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post #51 of 82
5/30/09 at 3:25pm
There are lots and lots but I'll name a few off the top of my head:

Walk This Way: Run DMC and Aerosmith - I simply cannot start smiling and jigging the moment that opening drum beat and riff kick in

Surf Wax America: Weezer - takes me back to a very happy time in my life and a holiday with mates in particular, a big favorite track.

Sounds Of Science: Beastie Boys - no matter what I'm doing everything has to stop the moment this song kicks into "time for money with girls covered in honey...", one of my favorite tracks off my favorite hiphop album

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Nirvana - yeah it's cliched as fuck, I don't give a shit. I was fourteen when this came out and it was like a bomb going off in my head and every time it starts I become a mosh pit of one even at 32.

Gangstas Trippin: Fatboy Slim - probably my favorite Fatboy toe tapper, tho Weapon Of Choice comes pretty darn close. I find it very hard not to get up and dance when I hear this no matter where I may be

...there are actually heaps more - a helluva lot of aussie and kiwi tracks that most of you here won't know as well actually, but I've kept it international so y'all know what I'm talking about.
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post #52 of 82
5/30/09 at 4:08pm
Not My Slave - Oingo Boingo
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post #53 of 82
6/1/09 at 1:21am
I want You to Want me- Cheap Trick

Candy Girl- New Edition

Mr. Blue Sky- E.L.O

This is The Day- The The

Hard not to smile and jump around when I hear these.
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post #54 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:14am
Need I say more?
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post #55 of 82
6/1/09 at 1:08pm
Louis Armstrong kind of owns this category for me.

Up-tempo stuff like "Struttin With Some Barbeque", "Back Home Again in Indiana" and, of course, “When the Saints Go Marching In”…are just great. But the one song that is absolutely guaranteed to make my day is the more leisurely “On The Sunny Side of the Street”. Not to be confused with the chintzy little Pogues tune with the similar name.

I also get an inordinate amount of joy from songs about playing songs. I’m thinking of things like King Curtis’ “Memphis Soul Stew”, Archie Bell and the Drells “Tighten Up” or “Now You Has Jazz” (Armstrong again).

And of course, no such list is complete without mention of Chuck Mangione’s “Feels So Good”. Veers dangerously close to easy listening trash, I know, but what sublime use of the wacka-chicka guitar accompaniment (the alberti bass of the disco era). Awesome guitar solo too. Makes me want to snuggle a flugelhorn.
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post #56 of 82
6/1/09 at 1:27pm
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Stevie: "Sir Duke", "Higher Ground"
A Stevie Wonder live concert aired on our local PBS over the weekend, and I've been play all of the above, along with "Superstitious" and "Master Blaster", on a loop the past couple of days.

Others:

Funkadelic - "Hit it and Quit It"
James Brown - "Sex Machine"
B.T. Express - "Do It 'Til You're Satisfied"
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post #57 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:37pm
Thread Starter 
Because starting this thread has got my brain (and iPod) going, some others:

"Just Like Heaven" - The Cure; I love this song so much that it hurts. You hear that? It hurts.

"Laid" - James. So it's become a cliche? So what?

"Can't Hardly Wait" - The Replacements. I love the Replacements. That is all. Also, "Jesus rides beside me, he never buys any smokes."

"Pull Shapes" - The Pipettes. I defy you to spin "We are the Pipettes" and not cheer up.

"Come On Eileen" - Save Ferris. A song from my skankin' youth that never fails to slap a smile on my face.
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post #58 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:40pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
"Come On Eileen" - Save Ferris. A song from my skankin' youth that never fails to slap a smile on my face.
The cover is from your youth? God damn it.
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post #59 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:42pm
Thread Starter 
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The cover is from your youth? God damn it.
Well, teens, anyways.
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post #60 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:43pm
I looked to this thread, hoping to be cheered up by the image of Phil doing the snoopy dance.

