"Tender" Songs

Tread lightly with these songs – they're "Tender." No worries next time, though. Those songs will be "Tough." Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Steve Vai  ~  "Tender Surrender"

2)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Love Me Tender"

3)  Armi Ja Danny  ~  "I Wanna Love You Tender"  (aka "The Worst Music Video Ever")

4)  Blur  ~  "Tender"

5)  Buck Owens  ~  "Your Tender Loving Care"

6)  Joan Armatrading  ~  "Tender Trap"

7)  Babyface ft. Bobby Brown  ~  "Tender Lover"

8)  Restless Heart  ~  "A Tender Lie"

9)  Frank Sinatra / Debbie Reynolds  ~  "(Love Is) The Tender Trap"

10)  Jackson Browne  ~  "Tender Is The Night"

11)  Billy Joel ft. Toots Thielemans  ~  "Leave A Tender Moment Alone"

12)  Tina Turner  ~  "Be Tender With Me Baby"

13)  Feeder  ~  "Tender"

14)  The Oak Ridge Boys  ~  "In A Tender Moment"

15)  Au Palais  ~  "Tender Mercy"

16)  Bee Gees  ~  "Fanny (Be Tender With My Love)"

17)  Chris De Burgh  ~   "Tender Hands"

18)  Mary Chapin Carpenter  ~  "Tender When I Want To Be"

19)  Lionel Richie  ~  "Tender Heart"

20)  Percy & Rosa Sledge  ~  "Warm And Tender Love"

"Trouble"-ing Songs

Ya got trouble? I do. Right here. Twenty-five songs about trouble, in fact. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Iggy Azalea ft. Jennifer Hudson  ~  "Trouble"

2)  Coldplay  ~  "Trouble"

3)  Taylor Swift  ~  "I Knew You Were Trouble"

4)  Ray LaMontagne  ~  "Trouble"

5)  Lenka  ~  "Trouble Is A Friend"

6)  Bob Marley  ~  "War/No More Trouble"

7)  Tori Amos  ~  "Trouble's Lament"

8)  P!nk  ~  "Trouble"

9)  American Authors  ~  "Trouble"

10)  Paloma Faith  ~  "Trouble With My Baby"

11)  Seth MacFarlane  ~  "Ya Got Trouble"

12)  Kelly Clarkson  ~  "The Trouble With Love Is"

13)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Trouble"

14)  Christina Aguilera  ~  "I Got Trouble"

15)  10,000 Maniacs  ~  "Trouble Me"

16)  Dave Matthews  ~  "Trouble"

17)  Natalia Kills  ~  "Trouble"

18)  Sonic Youth  ~  "Little Trouble Girl"

19)  Whitesnake  ~  "Trouble"

20)  Dixie Chicks  ~  "There's Your Trouble"

21)  Lilly Wood & The Prick  ~  "Into Trouble"

22)  Travis Tritt  ~  "T-R-O-U-B-L-E"

23)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  "Trouble Sleeping"

24)  Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions  ~  "Trouble"

25)  TV On The Radio  ~  "Trouble"

"Permanent" Songs

As promised, here's the follow-up to those "Temporary" songs. Hopefully, these will leave even more of a lasting impression on you. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  David Cook  ~  "Permanent"

2)  Jason Chen  ~  "Permanent"

3)  Aerosmith  ~  "Permanent Vacation"

4)  Amy Edwards  ~  "Permanent Red"

5)  John Hiatt  ~  "Permanent Hurt"

6)  Eagle-Eye Cherry  ~  "Permanent Tears"

7)  The Mountain Goats  ~  "Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace"

8)  Tasha Blackmore  ~  "Permanent Memory"

9)  The Trews  ~  "Permanent Love"

10)  Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin  ~  "The Oldest Established (Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York)"

11)  Paradise Lost  ~  "Permanent Solution"

12)  Cruiserweight  ~  "Permanent Things"

13)  World Order  ~  "Permanent Revolution"

14)  Born Ruffians  ~  "Permanent Hesitation"

15)  Yasushi Yoshida  ~  "Permanent Yesterday"

16)  The Bomas  ~  "Permanent Addiction"

17)  R.E.M.  ~  "Permanent Vacation"

18)  African China  ~  "No Condition Is Permanent"

19)  Backstreet Boys  ~  "Permanent Stain"

20)  Jason Reeves & Colbie Caillat  ~  "Permanent"

"Temporary" Songs

Well, whaddyaknow? Another "Opposites" music post from this guy. Big shocker, I'm sure! For now at least, here's a bunch of "Temporary" songs. Next time, I promise the songs will be much more "Permanent." Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jack White  ~  "Temporary Ground"

2)  Carly Patterson  ~  "Temporary Life"

3)  White Rabbits  ~  "Temporary"

4)  Fleetwood Mac  ~  "Temporary One"

5)  Rogue Wave  ~  "Temporary"

6)  Soko  ~  "Temporary Mood Swings"

7)  Anathema  ~  "Temporary Peace"

8)  Missy Higgins  ~  "Temporary Love"

9)  Eddie Murphy  ~  "Temporary"

10)  Ane Brun  ~  "Temporary Dive"

11)  Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals  ~  "Temporary Remedy"

12)  Veronica Ballestrini  ~  "Temporary Fix"

13)  Todd Rundgren  ~  "Temporary Sanity"

14)  Emily Rose  ~  "Temporary Help"

15)  Joseph Arthur & The Lonely Astronauts  ~  "Temporary People"

16)  Krista  ~  "Temporary Insanity"

17)  Slaid Cleaves  ~  "Temporary"

18)  Romeo Void  ~  "A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)"

19)  Graham Parker  ~  "Temporary Beauty"

20)  Kizzy Meriel Crawford  ~  "Temporary Zone"

"Wonderful" Songs

Every so often, there is truth in advertising. While the point of this post was to gather a group of songs with the word "Wonderful" in their titles (a follow-up to my previous "Terrible" songs post), the resulting songs themselves are, for the most part, actually quite wonderful. So enjoy them already!  ~  JH

1)  Angel  ~  "Wonderful"

2)  Gary Go  ~  "Wonderful"

3)  Estelle  ~  "Wonderful Life"

4)  Chris Tomlin & Matt Redman  ~  "The Wonderful Cross"

5)  Black  ~  "Wonderful Life"

6)  Janet Devlin  ~  "Wonderful"

7)  Louis Armstrong  ~  "What A Wonderful World"

8)  Hurts  ~  "Wonderful Life"

9)  Poison Ivory  ~  "Mr. Wonderful"

10)  Eric Clapton  ~  "Wonderful Tonight"

11)  James Morrison  ~  "Wonderful World"

12)  Erakah  ~  "Wonderful"

13)  Everclear  ~  "Wonderful"

14)  Michael Bolton  ~  "Love Is A Wonderful Thing"

15)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  "Wonderful Unknown"

16)  Jason Mraz  ~  "Life Is Wonderful"

17)  Sam Cooke  ~  "Wonderful World"

18)  Sandi Patty & Larnelle Harris  ~  "More Than Wonderful"

19)  Eels  ~  "Wonderful, Glorious"

20)  Desperation Band  ~  "Wonderful"

21)  Diana Krall  ~  " 'S Wonderful"

22)  Don McLean  ~  "Wonderful Baby"

23)  Annie Lennox  ~  "Wonderful"

24)  Marvin Gaye  ~  "You're A Wonderful One"

25)  Joss Stone  ~  "Some Kind Of Wonderful"