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I'm surprised
I've just cheered myself up by singing a song in my head. Didn't quite think about it until I listened to the words, and realised it's a song to make you realise your problems aren't really worth shit. Made me laugh nonetheless.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk - This is it, I'm certain that pretty much all of you will know it.

What songs can always cheers you up?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:33, 143 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Wake Me Up When September Ends.
It speaks to my soul
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:35, Reply)
I refuse to rise to your bait.
So I'm off to go listen to some poetry Keane Cannibal Corpse.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:38, Reply)

listen to watch and then join fucking a
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:47, Reply)
in case that isn't clear
you are going to watch and then join some cannibals fucking a corpse
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:48, Reply)
Sorry
Got to try harder than that.

Your heart just isn't in it today, is it?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:48, Reply)
it's the shit material I am being given to work with
I blame you
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Bad workman blames his tools

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)
at least you admit you are a tool

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Very much so

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:57, Reply)
Aruba, Jamaica
ooooh I wanna take ya
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:37, Reply)
Nobody feeling the Beach Boys love?
How about Sloop John B?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:51, Reply)
I fucking love the Beach Boys
Most of their songs cheer me up, except God Only Knows
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Heroes and Villains is a bit scary for me too

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:59, Reply)
Ever heard this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRcXWGLummo

The most brilliant Beach Boys pastiche. Really clever.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I'll send it home for later viewing

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:15, Reply)
If we're going down this route
Jan & Dean's 'Surf City' does it for me. I think they did the surf thing just slightly better than the Beach Boys. I fucking LOVE surf records.

My tip:

The 'Strummin' Mental' compilation series has some fucking demented instrumental surf/rock'n'roll tracks. I bought my father (a connoisseur) a couple of volumes and ended up buying the lot for myself. They're excellent.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)
do you know
Man or Astroman?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:59, Reply)
I do not, sir.
Good?

I know Astro Man by Jimi Hendrix if that helps.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)
you will love them
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Or_Astroman
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)
I think I will - nice one!
*forwards to home, and to father*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:05, Reply)
Thank you
I will look into purchasing..
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)
I heard some Link Wray on a film soundtrack once, loved it.
Never managed to find any records to buy though.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:02, Reply)
He was incredible.
He's credited with the invention of power chords, bless him. He was also a pioneer of distortion, razor-blading his speaker cones to create fuzz several years before Dave Davies of the Kinks.

Sundazed records do a fabulous singles anthology. BUY IT NOW.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:06, Reply)
what's your view on Dick Dale?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:13, Reply)
A God amongst men.
Again, thanks to my father, I was well-versed in his works as a young boy. What a player - and on the heaviest available strings too.

The whole 'eastern' sound of surf music comes from him - his mother was Lebanese. FACTS. ONLINE.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I didn't know that
did you know the Leo Fender made the first 100w amp for him?

he's playing London very soon.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:30, Reply)

What songs random office conversation snippets can always cheers you up?

"I'll come and show it to you later, it will be quick and dirty"
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:38, Reply)
From the same artiste
Another really profound number
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:38, Reply)
It is truly profound
Helped me through some really tough times.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:44, Reply)
While we're on that train of thought, one that Monty directed me to a little while ago:
Another really deep one by the Elastik Band
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:48, Reply)
I'll have to give that a listen when I get home

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Do - it's pure genius.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)
Anything by Keane, usually (sorry, bit slow it seems)
Serious answer:

'I'm Alive' by Don Fardon.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzRgLRuKt0

I really, really love this record. Partly because I'm always faintly surprised to find that I am indeed still alive, but also because it's DANCEFLOOR GOLD. I have ended DJ sets with this tune more times than you've had hot dinners.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:39, Reply)
That's good that
Who is this Don Farden chap?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:49, Reply)
He was in The Sorrows
in the mid-60s, a kind of Brit r'n'b act along the lines of the Yardbirds and Them, he had a novelty single about American Indians at one point and then released this nugget, hugely popular in my house, and apparently on the Northern Soul circuit. I believe it sold terribly upon release.

He now runs an artist management company oop North, I believe.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes
not sure why

the Galaxy Song is a great one
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:39, Reply)
For the line...
"She said "Honey, take me dancing!" but they ended up sleeping in a doorway"
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Sadly
it is "Walking on sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves. I like to sing it in the bath too...............
*hides at desk for remainder of week*

Close second/third - Dixie Chicks doing "Travelin' Soldier" or "White Trash Wedding"
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:42, Reply)
I've not heard much Dixie Chicks (probably a good thing)
But I think 'Goodbye Earl' is a cracking tune, especially on their live album.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:43, Reply)
Thank you
I shall keep one of my rather small ears open for that. Did you know that your ears keep growing all your life - perhaps that is why there are so many old peeps with massive ears in my Gran's home.Huge they are.....
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:50, Reply)
*withering stare*

