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Music that Makes Me…Happy
We have a lot of things to stress out about right now. To initiate the new topic Clifford Brown has for June Group Writing, I thought it might be good to start with things that make me happy. We can set aside our cares for a few minutes and listen to bouncy, silly, or inane music. So, here’s to you, Ricochet. Does it make you smile?
If my choices have not made you smile, what music does?
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If you’re driving down the freeway and this comes on, you can’t not feel good.
But can you keep to a reasonable speed limit?
Pretty much anything by these guys. Happy music.
Definitely some dance music there.
This makes me happy: https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4
I really like this one.
It’s not available in my country?
Never forget Harry!
One of my favorite poems! I didn’t know “Bob” set Bob to music – awesome.
Happy music for me (and probably for everyone) depends big time on my mood before listening, but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bGLby6mZ0M
Moral Kodex does a lot of excellent Russian language rock, and I think this is their best song to sing and dance along to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPe2EwzGK48
Comparatively less dirty than other Leningrad songs, and great fun to let loose to (I use it a ton to shadow box, because it keeps me motivated and is perfectly timed to a round).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyGth4JpL4s&list=PL17PwC0sqWgYQIE-W0SCV2-vrPMJIsuPt&index=3&t=0s
عبد القيوم الشريف is an immensely talented and cheerful artist, and his interpretations of Sudanese Arabic songs and poems are great fun to listen to (he also has a song about corona that is incredibly catchy, that you can find on MEMRI’s YouTube channel with English subtitles).
It is in mine. Weird Al’s Bob.
I never knew that Russians could sound so happy. 😉
Haha, the lyrics aren’t particularly happy, but they manage to disguise that. There’s also a whole genre of what basically boils down to Russian gangster rap, which is probably more amusing than it should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BK0762d9A
Okay, yes, that is fun to watch.
I just love that someone, somewhere in Russia saw American gangster rap and said “You know what this needs? Gopniks! And shirtless elderly men playing chess.”
This one reminds me of @garymcvey for some reason:
Tim Curry: I Do the Rock:
Gary is the guy that gets mobbed at the end?
Camper Van Beethoven, Life is Grand
I have no idea why, but that brought this to mind:
“I could never whack a ball with such vee-lah-ci-tee! I do thee Rock!”
LOVE that song.
The Monkees?
I like it. I don’t care.
Shut up.
This one, right now.
August 10, 1982. Navy Pier in Chicago. The last song of a 12 song set was this one. Of course.
Good thing he did it, or we would have torn the pier down.
That was the only time I saw him live.
Double post.
It’s true that I’m a stout, elderly man who lives in the southwest, spending my days dancing with a grinning bevy of short-skirted girls who are forty years younger. So that part is pretty accurate.