“Slip” & “Slide” Songs, Vol. 2

Second and final installment in the latest miniseries, featuring songs with "Slip" and/or "Slide" in their titles. Ready, set, get wet! (To quote a Paw Patrol catchphrase. Yeah, I know, I am WAY lame!) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jewel  ~  “Long Slow Slide”

2)  Vince Gill  ~  “Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away”

3)  Joe Satriani  ~  “Devil’s Slide”

4)  Eryn Allen Kane  ~  “Slipping”

5)  Johnny Paycheck  ~  “Slide Off Of Your Satin Sheets”

6)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Funny How Time Slips Away”

7)  Dido  ~  “Slide”

8)  Sanjoy ft. Trevor Holmes  ~  “Slip Away”

9)  Los Straitjackets  ~  “Brooklyn Slide”

10)  Lacy J. Dalton  ~  “Slip Away”

11)  No Use For A Name  ~  “Let It Slide”

12)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Slipping Away”

13)  The Pretenders  ~  “Cuban Slide”

14)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Never Let Her Slip Away”

15)  Frank Yankovic & His Yanks  ~  “When Banana Skins Are Falling (I’ll Come Sliding Back To You)”  (Hands down, best song title in the bunch. Pun intended.)

16)  Annie Brooks  ~  “Slipping By”

17)  Trampled By Turtles  ~  “Ceiling Slide”

18)  Kenny G  ~  “Slip Of The Tongue”

19)  Jeff Bradshaw ft. Jill Scott  ~  “Slide”

20)  Moby  ~  “Slipping Away”

21)  Buriers  ~  “Slides By”

22)  Amy Belle  ~  “Slipping Under”

23)  Mew  ~  “Water Slides”

24)  Neil Young & Crazy Horse  ~  “Slip Away”

25)  Blinker The Star  ~  “Below The Sliding Doors”

Songs About Standing By

While you wait with bated breath (yeah, right!) for the next installment in my "Down" & "Out" series, here's a collection of Songs About Standing By. Herein, you'll hear about folks who vow to stand by "Me," "You," "Love," "Your Gun," "Your Man," "My Woman," "The Bedside Of A Neighbor," and much, much more! So what are you waiting for? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ben E. King  ~  “Stand By Me”

2)  Rachel Platten  ~  “Stand By You”

3)  Oasis  ~  “Stand By Me”

4)  Marlisa  ~  “Stand By You”

5)  Simple Minds  ~  “Stand By Love”

6)  True Violet  ~  “Stand By You”

7)  George Ezra  ~  “Stand By Your Gun”

8)  Tammy Wynette  ~  “Stand By Your Man”

9)  Shayne Ward  ~  “Stand By Me”

10)  Jessy Dixon  ~  “God Is Standing By”

11)  Jewel  ~  “Angel Standing By”

12)  LL Cool J  ~  “Stand By Your Man”

13)  The Cox Family  ~  “Standing By The Bedside Of A Neighbor”

14)  The Imperials  ~  “Stand By The Power”

15)  MaidaVale  ~  “Standby Swing”

16)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  “Stand By My Woman”

17)  The Pretenders  ~  “I’ll Stand By You”

18)  Tennessee Ernie Ford  ~  “Stand By Me”

19)  The KLF ft. Tammy Wynette  ~  “Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)”  (This is a very odd song and music video. Odder still is Wynette’s involvement in it.)

20)  The Clash  ~  “Train In Vain (Stand By Me)”

“Middle” Songs, Vol. 2

We're past the "Beginning," and now – with this post – we're done with the "Middle." All that's left is the "Ending." (Both of them, actually.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  for KING & COUNTRY  ~  “Middle Of Your Heart”

2)  China  ~  “Middle Of The Night”

3)  The Pretenders  ~  “Middle Of The Road”

4)  Tribal Theory  ~  “Stuck In The Middle”

5)  Bee Gees  ~  “Man In The Middle”

6)  Lilly Wood And The Prick  ~  “Middle Of The Night”

7)  Hot Hot Heat  ~  “Middle Of Nowhere”

8)  Black Country Communion  ~  “Man In The Middle”

9)  Natalie Imbruglia  ~  “Left Of The Middle”

10)  Bonnie Raitt  ~  “The Road’s My Middle Name”

11)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Middle Of Yesterday”

12)  MIKA  ~  “Stuck In The Middle”  (The falsetto is strong with this one.)

