More "Cool" Songs

I know y'all haven't gotten tired of these "Cool" Songs yet, cuz I just polled all of you in advance of posting this and it was unanimous. It's okay if you don't remember. Just...enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Rudy Mancuso  ~  "I Think I'm Cool"  (This one is hilarious!)

2)  The Downtown Fiction  ~  "Cool Kids"

3)  Roy Tosh  ~  "I Don't Wanna Be Cool"

4)  Alex G  ~  "Cool Like You"

5)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  "Miles Davis & The Cool"

6)  Ini Kamoze  ~  "Cool It Off"

7)  Her's  ~  "Cool With You"

8)  Chrisette Michele ft. Dunson & Bilal  ~  "Can The Cool Be Loved?"

9)  Kolohe Kai  ~  "Cool Down"

10)  Margaret  ~  "Cool Me Down"

11)  Nikki Yanofsky  ~  "Cool My Heels"

12)  Mavis Staples  ~  "Melody Cool"

13)  Band Of Skulls  ~  "Cool Your Battles"

14)  James Reid  ~  "Cool Down"

15)  Ookay  ~  "Cool"

16)  Arise Roots ft. Hirie  ~  "Cool Me Down"

17)  The Time  ~  "Cool"

18)  Eclectic Approach  ~  "Cool"

19)  Dysplay  ~  "Too Cool"

20)  Kirby  ~  "So Cool"

21)  Rachel Reinert  ~  "Cool"

22)  Liam Geddes  ~  "So Cool"

23)  Blue County  ~  "That's Cool"

24)  Mal Blum  ~  "Cool Party"

25)  Noire  ~  "Real Cool"

Songs About “Great Expectations”

A couple of weeks ago I started a series of posts featuring songs with the names of famous novels or characters or well-known phrases from literature. The first post featured Songs About "Lolita," then I promptly neglected to do any further literature-themed posts. Well, now is as good a time as any to resume the series. So...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  KISS  ~  “Great Expectations”

2)  Judy Collins  ~  “Great Expectations”

3)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Great Expectations”

4)  Cat Power  ~  “Great Expectations”

5)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  “Great Expectations”

6)  Elbow  ~  “Great Expectations”

7)  Jay Aston  ~  “Great Expectations”

8)  Toto  ~  “Great Expectations”

9)  Wonder  ~  “Great Expectations”

10)  Miles Davis  ~  “Great Expectations”  (Sit back and get comfortable if you hit “play” on this one. The song – suite? – is a whopping 27 minutes long!)

11)  The Strypes  ~  “Great Expectations”

12)  The Modern Electric  ~  “Great Expectations”

13)  Talia Stewart  ~  “Great Expectations”

14)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Great Expectations”

15)  Wild Combination  ~  “Great Expectations”

16)  Birdt  ~  “Great Expectations”

17)  Considering Lily  ~  “Great Expectations”

18)  My Sad Captains  ~  “Great Expectations”

19)  Number Exchange  ~  “Great Expectations”

20)  Greg Friel  ~  “Great Expectations”

More “Angry” Songs

Didn't get your fill of "Angry" Songs last time around? Well, you're in luck! Here's a second and final installment of "Angry" tunes. You're welcome? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Billy Joel  ~  “Prelude / Angry Young Man”

2)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Angry Johnny & The Radio / Blood Bank”

3)  Mother Mother  ~  “Angry Sea”

4)  Neil Young  ~  “Angry World”

5)  Barenaked Ladies  ~  “Angry People”

6)  Blues Traveler  ~  “Pretty Angry”

7)  The Everly Brothers  ~  “I’m Not Angry”

8)  Apocalyptica  ~  “Angry Birds Theme”

9)  Stonewall Jackson  ~  “Don’t Be Angry”

10)  Generationals  ~  “Angry Charlie”

11)  Anthony Hamilton  ~  “Love Is An Angry Thing”

12)  Noisettes  ~  “Angry Angels”

13)  Steve Earle  ~  “Angry Young Man”

14)  Joanie Sommers  ~  “Johnny Get Angry”

15)  Vixen  ~  “Angry”

16)  Don McLean  ~  “Angry Words”

17)  Radney Foster  ~  “Angry Heart”

18)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Angry Chair” 

19)  Styx  ~  “Fooling Yourself (Angry Young Man)”

20)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “Angry White Boy Polka”

“Upper” & “Lower” Songs

Here's a pretty decent collection of songs with either the word "Upper" or "Lower" in their titles. Yes, another "Opposites" post. Because that's what I do. Among other things. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  AC/DC  ~  “Stiff Upper Lip”

