Songs About Hostages & Luxury

Continuing in my quasi-series of posts featuring songs about two totally unrelated things (most – curiously – beginning with an "H" and an "L"), here's a sensational set of Songs About Hostages & Luxury. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Billie Eilish  ~  “Hostage”

2)  Jon Bellion  ~  “Luxury”

3)  Sia  ~  “Hostage”

4)  Emmylou Harris & The Hot Band  ~  “Luxury Liner”

5)  Lacuna Coil  ~  “Hostage To The Light”

6)  Arrested Development  ~  “Luxury”

7)  Jack’s Mannequin  ~  “Hostage”

8)  Jethro Tull  ~  “Lap Of Luxury”

9)  Donna Summer  ~  “The Hostage”

10)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Luxury”

11)  Anais Martinez  ~  “Hostage”

12)  Maxwell  ~  “Luxury: Cococure”

13)  Jeremy Lister  ~  “Hostage”  (There’s a lot of mindless chit-chat before the song. If you want to skip that, just jump to the 2:25 mark. The song ends around the 5:50 mark. The rest is more mindless chit-chat.)

14)  ZZ Top  ~  “Dipping Low (In The Lap Of Luxury)”

15)  Empires  ~  “Hostage”

16)  Frida Elsa  ~  “Luxury”

17)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  “Hostage Of Peace”

18)  Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark  ~  “The Punishment Of Luxury”

19)  Razorlight  ~  “Hostage Of Love”

20)  Korn  ~  “Love & Luxury”

21)  Angelicca  ~  “Hostage”

22)  Marillion  ~  “Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury”

23)  The Life And Times  ~  “My Last Hostage”

24)  Wye Oak  ~  “On Luxury”

25)  Big Country  ~  “The Hostage Speaks”

26)  Domenica  ~  “Luxury”

27)  Griffin Oskar  ~  “Hostage”

28)  Azealia Banks  ~  “Luxury”

29)  Alexa  ~  “Hostage”

30)  Keith Urban  ~  “The Luxury Of Knowing”

“Heart” & “Soul” Songs, Vol. 5

Continuing this seemingly never-ending but, in reality, only-one-post-away-from being-complete series featuring "Heart" and "Soul" Songs... If you think I've already expended all the quality songs that qualify, you've got another think coming. Plenty of good ones left to hear. So enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Elton John & Kiki Dee  ~  “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”

2)  Death Cab For Cutie  ~  “Soul Meets Body”

3)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Heart Break”

4)  Uriah Heep  ~  “Take Away My Soul”

5)  Lindsey Stirling ft. ZZ Ward  ~  “Hold My Heart”

6)  Righteous Brothers  ~  “(You’re My) Soul & Inspiration”

7)  Paramore ft. Joy Williams  ~  “Hate To See Your Heart Break”

8)  The Cult  ~  “Sweet Soul Sister”

9)  Miley Cyrus  ~  “Who Owns My Heart”

10)  Blind Melon  ~  “Soul One”

11)  Céline Dion  ~  “My Heart Will Go On”

12)  Third Day  ~  “Soul On Fire”

13)  Selena Gomez  ~  “The Heart Wants What It Wants”

14)  Ed Kowalczyk  ~  “Soul Whispers”

15)  Meg Myers  ~  “Heart Heart Head”

16)  Sting  ~  “The Soul Cages”

17)  Rachel Platten  ~  “You Don’t Know My Heart”

18)  Bob Marley  ~  “Satisfy My Soul”

19)  Klaas ft. Kim Petras  ~  “Heartbeat”

20)  Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers  ~  “Keep A Little Soul”

21)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Heart Of Stone”

22)  Alexia Bosch  ~  “Rebel Soul”

23)  Agnes  ~  “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”  (This is NOT the same song as the Elton John/Kiki Dee duet at the top of this post.)

