Monday, September 09, 2019

Your Turn

From a reader.

Name a song (any era/any genre) that instantly elevates your mood.



98 comments:

  1. Rolling Stones, Happy

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  2. Backstreet's Back. I am not ashamed.

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  3. Dammit Count! Too quick 😅

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  4. Walking on Sunshine

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  5. Walking On Sunshine Katrina and the Waves

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  6. Hold On by the Radiants.

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  7. Parliament: "P funk"

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  8. Happy, Let's Spend the Night Together...Rolling Stones
    Misty Mountain Hop...Led Zepplin
    Lido Shuffle...Boz Skaggs

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  9. "What a Wonderful World" covered by Ministry. Also the original by Louis Armstrong and Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's version.

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  10. So many....Bossanova Feeling-Minus8
    A friend just recommended Better than I Used to by Illiterate Light and that does as well....
    Ain’t Nobody,Chaka...

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    1. Oh and “Yesterday”-Yumi Zouma

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  11. Foster The People -- "Sit Next to Me"

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    1. Good one. One of my daughters favorites

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  12. Stevie Wonder - For Once in My Life

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  13. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - "so now I'm praying for the end of time to hurry up and arrive"

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  14. "You've Got the Look" Prince

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  15. Anonymous10:27 AM

    Travelin Band Creedence Clearwater Revival

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  16. Tom Sawyer - Rush

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  17. Easy - Commodores
    I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

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  18. Little Red Corvette - Prince

    Anything by The Beastie Boys or The Ramones

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  19. Latch by Disclosure

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  20. Raise Your Glass- P!nk

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  21. Burnin for You!

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  22. Let the Day Begin by The Call.

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  23. Bridge over troubled water by Aretha Franklin

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  24. Crazy,crazy nights by KISS. How can you not be in a good mood when that reaches your ears?

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  25. So many... But I'll mention two from different eras...
    You're The Cream In My Coffee by Annette Henshaw circa 1928
    Happy by Pharrell

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  26. Magic Power by Triumph

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  27. "i'm the one" Van Halen

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  28. stoneybridge terrace by Ian Pooley🥰

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  29. and redbull and Hennessy by Jenny Lewis

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  30. Weezer / Hash Pipe

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  31. Anonymous11:11 AM


    Fooling Yourself - Styx
    When It's Love - Van Halen

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  32. Everybody Dance Now by C+C Music Factory

    That track could make even a funeral lit

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  33. Let Your Love Flow - The Bellamy Brothers.

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  34. Downtown sung by Petula Clark. I remember it being sung to me as a child and I still love it.

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  35. She's a Brick House! Owww

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  36. Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now

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  37. Build Me Up Buttercup

    My oldest sister used to sing it to me. I immediately start dancing when I hear it (Although they are not happy lyrics!)

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  38. Sir Duke- Stevie Wonder
    Least Complicated- Indigo Girls
    Lovely Day- Bill Withers
    Feel Like Making Love- Roberta Flack
    I Get A Kick Out of You- Frank Sinatra
    Lucius- Born Again Teen
    Dixie Chicks- Goodbye Earl, WIde Open Spaces
    Missy E- Work It
    The Staple Singers- I'll Take You There
    Chaka Khan- I Feel For You
    Paul McCartney & Wings- Silly Love Songs
    Ella Fitzgerald/Cole Porter- It's De-lovely
    Dusty Springfield- The Look of Love
    Louis Armstrong- What a Wonderful World

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  39. Melanie: Brand New Key. Makes me grin ear to ear every time I hear it.

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  41. So Emotional by Whitney & hungry eyes by Eric Carmen.

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  42. Kodachrome - Paul Simon

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  43. Sick of Myself by Matthew Sweet
    Paradise Skies by Max Webster
    What I Like About You by The Romantics
    My Sharonna & Good Girls Don't by The Knack

    too many more to list.

