Heres to Heroes

by way of stereo making minimal contact ...

"Here Comes the Rain Again," Eurythmics
"Here Comes the Sun," The Beatles
"Here Comes Your Man," The Pixies
"Here I Am," Daniel Amos
"Here I Am," Lyle Lovett
"Here's Where the Story Ends," The Sundays
"Heretics," Andrew Bird
"Hero," Steve Taylor
"Hero in Me," Jeffrey Gaines
"Heroes," David Bowie

That Steve Taylor tune is his version of Surprised by Joy, his testimony of what C.S. Lewis called sehnsucht -- "an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction." Roger Waters may have described it better than either of them: "When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse / Out of the corner of my eye. / I turned to look and it was gone ..."

Lewis encountered such a fleeting glimpse in "the unrhymed translation of Tegner's Drapa ... 'I heard a voice that cried, Balder the beautiful / Is dead, is dead.'" Steve Taylor encountered the same thing in the words, "Avengers assemble!" Not quite a glimpse of the transcendant, perhaps, but just enough to suggest that something transcendant is or should be possible. (I'm not describing this well, but the fanboy who put together that montage of clips from Heroes to Taylor's song knows exactly what I'm getting at, and I think maybe Bowie does too.)

Comments

[KnightHawk]

Hatred- Cheap Sex
Hymn For The Dead- AntiFlag
Hybrid Moments- AntiFlag
Harry Bridges- Rancid
Hooligans- Rancid
Hoboken- Operation Ivy
Hit the Fence- The Transplants
Hold On- Tim Armstrong
Here Today...- The Casualties
Hate Me- The Distillers
Homeless- Pennywise
Help Save The Youth Of America From Exploding- Less Than Jake
Hate you- Reel Big Fish
Hell Awaits- Slayer
Harvester of Sorrow- Metallica

Love. Peace. Metallica

[MikhailBorg]

"Here Comes the Rain Again" - Eurythmics
"Here Comes the Sun" - The Beatles
"Here Is The News" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Hero" - Papaya

[twig]

"an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."

You really should see Satoshi Kon's "Milennium Actress"

[Jesurgislac]

Here comes that rainbow again sung by Johnny Cash

[Geds]

"Here Comes the Big Parade," Harry Connick, Jr.
"Here I Go Again," Whitesnake
"Here We Are," Dovetail Joint
"Heretic," Soundgarden
"Hero of Love," Live
"Hero of the Day," Metallica
"Heroes and Martyrs," Bad Religion

Ah, random musical tastes...

And I only have, like, half of my music collection on my mp3 player because I'm only really listening to rock these days.

[patter]

"Here I Am," Emmylou Harris

[Fred]

Wow. Jesu, thank you for that. "If I were going to believe in God, I would believe in the God of Johnny Cash."

[Bruce in South Florida]

Awesome that you have "Here I Am" by Lyle Lovett. Make it a cheeseburger...

[Greg]

My hero-Foo Fighters
Hell Yes-Beck
Heaven's Dead-Audioslave
Hell in a Bucket-Grateful Dead

[Professor Fury]

I'd go drop $0.99 on "Here Comes the Night" by Destroyer right away.

[Professor Fury]

. . . a song which I realize now actually falls outside of the range here. Sigh.

[MikhailBorg]

@Professor Fury:

Not really, the first song in Fred's list was "Here Comes the Rain Again", so I think you are safe.

[Geds]

Meh. People seem to be using anything that starts with "he" today...

KnightHawk, it appears you share some of my husband's taste in ska. :)

Nothing new to add to the mix except:

Here It Goes Again - OK Go
Here We Go Again - Everclear
Here's Your Sign - Bill Engvall
Hero In His Own Mind* - Cartoon Planet (Musical Bar-B-Que)
Heroin Girl - Everclear

*Part 1 AND Part 2, dontcha know...

[Salamanda]

Whoops, that was me. That's what I get for having more than one computer in my life...

[cminus]

As always, eliminating anything Fred already has, which in this case was a recent high of five songs.

"Here I Go Again," Whitesnake
"Here Is No Why," Smashing Pumpkins
"Here To Go," Devo
"Here To Stay," New Order
"Here With Me," Dido
"Here, There And Everywhere," The Beatles
"Here's Johnny," Weird Al Yankovic
"Here's That Rainy Day [Koop Remix]," Astrud Gilberto
"Heresy," Nine Inch Nails
"Heretics & Killers," Protest The Hero
"Hero Worship," The B-52's

Man, that's a weak list.

My personal favorite is "Heresy," but I doubt it's really Fred's sort of music. (For those of you for whom it is your sort of music, I recommend this comic.) Beyond that, I guess I have to recommend "Here, There And Everywhere." The Smashing Pumpkins, Devo, New Order and B-52's tracks are also worth a listen, I guess. A particular tip of my hat to Protest The Hero, whose name has a special significance for today's list.

[Jesurgislac]

Wow. Jesu, thank you for that. "If I were going to believe in God, I would believe in the God of Johnny Cash."

Fred, was that new to you? I'm... astounded.

Had you also missed Johnny Cash singing a world of Hurt?

