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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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It looked as if one might be the jealous sort.
Possibly…
“Every day negotiate us closer to disastro.”
I like Jimmy Buffett:
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.
That is truly a horrendous school of punfish that swam by.
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
The favorite happy song of meteorologists everywhere, plus Jack Butler.
This is ridiculous.
Stop me before I spend all day watching Weird Al videos!
Also what we should all be doing right now.
Loved the Russian videos – but then I love just listening to Russian. One of my favorite languages.
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.
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.
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.
This was my first Mika song
“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.
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.
Spread some happiness.
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Too late to add one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aexnDmumVf8
Never too late until it’s archived in six months.