Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 4

Last but not least (I use that phrase a lot on this blog, don't I?), the final installment in the Popular Songs Of 1997 series. Next week, tune in for what's sure to be an even better bunch of songs. Because, of course, we will be exploring the most Popular Songs Of 1987. Meanwhile, enjoy these great songs!  ~  JH

1)  Green Day  ~  “Hitchin’ A Ride”

2)  En Vogue  ~  “Don’t Let Go (Love)”

3)  Hanson  ~  “MMMBop”

4)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Building A Mystery”

5)  U2  ~  “Staring At The Sun”

6)  Blur  ~  “Song 2”

7)  Robyn  ~  “Show Me Love”

8)  White Town  ~  “Your Woman”

9)  Aaliyah  ~  “The One I Gave My Heart To”

10)  Toby Keith  ~  “Me Too”

11)  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones  ~  “The Impression That I Get”

12)  Spice Girls  ~  “2 Become 1”

13)  Savage Garden  ~  “Truly Madly Deeply”

14)  311  ~  “Beautiful Disaster”

15)  Sister Hazel  ~  “All For You”

16)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Sleep To Dream”

17)  The Wallflowers  ~  “Three Marlenas”

18)  Usher  ~  “You Make Me Wanna…”

19)  Bush  ~  “Mouth”

20)  Diamond Rio  ~  “How Your Love Makes Me Feel”

21)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Everlong”

22)  Marcy Playground  ~  “Sex And Candy”

23)  Beck  ~  “The New Pollution”

24)  Az Yet  ~  “Hard To Say I’m Sorry”

25)  Counting Crows  ~  “Daylight Fading”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 3

Here's another set of Popular Songs Of 1997. (One more to go after today.) This one might be the best in the series so far, but I'll leave that up to you to decide. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “As Long As You Love Me”

2)  Live  ~  “Freaks”  (This was then and still remains a profoundly odd, yet inexplicably engaging tune by one of my favorite mid-‘90s bands.)

3)  No Doubt  ~  “Sunday Morning”

4)  The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Mase & Puff Daddy  ~  “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems”

5)  Deana Carter  ~  “We Danced Anyway”

6)  Everclear  ~  “Everything To Everyone”

7)  Sneaker Pimps  ~  “6 Underground”

8)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Criminal”

9)  Paula Cole  ~  “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?”

10)  Rick Trevino  ~  “Running Out Of Reasons To Run”

11)  Babyface  ~  “Every Time I Close My Eyes”  (Listen closely for Mariah Carey’s backing vocals here. I never knew she was on this track, and uncredited no less!)

12)  Oasis  ~  “Stand By Me”

13)  Billie Myers  ~  “Kiss The Rain”

14)  The Verve Pipe  ~  “The Freshmen”

15)  Robyn  ~  “Do You Know (What It Takes)”

16)  Tim McGraw ft. Faith Hill  ~  “It’s Your Love”

17)  Warren G  ~  “I Shot The Sheriff”

18)  Céline Dion & Barbra Streisand  ~  “Tell Him”

19)  Smash Mouth  ~  “Walkin’ On The Sun”

20)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “How’s It Gonna Be”

21)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Volcano Girls”

22)  Counting Crows  ~  “A Long December”

23)  Chris Rice  ~  “Deep Enough To Dream”

24)  Foo Fighters  ~  “Monkey Wrench”

25)  Elton John  ~  “Something About The Way You Look Tonight”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 2

Still taking you back twenty years to the Popular Songs Of 1997. Ready, set, time travel!  ~  JH

1)  Ben Folds Five  ~  “Brick”

2)  Will Smith  ~  “Men In Black”

3)  Shania Twain  ~  “Love Gets Me Every Time”

4)  Beck  ~  “Devil’s Haircut”

5)  Green Day  ~  “Good Riddance (The Time Of Your Life)”

6)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “3AM”

7)  Jaci Velasquez  ~  “On My Knees”

8)  Savage Garden  ~  “To The Moon & Back”

9)  Fiona Apple  ~  “Never Is A Promise”

10)  Third Eye Blind  ~  “Semi-Charmed Life”

11)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Honey”

12)  Seal  ~  “Fly Like An Eagle”

13)  Madonna  ~  “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina”  (Try to ignore the fact that the visuals here are from an entirely different Eva Perón biopic.)

