Songs About Reading

Here's a new three-part series for you about the hilariously misnamed "3 R's." That's right – we'll be exploring first Songs About Reading, then Writing, and then Arithmetic. School is in session...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Gordon Lightfoot  ~  “If You Could Read My Mind”

2)  Midnight Oil  ~  “Read About It”

3)  The Killers  ~  “Read My Mind”

4)  Stevie Wonder  ~  “As If You Read My Mind”

5)  Brian McKnight  ~  “Can You Read My Mind?”

6)  Professor Green ft. Emeli Sandé  ~  “Read All About It”

7)  Don Henley  ~  “Johnny Can’t Read”

8)  Meat Loaf  ~  “Read ‘Em And Weep”

9)  Lauren Christy  ~  “You Read Me Wrong”

10)  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss  ~  “Please Read The Letter”

11)  Concrete Blonde  ~  “Jenny I Read”

12)  Mary Chapin Carpenter  ~  “Read My Lips”

13)  La Dispute  ~  “Woman (Reading)”

14)  Tim McGraw  ~  “If You’re Reading This”

15)  Jimmy Fallon  ~  “The Doors Sing ‘Reading Rainbow’”

More Weird Christmas Songs!

I posted a collection of Weird Christmas Songs almost two years ago on my original blog, The Plural Of Hyena. Today, I follow those songs up with this brand-new collection of even More Weird Christmas Songs. Prepare to have your mind blown just a bit. Oh yeah, and while you're at it, you might as well...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Ramones  ~  “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)”

2)  Max Headroom  ~  “Merry Christmas, Santa Claus”

3)  Carlene Davis  ~  Santa Claus (Do You Ever Come To The Ghetto?)”

4)  The Killers  ~  “The Cowboy’s Christmas Ball”

5)  Wendell Ferguson  ~  “Santa Claus Is Dead”

6)  Lou Monte  ~  “Dominic The Donkey (The Italian Xmas Donkey)”

7)  Jeff Foxworthy  ~  “Redneck 12 Days Of Christmas”

8)  Glad Fanny  ~  “I’m Gonna Lasso Santa Claus”

9)  Homer & Jethro  ~  “Santa Claus, The Original Hippie”

10)  Bryan Adams  ~  “Reggae Christmas”

11)  Mystery Science Theater 3000 Cast  ~  “Merry Christmas…If That’s Okay”

12)  Kanye West ft. Prynce Cy Hi & Teyana Taylor  ~  “Christmas In Harlem”

13)  DEVO  ~  “Merry Something To You”

14)  Marty Robbins  ~  “Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey”

15)  Loretta Lynn  ~  “To Heck With Ole Santa Claus”

16)  Kurtis Blow  ~  “Christmas Rapping”

17)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “The Night Santa Went Crazy”

18)  Tiny Tim  ~  “Santa Claus Has Got The AIDS This Year”  (There’s a supposedly innocent story behind this song – you can Google it – but I don’t buy it for a second. I think the song’s simply mean-spirited…and weird. Lest we forget weird.)

19)  Froggy Fresh  ~  “Christmas”

20)  Jan Terri  ~  “Rock ’N’ Roll Santa”

21)  Suzannah  ~  “Mom & Daddy, Please Don’t Steal For Me This Christmas”

22)  Mud  ~  “Lonely This Christmas”

23)  Rev Run ft. Ma$e, Puff Daddy, Snoop Dogg, Salt N Pepa, Onyx, & Keith Murray  ~  “Santa Baby”

24)  Heywood Banks  ~  “You Ain’t Gettin’ Diddly Squat”

25)  The Cheeky Girls  ~  “Have A Cheeky Christmas”

"Bright" Songs

Yay, another "Opposites" music post! Oh, goody, goody, gumdrops! Here's a collection of "Bright" songs. Next time, some "Dim" ones. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Echosmith  ~  "Bright"

2)  The Used  ~  "Together Burning Bright"

3)  Shinedown  ~  "Burning Bright"

4)  Switchfoot  ~  "Burn Out Bright"

5)  Rebelution  ~  "Bright Side Of Life"

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "Bright Lights"

7)  Cloud Cult  ~  "You'll Be Bright"

8)  Placebo  ~  "Bright Lights"

9)  Cee Lo Green & Daryl Hall  ~  "Bright Lights, Bigger City"

10)  Garbage  ~  "Big Bright World"

11)  The Killers  ~  "Mr. Brightside"

12)  Sara Bareilles  ~  "Bright Lights And Cityscapes"

13)  Vanessa Williams  ~  "Star Bright"

14)  Natalie Grant  ~  "Burn Bright (You Were Made To Shine)"

15)  Underoath  ~  "Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear"

16)  Casey Abrams ft. Orchestra Of People  ~  "Great Bright Morning"  (This is simply gorgeous!)

