Songs About California, Vol. 2

As promised, here's part 2 (of 2) featuring Songs About California. These are the ones by all the guys. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Dani California”

2)  The Beach Boys  ~  “California Girls”  (The first 3 minutes or so are where you’ll hear the song. The rest of the video is a rather halfhearted comedy routine that didn’t make me laugh even once. Maybe you’ll have better luck, though.)

3)  Weezer  ~  “California Kids”

4)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  “California”

5)  2Pac ft. Dr. Dre  ~  “California Love”

6)  Paper Tongues  ~  “Ride To California”

7)  Kings Of Leon  ~  “California Waiting”

8)  Delta Spirit  ~  “California”

9)  Eagles  ~  “Hotel California”

10)  Peace  ~  “California Daze”

11)  John Mayer  ~  “Queen Of California”

12)  Albert Hammond  ~  “It Never Rains In Southern California”

13)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  “California”

14)  The Airborne Toxic Event  ~  “California”

15)  R.E.M.  ~  “I Remember California”

16)  Carolina Liar  ~  “California Bound”

17)  Roy Orbison  ~  “California Blue” 

18)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  “California Wasted”

19)  Ramones  ~  “California Sun”

20)  Shawn Mullins  ~  “California”

21)  Manfred Mann’s Earth Band  ~  “California”

22)  Phantom Planet  ~  “California”

23)  Big & Rich  ~  “California”

24)  Noah Gundersen  ~  “California”

25)  Vampire Weekend  ~  “California English”

More "Wasted" Songs

As promised, here's another set of "Wasted" Songs for your consideration. I hope you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Keith Urban  ~  “Wasted Time”

2)  Bonnie McKee  ~  “Wasted Youth”

3)  City And Colour  ~  “Wasted Love”

4)  The Pipettes  ~  “Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me”

5)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  “California Wasted”

6)  Amanda Shires  ~  “Wasted And Rolling”

7)  Freddy Fender  ~  “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights”

8)  Alyssa Bernal  ~  “Wasted Love”

9)  INXS  ~  “Elegantly Wasted”

10)  Ally Ryan  ~  “Wasted”

11)  Jason Gray  ~  “Nothing Is Wasted”

12)  Sarah Darling  ~  “Wasted”

13)  Tiësto ft. Matthew Koma  ~  “Wasted”

14)  Melanie Wehbe  ~  “Wasted”

15)  Skid Row  ~  “Wasted Time”

16)  Valentine  ~  “Wasted”

17)  Margaret  ~  “Wasted”

18)  Def Leppard  ~  “Wasted”

19)  The Band Perry  ~  “Some Nights / Night Gone Wasted”

20)  Ayla Nereo  ~  “Wasted Hours”

Songs By What-The-What Bands

Here's yet another music post born out of my desire to include a particular song and having no other good reason to do so. So I made something up. As it will quickly become obvious, all the bands represented here have a word (be it a verb, noun, or preposition), then the word "the", and another word in their names. For example, Foster The People, Minus The Bear, Cage The Elephant, etc. Apparently, this particular band-naming technique has been going on for quite some time yet has become more and more prevalent in recent years – so I had oodles of bands to choose from. These are the ones that made the cut. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Foster The People  ~  "Coming Of Age"

2)  Mott The Hoople  ~  "All The Young Dudes"

3)  Over The Rhine  ~  "The Laugh Of Recognition"

4)  Between The Trees  ~  "The Way She Feels"

5)  Cage The Elephant  ~  "Back Against The Wall"

6)  Walk The Moon  ~  "Tightrope"

7)  Said The Whale  ~  "Camilo (The Magician)"

8)  Minus The Bear  ~  "Hold Me Down"

9)  Saves The Day  ~  "Deranged & Desperate"

10)  Toad The Wet Sprocket  ~  "All I Want"

11)  Young The Giant  ~  "Cough Syrup"

12)  Portugal. The Man  ~  "Evil Friends"

13)  We Are The Fallen  ~  "Bury Me Alive"  (OK, so this one doesn't technically fit the theme [since both a subject and verb precede the "the"], but this post was short on female-fronted bands and this was a good song, so there ya go!)

14)  HORSE The Band  ~  "Shapeshift"

15)  Swallow The Sun ft. Anette Olzon  ~  "Cathedral Walls"

16)  Jukebox The Ghost  ~  "Somebody"

17)  Stone The Crows  ~  "Freedom Road"

18)  After The Fire  ~  "Der Kommissar"

19)  Bomb The Bass ft. The Battle Of Land And Sea  ~  "Up The Mountain"

20)  JEFF The Brotherhood  ~  "U Got The Look"

21)  Dry The River  ~  "No Rest"

22)   Donna The Buffalo  ~  "Locket And Key"

23)  Verb The Noun  ~  "Gary Busey Hairline"  (Great band name and song title! Ha, ha!)

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24)  Haste The Day  ~  "Stitches"

25)   Sound The Alarm  ~  "Suffocating"