Friday, April 10, 2015

"Permanent" Songs

As promised, here's the follow-up to those "Temporary" songs. Hopefully, these will leave even more of a lasting impression on you. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  David Cook  ~  "Permanent"




2)  Jason Chen  ~  "Permanent"




3)  Aerosmith  ~  "Permanent Vacation"




4)  Amy Edwards  ~  "Permanent Red"




5)  John Hiatt  ~  "Permanent Hurt"




6)  Eagle-Eye Cherry  ~  "Permanent Tears"




7)  The Mountain Goats  ~  "Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace"




8)  Tasha Blackmore  ~  "Permanent Memory"




9)  The Trews  ~  "Permanent Love"




10)  Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin  ~  "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"




11)  Paradise Lost  ~  "Permanent Solution"




12)  Cruiserweight  ~  "Permanent Things"




13)  World Order  ~  "Permanent Revolution"




14)  Born Ruffians  ~  "Permanent Hesitation"




15)  Yasushi Yoshida  ~  "Permanent Yesterday"




16)  The Bomas  ~  "Permanent Addiction"




17)  R.E.M.  ~  "Permanent Vacation"




18)  African China  ~  "No Condition Is Permanent"




19)  Backstreet Boys  ~  "Permanent Stain"




20)  Jason Reeves & Colbie Caillat  ~  "Permanent"


Thursday, April 9, 2015

"Temporary" Songs

Well, whaddyaknow? Another "Opposites" music post from this guy. Big shocker, I'm sure! For now at least, here's a bunch of "Temporary" songs. Next time, I promise the songs will be much more "Permanent." Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Jack White  ~  "Temporary Ground"




2)  Carly Patterson  ~  "Temporary Life"




3)  White Rabbits  ~  "Temporary"




4)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Temporary One"




5)  Rogue Wave  ~  "Temporary"




6)  Soko  ~  "Temporary Mood Swings"




7)  Anathema  ~  "Temporary Peace"




8)  Missy Higgins  ~  "Temporary Love"




9)  Eddie Murphy  ~  "Temporary"




10)  Ane Brun  ~  "Temporary Dive"




11)  Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals  ~  "Temporary Remedy"




12)  Veronica Ballestrini  ~  "Temporary Fix"




13)  Todd Rundgren  ~  "Temporary Sanity"




14)  Emily Rose  ~  "Temporary Help"




15)  Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts  ~  "Temporary People"




16)  Krista  ~  "Temporary Insanity"




17)  Slaid Cleaves  ~  "Temporary"




18)  Romeo Void  ~  "A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)"




19)  Graham Parker  ~  "Temporary Beauty"




20)  Kizzy Meriel Crawford  ~  "Temporary Zone"


Wednesday, April 8, 2015

"Wonderful" Songs

Every so often, there is truth in advertising. While the point of this post was to gather a group of songs with the word "Wonderful" in their titles (a follow-up to my previous "Terrible" songs post), the resulting songs themselves are, for the most part, actually quite wonderful. So enjoy them already!  ~  JH



1)  Angel  ~  "Wonderful"




2)  Gary Go  ~  "Wonderful"




3)  Estelle  ~  "Wonderful Life"




4)  Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman  ~  "The Wonderful Cross"




5)  Black  ~  "Wonderful Life"




6)  Janet Devlin  ~  "Wonderful"




7)  Louis Armstrong  ~  "What A Wonderful World"




8)  Hurts  ~  "Wonderful Life"




9)  Poison Ivory  ~  "Mr. Wonderful"




10)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Wonderful Tonight"




11)  James Morrison  ~  "Wonderful World"




12)  Erakah  ~  "Wonderful"




13)  Everclear  ~  "Wonderful"




14)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Love Is A Wonderful Thing"




15)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  "Wonderful Unknown"




16)  Jason Mraz  ~  "Life Is Wonderful"




17)  Sam Cooke  ~  "Wonderful World"




