"Obscure" Songs

You can't get any more "Obscure" than these songs...seeing as the word – in one form or another – appears in the title of each tune in this collection. Don't ask why – just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Obscured”

2)  Solitude Aeturnus  ~  “Haunting The Obscure”

3)  Matt Berry  ~  “Obsessed And So Obscure”

4)  Lioness  ~  “Tastefully Obscure”

5)  Igor Prochazka Trio  ~  “Obscure Blues”

6)  Pariah  ~  “Blaze Of Obscurity”

7)  Markize  ~  “In The Obscure / Believe”

8)  Flowers For Bodysnatchers  ~  “The Obscure You Deserve"

9)  Trashcan Sinatras  ~  “Obscurity Knocks”

10)  Myon  ~  “Illusion Of Obscurity”

11)  The Black Orchids  ~  “Obscure Vision”

12)  Ash  ~  “Obscure Thing”

13)  Pink Floyd  ~  “Obscured By Clouds”

14)  Love Mason  ~  “Words Obscure The Truth”

15)  Andrin Haag  ~  “Obscurity”

16)  The Dirty Projectors  ~  “Obscure Wisdom”

17)  Annika Strand  ~  “Obscure"

18)  Cruel Season  ~  “Obscured”

A Song For Every Word In The Preamble To The Constitution

This is exactly what it sounds like it is. Yay, democracy!  ~  JH

Click on each underlined portion of the Preamble to hear a song with that word (or phrase) in its title. The full playlist of songs is included below.

We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.


PLAYLIST:
A Tribe Called Quest  ~  "We The People"
Bastille  ~  "Of The Night"
Arrested Development  ~  "United Front"
Animal Liberation Orchestra  ~  "States Of Friction"
Paramore  ~  "In The Mourning / Landslide"
Curtis Mayfield  ~  "New World Order"
Mr. Big  ~  "To Be With You"
Everything Everything  ~  "Final Form"
Titus Andronicus  ~  "A More Perfect Union"
Modico  ~  "Ah, Establish"
Flyleaf  ~  "Justice & Mercy"
Nuell  ~  "Insure"
John Conlee  ~  "Domestic Life"
Galactic Cowboys  ~  "Sea Of Tranquility"
Ekolu  ~  "Provide For You"
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down  ~  "We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)"
Freddie Mercury  ~  "In My Defence"
Honey Wilson  ~  "Leaders Don't Promote Hate"
Dispatch  ~  "The General"
Buck Owens  & The Buckaroos  ~  "Waitin' In Your Welfare Line"
The Beatles  ~  "And I Love Her"
Indigo Girls  ~  "Secure Yourself"
Ellie Goulding  ~  "The Writer"
Laura Story  ~  "Blessings"
XTC  ~  "Statue Of Liberty"
Anberlin  ~  "We Owe This To Ourselves"
Babyface  ~  "And Our Feelings"
Soft Bullets  ~  "Posterity"
Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  "Do Everything"
Pontifex  ~  "Ordained"
Kate Bush  ~  "And Dream Of Sheep"
Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, & Frank Sinatra  ~  "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"
Darius Rucker  ~  "This"
The Stationary Set  ~  "Constitution Of Love"
Ray Price  ~  "For The Good Times"
Judas Priest  ~  "United"
Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "United States"
Will Hoge  ~  "Middle Of America"

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 2

Still taking you back twenty years to the Popular Songs Of 1997. Ready, set, time travel!  ~  JH

1)  Ben Folds Five  ~  “Brick”

2)  Will Smith  ~  “Men In Black”

3)  Shania Twain  ~  “Love Gets Me Every Time”

4)  Beck  ~  “Devil’s Haircut”

5)  Green Day  ~  “Good Riddance (The Time Of Your Life)”

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “3AM”

7)  Jaci Velasquez  ~  “On My Knees”

8)  Savage Garden  ~  “To The Moon & Back”

9)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Never Is A Promise”

10)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “Semi-Charmed Life”

11)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Honey”

12)  Seal  ~  “Fly Like An Eagle”

13)  Madonna  ~  “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina”  (Try to ignore the fact that the visuals here are from an entirely different Eva Perón biopic.)

