The Plural Of Hyena

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

A Song For Each Month Of The Year

Not much preamble necessary here. It is exactly what it sounds like it is. Please enjoy! ~ JH

1) Same Old Story ~ "The Norm In January"

2) Josh Groban ~ "February Song"

3) Jane Monheit ~ "Rivers Of March" (Monheit's my personal favorite among all the jazz singers I've ever heard)

4) Rufus Wainwright ~ "April Fools"

5) Blue Rodeo ~ "5 Days In May"

6) Lucy Schwartz ~ "June" (One of the best singers in pop music today that nobody other than me has ever heard of...wow, that sounded kinda hipster...sorry!)

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7) Amy MacDonald ~ "4th Of July"

8) Abandon All Ships ~ "August"

9) Earth, Wind, & Fire ~ "September" (How have I blogged this long and never put an EW&F song in the mix?)

10) Jet Tangerine ~ "Something About October"

11) Miranda Lee Richards ~ "Early November"

12) Taylor Swift ~ "Back To December"

Songs By "Fake" Bands

I should probably clarify the title of this post. The bands represented here are actual bands – they do exist (or they did at some point). The "fakeness" of the bands lies in their names. Each band in this collection either has the word "Fake" or one of its synonyms in its name. It's a dumb idea, I know. But when I actually thought of the concept, it seemed to make a bit more sense than it does now. At least there are only 13 songs to slog through, if that's any consolation. And several of the songs are pretty good, even the ones by bands you've never heard of. Enjoy? ~ JH

1) Fake Shark Real Zombies ~ "Paint It Gold"

2) Fake Problems ~ "The Dream Team"

3) Fake Blood ~ "I Think I Like It"

4) False Positive ~ "After All"

5) Great Imitation ~ "Bittersweetheartattacks"

6) Counterfeit i ~ "Sahel"

7) Counterfeit Molly ~ "The Dark"

8) Make Believe Me ~ "Home"

9) Big Phony ~ "I Love Lucy"

10) The Pretenders ~ "I'll Stand By You"

11) Pseudo Echo ~ "Funky Town"

12) Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs ~ "Woolly Bully"

13) The Charlatans ~ "The Only One I Know"

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

"Before" & "After" Songs

Now back to our regularly scheduled "Opposites" music posts. I don't know whether you're tired of these yet or not, but I've got a few more in my back pocket waiting to post, so you may as well get used to seeing a few more of them. Or ignoring a few more, whichever you prefer. That being said, there're some good songs here. Enjoy! ~ JH

1) Papa Roach ~ "Before I Die"

2) Cyndi Lauper ~ "Time After Time"

3) Carrie Underwood ~ "Before He Cheats"

4) He Is We ~ "Happily Ever After"

5) Josh Wilson ~ "Before The Morning"

6) David Crowder ~ "After All (Holy)"

7) The Script ~ "Before The Worst"

8) Ten ~ "After The Love Has Gone"

9) Eric Clapton ~ "Before You Accuse Me"

10) KJ-52 ~ "Life After Death" (Christian rap's answer to Eminem... a pretty good alternative, actually)

11) Randy Travis ~ "Before You Kill Us All" (Literally, one of the cheesiest music videos I've ever seen!)

12) blink-182 ~ "After Midnight"

13) Agatha ~ "Before The Winter Comes"

14) Foo Fighters ~ "Walking After You"

15) Dido ~ "The Day Before The Day"

16) Daughtry ~ "Life After You"

17) Jeremy Camp ~ "Speaking Louder Than Before"

18) Rodney Crowell ~ "After All This Time"

19) Crosby, Stills, & Nash ~ "Just A Song Before I Go" (This song's been lingering in my head ever since I prepped this post a couple of weeks ago – I'm passing it on to you now)

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20) Nelson ~ "After The Rain"

Songs By Family Musical Groups

Okay, so today's theme is a little different than what I've been posting in my music blogs of late, but I think you'll find it to be a refreshing change of pace. All of the artists in this collection have one thing in common: family. Specifically, all of the musical acts represented here have at least two blood relatives in the group. Some are comprised of an entire group of siblings, while others are dynamic duos. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list – you'll notice groups like The Bee Gees and The Osmonds, to name two, are absent – but that's because I've either posted songs by them in the past or because I hate their music (or both). Enjoy! ~ JH

1) Cimorelli ~ "Believe It"

2) The Band Perry ~ "If I Die Young"

3) The Corrs ~ "Dreams"

4) K-Ci & JoJo ~ "All My Life"

5) First Aid Kit ~ "Ghost Town"

6) for KING & COUNTRY ~ "The Proof Of Your Love"

7) Angus & Julia Stone ~ "Paper Aeroplane"

8) SHeDAISY ~ "Little Good-Byes"

9) Jonas Brothers ~ "Lovebug"

10) Meg & Dia ~ "Monster"

11) Hanson ~ "Save Me"

12) Carpenters ~ "Superstar"

13) The Proclaimers ~ "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (It's almost creepy how identical these twins are!)

14) HAIM ~ "Falling"

15) The Jackson 5 ~ "I'll Be There"

16) BarlowGirl ~ "Never Alone"

17) The Veronicas ~ "This Love"

18) The Kinleys ~ "Please" (This one's for my wife, who absolutely loved this song back in the day)

19) The Watson Twins ~ "How Am I To Be"

20) Tegan And Sara ~ "Call It Off"

BONUS TRACK: Sister Sledge ~ "We Are Family" (I couldn't leave this one off, could I?)

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Songs By Ladies Named Rachel, Rachael, & Rachelle

You should know by now that there's no point in even trying to guess where these random ideas come from. Just revel in (or avoid) the randomness and enjoy the songs (or don't). You probably haven't heard of that many of these Rachels, Rachaels, or Rachelles (I hadn't), but they're all worth at least one listen. Maybe two... ~ JH

1) Rachel Crow ~ "Mean Girls"