24)  Beck  ~  “Soul Of A Man”

25)  Norah Jones  ~  “4 Broken Hearts”

26)  Aerosmith  ~  “Hole In My Soul”

27)  T’Pau  ~  “Heart And Soul”

28)  Gnarls Barkley  ~  “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”

29)  Hank Williams, Sr.  ~  “Cold, Cold Heart”

30)  Arthur Conley  ~  “Sweet Soul Music”

"Anybody" Songs

Remember a few months ago when I was doing a quasi-series of posts featuring “Any-” words in their titles (e.g., “Anyway,” “Anytime,” “Anymore,” “Anything”) and I vowed to keep it going till I ran out of “Any-” words to post? Yeah, I barely remember that either. For what it’s worth, this is a continuation of that semi-series. Songs with “Anybody” in the title. And…GO!  ~  JH

1)  Charley Pride  ~  “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone?”

2)  Christina Grimmie  ~  “Anybody’s You”

3)  Our Lady Peace  ~  “Is Anybody Home?”

4)  CeCe Winans  ~  “Anybody Wanna Pray”

5)  Scorpions  ~  “Is There Anybody There?”

6)  Escondido  ~  “You’re Not Like Anybody Else”

7)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Anybody Seen My Baby”

8)  Dead Sara  ~  “Anybody”

9)  Queensryche  ~  “Anybody Listening?”

10)  Laura Mvula  ~  “Is There Anybody Out There?”

11)  Chicago  ~  “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”

12)  Meredith Andrews  ~  “Can Anybody Hear Me?”

13)  The King Blues  ~  “Does Anybody Care About Us?”

14)  Margaret Glaspy  ~  “Somebody To Anybody”

15)  Civil Twilight  ~  “Anybody Out There”

16)  Noun  ~  “I Don’t Love Anybody”

17)  Sean C. Johnson  ~  “Does Anybody”

18)  Danity Kane  ~  “Is Anybody Listening?”

19)  Kris Kristofferson  ~  “Nobody Loves Anybody Anymore”

20)  Tony Orlando & Dawn  ~  “Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose?”

21)  No Use For A Name  ~  “Why Doesn’t Anybody Like Me?”

22)  K’Naan ft. Nelly Furtado  ~  “Is Anybody Out There?”

23)  Adam Lambert  ~  “Is Anybody Listening?”

24)  Casting Crowns  ~  “Does Anybody Hear Her?”

25)  Pink Floyd  ~  “Is There Anybody Out There?”

More "Only" Songs

What do we have here? Oh, it's only more songs. Or rather, More "Only" Songs. Same difference. Plenty of good stuff here. I didn't skimp. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Adele  ~  “One And Only”

2)  Lifehouse  ~  “Only One”

3)  Amy Macdonald  ~  “My Only One”

4)  Paul McCartney  ~  “Only Love Remains”

5)  Sheena Easton  ~  “For Your Eyes Only”

6)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  “Only”

7)  Andra Day  ~  “The Only Way Out”

8)  Tavares  ~  “It Only Takes A Minute”

9)  Kate Voegele  ~  “Only Fooling Myself”

10)  for KING & COUNTRY  ~  “God Only Knows”

11)  Enya  ~  “Only Time”

12)  Shinedown  ~  “If You Only Knew”

13)  Emmelie de Forest  ~  “Only Teardrops”

14)  Queen  ~  “No One But You (Only The Good Die Young)”

15)  Divinyls  ~  “Only Lonely”

16)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll (But I Like It)”

17)  Paloma Faith  ~  “Only Love Can Hurt Like This”

18)  The Beach Boys  ~  “God Only Knows”

19)  Carpenters  ~  “Only Yesterday”

20)  Panic! At The Disco  ~  “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage”

21)  Rihanna  ~  Only Girl (In The World)”

22)  Elevation Worship  ~  “Only King Forever”

23)  Cheat Codes & Little Mix  ~  “Only You”

24)  Scissor Sisters  ~  “Only The Horses”

25)  Holly Miranda  ~  “The Only One”