14)  Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams  ~  “I Finally Found Someone”

15)  The Prodigy  ~  “Breathe”

16)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “The End Is The Beginning Is The End”

17)  K’s Choice  ~  “Not An Addict”

18)  Allure ft. 112  ~  “All Cried Out”

19)  George Strait  ~  “Carrying Your Love With Me”

20)  Shawn Colvin  ~  “Sunny Came Home”

21)  The Wallflowers  ~  “The Difference”

22)  Aqua  ~  “Barbie Girl”

23)  Oasis  ~  “D’You Know What I Mean?”

24)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “I Do”

25)  Space  ~  “Female Of The Species”

Songs About Nerds, Geeks, Dorks, & Freaks

If I told you these songs were autobiographical, it wouldn’t be too far from the truth. The only untruth there is that I didn’t write them. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “White & Nerdy”

2)  Rocket Me Nowhere  ~  “If A Nerd And A Cupcake Had A Baby”

3)  KJ-52 ft. Pigeon John  ~  “Revenge Of The Nerds”  (With hidden bonus track: “Mullet Pride.” You’re welcome. And I’m sorry.)

4)  Busted  ~  “Nerdy”

5)  Jimmy Wong & Meghan Camarena  ~  “Nerdy Love Song”

6)  The Rubinoos  ~  “Revenge Of The Nerds”

7)  Green Day  ~  “Geek Stink Breath”

8)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Geek U.S.A.”

9)  Sugarplum Fairies  ~  “Geek”

10)  I Fight Dragons  ~  “The Geeks Will Inherit The Earth”

11)  Jason Mraz  ~  “Geek In The Pink”

12)  Bettie Serveert  ~  “Geek”

13)  The National  ~  “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks”

14)  Nerina Pallot  ~  “Geek Love”

15)  Procol Harum  ~  “Long Gone Geek”

16)  The Faint  ~  “The Geeks Were Right”

17)  PepperJill & Jack  ~  “Dork For You”

18)  Macey Erin  ~  “Dork Love”

19)  Reel Big Fish  ~  “Scott’s A Dork”

20)  Whodini  ~  “Freaks Come Out At Night”

21)  The Hawk In Paris  ~  “Freaks”

22)  Seals & Crofts  ~  “Freaks Fret”

23)  Elton John  ~  “Freaks In Love”

24)  Smile Empty Soul  ~  “The Freaks Are Coming”

25)  Kansas  ~  “Freaks Of Nature”

Songs About Balls & Strikes, Vol. 2

Here's the second and final installment of Songs About Balls & Strikes. Play ball...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Aerosmith  ~  “Lightning Strikes”

2)  The White Stripes  ~  “Ball And Biscuit”

3)  Elvis Costello  ~  “Clown Strike”

4)  Big Brother and the Holding Company  ~  “Ball And Chain”

5)  Warren Zevon  ~  “Johnny Strikes Up The Band”

6)  Queen  ~  “Dreamer’s Ball”

7)  John Barrowman  ~  “Strike Up The Band”

8)  Anthony Hamilton  ~  “Ball And Chain”

9)  Primal Fear  ~  “Strike”

10)  Lifehouse  ~  “Wrecking Ball”

11)  Rosanne Cash ft. Eliza Gilkyson  ~  “Rosie Strike Back”

12)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  “Welcome To The Ball”

13)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Lightning Strikes”

14)  Keane  ~  “Crystal Ball”

15)  We As Human  ~  “Strike Back”

16)  Dave Matthews  ~  “Beach Ball”

17)  Chic  ~  “Strike Up The Band”

18)  Styx  ~  “Crystal Ball”

19)  A Silent Film  ~  “Lightning Strike”

20)  Shooter Jennings  ~  “Belle Of The Ball”

21)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Fatal Strike”

22)  Rick James  ~  “Jefferson Ball”

23)  Todd Rundgren  ~  “Strike”

24)  XTC  ~  “Ball And Chain”

25)  Black Box  ~  “Strike It Up”