Songs About Trying

Okay, so this one might be my best effort yet – between picking songs that I actually liked personally, adding good ones that I discovered along the way, and including ones that I thought you, dear readers, might suggest if I missed them. Inevitably, I will have missed a handful of good ones, and I still welcome your retroactive suggestions, but I'm pretty proud of this collection. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Colbie Caillat  ~  "Try"

2)  The Beatles  ~  "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"

3)  Janis Joplin  ~  "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"

4)  Michael Bublé  ~  "Try A Little Tenderness"

5)  P!nk  ~  "Try"

6)  Glen Campbell  ~  "Try A Little Kindness"

7)  Macy Gray  ~  "I Try"

8)  Josh Turner  ~  "Another Try"

9)  Whitney Houston  ~  "Try It On My Own"

10)  Frankie J  ~  "Don't Wanna Try"

11)  Patty Loveless  ~  "I Try To Think About Elvis"   (This song wins the prize for weirdest song title of the week…so far, at least.)

12)  Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft. Akon  ~  "I Tried"

13)  Delta Goodrem  ~  "Born To Try"

14)  James Brown  ~  "Try Me"

15)  Amy Grant  ~  "Don't Try So Hard"

16)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  "Try, Try, Try"

17)  Alicia Keys  ~  "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart"

18)  Soundgarden  ~  "The Day I Tried To Live"

19)  Nelly Furtado  ~  "Try"

20)  Merle Haggard  ~  "Mama Tried"

Songs About Lying

I don't know about you, but I've enjoyed this week's utterly-pointless-yet-somehow-still-fulfilling series of posts featuring Songs About Crying, Flying, and now Lying. (There are two more of these in store after today – Songs About Trying and Songs About Dying.) As always, I welcome your input as to which of your favorite songs I may have missed. Sometimes there may be a good reason for a song's omission, sometimes the song in question may have completely slipped my mind, and sometimes – and these are the best – I've never even heard of the song you suggest and thereby get to discover some wonderful new music (to me, at least). So, basically, it's a win-win situation for all parties involved. But enough preamble – enjoy it already!  ~  JH

1)  The Band Perry  ~  "You Lie"

2)  The Black Eyed Peas  ~  "Don't Lie"

3)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Little Lies"

4)  Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean  ~  "Hips Don't Lie"

5)  Charles & Eddie  ~  "Would I Lie To You?"  (NOTE: Though it shares the same title as the Eurythmics song which I posted not too long ago, this is an entirely different song – albeit no less memorable a song.)

6)  Kimberly Anne  ~  "Liar"

7)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Said I Loved You…But I Lied"  (I really don't like Michael Bolton, but this song belonged in this collection.)

8)  En Vogue  ~  "Lies"

9)  Simple Plan  ~  "Your Love Is A Lie"

10)  Reba McEntire  ~  "You Lie"

11)  Thirty Seconds To Mars  ~  "A Beautiful Lie"

12)  Keaton Henson  ~  "Lying To You"

13)  Terri Clark  ~  "Girls Lie, Too"  (No, that's NOT really Johnny Depp, ladies!)

14)  Bon Jovi  ~  "Lie To Me"

15)  Gabriella Cilmi  ~  "Save The Lies"

16)  Linkin Park  ~  "Lies Greed Misery"

17)  Jonny Lang  ~  "Lie To Me"

18)  Cris Cab ft. Pharrell Williams  ~  "Liar, Liar"

19)  Restless Heart  ~  "A Tender Lie"

20)  Eagles  ~  "Lyin' Eyes"

Songs About Flying

Here's the second entry in my related-but-not-really-related series of posts featuring songs about words that rhyme with each other. I can't really explain it better than that. If you're confused, check out the intro to yesterday's post. Go ahead, check it out. I'll be here when you get back. Get it now? Okay, here goes a collection of Songs About Flying. Hope you enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Seal  ~  "Fly Like An Eagle"

2)  Sara Evans  ~  "Born To Fly"

3)  Aerosmith  ~  "Fly Away From Here"

4)  Nicki Minaj ft. Rihanna  ~  "Fly"

5)  John Denver ft. Olivia Newton-John  ~  "Fly Away"

6)  Taylor Swift  ~  "Sparks Fly"

7)  Frank Sinatra  ~  "Come Fly With Me"

8)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  "Fly Away"

9)  Honey Ryder  ~  "Fly Me Away"

10)  Yes  ~  "We Can Fly"

11)  Kimberley Walsh  ~  "One Day I'll Fly Away"

12)  Richard Marx  ~  "Ready To Fly"

13)  Diana Krall  ~  "Fly Me To The Moon"

14)  Benjah ft. Dillavou  ~  "Fly Away"

15)  Metric  ~  "Expecting To Fly"

16)  Slaughter  ~  "Fly To The Angels"

17)  Hilary Duff  ~  "Fly"

18)  Common Kings  ~  "Fly"

19)  Lizz Wright  ~  "Open Your Eyes, You Can Fly"

20)  R. Kelly  ~  "I Believe I Can Fly"

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"