“Should” & “Shouldn’t” Songs, Vol. 2

Part 2 of 2 of the "Should" & "Shouldn't" songs. Do you feel lectured yet? Well, keep listening and you just may. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Tori Kelly  ~  “Should’ve Been Us”

2)  Buzzcocks  ~  “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)”

3)  Justin Bieber ft. Rascal Flatts  ~  “That Should Be Me”  (I usually steer clear of Bieber songs, but this one was pretty good…for once.)

4)  Metallica  ~  “The Thing That Should Not Be”  (“Shouldn’t”…”Should Not”…really, we’re splitting hairs here.)

5)  Sting  ~  “Why Should I Cry For You?”

6)  Cutting Crew  ~  “It Shouldn’t Take Too Long”

7)  Toby Keith  ~  “Should’ve Been A Cowboy”

8)  Brent Brown  ~  “I Shouldn’t Be Here”

9)  Lisa Loeb  ~  “Someone You Should Know”

10)   Sena Ehrhardt  ~  “Things You Shouldn’t Need To Know”

11)  The Mavericks  ~  “I Should Have Been True”

12)  Thompson Square  ~  “Everything I Shouldn’t Be Thinking About”

13)  The Beatles  ~  “Your Mother Should Know”

14)  Crossfire  ~  “The Things We Shouldn’t Say”

15)  Lee Ann Womack  ~  “Something Worth Leaving Behind / You Should Have Lied”

16)  George Strait  ~  “We Really Shouldn’t Be Doing This”

17)  The Clash  ~  “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?”

18)  Nora Norman  ~  “Shouldn’t”

19)  Tim McGraw  ~  “Maybe We Should Just Sleep On It”

20)  Lee Broderick  ~  “It Shouldn’t Be Love”

"Should" & "Shouldn't" Songs, Vol. 1

Another "Opposites" post, apparently. One I actually haven't done before. Imagine that! Part 1 of 2 – a miniseries? Huge surprise there! Watch, now I'm going to say what I always say at the end...Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Jack White  ~  “I Guess I Should Go To Sleep”

2)  Fra Lippo Lippi  ~  “Shouldn’t Have To Be Like That”

3)  Nathaniel Rateliff  ~  “You Should’ve Seen The Other Guy”

4)  Mary Chapin Carpenter  ~  “Why Shouldn’t We”

5)  Depeche Mode  ~  “Should Be Higher”

6)  Wilco  ~  “Shouldn’t Be Ashamed”

7)  Taylor Swift  ~  “Should’ve Said No”

8)  The Tourist Company  ~  “Shouldn’t Believe”

9)  Andy Grammer  ~  “You Should Know Better”

10)  Ira Losco  ~  “Shouldn’t Have To Bother”

11)  Debbie Gibson  ~  “Should’ve Been The One”

12)  Toby Keith  ~  “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like This”

13)  Kylie Minogue  ~  “I Should Be So Lucky”

14)  Plug In Stereo  ~  “Everything I Shouldn’t Say”

15)  Blondie  ~  “A Girl Should Know Better”

16)  Young Chinese Dogs  ~  “Shouldn’t Be Missing”

17)  Elton John & Leon Russell  ~  “I Should Have Sent Roses”

18)  Rosemary Clooney  ~  “Why Shouldn’t I?”

19)  The Marshall Tucker Band  ~  “I Should Have Never Started Loving You”

20)  All-Star Group  ~  “Love Shouldn’t Hurt”  (In case you’re curious, the All-Star Group’s lineup consists of All-4-One, Michael Bolton, Olivia Newton-John, Jordan Hill, Tamia, Stephen Stills, Chris Stills, Bobby Caldwell, Stephen Bishop, Richard Stites, Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, Laura Davis, Gregory Curtis, Owen Elliott, and Emmanuel Officer.)

