Songs About Chocolate

Because, why not? I mean, it's CHOCOLATE! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Snow Patrol  ~  "Chocolate"

2)  The 1975  ~  "Chocolate"

3)  Kylie Minogue  ~  "Chocolate"

4)  Babymetal  ~  "Gimme Chocolate!"

5)  Tay Zonday  ~  "Chocolate Rain"

6)  Crowded House  ~  "Chocolate Cake"

7)  India.Arie ft. Musiq Soulchild  ~  "Chocolate High"

8)  Soul Control  ~  "Chocolate"

9)  Venetian Princess  ~  "Chocolate Is A Girl's Best Friend"

10)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk"

11)  Girls' Generation  ~  "Chocolate Love"

12)  Shanks & Bigfoot  ~  "Sweet Like Chocolate"

13)  Deacon Blue  ~  "Chocolate Girl"

14)  Solomie Mahray  ~  "Chocolate"

15)  Sia  ~  "Death By Chocolate"

16)  "Jesse & Joy"  ~  "Chocolate"

17)  Parliament  ~  "Chocolate City"

18)  Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra ft. Ivie Anderson  ~  "Chocolate Shake"

19)  Doris Day  ~  "A Chocolate Sundae On A Saturday Night"

20)  Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers  ~  "The Chocolate Song"

21)  Nickel Creek  ~  "Scotch And Chocolate"

22)  Diane Weigmann & Bela B.  ~  "Chocolate For The Tears"

Songs About "Us"

This may or may not be the first part of yet another "Opposites" music post – knowing me, I probably will follow it up with a collection of songs about "Them." For now, though, enjoy what I think is a really good set of songs, by both well-known and lesser-known artists.  ~  JH

1)  Snow Patrol  ~  "The Planets Bend Between Us"

2)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  "Today The Sun's On Us"

3)  Joe Jackson  ~  "Breaking Us In Two"

4)  Paloma Faith  ~  "Never Tear Us Apart"

5)  Passenger  ~  "What Will Become Of Us"

6)  Fallulah  ~  "Give Us A Little Love"

7)  Macklemore & Ryan Lewis  ~  "Can't Hold Us"  (I posted the official music video of this song a mere 3 months ago [on my original blog]. But I decided to include it here because it was interesting to see such a multi-layered song performed live – usually rap songs don't sound nearly as good in person as they do when they were recorded.)

8)  Sade  ~  "Nothing Can Come Between Us"

9)  B.o.B. ft. Taylor Swift  ~  "Both Of Us"  (Interesting collaboration between two über-talented, yet very different artists.)

10)  Christina Milian  ~  "Us Against The World"

11)  Daft Punk  ~  "Something About Us"

12)  t.A.T.u.  ~  "All About Us"

13)  Will Smith  ~  "Just The Two Of Us"

14)  Within Temptation ft. Tarja  ~  "Paradise (What About Us?)"  (Two powerhouse symphonic metal female vocalists in one song? Blisteringly intense!)

15)  Angel  ~  "Us"

16)  Regina Spektor  ~  "Us"

17)  Alabama  ~  "Angels Among Us"

18)  He Is We ft. Owl City  ~  "All About Us"

19)  STRFKR ~   "Bury Us Alive"

20)  Taylor Swift  ~  "The Story Of Us"  (Yeah, another song by Taylor Swift in the same post. What's your point? I like her, so what?)

21)  Joy Division  ~  "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

22)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  "People Like Us"

23)  Elvis Costello & The Roots  ~  "Walk Us Uptown"

24)  Joan Osborne  ~  "One Of Us"  (I have some issues with this song lyrically, but it's a surefire classic from the mid-'90s that belongs in this collection.)

25)  Keith Urban ft. Miranda Lambert  ~  "We Were Us"

Songs By Irish Artists

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  ~  JH

1)  U2  ~  "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"

2)  Sinéad O'Connor & The Chieftains  ~  "The Foggy Dew"

3)  Two Door Cinema Club  ~  "Changing Of The Seasons"

4)  The Cranberries  ~  "Linger"

5)  Hothouse Flowers  ~  "Your Love Goes On"

6)  Samantha Mumba  ~  "Gotta Tell You"

7)  Snow Patrol  ~  "In The End"

8)  Enya  ~  "Anywhere Is"

9)  JEDWARD  ~  "Young Love"

10)  Lisa Hannigan  ~  "I Don't Know"  (Every now and then, I will end up buying someone's music after "discovering" them while doing a music blog post. This might be one of those cases. She's that good!)

11)  The Script  ~  "The Man Who Can't Be Moved"

12)  Carly Hennessy (Smithson)  ~  "I'm Gonna Blow Your Mind"

13)  Therapy?  ~  "Nowhere"

14)  Imelda May  ~  "Psycho"

15)  The Pogues  ~  "If I Should Fall From Grace With God"  (Wow, that dude's got some hideous teeth! I thought mine were bad!)*

16)  Clannad  ~  "I Will Find You"  (This one goes out to my wife, Mary, who loves both Clannad and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, the movie from which song originates)

17)  Van Morrison  ~  "Brown Eyed Girl"  (Most "live" versions of this classic song on YouTube are not so good – so here's the original studio version.)

18)  My Bloody Valentine  ~  "Only Shallow"

19)  Thin Lizzy  ~  "The Boys Are Back In Town"

20)  The Corrs  ~  "Breathless"

21)  Damien Rice  ~  "The Blower's Daughter"

22)  Gilbert O'Sullivan  ~  "Alone Again (Naturally)"

23)  Mundy  ~  "Kathy's Song"

24)  Aslan  ~  "Crazy World"

25)  The Boomtown Rats  ~  "I Don't Like Mondays"  (Me neither, Boomtown Rats!)

* Apparently, he got his teeth fixed. See here.