What songs make you happy?

I was just running some errands and listening to some music I haven't listened to for a long time - Grateful Dead/American Beauty. I totally forgot just how happy the song Sugar Magnolia makes me. I don't know what it is. It just makes me want to get up and do a little happy hippy dance and puts me in a great mood.

What songs make you love the world?

James Brown - 'I feel good' of course.

the only ones - another girl, another planet
it doesn't even have happy lyrics, really, but it just cheers me up immensely for some reason

Grateful Dead "Touch of Gray"
Phish "Run Like an Antelope"
Umphrey's McGee "Plunger"

and of course...

God Street Wine "Driving West"

No comment!

IPJ: Infinite good karma!! Although I don't listen to them nearly as much as I used to, I'm an incurable deadhead. I was at work the other week in a foul mood, listening to a Red Rocks show from '78. They got around to Sugar Magnolia and it just made so, so happy. I quite typing, stared out the window, and did a little chair dance with a silly grin on my face.

DW: I was going to say GSW's Nightingale. Phish is also fantastic, though Harry Hood is the one that does it for me. "You can feel good, good about Hood".

"...Sweet blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times if you’ll abide. We can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside."

Off the top of my head:

'We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)' Trooper
'Black Betty' Ram Jam

So many others...must think about it some more...

Happy, even if they are not happy songs... I guess cause they just hit the spot inside.

Stereophonics - Dakota
Oasis - Slide Away
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Smokey Robinson - Tears of a clown

Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
500 Miles - The Proclaimers

Just a couple that made me happy this week!

The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Dr Dre - Forgot About Dre

Good choices.

(erm scottish band) - Alive and Kicking

Excellent choices, both JE and Inflatablewoman (500 Miles and Tears of a Clown)!

Dirty Water by the Standells (a bit obvious, no?)

BRILLIANT CHOICES!

some right teuchter lyrics in proclaimers too!

Deadheads unite!
I was at their last RFK concert and believe it or not, Bob Dylan was straight and remembered all his own lyrics!
The Dead always makes me happy happy happy.
Shakedown Street
Althea
I Need a Miracle
If I Had the World to Give
Alabama Getaway
I am now going to go put on my paisly shirt, beads and do a little dance.

EDIT: Wonderful World always tears me up. I am happy and sad all at the same time. That damn song just stirs the memories for me of everything good and sad. It makes me cry, but mostly with tears of happy times. Shit, I need a kleenex...

'Groove is in the Heart' Dee-lite

Takes me way back.

Oh yeah and of course that excellent foot-tapping melody:

The Smiths - Girlfriend's in a Coma

Paul Weller - Broken Stones
McFly - That Girl
Garth Brooks - Standing Outside The Fire
Dixie Chicks - Truth No. 2
The Beatles - Day in the life

Jesus I could on all day...

Another good one:
Beck - Qué Onda Guero

The Smiths - How soon is now

"Breeze in the pines in the summer night moonlight, crazy in the sunlight, yes indeed". Please tell me that you've seen them play that live.

IW: "Guns of Brixton" makes you happy?

Non-hippie songs that make me happy:
"I Want You Back" Jackson 5
"Boogie on Reggae Woman" Stevie Wonder
"Light and Day" Polyphonic Spree
"Wah Wah" George Harrison
"If I Ever Leave this World Alive" Flogging Molly

and so many others

i was gonna say the smiths, but was worried peeps would think i was strange
this charming man
hand in glove
how soon is now
you just haven't earned it yet, baby
shoplifters of the world unite
big mouth strikes again

... all of them, really, except heaven knows i'm misearble now, which is rubbish

@IW
Speaking of the Dixie Chicks - Goodbye Earl

I see trees of green... red roses too
I see ’em bloom... for me and for you
And I think to myself... what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue... clouds of white
Bright blessed days...dark sacred nights
And I think to myself ...what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow...so pretty ..in the sky
Are also on the faces...of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands...sayin’.. how do you do
They’re really sayin’...i love you.

