Songs that properly make you happy

[Amor de Cosmos]

Songs that properly make you happy

A friend — my oldest friend — sent me this today. It's a magnificent father and son rendering of the Sam Cooke classic:

A Change is Gonna Come — Brian & Thomas Owens

They have that, I dunno, natural genetic harmony that the Everly Brothers possessed. Unique and spectacular, makes your heart properly soar it does.

[Mumpo]

Songs that properly make you happy

Mu-ziq - Mr. Angry

[Jah Womble]

Songs that properly make you happy

Rogin the Armchair fan wrote: "Save All Your Kisses For Me" by the Brotherhood of Man

That abomination has always made me want to smash things up.

[Gangster Octopus]

Songs that properly make you happy

Alright - Supergrass

[Nocturnal Submission]

Songs that properly make you happy

Dammit - Blink182

[Sits]

Songs that properly make you happy

September - Earth, Wind and Fire

[Gerontophile]

Songs that properly make you happy

Diana Ross - Touch Me In The Morning.

I noticed typing this, that I have already typed that phrase somewhere. This may be a repeat.

*Buggerit. 27 days ago.

[Sits]

Songs that properly make you happy

Proves how much you love it.

[Gerontophile]

Songs that properly make you happy

Maybe.

Senility is more likely.

[Satchmo Distel]

Songs that properly make you happy

Most of Songs In The Key of Life, especially as Stevie's live version I saw last year was one of the best nights of my life.

Shiny Happy People - despite the band not liking it

The Cure - Friday I'm In Love

Most of The Beach Boys 'Today' album, such as Dance Dance Dance.

[Various Artist]

Songs that properly make you happy

Something I heard recently made me think tangentially, I'm not quite sure how now, of this, which I immediately thought I really must add to this thread:

Fat Larry's Band – Zoom

[MiserableOldGit]

Songs that properly make you happy

Various Artist wrote: I saw your name appended to this thread MiserableOldGit, and thought the post was simply going to say "None."

I'm truly sorry but I let my guard slip. It won't happen again :-)

[Abertwisted]

Songs that properly make you happy

The Boy Done Good - Billy Bragg..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxVJbJqiZgM

[Sam]

Songs that properly make you happy

'Joyous', by Pleasure.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

Songs that properly make you happy

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

Musical Buckfast for this driftless sixteen-year-old.

[The Inner Light]

Songs that properly make you happy

The story of the blues. Mighty wah. SOS ABBA Oddly also Howzat by sherbet. Odd mix agreed

[Hobgoblin]

Songs that properly make you happy

evilC wrote: A-7H - 'Full Metal Pocket Sojuz'

Lola Dutronic - 'Beautiful World'

I love the A-7H track and could only smile at her reimagining of The Model/Da Doo Ron Ron. A question though; I've never used Spotify or any other streaming service so is it possible to buy this music in mp3 form?

As for my own choices Your Love Keeps Lifting Me would top this as well as most other musical lists. The Hustle is also right up there

Here's a couple of less familiar numbers though;

From Japan, Jun Mayuzumi - Black Room

From Ghana, Bokoor Band - You Can Go

[Giggler]

Songs that properly make you happy

The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and his Range, if only for the associated pleasure of pre-1992 Saturday afternoons and Bob Wilson going through the league tables.

[Sits]

I heard EWF’s September and it was so good to hear something really joyful and uptempo. It also reminded me of the scene in the fantastic Intouchables when Omar Sy dances to it. If you haven’t seen that movie, now’s the time BTW.

Anyway that got me thinking about joyful music in general, and there was OTF in the deepest recess of my memory. Time to revisit this thread.

[Various Artist]

I read that as EMF's September at first, and that really gave me a mental image to conjure with.

[Various Artist]

And bloody hell, is it really three years since this thread was last active? How on earth did that happen?

[Satchmo Distel]

Stone Poneys - Different Drum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qsDgA1q8Y

[Cal Alamein]

Love You More - The Buzzcocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os5A-nxvQto

[Patrick Thistle]

Bad Touch always makes me laugh
Spirit in the Sky
Rivers of Babylon
A Million Pieces and In Another Place off the new Bastille album
Back Home by the Cadillac Three
The first 5 tracks on Hot Fuss by the Killers
Mister Jones by Counting Crows
How to Make Friends and Influence People by Terrorvision (the whole album)
Jump by Van Halen
9 to 5
It's 5 O Clock Somewhere
Ska punk as a genre
Hey Brother by Avicii
Several Ace of Base songs

[Sean of the Shed]

Days. Kirsty McColl or the original by the Kinks, I don't mind.
It was covered on Radio 4's Soul Music recently.
Link here.