"Beach" Songs

It's summer. Beach season. So...there's these songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Owl City  ~  “Umbrella Beach”

2)  Django Django  ~  “Life’s A Beach”

3)  San Cisco  ~  “Beach”

4)  Mike & The Mechanics  ~  “A Beggar On A Beach Of Gold”

5)  The Drifters  ~  “Down On The Beach Tonight”

6)  Rod Stewart  ~  “Brighton Beach”

7)  The Avett Brothers  ~  “At The Beach”

8)  Israel Kamakawiwo’ole  ~  “White Sandy Beach Of Hawai’i”

9)  Elvis Presley  ~  “Beach Shack”

10)  Niki & The Dove  ~  “The Beach”

11)  a-ha  ~  “Memorial Beach”

12)  Palma Violets  ~  “Girl, You Couldn’t Do Much Better On The Beach”

13)  Blake Shelton  ~  “Some Beach”

14)  Ramones  ~  “Rockaway Beach”

15)  Wavves  ~  “King Of The Beach”

16)  Survival Reggae  ~  “Bondi Beach”

17)  The Go-Go’s  ~  “Beatnik Beach”

18)  STRFKR  ~  “Beach Monster”

19)  Chris Rea  ~  “On The Beach”

20)  Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts  ~  “Beach Pop”

21)  Cliff Richard  ~  “On The Beach”

22)  The Growlers  ~  “Beach Rats”

23)  Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds  ~  “(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach”

24)  Martha & The Muffins  ~  “Echo Beach”

25)  Jane’s Addiction  ~  “Up The Beach”

BONUS TRACK:  The Avett Brothers  ~  “If It’s The Beaches”  (What do you do when you have two Avett Brothers songs that are way too good to exclude one? You include both, of course. Thus, this bonus track…)

Songs About Dragons

Apologies if you liked it, but the wussiness of my last post (Songs With Butterflies) left a bad taste in my mouth. A collection of Songs About Dragons? Now, that's more like it! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Bruce Dickinson  ~  “Tears Of The Dragon”

2)  Mickey Rooney & Helen Reddy  ~  “I Saw A Dragon”

3)  Trivium  ~  “Becoming The Dragon”

4)  Tori Amos  ~  “Dragon”

5)  Josh Ritter  ~  “Peter Killed The Dragon”

6)  K’s Choice  ~  “Killing Dragons”

7)  Peter, Paul, & Mary  ~  “Puff, The Magic Dragon”

8)  Miriam Bryant  ~  “Dragon”

9)  Jefferson Starship  ~  “Dance With The Dragon”

10)  Epica  ~  “Chasing The Dragon”

11)  Queen  ~  “Dragon Attack”

12)  Alyson Stoner  ~  “Dragon (That’s What You Wanted)”

13)  Los Colognes  ~  “Golden Dragon Hut”

14)  Lindsey Stirling  ~  “Dragon Age”

15)  MC Lars  ~  “Dragon Blood”

16)  Symfobia  ~  “Dragon”

17)  Covet  ~  “Sea Dragon”

18)  Fallulah  ~  “Dragon”

19)  Floricienta  ~  “Un Enorme Dragón”

20)  Magnum  ~  “Dragons Are Real”

Songs About Butterflies

After coming up with the idea for this post, I second-guessed myself a bit. I mean, butterflies, come on...how wussy can you get? So, this is (unofficially, at least) a two-parter. First up, Songs About Butterflies. Then later – as un-wussy a subject as I could possibly conceive – Songs About Dragons. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  a-ha  ~  “Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)”

2)  Weezer  ~  “Butterfly”

3)  Mariah Carey  ~  “Butterfly”

4)  HIM  ~  “Wings Of A Butterfly”

5)  Crazy Town  ~  “Butterfly”

6)  Corinne Bailey Rae  ~  “Butterfly”

7)  Noel Gallagher & Paul Weller  ~  “The Butterfly Collector”

8)  Miley Cyrus & Billy Ray Cyrus  ~  “Butterfly, Fly Away”

9)  Shinedown  ~  “The Crow & The Butterfly”

10)  Heart  ~  “Dog & Butterfly”

11)  The Smashing Pumpkins  ~  “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”

12)  John Denver  ~  “Catch Another Butterfly”

13)  Joan Osborne  ~  “Baby Is A Butterfly”

14)  Bob Carlisle  ~  “Butterfly Kisses”

15)  Procol Harum  ~  “Butterfly Boy”

16)  Deniece Williams  ~  “Black Butterfly”

17)  Iron Butterfly  ~  “Butterfly Bleu”

18)  Chaka Khan  ~  “Papillon (a.k.a. Hot Butterfly)”

19)  Muse  ~  “Butterflies And Hurricanes”

20)  Dusty Springfield  ~  “Sometimes Like Butterflies”

21)  Screaming Trees  ~  “Butterfly”

22)  Mads Langer  ~  “Drunken Butterfly”

23)  Tori Amos  ~  “Sleeps With Butterflies”

24)  The Hollies  ~  “Butterfly”

25)  K’s Choice  ~  “Butterflies Instead”