"Scary" Songs

How many music blogs do you know of where you can find songs by Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Björk, Skrillex, Belinda Carlisle, Will Smith, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Witches In Bikinis all in the same post? Yeah…I didn’t think so. Sounds pretty “Scary” to me, too! Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  David Bowie  ~  “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”

2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Big Scary Animal”

3)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Is It Scary?”

4)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  “Scariest Part”

5)  Dokken  ~  “Mr. Scary”

6)  Skye Sweetnam  ~  “Scary Love”

7)  McFly  ~  “Silence Is A Scary Sound”

8)  Leila Adu  ~  “Scary Love Monster”

9)  Colors And Carousels  ~  “Scary”

10)  Björk  ~  “Scary”

11)  Will Smith  ~  “Scary Story”

12)  George Lynch  ~  “Son Of Scary”

13)  Witches In Bikinis  ~  “A Scary Kind Of Love”

14)  Villagers  ~  “Hot Scary Summer”

15)  Katie Melua  ~  “Scary Films”

16)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Spooky, Scary Skeletons”

17)  Butterfly Boucher  ~  “Scary Fragile”

18)  Skrillex  ~  “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”

19)  Peter Lara  ~  “Scary Love”

20)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Scary World”

21)  Grace Jones  ~  “Scary But Fun”

22)  The Lobbyists  ~  “Scary Night”

23)  The 1975  ~  “Scary Monsters”

24)  Lindbergh Palace  ~  “Scary”

25)  Romain Virgo  ~  “Scary Movie”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 2

Still taking you back twenty years to the Popular Songs Of 1997. Ready, set, time travel!  ~  JH

1)  Ben Folds Five  ~  “Brick”

2)  Will Smith  ~  “Men In Black”

3)  Shania Twain  ~  “Love Gets Me Every Time”

4)  Beck  ~  “Devil’s Haircut”

5)  Green Day  ~  “Good Riddance (The Time Of Your Life)”

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “3AM”

7)  Jaci Velasquez  ~  “On My Knees”

8)  Savage Garden  ~  “To The Moon & Back”

9)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Never Is A Promise”

10)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “Semi-Charmed Life”

11)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Honey”

12)  Seal  ~  “Fly Like An Eagle”

13)  Madonna  ~  “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina”  (Try to ignore the fact that the visuals here are from an entirely different Eva Perón biopic.)

14)  Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams  ~  “I Finally Found Someone”

15)  The Prodigy  ~  “Breathe”

16)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “The End Is The Beginning Is The End”

17)  K’s Choice  ~  “Not An Addict”

18)  Allure ft. 112  ~  “All Cried Out”

19)  George Strait  ~  “Carrying Your Love With Me”

20)  Shawn Colvin  ~  “Sunny Came Home”

21)  The Wallflowers  ~  “The Difference”

22)  Aqua  ~  “Barbie Girl”

23)  Oasis  ~  “D’You Know What I Mean?”

24)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “I Do”

25)  Space  ~  “Female Of The Species”

Songs By People Named Smith

Here's another one of those I-heard-a-song-on-the-radio-that-I-really-like-and-wanted-to-put-on-the-blog-but-I-couldn't-think-of-a-logical-way-to-include-it-so-I-made-something-up posts. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sam Smith  ~  "Stay With Me"

2)  Patti Smith  ~  "Because The Night"

3)  Will Smith  ~  "Switch"

4)  Mindy Smith  ~  "Jolene"

5)  Michael W. Smith  ~  "How To Say Goodbye"

6)  Muriel Smith  ~  "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me"

7)  Frankie Smith  ~  "Double Dutch Bus"

8)  Alice Smith  ~  "Be Easy"

9)  Granger Smith  ~  "Don't Listen To The Radio"

10)  April Smith & The Great Picture Show  ~  "Colors"

11)  Carl Smith  ~  "(When You Feel Like You're In Love) Don't Just Stand There"

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12)  Mamie Smith  ~  "Harlem Blues"

13)  Steve Smith  ~  "Time On My Hands"

14)  Sammi Smith  ~  "Help Me Make It Through The Night"

15)  Russell Smith  ~  "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"

16)  Carmen Smith  ~  "Love's On The Run"

17)  Margo Smith  ~  "It Only Hurts For A Little While"

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18)  Preston Smith  ~  "Oh, I Love You So"

19)  Sy Smith  ~  "The Art Of You"

20)  Kate Smith  ~  "God Bless America"

Songs About "Us"

This may or may not be the first part of yet another "Opposites" music post – knowing me, I probably will follow it up with a collection of songs about "Them." For now, though, enjoy what I think is a really good set of songs, by both well-known and lesser-known artists.  ~  JH

1)  Snow Patrol  ~  "The Planets Bend Between Us"

2)  Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  "Today The Sun's On Us"

3)  Joe Jackson  ~  "Breaking Us In Two"

4)  Paloma Faith  ~  "Never Tear Us Apart"

5)  Passenger  ~  "What Will Become Of Us"

6)  Fallulah  ~  "Give Us A Little Love"

7)  Macklemore & Ryan Lewis  ~  "Can't Hold Us"  (I posted the official music video of this song a mere 3 months ago [on my original blog]. But I decided to include it here because it was interesting to see such a multi-layered song performed live – usually rap songs don't sound nearly as good in person as they do when they were recorded.)

8)  Sade  ~  "Nothing Can Come Between Us"

9)  B.o.B. ft. Taylor Swift  ~  "Both Of Us"  (Interesting collaboration between two über-talented, yet very different artists.)

10)  Christina Milian  ~  "Us Against The World"

11)  Daft Punk  ~  "Something About Us"

12)  t.A.T.u.  ~  "All About Us"

13)  Will Smith  ~  "Just The Two Of Us"

14)  Within Temptation ft. Tarja  ~  "Paradise (What About Us?)"  (Two powerhouse symphonic metal female vocalists in one song? Blisteringly intense!)

15)  Angel  ~  "Us"

16)  Regina Spektor  ~  "Us"

17)  Alabama  ~  "Angels Among Us"

18)  He Is We ft. Owl City  ~  "All About Us"

19)  STRFKR ~   "Bury Us Alive"

20)  Taylor Swift  ~  "The Story Of Us"  (Yeah, another song by Taylor Swift in the same post. What's your point? I like her, so what?)

21)  Joy Division  ~  "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

22)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  "People Like Us"

23)  Elvis Costello & The Roots  ~  "Walk Us Uptown"

24)  Joan Osborne  ~  "One Of Us"  (I have some issues with this song lyrically, but it's a surefire classic from the mid-'90s that belongs in this collection.)

25)  Keith Urban ft. Miranda Lambert  ~  "We Were Us"