“Joke” Songs

You can take these songs seriously if you want to, but each one of them is truly a joke. Well, the word "Joke" (or one of its derivatives) appears in the title of each, so you can take that for whatever it's worth. Try not to laugh. (It's easy.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lifehouse  ~  “The Joke”

2)  Neon Indian  ~  “Local Joke”

3)  R.E.M.  ~  “The Worst Joke Ever”

4)  Bee Gees  ~  “I Started A Joke”

5)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  “Share A Little Joke (With The World)”

6)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Get The Joke”

7)  Public Enemy  ~  “911 Is A Joke”

8)  Wilco  ~  “The Joke Explained”

9)  The Hold Steady  ~  “Joke About Jamaica”

10)   Snow  ~  “Joke Thing”

11)  The Smiths  ~  “That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore”

12)  Sharon Van Etten  ~  “A Joke Or A Lie”

13)  Eric B. & Rakim  ~  “I Ain’t No Joke”

14)  Biffy Clyro  ~  “The Joke’s On Us”

15)  Seven Mary Three  ~  “Devil’s Holy Joke”

16)  Rod Stewart  ~  “I Was Only Joking”

17)  Indigo Girls  ~  “Joking”

18)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “The Joker”

19)  AWOLNATION  ~  “Some Kind Of Joke”

20)  Manic Street Preachers  ~  “This Joke Sport Severed”

21)  Damien Jurado  ~  “The Joke Is Over”

22)  Trashcan Sinatras  ~  “January’s Little Joke”

23)  Fatima  ~  “Biggest Joke Of All”

24)  Cat Stevens  ~  “The Joke”

25)  Wishbone Ash  ~  “No Joke”

“Hit” & “Run” Songs, Vol. 1

As some of you may already know, I love baseball. Love watching it on TV, and  enjoy catching a couple of games or so live each year. In light of that fact, here begins a four-part series (groan!) featuring songs with baseball-related words in their titles. First up, two posts of "Hit" & "Run" Songs. After that, two "Catch" & "Throw" Songs posts. Batter up...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ray Charles  ~  “Hit The Road, Jack”

2)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Before They Make Me Run”

3)  Hole  ~  “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)”

4)  Sheryl Crow ft. Eric Clapton  ~  “Run, Baby, Run”

5)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Takin’ The Hit”

6)  Hoobastank  ~  “Running Away”

7)  Marmozets  ~  “Hit The Wave”

8)  Carly Simon  ~  “Let The River Run”

9)  George Strait  ~  “Her Goodbye Hit Me In The Heart”

10)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Take The Money And Run / Rock’n Me”

11)  Scorpions  ~  “Hit Between The Eyes”

12)  for KING & COUNTRY ft. Andy Mineo  ~  “Run Wild”

13)  Haley Reinhart  ~  “Hit The Ground Runnin’”

14)  The Allman Brothers Band  ~  “No One To Run With”

15)  Scott Stapp  ~  “Hit Me More”

16)  Epica  ~  “Run For A Fall”

17)  Def Leppard  ~  “Hit And Run”

18)  Bee Gees  ~  “Run To Me”

19)  The Sounds  ~  “Hit Me”

20)  Collective Soul  ~  “Run”

Songs About The Jungle

Stylistically speaking, I went way diverse with this dynamic selection of songs. Each of them has the word "Jungle" somewhere in its title, but no two songs are even remotely alike. Well, except for the Bonus Track...but even that's only "remotely" similar. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bob Marley  ~  “Concrete Jungle”

2)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Jungle Love”

3)  John Fogerty  ~  “Run Through The Jungle”

4)  Kool & The Gang  ~  “Jungle Boogie”

5)  Herbie Mann, Dave Valentin, Paquito d’Rivera, Ray Mantilla, & Tito Puente  ~  “Jungle Fantasy”

6)  New York Dolls  ~  “Stranded In The Jungle”

7)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  “It’s A Jungle Out There”

8)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Welcome To The Jungle”

9)  Mike Oldfield  ~  “Jungle Gardenia”

10)  Santana  ~  “Jungle Strut”

11)  Warren Zevon  ~  “Jungle Work”

12)   Emma Louise  ~  “Jungle”

13)  NONONO  ~  “Jungle”

14)  X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons  ~  “Jungle”

15)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  “Jungle Drum”

16)  The Presidents Of The United States Of America  ~  “George Of The Jungle”

17)  The Tragically Hip  ~  “Greasy Jungle”

18)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Jungletime”

19)  Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears  ~  “Livin’ In The Jungle”

20)  Panama  ~  “Jungle”

BONUS TRACK:  2Cellos  ~  “Welcome To The Jungle”  (This dynamic instrumental rendition of the G N’ R song above was far too fantastic not to include here.)

