"Ugly" Songs

Well, I was able to scrounge up more than enough songs to make my previous blog entry ("Pretty" Songs) into an "Opposites" post after all. A natural counterpart to those, this is a collection of songs with "Ugly" in their titles. Most of the songs aren't ugly, in the purest sense of the word. (Although some might be.) Enjoy?  ~  JH

BLOGGER'S NOTE:  Each of these songs is unique (no repeats within the post), even though many of them have the same, one-word title of "Ugly."

1)  Sugababes   ~ "Ugly"

2)  The White Stripes  ~  "As Ugly As I Seem"

3)  Meg & Dia  ~  "My Ugly Mouth"

4)  Living Colour  ~  "Love Rears Its Ugly Head"

5)  Avery *Sunshine  ~  "Ugly  Part Of Me"

6)  Sevendust  ~  "Ugly"

7)  LeeLee  ~  "Ugly"

8)  The Exies  ~  "Ugly"

9)  Masha  ~  "Ugly"

10)  Senakah  ~  "Ugly"

11)  Juliana Hatfield  ~  "Ugly"

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12)  Raashan Ahmad  ~  "Beautiful Ugly"

13)  EELS  ~  "Ugly Love"

14)  Jason Mraz  ~  "The Beauty In Ugly"

15)  Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Ugly"

16)  Fulkultur  ~  "The Ugly Dance"

17)  The Muppets  ~  "Ugly Song"

18)  Razpy  ~  "Ugly People"

19)  Marco Machera  ~  "Ugly Song"

20)  Matthew Sweet  ~  "Ugly Truth Rock"

21)  Cold  ~  "Ugly"

22)   Lauren Aquilina  ~  "Ugly Truth"

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23)  Blue October  ~  "Ugly Side"

24)  SOKO  ~  "Destruction Of The Disgusting Ugly Hate"

25)   The Black Keys  ~  "Grown So Ugly"

"Pretty" Songs

Here's a collection of "Pretty" songs. Well, not all of them are pretty. (Most are.) But they do all have the word "Pretty" in their titles. If I can scrounge up enough songs with "Ugly" in the title, this will end up being the first part of an "Opposites" music post. If not, then this will just be a standalone. You'll have to wait and see. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Vanessa Carlton  ~  "Pretty Baby"

2)  Dean Martin  ~  "Pretty Baby"  (Not the same as the song above.)

3)  Kasey Chambers  ~  "Not Pretty Enough"

4)  Paul McCartney  ~  "Pretty Little Head"

5)  Paramore  ~  "For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic"

6)  Iyaz ft. Travie McCoy  ~  "Pretty Girls"

7)  TLC  ~  "Unpretty"

8)  Kip Moore  ~  "Hey Pretty Girl"

9)  Keri Hilson  ~  "Pretty Girl Rock"

10)  Soundgarden  ~  "Pretty Noose"

11)  Young Galaxy  ~  "Pretty Boy"

12)  Roy Orbison  ~  "Oh, Pretty Woman"

13)  The Wreckers  ~  "Stand Still, Look Pretty"

14)  Stone Temple Pilots  ~  "Pretty Penny"

15)  Noriega Mind  ~  "Pretty Girl"

16)  Maxwell  ~  "Pretty Wings"

17)  Shania Twain  ~  "She's Not Just A Pretty Face"

18)  fun.  ~  "All The Pretty Girls"

19)  Estelle ft. Cee-Lo Green  ~  "Pretty Please (Love Me)"

20)  The Offspring  ~  "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"

"Free" & "Bound" Songs

You just had to know we were overdue for another "Opposites" post, right? This one's a bit of a stretch, in that the words "Free" and "Bound" both have multiple meanings, several of which are explored here. But technically they're still opposites. Some really good songs here, if I do say so myself. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Kid Rock  ~  "Born Free"

2)  Christina Aguilera  ~  "Bound To You"

3)  Rudimental ft. Emeli Sandé  ~  "Free"

4)  Hammerfall  ~  "Bloodbound"

5)  Tom Petty  ~  "Free Fallin'"

6)  Simon & Garfunkel  ~  "Homeward Bound"

7)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  "To Be Free"

8)  Jerry Reed  ~  "Eastbound And Down"

9)  Graffiti6  ~  "Free"

10)  Paul Brandt  ~  "Alberta Bound"

11)  Haley Reinhart  ~  "Free"

12)  Local H  ~  "Bound For The Floor"

13)  En Vogue  ~  "Free Your Mind"

14)  dc Talk  ~  "Heaven Bound"  (Woooowwww…this is pretty bad! Way back when, you would've never known that TobyMac [the "rapper" here] was headed for bigger and better things if this is all you had to go on!)

15)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  "Free To Be Me"

16)  Indiana  ~  "Bound"

17)  Donavon Frankenreiter  ~  "Free"

18)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  "Bound For Glory"

19)  Daniel Powter  ~  "Free Loop"

20)  Gangstagrass  ~  "Bound To Ride"  (A bluegrass/hip-hop hybrid band? Yes, please!)

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21)  Sheryl Crow  ~  "Love Is Free"

22)   Angry Anderson  ~  "Bound For Glory"  (Not the same as song #18 above.)

23)  Edgar Winter  ~  "Free Ride"

24)  Cake  ~  "Bound Away"

25)   Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Free Bird"

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"