Monday, October 23, 2017

Songs About Pumpkins

It must be both fall and almost Halloween, since I have pumpkins on the brain. Here's a rousing set of songs about them for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Kate Nash  ~  “Pumpkin Soup”




2)  John Prine  ~  “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”




3)  Devendra Banhart  ~  “Pumpkin Seeds”




4)  Tricky ft. Alison Goldfrapp  ~  “Pumpkin”




5)  The California Honeydrops  ~  “Pumpkin Pie”




6)  Black Mamba  ~  “Posture Pumpkin”  (No, this is not a song by former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant! This band simply stole his alter ego – or he stole theirs.)




7)  A Crucifying Feeling  ~  “The Pumpkin Method”




8)  The Castros  ~  “Pumpkin Pie”




9)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Gimme A Smile (The Pumpkin Song)”




10)  Chikune  ~  “Pumpkin”




11)  Frankie Yankovic  ~  “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”




12)  Jay & The Techniques  ~  “Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”  (Oddly enough, this is not the same song as the one by Frankie Yankovic above!)




13)  Slothrust  ~  “Rotten Pumpkin”




14)  Patrick Wolf  ~  “Pumpkin Soup”




15)  Freda Payne  ~  “Sweet Pumpkin”




16)  Helloween  ~  “Pumpkins United"




17)  Islands  ~  “Pumpkin”




18)  NEØV  ~  “Woolen Pumpkin Shirt”




19)  Ini Kamoze  ~  “Hole In The Pumpkin”




20)  XTC  ~  “The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead”


Friday, October 20, 2017

"Scary" Songs

How many music blogs do you know of where you can find songs by Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Björk, Skrillex, Belinda Carlisle, Will Smith, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Witches In Bikinis all in the same post? Yeah…I didn’t think so. Sounds pretty “Scary” to me, too! Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  David Bowie  ~  “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”




2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Big Scary Animal”




3)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Is It Scary?”




4)  Jessica Mauboy  ~  “Scariest Part”




5)  Dokken  ~  “Mr. Scary”




6)  Skye Sweetnam  ~  “Scary Love”




7)  McFly  ~  “Silence Is A Scary Sound”




8)  Leila Adu  ~  “Scary Love Monster”




9)  Colors And Carousels  ~  “Scary”




10)  Björk  ~  “Scary”




11)  Will Smith  ~  “Scary Story”




12)  George Lynch  ~  “Son Of Scary”




13)  Witches In Bikinis  ~  “A Scary Kind Of Love”




14)  Villagers  ~  “Hot Scary Summer”




15)  Katie Melua  ~  “Scary Films”




16)  Andrew Gold  ~  “Spooky, Scary Skeletons”




17)  Butterfly Boucher  ~  “Scary Fragile”




18)  Skrillex  ~  “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”




19)  Peter Lara  ~  “Scary Love”




20)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Scary World”




21)  Grace Jones  ~  “Scary But Fun”




22)  The Lobbyists  ~  “Scary Night”




23)  The 1975  ~  “Scary Monsters”




24)  Lindbergh Palace  ~  “Scary”




25)  Romain Virgo  ~  “Scary Movie”


Friday, October 13, 2017

Songs About Not Giving Up, Vol. 2

As promised, here's another set of Songs About Not Giving Up. You should definitely take their advice and NOT do that, either. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Rick Astley  ~  “Never Gonna Give You Up”




2)  Jana Kramer  ~  “I Won’t Give Up”




3)  Bruno Mars  ~  “Don’t Give Up”




4)  Lucie Jones  ~  “Never Give Up On You”




5)  Ben Harper  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Me Now”




6)  Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush  ~  “Don’t Give Up”




7)  Gerry Rafferty  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Me”




8)  Sia  ~  “Never Give Up”




9)  Sean Paul  ~  “Never Give Up”




10)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Giving You Up”




11)  Milo Greene  ~  “Don’t You Give Up On Me”




12)  Sarah McLachlan  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Us”




