June 21 – World Music Day:

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

- Maya Angelou.

Life would be flat without music.
It is the background to all I do.
It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

- Confucius.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

- John Logan.

If music be the food of love, play on.

- William Shakespeare.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space,

and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

- Kate Bush.

Music can change the world.

- Ludwig van Beethoven.

On this day in music history - Lost Highway, by Bon Jovi (2007):

Lost Highway

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 19, 2007.

Track list:

Lost Highway; Summertime; Make a Memory; Whole Lot Of Leaving; We Got It Going On; Any Other Day; Seat Next To You; Everybody’s Broken; Stranger (featuring Leann Rimes); The Last Night; One Step Closer; I Love This Town.

On this day in music history - Mirage, by Fleetwood Mac (1982):

Mirage

Album by Fleetwood Mac,

released June 18, 1982.

Track list:

Love in Store (2016 Remaster); Can’t Go Back (2016 Remaster); That’s Alright (2016 Remaster); Book of Love (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Only over You (2016 Remaster); Empire State (2016 Remaster); Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Hold Me (2016 Remaster); Oh Diane (2016 Remaster); Eyes of the World (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (2016 Remaster); Love in Store (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Suma’s Walk a.k.a. Can’t Go Back (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; That’s Alright (Alternate Take) [2016 Remaster]; Book of Love (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Gypsy (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Only over You (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Empire State (Early Version); If You Were My Love (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Hold Me (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Oh Diane (Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Smile at You (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Goodbye Angel (Original Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Eyes of the World (Alternate Early Version) [2016 Remaster]; Straight Back (2016 Remaster); Wish You Were Here (Alternate Version) [2016 Remaster]; Cool Water (2016 Remaster); Gypsy (2016 Remaster); Put a Candle in the Window (2016 Remaster); Teen Beat (Outtake) [2016 Remaster]; Blue Monday (Jam) [2016 Remaster].

On this day in music history:

Destination Anywhere by Jon Bon Jovi (1997)

Not That Kind by Anastacia (2000)

Destination Anywhere

Album by Jon Bon Jovi,

released June 16, 1997.

Track listing (some versions of this album include two bonus tracks):

Queen of New Orleans; Janie, Don’t Take Your Love to Town; Midnight in Chelsea; Ugly; Staring at Your Window with a Suitcase in My Hand; Every Word Was a Piece of My Heart; It’s Just Me; Destination Anywhere; Learning How to Fall; Naked; Little City; August 7, 4:15; Cold Hard Heart; Cold Hard Heart (Demo); I Talk to Jesus (Demo).

Not That Kind

Album by Anastacia,

released June 16, 2000.

Track list:

Not That Kind; I’m Outta Love; Cowboys & Kisses; Why’d You Lie to Me; Who’s Gonna Stop the Rain; I Ask of You; Don’tcha Wanna; Late Last Night; Made For Lovin’ You; Black Roses; Yo Trippin’; One More Chance; Same Old Story.

On this day in music history: Big City Blues, by Sue Foley (1995):

Big City Blues

Album by Sue Foley,

released June 15, 1995.

Track list:

Big City Blues; Howlin’ For My Darlin’; To Be Alone With You; One Hundred Dollar Bill; Ain’t Gonna Worry No More; This Time; As Long As I Have You; Highway Bound; If You Gotta Go; My Baby’s Sweeter; Girl’s Night Out.

On this day in music history - Crush, by Bon Jovi (2000):

Crush

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 13, 2000.

Track list:

It’s My Life; Say It Isn’t So; Thank You for Loving Me; Two Story Town; Next 100 Years; Just Older; Save the World; She’s a Mystery; One Wild Night; I Could Make a Living Out of Lovin’ You (Bonus Track); Neurotica (Bonus Track in Australia and Japan); Mystery Train; Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen from Mars; I Got the Girl.

On this day in music history: Moon Goes Missing, by Carolyn Wonderland (2017):

Moon Goes Missing

Album by Carolyn Wonderland,

released June 9, 2017.

Track list:

Moon Goes Missing; Open Eyes; Hellfire Bitters; Can't Nobody Hide From God; Swamp; Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat; She Wants to Know; To Be Free; Every Time You Go; Come Together; Bad to the Bone.

On this day in music history:

Vapor Drawings by Mark Isham (1983)

Street Angel by Stevie Nicks (1994)

Once by Nightwish (2004)

Forever by Bon Jovi (2024)

Oceans by Jennifer Thomas (2024)

Vapor Drawings

Album by Mark Isham,

released on June 7, 1983.

Track list: Many Chinas; Sympathy and Acknowledgement; On the Threshold of Liberty; When Things Dream; Raffles in Rio; Something Nice for My Dog; Men Before the Mirror; Mr. Moto’s Penguin (Who’d Be an Eskimo’s Wife?); In the Blue Distance.

Street Angel

Album by Stevie Nicks,

released June 7, 1994.

Track list: Blue Denim; Greta; Street Angel; Docklands; Listen to the Rain; Destiny; Unconditional Love; Love Is Like a River; Rose Garden; Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind; Just Like a Woman; Kick It; Jane.

Once

Album by Nightwish,

released June 7, 2004.

Track list from all editions: Dark Chest of Wonders; Wish I Had an Angel; Nemo; Planet Hell; Creek Mary's Blood; The Siren; Dead Gardens; Romanticide; Ghost Love Score; Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan (Finnish for "Death Makes an Artist"); Higher Than Hope (in memory of Marc Brueland); White Night Fantasy; Live to Tell the Tale; Where Were You Last Night (Ankie Bagger cover); Wish I Had an Angel (demo).

