What's your very favorite "feel good NOW" song?

[JanMichael]

Poll question: What's your very favorite "feel good NOW" song?

THE song that can make you feel great, no matter what else is going on!

Poll result (50 votes)
Aquarius/Let the Sun shine (5th Demension)	(3 votes, 6%)	Vote
Hunka Hunka Burning Love (Elvis)	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)	(4 votes, 8%)	Vote
Puff the Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul and Mary)	(2 votes, 4%)	Vote
Still Cruisin after all these Years (Beach Boys)	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
Born to Run (Bruce)	(3 votes, 6%)	Vote
Anything by Jimmy Buffett, and a joint	(2 votes, 4%)	Vote
Other...I don't get this choice, but someone may have something else in mind	(36 votes, 72%)	Vote

[Kenneth ken]

1. your thread is sinking (or was wen I started this post)

I have two of the songs on your list, but I wouldn't call either of them THE song that can make me feel great, no matter what else is going on.

I'm not sure what I'd pick for me.

possibles:

Celebration by Kool and The Gang
Going Underground by The Jam
Better Things by Dar williams
My Best To You by Joni Mitchell

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. For whatever reason, Blues Traveller "Runaround" fit this bill for me.

[Archae]

3. Brandenburg Concerto #3

The Allegro.

[hippywife]

4. Others

Morning Glory by The Subdudes
Good Noise by John Gorka
Castanets by Alejandro Escovedo
Let It Roll by Little Feat
Sharon by David Bromberg
Freak Flag by Laura Love

...to name a few.

[Dude_CalmDown]

5. Boss DJ - Sublime - n/t

*

[El Fuego]

6. "Little Miss Can't be Wrong" by The Spin Doctors

[southlandshari]

7. Ooo - good choice!

I voted for "anything by Jimmy Buffet" because I'm a huge Parrothead, but that's a good one, too!

I'm posting one more for the list next...

[southlandshari]

8. edit

oops - posted in the wrong place

[southlandshari]

9. "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone

I cannot hear this song without grinning by the first note of the chorus. For those of you who can't hear it, here are the lyrics:


Hey (hey) What's the matter with your head? yeah...
Hey (hey) What's the matter with your mind and your sign?
And-a ooh-ohh
Hey (hey) Nothin's a matter with your head, baby, find it
Come on and find it
Hell, with it, baby, 'cause you're fine and you're mine
And you look so divine

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Hey (hey) What's the matter with your feel right?
Don't you feel right, baby?
Hey, oh, yeah, get it from the main line, alright
I said-a find it, find it, darling, love it
If you like it, yeah-eh
Hey (hey) It's your business if you want some
Take some, get it together, baby

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love, come and get your love
Come and get your love, now

Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love

Hey (hey) What's the matter with your feel right?
Don't you feel right, baby?
Hey, oh, yeah, get it from the main vine, alright

La,la,la,la,la,la, (come and get your love)
La,la,la,la,la,la, (come and get your love)
La,la,la,la,la,la, (come and get your love)
La,la,la,la,la,la, (come and get your love)
La,la.la,la,la,la,la,la,la (come and get your love)
La,la.la,la,la,la,la,la,la (come and get your love)
La,la.la,la,la,la, (come and get

[DawgHouse]

89. Now I have that song in my head and I must admit...

I feel good!

[tk2kewl]

10. REM: Superman

[etch a sketch prez]

13. Thanks for reminding me of REM.

"Gardening at Night," "Wolves, Lower," "Harborcoat," and "World Leader Pretend" all put me in a very good mood.

[meganmonkey]

46. Oooh - that's one of mine too, and I Believe

from Life's Rich Pageant too. One of my all time fave albums.

[etch a sketch prez]

11. The Ramones

"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" always puts me in a good mood, if only because I loathe the unlamented senile old fart, his asshole VP, and his asshole VP's idiot son.

[iamjoy]

12. Cowboy Song

And I'm not even a country music fan, but this one is catchy. How can you not smile at "save a horse, ride a cowboy"

[lizziegrace]

74. self-delete

wrong place!

[Ptah]

14. Hor Rod Lincoln

My pappy said, 'Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin' ...
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!'

Well, you've heard the story of the hot rod race,
When the Ford and the Mercury were settin' the pace.
That story's true I'm here to say,
Cause I was a'drivin' that Model A.

<snip>

Well, I wound it up to 110;
Twisted the speedometer cable right off the end.
Had my foot glued right to the floor;
I said, "That's all there is - there ain't no more."

