"Pure" Songs

Sometimes it's best to keep it simple. "Pure" and simple, that is. Here's a lovely collection of songs with the word "Pure" in their titles. I would've done "Simple" songs, too, but I've already done it before. So here you go... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Crystal Waters  ~  “100% Pure Love"

2)  Ronnie Milsap  ~  “Pure Love”

3)  Kari Jobe  ~  “Pure”

4)  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds  ~  “Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow”

5)  Arash ft. Helena  ~  “Pure Love”

6)  Pete Townshend ft. Chyna Whyne  ~  “Pure And Easy”

7)  Avicii  ~  “Pure Grinding”

8)  Moloko  ~  “Pure Pleasure Seeker”

9)  Hot Chip  ~  “One Pure Thought”

10)  Dolly Parton  ~  “Pure And Simple”

11)  Radical Something  ~  “Pure”

12)  Alanis Morissette  ~  “So Pure”

13)  Karmin  ~  “Come With Me (Pure Imagination)”

14)  The Lightning Seeds  ~  “Pure”

15)  Hey Violet  ~  “Pure”

16)  Silverchair  ~  “Pure Massacre”

17)  All Saints  ~  “Pure Shores”

18)  Robbie Williams  ~  “Make Me Pure”

19)  Zucchero & Dolores O’Riordan  ~  “Pure Love”

20)  Peter Lloyd  ~  “Pure Love”

21)  October  ~  “Pure”

22)  Sebadoh  ~  “Too Pure”

23)  Kristin Hersh  ~  “Panic Pure / Flooding”

24)  Shannon Saunders  ~  “Pure”

25)  Father John Misty  ~  “Pure Comedy”

BONUS TRACK:  Gene Wilder  ~  “Pure Imagination”  (For those of you who know and love the older Chocolate Factory movie the best [I count myself among you], you will recognize that this is the iconic original version of #13 above.)

Songs About "You Know What"

Here we have an eclectic collection of songs about "You Know What." What exactly are we talking about? A variety of things, actually. You'll have to listen to find out. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Robyn  ~  “Do You Know (What It Takes)”

2)  Oasis  ~  “D’You Know What I Mean?”

3)  The Weeklings  ~  “You Know What To Do”

4)  Cults  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

5)  Grandmaster Flash  ~  “U Know What Time It Is”

6)  The Turtles  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

7)  Roberta Flack  ~  “You Know What It’s Like”

8)  Cracker  ~  “Hey Bret (You Know What Time It Is)”

9)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

10)  Billie Holiday  ~  “Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?”

11)  Neil Diamond  ~  “If You Know What I Mean”

12)  Incredible String Band  ~  “You Know What You Could Be”

13)  Liza  ~  “Let You Know What”

14)  Steve Winwood  ~  “Don’t You Know What The Night Can Do?”

15)  Lee Michaels  ~  “Do You Know What I Mean?”

16)  Madeline Juno  ~  “You Know What?”

17)  Darryl Worley  ~  “Do You Know What That Is?”

18)  Stryper  ~  “You Know What To Do”

19)  Carly Simon  ~  “You Know What To Do”

20)  Rick Nelson  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

21)  David Kitt  ~  “You Know What I Want To Know”

22)  Tina Turner  ~  “You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What)”

23)  Gov’t Mule  ~  “I Think You Know What I Mean / When The Levee Breaks”

24)  Atmosphere  ~  “Let Me Know That You Know What You Want Now”  (That's a tongue-twister!)

25)  Phil Collins ft. Nicholas Collins  ~  “You Know What I Mean”

Songs About Lobsters & Comic Books

Today is, apparently, National Lobster Day. It's also, apparently also, National Comic Book Day. Since I seriously doubted that there were enough good songs about either of these things to post them individually, I decided to "lump" the two together into one "edition" for your listening enjoyment. Umm...you're welcome?  ~  JH

1)  The B-52’s  ~  “Rock Lobster”

2)  Debbie Harry  ~  “Comic Books”

3)  The Aquabats!  ~  “Lobster Bucket”

4)  Consequence  ~  “Comic Book Flow”

5)  MomusMcClymont  ~  “Charles The Lobster Man”

6)  Overtone  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

7)  Ruby Cube  ~  “Lobsters & Cherries”

8)  Caravan Palace  ~  “Comics”

9)  Pinkard & Bowden  ~  “I Lobster But Never Flounder”

10)  Amy Dallen ft. Jason Charles Miller  ~  “Comic Book Store”

11)  Fairport Convention  ~  “The Lobster”

12)  Rio Grande  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

13)  Amoy Fanray  ~  “Lobster”

14)  Extreme  ~  “Tragic Comic”  (OK, so this one's not technically about comic books or comics. But it’s a good song, and maybe that’s enough.)

