Successful Songs By Alliterative Artists

For the grammatically unenlightened, the word "alliterative" derives from the word alliteration, which is defined as "the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables." All the songs in this collection are performed by artists with alliterative names. You'll find several golden oldies here, as well as a few newer tunes. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Foo Fighters  ~  "I'll Stick Around"

2)  Jessie J ft. B.o.B.  ~  "Price Tag"

3)  Tommy Tutone  ~  "867-3509/Jenny"

4)  Colbie Caillat  ~  "I Never Told You"

5)  Rusted Root  ~  "Send Me On My Way"

6)  Leona Lewis  ~  "Bleeding Love"

7)  Counting Crows  ~  "Hanginaround"

8)  Martina McBride  ~  "Whatever You Say"

9)  Herman's Hermits  ~  "I'm Into Something Good"

10)  Lisa Loeb  ~  "Stay (I Missed You)"

11)  Culture Club  ~  "Karma Chameleon"

12)  Tanya Tucker  ~  "Love Me Like You Used To"

13)  Tiny Tim  ~  "Tiptoe Through The Tulips"  (Talk about your alliteration! – both the artist's name and every word of the song's title start with the letter "T")

14)  Tina Turner  ~  "What's Love Got To Do With It?"

15)  Ozzy Osbourne  ~  "Crazy Train"

16)  Janet Jackson  ~  "Rhythm Nation"

17)  Chubby Checker  ~  "The Twist"

18)  Gloria Gaynor  ~  "I Will Survive"

19)  Christopher Cross  ~  "Sailing"

20)  Loretta Lynn  ~  "Coal Miner's Daughter"

"Everything" & "Nothing" Songs

Yep, I'm still doing the "Opposites" themed music posts. Probably better just get used to it. What follows is an extremely diverse collection of songs from a variety of genres. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran  ~  "Everything Has Changed"

2)  The Script  ~  "Nothing"

3)  Lights  ~  "Timing Is Everything"

4)  Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch  ~  "Sweet Nothing"

5)  Boys Like Girls  ~  "Be Your Everything"

6)  Dire Straits  ~  "Money For Nothing"

7)  Sky Ferreira  ~  "Everything Is Embarrassing"

8)  Whitney Houston  ~  "I Have Nothing"

9)  Jason Mraz  ~  "Everything Is Sound"

10)  Metallica  ~  "Nothing Else Matters"

11)  Steven Curtis Chapman  ~  "Do Everything"

12)  The Pretty Reckless  ~  "Miss Nothing"

13)  Bryan Adams  ~  "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You"

14)  Lady Gaga  ~  "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"

15)  The Veronicas  ~  "Everything I'm Not"

16)  Sinéad O'Connor  ~  "Nothing Compares 2 U"

17)  Soluna Samay  ~  "Everything You Do"

18)  B.o.B. ft. Bruno Mars  ~  "Nothin' On You"

19)  Fefe Dobson  ~  "Everything"

20)  Rebecca Ferguson  ~  "Nothing's Real But Love"

Songs About Socks

I have no idea where I get all these ridiculous ideas, but nonetheless they come to me and I can't resist exploring the possibilities. So here you have it...a collection of 10 songs devoted almost entirely to the subject of socks. Some of these are really funny, while others make at least a halfhearted attempt at being serious songs. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Max Min  ~  "Alpaca Socks"

2)  So Random! Cast  ~  "Socks With Sandals"

3)  Tarfu  ~  "Three Socks"

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4)  Taylor Bright  ~  "Striped Socks"

5)  Grand Pocket Orchestra  ~  "Odd Socks"

6)  Megan Achilles  ~  "Pink Lacy Socks"

7)  Psychostick  ~  "Dogs Like Socks"

8)  Kyle McGuigan  ~  "Sock Thief"

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9)  WhiteBoy7thst  ~  "Socks"

10)  Surreal  ~  "Dress Socks And Flip-Flops"

