What Love Is, According To These Songs: Vol. 1

Just in time for Valentine's Day, we begin a three-part series featuring songs about what "Love Is." A wide variety of definitions are offered within – some good, some bad, and some downright weird. But all thoroughly enjoyable!  ~  JH

1)  Pat Benatar  ~  “Love Is A Battlefield”

2)  Johnny Mathis  ~  “Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing”

3)  Chrisette Michele  ~  “Love Is You”

4)  The Darkness  ~  “Love Is Only A Feeling”

5)  Frozen Cast  ~  “Love Is An Open Door”

6)  Steven Tyler  ~  “Love Is Your Name”

7)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Love Is Like A Butterfly”

8)  Christopher Cross  ~  “Love Is Love (In Any Language)”

9)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “Love Is An Army”

10)  Muse  ~  “Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)”

11)  k.d. lang  ~  “Love Is Everything”

12)  The Hollies  ~  “Love Is The Thing”

13)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  “Love Is A Camera”

14)  Phil Vassar  ~  “Love Is A Beautiful Thing”

15)  Rod Stewart  ~  “Love Is”

16)  Girls Aloud  ~  “Love Is The Key”

17)  Styx  ~  “Love Is The Ritual”

18)  Katie Melua  ~  “Love Is A Silent Thief”

19)  DC Talk  ~  “Luv Is A Verb”

20)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “Love Is A Good Thing”

21)  Lou Rawls  ~  “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing”

22)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Love Is A Rose”

23)  Aloe Blacc  ~  “Love Is The Answer”

24)  Mickey & Sylvia  ~  “Love Is Strange”

25)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Love Is A Laserquest”  (Wait…WHAT?)

“Have” & “Hold” Songs, Vol. 4

Last but not least, this set of "Have" & "Hold" songs. Then we can move on to another subject. Ready, set, enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sounds Of Blackness  ~  “Hold On (Change Is Comin’)”

2)  Bryan Adams  ~  “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?”

3)  Angus and Julia Stone  ~  “Hold On”

4)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Have You Met Miss Jones?”

5)  Matt Maher  ~  “Hold Us Together”

6)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Have It All”

7)   Colbie Caillat  ~  “Hold On”

8)  Elton John  ~  “Have Mercy On The Criminal”

9)  Clint Black & Roy Rogers  ~  “Hold On, Partner”

10)  David Dunn  ~  “Have Everything”

11)  Toto  ~  “Hold The Line”

12)  Tom Jones  ~  “Have You Ever Been Lonely?”

13)  38 Special  ~  “Hold On Loosely”

14)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Have Mercy On Him Now”

15)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  “Hold On Tight”

16)  The Hollies  ~  “Have You Ever Loved Somebody?”

17)  Sara Bareilles  ~  “Hold My Heart”

18)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Have Mercy”

19)  Richard Marx  ~  “Hold On To The Nights”

20)  The Kentucky Headhunters  ~  “Have You Ever Loved A Woman?”

21)  Triumph  ~  “Hold On”

22)  Paul Weller  ~  “Have You Made Up Your Mind?”

23)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me”

24)  Rufus  ~  “Have A Good Time”

25)  Rich Mullins  ~  “Hold Me Jesus”

“Reunion” Songs

So, my 20-year high school reunion is today. Yeah, I'm that old. In light of that, here's a collection of songs with the word "Reunion" in their titles. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Collective Soul  ~  “Reunion”

2)  Mary Chapin Carpenter ft. Aiofe O’Donovan  ~  “Transcendental Reunion”

3)  DeGarmo & Key  ~  “Family Reunion”

4)  M83  ~  “Reunion”

5)  Erasure  ~  “Reunion”

6)  Joan Baez  ~  “Reunion Hill”

7)  Funeral For A Friend  ~  “Into Oblivion (Reunion)”

8)  Gaither Homecoming ft. James Blackwood, Jimmy Blackwood, & Terry Blackwood  ~  “That Glad Reunion Day”

9)  The xx  ~  “Reunion”