14)  Barbra Streisand & Bryan Adams  ~  “I Finally Found Someone”

15)  The Prodigy  ~  “Breathe”

16)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “The End Is The Beginning Is The End”

17)  K’s Choice  ~  “Not An Addict”

18)  Allure ft. 112  ~  “All Cried Out”

19)  George Strait  ~  “Carrying Your Love With Me”

20)  Shawn Colvin  ~  “Sunny Came Home”

21)  The Wallflowers  ~  “The Difference”

22)  Aqua  ~  “Barbie Girl”

23)  Oasis  ~  “D’You Know What I Mean?”

24)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “I Do”

25)  Space  ~  “Female Of The Species”

Popular Songs Of 1997, Vol. 1

OK, here we go... If the "Popular Songs Of 2007" posts didn't make you feel old, this post and the next three to follow are sure to do so. Because these, the "Popular Songs Of 1997," are now TWENTY years old! And you (assuming you remember some or all of the songs) are now twenty years OLDER than when you first heard them! Let that sink in a bit, then enjoy some "new oldies"!  ~  JH

1)  Spice Girls  ~  “Say You’ll Be There”

2)  Silverchair  ~  “Abuse Me”

3)  Puff Daddy & Faith Evans ft. 112  ~  “I’ll Be Missing You”

4)  LeAnn Rimes  ~  “How Do I Live”

5)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Push”

6)  Coolio ft. 40 Thevz  ~  “C U When U Get There”

7)  Trace Adkins  ~  “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing”

8)  DC Talk  ~  “Colored People"

9)  Texas  ~  “Say What You Want”

10)  Monica  ~  “For You, I Will”

11)  Chumbawamba  ~  “Tubthumping”

12)  Metallica  ~  “The Memory Remains”

13)  Jewel  ~  “Foolish Games”

14)  Elton John  ~  “Candle In The Wind 1997”

15)  The Verve  ~  “Bitter Sweet Symphony”

16)  Whitney Houston  ~  “I Believe In You And Me”

17)  Clay Walker  ~  “Rumor Has It”

18)  Sugar Ray  ~  “Fly”

19)  Cornershop  ~  “Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)”

20)  Céline Dion  ~  “All By Myself”

21)  Savage Garden  ~  “I Want You”

22)  Live  ~  “Turn My Head”

23)  The Offspring  ~  “Gone Away”

24)  Janet Jackson  ~  “Together Again”

25)  Boyz II Men  ~  “4 Seasons Of Loneliness”

"Gloom" & "Doom" Songs

Here's a lovely little collection of "Gloom" & "Doom" Songs to brighten up this otherwise uneventful Friday. Don't read TOO much into the theme – just enjoy! Well, as much as one CAN enjoy "Gloom" & "Doom" Songs. But I digress...  ~  JH

1)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “Doom And Gloom”

2)  Clutch  ~  “The Profits Of Doom”

3)  Pat Benatar  ~  “7 Rooms Of Gloom”

4)  Melvins  ~  “We Are Doomed”

5)  The Like  ~  “June Gloom”

6)  Garbage  ~  “Even Though Our Love Is Doomed”

7)  Kashmir  ~  “Gloom”

8)  The Tiger Lillies  ~  “Crack Of Doom”

9)  Björk  ~  “Gloomy Sunday”

10)  My Personal Murderer  ~  “Singing For A Doomed Youth”

11)  Quinn Sullivan  ~  “Mr. Gloom”

12)  Cadaveria  ~  “Carnival Of Doom”

13)  Low Leaf  ~  “June Gloom”

14)  The Diamonds  ~  “She Say (Oom Dooby Doom)”

15)  eleanor  ~  “In Gloom…”  (The song’s rather pretty. No clue what she’s singing about. I don’t speak Japanese!)

16)  Yo La Tengo  ~  “Automatic Doom”

17)  Creeper  ~  “Gloom”

18)  The Good, The Bad, And The Queen  ~  “Kingdom Of Doom”

19)  Hee Haw Cast  ~  “Gloom, Despair, And Agony On Me”

20)  Sepultura  ~  “Troops Of Doom”