"Push" & "Pull" Songs

Okay, so maybe there aren't as many popular artists in this collection of songs, but that doesn't mean the quality of this post is diminished in any way. In fact, it might make it even better. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Avril Lavigne  ~  "Push"

2)  Mikky Ekko  ~  "Pull Me Down"

3)  Kurt Nilsen  ~  "Push Push"

4)  Secondhand Heart  ~  "Pull Out My Stitches"

5)  Lenny Kravitz  ~  "Push"

6)  Nikka Costa  ~  "Push & Pull"

7)  Lupe Fiasco  ~  "Kick Push"

8)  Kaki King  ~  "Pull Me Out Alive"

9)  No Doubt ft. Busy Signal & Major Lazer  ~  "Push And Shove"

10)  Grace Jones  ~  "Pull Up To The Bumper"

11)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "Push"

12)  Angelique Sabrina  ~  "Pull Up"

13)  Garbage  ~  "Push It"

14)  Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers  ~  "Don't Pull Me Over"

15)  Jackyl  ~  "Push Comes To Shove"

16)  R.E.M.  ~  "Feeling Gravity's Pull"

17)  Miriam Bryant  ~  "Push Play"

18)  Dream Theater  ~  "Pull Me Under"

19)  The Parlotones  ~  "Push Me To The Floor"

20)  Gary Clark, Jr.  ~  "When My Train Pulls In"

Songs That Try To Tell You What NOT To Do

I'm not a bossy person by nature. Nor do I particularly enjoy being bossed around. But apparently some singers and songwriters are, how shall we say, more bossily inclined. These artists have the audacity to try to tell me what NOT to do. They're like, "Don't this..." and "Don't that..." and frankly, I'm tired of it. The nerve of some people! Well, I'll show them. I'll respond to each "bossy" title with my own snarky comments. That'll teach 'em a lesson! (Yeah. Right.)  ~  JH

1)  Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin  ~  "Don't You Worry Child"  (I'll worry if I feel like it. And I do feel like worrying. So there! And BTW, I'm not a child.)

2)  No Doubt  ~  "Don't Speak"  (You just try and shut me up, lady!)

3)  Michael Jackson  ~  "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"  (I'll stop whenever I feel like it, thank you very much!)

4)  Nicole Scherzinger  ~  "Don't Hold Your Breath"  (You're lucky that I wasn't planning on it – a person could turn blue doing that.)

5)  Guns N' Roses  ~  "Don't Cry"  (Give me a break. I already don't cry!)

6)  Gabrielle Aplin  ~  "Please Don't Say You Love Me"  (Can I at least say I love your voice? Sorry, my snark ran out on this one.)

7)  Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers  ~  "Don't Come Around Here No More"  (I'll come around here whenever the notion strikes me, ya weirdo!)

8)  P!nk  ~  "Don't Let Me Get Me"  (Oh, I couldn't stop you anyway.)

9)  Lecrae ft. Cam  ~  "Don't Waste Your Life"  (Okay, that's some advice I don't mind taking.)

10)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  "Don't Cry For Me Argentina"  (Is it bad that I sing this song to my kid when he's crying for irrational reasons? Seriously, that wasn't a rhetorical question.)

11)  Kenny Chesney  ~  "Don't Blink"  (Too late. I just did.)

12)  Madonna  ~  "Don't Tell Me"  (Who's gonna stop me? You've probably heard it all before anyway.)

13)  Blake Shelton  ~  "Don't Make Me"  (I wouldn't even try it. That's God's job.)

14)  Thelma Houston  ~  "Don't Leave Me This Way"  (Okay, I'll muss up your hair a bit, then I'll leave.)

15)  Blackstreet  ~  "Don't Leave Me"  (Tough noogies, I ain't stayin'!)

16)  The Band Perry  ~  "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"  (That's what Match.com is for, isn't it?)

17)  The Police  ~  "Don't Stand So Close To Me"  (No problem there, fella. You have body odor.)

18)  Amy MacDonald  ~  "Don't Tell Me That It's Over"  (Okay, I won't tell you. But it is.)

19)  Creed  ~  "Don't Stop Dancing"  (Fuhgeddaboutit – as long as there's a beat, I'm dancing! At least, in my head I am.)

20)  Liz Lawrence  ~  "Don't You Dare"  (While I previously had no intentions of daring, now I can think of nothing that I want to do more. Than to dare.)

BONUS TRACK:  Journey  ~  "Don't Stop Believin'"  (And the Kings of Bossiness are...Journey!)

Days Of The Week Songs

Here we have a collection of songs with the days of the week in their titles. Consider yourself lucky, dear Reader/Listener. I originally considered making individual posts for each day of the week – with 10 or so songs for each day – and posting them on the actual days that the songs covered. But that seemed excessive, and I lost interest in searching that long and hard anyway. So I ended up doing just two songs for each day of the week. Enjoy?  ~  JH



1)  U2  ~  "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

2)  No Doubt  ~  "Sunday Morning"

3)  The Bangles  ~  "Manic Monday"

4)  Carpenters  ~  "Rainy Days And Mondays"

5)  Lynyrd Skynyrd  ~  "Tuesday's Gone"

6)  The Rolling Stones  ~  "Ruby Tuesday"

7)  Crash Kings  ~  "It's Only Wednesday"

8)  Lisa Loeb  ~  "Waiting For Wednesday"

9)  Matt Costa  ~  "Sweet Thursday"

10)  Asobi Seksu  ~  "Thursday"

11)  Eric Paslay  ~  "Friday Night"

12)  The Cure  ~  "Friday I'm In Love"

13)  Steam Powered Giraffe  ~  "Me And My Baby (Saturday Night)"

14)  Chicago  ~  "Saturday In The Park"