Songs About Being On The Ground

I don't even know how I came up with the idea for this post, but I'm sure glad I did. There's some great stuff here! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Rosé  ~  "On The Ground"

2)  Mayday Parade  ~  "You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I'll Be The Wings That Keep Your Heart In The Clouds"

3)  Bombay Bicycle Club  ~  "Dust On The Ground"

4)  Buffalo Springfield  ~  "Flying On The Ground Is Wrong"

5)  George Benson  ~  "Down Here On The Ground"

6)  Billie Jo Spears  ~  "Blanket On The Ground"

7)  The Kinks  ~  "Got My Feet On The Ground"

8)  Incubus  ~  "Blood On The Ground"

9)  Coldplay  ~  "No More Keeping My Feet On The Ground"

10)   Emily Brimlow  ~  "Dust On The Ground"

11)  Rubblebucket  ~  "On The Ground"

12)   Eric Clapton  ~  "Water On The Ground"

13)  Tevin Campbell  ~  "Safer On The Ground"

14)   "General" Larry Platt  ~  "Pants On The Ground"

15)   Nick Jonas & The Administration  ~  "Stronger (Back On The Ground)"

16)  Flyleaf  ~  "Cage On The Ground"

17)   Mississippi John Hurt  ~  "Praying On The Old Camp Ground"

18)   Nicky Romero & Anouk  ~  "Feet On The Ground"

 

19)   The Hollies  ~  "Feet On The Ground"

20)  Lou Rawls  ~  "Down Here On The Ground"

21)  Leah & Andi Senior  ~   "Summer's On The Ground"

22)  John Denver  ~  "Gravel On The Ground"

 

"Pleasant" Songs

We could all use some "Pleasant" Songs for a change. So here 's a dozen-and-a-half of them. And there's another dozen-and-a-half coming up soon. So, enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  The Monkees  ~  "Pleasant Valley Sunday"

2) Kidneythieves  ~  "Pleasant"

3)  Dolly Parton  ~  "Pleasant As May"

4)  The Kinks  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

5)  Intronaut  ~  "The Pleasant Surprise"

6)  Fates Warning  ~  "A Pleasant Shade Of Gray – Part III"

7)  The Vandals  ~  "Goop All Over The Phone (Pleasant All Over The Bill)"

8)  The Mission  ~  "Mr. Pleasant"

9)  The Evens  ~  "Mt. Pleasant Isn't"

10)  Wood Of Ypres  ~  "I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery"

11)  Cass McCombs  ~  "Pleasant Shadow Song"

12)  Breakup Shoes  ~  "Perfectly Pleasant"

13)  Rival Sons  ~  "Pleasant Return"

14)  Too Close To See  ~  "Pleasant Days For Me"

15)  Tim Buckley  ~  "Pleasant Street"

16)  Keith McEachern  ~  "Pleasant"

17)  Brock Berrigan  ~  "Point Pleasant"

18)  The Irish Rovers  ~  "Pleasant And Delightful"

More "Steam"-y Songs

If you thought the first set of "Steam"-y Sings was hot, wait'll you hear these! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alyssa Milano  ~  "Teen Steam"  (This is so awful! But gosh, wasn't she a cutie?!?!)

2)  Ty Herndon  ~  "Steam"

3)  Stables  ~  "Steam"

4)  John Lee Hooker  ~  "I Don't Need No Steam Heat"

5)  The Monkees  ~  "Steam Engine"

6)  Johnny Horton  ~  "Coal Smoke, Valve Oil, And Steam"

7)  Pete Doherty  ~  "The Steam"

8)  Wishbone Ash  ~  "Steam Town"

9)  The Kinks  ~  "Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains"

10)  Albert King  ~  "Running Out Of Steam"

11)  Deep Sea Arcade  ~  "Steam"

12)  The Guess Who  ~  "Rock And Roller Steam"

13)  Abney Park  ~  "Building Steam"

14)  Jethro Tull  ~  "Raising Steam"

15)  Murder By Death  ~  "Steam Rising"

16)  Daft Punk  ~  "Steam Machine"

17)  East 17  ~  "Steam"

18)  Scorpions  ~  "Steamrock Fever"

19)  Phish  ~  "Steam"

20)  Noble Jacks  ~  "Ramblers Steam"

21)  So Beast  ~  "Summer Steam"  (This is not particularly good music, but it's rather fascinating watching them making it.)

22)  The Lucksmiths  ~  "Columns O' Steam"

23)  Thelma and the Sleaze  ~  "Hot Steam"

24)  Grice  ~  "Steam"

25)  Andy Clockwise  ~  "Steam Dream"

More Songs? Really? No. More "Really" Songs

Did we really need another post of "Really" Songs? Yes, we did. And here's why. Check 'em out for yourself! And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  ~  "You Really Got A Hold On Me"

2)  Janet Jackson  ~  "Doesn't Really Matter" 

3)  The Kinks  ~  "You Really Got Me"  (Sure, I had another version of this song in the first post of this two-part series. But could I really ignore the classic original version? Of course, I couldn't.)

