More “Forbidden” Songs

Every now and then, I have what I think is an original idea for a music post, then I go back into my “vault” of old posts and realize I’ve already done that topic before. Such is the case with this post, which features songs with the word “Forbidden” in their titles. I originally did a “Forbidden” Songs post over three years ago. However, upon recent reflection, I realized that post was comprised entirely of songs by artists that no one – myself included! – had ever heard of before. I knew I could do better. And so I did. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Madonna  ~  “Forbidden Love”

2)  Yanni  ~  “Forbidden Dreams”

3)  Chic  ~  “My Forbidden Lover”

4)  This Century  ~  “Forbidden”

5)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Heaven’s What I Feel (Corazon Prohibido)”  (In case you don’t speak Spanish, the word “Prohibido” means “Forbidden.” So this one qualifies in two languages!)

6)  Leo James Conroy  ~  “Forbidden Fruit”

7)  Nancy Wilson  ~  “Forbidden Lover”

8)  Violent Femmes  ~  “Forbidden”

9)  Selena  ~  “Amor Prohibido (Forbidden Love)”  (Yep, there’s that Spanish word again.)

10)  Andy Williams  ~  “Forbidden Love”

11)  Erja Lyytinen  ~  “Forbidden Fruit”

12)  Martin Garrix  ~  “Forbidden Voices”

13)  Darlene Love  ~  “Forbidden Nights”

14)  Marty Friedman  ~  “Forbidden City”  (I don't think this is the whole song. But, wow, what a snippet!)

15)  Polina Gagarina  ~  “Forbidden Love”  (Apparently, Russia has their own Lady “Gaga.” So to speak.)

16)  The Reverend Horton Heat  ~  “Forbidden Jungle”

17)  Tapps  ~  “My Forbidden Lover”

18)  Lefty Frizzell  ~  “Forbidden Lovers”

19)  Heim  ~  “Forbidden Waltz”

20)  Paul van Dyk  ~  “Forbidden Fruit”

21)  Fox.E & The Good Hands  ~  “Forbidden Fruit”

22)  Be Bop Deluxe  ~  “Forbidden Lovers / Down On Terminal Street”

23)  Nik West  ~  “Forbidden Fruit”

24)  Electronic  ~  “Forbidden City”

25)  Storm Large  ~  “Forbidden”

"Elevator" Music

Apparently, this past Thursday was Talk In An Elevator Day. And I missed it! Didn't even have the opportunity to be in an elevator, as a matter of fact. To make up for it, here's a bunch of songs about elevators – or at least, with the word "Elevator" in their titles. Some surprisingly good stuff here. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  “Elevator Music”

2)  Hawk Nelson  ~  “Elevator”

3)  Erin McCarley  ~  “Elevator”

4)  Aerosmith  ~  “Love In An Elevator”

5)  Dot Hacker  ~  “Elevator”

6)  Stars  ~  “Elevator Love Letter”

7)  Outkast  ~  “Elevators (Me & You)”

8)  The Apples In Stereo  ~  “Hey Elevator”

9)  The Pussycat Dolls  ~  “Elevator”

10)  House Of Heroes  ~  “Elevator”

11)  David Archuleta  ~  “Elevator”

12)  Jess Moskaluke  ~  “Elevator”

13)  Mr. Coldstone  ~  “Elevator”

14)  Incubus  ~  “Crowded Elevator”

15)  LABtrio  ~  “Elevator”

16)  Mads Langer  ~  “Riding Elevators”

17)  Oingo Boingo  ~  “Elevator Man”

18)  Courtney Barnett  ~  “Elevator Operator”

19)  Group 1 Crew  ~  “Elevator Doors”

20)  I Am Empire  ~  “The Elevator”

21)  Monique Bingham  ~  “Elevator (Going Up)”

22)  Sesame Street  ~  “The Elephant Elevator Operator”

23)  Mixtapes  ~  “Elevator Days”

24)  Guy Sebastian  ~  “Elevator Love”

25)  Earth Girl Helen Brown  ~  “Earth Elevator”

“Mad” Songs, Vol. 2

As promised, here's part 2 of 2 featuring songs with the word "Mad" in the title. Don't get mad...just enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart  ~  “Mad World”  (Mmkay, so this is the same root song as the Tears For Fears classic in Vol. 1, but it's completely different when performed in a neo-vaudeville style. Especially when the singers are a seven-foot-tall clown with golden pipes and a feisty young songstress with exemplary lungs of her own.)