Now the fellas thought I'd lost all sense;
The telephone poles looked like a picket fence.
They said, "Slow down, I see spots."
The lines on the road just looked like dots.

<snip>

All of a sudden a rod started knockin';
Down in the depths she started a rockin'.
I looked in the mirror and a red light was blinkin';
The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln.

Well they arrested me and put me in jail.
I called my pop to make my bail.
He said, "Son, you're gonna drive me t' drinkin',
If you don't quit drivin' that - Hot ... Rod ... Lincoln!"


Does it every time.

[grannylib]

31. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen???

[Ptah]

43. Yes grannylib.

I don't know why, but that song gets me going.

[grannylib]

104. Haven't thought of that one in yonks...I can see why it gets you going!

used to party hearty to that tune my own self!
Cheers!

[Ptah]

105. Cheers back at you, grannylib.

I'll bet you can still party hearty to that tune.

OK, every one sing along:


Then, all of a sudden, in the wink of an eye,
a Cadillac sedan passed us by.
The remark was made, "That's the car for me."
But, by then, the taillights wuz all you could see.

Well, the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind,
So I started to make that Lincoln unwind.
Took my foot off the gas and, man alive,
I shoved it down into overdrive.

Well, I wound it up to 110;
Twisted the speedometer cable right off the end.
Had my foot glued right to the floor;
I said, "That's all there is - there ain't no more."

[Az]

15. Imagine

Really can't improve on that song.

[Maat]

32. I'm going with 'Imagine' too.

Good suggestion, Az!

[Angry Girl]

16. Numanuma!

[Deja Q]

17. 'Fascinated' house remix by Suzanne Palmer...

The song is on Ultimate House vol 9 ("Pluto")

[AVulgarianHue]

18. "New Attitude"

"What A Feeling"
"Goin' Mobile"

[crispini]

19. Anything by the Polyphonic Spree

A band of much wonderfulness.

[Burma Jones]

103. Absolutely

Just Saw Thumbsucker this week and there's not enough Spree Music in it........

[ghostsofgiants]

20. The Lost Patrol - "Alright"

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. This one:

The Llama Song

[The Jacobin]

22. naaah naaah naaah NAA NAA NAA NAAAAAAA!

HEY JUUUUUUUUDE!

[chaska]

23. Got some major earworms "Journey"ing through my brain today.

[ZombieNixon]

24. Dropkick Murphys - Sunshine Highway

Works almost immediately 99.9% of the time. Only time it didn't was earlier this week and last weekend, but many of you know that my life really really RILLY sucked then.

[StellaBlue]

25. "Peace in the Valley" - Elvis Presley

Can't beat it

[Zomby Woof]

26. "Honey Bee" by Tom Petty

[Zomby Woof]

27. "Cheap Sunglasses" by ZZ Top

[Laelth]

28. September by Earth, Wind, & Fire

Happy, happy tune!

September

Do you remember the 21st night of september?
Love was changing the minds of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

My thoughts are with you
Holding hands with your heart to see you
Only blue talk and love,
Remember how we knew love was here to stay

Now december found the love that we shared in september.
Only blue talk and love,
Remember the true love we share today

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - never was a cloudy day

Ba de ya - say do you remember
Ba de ya - dancing in september
Ba de ya - golden dreams were shiny days

-Laelth

[nini]

44. That is my all time favorite song!

I love it!!!

[Cocoa]

29. Isn't she lovely

Stevie Wonder.

[u4ic]

80. That's a great song

Stevie Wonder is one of my all time favs. "Another Star" is another that makes me smile.

[grannylib]

30. "Black Dog" Led Zeppelin; "Message to My Girl" Crowded House;

"Good Day Sunshine" Beatles

those are the top three I can think of right now that ALWAYS seem to put me in a good mood!

[hickman1937]

33. Thunder Road, Up On the Roof, Mozart I think its 364,

The 1964 Columbia one, and that damn Tony Basil song, Hey Mickey. A lot of others. Oh God, and since the 60's, the Turtles, It Ain't Me Babe, and JA's White Rabbit. Oh, and Cry Baby, Janice Joplin. More later.

[Elidor]

34. Hush, Deep Purple

And a guilty pleasure, Miracles by Fleetwood Mac. That one triggers old childhood magic for me.

[Eyeball Kid]

38. Do you mean "You Make Loving Fun"?

The one that goes "I never did believe in miracles...", from Rumours?

Or are you thinking about the Jefferson Starship "Miracles", from Red Octopus?

Or something else?