I hear babies cry... I watch them grow
They’ll learn much more...than I’ll never know
And I think to myself ...what a wonderful world

The colors of a rainbow...so pretty ..in the sky
Are there on the faces...of people ..going by
I see friends shaking hands...sayin’.. how do you do
They’re really sayin’...I love you

I hear babies cry... I watch them grow
you know their gonna learn a whole lot more than I’ll never know
And I think to myself ...what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself ...what a wonderful world.

I am now just so happy.

Yeah - but that song is played in the James Bond film where his wife gets killed.

eurovol is one of Jerry's kids? I think I may have misjudged you. Got any decent CDs you want to trade? I have a case of cassettes that've been gathering dust for a couple years now. Low generation Betty boards from '73 and '77. A wicked "Cassidy" from '83. Ah, it's been too long, man.

JE, you're thinking of "We have all the time in the world" also sung by Louis Armstrong.

this new song by JoAna Zimmer - I Believe really makes me sing and smile

is it legal to post lyrics??

Now everybody,
has a right to be living their lives...oh
but we're a long, long way long way from paradise.
If there was freedom tell me why everybody wants to fight...oh
'cause we're a long, long way a long way from paradise.

You might be strong enough,
you might be rich enough,
you might be blind enough:
to push it all aside.

No matter what you do,
it keeps come back to me and you.

Give a little bit of love and you get it back,
give a little bit of pain, you call it a trap.
For every little thing that you say or do, give a little bit of love and it´ll come back to you.

You got you reasons,
but are you sure they're reasons to be right?...oh
'cause we're a long, long way a long way from paradise.

We must be strong enough,
we must be brave enough,
we waited long enough now it´s time to say goodbye.

We got some rules to band,
to let the lies and truth belong.

Give a little bit of love and you get it back,
give a little bit of pain, you call it a trap.
For every little thing that you say or do, give a little bit of love and it´ll come back to you.

Give a little bit of love and you get it back,
give a little bit of pain, you call it a trap.
For every little thing that you say or do, give a little bit of love and it´ll come back to you.

Ohhhh...
I believe in peace and harmony,
you got to believe in love
before you can be free
so take a hand
everybody make a friend
I want you to believe in love
like I believe

Give a little bit of love...love
a little bit of pain...pain
give a little bit of love...a little bit of love

Give a little bit of love and you get it back,
give a little bit of pain, you call it a trap.
For every little thing that you say or do, give a little bit of love and it´ll come back to you.

Give a little bit of love and you get it back,
give a little bit of pain, you call it a trap.
For every little thing that you say or do, give a little bit of love and it´ll come back to you.

Seems to be a common problem.

I have my CDs, but my sister has an ultimate collection of concert venue tapes. For the cost of postage and copying, what concert do you want?

"If you're going to San Francisco" (Scott McKenzie)
"Lazy Sunday afternoons" (Kinks?)
"I'm a believer" (Monkies)
"Sugar"
"The air that I breathe" (Hollies)
"Dancing in the moonlight" (Toploader?)
"Walking on sunshine" (?)
"Angels" (Robbie)
"Dancing Queen" (Abba)

Showin' me age now loads more!

Ah yes, this California song by Phantom Planet that steals the lyrics of that old California song has been making me happy lately. For some reason it seems to be reminding me that no matter what fuckwit is in office on the other side of the country, I still love my home.

Meat Loaf- Bat out of Hell
Bruce Springsteen- Dancing inthe Dark
Romantics- Talking in your sleep

Garth Brooks- Red Strokes, Friends in Low Places,
Dixie Chicks- Earl, Landslide, There's your trouble.
Dwight Yokam- Fast as you

Diana Krall- Peel me a Grape

Tom Cochrane- Life is a Highway, Big League

Don Mclean- American Pie
I could go on and on, but those are good cheer up songs

I never stop listening to the Dead.

