Donell Jones is an American singer-songwriter. He embarked on a music career in the mid-1990s and has continued to the present time. However, Jones is most notable because of his first two studio albums, which were released in 1996 and 1999. These provided most of his best-known songs, though that isn’t to say the rest…
Blind Melon is an American band that found success in the early 1990s. As such, they emerged around the same time grunge broke into the mainstream. However, they stood out because they were more neo-psychedelic than conventional grunge. Blind Melon released two studio albums before the untimely death of their lead vocalist Shannon Hoon in…
Arthur C. Clark said that magic is a science we do not understand. It is perhaps for this reason that we term whatever we cannot explain as magic. It could be falling in love in the most unexpected way or things falling into place in unexplainable ways. Songwriters have used the word “magic” to refer…
Music possesses incredible power. For instance, music can soothe our pain and relieve our stress, meaning it can help us through even the most challenging of times. As a result, it makes perfect sense for people to seek out songs about healing when they are feeling hurt for whatever reason. Here are 20 of the…
Leonardo da Vinci once said that water is the driving force of all nature. So, we have come to adopt the phrase, “water is life.” For creative minds, water does not have to be literal in meaning; it can carry deep metaphorical messages. Lyrics do not even have to mention water since it could be…
Tacos are a popular food. As a result, a lot of people have sung about tacos for much the same reasons that a lot of people have sung about other popular foods. Sometimes, these songs use tacos as stand-ins for something else. Other times, well, suffice it to say that there is a surprising number…
Pierre Bouvier and Chuck Comeau met in high school and discovered they had a common passion – music. The two, along with other friends, partnered to form a rock band, Reset. However, Comeau left to join college and formed his band. Later on, when Bouvier disbanded Reset, he wanted to give up on music and…
The worst thing you can ever do in life is to give up because once you feel like you have nothing left to live for, suicidal thoughts start creeping into your mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld said it better; that hope is the last thing that dies in a man, and though sometimes it is…
Love is the theme of many songs from every decade and music genre. Sometimes it is about the love a couple feels for each other, and sometimes a song is about how much one person loves another, but the other person does not feel the same. So, are there any songs about unrequited love? Here…