Showing posts with label Donovan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donovan. Show all posts

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Songs For Halloween

Happy Halloween! I know this is a controversial holiday for some, and not everyone chooses to celebrate it. But I'm not one of those people, so here goes a collection of Halloween-themed songs. In most cases, the song isn't intended to be a Halloween-oriented song, it just happens to have a word in its title that could be associated with this most ghoulish of days. Enjoy! (Or don't. It's all the same to me.)  ~  JH



1)  Ne-Yo  ~  "Beautiful Monster"




2)  The Cranberries  ~  "Zombie"




3)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Ghost"




4)  Eagles  ~  "Witchy Woman"




5)  Annie Lennox  ~  "Love Song For A Vampire"




6)  Imagine Dragons  ~  "Demons"




7)  Matchbook Romance  ~  "Monsters"




8)  Panic! At The Disco  ~  "It's Almost Halloween"




9)  Tegan And Sara  ~  "Walking With A Ghost"




10)  Family Force 5  ~  "Zombie"




11)  Donovan  ~  "Season Of The Witch"




12)  Skillet  ~  "Monster"




13)  The Citizens Of Halloween  ~  "This Is Halloween"  (from The Nightmare Before Christmas)




14)  Fefe Dobson  ~  "Ghost"




15)  Red Sky Mary  ~  "Red Witch"




16)  Paramore  ~  "Monster"




17)  Jonathan Coulton  ~  "Creepy Doll"




18)  Queens Of The Stone Age  ~  "Burn The Witch"




19)  Yeah Yeah Yeahs  ~  "Skeletons"




20)  Lindsey Stirling  ~  "Phantom Of The Opera Medley"




BONUS TRACK – Bobby Pickett  ~  "Monster Mash"  (What Halloween song collection would be complete without this campy gem?)


Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Songs By Mononymous Singers, Vol. 2 – The Guys

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...)



6)  Maxwell  ~  "This Woman's Work"  (Wow, falsetto much?)



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...)



16)  Usher  ~  "Numb"  (Always a crowd favorite...)