18)  Sandi Patty & Larnelle Harris  ~  "More Than Wonderful"




19)  Eels  ~  "Wonderful, Glorious"




20)  Desperation Band  ~  "Wonderful"




21)  Diana Krall  ~  " 'S Wonderful"




22)  Don McLean  ~  "Wonderful Baby"




23)  Annie Lennox  ~  "Wonderful"




24)  Marvin Gaye  ~  "You're A Wonderful One"




25)  Joss Stone  ~  "Some Kind Of Wonderful"


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

"Terrible" Songs


If you take my blog post titles at face value, you might consider me to be a pathological liar. If you delve deeper, though, the picture becomes a little clearer. Case in point, this post. These are not terrible songs, per se, at least not in the sense of their content or quality. They are, however, songs with the word "Terrible" somewhere in their titles. This is part 1 of a 2-part "Opposites" series. The 2nd and final installment will consist of "Wonderful" songs. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  Birdy  ~  "Terrible Love"




2)  Rum Rebellion  ~  "The Tale Of Terrible Tilly"




3)  The Ropes  ~  "Fond Memories Of A Terrible Life"




4)  April Smith And The Great Picture Show  ~  "Terrible Things"




5)  Sleep For Dreaming  ~  "Terrible Things"




6)  The Stapletons  ~  "Wake Up Terrible Motion"




7)  Steff And The Articles  ~  "What A Terrible Thing To Do"




8)  The Routine  ~  "Terrible Things"




9)  Daymoths  ~  "Terrible Beauty"




10)  CocoRosie  ~  "Terrible Angels"




11)  Meat Loaf  ~  "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste"




12)  The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart  ~  "Terrible Friend"




13)  Charlotte Gainsbourg  ~  "Terrible Angels"




14)  Therapy?  ~  "Living In The Shadow Of A Terrible Thing"




15)  Kreator  ~  "Terrible Certainty"


Friday, April 3, 2015

Songs About Snakes


HERPETOPHOBES, BEWARE! The following is a collection of songs about snakes – or, more to the point, a collection of songs with "Snake" or "Snakes" in their titles. Some really good jams here! Fear them or enjoy them – it's all up to you!  ~  JH



1)  David Sanborn  ~  "Snakes"




2)  Frank Zappa  ~  "Baby Snakes"




3)  Charley Pride  ~  "The Snakes Crawl At Night"




4)  Pixies  ~  "Snakes"




5)  The Human League  ~  "The Snake"




6)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  "Snake Man"




7)  Johnny Rivers  ~  "The Snake"




8)  ZZ Top  ~  "Tube Snake Boogie"




9)  Buddy Guy  ~  "Crawlin' King Snake"




10)  Soundgarden  ~  "Get On The Snake"




11)  Samuel L. Jackson  ~  "Black Snake Moan Blues"




12)  Duran Duran  ~  "Union Of The Snake"




13)  PJ Harvey  ~  "Long Snake Moan"




14)  Ryan Bingham  ~  "SnakeEyes"




15)  Ray Wylie Hubbard  ~  "Snake Farm"




16)  Daniel Wade  ~  "Snake Rattle"




17)  Midnight Star  ~  "Snake In The Grass"




18)  Meat Puppets  ~  "The Monkey And The Snake"




19)  Tuatara  ~  "Snakecharmer"




20)  Video Game Orchestra ft. Ingrid Gerdes  ~  "Snake Eater"




21)  Lia Rose  ~  "Snake In The Water"




22)  Georgia Fields  ~  "Snakes And Ladders"




23)  Dolly Parton & Tom T. Hall  ~  "Sneaky Snake"




24)  St. Vincent  ~  "Rattlesnake"




25)  Atomic Rooster  ~  "Black Snake"




BONUS TRACK:  Paula Abdul  ~  "Cold Hearted"  (If you're like me, you probably always thought this song DID have "Snake" in its title…but apparently, it doesn't!)