Grunge Music, Vol. 3

Haven't had your fill of Grunge Music yet? You're in luck – here's a fresh batch of songs for you. Had too much already? Nobody's twisting your arm to listen. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Alive”

2)  Nirvana  ~  “In Bloom”

3)  Soundgarden  ~  “Blow Up The Outside World”

4)  Alice In Chains  ~  “I Stay Away”

5)  Screaming Trees  ~  “Bed Of Roses”

6)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Wicked Garden”

7)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Number One Blind”

8)  Silverchair  ~  “Abuse Me”

9)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Cherub Rock”

10)  Hole  ~  “Doll Parts”

11)  Candlebox  ~  “Cover Me”

12)  Bush  ~  “Machinehead”

13)  Nada Surf  ~  “Popular”

14)  Love Battery  ~  “Harold’s Pink Room”

15)  Mad Season  ~  “River Of Deceit”

16)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Big Empty”

17)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Heaven Beside You”

18)  Soundgarden  ~  “Rusty Cage”

19)  L7  ~  “Andres”

20)  Bush  ~  “Comedown”

21)  Blind Melon  ~  “Galaxie”

22)  Tracy Bonham  ~  “Mother Mother”

23)  Meat Puppets  ~  “Backwater”

24)  The Breeders  ~  “Cannonball”

25)  Soundgarden  ~  “Burden In My Hand”

Grunge Music, Vol. 1

Here's a miniseries of posts that I can certainly relate to – and I'm sure I'm not the only one! This is the first set in what will be a four-part retrospective of some of the best, most influential, and most memorable songs from the "grunge rock" era of music. Which was both not that long ago and ancient history, depending on your perspective. Before we get started, I will concede that we're not all going to agree 100% on whether or not certain songs herein are legitimately "grunge," "post-grunge," punk, pop, or something else entirely – and that's okay. Let's just jam to some good music and don't waste time fighting about the genre ascribed to the songs (by myself or others). Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Nirvana  ~  “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

2)  Pearl Jam  ~  “Animal”

3)  Soundgarden  ~  “Black Hole Sun”

4)  Alice In Chains  ~  “No Excuses”

5)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  “Vasoline”

6)  Mudhoney  ~  “Touch Me I’m Sick”

7)  Screaming Trees  ~  “Nearly Lost You”

8)  L7  ~  “Pretend We’re Dead”

9)  Paw  ~  “Couldn’t Know”

10)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Seether”

11)  Silverchair  ~  “Tomorrow”

12)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Today”

13)  Hole  ~  “Miss World”

14)  Bush  ~  “Everything Zen”

15)  Candlebox  ~  “Far Behind”

16)  Sponge  ~  “Molly (16 Candles)”

17)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Superman’s Dead”

18)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “Lump”

19)  Blind Melon  ~  “No Rain”

20)  Days Of The New  ~  “Touch, Peel, And Stand”

21)  Babes In Toyland  ~  “Bruise Violet”  (It's almost scary how much the lead singer of this group looks like a crazed Reese Witherspoon.)

22)  Melvins  ~  “Honey Bucket”

23)  The Gits  ~  “Second Skin”  (There's a very sad-but-true story about the untimely demise of this band's lead singer. I won't rehash it here, but you can Google it.)

24)  Hum  ~  “Stars”

25)  Local H  ~  “Bound For The Floor”

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 1

OK, here we go... If the "Popular Songs Of 2007" posts didn't make you feel old, this post and the next three to follow are sure to do so. Because these, the "Popular Songs Of 1997," are now TWENTY years old! And you (assuming you remember some or all of the songs) are now twenty years OLDER than when you first heard them! Let that sink in a bit, then enjoy some "new oldies"!  ~  JH

1)  Spice Girls  ~  “Say You’ll Be There”

2)  Silverchair  ~  “Abuse Me”

3)  Puff Daddy & Faith Evans ft. 112  ~  “I’ll Be Missing You”

4)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “How Do I Live”

5)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Push”

6)  Coolio ft. 40 Thevz  ~  “C U When U Get There”

7)  Trace Adkins  ~  “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing”

8)  DC Talk  ~  “Colored People"

9)  Texas  ~  “Say What You Want”

10)  Monica  ~  “For You, I Will”

11)  Chumbawamba  ~  “Tubthumping”

12)  Metallica  ~  “The Memory Remains”

13)  Jewel  ~  “Foolish Games”

14)  Elton John  ~  “Candle In The Wind 1997”

15)  The Verve  ~  “Bitter Sweet Symphony”

16)  Whitney Houston  ~  “I Believe In You And Me”

17)  Clay Walker  ~  “Rumor Has It”

18)  Sugar Ray  ~  “Fly”

19)  Cornershop  ~  “Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)”

20)  Céline Dion  ~  “All By Myself”

21)  Savage Garden  ~  “I Want You”

22)  Live  ~  “Turn My Head”

23)  The Offspring  ~  “Gone Away”

24)  Janet Jackson  ~  “Together Again”

25)  Boyz II Men  ~  “4 Seasons Of Loneliness”