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Jonathan Ochshorn's songs sorted by topic
Most recently recorded
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (cover) A Slow-Growing Cancer PSA Blues Papa Don't Preach (cover) Baby Are You Happy? We Only Had a Few Good Years
Politics and society
Graduation Day Higher Resolution Jaywalking Just Another Bad Dream We Only Had a Few Good years
Love: without irony or regret
Anyone I Can Give You Love Last Night Manifesto of Love Puzzle of the Heart Tunnel of Love You Baby Your Love
Love: bittersweet or distressed
Adorno's Golden Gate After All Almost Doesn't Count Between the Lines Honeymoon Phase If You Want Me I Stare Into the Mirror's Eyes Long Distance Love Affair Maybe Mister Nobody Moment of Truth Ran Through My Mind Shadows Burn So Long That Must Be the Way This Isn't Hollywood
Life and getting old
A Slow-Growing Cancer Baby Are You Happy Count Me Out Endgame I Wish I Were a Bee Just Need a Little Concentration One Life PSA Blues Squints on a Triple Stradlater's Roommate Stuck Here in a Box Suburban Kid This Is What You Get Walking in Circles What's the Point of Even Trying When My Father Was My Age Won't Come Back Anymore
Architecture, aesthetics
Ballad of Building Bad Ballad of the Barnes Ode to Fluff OMA's Milstein Hall Prisoner of Art Shrink Wrap
Songwriting and performance
Adaptation I Keep Writing the Same Song If I Could Sing Like That Own Biggest Fan
Jonathan Ochshorn's covers
Listed alphabetically A–P
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum 1967) Alison (Elvis Costello 1977) Blank Space (Taylor Swift 2014) Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Neil Sedaka 1962) Don't Take Me Alive (Steely Dan 1976) Good Lovin' (The Young Rascals 1966) Here Comes My Girl (Tom Petty 1979) If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob Dylan 1975) I've Gotta Get a Message to You (Bee Gees 1968) Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon 1978) loml (Taylor Swift 2024) Lose Yourself (Eminem 2002) Mixed-up, Shook-up Girl (Patty & the Emblems1964) Papa Don't Preach (Madonna 1986) Psychedelic Shack (Temptations 1970)
Listed alphabetically Q–Z
So Far Away (Carole King 1971) So Far Away (Dire Straits 1985) Sunlight (Youngbloods 1969) Surfer Girl (Beach Boys 1963) Taxi (Harry Chapin 1972) The River (Bruce Springsteen 1980) The Same Situation (Joni Mitchell 1974) Ticonderoga Moon (Orleans 1973) Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper 1984) When I'm Sixty-Four (Beatles 1967) You Can Close Your Eyes (James Taylor 1971) You Make My Dreams (Hall & Oates 1981) You're Gonna Lose That Girl (Beatles 1965)
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First posted 4 January 2010. Last updated: 27 January 2026