Songs About Grace, Vol. 1

The latest installment in my ongoing series of faith-based songs centered around a theme, here's a collection of songs about Grace. There were so many good ones that I had to break it up into two separate posts. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Hillsong United  ~  "Scandal Of Grace"

2)  Tenth Avenue North  ~  "Grace"

3)  Tasha Cobbs  ~  "Grace"

4)  Elevation Worship  ~  "Grace So Glorious"

5)  Unspoken  ~  "Call It Grace"

6)  Trin-I-Tee 5:7  ~  "God's Grace"

7)  Michael W. Smith  ~  "Grace"

8)  Hillsong Worship  ~  "Broken Vessels (Amazing Grace)"

9)  Chris Tomlin  ~  "Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)"

10)  Von Won ft. Scarface  ~  "Grace Still Abides"

11)  Phil Wickham  ~  "This Is Amazing Grace"

12)  Gaither Vocal Band  ~  "Sinner Saved By Grace"

13)  Jimmy Needham ft. Trip Lee  ~  "Grace Amazing"

14)  Matt Maher  ~  "Your Grace Is Enough"

15)  Gaither Homecoming  ~  "Grace Greater Than Our Sin"

16)  Israel Houghton  ~  "Saved By Grace"

17)  Kari Jobe  ~  "Grace That Won't Let Go"

18)  Larnelle Harris  ~  "Were It Not For Grace"

19)  The Austin Stone  ~  "Glorious Grace"

20)  Alan Jackson  ~  "Amazing Grace"

Simile Songs

I may have graduated with a degree in English, but that was a long time ago, so I may be wrong about some of these. But, assuming I'm not, here's a collection of songs with similes in their titles. You know, those "like a..." descriptive phrases you see all over the place in sentences. There were plenty of these to choose from, so I tried to pick some of the best. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Neil Young  ~  "Like A Hurricane"

2)  Audioslave  ~  "Like A Stone"

3)  Madonna  ~  "Like A Prayer"

4)  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band  ~  "Like A Rock"

5)  Jars Of Clay  ~  "Like A Child"

6)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  "Like A Star"

7)  Bob Dylan  ~  "Like A Rolling Stone"

8)  "Weird Al" Yankovic  ~  "Like A Surgeon"

9)  Kitten  ~  "Like A Stranger"

10)  Guy Sebastian  ~  "Like A Drum"

11)  Planetshakers  ~  "Like A Fire"

12)  Roxette  ~  "Fading Like A Flower"

13)  Alan Jackson  ~  "Like Red On A Rose"

14)  Nirvana  ~  "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

15)  Selena Gomez & The Scene  ~  "Love You Like A Love Song"

16)  Duran Duran  ~  "Hungry Like The Wolf"

17)  Kris Allen  ~  "Live Like We're Dying"

18)  Sade  ~  "Like A Tattoo"

19)  Aerosmith  ~  "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"

20)  Lecrae ft. J. Paul  ~  "Just Like You"

21)  Sugarland  ~  "Stuck Like Glue"

22)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  "Head Like A Hole"

23)  Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera  ~  "Moves Like Jagger"

24)  Patrick Swayze ft. Wendy Fraser  ~  "She's Like The Wind"

25)  The Bangles  ~  "Walk Like An Egyptian"

Songs About Redemption

Here's the first installment in what will hopefully be a long and ongoing series of posts consisting entirely of faith-based songs centered around a single theme. First up, songs about redemption. With the first priority being to feature high-quality songs, I also made a special effort to explore a wide variety of genres here, including gospel, pop, Christian contemporary, Southern gospel, rock, praise and worship, and even one rap song. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  JJ Heller  ~  "Redemption"

2)  Johnny Cash  ~  "Redemption"

3)  Israel Houghton ft. Michael Gungor & Aaron Lindsey  ~  "Sing Redemption's Song"

4)  The Hoppers  ~  "Let The Redeemed Say So"

5)  Nicole C. Mullen  ~  "Redeemer"

6)  Charlotte Church  ~  "Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer"

7)  Hannah McClure ft. William Matthews  ~  "God Of The Redeemed"

8)  Hezekiah Walker  ~  "Let The Redeemed"

9)  Gaither Homecoming ft. Squire Parsons, Karen Peck, & Guy Penrod  ~  "Redeemed"

10)  Casting Crowns  ~  "Blessed Redeemer"

11)  Planetshakers  ~  "Redeemer"

