"Weird" Songs

Quite surprisingly (even to myself), of all the strange and wonderful (and terribly misguided) ideas I've had for music posts, I've never done a set of songs with the word "Weird" (or "Weirdo") in their titles. Until now. They're not half bad, either (though I may be prejudiced). Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Radiohead  ~  “Weird Fishes / Arpeggi”

2)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Nobody Weird Like Me”

3)  GoGo Penguin  ~  “Weird Cat”

4)  The Dollyrots  ~  “Get Weird”

5)  Iggy Pop  ~  “Some Weird Sin”

6)  Backstreet Boys  ~  “Weird World”

7)  Miles Davis  ~  “Weirdo”

8)  KT Tunstall  ~  “Still A Weirdo”

9)  All Star United  ~  “Weirdo”

10)  Pixies  ~  “Is She Weird?”

11)  Sebadoh  ~  “Weird”

12)  Veruca Salt  ~  “So Weird”

13)  Pete Yorn  ~  “She Was Weird”

14)  Superchunk  ~  “My Gap Feels Weird”

15)  Fruit Bats  ~  “You’re Too Weird”

16)  Everclear  ~  “Nervous And Weird”

17)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Superstar Wonderful Weirdos”

18)  Steel Train  ~  “I Feel Weird”

19)  Hanson  ~  “Weird”

20)  Oingo Boingo  ~  “Weird Science”

21)  Emiliana Torrini  ~  “Weird Friendless Kid”

22)  Clem Snide  ~  “Weird”

23)  Jayney Klimek  ~  “Weird Feeling”

24)  The Charlatans  ~  “Weirdo”

25)  The Muffs  ~  “Weird Boy Next Door”

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”