13)  Craig David & Sigala  ~  “Ain’t Giving Up”




14)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “I’m Not Giving You Up”




15)  Shawn McDonald  ~  “Don’t Give Up”




16)  The Magic Numbers  ~  “Don’t Give Up The Fight”




17)  Washed Out  ~  “Don’t Give Up”




18)  The Saturdays  ~  “Not Giving Up”




19)  Third Day  ~  “Don’t Give Up Hope”




20)  Blinkie ft. Alahna  ~  “Don’t Give Up (On Love)”


Thursday, October 12, 2017

Songs About Not Giving Up, Vol. 1

Here's a bunch of Songs About Not Giving Up. Because what could be a more admirable thing NOT to do than to give up? There were too many good ones of these to fit into one post, so a second (and final) set of them will follow tomorrow. Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Jason Mraz  ~  “I Won’t Give Up”




2)  Lissie  ~  “Don’t You Give Up On Me”




3)  The Maine  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Us”




4)  Birdy  ~  “Never Give Up”




5)  Joe Cocker  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Me”




6)  Paula Abdul  ~  “Ain’t Never Gonna Give You Up”




7)  Colony House  ~  “Won’t Give Up”




8)  Noisettes  ~  “Don’t Give Up”




9)  Steppenwolf  ~  “Hold On (Never Give Up, Never Give In)”




10)  Armin van Buuren ft. Sophie Ellis-Bextor  ~  “Not Giving Up On Love”




11)  Racoon  ~  “Don’t Give Up The Fight”




12)  Regine Velasquez  ~  “Never Give Up”




13)  Josh Groban  ~  “You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up)”




14)  Delta Goodrem  ~  “Not Giving Up”




15)  David Soul  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Us”




16)  Papa San ft. Jael Wiafe  ~  “Don’t Give Up The Fight”




17)  Newton Faulkner  ~  “I’m Not Giving Up Yet”




18)  Veronica Ballestrini  ~  “Don’t Give Up On Me”




19)  Barry White  ~  “Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up”




20)  Yolanda Adams  ~  “Never Give Up”


Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Songs About Apple Pie

Songs About Apple Pie??? Will the randomness ever stop? No, it won't. So don't sweat it...and simply enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Fiestar  ~  “Apple Pie”




2)  White Trash  ~  “Apple Pie”




3)  Penniless  ~  “Adam’s Apple Pie”




4)  Joan Baez  ~  “Where’s My Apple Pie?”




5)  Sequoyah Prep School  ~  “Apple Pie (Maybe Tonight)”




6)  Cor Ad Cor  ~  “Apple Pie”




7)  Tyrone Davis  ~  “Mom’s Apple Pie”  (NOTE: For some reason, this song replays a second time but without sound. When the audio cuts out, you can pretty much tune out then.)




8)  Bengal Club  ~  “Apple Pie”




9)  Mark Lowndes  ~  “Apple Pie”




10)  Cross The River  ~  “Apple Pie”




11)  Stereoside  ~  “Apple Pie”




12)  Lisala  ~  “Apple Pie”




13)  Helium Balloons  ~  “Appeal Of Apple Pie”




14)  So, I’m Jenn  ~  “Apple Pie”




15)  The Hole Company  ~  “Apple Pie Song”




16)  Kissogram  ~  “She’s An Apple Pie”




17)  Lawrence Arabia  ~  “Apple Pie Bed”




18)  Babs Savage  ~  “Hot Apple Pie”




19)  Sitting On Stacy  ~  “Apple Pie”




20)  BriaMarie “The Fresh Princess” ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff  ~  “French Fries & Apple Pies”




21)  Great Lakes Myth Society  ~  “Days Of Apple Pie”




22)  Alchemy Daze  ~  “Apple Pie Politics”




23)  Rafferty  ~  “Apple Pie”




24)  Flannel Graph  ~  “Apple Pie”




25)  Spaces Between  ~  “Apple Pie”