Songs About Living & Learning

Sometimes you have to make mistakes in order not to make the same mistakes in the future. As the phrase goes, "you live, you learn." That's generally what these songs are all about. A few of them just happen to have both the words "Live" and "Learn" (in some form or another) in their titles. They're all good ones, though! So enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “You Learn”  (The refrain is “You live, you learn…” which may as well be its official title anyway.)

2)  Marshall Crenshaw  ~  “Live And Learn”

3)  Elle Carpenter  ~  “Learning How To Live”

4)  Joe Public  ~  “Live And Learn”

5)  Idina Menzel  ~  “You Learn To Live Without”

6)  Private Line  ~  “Live, Learn, And Grow Apart”

7)  Clannad  ~  “Live And Learn”

8)  Jonathan Jackson  ~  “How You Learn To Live Alone”

9)  Lesley Gore  ~  “Live And Learn”

10)  Dream Theater  ~  “Learning To Live”

11)  Sondr ft. Peg Parnevik  ~  “Live Love Learn”

12)  Clint Black  ~  “Live And Learn”

13)  Beth Hart  ~  “Learning To Live”

14)  Ben Folds  ~  “Learn To Live With What You Are”

15)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “Live And Learn”

16)  Architects  ~  “Learn To Live”

17)  Kesha  ~  “Learn To Let Go”  (Nope, the word “live” doesn’t appear in the title, but the phrase “live and learn” is repeated several times throughout.)

18)  Billy Squier  ~  “Learn How To Live”

19)  Cyndi Lauper & France Gall  ~  “You Have To Learn To Live Alone”

20)  The Silks  ~  “Live And Learn”

21)  Lady Lush & The Vinyls  ~  “Learn How To Live”

22)  Bill Murray  ~  “When Will I Ever Learn To Live In God?”  (Yes, THAT Bill Murray!)

"Spare" Songs

No, these aren’t a bunch of songs left over from previous posts, nor are they songs that simply wouldn’t fit in with any theme so I put them altogether in one post (although I wouldn’t put it past myself to do either of those things). These are, quite literally, a bunch of “Spare” Songs in that the word “Spare” appears in the title of each. Not surprisingly – because good music abounds, if you know where to find it – there are some real gems here, by both well-known and lesser-known artists. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Spare Me A Little Of Your Love”

2)  Adam Ostrar  ~  “Spare Me”

3)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  “Spare Change”

4)  The Rolling Stones  ~  “No Spare Parts”

5)  Irya’s Playground  ~  “Give Me A Spare Hour”

6)  the Big Nose Attack  ~  “Spare Some Change”

7)  Honeyblood  ~  “No Spare Key”

8)  Tom Paxton  ~  “Time To Spare”

9)  Shortly  ~  “Spare Time”

10)  Robert Cray  ~  “Spare Some Love?”

11)  The Love Compartment  ~  “Spare Parts”

12)  Mandy Patinkin  ~  “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”

13)  Gossip  ~  “Spare Me From The Mold”

14)  The Republic Of Wolves  ~  “Spare Me”

15)  Victoria Reed  ~  “Spare Heart”

16)  Andrew Bird  ~  “Spare-Ohs”

17)  Cassie Taylor  ~  “Spare Some Love”

18)  Chris Rice  ~  “Spare An Angel”

19)  Connie Smith  ~  “Five Fingers To Spare”

20)  Merle Haggard ft. Willie Nelson & Freddy Powers  ~  “If You Can Spare The Time (I Won’t Miss The Money)”

21)  Caitlin Rose  ~  “Spare Me”

22)  Frankie Laine  ~  “There’s Not A Moment To Spare”

23)  Kiss The Curse  ~  “Spare Me”

24)  George Strait  ~  “Anything You Can Spare”

25)  Carla Bianco  ~  “Spare Window”

Songs About Blankets

You never know what I'll come up with next. This time, it's Songs About Blankets. Go figure! Oh yeah...and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Siv Jakobsen  ~  “Blanket”

2)  METZ  ~  “Wet Blanket”

3)  Miss Kenichi  ~  “Blanket”

4)  The Chills  ~  “Wet Blanket”

