Songs About Laughing

It's Monday, and that's hard on everybody. So why not have a laugh? Or at least have a listen to a bunch of Songs About Laughing. Some of which will probably make you laugh. Makes perfect sense to me. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Regina Spektor  ~  “Laughing With”

2)  Bob Dylan & Eric Clapton  ~  “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry”

3)  Bastille ~  “Laughter Lines”

4)  Jessie J  ~  “Who’s Laughing Now”

5)  Donald O’Connor  ~  “Make ‘Em Laugh”

6)  Over The Rhine  ~  “The Laugh Of Recognition”

7)  Neil Sedaka  ~  “Laughter In The Rain”

8)  The Front Bottoms  ~  “Laugh Till I Cry”

9)  Mary Poppins Cast ft. Ed Wynn, Julie Andrews, & Dick Van Dyke  ~  “I Love To Laugh”

10)  R.E.M.  ~  “Laughing”

11)  Tedeschi Trucks Band  ~  “Laugh About It”

12)  Neil Young  ~  “The Old Laughing Lady”

13)  Nathaniel Rateliff  ~  “Laughing”

14)  Mark Wills  ~  “Don’t Laugh At Me”

15)  Norah Jones  ~  “Once I Had A Laugh”

16)  Frank Sinatra  ~  “Nancy (With The Laughing Face)”

17)  Jason Gray  ~  “Laugh Out Loud”

18)  St. Vincent  ~  “Laughing With A Mouth Of Blood”  (I know I just posted this song a few weeks ago for an unrelated theme, but it was a perfect fit for this set and far too good to exclude.)

19)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  “It’s A Laugh”

20)  Teddy Pendergrass  ~  “The Whole Town’s Laughing At Me”

21)  The Guess Who  ~  “Laughing”

22)  Jason Aldean  ~  “Laughed Until We Cried”

23)  Chelsea Jade  ~  “Laugh It Off”

24)  Quiet Riot ft. Randy Rhoads  ~  “Laughing Gas”

25)  Sarah Vaughan  ~  “They All Laughed”

26)  Clay Walker  ~  “Live Laugh Love”

27)  Mark Knopfler  ~  “Laughs And Jokes And Drinks And Smokes”

28)  Gemma Hayes  ~  “Laughter”

29)  Cat Stevens  ~  “If I Laugh”

30)  Paper Route  ~  “Laugh About It”

More “Hot” & “Bothered” Songs

Because one set of "Hot" & "Bothered" Songs is never enough, there's this... Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Sussy  ~  “Why Bother?”

2)  Katy Perry  ~  “Hot N Cold”

3)  The Derek Trucks Band  ~  “Down Don’t Bother Me”

4)  Nick Gilder  ~  “Hot Child In The City”

5)  Over The Rhine  ~  “Bothered”

6)  The B-52’s  ~  “Hot Corner”

7)  Stone Sour  ~  “Bother”

8)  Inna  ~  “Hot”

9)  Soul Asylum  ~  “Don’t Bother Me”

10)  Diamante  ~  “Coming In Hot”

11)  The Fight  ~  “Can’t Be Bothered”

12)  Girls Aloud  ~  “Long, Hot Summer”

13)  Lucy Woodward  ~  “Hot And Bothered”

14)  Avril Lavigne  ~  “Hot”

15)  Miranda Lambert  ~  “I Can’t Be Bothered”

16)  Foreigner  ~  “Hot Blooded”

17)  EVE  ~  “Hot ’N’ Bothered”

18)  Sirens Of Lesbos  ~  “Long Days, Hot Nights”

19)  The Tams  ~  “Hey Girl, Don’t Bother Me”

20)  Fiona Apple ft. Maura Maggart  ~  “Hot Knife”  (FYI: The lady on the left, on high harmony with Fiona, is her sister Maura, who’s also a singer. Obviously.)

“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”