17)  Alison Krauss & Union Station  ~  "Heaven's Bright Shore"

18)  Timbuk 3  ~  "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)"

19)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  "Bright Lights"

20)  Jackson Browne & Eagles  ~  "Your Bright Baby Blues"

Songs About Explosives, Vol. 2

Didn't get enough songs about bombs, fireworks, T.N.T., or dynamite last time around? Well, here's more of the same...just in different songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Public Enemy  ~  "Louder Than A Bomb"

2)  Spoon  ~  "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb"

3)  Katy Perry  ~  "Firework"

4)  Drew Holcomb And The Neighbors  ~  "Fire And Dynamite"

5)  The Killers  ~  "Miss Atomic Bomb"

6)  Enigma  ~  "T.N.T. For The Brain"

7)  Roxette  ~  "Fireworks"

8)  The Presidents Of The United States of America  ~  "Tiger Bomb"

9)  Aloe Blacc  ~  "Ticking Bomb"

10)  Kelis  ~  "4th Of July (Fireworks)"

11)  Demi Lovato  ~  "Got Dynamite"

12)  Joan Jett And The Blackhearts  ~  "Cherry Bomb"

13)  John Mellencamp  ~  "Cherry Bomb"

14)  Sky Ferreira  ~  "Dynamite State"

15)  Siouxsie & The Banshees  ~  "Fireworks"

16)  Dawn Richard  ~  "Bombs"

17)  Alexia Rodriguez  ~  "Ticking Bombs"

18)  Karise Eden  ~  "Dynamite"

19)  Whitney McClain  ~  "Bombs Away"

20)  Eels  ~  "Bombs Away"

BONUS TRACK:  Sheppard  ~  "Geronimo"  (While the name of an explosive device does not appear in its title, there are several times throughout this song when one of the singers croons, "Bombs away! Bombs away!" Besides that, it's a good song, and I can't figure out any other way to include it in a post, so there ya go...)

"Bone" Songs

As promised, here's the followup to yesterday's "Skin" Songs post. Like that one, this post includes songs by several well-known artists – but again, the real gems here are by the lesser-known artists. Discover them for yourself! And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alex G  ~  "Bones"

2)  Editors  ~  "Bones"

3)  The Killers  ~  "Bones"

4)  Blake Shelton ft. Trace Adkins  ~  "Hillbilly Bone"

5)  Michael Kiwanuka  ~  "Bones"

6)  Young Guns  ~  "Bones"

7)  Randy Travis  ~  "Diggin' Up Bones"

8)  Tiësto ft. Tegan and Sara  ~  "Feel It In My Bones"

9)  George Thorogood And The Destroyers  ~  "Bad To The Bone"

10)  Keaton Henson  ~  "Flesh And Bone"

11)  Heather Nova  ~  "Truth And Bone"

12)  Lewis Watson  ~  "Bones"

13)  Of Monsters And Men  ~  "Your Bones"

14)  Stars  ~  "Winter Bones"

15)  Trampled By Turtles  ~  "Feet And Bones"

16)  Nada Surf  ~  "See These Bones"

17)  Sarah Jarosz  ~  "Build Me Up From Bones"

18)  William Fitzsimmons  ~  "Blood And Bones"

19)  Elbow  ~  "The Bones Of You"

20)  The Secret Sisters  ~  "Rattle My Bones"

21)  Fences  ~  "Your Bones"

22)  Aura Dione  ~  "Glass Bone Crash"

23)  Ron Pope  ~  "In My Bones"

24)  Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson  ~  "Rattlin' Bones"

25)  Blind Pilot  ~  "I Buried A Bone"

BONUS TRACK:  Imagine Dragons  ~  "Radioactive"  (Whenever I think of this song, the first line that comes to mind is "I feel it in my bones..." Even though the word "Bone" doesn't appear in the title, this song belongs here!)