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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  1. Arahant Member
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    Gary McVey (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    OldDanRhody’s speakeasy (View Comment):
    This one reminds me of @garymcvey for some reason:

    Gary is the guy that gets mobbed at the end?

    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.

    It looked as if one might be the jealous sort.

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  2. OldDanRhody's speakeasy Member
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    OldDanRhody’s speakeasy (View Comment):
    This one reminds me of @garymcvey for some reason:

    Gary is the guy that gets mobbed at the end?

    Possibly…

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  3. Randy Webster Inactive
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    The Scarecrow (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):

    Tim Curry: I Do the Rock:

    “I could never whack a ball with such vee-lah-ci-tee! I do thee Rock!”

    LOVE that song.

    “Every day negotiate us closer to disastro.”

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  4. MarciN Member
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  5. MarciN Member
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    I like Jimmy Buffett:

     

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  6. MarciN Member
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  7. Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) Member
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    @Sisyphus

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  8. MeandurΦ Member
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    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    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).

    first one sounds like they have a Roland 303 in the bass line, like.

    second one swings pretty well.

    third one sounds off beat to me.

     

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  9. Arahant Member
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    Sisyphus (hears Xi laughing) (View Comment):

    Wet Dream

    That is truly a horrendous school of punfish that swam by.

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  10. KirkianWanderer Inactive
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    MeandurΦ (View Comment):

    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    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).

    first one sounds like they have a Roland 303 in the bass line, like.

    second one swings pretty well.

    third one sounds off beat to me.

    If you want more from the first band, you’ll probably have more luck using their Russian name, which is Моральный кодекс. Admittedly, sometimes I have to play around with VPNs to get really good samples of عبد القيوم الشريف’s music. This might have a better beat, although it’s an educational/health and public safety warning more than anything. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9lrToSiH4&t=12s

     

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  11. Jeff Petraska Member
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    The favorite happy song of meteorologists everywhere, plus Jack Butler. 

     

     

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  12. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    This is ridiculous.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  13. colleenb Member
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    James Hageman (View Comment):

    This makes me happy: https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4

    Stop me before I spend all day watching Weird Al videos!

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  14. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    Also what we should all be doing right now.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  15. colleenb Member
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    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    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).

    Loved the Russian videos – but then I love just listening to Russian. One of my favorite languages.

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  16. colleenb Member
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    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    KirkianWanderer (View Comment):
    Moral Kodex does a lot of excellent Russian language rock, and I think this is their best song to sing and dance along to.

    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

    I generally don’t like rap because I don’t like all the bad words. Since this is in Russian and I don’t understand Russian, its not bad.

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  17. Stad Coolidge
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    One song that makes both of us happy is “Love Today” by Mika (the video is kinda meh):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiccrTB4LM

    We heard it on our first cruise.  It was the intro song before the main show every night.  By the time the fourth evening rolled around, people would dance in the aisles as the music played or clap in time.  My wife and I play it whenever we leave to go on a cruise the moment we hit the Interstate.

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  18. Arahant Member
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    Stad (View Comment):
    My wife and I play it whenever we leave to go on a cruise the moment we hit the Interstate.

    Ah, now that reminds me of something. My wife and I honeymooned in Toronto, and I happened to pick up this crazy (CD) album while we were there. Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers was the name of the band, and the album was The Miracle Cure. It had such joys as this:

    Ever since, it’s the first CD we put in when we go on a trip.

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  19. MeandurΦ Member
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    Stad (View Comment):

    One song that makes both of us happy is “Love Today” by Mika (the video is kinda meh):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWiccrTB4LM

    We heard it on our first cruise. It was the intro song before the main show every night. By the time the fourth evening rolled around, people would dance in the aisles as the music played or clap in time. My wife and I play it whenever we leave to go on a cruise the moment we hit the Interstate.

    This was my first Mika song 

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  20. Percival Thatcher
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    “Moviescope” by Dennis Berry.

    Sunday afternoon movie time with Frazier Thomas. If you’re old enough, and from Chicago, chances are you feel the same about this piece of film library fluff.

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  21. Arahant Member
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    Percival (View Comment):
    Sunday afternoon movie time with Frazier Thomas. If you’re old enough, and from Chicago, chances are you feel the same about this piece of film library fluff.

    A smile came to my face with the first notes.

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  22. Percival Thatcher
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Percival (View Comment):
    Sunday afternoon movie time with Frazier Thomas. If you’re old enough, and from Chicago, chances are you feel the same about this piece of film library fluff.

    A smile came to my face with the first notes.

    Treasure Island (Jackie Cooper! Wallace Beery!), Drums Along the Mohawk (Edna May Oliver!), A Tale of Two Cities (more Edna May!), The Jungle Book, The Mark of Zorro, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Captain Blood … man, WGN could pick them. 

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  23. Clifford A. Brown Member
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    Spread some happiness.

    Share a few pieces of music of any genre in your own playlist. Sign up to write about “Music that makes me . . . .”

    Interested in Group Writing topics that came before? See the handy compendium of monthly themes. Check out links in the Group Writing Group. You can also join the group to get a notification when a new monthly theme is posted.

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  24. Concretevol Thatcher
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    Too late to add one?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aexnDmumVf8

     

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  25. Arahant Member
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    Concretevol (View Comment):
    Too late to add one?

    Never too late until it’s archived in six months.

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