Showing posts with label Kimbra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kimbra. Show all posts

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Songs By Noteworthy New Zealanders

Okay, so here's a post that I manufactured for the express purpose of having an excuse to post the second song in this list, with which I am currently obsessed. That being said, I discovered several heretofore unknown-to-me singers here and was pleasantly surprised to find that a couple of singers I was already familiar with just happened to hail from New Zealand. So, yeah...enjoy them!  ~  JH



1)  Elliot Brown  ~  "Shiloh"



2)  Lorde  ~  "Royals"




3)  Glenn Aitken  ~  "Ordinary People"




4)  Brooke Fraser  ~  "Something In The Water"



5)  Vince Harder  ~  "Far From Here"



6)  Flip Grater  ~  "Ring Around The Rosie"





7)  Lakyn Heperi  ~  "Are You There"




8)  Ladyhawke  ~  "Blue Eyes"




9)  Matt Joe Gow  ~  "Come What May"




10)  Kimbra  ~  "Cameo Lover"





11)  Princess Chelsea  ~  "The Cigarette Duet"




12)  Stan Walker  ~  "Take It Easy"




13)  Gin Wigmore  ~  "Man Like That"




14)  Anna Coddington  ~  "Bird In Hand"


Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Songs With Directions In The Title, Vol. 2: "Down" Songs

Part two in a five-part miniseries, this post features songs with "Down" in the title. If you were disappointed by the lack of familiar artists in part one, you may find that you recognize a larger number of artists in this particular collection. Enjoy!  ~  JH


1)  Group 1 Crew  ~  "Goin' Down"



2)  Linkin Park  ~  "Burn It Down"



3)  Kimbra  ~  "Settle Down"



4)  Goo Goo Dolls  ~  "Long Way Down"



5)  Nine Inch Nails  ~  "Down In It"



6)  Mikky Ekko  ~  "Pull Me Down"



7)  Audio Adrenaline  ~  "Get Down"



8)  Dash Berlin  ~  "Till The Sky Falls Down"



9)  Jack Johnson   ~  "Upside Down"



10)  Johnny Cash  ~  "God's Gonna Cut You Down"



11)  Cage The Elephant  ~  "Shake Me Down"



12)  Alice In Chains  ~  "Down In A Hole"



13)  Emmy Rossum  ~  "Slow Me Down"



14)  Amy MacDonald  ~  "Slow It Down"



15)  Charlie Daniels Band  ~  "The Devil Went Down To Georgia"



16)  Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers  ~  "I Won't Back Down"



17)  Miranda Lambert  ~  "Bring Me Down"



18)  K.C. & The Sunshine Band  ~  "Get Down Tonight"



19)  David Jordan  ~  "Sun Goes Down"



20)  George Strait  ~  "Write This Down"

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...)