Songs that always made you smile, dance, love being alive?

[ShooShooBaby]

"cemetry gates" by the smiths
"sing your life" by morrissey
"get up" by sleater-kinney
"don't be shy" - cat stevens
"viva la persistence" - kimya dawson
"with arms outstretched" - rilo kiley

i could go on and on, so i'll stop there!

 

[adamjaskie]

"Sing, Sing, Sing" of course, though I usually have to take a break for a song or two after dancing to it.
Pretty much all of Abbey Road by The Beatles, but especially the last half.

 

[thunderw21]

"I am the Highway"- Audioslave
"Highwayman"- The Highwaymen
"Hurt"- Johnny Cash
"Ballad of the Edmond Fitzgerald"- Gordon Lightfoot
"Nights in White Satin"- Moody Blues
"'39"- Queen


They make me feel alive and happy to be alive.

 

[Dixon Cannon]

I just happened to think....

'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' by YES! That drum part makes me pull the car over and play air drums on the steering wheel! Also, who can deny that CREAM's 1968 version of 'Crossroads' doesn't crank up the heart rate?!! And then, for good measure, the drums on the one hit wonder chart entry by the FIVE STAIRSTEPS - 'Ohh Ohh Child'! Those drums have got to be the best sustained drum lick in all of recorded history! I think that is Bernard Purdy as the studio hired gun on that one!

-dixon cannon

 

[RIOT]

"Honey Bun" - Larry Donn
"Lotta Lovin'" - Gene Vincent
"Rock-A-Bye Baby Rock" - Connie Dycus
"Save It For Later" - English Beat
"Sally Brown" - Laurel Aitken

forgot to add

"I've Got A Rocket In My Pocket" - Jimmie Lloyd Logsdon

 

[ShooShooBaby]

"Save It For Later" - English Beat

yeah! i love the english beat! many of their songs do this for me.

on the same vein, "guns of navarone" by the specials.

 

[pigeon toe]

Right now my favorite song is "When You Find Out" by the Nerves. It always gets me moving and singing along! It's just so catchy. "Temptation" by New Order also gets me groovin.

ShooShooBaby, I also LOVE "Get Up". That was one of my favorite S-K songs.

 

[RIOT]

yeah! i love the english beat! many of their songs do this for me.

on the same vein, "guns of navarone" by the specials.

Coolness. Yeah, I've been in that Trad Ska/Blue Beat/2-tone mode lately.. have been listening to some Bad Manners & Toots to cheer up the mood.

Try listening to The Skatalites version of "Guns.." it's got a little more zap to it

 

[CharlesB]

lately Temptation by New Order, Cry Wolf by Aha and 3 Dimes Down by the Driveby Truckers have been gettin me goin

 

[pgoat]

"Honey Bun" - Larry Donn
"Lotta Lovin'" - Gene Vincent
"Rock-A-Bye Baby Rock" - Connie Dycus
"Save It For Later" - English Beat
"Sally Brown" - Laurel Aitken

forgot to add

"I've Got A Rocket In My Pocket" - Jimmie Lloyd Logsdon

NRBQ did a great version of Rocket in my Pocket.

Pretty much anything by Gene Vincent from the Cliff Gallup era gives me goosebumps. "B-I Bickey Bi Bo Go" & "Woman Love" were always my favorites

 

[RIOT]

Pretty much anything by Gene Vincent from the Cliff Gallup era gives me goosebumps. "B-I Bickey Bi Bo Go" & "Woman Love" were always my favorites

True. Because he is God.

 

[Audrey Horne]

"Temptation" by New Order also gets me groovin.

Aww, I love that song. For me, it's always Just Like Heaven by the Cure. Also The Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian and Burning Love by Elvis.

 

[KY Gentleman]

5:15 by The Who. (or Join Together) . Almost any old song by The Who.
(I'm an old guy).

 

[Cobden]

I have a bad taste in music, so be warned:

"Marche Slave" by Tchaikovsky

"Looking Back Over My Shoulder" by Mike and the Mechanics

"Sweat" by Inner Circle

"I've Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison

"Breakfast in America" by Supertramp

WARNING: the next songs are written in black to hide them. Do not highlight from here on if you have taste and don't want to be spending the next three weeks stabbing your eyeballs repeatedly with a Phillips head screwdriver tonumb the excrutiating pain of having these songs in your head will inevitably cause. As I said, I have a bad taste in music

"I'm Gonna Be" by the Proclaimers

"Young at Heart" by the Bluebells

"Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin

"Summertime Love" by Sebrina Salerno

"Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi

"Lambada" by Kaoma

"We Go Together" From Grease

"One Night in Bangcock" by Murray Head

I did warn you

 

[pgoat]

Murray Head? I don't know that song, but he was pdg as Judas in the original Jesus Christ Superstar LP. Way better than the guy who was in the film, anyway.

 

[flat-top]

yeah! i love the english beat! many of their songs do this for me.
.

I just bought The English Beat Greatest Hits JUST for "Save It For Later". Just an amazing song. Fun Fact: in England, The English Beat were simply known as "The Beat"!

 

[Harley Quinn]

Right... Gents brace yourselves and ladies, you may wish to avert your eyes...

Vivaldi - pretty much anything
Albinoni - Adagio (both the original and the Siegue-Siegue Sputnik version)
Lachrymosa from Motzart's Requiem

The Mission soundtrack

almost everything by the Pet Shop Boys but 'Yesterday, when I was Mad' or 'It's A Sin' especially

Gloria Gaynor's version of 'Go'

The Last Temptation of Alice by Alice Gooper (with Neil Gaiman)
From The Inside by Alice Cooper and Bernie Taupin
Pretty much anything by Alice Cooper and Bob Ezrin

The Weather Girls version of 'It's Raining Men'

Apocalyptica's '4 Cellos Play Metallica'

S&M by Metallica and the SF Symph

Harry Konick in his big band days...

Frank Stallone and his big band

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Matt Monroe...

Pretty much anything by Queen

Laibach's cover version of 'One Vision' - "Geburt Einer Nation"

the whole Nato album by Laibach

Marylin Manson - "Lest We Forget..." (a best of... but he does the best version of Tainted Love ever...

I said it wasn't pretty...

 

[RIOT]

I just bought The English Beat Greatest Hits JUST for "Save It For Later". Just an amazing song. Fun Fact: in England, The English Beat were simply known as "The Beat"!

more Fun Fact: as to which, Beat members Ranking Rogers and Dave Wakeling later formed General Public, while others formed The Fine Young Cannibals. Rogers collaboration with Neville Staples and Jerry Dammers also brought us The Special Beat.

 

[Mocheman]

Pretty much anything by Queen

Testify my brother!

 

[Twitch]

That's easy: Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight? by Lonnie Donegan lol lol

Hear it here- http://www.sharrysplace.com/Lyrics/Misc/does-your-chewing-gum.html