Hungover-Hymns

And still you seem to believe somehow love will conquer evil ...

"Hungover Together," Supersuckers
"Hungry Ghost," Rick Unruh
"Hungry Heart," Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
"Hunt the Self," Howard Jones
"Hurry Down Doomsday," Elvis Costello
"Hurt," Johnny Cash
"Hurt You," Green
"The Hush," Texas
"Hyena," R.E.M.
"Hymn," Randy Stonehill
"Hymn to Her," The Pretenders
"Hymns to the Silence," Van Morrison

The video linked above to "Hungry Heart" says its from a concert in Paris in 1985. The audience still does a fine job singing the first verse. In English. Here's the same thing in Milan.

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[D Johnston]

It's been a while since I've been able to do one of these. Let's see what I can scare up...

Hurdles Even Here - The Decemberists
Hymn for the Dead - Anti-Flag
Hyperactive - The Donnas
Hunting Bears - Radiohead

[Tom]

Hungry for Heaven - Dio
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Hunter - Portishead
Hunting for Witches - Bloc Party

[yagowe]

All I've got in that range is "Hunt the Squirrel" by The Broadside Band. It's just an okay song, but it's quite a fun dance.

[Omorka]

Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Hunt the Self - Howard Jones
Hurricane Halloween - The Bicycle Thieves
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Hush Little Baby - Bobby McFerrin & Yo-Yo Ma

I also have a mash-up entitled "Hurts Like Teen Spirit," which we will ignore for the moment. (There's also a lot of stuff right before and right after this list . . . do we get to go to the end of the H's?)

[Noah Ramon]

"Hyperactive!" - by Thomas Dolby
"Hunting, Shooting, Fishing" - by Dr. Feelgood
"Hungry Town" - by Big Pig
"Hybrid Rainbow" - by the Pillows (damn fine anthemic piece.)
"Hungry Wolf" - by X
"Hungry for You" - by the Police

[Linkmeister]

"Hurt So Bad," Linda Ronstadt
"Hurting Each Other," Carpenters

[mcc]

"Hunter" - Björk
"Hunter" - Portishead

[pepperjackcandy]

Hungry Eyes, Eric Carmen
Hunter, Dido

[bad Jim]

Hmmm.

This reminds me of an ancient piece by Dr. Hippocrates on the safety of the practice known as a "humdinger": combining a blow job with humming. The eminent sage replied that such would be certainly harmless.

[julia]

erm.

Hurting Each Other - Carpenters

[Nenya]

Hallelujah -- Leonard Cohen (too obvious?)
Heroes of Earth (not sure that's the name of the actual song)

Hmm, I guess I don't have many H's on my playlist.

[JayH]

I don't have an iPod or any other mp3 player, and my mp3s, most of which have been archived from my hard drive to data DVDs to save space, are organized by artist and album, not song title. Any suggestions on how I might play without dumping everything back onto my hard drive? Should I build a spreadsheet or something?

[MikhailBorg]

"Hungry Like the Wolf," Duran Duran
"The Hunt," Scott Fitzgerald
"Hush," Deep Purple
"Hyperspace," Buckner & Garcia

Not surprised that no one's got Fitzgerald's "Thunderdrums" album, but didn't expect to be the first Deep Purple fan here!

[wanderingoutlaw]

"Hurricane" - Bob Dylan (2 versions--1 studio, 1 live)
"Hurricane Eye" - Paul Simon
"Hush-a-bye Hard Times" - Dolly Parton
"Hymnn" - Allen Ginsberg

[cjmr]

Although I do have lots of hymns in my iTunes, the only thing I have in this range is:

"The Hunting Song" -- Tom Lehrer

No love for the Nine Inch Nails "Hurt"??

[cjmr]

Ah, but do Nine Inch Nails hurt less than Twelve Inch Nails...?

ducks

[Tonio]

"Hurt So Bad," Linda Ronstadt

Little Anthony and the Imperials did the original version. Did Ronstadt ever have a hit with a song that wasn't already a hit for another artist?

Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp

Fodder for BDSM jokes for a quarter-century. Reminds me of Pat Benatar's war metaphors in "Love is a Battlefield" and "Sex as a Weapon" - artillery damage can be painful.

[cminus]

A fairly short list today.

"Hungry Like The Wolf," Duran Duran
"Hunky Dory," Alva Greene
"Hunter," Bjork
"Hunter," Dido
"The Hunting Song," Tom Lehrer
"Hunting Vampires Down At The Graveyard," The Boogie Knights
"Hurray For Me," Pat McCurdy
"Hurricane," Bob Dylan
"Hurt," Nine Inch Nails
"Hurts So Good," John Mellencamp
"Hush," Deep Purple
"HWY 5," The John Doe Thing
"Hyacinth House," The Doors
"Hymn," Ultravox
"Hymn 43," Jethro Tull

Most recommended: "Hurricane" (how can Fred not own this song already?) and "Hymn." "Hymn 43" is close behind; I know Jethro Tull is not a widely-held taste, but Ian Anderson is just the right guy to belt out lines like "If Jesus saves -- well, He'd better save Himself/ from the gory glory seekers who use His name in death."

didn't expect to be the first Deep Purple fan here!

Well, second. And, coincidentally, "Hush" was on today's morning commute playlist.

[Jack Bishop]

"Hunter Killer (SpeedyGonzalezMix)", by Széki Kurva
"Hush Mail", by Infected Mushroom
"Huszadik századi városlako", by Omega
"A hűtlen", by EDDA Művek
"Hűtlen barátok", by Omega
"Hybrid Rainbow", by the pillows
"Hymn to St. Cecilia", performed by the Choir of King's College
"The Hunting Song", by Tom Lehrer

Huh. Even more odd Hungariana than usual.

[Caroline]

Short, short list:

"Hunger Strike" - Temple of the Dog*
"The Hunter's Star" - Shearwater
"Hustler Musik" - L'il Wayne

*Early 90s nostalgia, hell yeah. I really loved Eddie Vedder in junior high. Why did Chris Cornell ever think that mustache was a good idea?

[cjmr]

I really loved Eddie Vedder in junior high.

#(*$(!!! Now I've got a Weird Al song stuck in my brain!

[Dylan]

So is the rule here H songs in general, or just those between Hu* and Hy*?

[cjmr]

Dylan--I think it's actually Hun* to Hym*. Or at least that's how I interpreted it. We're on our third pass through the alphabet with this meme, so I'm pretty sure we're on third-letter alphabetizing.

[jamoche]

"Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails
"Hush!" - Chapel Choir of Stanford University

Only two, but oddly typical of my playlist.

[rm]

Hungry Eyes -- Merle Haggard, not the hair band crap
Hurt -- Johnny Cash, who sang it to Jesus instead of to a codependent girlfriend
Hush, Little Baby -- Sharon, Lois, & Bram -- kids' music
Hustlin' Dan -- Bessie Smith

[Dave]

These "bunch of songs that start with the same letter" posts are boring. Please stop doing them. How come you haven't talked about the supreme court's decision to restore G-Bay prisoners' habeas corpus rights? Instead we get pointless filler.

[Tonio]

Merle Haggard, not the hair band crap

I abhor the reactionary attitudes in "Okie From Muskogee" and "Fightin' Side of Me." The latter pushes the myth that people who opposed the Vietnam war were Communists and America-haters. Sound familiar? (I was gratified to read recently that the former song wasn't intended as serious. That makes sense, since the narrator was taking a hypocritical stance regarding illegal substances (marijuana bad, moonshine good).

[hapax]

Wow, Dave, maybe you should petition the Supreme Court about the gremlins who burst into your house, tie you to a chair, and force you to read blogposts that don't interest you? 'Cause, man, I hate it when that happens to me.

Oh, and when people don't choose to talk about what I wanna talk about? What's up with that, anyway?

[kodiak]

/e pokes head in looking for possible LBF update... chuckles at Hapax's comment and wanders off again.

[Cowboy Diva]

there's always the spam popping up on the last open thread; everybody wants that in their comment threads, right?

