Happy Songs....

[dissention]

Hot Fun In the Summertime- Sly and the Family Stone (pretty much anything from the first three albums)
Happy Dog- Blondie
Maria- Blondie
Rebel Rebel- David Bowie
Never Get Old- David Bowie
Shine- Cyndi Lauper
Ever Fallen in Love- Fine Young Cannibals
I'm Beautiful- Bette Midler
Sing As We Go- Gracie Fields
You're An Original- Sheryl Crow
Bounce Your Boobies- Rusty Warren
Precious- The Pretenders
Wild Thing- Sister Carol
Telling Stories- Tracy Chapman
Steel Claw- Tina Turner
Across 110th Street- Bobby Womack
That Old Black Magic- Jane Horrocks and Robbie Williams
You'll Never Know- Rosemary Clooney
Loco de Mor- Celia Cruz

[Serrart]

Not in order and excluding Stevie or FM (who would fill the list):

If You Want Me To Stay - Sly And The Family Stone
No Rain - Blind Melon
Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Eartha Kitt or Ella Fitzgerald
It's Good To Be In Love - Frou Frou
Down On Me - Janis Joplin
Our Love Is Here To Stay - Rosemary Clooney
Dreams - Cranberries or the Chinese version sung by Faye Wong
At Last - Etta James... and Stevie! (I couldn't resist)
I Will Survive - especially in Cake version
High And Dry - Radiohead
Cure - Friday I'm In Love
There Is Nothing Like A Dame - Bernadette Peters
Stay - Bruce Springsteen with E Street Band & Jackson Browne (live)
Feeling Good - Muse
La Mer - Charles Trenet
Big Yellow Taxi - Indigo Girls, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, S. McLachlan live from Lilith Fair
Simpathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
Gabriel - Lamb
Mrs. Leroy Brown - Loretta Lynn

etc. etc. etc....

Romy

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

Nutbush City Limits - Tina

Schoolhouses, ginhouses, and outhouses always put smiles on my face.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by Serrart

If You Want Me To Stay - Sly And The Family Stone

Our Love Is Here To Stay - Rosemary Clooney

There Is Nothing Like A Dame - Bernadette Peters

Good picks!

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

Schoolhouses, ginhouses, and outhouses always put smiles on my face.

Oh, me too. This is a song that is always played on my yearly horseback riding/camping extravaganza. Include in the scene if you will, a campfire, my close friends, me in my cowboy get-up, a measured amount of Patron Silver, and much hooting and hollering. A good time had by all, I must say ! Much to the chagrin of stodgy people camped anywhere with 100 yards.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

Oh, me too. This is a song that is always played on my yearly horseback riding/camping extravaganza. Include in the scene if you will, a campfire, my close friends, me in my cowboy get-up, a measured amount of Patron Silver, and much hooting and hollering. A good time had by all, I must say ! Much to the chagrin of stodgy people camped anywhere with 100 yards.

I could never listen to it the same way after I saw the movie. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by dissention

Maria- Blondie

Oh hell ya!! I didn't even think of that one - that song rocks....when it first came out I had a good friend name Marieka - so I'd always replace Maria with her name....ahhh...fond memories AND a great song

Also I'll add Rapture to my list...Happiness is doing the little "rap" in the middle of that song...LOVE it..."fab five freddie told me everybody's fly....."

[dissention]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Oh hell ya!! I didn't even think of that one - that song rocks....when it first came out I had a good friend name Marieka - so I'd always replace Maria with her name....ahhh...fond memories AND a great song

Also I'll add Rapture to my list...Happiness is doing the little "rap" in the middle of that song...LOVE it..."fab five freddie told me everybody's fly....."

Rapture has some of the craziest lyrics this side of...anyone. I sat down and read them one day and it's a good thing I wasn't under the influence. Aliens coming down from space to eat bars and cars!

If you think that one is weird, though, you should listen to Dragonfly and Europa from them. You won't know what hit ya.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

I could never listen to it the same way after I saw the movie. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing.

F that movie. I have never seen it. I found it suspect to make a biographical movie when all the key players were still alive. Plus I cannot withstand seeing violence against women, even if it is only a movie.
You need to come to Oregon and go camping with us. That would fix that image issue in your head. Jake Weber can come too. I'll get ahold of his agent and make it all happen. I'll even get y'all your own tent.

[amber]

these are only songs i could randomly hear on the radio:
Love Shack-I love the whole album, but only that song comes on the radio,usually.
Devil/Georgia
Born USA
Here Comes the Rain Again
Criminal (fiona apple)
Edge
Devil Inside
Rebel Yell
Walk Like an Egyptian
Down Under
Take Me Home Tonight
Fat Bottom Girls
I Love Rock and Roll
That "still lookin for that blue.jean.baby.queen, prettiest girl I ever seen" song
(Rock on?)
Touch Me
Somebody to Love
The Joker? (Steve Miller)
Sweet Dreams
Call Me
Yep- have to add Maria/blondie. sometimes i hear it on the radio...

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

F that movie. I have never seen it. I found it suspect to make a biographical movie when all the key players were still alive. Plus I cannot withstand seeing violence against women, even if it is only a movie.
You need to come to Oregon and go camping with us. That would fix that image issue in your head. Jake Weber can come too. I'll get ahold of his agent and make it all happen. I'll even get y'all your own tent.

I? Am dying. You're getting me flushed too early in the day.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by amber

That "still lookin for that blue.jean.baby.queen, prettiest girl I

Tiny Dancer by Elton John? Or Blue Jean by Bowie?

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Great one....that song holds a lot of good memories for me....especially the wrong way I sing it.....in high school we couldn't figure out what the first line is so we'd always sing it, "Don King away...." Now I believe it's talking away? I am still not sure....

That song kicks all kind of a$$!! BTW, the correct lyrics are "Talking away, I don't know what I'm to say....oh, say it anyway...."

LMAO at Don King away!!

I never knew until recently he was saying "in a day or twooooooooo...."

A-ha totally rules.

As for happy songs, Days Go By by Keith Urban is my good mood song lately. I love the lyrics and I really want to live out this philosophy.

Days Go By

Changin' lanes and talkin' on the phone
Drivin' way too fast
The interstate's jammed with gunners like me
Afraid of comin' in last
But somewhere in the race we run
We're comin' undone

Days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand out the window in the wind
Cars go by
Yeah, it's all we've been given
So we better start livin' right now
'Cause days go by

I was on the roof just the other night
And watched the world flash by
Headlights, taillights and runnin' through the river of neon signs
But somewhere in the rush I felt
We're losin' ourselves

(Repeat Chorus)

We think about tomorrow, then it slips away
We talk about forever but we've only got today

Days go by
I can feel them flyin'
Like a hand out the window as the cars go by
Yeah, it's all we've been given
So we'd better start livin'
We'd better start livin'
We'd better start livin' right now

(Repeat Chorus)

'Cause days go by
So take them by the hand
And in your mind
Take them by the hand
And live your life
Take them by your hand
Don't let your life fly by
Come on
Come on now
Don't you know the days go by

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

Tiny Dancer by Elton John? Or Blue Jean by Bowie?

Neither. It's by David Essex, I believe. it has a weird shuffle echo drum in it - and the words i quoted are the main words. It goes on..."see her shake on the movie screen...Jimmy Dean (duhduhduhduh)...Jimmy Dean....Rock On"

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by dissention

Tiny Dancer by Elton John? Or Blue Jean by Bowie?

Tiny Dancer doesn't have anything about queens or stuff....

BUT I will add it to my list as well...I love to belt that song a la Almost Famous