6)  John Cougar Mellencamp  ~  “R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. (A Salute To ’60s Rock)”

7)  Reba McEntire  ~  “Whoever’s In New England”

8)  Lionel Richie  ~  “Dancing On The Ceiling”

9)  Boston  ~  “Amanda”

10)  Randy Travis  ~  “Diggin’ Up Bones”

11)  Sade  ~  “The Sweetest Taboo”

12)  Simple Minds  ~  “Alive And Kicking”

13)  The Judds  ~  “Rockin’ With The Rhythm Of The Rain”

14)  Huey Lewis And The News  ~  “Stuck With You”

15)  Michael McDonald  ~  “Sweet Freedom”

16)  Dream Academy  ~  “Life In A Northern Town”

17)  Cameo  ~  “Word Up!”

18)  Mike & The Mechanics  ~  “All I Need Is A Miracle”

19)  Baltimora  ~  “Tarzan Boy”

20)  Miami Sound Machine  ~  “Bad Boy”

21)  Kenny Loggins  ~  “Danger Zone”