Songs About Seagulls

Raise your hand if you thought I, or anyone, could find 25 Songs About Seagulls that are actually worth listening to. Well, I can't see your hands since this is the Internet and all. But I hope you have that kind of confidence in me. Because here they are. I'm sure you will...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bad Lip Reading  ~  “Seagulls! (Stop It Now)”  (Instant comedy classic right here! I dare ya to only watch/listen once! I sure can’t.)

2)  Saturday Sun  ~  “Seagull”

3)  XTC  ~  “Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her”

4)  Bad Company  ~  “Seagull”

5)  Kite Flying Society  ~  “Love & Seagulls”

6)  Sonnfjord  ~  “Seagull”

7)  Be-Bop Deluxe  ~  “Sister Seagull”

8)  Engelbert Humperdinck  ~  “Lesbian Seagull”  (This song...I can't even. The fact that it was part of the soundtrack to the Beavis And Butthead movie pretty much explains everything, I suppose.)

9)  Davide Buffoli Band  ~  “Seagull Kingdom”

10)  Kimya Dawson  ~  “Angels And Seagulls”

11)  Tuohi Quartet  ~  “Seagull”

12)  Love Sculpture  ~  “Seagull”

13)  Neil Diamond  ~  “Jonathan Livingston Seagull Suite”

14)  Sophie Barker  ~  “Seagull”

15)  Kayak  ~  “Seagull”

16)  Living Hour  ~  “Seagull”

17)  Niall Connolly  ~  “The Seagull”

18)  Steeleye Span  ~  “Seagull”

19)  Ride  ~  “Seagull”

20)  Superwalkers  ~  “Seagulls”

21)  Carnival Youth  ~  “Seagulls On Bicycles”  (By far the strangest video I’ve seen in, oh, at least a week.)

22)  Kate Nash  ~  “I Hate Seagulls”

23)  Van Susans  ~  “Seagulls”

24)  Joni Mitchell  ~  “Song To A Seagull”

25)  Joe Bonamassa  ~  “Seagull”  (This is the same song as the one by Bad Company above. But it's equally beautiful in its own right, thanks to some gorgeous instrumentation by Joe and his band.)

Songs About Gravy

This week, I'll take a break from the "Popular Songs Of..." posts to regale you with a variety of posts featuring songs about extremely random things. Not that the songs contained within are anything to balk at – they're really good, for the most part – but the subjects I chose for song collections are, well, "interesting." For example: Songs About Gravy. Dig in...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Beck  ~  “Nicotine & Gravy”

2)  Mark Knopfler & Sonny Landreth  ~  “Gravy Train”

3)  Áine Crehan  ~  “Gravy”

4)  George Benson  ~  “Giblet Gravy”

5)  Caballero Reynaldo & The Grand Kazoo  ~  “Lumpy Gravy”

6)  The Soul Motivators  ~  “Gravy Train”

7)  Flyying Colours  ~  “Wavygravy”

8)  Dale Watson & The Texas Two  ~  “My Baby Makes Me Gravy”

9)  Romeo ft. Christina Milian  ~  “It’s All Gravy”

10)  The Sagittarians  ~  “Good Gravy”

11)  Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition  ~  “Who’ll Sop My Gravy”

12)  Kacey Musgraves  ~  “Biscuits”  (No, the word “gravy” doesn’t appear in the title of this song, but it is prominent throughout. Plus, this is a super-cute ditty, so here it is…)

13)  Paul Kelly  ~  “How To Make Gravy”

14)  Bobby Bare ft. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ray Sawyer, & Shel Silverstein  ~  “Greasy Grit Gravy”

15)  The Manhattan Transfer  ~  “Pork Chops And Gravy”

16)  Climax Blues Band  ~  “Sav’ry Gravy”

17)  Dingus Khan  ~  “Dustbin Gravy”

18)  Phantom Limb  ~  “Gravy Train”

19)  Okey Dokey  ~  “Wavy Gravy”

20)  Pirates Of The Mississippi  ~  “Gravy”

21)  Julie O’Hara  ~  “Gravy Waltz”

22)  Soulfinger  ~  “Grits & Gravy”

23)  Sideline  ~  “Soppin' The Gravy”

24)  Homer & Jethro  ~  “Bread ’N Gravy”

25)  Jo Stafford  ~  “Ridin' On The Gravy Train”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 5

Well, here it is. My last chance to post your favorite song(s) from thirty years ago. Hopefully, I covered all the good ones. If not, let me know what I missed. I hope you will... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “I Get Weak”

2)  Bobby Brown  ~  “My Prerogative”

3)  R.E.M.  ~  “Stand”

4)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “Strong Enough To Bend”

5)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Sign Your Name”

6)  Aerosmith  ~  “Rag Doll”

7)  Vixen  ~  “Edge Of A Broken Heart”

8)  Ricky Van Shelton  ~  “Don’t We All Have The Right”

9)  Bobby McFerrin  ~  “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

10)  Patrick Swayze ft. Wendy Fraser  ~  “She’s Like The Wind”

11)  Rodney Crowell  ~  “I Couldn’t Leave You If I Tried”

12)  Amy Grant  ~  “Lead Me On”

13)  Exile  ~  “I Can’t Get Close Enough”

14)  Poison  ~  “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”

15)  Taylor Dayne  ~  “Prove Your Love”

16)  George Michael  ~  “Father Figure”

17)  Def Leppard  ~  “Love Bites”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Just Say Yes”

19)  Richard Marx  ~  “Should’ve Known Better”

20)  Brenda Russell  ~  “Piano In The Dark”

21)  Kix  ~  “Don't Close Your Eyes"

22)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Smooth Criminal”

23)  Guns N’ Roses  ~  “Paradise City”

24)  Whitney Houston  ~  “One Moment In Time”

25)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Roll With It”

26)  The Judds  ~  “Turn It Loose”

Popular Songs Of 1988, Vol. 4

If you haven't seen/heard your favorite song from 1988 thus fair, do not despair – it might be in this post. Or the final one tomorrow. If neither, I apologize – and please let me know what gem I might have missed. Regardless... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Terence Trent D’Arby  ~  “Wishing Well”

2)  George Michael  ~  “Kissing A Fool”

3)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Heaven Is A Place On Earth”

4)  Poison  ~  “Nothin’ But A Good Time”

5)  Conway Twitty  ~  “That’s My Job”

6)  Neneh Cherry  ~  “Buffalo Stance”

7)  Foreigner  ~  “I Don’t Want To Live Without You”

8)  John Mellencamp  ~  “Cherry Bomb”

9)  Cher  ~  “I Found Someone”

10)  Dokken  ~  “Walk Away”

11)  Rich Mullins  ~  “Awesome God”

12)  Sheena Easton  ~  “The Lover In Me”

13)  White Lion  ~  “Wait”

14)  INXS  ~  “Never Tear Us Apart”

15)  Tanya Tucker  ~  “If It Don’t Come Easy”

16)  Milli Vanilli  ~  “Girl, You Know It’s True”

17)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Hungry Eyes”

18)  Highway 101  ~  “Cry, Cry, Cry”

19)  New Edition  ~  “If It Isn’t Love”

20)  David Lee Roth  ~  “Just Like Paradise”

21)  Pretty Poison  ~  “Catch Me (I’m Falling)”

22)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “Everything Your Heart Desires”

23)  Al B. Sure!  ~  “Nite And Day”

24)  Gloria Estefan  ~  “Can’t Stay Away From You”

25)  Van Halen  ~  “Finish What Ya Started”

26)  U2  ~  “Desire”