Instead i'm reminded a dance that dangerous could damage his precious, precious hips.
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post #61 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:45pm
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
Smells Like Teen Spirit[/I]: Nirvana - yeah it's cliched as fuck, I don't give a shit. I was fourteen when this came out and it was like a bomb going off in my head and every time it starts I become a mosh pit of one even at 32.
I'm trying to imagine Aussies moshing. Man, that must be violent.
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post #62 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:48pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
The cover is from your youth? God damn it.
Bear in mind that Seether has a current hit song with their cover of Wham's 'Careless Whisper'. We're old, Phil.
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post #63 of 82
6/1/09 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
Bear in mind that Seether has a current hit song with their cover of Wham's 'Careless Whisper'. We're old, Phil.
So it's these fuckers that managed to desecrate Careless Whisper? I thought it was Nickelback. Same shit anyway.
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post #64 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:01pm
well Rip Slyme just released their new video GOOD DAY.

this is the "Walking on Sunshine" of 2009.
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post #65 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:03pm
And We Danced - The Hooters
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post #66 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:14pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
"Laid" - James. So it's become a cliche? So what?
I played this at the bar the other day and these hipster kids looked like their minds just exploded. They'd never heard of it and asked for the title and artist. I love when that happens.
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post #67 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:34pm
"Grace Kelly" - Mika
"Just Got Lucky" - JoBoxers
"The Boxer" - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
"Canary in a Coal Mine" - The Police
"Quarter to Three" - Gary U.S. Bonds
"Sherry Darling" - Bruce Springsteen
"Kung Fu Fighting" - Carl Douglas
"Turning Japanese" - The Vapors
"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats
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post #68 of 82
6/1/09 at 3:39pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
"Sherry Darling" - Bruce Springsteen
I must have replayed this 15 times the first time I heard it. Such a fun song.
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post #69 of 82
6/1/09 at 4:02pm
Pretty much anything with a good wailing sax solo gets my feet going.
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post #70 of 82
6/1/09 at 5:18pm
"Shout to the Top" - The Style Council
"Hyperactive" - Thomas Dolby
"Shiny, Shiny" - Haysi Fantayzee
"Nothing Can Stop Us Now" - Saint Etienne
"Jimmy James" - The Beastie Boys

So many more . . .
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post #71 of 82
6/1/09 at 5:20pm
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"Hyperactive" - Thomas Dolby
Holy god yes.
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post #72 of 82
6/1/09 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
"Canary in a Coal Mine" - The Police
Nice one. Probably my favorite song from the Police. I love Andy's guitar in this song.

I always preferred 'Airhead' or 'Keys to Her Ferrari' from Thomas Dolby, but 'Hyperactive' was a good one. Much better than that fucking Science song...
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post #73 of 82
6/1/09 at 5:51pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Pretty much anything with a good wailing sax solo gets my feet going.
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post #74 of 82
6/1/09 at 7:01pm
A whole lotta Bob Marley.

Off the top of my head--"Jamming", "Stir It Up"

Otis Redding-"Shake (Live), "That's How Strong My Love Is"

Wilson Pickett "Land of 1000 Dances"

Sam & Dave "Hold On, I'm Comin'"
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post #75 of 82
6/1/09 at 7:29pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
"Canary in a Coal Mine" - The Police
We would have also accepted 'When the World is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around'.

And your inclusion of a Police tune excuses your inclusion of a Mika song.
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post #76 of 82
6/2/09 at 10:52am
"When the world..." has a supremely funky bassline.

Harvey Scales and the seven sounds-Broadway freeze.

James Brown-There was a time the rhythm section of Jabo Starks and Clyde Stubblefield on drums and Alphonso "Country" Kellum on guitar is just incredible

C'Mon Children-Earth, Wind and Fire.
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post #77 of 82
6/2/09 at 10:55am
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Originally Posted by Feral Akodon View Post
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Stranger than kindness.
One of my favorite songs ever, but it makes you get up and dance? Seriously? It makes me want to murder a lover.
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post #78 of 82
6/2/09 at 10:59am
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Originally Posted by tommy five-tone View Post
And your inclusion of a Police tune excuses your inclusion of a Mika song.
"Grace Kelly" is ridiculously silly and god help me it makes me smile every damn time I hear it.
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post #79 of 82
6/2/09 at 11:00am
You may think that and it's got a bouncy beat. I'll give ya that. But the guy's voice so high it's ear-splitting.
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post #80 of 82
6/2/09 at 6:28pm
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
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post #81 of 82
6/3/09 at 3:52pm
Flux - Bloc Party
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post #82 of 82
6/7/09 at 4:38pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
'On the Loose' by Saga.

Sorry.

This. And I'm equally apologetic about the fact that Journey's "Worlds Apart/Seperate Ways" opening section will get my foot to mash on the gas pedal instantly when it comes on the radio.
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