Simon's Kodachrome

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of edu---cation
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
my sweet imagination
everything looks BETTER in black and white

Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, Oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama don't take my Kodachrome
Leave your boy so far from home
Mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Mama don't take my Kodachrome

Mama don't take my Kodachrome away

My wife loves the Chicks.
I love that they had the balls to say that Bush wasn't a fellow Texan! I want to meet those girls. They are my heroes!

I saw then twice last year, also have all 3 albums- want burned copies?

We have the first two, my wife would love the third. I would give you plus karma, but I opted out.

Number three goes more back to BlueGrass- but it still rocks! I can drop you a copy in the mail! PM me your address, and I will get it off early next week, or if you make it to the next curry night.

Ooh, speaking of bluegrass, I used to have a great Jerry Garcia band album where they did a fan-fucking-tastic bluegrass version of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. That makes me happy, too.

You shoud just drop by for a visit. I have lots of Bluegrass and some country. We could just swap and burn baby! Oh, and I could use a teeth cleaning.

PS: I'll let you play with my banjo.

I'm in tears right now. Somebody in Munich who knows God Street Wine!?!?!!? I am a certified Wino - seen nearly 70 shows all over the Tri-State area. Nightingale is an incredible song (listening to it right now) though I prefer the "$1.99" version over the "Bag" version (and of course neither compare to seeing it live at Irving Plaza). I should add "Imogene" to my happy song list even if it is awfully close to Steely Dan's "Black Cow."

Phish: "Harry Hood" off of A Live One makes me smile... "where do you go when the lights go out?" "Chalkdust Torture" off the same was my mantra in college

Bottom line: we gots to talk about some quality jamrock.

Think I'll listen to my GPL before I pass out. Too pissed to whack off.

IPJ, you're thinking of Garcia Acoustic Band, "Almost Acoustic". I was playing that once and my grandmother caught a listen. She asked why I was listening to songs that were popular (popular in central Kentucky at any rate) when she was a girl.

DW: Bag is actually the only GSW album that I own. Disco Biscuits? .moe? eKoostik Hookah? Never got into Umphrey's McGee or String Cheese Incident, but would give them a listen. I smell a jamband enthusiast meetup in the future.

The Band"s

Christmas Must Be Tonight (listening to it all year round)
Daniel and The Sacred Harp

@ eurovol- the wife won't mind me playing your Banjo???

I went to Amsterjam and caught Particle, The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, and Keller Williams. Coming out of that I was most impressed with Partice and UM. Like Cheese but don't love them (saw them here).

Yeah, we definitely have to trade some stuff.

A classic Topsy: "Space shuttles in my blood, there ain't nothing I can do about it. Long journey's wear me out but I don't think I can live without it".

I always laughed to The Only Ones "Why Don't You Kill Yourself"... incredibly funny with Peter Perrit's voice.


Thin Lizzy - surely Alys?

What songs make me happy? I have to say the ones that I laugh to are always the comedic, or the ones with double-enténdre in the words:

The Laughing Gnome - David Bowie
Ernie - Benny Hill
Friggin' In The Riggin' - (half) The Sex Pistols
The Penis Song - Monty Python

"Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. Here's a little number I tossed off recently in The Caribbean.

Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
It's swell to have a stiffy, It's divine to own a dick.
From the tiniest little tadger, To the world's biggest prick.

So three cheers for your willy or John Thomas.
Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake.
Your piece-of-pork, your wife's best friend, your Percy or your cock.
You can wrap it up in ribbons, you can slip it in your sock.
But don't take it out in public, or they will stick you in the dock.

And you won't come back.

I thank you very much!"

flowers on the wall - statler brothers (pulpfiction)

Crazy Right now
Beyonce

so many, but these always work:

Carol King - Hard Rock Cafe
Alizee - J'en ai marre!
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Bill Withers - Lovely Day
Weezer - Island In The Sun
Blondie - The Tide Is High