4)  Courtney Barnett  ~  "Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party"

5)  Plain White T's  ~  "Hate (I Really Don't Like You)"

6)  Alicia Keys  ~  "She Don't Really Care"

7)  Interpol  ~  "If You Really Love Nothing"

8)  Michael W. Smith & Kari Jobe  ~  "The One That Really Matters"

9)  Jimmy Cliff  ~  "You Can Get It If You Really Want"  (Bonus song in this video: "I Can See Clearly Now", Cliff's biggest hit)

10)  Agnetha Fältskog  ~  "When You Really Loved Someone"

11)  D'Angelo & The Vanguard  ~  "Really Love"

12)  Shakespears Sister  ~  "Break My Heart (You Really)"

13)  Merle Haggard  ~  "Are The Good Times Really Over (I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver)"

14)  The Captain & Tennille  ~ "We Never Really Say Goodbye"  (If you want to skip the chit-chat at the beginning, I'll go ahead and tell you that the song actually starts around the 1:57 mark.)

15)  Sarah van den Bergh  ~  "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most"

16)  Red Velvet  ~  "R.B.B. (Really Bad Boy)"

17)  Bethel Music ft. Brian & Jenn Johnson  ~  "I Really Love You"

18)  The Partridge Family  ~  "I Really Want To Know You"

19)  Aimee Mann  ~  "She Really Wants You"

20)  The Wizard Of Oz Cast  ~  "It Really Was No Miracle"

21)  B.B. King  ~  "I Got Some Outside Help (I Don't Really Need)"

22)  The Muffs  ~  "Really Really Happy"

23)  Billy Ocean  ~  "Love Really Hurts Without You"

24)  Cherry Bullet  ~  "Really Really"

25)  Stevie Wonder  ~  "If You Really Love Me"

Still More Weird Christmas Songs, Vol. 2

Here's another cacophonous collection of Weird Christmas Songs to baffle, befuddle, and boggle the mind. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Mr. Christmas  ~  “It’s Christmas Everyday!”  (Not a bad song, actually. But he is one weird guy!)

2)  Tarrus Riley  ~  “Crime-Free Christmas”  (It’s the least any of us could wish for, right?)

3)  Leroy Carr  ~  “Christmas In Jail – Ain’t That A Pain?”  (Yeah, I can imagine that it would be.)

4)  Manila Luzon & Alaska  ~  “Working Holiday”  (Anyone who’s ever worked in retail can relate to this one.)

5)  Advance Base   ~  “Christmas In Nightmare City”  (Well, that certainly puts me in the Christmas spirit…)

6)  The Merry Macs  ~  “Christmas Cha Cha Cha”  (Put on your dancing shoes!)

7)  Shonen Knife  ~  “Sweet Christmas”  (This almost doesn’t qualify as weird enough, but it’s awfully close so here it is.) 

8)  Ryland Adams  ~  “A Clickbait Christmas”  (Made ya look!)

9)  Christmas In The Stars  ~  “R2-D2, We Wish You A Merry Christmas”  (Droids need Christmas love, too.)

10)  Jon Lajoie  ~  “The Best Christmas Song”  (There’s a bit of false advertising going on here...)

11)  Rhett & Link ft. Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Benny Fine, & DeStorm  ~  “Christmas Face”  (These just keep getting better!)

12)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  “Minnie And Santa”  (Too much information, Cyndi…)

13)  CeeLo Green & The Muppets  ~  “All I Need Is Love”  (Kermit trying to speak hip-hop to CeeLo is everything.)

14)  The Marcels  ~  “Merry Twistmas”  (Well, why not?)

15)  H.E.R.  ~  “Psychedelic Christmas”  (Trippy!)

16)  Portland Youth Philharmonic  ~  “Bassoon It Will Be Christmas”  (This is, essentially, an instrumental medley of well-known Christmas songs. What's unique is that the featured instrument here is a bassoon. While quite beautiful to listen to, it’s still pretty darn weird if you ask me!)

17)  Wengie  ~  “Ugly Christmas Sweater”  (An ode to ugly. I love it!)

18)  The Kinks  ~  “Father Christmas”  (You have to see it to believe it!)

19)  T. Rex  ~  “Christmas Bop”  (Hope you still have your dancing shoes on…)

20)  Basshunter  ~  “Jingle Bells (Bass)”  (Merry Bassmas to all, and to all a good beat.)

21)  Pearl Bailey  ~  “C’est Magnifique” / “Five Pound Box Of Money”  (The second song here – which is the Christmas-themed one – starts around the 4:15 mark. But the whole video is golden!)

22)  Johnny Bower ft. Little John & The Rinky Dinks  ~  “Honky The Christmas Goose”  (This may be the only time the word “honky” will ever appear on my blog without being followed by the word “tonk.”)

23)  Chris De Burgh  ~  “A Spaceman Came Traveling”  (Let’s take the traditional Christmas story and set it out in outer space, they said. It’ll be great, they said. And actually, it kinda is…)

24)  Showaddywaddy  ~  “Hey, Mr. Christmas”  (The greatest thing about this song might very well be the name of the artist.)

25)  Fountains Of Wayne  ~  “I Want An Alien For Christmas”  (Ooh, me too, me too!)