Forever

Album by Bon Jovi,

released June 7, 2024.

Track list: Legendary; We Made It Look Easy; Living Proof; Waves; Seeds; Kiss The Bride; The People’s House; Walls of Jericho; I Wrote You A Song; Living In Paradise; My First Guitar; Hollow Man.

Oceans

Album by Jennifer Thomas,

released June 7, 2024.

Track list: Oceans; The Lighthouse; Underwater Carnival Ride; The Siren and the Sailor (Ft. Alexa Ray); Just a Teardrop in the Ocean; Sea of Diamonds; Something Just Like This (Coldplay / The Chainsmokers cover); Mermaids (Ft. Alexa Ray) (from Pirates of the Caribbean, Hans Zimmer); The Metamorphosis Suite: Metamorphosis I: Transformation; Metamorphosis II: Flight; Transcendence (Ft. Ryan Stewart, Ardy); You Carried Me Home; Pirates Cove; The Siren and the Sailor (Instrumental Version); You Carried Me Home (A Cappella Version).

On this day in music history:

Bad Animals by Heart (1987)

Group Therapy by Above & Beyond (2011)

Bad Animals

Album by Heart,

released June 6, 1987.

Track list: Who Will You Run To; Alone; There’s The Girl; I Want You So Bad; Wait For An Answer; Bad Animals; You Ain’t So Tough; Strangers Of The Heart; Easy Target; RSVP.

Group Therapy

Album by Above & Beyond,

released June 6, 2011.

Track list: Filmic; Alchemy; Sun & Moon; You Got To Go; Black Room Boy; Giving It Out; On My Way To Heaven; Prelude; Sun In Your Eyes; Love Is Not Enough; Every Little Beat; Sweetest Heart; Thing Called Love; Only A Few Things; Eternal.

On this day in music history - The Night Shines Like the Day, by Kristin Asbjørnsen (2009):

The Night Shines Like the Day

Album by Kristin Asbjørnsen,
released June 5, 2009.

Track list:

Green Is Everywhere; Is This the Ending; Snowflake; Don’t Hide Your Face from Me; Afloat; And I Long to See You Again; I’m Too Heavy Now; Walk Around Me; Moment; Rain, Oh Lord; One Day My Heart Will Break; Someday I’ll Carry You Home; Lose.

On this day in music history - Porcelain, by Helen Jane Long (2007):

Porcelain

Album by Helen Jane Long,
Released June 4, 2007.

Track list:

Porcelain; Release; Echo; Stars; Expression; Lost Wind; Doll; Out of It All; Rockerbye; Broken; Eclipse; Turn Away; Through the Dark.

On this day in music history - Gish, by Smashing Pumpkins (1991):

Gish

Album by Smashing Pumpkins,
released May 28, 1991.

Track list:

I am one; Siva; Rhinoceros; Bury me; Crush; Suffer; Snail; Tristessa; Window paine; Daydream.

On this day in music history - Spirit of the Ancients: Crystal Bowl Sound Healing, by Tryshe Dhevney (2015):

Spirit of the Ancients: Crystal Bowl Sound Healing

Album by Tryshe Dhevney,
released May 26, 2015.

Track list:

Time Outside Of Time; Breaking Light; A Temple Deep Inside; Emergence; You Have Wings; Walking Turtle Blessing.

On this day in music history - Waking the Muse, by Michele McLaughlin (2013):

Waking the Muse

Album by Michele McLaughlin,
released May 15, 2013.

Track list:

Waking the Muse; Radiance; A Beautiful Distraction; Spiritual Awakening; Humbled; Misty Fjords; Interlude; Gratitude; Until We Meet Again; The Little Red Bird; Torn; Unrequited Love; Dangerous Obsession.

On this day in music history - Little Queen, by Heart (1977):

Little Queen

Album by Heart,

released May 14, 1977.

Track list:

Barracuda; Love Alive; Sylvan Song; Dream Of The Archer; Kick It Out; Little Queen; Treat Me Well; Say Hello; Cry To Me; Go On Cry; Too Long A Time; Stairway to Heaven.

On this day in music history - The 10,000 Steps, by Biomusique (2008):

The 10,000 Steps

Album by Biomusique,

released May 13, 2008.

Track list:

Ananda; Caeli et Terra; The Tender Greens; Persephone; Ohroo; Redemption; Empty Spaces; 10,000 Steps.

On this day in music history - For Birds, Planes & Cello, by Joan Jeanrenaud & Miya Masaoka (2005):

For Birds, Planes & Cello

Album by Joan Jeanrenaud & Miya Masaoka,

was released on May 12, 2005.

On this day in music history - Love Comin' Down, by Sue Foley (2000):

Love Comin’ Down

Album by Sue Foley,

released May 9, 2000.

Track list:

Two Trains; Empty Cup; Love Comin’ Down; You’re Barkin’ Up the Wrong Tree; Same Thing; Let My Tears Fall Down; Let Me Drive; To Be Next to You; Mediterranean Breakfast; Am I Worthy; Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’); How Strong.

On this day in music history - Resurrection, by Anastacia (2014):

Resurrection

Album by Anastacia,

released May 2, 2014.

Track list:

Staring at the Sun; Lifeline; Stupid Little Things; I Don’t Want to Be the One; Evolution; Pendulum; Stay; Dark White Girl; Apology; Broken Wings.

On this day in music history - Signature – Solo, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2015):

Signature – Solo

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

released April 30, 2015.

Track list:

Ceremony; Grace; Fair Not; Once Upon Impossible (Solo Piano); Calling Earth; Invisible Train; Signature; Once Upon Impossible (Duet); From the Mist; Little Star.