15)  Bertram Wooster  ~  “The Lobster”

16)  Nustalja  ~  “A Comic Book”

17)  Franz Ferdinand  ~  “The Lobster Quadrille”

18)  Tripod  ~  “Hot Girl In The Comic Shop”

19)  Reggie and the Full Effect  ~  “Image Is Nothing, Lobsters Are Everything”

20)  Antonio Buell  ~  “Comic Book Hero”

21)  Snowblind Traveler  ~  “Lobster”

22)  Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot  ~  “Comic Strip”

23)  Jonathan Coulton  ~  “Furry Old Lobster”

24)  Ariel, Zoey, & Eli  ~  “Take Me To Comic Con”

More “Purple” & “Gold” Songs

As promised, here's another great set of "Purple" and "Gold" Songs for your listening pleasure. Go Pirates, and all that jazz... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Prince & The Revolution  ~  “Purple Rain”

2)  The Black Keys  ~  “Gold On The Ceiling”

3)  Donny & Marie Osmond  ~  “Deep Purple”

4)  Rebecca Ferguson  ~  “Glitter & Gold”

5)  The Who  ~  “Man In A Purple Dress”

6)  Britt Nicole  ~  “Gold”

7)  Al Di Meola  ~  “Purple And Gold”

8)  Brenna Whitaker  ~  “Black And Gold”

9)  Imaginary Cities  ~  “Purple Heart”

10)  Neil Young  ~  “Heart Of Gold”

11)  James Forest  ~  “Purple Clouds”

12)  Flo Morrissey  ~  “Pages Of Gold”

13)  Spring Awakening Cast  ~  “The Song Of Purple Summer”

14)  Cazzette ft. Jones  ~  “Handful Of Gold”

15)  Pop Evil  ~  “Purple”

16)  Sting  ~  “Fields Of Gold”

17)  Lucy Woodward  ~  “Purple Heart”

18)  Barns Courtney  ~  “Glitter & Gold”

19)  Me and Jane Doe  ~  “Purple Gold”

20)  Esperanza Spalding  ~  “Black Gold”

“Purple” & “Gold” Songs

OK, ECU Pirates fans, I know it's been a tough season already and we're only three weeks in. But you can't abandon your team (like those in charge have seemingly done to their fans) that quickly. Show some love for the Pirates by taking a listen to these "Purple" and "Gold" themed songs. The first one may be *somewhat* familiar to those of you who attend the games in person. Oh, and there's one more set of these songs on the way in short order. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  The Jimi Hendrix Experience  ~  “Purple Haze”

2)  twenty one pilots  ~  “House Of Gold”

3)  Tori Amos  ~  “Purple People”

4)  Chet Faker  ~  “Gold”

5)  Donnie McClurkin  ~  “Purple”

6)  Kiiara  ~  “Gold”

7)  Sheb Wooley  ~  “Purple People Eater” 

8)  Metric  ~  “Gold Guns Girls”

9)  Puddle Of Mudd  ~  “Purple Heart”

10)  Victoria Justice  ~  “Gold”

11)  Gogol Bordello  ~  “Start Wearing Purple”

12)  Soul Asylum  ~  “Black Gold”

13)  The Dodos  ~  “Red And Purple”

14)  Bea Miller  ~  “Fire N Gold”

15)  California Wives  ~  “Purple”

16)  Spandau Ballet  ~  “Gold”

17)  nobigdyl.  ~  “Purple Dinosaur”

18)  Owl City  ~  “Gold”

19)  They Might Be Giants  ~  “Purple Toupee”

20)  Christina Perri  ~  “Burning Gold”