Songs With "Maybe" In The Title

I'm sure most of you who are reading this have heard the infectious pop song "Call Me Maybe" at some point – whether on purpose or by accident. I certainly have – both on purpose and by accident. This got me thinking: Are there any other good songs out there with "Maybe" in the title? As it turns out, there are. Here's a mini-collection of 10 songs that I'm sure you'll enjoy...well, maybe.  ~  JH

1)  Bjork  ~  "Possibly Maybe"

2)  Pam Tillis  ~  "Maybe It Was Memphis"

3)  Emma Bunton  ~  "Maybe"

4)  Neko Case  ~  "Maybe Sparrow"

5)  Carly Rae Jepsen  ~  "Call Me Maybe"  (Well, I had to include it here, didn't I?)

6)  Mindy McCready ft. Richie McDonald  ~  "Maybe He'll Notice Her Now"

7)  Ingrid Michaelson  ~  "Maybe"

8)  Emeli Sandé  ~  "Maybe"

9)  Marlee Scott  ~  "Beautiful Maybe"

10)  Julia Stone  ~  "Maybe"

Quotes About Death

1)  "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."  ~  Albert Einstein

2)  "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."  ~  Albert Pike

3)  "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room, I shall be able to see."  ~  Helen Keller

4)  "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."  ~  Steve Jobs

5)  "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."  ~  Leonardo da Vinci

6)  "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."  ~  George Eliot

7)  "The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."  ~  Marcus Tullius Cicero

8)  "A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies."  ~  Gustave Flaubert

9)  "For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."  ~  William Penn

10)  "Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."  ~  Tennessee Williams

11)  "The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."  ~  Mary Catherine Bateson

12)  "Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn."  ~  B. R. Hayden

13)  "Everything that gets born dies."  ~  Morrie Schwartz

14)  "Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright."  ~  Alice Thomas Ellis

15)  "All our knowledge helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."  ~  Maurice Maeterlinck

16)  "If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead."  ~  Scott Caan

17)  "Death's in the goodbye."  ~  Anne Sexton

18)  "Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."  ~  Robert Bolt

19)  "Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering – an image of death."  ~  Buddha

20)  "I'm not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens."  ~  Woody Allen

Heartbreak Songs

I warned you it was coming! The "Falling In Love" songs post was simply too good to be true. Enjoy (or weep, or wallow in self-pity over) this star-studded collection of "Heartbreak" songs.  ~  JH

1)  Hunter  Hayes  ~  "Somebody's Heartbreak"

2)  Kanye West ft. Kid Cudi  ~  "Welcome To Heartbreak"

3)  John Mayer  ~  "Heartbreak Warfare"

4)  Def Leppard  ~  "Bringin' On The Heartbreak"

5)  Rob Thomas  ~  "This Is How A Heart Breaks"

6)  Taio Cruz ft. Ludacris  ~  "Break Your Heart"

7)  Victoria Duffield  ~  "Break My Heart"

8)  Cinderella  ~  "Heartbreak Station"

9)  Backstreet Boys  ~  "I'll Never Break Your Heart"

10)  Elvis Presley  ~  "Heartbreak Hotel"

11)  Toni Braxton  ~  "How Could An Angel Break My Heart?"

12)  Winger  ~  "Headed For A Heartbreak"

13)  Evanescence  ~  "My Heart Is Broken"

14)  Britney Spears  ~  "From The Bottom Of My Broken Heart"

15)  Meaghan Smith  ~  "Heartbroken"

16)  Karmin  ~  "Brokenhearted"

17)  Beyoncé  ~  "Broken-Hearted Girl"

18)  Lindsay Lohan  ~  "Confessions Of A Broken Heart (Daughter To Father)"

19)  Delta Goodrem  ~  "Dancing With A Broken Heart"

20)  Camera Obscura  ~  "Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken"  (The hands-down winner for weirdest title of a "heartbreak" song!)