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  44. Detroit Rock City - Kiss
    Head over Heels = Tears for Fears

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  45. Bad Romance, The Edge of Glory: GaGa
    Misery: Maroon5
    Shoot The Moon : Jump 5
    Shine A Light , Bitch, The Last Time : Rolling Stones
    Magic Power: Triumph
    Suavamente: Elvis Crespo
    Why: Bronski Beat
    Signed Sealed Delivered : Stevie Wonder
    It Must Be Him: Vikki Carr
    Let’s Get Serious : Jermaine Jackson
    In the Mood : Glenn Miller

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  46. The Cure: Friday I'm in Love
    Lightning Seeds: Pure
    Cat Stevens: If you want to sing out sing out

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  47. Photograph - Def Leppard

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  48. Brown-Eyed Girl - Van Morrison

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  49. Don't leave me this way.

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  50. Saturday In The Park - Chicago

    Into The Mystic - Van Morrison

    Drift Away - Dobie Gray

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  51. We're GenX, baby!

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  52. No Rain - Blind Melon
    Hey Everybody - 5SOS
    The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars

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  53. Modest Mouse Float On

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  54. OMG too many to mention! Music in general just makes me happy.

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  55. Damn there were a lot of great songs over the years. Nowadays it's mostly just pansy pop sh!t.

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  56. Another vote for "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves.

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  57. Mrs Major Tom - the cover version by Sheryl Crow. Sad song but somehow eases the pain.
    One Come We - by Shinjuku Zulu, love peace and unity feeling, calm chillout meditative

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  58. Mobb Deep- quiet storm

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  59. Sweet Talk by Saint Motel
    Juicy Fruit by Mtume
    You Are the Sunshine of my Life by Stevie Wonder

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  60. Armageddon it
    The lyrics, the rythm, even the music video makes me happy in seconds.

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  61. Low
    Walking on Sunshine
    I'm Too Sexy

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  62. My Favorite Things, renditions by John Coltrane AND Andy Williams;

    How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore, by Prince.

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  63. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO

    Whip It - DEVO

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  64. Too many to name but Walking On Sunshine makes me happy

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  65. Almost any Kenny Loggins movie song, but in particular, the theme to Footloose.

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  66. Some great songs mentioned here!
    Groove Is in the Heart.

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  67. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
    Ooh Child - 5 Stairsteps
    Another World - Joe Jackson
    Frederick - Patti Smith Group

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  68. Linus And Lucy (Theme song for Charlie Brown)

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  70. Happy, party music = The Violent Femmes

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  71. Livin la vida loca. Not sorry

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  72. ANYTHING by Little Richard, but especially Long Tall Sally.

    And I assert that NOBODY can maintain a bad mood if steel drums are playing.

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  73. Your love is lifting me higher by Rita Coolidge or anything by the Pointer Sisters!

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  74. Anonymous9:18 PM


    Santana-'Smooth'

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  75. Dance or Die by Family Force 5. The music video is so cool.

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  76. Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
    Jean Leloup - Paradis City
    Electric Light Orchestra - Turn to Stone
    Vanessa Mae - Contradanza
    Éric Lapointe - Bobépine
    Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind of Wonderful
    Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Spank
    Robert Cray - Right Next Door (Because of Me)
    Mana - Sabanas Frias

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  77. Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
    Dancing in the Street - Bowie and Jagger

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  78. Do you feel like I feel?

    Belinda Carlisle.

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  79. Knockin' At Your Back Door by Deep Purple

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  80. Daydream Believer - The Monkeys

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  81. Say Hey - Michael Franti

    https://youtu.be/A0fYKguHFcQ

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  82. You Get What You Give - New Radicals
    Sureshot - Beastie Boys
    Cities in Dust - Siouxsie
    Love Spreads - Stone Roses
    Human Behavior - Bjork

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  83. Mr. Blue Sky by ELO was a good call above. I would add Breakfast in America by Supertramp, too.

    Prog Rock 4Evah!

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  84. Come on, Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners.

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  85. Don't Worry be Happy.

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  86. Part time lover - Stevie Wonder
    Ain't no mountain high enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammie Tarrel
    Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndy Lauper
    Don't stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
    Can't stop the feeling - Justin Timberlake

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  87. "Someone to Call My Lover" - Janet Jackson

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  88. Anything Supertramp ?!!!

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  89. Unknown, anything by Jean Leloup makes me happy!

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  90. I will also add Miss You by The Rolling Stones.

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