“Hot” & “Bothered” Songs

These "Hot" and "Bothered" Songs are guaranteed to make you...tap your toes. What did you think I was going to say? Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora  ~  “Hot Right Now”

2)  Stage Dolls  ~  “Love Don’t Bother Me”

3)  78Violet  ~  “Hothouse”  (These sisters later more of a name for themselves in pop music under their own names: Aly & AJ.)

4)  The Beatles  ~  “Don’t Bother Me”

5)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “Too Hot”  (This tune is a genuine throwback from the earliest days of Alanis’ music career, when she was a Paula Abdul wannabe in Canada. She’s come a long way, eh?)

6)  The Charlatans UK  ~  “Can’t Even Be Bothered”

7)  Billy Idol  ~  “Hot In The City”

8)  Shakira  ~  “Don’t Bother”

9)  DJ Valdi ft. Elena  ~  “Hot Bhangra”  (Whatever a “bhangra” is, this is – apparently – a hot one.)

10)  Shaquille O’Neal  ~  “Biological Didn’t Bother”

11)  Allman Brothers Band  ~  “Hot ‘Lanta”

12)  Eleanor Friedberger  ~  “I Don’t Want To Bother You”

13)  Winter Kills  ~  “Hot As Hades”

14)  Weezer  ~  “Why Bother?”

15)  Jenny Owen Youngs  ~  “Hot In Herre”  (If you haven’t heard this tongue-in-cheek folk-pop cover of 50 Cent’s hit song before, you really need to! It’s virtually a word-for-word cover of the original, so there’re a couple of racy bits, but it’s beyond hilarious!)

16)  Itchy  ~  “Why Still Bother”

17)  Creature  ~  “Who’s Hot, Who’s Not”

18)  Lady Gaga  ~  “Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered”

19)  Mumford & Sons  ~  “Hot Gates”

20)  Happy Camper  ~  “Born With A Bothered Mind”

Songs About Hopscotch & Labyrinths

If there's one that Hopscotch has absolutely nothing to do with, it's Labyrinths. And that's exactly the point of this post – that there is no point. But there are plenty of good songs. So listen to 'em already!  ~  JH

1)  Missing Persons  ~  “Mental Hopscotch”

2)  The Cure  ~  “Labyrinth”

3)  CocoRosie  ~  “Hopscotch”

4)  Smallman  ~  “Labyrinth Of Present”

5)  Fiction & Fables  ~  “Hopscotch Parade”

6)  Asaf Avidan  ~  “The Labyrinth Song”

7)  Eric Lewis  ~  “Hopscotch”

8)  Elisa  ~  “Labyrinth”

9)  Alan Gogoll  ~  “Hopscotch”

10)  BLR  ~  “Labyrinth”

11)  Guided By Voices  ~  “Optical Hopscotch”

12)  Genevieve  ~  “Labyrinth Of Me”

13)  Maya Angelou  ~  “Harlem Hopscotch”

14)  Savatage  ~  “Labyrinths”

15)  Emmelie de Forest  ~  “Hopscotch”

16)  Carole King  ~  “Labyrinth”

17)  Miles Davis  ~  “Hopscotch”

18)  Briana Nadeau  ~  “Labyrinth Of Love”

19)  Waldo  ~  “Hopscotch”

20)  Steve Howe   ~  “Labyrinth”

21)  Gwen Guthrie  ~  “Hopscotch”

22)  Julia Graye  ~  “Labyrinth”

23)  Bastelbande  ~  “Hopscotch”

24)  Poets Of The Fall  ~  “The Labyrinth”

25)  One Girl Shy  ~  “Hopscotch Man”

26)  Toro y Moi  ~  “Labyrinth”

27)  King Of Hawaii  ~  “Hopscotch”

28)  Have I Lost My Mind  ~  “Labyrinth”

29)  Woodpigeon  ~  “Love In The Time Of Hopscotch”

30)  Alesana  ~  “Labyrinth”

More “Bad” & “Worse” Songs

More "Bad" and "Worse" Songs for your consideration. If anything, these tunes might be better than the previous "Bad" and "Worse" Songs. I dunno, you be the judge. And enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Stockard Channing  ~  “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”

2)  LL Cool J  ~  “I’m Bad”  (The man is nothing if not humble.)