[Chris Koeberle]

63 songs for this one, 52 of which haven't been mentioned yet. (The Beatles, Bowie, and Space Ghost tracks are all great.) Of what remains, my favorites:

"Here's to Life," Streetlight Manifesto
"Here and Now," Letters to Cleo
"Here Comes the Hotstepper," Ini Kamoze (I'm a leprechaun dancer!)
"Here Comes the Night," Van Morrison
"Here Comes the Rain Again," The Cruxshadows (a reasonably straightforward goth cover)
"Here I Be," Five Fingers of Funk
"Here in Your Bedroom," Goldfinger (still one of my favorite songs)
"Here It Comes," Modest Mouse
"Here We Go Again," Operation Ivy (How is it that KnightHawk doesn't have the OPIV song that actually falls between Here and Heroes?)
"Here Without You," 3 Doors Down

I wish I liked the other three songs titled "Here We Go Again," because as far as song titles to see listed four times in a row go, that one's pretty good.

[Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little]

Not strictly in bounds, but no farther out than a previous comment posted:

"Heroin, She Said" - Wolfsheim

I think that's all I've got.

[Todd Larason]

Eliminating things already mentioned pretty much removes anything worth mentioning this week.

"Here Come the Comedown", Love and Rockets
"Here Come the Harvest Buns", Danielle Dax
"Here Comes It", INXS
"Here Comes Santa Claus", Bing Crosby
"Here Comes the Snake", Cherry Poppin' Daddies
"Here Comes the Weekend", Roxette
"Here Comes", Velocity Girl
"Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect", The Decemberists
"Here It Comes Again", Jesus and Mary Chain
"Here On Earth", Love and Rockets
"Here She Comes", Bonnie Tyler
"Here She Comes", Slowdive
"Here Today", The Beach Boys
"Here We Go", Ministry
"Here in my Heart", Anno Domino
"Here is the House", Depeche Mode
"Here it Comes Again", Tracey Thorn
"Here it Is", Leonard Cohen
"Here's A How-De-Do! If I Marry You", D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra
"Hero Takes a Fall", Bangles
"Heroes", Blondie
"Heroin Pig", Bruce McCulloch
"Heroine", Gene Loves Jezebel

[Joshua]

I've got:

"here and there", Samurai Champloo soundtrack
"Here Comes Summer", The Dave Clark Five (I love these guys, I really do.)
"Here Comes the Sun", Beatles (It's not my fave, but Abbey Road is still an essential album.)

And then I've got a "Heroism", but that's after "Heroes" so it doesn't count. (I've also got two versions of "Hex" by Neko Case, which I have to point out because I have to point out Neko Case at every available opportunity.)

[ChristianPinko]

Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements
Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

[cminus]

I wish I liked the other three songs titled "Here We Go Again," because as far as song titles to see listed four times in a row go, that one's pretty good.

That is pretty good. There are only three cases in my entirely library where I have four or more totally different songs by the same name:

"Untitled" (4: Bauhaus, The Cure, Finch, Pat McCurdy)
"Do It Again" (4: The Kinks, Queens Of The Stone Age, Nada Surf, Steely Dan)
"Lies" (5: Carl Hancock Rux, EMF, The Rolling Stones, The Thompson Twins, The Violent Femmes)

[Andrew Farrell]

Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones (as used in the recent Irn Bru ad)
Hermann Loves Pauline - Super Furry Animals

[wb]

Okay, from the "Really Too Old To Be Listening To Music" collection:

"Here Comes My Girl" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Here He Comes, (Lover Man)" - Jimi Hendrix

Sorry folks, that's all for tonight....

[jbrandt]

Aw, man. "Here's Where The Story Ends" is a great song. I need to find that, I think...

Plus I'm glad to see Andrew Bird on there. He's a good one to see live, if you get a chance.

[borealys]

Let's see what I've got...

Here - Crush
Here - Garrity
Here's to the Night - Eve 6
Here and Gone - Mae Moore & Lester Quitzau
Here and Now - Letters to Cleo
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Here is No Why - The Smashing Pumpkins
Here it Goes Again - OK Go
Here We Go - Tuuli
Here With Me - Dido
Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
Heroes - David Bowie

I confess to being particularly partial to Garrity, although "Here" is far from their best tune. They were big on the NXNE circuit a few years back, and I have no idea whatever happened to them.

[mmack]

Since Mr. Fred skipped ha-hd, and I don't know if he'll do hi-hu, I'd like to add in some great music from artists Mrs. mmack and I heard live at FitzGerald's in Berwyn, IL, and the late, lamented Chord On Blues in St. Charles, IL.

Ham Hock Booty
Higher

Both of the above by Anthony Gomes, go to his website right now if you love the blues and hard-rockin' music. (When and if Freddo gets to Mu, I'll add in my favorite Anthony Gomes song)

Hittin' Where it Hurts
Honky Tonk Hell
How Long Can She Last (Goin' that Fast)?
Human Cannonnball

By the "Last of the Full Grown Men", Webb Wilder, one of the SINGLE greatest concerts yours truly and Mrs. mmack attended at FitzGerald's. And the closest us non-Texans will ever get to a Texas roadhouse blowout.

And when he gets to I, I'll add in the wildest bluesman you'll ever hear.

[Theo]

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - the Ramones

[vanya]

"Here Comes A Regular" - the Replacements. Simply an essential song for anyone who likes music

"Here comes the Summer" - Fiery Furnaces

"Here Comes President Kill Again" - XTC

"Here it comes" - Modest Mouse

[cjmr]

"Here I Am, Lord" -- recorded by St. Olaf Choir
"Here We Are" -- Kenny G

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