Songs About The Good Old Days

Did you ever wish you could go back to the "good old days"? Yeah, me, too. These artists, too – so much so that they wrote songs about it and I found them. So take a listen...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Macklemore ft. Kesha  ~  “Good Old Days”

2)  “Weird Al” Yankovic  ~  “Good Old Days”

3)  Joe Bataan  ~  “Good Ole Days / Muchacho Ordinario”

4)  blink-182  ~  “Good Old Days”

5)  Dolly Parton  ~  “In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)"

6)  To Kill A King  ~  “The Good Old Days”  (This is a profoundly odd video. But the song is good, so I’m willing to appreciate the weirdness.)

7)  The Features  ~  “Good Old Days”

8)  Nia Ekanem  ~  “Good Old Days”

9)  The Judds  ~  “Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout The Good Old Days)”

10)  Ray Walston  ~  “Those Were The Good Old Days”

11)  Roger Miller  ~  “The Good Old Days”

12)  Albert Hammond  ~  “These Are The Good Old Days”

13)  P!nk  ~  “Good Old Days”

14)  Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird  ~  “Good Old Bad Old Days”  (I’ve never heard of this guy or his band, but this song is quite good. And quite relevant for these times.)

15)  The Script  ~  “Good Old Days”

16)  Al Green  ~  “One Of These Good Old Days”

17)  Laura Cox Band  ~  “Good Ol’ Days”

18)  Eels  ~  “The Good Old Days”

19)  Jimmy Cliff  ~  “Those Good Good Old Days”

20)  Spencer Lord  ~ “Good Old Days”

21)  Toby Beard  ~  “Good Old Days”

22)  Clint Black  ~  “The Good Old Days”

23)  The Libertines  ~  “The Good Old Days”

24)  Our Gang Theme Song  ~  “Good Old Days”

25)  Smithfield  ~  “Good Ol’ Days”

BONUS TRACK:  twenty one pilots  ~  "Stressed Out"  (No, the phrase "good old days" doesn't appear in any form in the title of this song. But it does appear in the lyrics and is, in fact, repeated many, many times. Plus, it's a fantastic tune! So there ya go...)

“Purple” & “Gold” Songs

OK, ECU Pirates fans, I know it's been a tough season already and we're only three weeks in. But you can't abandon your team (like those in charge have seemingly done to their fans) that quickly. Show some love for the Pirates by taking a listen to these "Purple" and "Gold" themed songs. The first one may be *somewhat* familiar to those of you who attend the games in person. Oh, and there's one more set of these songs on the way in short order. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Jimi Hendrix Experience  ~  “Purple Haze”

2)  twenty one pilots  ~  “House Of Gold”

3)  Tori Amos  ~  “Purple People”

4)  Chet Faker  ~  “Gold”

5)  Donnie McClurkin  ~  “Purple”

6)  Kiiara  ~  “Gold”

7)  Sheb Wooley  ~  “Purple People Eater” 

8)  Metric  ~  “Gold Guns Girls”

9)  Puddle Of Mudd  ~  “Purple Heart”

10)  Victoria Justice  ~  “Gold”

11)  Gogol Bordello  ~  “Start Wearing Purple”

12)  Soul Asylum  ~  “Black Gold”

13)  The Dodos  ~  “Red And Purple”

14)  Bea Miller  ~  “Fire N Gold”

15)  California Wives  ~  “Purple”

16)  Spandau Ballet  ~  “Gold”

17)  nobigdyl.  ~  “Purple Dinosaur”

18)  Owl City  ~  “Gold”

19)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “Purple Toupee”

20)  Christina Perri  ~  “Burning Gold”

“Real” & “Fake” Songs, Vol. 1

Since there seems to be a lot of blurring the lines between what's "Real" and what's "Fake" these days (even our President has problems with this!), there's this collection of songs. Because this phenomenon is so rampant in today's world, there will be two more volumes of these. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Who  ~  “The Real Me”

2)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Fake You Out”

3)  Unspoken  ~  “Real Thing”

4)  Joan Jett and the Blackhearts  ~  “Fake Friends”

5)  Alan Parsons Project  ~  “In The Real World”

6)  The National  ~  “Fake Empire”

7)  Megadeth  ~  “The Threat Is Real”

8)  Olivia Noelle  ~  “Faking It”

9)  Kenny Loggins  ~  “The Real Thing”  (There’s a fair bit of talking at the beginning of this clip. The song starts at the 3:07 mark. You’re welcome.)