2)  Moving Mountains  ~  “Cover The Roots, Lower The Stems”

3)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “Upper Hand”

4)  Leon Somov & Jazzu  ~  “Lower Than The Ground”

5)  David Byrne & Les Misérables Brass Band  ~  “In The Upper Room”

6)  Danny Vera  ~  “Lower Than Low”

7)  Frozen Cast  ~  “Fixer Upper”

8)  Garda  ~  “Upper/Lower Water Course”

9)  Joie De Vivre  ~  “Upper Deck San Diego”

10)  Sunshine Factory  ~  “Lower Away”

11)  Larry Carlton  ~  “Upper Kern”

12)  Slash’s Snakepit  ~  “Lower”

13)  The Gatlin Brothers  ~  “In The Upper Room”

14)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “The Queen Of Lower Chelsea”

15)  Slydigs  ~  “Stiff Upper Lip”

16)  R.E.M.  ~  “Wolves, Lower”

17)  Siravo  ~  “The Upper Hand”

18)  BR549  ~  “Lower Broad Street Blues”

19)  Jake Shane  ~  “The Upper Sun”

20)  Tennessee Ernie Ford  ~  “Let The Lower Lights Be Burning”

“Haunt”-ing Songs

Not everything has to be an "Opposites" post or a series. Case in point, this one-off collection of songs with the word "Haunt(s)," "Haunted," or "Haunting" in their titles. Why? I don't know. But you might as well enjoy them anyway!  ~  JH

1)  Stone Sour  ~  “Say You’ll Haunt Me”

2)  Evanescence  ~  “Haunted”

3)  Crash Test Dummies  ~  “The Ghosts That Haunt Me”

4)  Tanya Stephens  ~  “Back To Haunt Me”

5)  Sir Sly  ~  “You Haunt Me”

6)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Haunted”

7)  The New Regime  ~  “Haunt My Mind”

8)  Poe  ~  “Haunted”

9)  Bastille  ~  “Haunt”

10)  Kamelot ft. Simone Simons  ~  "The Haunting (Somewhere In Time)”

11)  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.  ~  “A Haunting”

12)  Sade  ~  “Haunt Me”

13)  Anberlin  ~  “Haunting”

14)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Old Haunts”

15)  Royal Bliss  ~  “It Haunts Me”

16)  Stars  ~  “I Died So I Could Haunt You”

17)  Deep Purple  ~  “Haunted”

18)  Spencer McGillicutty  ~  “You Haunt Me”

19)  Sammy Kershaw  ~  “Haunted Heart”

20)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  “Came Back Haunted”

Songs About Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives

Being a longtime fan of what I consider a nice filler show on the Food Network, I decided to make a post featuring a collection of songs with either the word, "Diner," "Drive-In," or "Dive" in their titles. Because, why not? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Suzanne Vega  ~  "Tom's Diner"

2)  Catherine Britt  ~  "Drive-In Movie"

3)  Jennifer Knapp  ~  "Dive In"

4)  Larry Raspberry & The Highsteppers  ~  "Dixie Diner"

5)  The Moxies  ~  "Main Street Drive-In"

6)  Nirvana  ~  "Dive"  (Pay no attention to the man in the dress...)

7)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  "We're Getting A Divorce, You Keep The Diner"

8)  Ellis Paul  ~  "Drive-In Movie"

9)  dc Talk  ~  "Dive"

10)  The Les Claypool Frog Brigade  ~  "D's Diner"

11)  David Bowie  ~  "Drive-In Saturday"

12)  St. Lucia  ~  "Before The Dive"

13)  Benabar  ~  "Le Diner"

14)  Dave Matthews Band  ~  "Drive In Drive Out"

15)  Waxahatchee  ~  "Swan Dive"

16)  Widespread Panic  ~  "Diner"

17)  Dead Vampires  ~  "Dead End Drive-In"

18)  Sister Hazel  ~  "Swan Dive"

19)  Martin Sexton  ~  "Diner"

20)  Jim Henry  ~  "Drive-In Movie Picture Show"

21)  Niké Jemiyo  ~  "Dive"

22)  Eddie Cochran  ~  "Drive-In Show"

23)  Hidden Hospitals  ~  "Swan Dive"

24)  Travis Tritt  ~  "Put Some Drive In Your Country"  (Admittedly, this is a stretch to qualify as a "drive in" song – but it's a really good tune, so who cares?)

25)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  "Dive"