[Linkmeister]

Tonio writes: "Did Ronstadt ever have a hit with a song that wasn't already a hit for another artist?"

She took a lot of songs which were previously unrecognized and turned them into hits. She's never claimed to be a songwriter; she's an interpreter. Did Sinatra ever write a song? Did Crosby (Bing, not David)? Among more current artists, has Diana Krall ever performed a song she's written?

Be respectful, willya? ;)

[Kayte]

Hurt - Timi Yuro (which dates me fatally)
Husbands and Wives -- Roger Miller [underrated song by underrated song writer]
Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte -- Patti Page
Hustle - Van McCoy
Hymn to Him -- Rex Harrison
Hymne a l'Amour - Edith Piaf

[borealys]

Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Hunter - Dido
Hurricane - Ani DiFranco
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Hustle Rose - Metric

[Jon]

"Hungarian" Bond
"Hunter" Dido
"The Hunter" Danzig
"Hurricane Cindy" Liz Phair
"Hurt" Johnny Cash
"Hurt" Nine Inch Nails
"Hybrid Moments" The Misfits
"Hymn" Bond

[rm]

Tonio, I abhor the attitudes in those songs too, but I don't demand that artists I enjoy be pure or be just like me. Haggard has recently written anti-Bush and anti-war songs. He's been an inspiration to artists you might have on your good list, like Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, or Bob Dylan. And he wrote "Here I am again/ Mixing misery and gin,/ Sitting with all my friends/ And talking to myself" so he surely can't be all bad.

[David no longer in Maine]

"Hunted Down", Soundgarden

[victoria]

"The Hungry Ghost" - Luka Bloom
"Hush, Hush (Somebody's calling my name)" - George Maurer
"Huuvola" - Peter Murphy
"Hymn Of The Medical Oddity" - The Weakerthans
"Hymn Song" - Utah Phillips

The Peter Murphy song is a lovely sort of agnostic blessing song he supposedly wrote for his kids, complete with made-up sacred word for the title.

The Weakerthans are awesome, check them out if you like country influenced post-punk music with well crafted lyrics that have a sentimental political edge without being self-righteously serious.

Utah Phillips, 1935-2008, RIP.

[Tonio]

She took a lot of songs which were previously unrecognized and turned them into hits. She's never claimed to be a songwriter; she's an interpreter. Did Sinatra ever write a song? Did Crosby (Bing, not David)? Among more current artists, has Diana Krall ever performed a song she's written?

My point has nothing to do with singers writing their own material. I was pointing out that Ronstadt's best-known hits had already been hits for other performers. Certainly some of the originals were not as well known, and in many cases Ronstadt put a new and interesting spin on the material. Still, she's in a different category from the singers you named, whose material had generally never been recorded outside of demos.

Tonio, I abhor the attitudes in those songs too, but I don't demand that artists I enjoy be pure or be just like me. Haggard has recently written anti-Bush and anti-war songs. He's been an inspiration to artists you might have on your good list, like Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, or Bob Dylan. And he wrote "Here I am again/ Mixing misery and gin,/ Sitting with all my friends/ And talking to myself" so he surely can't be all bad.

Absolutely. I've always respected Haggard as an artist. I respected Public Enemy while condemning their support of Louis Farrakhan.

[borealys]

Seconding Victoria's love for the Weakerthans. Don't have that particular song, though... :(

[Amaryllis]

Unfashionably late, with

The Hungry Rock -- Dervish
The Hunter's Purse -- The Chieftains

[JET]

I'll tell you why the audience does a good job of singing along; because the dumbed-down pre-chewed pablum that Springsteen calls music is incredibly easy to digest, memorize and spew back out. That anyone with even a modicum of sense thinks it any way superior to, say, Britney Spears is only because they do not listen to anything but the timbre and presentation. As far as songwriting goes, Springsteen's oeuvre is chock-full of simple cliché, tedious repetition and lowest-common-denominator tonality and harmony.

[victoria]

I think JET may have come up with Thursday Flame War fodder.