Songs that properly make you happy

[Billy Casper]

Songs that properly make you happy

Somthin Else - Eddie Cochran

Dyna-Mite - Mud

A Glass Of Champagne - Sailor

[Come along, Min]

Songs that properly make you happy

Irving Berlin's own version of It's A Lovely Day Today. It's from his LP Irving Sings Berlin, which I cant seem to find anywhere at a sensible price.

I found it online years ago and see it anywhere else online atm so I posted it on my own soundcloud page.

Here

[My Name Is Ian]

Songs that properly make you happy

Oh my word, Dynamite by Mud is a superb choice for this. I would never have thought of that. But anyway, here are the results of the Shoreham-By-Sea jury:

One Dozen Monkeys: They Might Be Giants

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick: Ian Dury & The Blockheads

The Wagon: Dinosaur Jr

Float On: Modest Mouse

I Want You Back: The Jackson Five

September Gurls: Big Star

God! Show Me Magic: Super Furry Animals

Where Are You Baby: Betty Boo

Genius Of Love: Tom Tom Club

Waterloo: Abba

Lola: The Kinks

Growing On Me: The Darkness

[gt3]

Songs that properly make you happy

Saint Etienne: Hug My Soul

[Furtho]

Songs that properly make you happy

My Favorite's glorious Burning Hearts, in part because it begins with the line, "We met first in cafes and later in rooms."

[Sits]

Songs that properly make you happy

This weekend's:

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Jammin' & Waiting in Vain
Bob Dylan - New Morning

I heard the latter today purely because I watched The Big Lebowski last night and wanted to listen to The Man In Me.

[adams house cat]

Songs that properly make you happy

Great call for Clarence Carter. I might go for "Backdoor Santa". Always makes me smile.

[Gangster Octopus]

Songs that properly make you happy

The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Was, Not Was - Walk The Dinosaur
ABC - Alphabet Soup and The Look Of Love

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

Songs that properly make you happy

Ride - Let's Get Lost
Ride - Twisterella

These two recapture like few other the feeling of being young and (somehow) carefree.

[Jah Womble]

Songs that properly make you happy

Twisterella - that's another track that 6Music play far too often. Ride did many better tunes than that, IMO.

[tee rex]

Songs that properly make you happy

Floral Dance from "Brassed Off". Yes, really.

Otherwise, "Hold Back the Night" by Trammps or Graham Parker (in that order).

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

The Armoury Show - 'We Can Be Brave Again'.

No, really!

[delicatemoth]

Songs that properly make you happy

Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby

New Order - Perfect Kiss

Livin' Joy - Dreamer

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Black Box - Ride On Time

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

It's not that all my favourite records are synth pop, but most of the happiest ones seem to be.

Ooh, here's a guitary one:-

Tracy Ullman - They Don't Know

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

You were doing so well, too! ;-)

[Sits]

Songs that properly make you happy

My oldest daughter was born while Ride on Time was UK No. 1

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

Shut it! I've had enough of feeling old tonight! Someone on Facebook has just answered my casual query as to when 'Pan's People' changed to 'Legs & Co.' by telling me in was 1976 - "before his time"! Harumph!

[delicatemoth]

Songs that properly make you happy

evilC wrote: You were doing so well, too! ;-)

It is an absolute sugar rush, sir!

Here's another -

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

*So* glad you linked to the proper 12" version of 'I Feel Love', though. The Patrick Cowley remix just totally over-egged it!

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

Mind you, thinking of that reminded me of another (less likely) one of mine:

Dajae - 'U Got Me Up'

Gotta love that Cajmere beat!

[Tramp The Dirt Down]

Songs that properly make you happy

delicatemoth wrote:
Here's another -

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

That song has possibly the worst lyrics in pop music history

[delicatemoth]

Songs that properly make you happy

Tramp The Dirt Down wrote:

Here's another -

The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

That song has possibly the worst lyrics in pop music history

That could be a decent thread in its own right, or would it be so much down to personal opinion it would be pointless? I think they're perfectly decent, purely because they sound great when The Bangles sing them. The original is by Katrina & The Waves though, so I don't think I want to hear that.

[Tramp The Dirt Down]

Songs that properly make you happy

"Hey there...Where you going with that UB40 in your hand"
Dreadful lyrics

[Come along, Min]

Songs that properly make you happy

I'm with dm on that lyric.

As for Cajual records stuff;

Glenn Underground's Beyond, with the nifty Herb Alpert lift. Also, his remix/mash up of I Feel Love/The Chase is a favourite and apposite.

[Haddock]

Songs that properly make you happy

Thinking of You: Sister Sledge
Slippery People: Talking Heads
Come and get My Lovin': Dionne
Voodoo Ray: A Guy Called Gerald
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo: A Tribe Called Quest
Groove is in the Heart: Dee-Lite
You Got the Love: The Source feat Candi Staton
Big Time Sensuality: Bjork
Get Higher: Black Grape
Sunday Shining: Finley Quaye
DARE: Gorillaz
Asleep: The Smiths

[evilC]

Songs that properly make you happy

Not original, but definitive.