12)  Hillsong Live  ~  "We The Redeemed"

13)  Bushwick Bill  ~  "Testimony Of Redemption"

14)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  "My Redeemer Is Faithful And True"

15)  Michael English  ~  "Feels Like Redemption"

16)  Gaither Homecoming ft. Allison Durham Speer  ~  "He's Worthy (Song Of The Redeemed)"

17)  Matthew Smith  ~  "Redeemed, Restored, Forgiven"

18)  Myron Butler & Levi  ~  "Redeemed"

19)  Greater Vision  ~  "Since I Have Been Redeemed"

20)  Parachute Band  ~  "The Redeemed"

21)  Jessy Dixon  ~  "I Am Redeemed"

22)  Big Daddy Weave  ~  "Redeemed"

23)  Legacy Five  ~  "I Stand Redeemed"

24)  Hillsong Church  ~  "My Redeemer Lives"

25)  The Cathedrals  ~  "Redemption Draweth Nigh"

BONUS TRACK:  Gaither Homecoming ft. Vestal Goodman  ~  "There Is A Fountain"  (This one doesn't have any form of the word "redemption" in its title, but was one of the first to come to mind for me when I thought about the theme of redemption.)

Songs With European Capitals In Their Titles

This post started out as a challenge to myself to find songs with the capital city of each country in Europe in their titles. I failed in that effort (not all of Europe's nations are represented here), but I was able to find quite a few of them. And the resulting songs are not too shabby. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Counting Crows  ~  "On A Tuesday In Amsterdam Long Ago"

2)  Nana Mouskouri  ~  "The White Rose Of Athens"

3)  Neil Young  ~  "After Berlin"

4)  Luna  ~  "23 Minutes In Brussels"

5)  Jazzy Jo  ~  "A Night In Bucharest"

6)  George Ezra  ~  "Budapest"

7)  Vienna Teng  ~  "Copenhagen (Let Me Go)"

8)  The High Kings  ~  "The Rocky Road To Dublin"

9)  The National Parks  ~  "Helsinki"

10)  Emerson, Lake, & Palmer  ~  "The Great Gates Of Kiev"

11)  The Wave Pictures  ~  "Lisbon"

12)  Heather Nova  ~  "London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do)"

13)  Kevin Devine  ~  "Luxembourg"

14)  Shakira  ~  "Te Dejo Madrid"

15)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Stranger In Moscow"

16)  The Wooden Sky  ~  "Oslo"  (NOTE: The song ends around the 3:00 mark; the rest is just blah-blah-blah interview stuff.)

17)  Caro Emerald  ~  "Paris"

18)  Blaenavon  ~  "Prague"

19)  Brolin  ~  "Reykjavik"

20)  The Weepies  ~  "Riga Girls"

21)  Morcheeba  ~  "Rome Wasn't Built In A Day"

22)  Watsky ft. Raquel Rodriguez  ~  "Sarajevo"

23)  blink-182  ~  "Stockholm Syndrome"

24)  Billy Joel  ~  "Vienna"

25)  Sharon Van Etten  ~  "Warsaw"

"Dim" Songs

Here are those "Dim" songs I told you about yesterday. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Francesca Battistelli  ~  "Strangely Dim"

2)  The Waiting  ~ "Never Dim"

3)  Donna Summer  ~  "Dim All The Lights"

4)  Johann Johannsson  ~  "The Sun's Gone Dim And The Sky's Black"

5)  Dwight Yoakam  ~  "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)"

6)  Urbandub  ~  "Dim The Headlights"

7)  Miri Ben-Ari  ~  "Dim The Lights!"

8)  Greenwheel  ~  "Dim Halo"

9)  Grafa & Bobo ft. Pechenkata  ~  "Dim Da Me Niama"

10)  Family  ~  "Dim"

11)  Umphrey's McGee  ~  "Dim Sun"

12)  Absolutely Free  ~  "My Dim Age"

13)  Cold Specks  ~  "When The City Lights Dim"

14)  Deadbolt Zen  ~  "Dim Days"

15)  Blackshield  ~  "Dim"

16)  Goose Rincon  ~  "Dim Thoughts"

17)  Chapel Hill  ~  "When The Lights Begin To Dim"

18)  Glass Oaks ft. Becca Mancari  ~  "Dim Coal Night"

19)  Winston Reedy  ~  "Dim The Lights"

20)  Buriers  ~  "Dim Half Light"