"Naive" Songs

This one goes out to the "Naive" among us, of which I am one in many ways about many things. If you can relate, take a listen. (Even if you can't relate, still listen, you can sympathize.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Grace Wood  ~  “Young Naive & Reckless”

2)  The Kooks  ~  “Naive”

3)  Vonda Shepard  ~  “Naiveté”

4)  Jónsi  ~  “Saint Naive”

5)  Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox ft. Sara Niemietz  ~  “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)”

6) Anberlin  ~  “Naive Orleans”

7)  Mutya Buena  ~  “Naive”

8)  Villagers  ~  “So Naive”

9)  Sequin  ~  “Naive”

10)  Sleeping At Last  ~  “Naive”

11)  Axelle Red  ~  “Naive”

12)  Chris Rice  ~  “Naive”

13)  Izzy Bizu  ~  “Naive Soul”

14)  Micky & The Motorcars  ~  “Naive”

15)  Jamie O’Neal  ~  “Naive”

16)  BYRØN  ~  “So Naive”

17)  Plumb  ~  “Nice, Naive, And Beautiful”

18)  The Mary Onettes  ~  “Naive Dream”

19)  Iman  ~  “Naive”

20)  A Day To Remember  ~  “Naivety”

21)  The xx  ~  “Naive”

22)  Speak Low If You Speak Love  ~  “Naive”

23)  Laura Welsh  ~  “Naive”

24)  Cinemon  ~  “So Naive”

25)  Des’ree  ~  “Innocent & Naive”

"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)

Songs About "You Know What"

Here we have an eclectic collection of songs about "You Know What." What exactly are we talking about? A variety of things, actually. You'll have to listen to find out. Enjoy!  ~  JH

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

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

3)  The Weeklings  ~  “You Know What To Do”

4)  Cults  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

5)  Grandmaster Flash  ~  “U Know What Time It Is”

6)  The Turtles  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

7)  Roberta Flack  ~  “You Know What It’s Like”

8)  Cracker  ~  “Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is)”

9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

10)  Billie Holiday  ~  “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?”

11)  Neil Diamond  ~  “If You Know What I Mean”

12)  Incredible String Band  ~  “You Know What You Could Be”

13)  Liza  ~  “Let You Know What”

14)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do?”

15)  Lee Michaels  ~  “Do You Know What I Mean?”

16)  Madeline Juno  ~  “You Know What?”

17)  Darryl Worley  ~  “Do You Know What That Is?”

18)  Stryper  ~  “You Know What To Do”

19)  Carly Simon  ~  “You Know What To Do”

20)  Rick Nelson  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

21)  David Kitt  ~  “You Know What I Want To Know”

22)  Tina Turner  ~  “You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What)”

23)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “I Think You Know What I Mean / When The Levee Breaks”

24)  Atmosphere  ~  “Let Me Know That You Know What You Want Now”  (That's a tongue-twister!)

25)  Phil Collins ft. Nicholas Collins  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

Songs About Lobsters & Comic Books

Today is, apparently, National Lobster Day. It's also, apparently also, National Comic Book Day. Since I seriously doubted that there were enough good songs about either of these things to post them individually, I decided to "lump" the two together into one "edition" for your listening enjoyment. Umm...you're welcome?  ~  JH

1)  The B-52’s  ~  “Rock Lobster”

2)  Debbie Harry  ~  “Comic Books”

3)  The Aquabats!  ~  “Lobster Bucket”

4)  Consequence  ~  “Comic Book Flow”

5)  MomusMcClymont  ~  “Charles The Lobster Man”

6)  Overtone  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

7)  Ruby Cube  ~  “Lobsters & Cherries”

8)  Caravan Palace  ~  “Comics”

9)  Pinkard & Bowden  ~  “I Lobster But Never Flounder”

10)  Amy Dallen ft. Jason Charles Miller  ~  “Comic Book Store”

11)  Fairport Convention  ~  “The Lobster”

12)  Rio Grande  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

13)  Amoy Fanray  ~  “Lobster”

14)  Extreme  ~  “Tragic Comic”  (OK, so this one's not technically about comic books or comics. But it’s a good song, and maybe that’s enough.)

15)  Bertram Wooster  ~  “The Lobster”

16)  Nustalja  ~  “A Comic Book”

17)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “The Lobster Quadrille”

18)  Tripod  ~  “Hot Girl In The Comic Shop”

19)  Reggie and the Full Effect  ~  “Image Is Nothing, Lobsters Are Everything”

20)  Antonio Buell  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

21)  Snowblind Traveler  ~  “Lobster”

22)  Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot  ~  “Comic Strip”

23)  Jonathan Coulton  ~  “Furry Old Lobster”

24)  Ariel, Zoey, & Eli  ~  “Take Me To Comic Con”

More “Purple” & “Gold” Songs

As promised, here's another great set of "Purple" and "Gold" Songs for your listening pleasure. Go Pirates, and all that jazz... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Prince & The Revolution  ~  “Purple Rain”

2)  The Black Keys  ~  “Gold On The Ceiling”

3)  Donny & Marie Osmond  ~  “Deep Purple”

4)  Rebecca Ferguson  ~  “Glitter & Gold”

5)  The Who  ~  “Man In A Purple Dress”

6)  Britt Nicole  ~  “Gold”

7)  Al Di Meola  ~  “Purple And Gold”

8)  Brenna Whitaker  ~  “Black And Gold”

9)  Imaginary Cities  ~  “Purple Heart”

10)  Neil Young  ~  “Heart Of Gold”

11)  James Forest  ~  “Purple Clouds”

12)  Flo Morrissey  ~  “Pages Of Gold”

13)  Spring Awakening Cast  ~  “The Song Of Purple Summer”

14)  Cazzette ft. Jones  ~  “Handful Of Gold”

15)  Pop Evil  ~  “Purple”

16)  Sting  ~  “Fields Of Gold”

17)  Lucy Woodward  ~  “Purple Heart”

18)  Barns Courtney  ~  “Glitter & Gold”

19)  Me and Jane Doe  ~  “Purple Gold”

20)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  “Black Gold”