3)  Cate Le Bon  ~  “What Is Worse”

4)  Zara Larsson  ~  “Bad Boys”

5)  Merle Haggard  ~  “Nothing’s Worse Than Losing”

6)  Miranda Lambert & Carrie Underwood  ~  “Somethin’ Bad”

7)  Zebrahead  ~  “Worse Than This”

8)  Lennon Stella  ~  “Bad”

9)  I Blame Coco  ~  “It’s About To Get Worse”  (Fun fact: The singer in this band, whose birth name is Eliot Sumner, is the daughter of none other than Sting!)

10)  Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan  ~  “Born Under A Bad Sign”

11)  Liza Anne  ~  “Turn For The Worse”

12)  Selena Gomez  ~  “Bad Liar”

13)  Nate Ruess  ~  “It Only Gets Much Worse”

14)  Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson  ~  “Bad Dreams”

15)  Willie Nelson  ~  “There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone”

16)  Feist  ~  “The Bad In Each Other”

17)  Connie Smith  ~  “For Better Or For Worse”

18)  Bastille  ~  “Bad Blood”

19)  Stacy Clark  ~  “You Make It Worse”

20)  Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello  ~  “Bad Things”

21)  Toby Keith  ~  “Hurt A Lot Worse When You Go”

22)  Beatrice  ~  “Bad Girl”

23)  Emma Blackery  ~  “I’ve Been Worse”

24)  The Kills  ~  “Goodnight, Bad Morning”

25)  Barry White & Glodean White  ~  “The Better Love Is (The Worse It Is When It’s Over)”

“Bad” & “Worse” Songs

Here's a nice collection of "Bad" and "Worse" Songs – which are actually way better than their titles would indicate – for your listening pleasure. Since I posted some "Good" and "Bad" Songs five-and-a-half years ago (not that you would necessarily remember), there are a few notable exclusions from this set and the one that will follow it. (Apologies to Michael Jackson, George Thorogood, Bon Jovi, Meat Loaf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Jim Croce, in particular, for the absence of their iconic songs here.) Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar  ~  “Bad Blood”

2)  Robert Plant  ~  “Worse Than Detroit”

3)  Justin Timberlake  ~  “Not A Bad Thing”

4)  Anouk  ~  “For Bitter Or Worse”

5)  Halsey  ~  “Bad At Love”

6)  Matthew Sweet  ~  “Worse To Live”

7)  Linda Ronstadt  ~  “Hurt So Bad”

8)  Bahamas  ~  “What’s Worse”

9)  The Flaming Lips  ~  “Bad Days”

10)  Sunny Sweeney  ~  “Staying’s Worse Than Leaving”

11)  RY X  ~  “Bad Love”

12)  Soundgarden  ~  “Worse Dreams”

13)  Sevyn Streeter  ~  “How Bad Do You Want It?”

14)  Randy Travis  ~  “Only Worse”

15)  Dua Lipa  ~  “Bad Together”

16)  Laura Imbruglia  ~  “It’s Getting Worse”

17)  Chris Isaak  ~  “Baby Did A Bad, Bad Thing”

18)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “For Better Or Worse”

19)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  “Cry For The Bad Man”

20)  Snoh Aalegra  ~  “Sometimes” / “Worse”

21)  Rihanna  ~  “Good Girl Gone Bad”

22)  Clint Black  ~  “Better And Worse”

23)  Milky Chance ft. Izzy Bizu  ~  “Bad Things”

24)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Loneliness Is Worse”

25)  Madonna  ~  “Bad Girl”