10)  Lecrae ft. Thi’sl  ~  “Fakin”

11)  Christina Aguilera  ~  “The Real Thing”

12)  Radiohead  ~  “Fake Plastic Trees”

13)  Billy Dean  ~  “Real Man”

14)  Shawn Mendes  ~  “Fake Love”

15)  Jody Watley  ~  “Real Love”

16)  Korn  ~  “Fake”

17)  Faith No More ~  “The Real Thing”

18)  The Frames  ~  “Fake”

19)  Vanessa Williams  ~  “The Real Thing”

20)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Fake Tales Of San Francisco”

21)  Motion City Soundtrack  ~  “This Is For Real”

22)  Findlay  ~  “Fake Black Heart”

23)  U2  ~  “Even Better Than The Real Thing”

24)  Andrew Bird  ~  “The Fake Headlines”

25)  Simple Minds  ~  “Real Life”

Songs With Awesome Lyric Videos, Vol. 1

A short time ago, a "lyric video" was just what it sounds like. A video displaying to the lyrics of a song with the song playing in the background. Then artists started taking "artistic liberties" with the idea and made the lyric video into an art form in its own right. What follows are some of the best examples of this alternative, yet equally entertaining format of music video –– the lyric video. And there are more where these came from. Two sets more, in fact. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jason Mraz  ~  “I Won’t Give Up”

2)  Sia ft. Sean Paul  ~  “Cheap Thrills”

3)  Justin Bieber  ~  “Sorry”

4)  Katy Perry  ~  “Roar”

5)  Avicii ft. Robbie Williams  ~  “The Days”

6)  Ellie Goulding  ~  “Something In The Way You Move”

7)  Coldplay  ~  “Miracles”

8)  The Chainsmokers ft. Halsey  ~  “Closer”

9)  Green Day  ~  “Troubled Times”

10)  David Guetta ft. Skylar Grey  ~  “Shot Me Down”

11)  Zach Williams  ~  “Chain Breaker”

12)  Colbie Caillat  ~  “Try”

13)  Lukas Graham  ~  “7 Years”

14)  Alessia Cara  ~  “Here”

15)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Cancer”

16)  Ariana Grande ft. Iggy Azalea  ~  “Problem”

17)  Zac Brown Band  ~  “My Old Man”

18)  Hailee Steinfeld & Grey ft. Zedd  ~  “Starving”

19)  R.E.M.  ~  “Fall On Me”

20)  Norah Jones  ~  “Flipside”

21)  Foals  ~  “A Knife In The Ocean”

22)  Plumb  ~  “Lord, I’m Ready Now”

23)  Luke Bryan  ~  “Kick The Dust Up”

24)  Alan Walker ft. Noonie Bao  ~  “Alone”

25)  Nickelback  ~  “Feed The Machine”

Songs About Believers

I hadn’t planned on a follow-up post to yesterday’s Songs About Heathens – it just sort of came about naturally. For what it’s worth, I found twice as many good “Believer” songs as “Heathen” ones. And one group here had two hit songs with that word in their titles. Go figure! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Monkees  ~  “I’m A Believer”

2)  American Authors  ~  “Believer”

3)  twenty one pilots  ~  “Oh, Ms. Believer”

4)  Morcheeba  ~  “Make Believer”

5)  Neil Young  ~  “The Believer”

6)  Giant  ~  “I’m A Believer”

7)   Ronnie Milsap  ~  “True Believer”

8)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  “Believer”

9)  The Black Crowes  ~  “Walk, Believer, Walk”

10)  Bill Anderson  ~  “Liars One, Believers Zero”

11)  Christina Milian ~   “Believer”

12)  Level 42  ~  “Believers”

13)  B.B. King  ~  “Midnight Believer”

14)  Phil Keaggy  ~  “True Believers”

15)  Nanci Griffith  ~  “The Last Of The True Believers”

16)  Freemasons ft. Wynter Gordon  ~  “Believer”

17)  Darius Rucker  ~  “True Believers”

18)  The Cult  ~  “True Believers”

19)  38 Special  ~  “Stone Cold Believer”

20)  Jazzanova  ~  “Believer”

21)  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  ~  “Dear Believer”

22)  Tonéx  ~  “Believer”

23)  Mark Chesnutt  ~  “Thank God For Believers”

24)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  “Believer”

25)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Stone Believer”

26)  Michael Schenker Group  ~  “Rock & Roll Believer”

27)   The Monkees  ~  “Daydream Believer”

28)  Jim Ed Brown & Helen Cornelius  ~  “Born Believer”

29)  Paper Lions  ~  “Believer”

30)  Sass Jordan  ~  “Make You A Believer”