Songs About Pumpkins

It must be both fall and almost Halloween, since I have pumpkins on the brain. Here's a rousing set of songs about them for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Kate Nash  ~  “Pumpkin Soup”

2)  John Prine  ~  “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”

3)  Devendra Banhart  ~  “Pumpkin Seeds”

4)  Tricky ft. Alison Goldfrapp  ~  “Pumpkin”

5)  The California Honeydrops  ~  “Pumpkin Pie”

6)  Black Mamba  ~  “Posture Pumpkin”  (No, this is not a song by former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant! This band simply stole his alter ego – or he stole theirs.)

7)  A Crucifying Feeling  ~  “The Pumpkin Method”

8)  The Castros  ~  “Pumpkin Pie”

9)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Gimme A Smile (The Pumpkin Song)”

10)  Chikune  ~  “Pumpkin”

11)  Frankie Yankovic  ~  “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”

12)  Jay & The Techniques  ~  “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”  (Oddly enough, this is not the same song as the one by Frankie Yankovic above!)

13)  Slothrust  ~  “Rotten Pumpkin”

14)  Patrick Wolf  ~  “Pumpkin Soup”

15)  Freda Payne  ~  “Sweet Pumpkin”

16)  Helloween  ~  “Pumpkins United"

17)  Islands  ~  “Pumpkin”

18)  NEØV  ~  “Woolen Pumpkin Shirt”

19)  Ini Kamoze  ~  “Hole In The Pumpkin”

20)  XTC  ~  “The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead”

Songs About Statues & Monuments

I may be a bit late on this one, but seeing as there's been a lot of talk about Statues and Monuments the past couple of weeks, I decided to make a couple of posts chock full of songs about them. Ready...set...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Nina Nesbitt  ~  “Statues”

2)  Incubus  ~  “Monuments & Melodies”

3)  Jimmy Buffett  ~  “Delaney Talks To Statues”

4)  Fates Warning  ~  “Monument”

5)  Lusitania Lights  ~  “Statues”

6)  A Day To Remember  ~  “Monument”

7)  XTC  ~  “Statue Of Liberty”

8)  Big Head Todd And The Monsters  ~  “Monument In Green”

9)  Makola  ~  “Black Man Statues”

10)  The Frames  ~  “Monument”

11)  American Mantra  ~  “Shadow Of The Statue”

12)  Mirah  ~  “Monument”

13)  Laetitia Sadier  ~  “Statues Can Bend”

14)  Legacy Five  ~  “Monuments”

15)  The Eden Project ft. Leah Kelly  ~  “Statues”

16)  Yann Tiersen  ~  “Monuments”

17)  Gaither Homecoming ft. Ivan Parker  ~  “The Statue Of Liberty”

18)  Sea Wolf  ~  “Ses Monuments”

19)  Salad  ~  “Granite Statue”

20)  Jabee ft. Chuck D  ~  “Monument”

Songs About Dresses

While you're obsessing over whether #thedress is white and gold or blue and black, here's a small collection of Songs About Dresses you can play in the background. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, consider yourself lucky! But now that your interest is piqued, you're probably going to go and Google it anyway, so...I'm sorry? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sylvan Esso  ~  "Dress"

2)  Fleet Foxes  ~  "Bedouin Dress"

3)  Hole  ~  "Best Sunday Dress"

4)  Parachute  ~  "White Dress"

5)  PJ Harvey  ~  "Dress"

6)  Sufjan Stevens  ~  "The Dress Looks Nice On You"

7)  Rosie Thomas  ~  "Pretty Dress"

8)  The Hollies  ~  "Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)"

9)  Katie Armiger  ~  "Better In A Black Dress"

10)  The Maccabees  ~  "About Your Dress"

11)  Blonde Redhead  ~  "The Dress"

12)  The Dukes Of Stratosphear (aka XTC)  ~  "Your Gold Dress"

13)  Loretta Lynn  ~  "Bargain Basement Dress"

Songs With "Respect" In The Title

Today begins a five-part (maybe more, who knows?) series of posts which are only tenuously related. The common theme is that the title keywords for each post rhyme with each other. This is a group of songs with "Respect" in the title. This week, I'll also be posting songs with the words "Reject," "Connect," "Expect," and "Direct" in the titles. There's no real reason for this; I just felt like doing it. But just because it's pointless, that doesn't necessarily mean you won't enjoy it, right?  ~  JH

1)  Aretha Franklin  ~  "Respect"

2)  Erasure  ~  "A Little Respect"

3)  The Kinks  ~   "A Well Respected Man"

4)  Tina Turner  ~  "Show Some Respect"

5)  Don McLean  ~  "Respectable"

6)  Sting  ~  "Show Some Respect"

7)  Robyn  ~  "Do You Really Want Me (Show Respect)"

8)  Extreme  ~  "No Respect"  (I feel it only fair to warn you about the Sumo wrestler at the beginning.)

9)  Alex & Eddie Van Halen  ~  "Respect The Wind"

10)  Mel And Kim  ~  "Respectable"

11)  The Rolling Stones  ~  "Respectable"

12)  Rufus Wainwright  ~  "Respectable Dive"

13)  The Isley Brothers  ~  "Respectable"

14)  XTC  ~  "Respectable Street"

15)  The Staple Singers  ~  "Respect Yourself"