2)  Bush  ~  “Mad Love”

3)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Mad About You”

4)  Ne-Yo  ~  “Mad”

5)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Mad Love”

6)  Thrice  ~  “All The World Is Mad”

7)  Natasha Bedingfield  ~  “We’re All Mad”

8)  Neil Finn & Friends  ~  “Driving Me Mad”

9)  My Baby  ~  “Mad Mountain Thyme”

10)  Elton John  ~  “Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters”

11)  The Veronicas  ~  “Mad Love”

12)  The Waterboys  ~  “Mad As The Mist & Snow”

13)  Jasmine Thompson  ~  “Mad World”  (Yes, this is another version of the Tears For Fears song, and no, I didn't run out of good songs to pick. I just liked all three versions for different reasons, and couldn't leave any one of them out.)

14)  Neon Trees  ~  “Mad Love”

15)  Jessica Biel  ~  “Mad About The Boy”

16)  Weezer  ~  “Mad Kow”

17)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  “Mad Season”

18)  Mötley Crüe  ~  “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”

19)  Preservation Hall Jazz Band  ~  “Mad”

20)  U2  ~  “Love You Like Mad”

“Mad” Songs, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of great songs with the word "Mad" in their titles. I'm not posting them because I'm particularly "mad" about anything; I just happened to randomly run across several of these while listening to music last week and thought I'd bring them all together (and some of their friends) in a couple of posts. If you like these, there's more where they came from tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Are You Still Mad?”

2)  Tears For Fears  ~  “Mad World”

3)  Hooverphonic  ~  “Mad About You”

4)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Mad Sounds”

5)  Izzy Bizu  ~  “Mad Behaviour”

6)  Queen  ~  “I’m Going Slightly Mad”

7)  Terri Clark  ~  “I Just Wanna Be Mad”

8)  Hardwell ft. Jake Reese  ~  “Mad World”

9)  Katharina Busch  ~  “Getting Mad”

10)  Sting  ~  “Mad About You”

11)  The Dead Weather  ~  “I’m Mad”

12)  Issues  ~  “Mad At Myself”

13)  Elli Ingram  ~  “Mad Love”

14)  Third Day  ~  “You Make Me Mad”

15)  Elana Stone  ~  “She Went Mad And Drank Seawater”

16)  Panic! At The Disco  ~  “Mad As Rabbits”

17)  JoJo  ~  “Mad Love”

18)  Scorpions  ~  “I’m Goin’ Mad”

19)  The Breeders  ~  “Mad Lucas”

20)  Haste The Day  ~  “Mad Man”

Songs About Stretching

Here's a bunch of Songs About Stretching you're sure to either listen to or not. For no particular reason, that's why! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sinéad O’Connor  ~  “I Am Stretched On Your Grave”

2)  Elevation Youth  ~  “Arms Stretching Wide”

3)  Agnes Obel  ~  “Stretch Your Eyes”

4)  MFQ  ~  “Stretch”

5)  Bethany Engelhardt  ~  “Stretch Out”

6)  Larry Stephenson Band  ~  “Any Old Stretch Of Blacktop”

7)  Lady Antebellum  ~  “Long Stretch Of Love”

8)  Bootsy’s Rubber Band  ~  “Stretchin’ Out”

9)  Laila Samuels  ~  “Stretched It To The Limit”

10)  Pepper Rabbit  ~  “Rose Mary Stretch”

11)  Hungry Lucy  ~  “Stretch”

12)  Edison Effect  ~  “Stretching Time”

13)  Sarah Weis  ~  “Stretch”

14)  The Proles  ~  “Stretch It Out”

15)  Becky Moore  ~  “This Stretch Of Road”

16)  Ma$e  ~  “Breathe, Stretch, Shake”

17)  Pamela Parker  ~  “Soul Stretch”

18)  Bernard Fanning  ~  “Sail The Wildest Stretch”

19)  LLW  ~  “Stretch N Pause / Love Life Wisdom”

20)  Daniel Green  ~  “Short Stretch Of Conviction”

21)  Cousin Junebug  ~  “The Stretch”

22)  SPEKTR  ~  “Stretch N Fold”

23)  Brad Anderson  ~  “Stretching The Truth”

24)  Rally Cap  ~  “The Home Stretch”

25)  Fernando Ortega & The Riverbend Choir  ~  “I Stretched Out My Hands”