13)  Priscilla Ahn  ~  “In A Closet In The Middle Of The Night”

14)  Ry Cooder  ~  “Smack Dab In The Middle”

15)  Vertical Horizon  ~  “The Middle Ground”

"Plastic" Songs

Here's a bunch of songs with the word "Plastic" in their titles. I don't know why. If I did, I'd tell you. I promise. But I don't. So here they are. And...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Radiohead  ~  "Fake Plastic Trees"  (This may just be the quintessential "Plastic" song.)

2)  Eli Young Band  ~  "Plastic"

3)  Alanis  ~  "Plastic"  (Yes, THAT Alanis…Morissette. Way back when in her bubblegum-pop, pre-alternative rock days in Canada.)

4)  CKY  ~  "Plastic Plan"

5)  The Kinks  ~  "Plastic Man"  (As you will soon see, there are a number of songs by this name. And they're all different.)

6)  Guano Apes  ~  "Plastic Mouth"  (A song by a band with one of the greatest bizarro names of all time.)

7)  The Buggles  ~  "Living In The Plastic Age"

8)  Gorillaz ft. Snoop Dogg & Hypnotic Brass Ensemble  ~  "Welcome To The World Of The Plastic Beach"  (This is MEGA-weird!)

9)  Ani DiFranco  ~  "Little Plastic Castle"

10)  The Temptations  ~  "Plastic Man"

11)  Seether  ~  "Plastic Man"

12)  The Pretenders  ~  "Boots Of Chinese Plastic"

13)  Jefferson Airplane  ~  "Plastic Fantastic Lover"

14)  Newton Faulkner  ~  "Plastic Hearts"  (This is one of those artists I never would've heard of had it not been for my music blogging hobby. And that would be a tragedy, because he's a fantastic musician and singer!)

15)  Chela  ~   "Plastic Gun"

16)  Crowded House  ~  "Italian Plastic"

17)  Black Uhuru  ~  "Plastic Smile"

18)  Bootsy Collins  ~  "Party On Plastic"  (Okay, this one out-weirds the Gorillaz song above. By a mile!)

19)  Pluto Jonze  ~  "Plastic Bag In A Hurricane"

20)  The Posies  ~  "Plastic Paperbacks / Flavor Of The Month"

21)  Sonny & Cher  ~  "Plastic Man"

Popular Songs Of 1995, Vol. 1

Okay, so if you thought last week's "Popular Songs of 2005" made you feel old...then take a listen at these songs, which are now (gasp!) 20 years old! My word, I'm ancient! There's one more volume of 1995 songs to come...it was a really good year for music. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Coolio ft. L.V.  ~  "Gangsta's Paradise"

2)  Mariah Carey  ~  "Fantasy"

3)  TLC  ~  "Waterfalls"

4)  Seal  ~  "Kiss From A Rose"

5)  Real McCoy  ~  "Another Night"

6)  Madonna  ~  "Take A Bow"

7)  Montell Jordan  ~  "This Is How We Do It"

8)  Blues Traveler  ~  "Run-Around"

9)  Boyz II Men  ~  "On Bended Knee"

10)  Bryan Adams  ~  "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"

11)  Monica  ~  "Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days)"

12)  Bon Jovi  ~  "Always"

13)  Dionne Farris  ~  "I Know"

14)  The Pretenders  ~  "I'll Stand By You"

15)  All-4-One  ~  "I Can Love You Like That"

16)  Hootie & The Blowfish  ~  "Hold My Hand"

17)  Des'ree  ~  "You Gotta Be"

18)  Blessid Union Of Souls  ~  "I Believe"

19)  Soul For Real  ~  "Candy Rain"

20)  Sheryl Crow  ~  "Strong Enough"