"Take" or "Leave" Songs, Vol. 1

This is what happens when you do a three-part series of "Give" and "Take" Songs, but you still have way too many "Take" songs worth posting. You get a three-part series of "Take" or "Leave" Songs. Here's the first installment. I'm sure you will enjoy them all!  ~  JH

1)  Jess Glynne  ~  “Take Me Home”

2)  Charlie Puth ft. Boyz II Men  ~  “If You Leave Me Now”

3)  Chris Lane ft. Tori Kelly  ~  “Take Back Home Girl”

4)  Brandon Heath  ~  “Leaving Eden”

5)  The Saturdays  ~  “My Heart Takes Over”

6)  Phil Collins  ~  “If Leaving Me Is Easy”

7)  Orleans  ~  “Love Takes Time”

8)  Ellie Bleach  ~  “Leave Me Alone”

9)  UB40  ~  “Here I Am (Come And Take Me)”

10)  Chantal Kreviazuk  ~  “Leaving On A Jet Plane”

11)  Joe Nichols  ~  “Take It Off”

12)  Thelma Houston  ~  “Don’t Leave Me This Way”

13)  Dave Brubeck  ~  “Take Five”

14)  Lake Street Dive  ~  “Baby, Don’t Leave Me Alone With My Thoughts”

15)  Marti Webb  ~  “Take That Look Off Your Face”

16)  Arctic Monkeys  ~  “Leave Before The Lights Come On”

17)  Amy Grant  ~  “Takes A Little Time”

18)  R.E.M.  ~  “Leaving New York”

19)  James Brown  ~  “Papa Don’t Take No Mess”

20)  Maria Mena  ~  “Leaving You”

21)  We As Human ft. Lacey Sturm  ~  “Take The Bullets Away”

22)  Led Zeppelin  ~  “Baby, I’m Gonna Leave You”

23)  Drake ft. Rihanna  ~  “Take Care”

24)  Maroon 5  ~  “Never Gonna Leave This Bed”

25)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  “Takin’ It To The Streets”

26)  Carrie Underwood  ~  “Leave Love Alone”

27)  Little River Band  ~  “Take It Easy On Me”

28)  Snakehips & MØ  ~  “Don’t Leave”

29)  Roger Hodgson  ~  “Take The Long Way Home”

30)  Foxes  ~  “If You Leave Me Now”

31)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  “Love Take Me Over”

32)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  “Leave A Light On”

33)  Norton Hall Band  ~  “Take My Life”

“Stop” & “Go” Songs

I'm surprised to realize that I've never posted a set of "Stop" & "Go" Songs together. Until now, that is! These are really good, and I'm sure you will...Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Justin Timberlake  ~  “Can’t Stop The Feeling!”

2)  Birdy + Rhodes  ~  “Let It All Go”

3)  Tegan and Sara  ~  “Stop Desire”

4)  Lindsey Buckingham  ~  “Go Insane”

5)  Michael Jackson  ~  “Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough”

6)  Foxes  ~  “Let Go For Tonight”

7)  Andy Mineo  ~  “You Can’t Stop Me”

8)  Courtney Barnett  ~  “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go To The Party”

9)  Phil Collins  ~  “Can’t Stop Loving You”

10)  Demi Lovato  ~  “Here We Go Again”

11)  Little Big Town  ~  “When Someone Stops Loving You”

12)  Cults  ~  “Go Outside”

13)  Elevation Worship  ~  “Won’t Stop Now”

14)  Bryan Adams  ~  “Go Down Rockin’”

15)  5 Seconds Of Summer  ~  “Don’t Stop”

16)  Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani  ~  “Go Ahead And Break My Heart”

17)  John Mayer  ~  “Stop This Train”

18)  Republica  ~  “Ready To Go”

19)  Bebe Rexha  ~  “I Can’t Stop Drinking About You”

20)  Def Leppard  ~  “Let’s Go”

21)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  “Don’t Stop”

22)  The Moody Blues  ~  “Go Now”

23)  The Walls Group  ~   “And You Don’t Stop”

24)  Feist  ~  “How Come You Never Go There?”