10)  Richie Kotzen  ~  “Mother Head’s Family Reunion”

11)  Stars  ~  “Reunion”

12)  Molly Hatchet  ~  “Bloody Reunion”

13)  Phil Keaggy  ~  “Reunion Of Friends”

14)  Indigo Girls  ~  “Reunion”

15)  The Hollies  ~  “Reunion Of The Heart”

“Peculiar” Songs

These are peculiar times we're living in. So why not emphasize that fact by listening to some "Peculiar" songs? Well, I can't think of a reason why not. So we might as well...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  “A Most Peculiar Man”

2)  O’Hooley & Tidow  ~  “Peculiar Brood”

3)   Mutemath  ~  “Peculiar People”

4)  Chef’Special  ~  “Peculiar”

5)  The Hollies  ~  “Peculiar Situation”

6)  Inlet Sound  ~  “The Peculiar Disappearance Of Marion Bojangles”

7)  Willie Nelson ft. Emmylou Harris  ~  “My Own Peculiar Way”

8)  Gesu no Kiwami Otome  ~  “Ryōkiteki na Kiss o Watashi ni Shite (Give Me Peculiar Kisses)”

9)  Greg Tre Harris  ~  “Peculiar Praise”

10)  Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee  ~  “Life Is So Peculiar”

11)  Harts  ~  “Peculiar”

12)  Kilsy  ~  “Peculiar Star”

13)  Marvin Gaye  ~  “Ain’t That Peculiar”

14)  Richard Page  ~  “Peculiar Life”

15)  ATC  ~  “Peculiar Minds”

16)  Ernest Tubb  ~  “In Her Own Peculiar Way”

17)  Debby Holiday  ~  “Peculiar”

18)  The Easybeats  ~  “Peculiar Hole In The Sky”

19)  The Divine Comedy  ~  “Funny Peculiar”

20)  The Abyssinians  ~  “Peculiar Number”

BONUS TRACK:  4 Non Blondes  ~  “What’s Up”  (No, “peculiar” doesn’t appear anywhere in its title, but the word is featured prominently in the pre-chorus and it’s a great song, so here it is.)

Songs About Gasoline

If you're like me, you sometimes wonder strange things. Like whether or not there are any good Songs About Gasoline. And if you're like me, you then investigate this wondering and find yourself pleasantly surprised that there are, in fact, a plethora of good gasoline-related songs. But you're probably not like me. Lucky you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Silent Comedy  ~  “Gasoline”

2)  Sia  ~  “Fire Meet Gasoline”

3)   Rise Against  ~  “Black Masks And Gasoline”

4)  Shovels & Rope  ~  “Gasoline”

5)  Turnpike Troubadours  ~  “Diamonds & Gasoline”

6)  The Dead Weather  ~  “Gasoline”

7)  The Hollies  ~  “Gasoline Alley Bred”

8)  Alpine  ~  “Gasoline”

9)  The Reverend Horton Heat  ~  “Victory Lap / Smell Of Gasoline”

10)  Sheryl Crow  ~  “Gasoline”

11)  Dead Sons  ~  “Gasoline”

12)  The Airborne Toxic Event  ~  “Gasoline”

13)  LeAnn Rimes, Rob Thomas, & Jeff Beck  ~  “Gasoline And Matches”

14)  Kicking Harold  ~  “Gasoline”

15)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Palm Trees, Helicopters, And Gasoline”

16)  Katie Melua  ~  “Gasoline Alley”

17)  Audioslave  ~  “Gasoline”

18)  Garrison Starr  ~  “Gasoline”

19)  Will And The Won’ts  ~  “Gasoline”

20)  Beverley Mahood  ~  “Hope And Gasoline”

21)  Skillet  ~  “Gasoline”

22)  Houndmouth  ~  “Gasoline”

23)  The Baboons  ~  “Drinkin’ Gasoline”

24)  Terri Clark  ~  “A Little Gasoline”

25)  DecembeRadio  ~  “Gasoline”