[Elidor]

41. Yeah, that's the one I meant

You Make Loving Fun.

[Reciprocity]

35. Other.

JOY TO THE WORLD
Three Dog Night
written by Hoyt Axton

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin'...

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

If I were the king of the world
Tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the cars and the bars and the war
Make sweet love to you
Sing it now...

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

You know I love the ladies
Love to have my fun
I'm a high life flyer and a rainbow rider
A straight shootin' son-of-a-gun
I said a straight shootin' son-of-a-gun

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

I wanna tell you

Joy to the world
All the boys and girls
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me

[La Lioness Priyanka]

36. its in hindi

dil ko hazar bar

[hfojvt]

48. na, na, na, amare shoshay che oh na

Translation?

Mine is in Bengali, it means something like 'no,no,no, you can't catch me.'

[La Lioness Priyanka]

63. bengali is my mother tongue

[hfojvt]

95. well in that case - ami tomake balobashee

hoping that my spelling is comprehensible. Thanks to my graduate school roommate from the Calcutta area, I can probably speak more Bengali than I can Deutsch - which means about six phrases, including, ironically enough - ami jahni Bangla na.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

96. its ami bangla jani na

and thank you!

[Dervill Crow]

37. Brown-Eyed Girl.

With Dancin' in the Moonlight as a close runner-up. Van is the man!

[Zomby Woof]

39. "Green River" by CCR

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

40. Voted for John Denver...

I'm having a late-in-life appreciation for him (FULL DISCLOSURE: I once owned a copy of The Starland Vocal Band). Even if his music wasn't your thing, you have to give him props for being authentic about what he sang. I think sunshine really did get the goofy hippie high. Gotta respect him for that.

[NMMNG]

42. "Lullaby" by The Cure

It has nothing to do with the lyrics, but that song just melts away a bad/blue mood for me.

[DanCa]

45. Joan Jett Cherry Bomb. (nt)

[Rising Phoenix]

47. Punk Rock Girl by the Dead MIlkmen

I'm on a bit of a kick

[taterguy]

52. If ya ain't got Mojo Nixon

Then your record store needs fixin!

Thanks for the memories. Saw Mojo a few times, never got to see the Milkmen

[Rising Phoenix]

57. by the way...

welcome to DU

[taterguy]

60. Glad to be here

Wanna go for a ride in my bitchin Camero?

[Rising Phoenix]

64. I said how much you pay for this...

She said nothing man its stolen... PUNK ROCK GIRL

I know it's two totally different songs...but what the hell...

[taterguy]

66. so?

Would a "true" fan of the Milkmen care if you quoted from different songs? It's about freedom man. Just don't go quoting that song about the Thing that Only Eats Hippies, lest we offend the humorless here.

[Rising Phoenix]

68. all the punks are gonna scream Yippe!

[taterguy]

71. you said you met Warhol at a really chic party

I could play this game all night but the real world is calling my name.

[Rising Phoenix]

72. have fun!

[taterguy]

77. I will

My very Red State town is having a liberal drinking night. I can't wait. Details available upon request

[tigereye]

78. that always puts me in a good mood too!

esp. the Mojo reference.

[VelmaD]

49. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic...

by The Police. Always makes me smile and bounce around.

[EstimatedProphet]

50. Dark Star-Grateful Dead, or Kashmir-Led Zeppelin

[arwalden]

51. Car Wash

[Magrittes Pipe]

53. "Frankie Teardrop"

by Suicide

[no name no slogan]

83. My, aren't we just Mr. Sunshine?

Is it the cheezy prehistoric drum machine or the screaming that does it fer ye?

[Madrone]

54. I chose Aquarius from your selections.

But the first 2 songs that popped immediately to mind:


It's Tricky - Run DMC

Into the Mystic - Van Morrison


I'm sure there're many more.

[chaska]

55. "Don't Stop Believin'" is still coursing through my brain. Oh yee Journey

hater who started that thread, you know not what you've wrought.

[MN ChimpH8R]

56. "Do It Again" - Beach Boys

"Time of the Season" - Zombies
"Heart and Soul" - Sugar (K-pop girl group that records in Japan - J/K pop?)

DIA and TOTS are the ultimate summer songs and the Sugar tune is a wonderful, weightless confection of cute girly harmonies, techno and sheer energy with an irresistible hook. Loads o' fun!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

58. The Needle and the Damage Done by Neil Young

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

61. What about "Die Die Die, My Darling"

by The Misfits?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

92. Horror Business tops that!

[sundog]

65. vincent - don mclean

[Zomby Woof]

59. "Blue Sky" by The Allman Brothers Band

[Coventina]

62. (What a) Wonderful World

Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about the science book
Don't know much about the French I took.....