25)  Journey  ~  “Don’t Stop Believin’”

26)  Jennifer Hudson  ~  “And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"

27)  Oasis  ~  “Stop Crying Your Heart Out”

28)  Katie Melua  ~  “If The Lights Go Out”

29)  Rise Against  ~  “Make It Stop (September’s Children)”

30)  Florence + The Machine  ~  “Never Let Me Go”

"Uncomfortable" Songs

These songs are not meant to make you uncomfortable – and they probably won't. But they do all have something in common – the word "Uncomfortable" in their titles. So get comfy, take a listen, and enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Sigrid Zeiner  ~  “Uncomfortable”

2)  Andy Mineo  ~  “Uncomfortable”

3)  Stef Smalls  ~  “Uncomfortable”

4)  Wallows  ~  “Uncomfortable”

5)  Nneka  ~  “The Uncomfortable Truth”

6)  Vesna V San-Blikko  ~  “Uncomfortable Music”  (The Russian language sounds fascinating when sung. On a related note, I have no idea what this guy is singing about. The music doesn’t make me uncomfortable, though. So there’s that…)

7)  Totty  ~  “Uncomfortable”

8)  Michael  Malarkey  ~  “Uncomfortably Numb”

9)  Natalie Duncan  ~ “Uncomfortable Silence”

10)  Goldfinger  ~  “Uncomfortable”

11)  Seavera  ~  “Make Me Uncomfortable”

12)  Crying Nut  ~  “Uncomfortable Party”  (I understand the part where they’re gonna party, party, party, but the rest is Greek to me. Actually, it’s Korean.)

13)  Gracie and Rachel  ~  “(Un)comfortable”

14)  Mega Emotion  ~  “Uncomfortable”

15)  ADULT. ft. Lun*na Menoh  ~  “Uncomfortable Positions”  (This stuff is just straight-up weird! And that’s saying a LOT coming from me!)

16)  Clint Lowery’s Hello Demons…Meet Skeletons  ~  “Uncomfortable Silence”

17)  Jodi Heights  ~  “Uncomfortable”

18)  Sydney Sprague  ~  “Uncomfortable”

19)  Jennifer Evans  ~  “Uncomfortable Word”

20)  Squishy Faces  ~  “Uncomfortable”

Songs About Hugging

Everybody needs a hug now and then. Even if they claim not to particularly desire one. (NOTE: Always obtain permission first, lest you later be accused of impropriety.) For times like those, there are these Songs About Hugging. I hope you will truly "embrace" them. Yeah, I know...  ~  JH

1)  Jannike  ~  “Hug Me”

2)  Stanek  ~  “Give Me A Hug”

3)  Amy Letitia  ~  “Big Bear Hug”

4)  Stevie Ray Vaughan  ~  “Hug You, Squeeze You”

5)  Saint Etienne  ~  “Hug My Soul”

6)  George Jones  ~  “If You Loved A Liar (You’d Hug My Neck)”

7)  Kanika Kapoor & Raqhav Sachar  ~  “Hug Me”

8)  Daveede  ~  “Hug The World”

9)  Broken Social Scene ft. Feist  ~  “Hug Of Thunder”

10)  Ra Ra Riot  ~  “Every Time I’m Ready To Hug”

11)  Irene & The Disappointments  ~  “Hugs”

12)  Dead Vibrations  ~  “Chemical Hug”

13)  Dodie  ~  “A Permanent Hug From You”

14)  Big Black Delta  ~  “Huggin’ & Kissin’”

15)  Even Numbers  ~  “Hugs”

16)  Tom Rosenthal  ~  “Hugging You”

17)  Ó  ~  “A Hug Too Long”

18)  Booker T & The MG’s  ~  “Hip-Hug Her”

19)  Tabar  ~  “Hugs”

20)  Riverland  ~  “Hugs”