Songs About Being Abducted (Well, Sort Of)

Here's a delightful collection of Songs About Being Abducted. Well, not really. While the songs herein ARE about being taken away, carried away, spirited away, stolen, captured, kidnapped, and, yes, even abducted, most of the abductions are figurative and should be interpreted as such. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Blue Oyster Cult  ~  “Take Me Away”

2)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “Stolen”

3)  Grace Jones  ~  “The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game”

4)  Dixie Chicks  ~  “Cowboy, Take Me Away”

5)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “Carried Away”

6)  Jimmy Eat World  ~  “I Will Steal You Back”

7)  Napoleon XIV  ~  “They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!”

8)  Passion Pit  ~  “Carried Away”

9)  Lily & Madeleine  ~  “Spirited Away”

10)  The Plot In You  ~  “Take Me Away”

11)  Dan Fogelberg & Fool’s Gold  ~  “Captured Angel”

12)  Kelly Rowland  ~  “Stole”

13)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  “Take Me Away”

14)  Dash Berlin ft. Alexander Popov & Jonathan Mendelsohn  ~  “Steal You Away”

15)  Cults  ~  “Abducted”

16)  Wild Belle  ~  “Take Me Away”

17)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  “Pocketful Of Sunshine”  (The refrain “take me away” is sung repeatedly, and it’s the most memorable part of the song, so here it is.)

18)  The Nightmare Before Christmas Cast  ~  “Kidnap The Sandy Claws”

19)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “Captured”

20)  Lifehouse  ~  “Take Me Away”

21)  The Digital Age  ~  “Captured”

22)  Simple Minds  ~  “Spirited Away”

23)  Katy McAllister  ~  “Take Me Away”

24)  Akala  ~  “Carried Away”

25)  Fefe Dobson  ~  “Take Me Away”

“Brilliant” Songs

These songs are simply "brilliant"! Well...maybe they are, maybe they aren't. But they all DO have the word "Brillant" in their titles. So, there's that. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Simple Minds  ~  “Book Of Brilliant Things”

2)  Elvis Costello & The Imposters  ~  “Brilliant Mistake”

3)  Colin Hay  ~  “My Brilliant Feat”

4)  Slow Club  ~  “Our Most Brilliant Friends”

5)  Fury In The Slaughterhouse  ~  “Brilliant Thieves”

6)  Bruce Springsteen  ~  “Brilliant Disguise”

7)  Hydria  ~  “Brilliant People”

8)  Deepspace 5  ~  “Brilliant”

9)  David Usher  ~  “Brilliant”

10)  Charlotte Sometimes  ~  “Brilliant Broke And Beautiful”

11)  IQ  ~  “Born Brilliant”

12)  Dashboard Confessional  ~  “The Brilliant Dance”

13)  Deborah Conway  ~  “Alive & Brilliant”

14)  Furniture  ~  “Brilliant Mind”

15)  Pete Townshend  ~  “Brilliant Blues”

16)  New Years Day  ~  “Brilliant Lies”

17)  Eric Johnson & Malford Milligan  ~  “Brilliant Room”

18)  T. Graham Brown  ~  “Brilliant Conversationalist”

19)  Rosi Golan  ~  “Everything Is Brilliant”

20)  The Rentals  ~  “Brilliant Boy”

21)  Aaron Shust  ~  “God Of Brilliant Lights”

22)  Toyah ft. Cris Bonacci  ~  “Brilliant Day”

23)  David Sylvian  ~  “Brilliant Trees”

24)  All Star United  ~  “We Could Be Brilliant”

25)  Elvis Costello & The Attractions  ~  “London’s Brilliant Parade”

“Real” & “Fake” Songs, Vol. 1

Since there seems to be a lot of blurring the lines between what's "Real" and what's "Fake" these days (even our President has problems with this!), there's this collection of songs. Because this phenomenon is so rampant in today's world, there will be two more volumes of these. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Who  ~  “The Real Me”

2)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Fake You Out”

3)  Unspoken  ~  “Real Thing”

4)  Joan Jett and the Blackhearts  ~  “Fake Friends”

5)  Alan Parsons Project  ~  “In The Real World”

6)  The National  ~  “Fake Empire”

7)  Megadeth  ~  “The Threat Is Real”

8)  Olivia Noelle  ~  “Faking It”

9)  Kenny Loggins  ~  “The Real Thing”  (There’s a fair bit of talking at the beginning of this clip. The song starts at the 3:07 mark. You’re welcome.)

10)  Lecrae ft. Thi’sl  ~  “Fakin”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “The Real Thing”

12)  Radiohead  ~  “Fake Plastic Trees”

13)  Billy Dean  ~  “Real Man”

14)  Shawn Mendes  ~  “Fake Love”

15)  Jody Watley  ~  “Real Love”

16)  Korn  ~  “Fake”

17)  Faith No More ~  “The Real Thing”

18)  The Frames  ~  “Fake”

19)  Vanessa Williams  ~  “The Real Thing”

20)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Fake Tales Of San Francisco”

21)  Motion City Soundtrack  ~  “This Is For Real”

22)  Findlay  ~  “Fake Black Heart”

23)  U2  ~  “Even Better Than The Real Thing”

24)  Andrew Bird  ~  “The Fake Headlines”

25)  Simple Minds  ~  “Real Life”

Songs About Dolphins

This is just what it looks like. A post featuring Songs About...Dolphins, of all things. Why? Because...I couldn't think of a good enough reason NOT to, that's why! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Prince  ~  “Dolphin”

2)  Delta Sleep  ~  “Spy Dolphin”

3)  Enigma  ~  “The Dream Of The Dolphin”

4)  Connan Mockasin  ~  “Forever Dolphin Love”

5)  John Coltrane  ~  “One Green Dolphin Street”

6)  Shed Seven  ~  “Dolphin”

7)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  “The Promise (The Dolphin Song)”

8)  The End Of Melancholy  ~  “Dolphins”

9)  Herbie Hancock  ~  “Dolphin Dance”  (I was 13 minutes into this song before I realized it still hadn’t ended. Turns out, it’s a 41-minute piece. Hang with it if you wish – I’m sure it’s phenomenal – but I was done at 13 minutes.)

10)  Ian Brown  ~  “Dolphins Were Monkeys”

11)  Live  ~  “Dolphin’s Cry”

12)  The Donkeys  ~  “Dolphin Center”

13)  Crosby, Stills, & Nash  ~  “After The Dolphin”

14)  Makana  ~  “Blue Dolphin Song”

15)  Simple Minds ft. Catherine AD  ~  “Rivers Of Ice / Dolphins”

16)  Melancholy  ~  “Dolphins Hysteria”

17)  Tori Amos  ~  “The Dolphin Song”

18)  Jackson Boone  ~  “Dolphin Turned Into A Cat”

19)  The Byrds  ~  “Dolphin’s Smile”

20)  Pele  ~  “Safe Dolphin”

21)  Poe  ~  “Dolphin”

22)  Firefall  ~  “Dolphin’s Lullaby”

23)  Tim Buckley  ~  “Dolphins”

24)  The Moffs  ~  “The Dolphin And I”

25)  Lee Ritenour & Dave Grusin  ~  “Dolphin Dreams”

BONUS TRACK:  Regina Spektor  ~  “Folding Chair”  (No, the word “Dolphin” doesn’t appear anywhere in the title of this song. But one of the verses directly refers to them, then Regina barks like a dolphin in time with the music. So…it simply HAD TO be here!)