Popular Songs Of 1976, Vol. 3

Last but certainly not least...the final installment of the most Popular Songs of 1976. Plenty of familiar tunes here, as well as a few forgotten gems. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  KC and the Sunshine Band  ~  “That’s The Way (I Like It)”

2)  Wings  ~  “Let ‘Em In”

3)  George Benson  ~  “This Masquerade”

4)  Merle Haggard  ~  “The Roots Of My Raising”

5)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Rhiannon”

6)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Evil Woman”

7)  Keith Carradine  ~  “I’m Easy”

8)  Don Williams  ~  “Till The Rivers All Run Dry”

9)  Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ft. Teddy Pendergrass  ~  “Wake Up, Everybody”  (What a great song...unfortunately, its message is still very apropos today.)

10)  Crystal Gayle  ~  “I’ll Get Over You”

11)  John Travolta  ~  “Let Her In”  (This video is more interesting for the post-song interview than it is for the tune itself. Travolta excitedly tells Dick Clark about getting a role in his first "serious" movie, Carrie, which incidentally was the first film made from a Stephen King novel. He also mentions having acted in the stage version of Grease. Two years later, he would star in the film version of Grease, which became a smash hit.)

12)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “She’s Gone”

13)  Queen  ~  “You’re My Best Friend”

14)  Johnny Cash  ~  “One Piece At A Time”

15)  Rufus  ~  “Sweet Thing”  (Yes, that IS a young Chaka Khan.)

16)  Orleans  ~  “Still The One”

17)  Foghat  ~  “Slow Ride”

18)  Marty Robbins  ~  “El Paso City”  (What is it with Marty Robbins and hideously ugly shirts? Blame it on the '70s? Or is it simply Marty's bad sense of style?)

19)  Thin Lizzy  ~  “The Boys Are Back In Town”

20)  Candi Staton  ~  “Young Hearts Run Free”

21)  Peter Frampton  ~  “Baby, I Love Your Way”

22)  David Ruffin  ~  “Walk Away From Love”

23)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Take The Money And Run / Rock’n Me”  (This is a classic "HOGO" video. Hear One, Get One Free! Both songs were big hits in '76.)

24)  England Dan & John Ford Coley  ~  “I’d Really Love To See You Tonight”  (I'd totally forgotten about this wonderfully catchy song!)

25)  George Jones & Tammy Wynette  ~  “Golden Ring”

"Evil" Songs

Here's the 2nd half of my latest series of "Opposites" music posts. While these songs are not "evil" in and of themselves, they do bear the word somewhere in their titles. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Santana  ~  "Evil Ways"

2)  Ancient Bards  ~  "The Birth Of Evil"

3)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Evil Woman"

4)  Alien Ant Farm  ~  "She's Only Evil"

5)  Nikki Yanofsky  ~  "Necessary Evil"

6)  Iron Maiden  ~  "The Evil That Men Do"

7)  Amorphis  ~  "Evil Inside"

8)  Kobra And The Lotus  ~  "50 Shades Of Evil"

9)  Josh Ritter  ~  "Evil Eye"

10)  Galactic Cowboys  ~  "Evil Twin"

11)  Rose Noire  ~  "Dual Evil"

12)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  "Blue And Evil"

13)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "Evil"

14)  1997  ~  "Garden Of Evil"

15)  The Steve Miller Band  ~  "Evil"

16)  Aretha Franklin  ~  "Evil Gal Blues"

17)  Emerson, Lake, & Palmer  ~  "Karn Evil 9"  (If you like extended drum solos, you're gonna love this one!)

18)  Ladytron  ~  "Evil"

19)  Dream Theater  ~  "The Root Of All Evil"

20)  Eartha Kitt  ~  "I Want To Be Evil"