Songs About “Great Expectations”

A couple of weeks ago I started a series of posts featuring songs with the names of famous novels or characters or well-known phrases from literature. The first post featured Songs About "Lolita," then I promptly neglected to do any further literature-themed posts. Well, now is as good a time as any to resume the series. So...enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  KISS  ~  “Great Expectations”

2)  Judy Collins  ~  “Great Expectations”

3)  The Gaslight Anthem  ~  “Great Expectations”

4)  Cat Power  ~  “Great Expectations”

5)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  “Great Expectations”

6)  Elbow  ~  “Great Expectations”

7)  Jay Aston  ~  “Great Expectations”

8)  Toto  ~  “Great Expectations”

9)  Wonder  ~  “Great Expectations”

10)  Miles Davis  ~  “Great Expectations”  (Sit back and get comfortable if you hit “play” on this one. The song – suite? – is a whopping 27 minutes long!)

11)  The Strypes  ~  “Great Expectations”

12)  The Modern Electric  ~  “Great Expectations”

13)  Talia Stewart  ~  “Great Expectations”

14)  Eric Carmen  ~  “Great Expectations”

15)  Wild Combination  ~  “Great Expectations”

16)  Birdt  ~  “Great Expectations”

17)  Considering Lily  ~  “Great Expectations”

18)  My Sad Captains  ~  “Great Expectations”

19)  Number Exchange  ~  “Great Expectations”

20)  Greg Friel  ~  “Great Expectations”

Songs About Cows

These are Songs About Cows. What else is there to say? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  George Strait  ~  “Milk Cow Blues”

2)  Dorothy Dandridge  ~  “Cow Cow Boogie”

3)  Elton John  ~  “Poor Cow”

4)  Rachele Lynae  ~  Party ’Til The Cows Come Home”

5)  Foo Fighters  ~  “For All The Cows”

6)  We Are Scientists  ~  “Cash Cow”

7)  Judy Garland  ~  “I Could Go On Singing (Till The Cows Come Home)”

8)  Seals & Crofts  ~  “Cows Of Gladness”

9)  Steely Dan  ~  “Black Cow”

10)  Reba McEntire  ~  “Gonna Love Ya (Till The Cows Come Home)”

11)  The Wonder Stuff  ~  “The Size Of A Cow”

12)  Anna Katt  ~  “Cows On The Moon”

13)  Elvin Bishop  ~  “Calling All Cows”

14)  Crowded House  ~  “Sacred Cow”

15)  Gene Autry & Mary Lee  ~  “I’m An Old Cow Hand (From The Rio Grande)”

16)  Joe Diffie  ~  “The Cows Came Home”

17)  Primus  ~  “Greet The Sacred Cow”

18)  Ashton Shepherd  ~  “More Cows Than People”

19)  George Strait & Asleep At The Wheel  ~  “Big Ball’s In Cowtown”  (Any post with two George Strait songs in it is automatically a good post.)

20)  Carly Simon  ~  “Cow Town”

21)  Scooter ft. Fatman Scoop  ~  “Behind The Cow”

22)  Judy Garland  ~  “A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow”  (Any post with two Judy Garland songs in it elevates its status all the way to "outstanding"!)

23)  Corb Lund  ~  “Cows Around”

24)  Brian Wilson  ~  “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow”

25)  mewithoutyou  ~  “Red Cow”

26)  Daniel Johnston  ~  "Walking The Cow"

“Wild” & “Crazy” Songs, Vol. 3

Last but certainly not least (I mean, come on, the first song is a Prince classic!), there's this set of "Wild" & "Crazy" Songs. Please listen responsibly. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Prince  ~  “Let’s Go Crazy”

2)  Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors  ~  “Wild World”

3)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Crazy”

4)  Grandaddy  ~  “Brush With The Wild”

5)  Au Revoir Simone  ~  “Crazy”

6)  Yves V & Futuristic Polar Bears ft. PollyAnna  ~  “Running Wild”

7)  Jessie J  ~  “Silver Lining (Crazy ‘Bout You)”

8)  DJ Sava ft. Misha Miller  ~  “Wild Fire”