It really helps to cheer me up in my struggles as a grad student.

Not the one that starts: I see trees of green.....
Although that's a good song as well.

[toey]

67. Dude looks like a lady! n/t

[Shakespeare]

69. "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass or "Jimi Thing" by DMB.

One lifts my spirits, the other mellows me out and makes me happy.

[caty]

70. "Morning Train".....

SHEENA EASTON lyrics - "Morning Train (Nine To Five)"

I wake up every mornin'
I stumble out of bed
Stretchin' and yawnin'
Another day ahead
It seems to last forever
And time goes slowly by
'Til babe and me's together
Then it starts to fly

'Cos the moment that he's with me
Time can take a flight
The moment that he's with me
Everything's alright
Night time is the right time
We make love
Then it's his and my time
We take off

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

He takes me to a movie
Or to a restaurant, to go
Slow dancing
Anything I want
Only when he's with me
I catch a light
Only when he gives me
Makes me feel alright

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

All day I think of him
Dreamin' of him constantly
I'm crazy mad for him
And he's crazy mad for me
(Crazy mad for me)
When he steps off that train
I'm makin' a fool, a fight
Work all day to earn his pay
So we can play all night

My baby takes the morning train
He works from nine till five and then
He takes another home again
To find me waitin' for him

He's always on that morning train
(He works from nine till five and then)
He works so hard
(He takes another home again)
To find me waiting for him
(My baby takes the morning

[lizziegrace]

73. James Taylor

Your Smilin' Face

[lizziegrace]

75. The Weather Girls

It's Raining Men

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

76. Bollywood movie song, "Chale Jaise Hawaien"

Never fails to put a smile on my face!

[Left Is Write]

79. "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac.

It still reminds me of the best of the Bill Clinton years.

Though I must admit, I cannot be unhappy while listening to Elvis singing Burnin' Love!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

81. Everlasting Love

[u4ic]

82. More Today Than Yesterday

by Spiral Staircase. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000032R... is the amazon clip of it.

Always puts a smile on my face and a spring in my step.

[lizziegrace]

88. One of my favorites. It's on my car trip cd. n/t

[Susang]

84. Psycho by The Sonics

Closely followed Little Robber by The Sonics.

[Arugula Latte]

85. Walkin' on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves (ironic name now)

Also "Sugarpie Honeybunch" and "Brown-Eyed Girl" and a lot of others ...

[khashka]

86. Ken by Kate Bush

It's a joke but....


Khash.

[stlsaxman]

87. Baba O'Rielly

within the first nanosecond of that song being played I feel pure joy.

[Fenris]

90. "Skulls" by the Misfits

[Giant Robot]

91. "Comfortably Numb"

Pink Floyd. Yeah nothing says feel better now like that song. It was also voted my high school class song. Yeah. Anyone want to take a guess why?

[RandomKoolzip]

93. Stormtroopers of Death: "Anal Inflicted Descendants"

[enigmatic]

94. "Shake Some Action" by The Flamin' Groovies or....

"When You Make Up Your Mind" by Gutterball; both are musical uppers, bar none...

[Trigger Hippie]

97. All Day and All of the Night - The Kinks

[grannylib]

108. Going to see the Kinks was the one and only time I went to a concert all

by my lonesome...and I had the BEST time!
I was WAY broke; took a bunch of stuff to the weekly swap meet trying to raise $5 for gas and $10 for the ticket; a friend babysat my kids for nothing (I traded the favor the next time she wanted to go out) and it was really a blast.
Glad I didn't miss it!

[NNadir]

98. "Let Eagles Soar" by John Ashcroft. What ever happened to that nutcase?

[kwassa]

99. "Pon Moun Paka Bougé" by Pépé Kallé

High power upbeat soukous music, all ten minutes of it.

[bamacrat]

100. Rap songs seem to make me feel better when im down.

Bitches aint shit - Snoop Dogg
Dead Wrong - BIG
A lot of Project Pat/ 36 Mafia songs

[cwydro]

101. I love

Walk of Life, by Dire Straits

[Burma Jones]

102. Los Lobos - Saint Behind the Glass......n/t

[AtomicKitten]

106. "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello

[MiniMandaRuth]

107. Mine is a foreign song

called 'Romantic Soldier' by Megmui Ogata.

I also like anything preppy by the Caesars