5)  Jennifer O’Connor  ~  “Black Sky Blanket”

6)  Gilbert O’Sullivan  ~  “Underneath The Blanket Go”

7)  Mary’s Danish  ~  “Julie’s Blanket”

8)  Hammock  ~  “Blankets Of Night”

9)  Robin Jackson  ~  “Red Blanket”

10)  Kiso ft. Kayla Diamond  ~  “Blanket”

11)  Jasmine Singh  ~  “Blanket”

12)  Elbow  ~  “The Blanket Of Night”

13)  Jess Connelly & Lustbass  ~  “Under Blankets”

14)  Dean Brody  ~  “Little Yellow Blanket”

15)  Oh, Be Clever  ~  “Blanket”

16)  Ari Herstand  ~  “Blanket-Go-Round”

17)  The Barberettes ft. Gilgu Bongu  ~  “White Blanket”  (This is a lovely K-pop Christmas song. Who knew there even WAS such a thing? What is it doing in a blog post in mid-May? Why are we asking so many questions?)

18)  Violent Soho  ~  “Blanket”

19)  Metric  ~  “Wet Blanket”

20)  Urban Species ft. Imogen Heap  ~  “Blanket”

21)  Sananda Maitreya  ~  “Blanket On The Ground”  (If this guy looks or sounds familiar but you don’t recognize his name, it may be because you know him as Terence Trent D’Arby, his former alter-ego.)

22)  Hundred Waters  ~  “Blanket Me”

23)  Billie Jo Spears  ~  “Blanket On The Ground”

24)  Trevor Hall  ~  “Under The Blanket”

25)  The Dejas  ~  “Blanket Song”

BONUS TRACK:  The Drifters  ~  “Under The Boardwalk”  (No, the word “Blanket” doesn’t appear in the title of this timeless tune. But the memorable phrase “on a blanket with my baby” is repeated often throughout the song. And no, these aren’t, in fact, the original Drifters. Most if not all of those guys are long-dead. But their replacements sound pretty darn good to me!)

“Fancy” Songs

Here's a bunch of songs, most of which have nothing to do with each other, except that the word "Fancy" appears in the title of each. Sound familiar? Oh yeah...maybe because I do these sorts of posts all the time. And then I sign off by imploring you to...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox ft. Ashley Stroud  ~  “Fancy”  (I much prefer this version to Iggy Azalea’s. But if you must, here’s the link to the original song.)

2)  Bread  ~  “Fancy Dancer”

3)  Jermaine Jackson & DEVO  ~  “Let Me Tickle Your Fancy”

4)  Reba McEntire  ~  “Fancy”

5)  Chromeo  ~  “Fancy Footwork”

6)  The-Dream  ~  “Fancy”

7)  The Weepies  ~  “Fancy Things”

8)  Ween  ~  “She Caught My Fancy”

9)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  “Fancy Shoes”

10)  Silver Convention  ~  “Fancy Party”

11)  Mayer Hawthorne  ~  “Fancy Clothes”

12)  Commodores  ~  “Fancy Dancer”

13)  Miss Li  ~  “The Boy In The Fancy Suit”  (It’s a shame the audio quality isn’t better on this song. From what I can hear, she does a bang-up job of singing it.) 

14)  Andrew Peterson  ~  “Fool With A Fancy Guitar”

15)  The Oak Ridge Boys  ~  “(I’m Settin’) Fancy Free”

16)  The Supremes  ~  “Fancy Passes”

17)  Dave Barnes  ~  “Nothing Fancy”

18)  Kenny  ~  “Fancy Pants”

19)  Lucinda Williams  ~  “Fancy Funeral”

20)  Fred Astaire  ~ “No Strings (I’m Fancy Free)”

21)  Umphrey’s McGee  ~  “Nothing Too Fancy”

22)  The Drowsy Chaperone Cast  ~  “Fancy Dress”

23)  Saxon  ~  “A Little Bit Of What You Fancy”

24)  the 4onthefloor  ~  “Fancy”

25)  Bobbie Gentry  ~  “Fancy”  (The original version of the Reba song – #4 above – Gentry’s rendition is distinctive and popular enough in its own right to also merit inclusion here.)