Last Saturday night, party animals that we are, some friends and I went on Rhapsody and searched for pop songs that mention "hurricanes." Sweet Jesus, there were a lot of them. And a large percentage used "eye of a hurricane" as a bad love metaphor. So we were inspired to make a hurricane music soundtrack, which we'll be playing today at my D.C.-based party for Storm World. For pop culture mavens (like Sheril), here are the songs, beginning with the classic "The Hurricane" by Bob Dylan--which, of course, isn't really about a hurricane, and which is the best song of the bunch IMHO. After the jump, I've included some lyrical selections, chosen mostly for their incredible badness:
Hurricane, Bob Dylan (And She Said) Take Me Now, Justin Timberlake Eye Of The Hurricane, Blue Oyster Cult Hurricane, Joan Osborne Hurricane Eye, Paul Simon One Of The Survivors, The Kinks Hurricane, Bette Midler Hurricane, Bush Sky Is Falling, Blackalicious Rock You Like A Hurricane, Scorpions Lost And Found, The Kinks Like A Hurricane, Neil Young Pancake, Tori Amos The Word "Hurricane," Air Hurricane, Lisa Loeb Rain, KISS Ain't Wastin' Time No More, The Allman Brothers Band Hurricane Years, Alice Cooper Strength To Endure, The Ramones Cannibals, Mark Knopfler When You Were Young, The Killers Life Goes On, The Kinks Otis Redding, Sara Evans Savannah Fare You Well, Jimmy Buffett (Hurricane) The Formal Weather Pattern, Something Corporate All Hands, Blues Traveler Lost In The Flood, Bruce Springsteen Feels Like Rain, Buddy Guy Novacane, Beck It's The End Of The World As We Know It (...R.E.M.)
