Category Archives: Music

Your Qs can do whatever they want, there aren’t enough of them to worry about. 1. Walkin’ After Midnight – Patsy Cline 2. Big Bottom – Paul and Storm 3. Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon 4. … Continue reading →

Names that start with vowels are more interesting than names that start with consonants. I believe they had a lively debate on that topic on one of William F. Buckley’s shows. 1. Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis 2. … Continue reading →

Starting the second half of the alphabet, though we’re more than halfway through thanks to letters like Q, X, and Z. 1. Take Me Away – Napoleon XIV 2. Break My Heart – Natalie Merchant 3. The Needle And The … Continue reading →

Another letter with a lot of names that go with it. 1. It’s Hard To Be Humble – Mac Davis 2. Galway Farmer – Maggie Drennon 3. Oxygen – Maia Mitchell 4. Fixer Upper – Maia Wilson (from “Frozen”) 5. … Continue reading →

Almost halfway through the alphabet now. 1. Self Control – Laura Branigan 2. Irene – Leadbelly 3. Rock And Roll Is Dead – Lenny Kravitz 4. Lady Blue – Leon Russell 5. I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm … Continue reading →

Another all-in-one-name list for the letter K. 1. Pull Me Out Alive – Kaki King 2. Differently – Kat Parsons 3. Rocket Man – Kate Bush 4. Village Green Preservation Society – Kate Rusby 5. Best Song Ever – Katie … Continue reading →

For a letter worth 8 points in Scrabble because it doesn’t appear very frequently in English language words, there sure are a lot of names that beging with J. 1. Last One – James “Blood” Ulmer 2. I’ll Go Crazy … Continue reading →

The letter I was the first one in this series that I was worried about. Turned out to be no big thing. 1. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Iam Dury & The Blockheads 2. Vehicle – Ides … Continue reading →

I love how a single letter can represent a swear word. 1. Philadelphia Freedom – Hall and Oates 2. Stompin’ At The Savoy – Harry Connick, Jr 3. Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock 4. Jump Into The Fire … Continue reading →

Back to the alphabet… 1. Blues Music – G. Love & Special Sauce 2. Behind The Lines – Genesis 3. Cloud 9 – George Harrison 4. Bad To The Bone – George Thorogood & The Destroyers 5. Rose Room – … Continue reading →

No single name dominates the Fs like it did the Ds and Es, but there are plenty of interesting names. 1. One’s Too Many – Fabulous Thunderbirds 2. Love Is Expensive And Free – Fastball 3. Man On The Moon … Continue reading →

Names that start with E often come with nicknames. That’s the lesson we learn this week. 1. Mighty Mighty – Earth Wind & Fire 2. All Because of You Days – Echo and the Bunnymen 3. Leapin’ On Lenox – … Continue reading →

Four or five songs into the D list, I said to myself “You know, I can probably do this entirely with singers named Dave or David”. And lo, so it was. 1. Three To Get Ready – Dave Brubeck Quartet … Continue reading →

Continuing the Name Of The Artist Game with the letter B: 1. Telephone Song – B.B. King 2. Dance This Mess Around – The B-52’s 3. Venus – Bananarama 4. Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles 5. Alternative Girlfriend … Continue reading →