Okay, here's one last set of Songs About "Things." If you think I missed your favorite song with "Things" in its title, hear this one out. Because it might very well be in here. If not, then let me know what gem I may have missed. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Nelly Furtado ~ “All Good Things (Come To An End)”
2) The Killers ~ “All These Things That I’ve Done”
3) Stockard Channing ~ “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”
4) One Direction ~ “Little Things”
5) Lea Michele ~ “My Favorite Things” (OK, so it’s a commercial. But she does perform the song in its entirety, and sings it beautifully.)
6) Howard Jones ~ “Things Can Only Get Better”
7) JJ Heller ~ “True Things”
8) Bob Dylan ~ “Things Have Changed”
9) Wild Child ~ “Silly Things”
10) The Temptations ~ “The Way You Do The Things You Do”
11) Pacha Massive ~ “All Good Things”
12) Passenger ~ “Things You’ve Never Done”
13) Annie Lennox ~ “A Thousand Beautiful Things”
14) Steve Winwood ~ “The Finer Things”
15) Julia Stone ~ “Let’s Forget All The Things That We Say”
16) Bob Marley & The Wailers ~ “So Much Things To Say”
17) Against The Current ~ “Running With The Wild Things” (A fantastic song by a dynamic new band!)
Last but not least, this collection of "Do" or "Die" songs. You know you're curious to see which ones I left out in the first three editions. So go ahead...click and enjoy! ~ JH
Alright, let's finish this thing! One last batch of tunes, for old time's sake...literally. Without further ado, here's the final score of Popular Songs of 1986. Ready...set...enjoy! ~ JH
1) Phil Collins ~ “Take Me Home”
2) Anita Baker ~ “Sweet Love”
3) The Moody Blues ~ “Your Wildest Dreams”
4) Run-DMC & Aerosmith ~ “Walk This Way”
5) Elton John ~ “Nikita”
6) Heart ~ “Never”
7) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark ~ “If You Leave”
8) Lionel Richie ~ “Love Will Conquer All”
9) Toto ~ “I’ll Be Over You”
10) Pet Shop Boys ~ “West End Girls”
11) The Forester Sisters ~ “Just In Case”
12) Steve Winwood ~ “Higher Love”
13) Mike & The Mechanics ~ “Silent Running”
14) Madonna ~ “True Blue”
15) Billy Ocean ~ “When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going”
I know I'm precariously balancing two different miniseries right now (this "Single," "Double," "Triple one and the "It's About Time!" series), but what can I say? My attention is divided most of the time anyway. Here's a bunch of songs with the word "Double" in their titles. You probably even know a few of these. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Frankie Smith ~ "Double Dutch Bus"
2) Sammy Kershaw ~ "Queen Of My Double Wide Trailer"
3) Emika ~ "Double Edge"
4) The Cars ~ "Double Life"
5) Foreigner ~ "Double Vision"
6) Casey Donahew Band ~ "Double Wide Dream"
7) Sirah ~ "Double Yellow Lines"
8) Valient Thorr ~ "Double Crossed"
9) We Fell To Earth ~ "The Double"
10) Malcolm McLaren ~ "Double Dutch"
11) Rough Cutt ~ "Double Trouble"
12) Imogen Heap ~ "Bad Body Double"
13) Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood ~ "Double Trouble"
14) Minus The Bear ~ "Double Vision Quest"
15) The Cockroaches ~ "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)"
16) Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ "Double Trouble"
17) Conor Oberst ~ "Double Life"
18) Elvis Presley ~ "Double Trouble"
19) Rush ~ "Double Agent"
20) Richard O'Brien ~ "Science Fiction/Double Feature"
This post is a postscript to this week's related-but-not-really-related series of posts featuring Songs About Crying, Flying, Lying, Trying, and Dying. I never planned to do one on Songs About Spying, but I sort of randomly looked it up to see if there were any songs that would qualify, and as it turns out there were. I had to dig a little deeper to find the same number of songs for this one that I'd done for the others, but I was ultimately successful in doing so. Oh yeah, and for those of you who like commentary, you'll probably like this one. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Super Junior ~ "Spy" (I have no idea what they're singing about, aside from the fact that they spell out "S-P-Y" a few times – but the song's got a nice beat and you can dance to it, so whatevs.)
2) Erica Baxter ~ "I Spy" (I've never heard of her, but apparently this lady's song was co-written by Natasha Bedingfield, whom I like a lot.)
3) "Weird Al" Yankovic ~ "Spy Hard" (Ya gotta love "Weird Al." Even if you try not to. Ya just gotta.)
4) Was (Not Was) ~ "Spy In The House Of Love" (Über-stylish hairdos and headwear abound in this video. No, not really.)
5) Paul McCartney ~ "Spies Like Us" (I never saw the '80s movie of which this is theme song. Was it any good?)
6) Mikhael Paskalev ~ "I Spy" (This guy takes the whole Risky Business underwear dance to a whole 'nother level. Not that that's a good thing. The song's good, though.)
7) Never Land Pirate Band ~ "Spy Glass" (I must be losing my mind for including this song! Not that it's horrible or anything. I've just seen way too many episodes of this show to be viewing videos of songs from it in my spare time.)
8) Project 86 ~ "Spy Hunter" (I don't blame them for knocking that guy out with the guitar. The cannon might've been a bit much, though.)
9) Let's Go Bowling ~ "Spy Market" (Video quality is poor, but the song is pretty good. So I guess it evens out.)
10) Bauhaus ~ "Spy In The Cab" (Raise your hand if you thought the singer was a sketchy-looking girl until he started singing horribly.)
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11) Steve Winwood ~ "Spy In The House Of Love" (Winwood's music seems to sound the same yet still fresh over the years. This one was a minor success some ten years after his most well-known hits, but sounds like it could've come from the same albums as those.)
12) The Doors ~ "The Spy" (No video here – just good music. So don't complain!)
13) Animal Logic ~ "There's A Spy (In The House Of Love)" (I'm not at all familiar with this band or this song, but it appears to be somewhat of a "lost gem.")
14) Coldplay ~ "Spies" (Okay, so maybe they're a pretty good band after all.)
15) Feral Children ~ "Spy/Glass House" (The good: This guy can play drums and sing simultaneously. The bad: He's not that great of a singer. The ugly: Archery with ballpoint pen ink reservoirs.)
16) The Moffatts ~ "Spy" (Sound quality isn't the best – neither is the video quality for that matter – but these guys can hold their own among most middle-of-the-road live bands. Which is saying…something.)
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17) INXS ~ "Spy Of Love" (He dances weirdly – all girlish-like. And his shirt is too shirt. But that's probably the point.)
18) Guster ~ "I Spy" (Never heard of these guys before, either. While some of the song's lyrics leave much to be desired, the band's incredible talent does not.)
19) Riccardo Gioggi ~ "The Spy Song" (WOW! That is all I have to say.)
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20) Painted Air ~ "Spies" (Finally…we've reached the end of this post. I should probably say something about the song, huh? It's kind of…well, it's…it's 4 minutes long, that's what it is.)
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