So, I was going to make this post a collection of "Wait" and "See" songs. But then I found too many "Wait" songs that I wanted to use, and so it became necessary to break this idea up into two separate posts. Not nearly as effective or clever, I know, but then again it wasn't really an "Opposites" post to begin with, so I can kinda make up the "rules" as I go, can't I? Nevertheless, enjoy! ~ JH
1) Mumford & Sons ~ "I Will Wait"
2) Cookie Monster ~ "Me Want It (But Me Wait)"
3) Rebecca St. James ~ "Wait For Me"
4) Luther Vandross ~ "Love Won't Let Me Wait"
5) The Pussycat Dolls ft. Timbaland ~ "Wait A Minute"
6) Us ~ "I Will Wait For You"
7) Charlotte Gainsbourg ft. Beck ~ "Heaven Can Wait"
8) The Lion King Cast ~ "I Just Can't Wait To Be King"
9) Dash Berlin ft. Emma Hewitt ~ "Waiting"
10) Tiny Animals ~ "Wait For Me"
11) Fireflight ~ "For Those Who Wait"
12) SOJA ~ "I Don't Wanna Wait" (For some time now, I have unintentionally neglected the uniquely wonderful genre of music that is reggae – time to change that!)
13) Joe Nichols ~ "I'll Wait For You"
14) Paula Cole ~ "I Don't Want To Wait"
15) Kenny G ft. Lenny Williams ~ "Don't Make Me Wait For Love"
And...I'm back to doing "Opposites" music posts again. There were too
many relevant "Lost" and "Found" songs to fit into one post, so this
will be a two-parter. Obviously, the second installment will be "Found"
songs. Enjoy! ~ JH
Okay, so I heard this Beck song on the radio the other week, and I wanted to post the music video of it, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into a music post. (I'd already included a song by Beck in my "Mononymous Male Singers" post a few weeks back.) So I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out he was born in Los Angeles, and quickly decided that there was my angle. I would do a post of songs by artists born in the city of Los Angeles. It's a lame idea, I'll admit, but it did the trick. So here you have it, a song by Beck and 14 other people who were born in Los Angeles. Enjoy! ~ JH
1) Beck ~ "Where It's At" (He's got two turntables and a microphone...)
2) Belinda Carlisle ~ "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" (Actually, it isn't...but that doesn't mean the song's not good)
3) Natalie Cole ~ "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)" (I like her dad [Nat "King" Cole] a lot – I didn't know Natalie came out with this song)
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9) Katharine McPhee ~ "Say Goodbye" (It's so hard to say goodbye, though...)
10) Liza Minnelli ~ "New York, New York" (A native Angeleno singing a song about New York...makes perfect sense)
11) Keb' Mo' ft. Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne ~ "Just Like You" (One of the most important songs I've heard in quite a while)
12) Randy Newman ~ "You've Got A Friend In Me" (Anyone who's ever seen Toy Story once – or a thousand times – will recognize Newman's distinctive singing voice...and this song, too)
13) Elliott Yamin ~ "Wait For You" (Good song – I'd sort of forgotten about this one, but I like it)
14) Gwyneth Paltrow ~ "Country Strong" (Country strong, but Los Angeles-bred)
15) Emily Osment ~ "You Are The Only One" (Pretty generic teen-pop-crap by the sister of that creepy kid from The Sixth Sense movie)
In case you didn't see or read yesterday's post, I'll recap the intro as succinctly as I can. A mononym is "a one-word name by which a person is known." Many singers, songwriters, and musicians in the industry are (or have historically been) commonly known by a single name. Yesterday, I posted a collection of songs by mononymous female singers. Today, it's the singularly-named guys' turn. Enjoy! ~ JH
(NOTE: Several notable mononymous males are absent from this list, but that is by design. Prince not only has a comprehensive catalogue of wildly inappropriate music, but he also seems to have wiped his entire music video collection off the face of YouTube. Bono [U2] is a great singer, but he hasn't really done a whole lot solo, so I excluded him from consideration here. Yanni is a popular musician, but he isn't much of a singer. Eminem and Drake may be highly talented rappers in their own right, but their lyrics are so foul that I declined to post any of their music here.)
1) Sting ~ "Fields Of Gold" (You can't go wrong with this guy – classic song, classic voice.)
2) Moby ~ "Raining Again" (Moby doesn't always sing the vocals for his songs, but when he does he's not half bad!)
3) Matisyahu ~ "One Day" (Wonderful song by a one-of-a-kind musician – a Hasidic Jew who sings reggae music!)
4) Beck ~ "Loser" (Some of the most bizarre lyrics ever set to music can be found right here in this song.)
5) Tedashii ft. BenJah ~ "Last Goodbye" (Two mononymous guys in one song – ha! Warning: You might want to have your Kleenexes handy...)
7) Liberace ~ "I'll Be Seeing You" (Good googly-moogly, that outfit!)
8) Babyface ~ "Every Time I Close My Eyes" (This guy's voice is smooth as silk – in other words, I'm jealous!)
9) D'Angelo ~ "Cruisin'" (A classic old-school R & B song given a new-school vibe – I like it!)
10) Donovan ~ "Mellow Yellow" (Donovan had to be on some serious drugs when he wrote this song – and maybe when he performed it, too – there's no other explanation for the blatant weirdness...)
11) Gotye ft. Kimbra ~ "Somebody That I Used To Know" (A great song by two talented singers – both of whom are mononymous!)
12) Seal ~ "Kiss From A Rose" (This was one of Seal's better ballads back in the day.)
13) PSY ~ "Gangnam Style" (Oh, yes, I went there...)
14) will.i.am ft. Cheryl Cole ~ "Heartbreaker" (Technically, I suppose you could say will.i.am is three different words, but I'm going with it anyway.)
15) Morrissey ~ "Alma Matters" (I've heard a lot about this guy, but this is the first time I've actually listened to a song by him – nice voice...)
