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"Good Old Acapella" or "Bop Til You Drop" by the Nylons. I'm in an Acapella type of mood. Also "Another Irish Drinking Song" and "Kingdom in the Sky" by Da Vinci's Notebook. I could go on and on, but I'll stop there. Posts: 1789 | Registered: Jul 2003
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(It's really silly and has no mention of a duck, it's just something I used to sing to small children [and one 16 year old boy] to get smiles from them when I worked at a family photo studio...I had a rubber ducky on top of the camera that I told them to look at and I called her Petunia.)
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Violent Femmes, "Life is an Adventure" Billy Idol, "Dancing with Myself" TMBG, "Dr. Worm" Die toten Hosen, "Steh auf (wenn du am Boden bist)" Harvey Danger, "Old Hat" Tegan and Sara, "Come On Kids"
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"Happy Together" - The Turtles "Feelin' Groovy" - The Rascals (or was that when they were still The Young Rascals?)
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Oh, and The Headstones' "Cemetary" makes me dance every time I hear it. Yes, it's about a guy digging up his dead girlfriend. No, I don't care.
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I've always been kinda partial to Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" but I don't know if that would work for everybody
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For Today I am A Boy by Antony and the Johnsons.
Olivia, i think you might like this song. in fact you may like the whole record. it's...different...pretty maybe.
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"Philosophofee" by Ima Robot...makes me wanna dance
also "Boy With A Voice That Could Destroy the World" or "Seeing Serving" by Reception Is Suspected (for the same reason...can't help but start moving)
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"Sweet Betsey from Pike" "Across the Great Divide" by Kate Wolf "Safe at Anchor", also by Kate Wolf "She Rises Like the Dolphin" by... Kate Wolf! Okay, lots of other songs by Kate Wolf (although there are a few that make me sad.) "Leather-Wing Bat" "The Spirit of God" "Scotland the Brave" played by a pipe band "Bringing in the Sheaves" "Willie Taylor" as performed by Deanta "This World is Not my Home" (aka "Gloryland") "Octopuses' Garden" (is that a plural? I'm never sure), the Beatles "Blackbird", also the Beatles I'll echo "Here Comes the Sun"
...and there are a ton more. I respond really well to music. Not hard to see where Emma gets it.
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Oh, and how can I forget three favorites by Hank Williams? "Hey, Good Lookin'", "Jambalaya", and the very un-PC but ever so amusing "Kawliga".
And in the same vein, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys-- just about anything by them makes me smile, laugh, and want to dance. *sings* "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry..."
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"One Prairie Outpost" by Carbon Leaf (okay, anything by Carbon Leaf, but this especially) "Mexico" by Jump "This Night" by Billy Joel "Them That Got" version by Ben Folds "Bossa Nova USA" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet "Last Stop" by DMB "The View" by Modest Mouse "Anal Thermometer" by the O the entire Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack... and likewise Gladiator both "July July" and "The Legionnaire's Lament" by the Decemberists and anything normally played at a UW football game ("Jump Around," "Sweet Caroline," "Swingtown," the Bud Song, any of the school songs...
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"One with the Freaks" - The Notwist "Brick Sh!thouse" - Placebo "Miracles Keep On Playing" - Basement Jaxx "It's Oh So Quiet" - Bjork "Flite" - Cinematic Orchestra "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" - Daft Punk "September" - Earth, Wind & Fire "Out of Touch" - Hall & Oates "Table For Glasses" - Jimmy Eat World "I'm Horny" - Madison Avenue "Teardrop" - Massive Attack Pretty much any MJ Cole song "She Wants To Move" - N.E.R.D. "I Want To Ride My Bicycle - Queen "Tattoo of the Sun" - Third Eye Blind
That's what comes to mind from a very quick run-thru of the iTunes playlist.
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Walk Like An Egyptian -- The Bangles Keep Yourself Alive -- Queen Walking On Sunshine -- Katrina and the Waves We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin' -- Simon and Garfunkel Sky High -- Jigsaw A Noun's A Person, Place or Thing -- Schoolhouse Rock. Good Advice -- Allen Sherman
And... strangely enough (and completely uncharacteristic for me):
Go Tell It On The Mountain -- Simon and Garfunkel You Can Tell The World -- Simon and Garfunkel
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Sound of Silence especially, or anything Simon and Garfunkel just for the happy memories around campfires with the family.
But most especially.
Death and the Maiden - Schubert
I turn off the ligths and listen to one of the best quartets ever written and then everything seems a little better.
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Y'all got some good happy songs there. I wouldn't say anything with Roger Clyne lyrics though, a few songs on those Refreshment albums were downright depressing.
For me:
Bad Time to fall in love - Grand Funk Railroad
Just B4 the evening - Leftover Salmon
Jesse with the long hair - Robert Earl Keen
and I could go on. There are lots of happy songs out there.
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There is a song call "Coffee Break" by a guitarist named Billy McLaughlin that relaxes me no matter how many times I hear it. Everyone I play it for says, "Wow, that is really a great tune" too.
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"Title of the Song", Da Vinci's Notebook. Makes me laugh every single time. And I hold the high nooooooooooooooooooooooooote!
"GRADUATION ~Each Tomorrow~", Be For U. A Dance Dance Revolution song. I have no idea what the song is about, given that it's in Japanese, but there's something about it that's... hopeful, and positive, and happy. Always lifts my spirits.
"I Like Chopin (Rainy Daze)", DJK. Incredibly bouncy trance mix that makes me want to MOVE!
I ditto "Walking on Sunshine". That was one of my marathon theme songs.
quote:Elvira (the giddy-up song)
I don't really like this song, but it makes me smile anyway. When I was a kid, we went on vacation every year to a cottage in Hayward, Wisconsin. One year, "Elvira" played on the radio ALL THE TIME. We all got thoroughly sick of it. Hearing it brings back sweet memories of childhood, family, and vacations, though, so yeah, it's a smile song.
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yet another "Here Comes the Sun" vote "59th Street Bridge Song" --Simon & Garfunkel "Second Hand News" --Fleetwood Mac (OK, not a happy song but what can I say? happy memories! First song on Rumours album!) "Soak up the Sun" --Sheryl Crow
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