What's that song that always makes you smile?

Oh come on, you know you have one.
That song that makes you dance in your chair,
in your seat in the car, or smile at passersby...
Share it with us.
I know for a fact that there are quite a few TFPers
that could use a place to find a smile on occasion.

I'll start off with a little Stevie... he always makes me smile.
Something about his voice and energy just gets me moving,
grinning, and generally having a good time.


And who doesn't love a little James Brown?
I can't find the original live version I have where he's hollerin' at you to
get up, HUH! get on up!
which never, ever fails to make me laugh, smile,
or step a little faster on the treadmill... at least until the song is over.


What song makes YOU smile?
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Oh crap, this should be in Tilted Everything Else Including Music, shouldn't it? I was just trying to entertain myself.

 

the blues always make me smile, in particular John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom

 

Lots of songs make me smile... Galway Girl is most certainly one of them.

 

The following songs always cheer me up when I'm being a Grumpy Gus:

Rainbow / Dio - "Man on the Silver Mountain" (you gotta use the three-finger Dio point when you're rocking out to it by yourself)
Metallica - "Anesthesia" (Cliff Burton's absolutely righteous bass solo, I always smile when it switches from slow to fast)
Blitzkid - "Teenage Necrophilian Love" (Fun crooner with a twist: "... I think she must be dead.")
Nuke and the Living Dead - "Jack Daniels" (it's a song that screams about said booze for two minutes, women universally hate this song)
Monstabob - "They Disappear" (German horrorpunk band, the guy's voice is oddly hypnotizing, he's singing about Poltergeist)
David Bowie - "Magic Dance" (Labyrinth. Seriously, who doesn't love this song? It's a nutty song from a nutty movie.)
Operation Ivy - "Room without a Window" (They've only got one album, Energy, and it is loaded with all sorts of powerful, catchy punk)

 

Beverly Hoch ... I heard her sing this around 1983 and fell in love with her. Never fell out of love with her. She makes me laugh, cry, die, live again, yet behind all that, she gives me a smile as wide as the universe.

Does anyone notice a hint of Princess Diana RIP, and some of the great actresses of the silent movies?

Aw dang, dang, dang Euphorically, I was doing a search/stalk browse and found that she's recently finished a course of chemo. Heck. I hope she gets properly better soon.

 

I like to listen to the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" for a good smile.

http://youtu.be/4b-by5e4saI

 

this video makes me smile, too

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it won't let me post more than 5
i'll add more later
i could go on for quite a while

 

got a few

Toadies - Possum Kingdom - weird I know, but it reminds me of summer when I was a young buck for some reason


Stevie Ray Vaughn - Rude Mood


Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains - because I'm a geek

 

I remember buying that on casette!

Whenever I hear Europe's The Final Countdown I feel pretty darn good.

 

It makes me sad that Possum Kingdom is the only Toadies song most people know.

Especially since they've got so many great songs.

 

"Dancin' in the Moonlight," by King Harvest always makes me smile.

"I Can't Stop This Feelin'," by Blue Swede... I can't resist singing along.

What can I say? I'm old...

 

Amorphis' cover of Light My Fire. Hilarious.

 

A blood pumper with some nostalgia thrown in.

 

I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins - from Caddyshack



Hey Bartender - The Blues Brothers

 

I have a few..






...and almost anything by Ke$ha.

 

Who can NOT smile when there is a ukelele?



And Flo... who couldn't love Florence and the Machine?!

 

Technically, i also know "I Come From The Water", but for the same reason I know "Possum Kingdom", because it was played on the radio.

Don't feel bad, the only Kenny Wayne Shepherd song anyone seems to know (if they know one at all) is "Blue On Black", and he's one bad mofo when it comes to blues guitar. His Live On tour was one of the best concerts I've ever seen.

 

This one always brings a smile to my face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU&ob=av3e

 

Constructive Summer by The Hold Steady. Just a great drinking and having a good, stupid, irresponsible time on a summer day song.

 

Poxy Boggards Drink Til I Die