9)  Michael Franti & Spearhead  ~  “Crazy For You”

10)  Jess Williamson  ~  “Wild Rain”

11)  tyDi ft. Sarah Howells  ~  “Acting Crazy”

12)  Pixie Geldof  ~  “Woman Go Wild”

13)  Simple Plan  ~  “Crazy”

14)  Marian Hill  ~  “Wild”

15)  Mikky Ekko  ~  “Love You Crazy”

16)  Faith Hill  ~  “Wild One”

17)  Sultan + Shepard ft. Gia  ~  “Love Me Crazy”

18)  CLAY  ~  “WildThing / 3’s A Crowd”

19)  Wild Child  ~  “Crazy Bird”

20)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Run It Wild”

21)  Sheppard  ~  “Keep Me Crazy”

22)  Tigirlily  ~  “Wild Creatures”

23)  Andreea Balan  ~  “Crazy About You”

24)  HillaryJane  ~  “Wild Side”

25)  Wildhoney  ~  “Maybe You’re Crazy”

26)  Crissi Cochrane  ~  “Sleep In The Wild”

27)  Lost Frequencies & Zonderling  ~  “Crazy”

28)  Lucy Rose  ~  “Into The Wild”

29)  Dessa  ~  “Boy Crazy”

30)  Catherine McGrath  ~  “Wild”  (This is like Taylor Swift back when she was sorta-kinda a country singer, except without all the boyfriend drama.)

31)  Cheri Magill  ~  “Crazy”

32)  GJan  ~  “Wild”

33)  The Appleseed Collective  ~  “Madly Crazy Darlin’”

“Wild” & “Crazy” Songs, Vol. 2

Just how "Wild" & "Crazy" can these songs be? I guess you'll have to find out for yourself... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lindsey Stirling ft. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness  ~  “Something Wild”

2)  Queen  ~  “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”

3)  Lena  ~  “Wild & Free”

4)  Bill Haley & The Comets  ~  “Crazy Man Crazy”

5)  Local Sound  ~  “Wild”

6)  Adele  ~  “Crazy For You”

7)  Elina  ~  “Wild Enough”

8)  Black Sabbath  ~  “Crazy Train”

9)  Martina McBride  ~  “Wild Angels”

10)  Katie Melua  ~  “The Closest Thing To Crazy”

11)  Kool Moe Dee  ~  “Wild Wild West”

12)  Selah Sue  ~  “Crazy Vibes”

13)  Brett Dennen  ~  “Wild Child”

14)  The Doobie Brothers  ~  “World Gone Crazy”

15)  Brandi Carlile  ~  “Wilder (We’re Chained)”

16)  Paul Davis  ~  “I Go Crazy”

17)  Bishop Briggs  ~  “Wild Horses”

18)  Sammy Hagar  ~  “You Make Me Crazy”

19)  Alexia Coley  ~  “Drive Me Wild”

20)  Andy Grammer  ~  “Crazy Beautiful”

21)  Trampled By Turtles  ~  “Wild Animals”

22)  Deladap  ~  “Crazy Swing”

23)  Steve Miller Band  ~  “Wild Mountain Honey”

24)  Ornette  ~  “Crazy”

25)  Jean Stapleton  ~  “I’m Just Wild About Harry”

26)  Slade  ~  “Mama Were All Crazee Now”

27)  Emma Heesters  ~  “Wild Thoughts”  (This is a beautifully rendered and considerably sanitized version of a DJ Khaled/Rihanna/Bryson Tiller collab. I much prefer it to the original.)

28)  Melanie Martinez  ~  “I Think I’m Crazy”

29)  The Strumbellas  ~  “Young & Wild”

30)  Victoria Williams  ~  “Crazy Mary”

31)  Runaway June  ~  “Wild West”

32)  Barclay James Harvest  ~  “Crazy City”

33)  Moby  ~  “This Wild Darkness”

34)  Taylor Colson  ~  “I’m Gonna Show You Crazy”  (This is also a gorgeously rendered and highly sanitized version of an otherwise exceptional Bebe Rexha song. I’m not sure if I like it better, or just as much – but definitely not less – than the original.)