Wax and Tracks

Monday, July 14, 2014

Songs About Crying

Today begins a loosely-related-but-not-really-related series of posts that I thought up over the weekend. We'll start with Songs About Crying, then progress to Songs About Flying, Songs About Lying, Songs About Trying, and maybe even Songs About Dying. The only thing that ties these together is that their titles rhyme. Each post will include a collection of songs with the word from the post's title (or one of its derivatives) in its songs' titles. Get it? Got it? Good! Enjoy! ~ JH

1) Roy Orbison ~ "Crying"

2) Fergie ~ "Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)"

3) The Script ~ "We Cry"

4) Mariah Carey ~ "I Don't Wanna Cry"

5) Aerosmith ~ "Cryin'"

6) Faith Hill ~ "Cry"

7) Chris Isaak ~ "Somebody's Crying"

8) Barbra Streisand & Ray Charles ~ "Crying Time"

9) Flo Rida ~ "I Cry"

10) Highway 101 ~ "Cry, Cry, Cry" (Back in the late '80s, or maybe it was the early '90s, when I was a big-time fan of The Judds [see #12 below], I saw this band open for them at Kings Dominion. They were really good, too!)

11) Guns N' Roses ~ "Don't Cry"

12) The Judds ~ "Cry Myself To Sleep" (Peep some of these 1980s hairdos – in the audience AND onstage. Wow…just, wow!)

13) Journey ~ "Who's Crying Now?"

14) Katy B ~ "Crying For No Reason"

15) Live ~ "Dolphin's Cry"

16) Madonna ~ "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" (I have no idea why the song starts over without sound around the 5:00 mark…but feel free to stop it there. Nothing new to see after that.)

17) Cee Lo Green ~ "Cry Baby" (If you were wondering, yes, that IS the guy who played Steve Urkel on Family Matters.)

18) Sheryl Crow ~ "Can't Cry Anymore"

19) Santana ft. Sean Paul & Joss Stone ~ "Cry Baby Cry"

20) Jimi Hendrix ~ "The Wind Cries Mary"

Friday, July 11, 2014

Songs About Turning

It's Friday, the end of a long work week. I decided to keep it simple. Here's a dozen songs with either the word "Turn" or "Turning" in the titles. All the songs are by well-known artists or are fairly well-known songs in their own right. No fillers, no fluff. That is all. Enjoy? ~ JH

1) Conor Maynard ft. Ne-Yo ~ "Turn Around"

2) Adele ~ "Turning Tables"

3) The Vapors ~ "Turning Japanese"

4) Rihanna ~ "Wait Your Turn"

5) The Black Keys ~ "Turn Blue"

6) Christina Aguilera ~ "I Turn To You"

7) Cher ~ "If I Could Turn Back Time"

8) Nelly Furtado ~ "Turn Off The Light"

9) Reba McEntire ~ "Turn On The Radio"

10) Drowning Pool ~ "Turn So Cold"

11) Aqua ~ "Turn Back Time"

12) The Byrds ~ "Turn! Turn! Turn!"

Thursday, July 10, 2014

"Okay" Songs

These songs all have the word "Okay" (or its abbreviation, "OK") in their titles. That's the gimmick – nothing more, nothing less. That being said, many of the songs included herein are more than "okay" in quality, while some merely live up to their names. There's a healthy balance of well-known and lesser-known artists here, so give 'em all a fair chance. And please, do enjoy them! ~ JH

1) Ingrid Michaelson ~ "Be OK"

2) Ashley Tisdale ~ "It's Alright, It's OK"

3) The Offspring ~ "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?"

4) Whitney Houston ~ "It's Not Right, But It's Okay"

5) Oh Honey ~ "Be Okay"

6) Eric Hutchinson ~ "OK, It's Alright With Me"

7) Vanessa Hudgens ~ "Say OK"

8) Atomic Kitten ~ "It's OK!"

9) McFly ~ "I'll Be OK"

10) Julia Stone ~ "It's All Okay"

11) Erin McCarley ~ "Pony (It's OK)"

12) The Afters ~ "Never Going Back To OK"

13) Cara Brandisi ~ "Okay"

14) Chrisette Michelle ~ "Be OK"

15) BeBe & CeCe Winans ~ "It's O.K."

16) Heathers ~ "It's Alright Not To Feel OK"

17) Isabelle Amé ~ "It's OK"

18) Holy Ghost! ~ "Okay"

19) Aurea ~ "Okay Alright"

20) Sarah ~ "Okay" (This song sounds great, but it's in Danish. So, for all I know, she could be singing about frog hysterectomies…or something even MORE random!)

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

...Totally Sounds Like...

Here's a post that's likely to stir up a bit of controversy among my fellow music enthusiasts. This is a collection of songs by pairs of bands/artists who, in my opinion, sound very similar to each other, either musically or vocally, and often both. You are, of course, entitled to disagree with me – in fact, I welcome your input as to whether you think I'm spot-on or way off-base. Feel free to offer some of your own examples of sound-alike bands, as I may do another one of these posts at some point. Enjoy! ~ JH

BLOGGER'S NOTE: The specific song for each artist below is not necessarily a sound-alike for the song of the sound-alike artist, although sometimes that is the case. The songs included here are merely examples of what the band or artist sounds like, primarily for the benefit of those who are not familiar with their music.

Seether ("Remedy")