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:44, Reply)
stare
witheringly, all you like. I am fucking BOMBPROOF. So there...
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:49, Reply)
The now sadly defunct Audiogene
did a great cover of Walking On Sunshine, noting quite like seeing 200 people jumping up and down to that while the lead singer hung over the crowd clinging to the lighting bar at the front of the stage shouting at the top of his lungs.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:56, Reply)
The bodyform song
bodyform for yoooooooooooooooooou
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:46, Reply)
does it not irritate you a bit?
because you can't use them and instead have to use king-size mattresses?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:48, Reply)
I'm going to punch you in the face when I see you
I hope you know that
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:50, Reply)

punch you in the sit on your
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:51, Reply)
Jesus no
I want to hurt the guy not kill him
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:52, Reply)
as long as you don't mind me punching you back
because frankly, you deserve it too ;-)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:53, Reply)
Why do I deserve one?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)
for general long-term medium level horribleness

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:00, Reply)
pft
only online though. In the real world I am surprisingly lovely. Truefact
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:06, Reply)
I'd suspected as much
people seem to think highly of you.

I'm fairly lovely myself
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
*nods head frantically*

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:12, Reply)
Aww thanks Blousey
You are all of the lovely too *huggles*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I made up a song in Primark
Me and my niece were shopping one day and it just kind of came out of my mouth, ever since then it's a ringtone, a drunken balled or sometimes a little ditty to reduce the effects of a dull afternoon.

It's entitled "Welly Shoes", has about one and a half verses, and is about a pair of blue flat shoes we saw and both thought were rather silly. We love it. By we, I mean me and my niece, everyone else thinks that we are a pair of gooning spakkers.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:47, Reply)

gooning
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:48, Reply)
About 60% of Echobelly's songs
are guaranteed to perk me up.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:49, Reply)
Also quite a lot of Juliette and the Licks.
And "Beer" by Reel Big Fish.
And "Fever for the Flava" by Hot Action Cop, of course.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:16, Reply)
Beer
What a tune.

Shouldn't be cheerful though, lyrics are really depressing. It's like 'You Can Call Me Al' in that respect.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)
Of course it's cheerful.
"Things are shit, so I will drink until I am no longer upset."

A motto to live by.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Born slippy by Underworld.
Not so much happy as 'mad fer it' as they say in Manc land.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:56, Reply)
Used to have this on a CD in my mates car
He had to get rid of it as this, along with tracks like Insomnia, Mein Hertz Brennt and a few others with a massive tune backing them.

This is because he kept speeding with it on, pretty much every time.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 10:58, Reply)
Mein Hertz Brennt is fucking brilliant

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)
I played my brother Rammstein years back, he said they were shite
Then, when they used the backing track to that track on the Volvo(?) advert a few years back, he said I should listen to music like that.

He didn't quite understand why I was busting a gut laughing at him.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:04, Reply)
what a spastic
a friend of mine works at a school with special needs kids, one of which is heavily autistic.

the kids family took him to see Rammstein, which he loved. my friend showed another teacher a photo of Rammstein, which quickly went all round the school to all the teachers who found it hilarious and disturbing in equal measures.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:06, Reply)
With their last CD
they gave away some special edition dildos modelled on their own members. Only 100 were given away, so it was first come first served, if you'll excuse the innuendo.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I remember seeing that
I wasn't tempted
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)
You seen the video to Pussy?
It's hardcore porn, genius.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
nope, not seen it

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Shall find a link
As you've probably guessed, it's ridiculously NFSW
www.rocktube.us/index.php?module=content&id=adlcRffweae
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:35, Reply)
conversely
my brother played me Rammstein. I said they were shit. He then made me watch a DVD. It was terrible.

They're fucking bent.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:15, Reply)
their live show was one of the best I've seen
admittedly I was on shrooms, so anything with fire is going to be good.

some of their stuff is a bit iffy, but some is cracking
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Terrible keyboards, and terrible vocals
I concede their live act on mushies would be great, but their music is wholly without merit in my expert opinion.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Your hatred blinds you to true genius
Plus, you're a massive shirter.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:19, Reply)
I'm just not 'Keane' on them, sorry.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Aye.
I admit I listen to different genres, almost comical in their difference.

For example, 3 gigs in a row for me were Chimaira & Ill Ninó, Less Than Jake, then Busted.

Was a good year.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:22, Reply)
There's nothing big or clever about listening to different genres
if you only pick shit genres.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Watch the video for
Mann Gegen Mann and I think you'll agree they're most heterosexual.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)
one of the few songs in German
that I can sing from memory. It is a great album opener.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:15, Reply)
Worryingly
I can do pretty much that entire album.

Mutter is a pretty shit track though, shame.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Hurt.
The Johnny Cash version. Dunno why, just does.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:01, Reply)
It varies for me
It has cheered me up before, simply because it's a fantastic track.

Other times, it has moved me to tears.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:05, Reply)
The Pain of a Drinking Song by Pele
Or A Bang on the Ear by the Waterboys.
Oh, and a Girl Called Johnny, because it's about me.
And Mickey by Toni Basil.
God I love songs.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:04, Reply)
And Du Hast

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
And Tatu's techno remixes in Russian

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)
it's bad that I know what songs you mean :(

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
It's bloody boss is what it is!

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:12, Reply)
I prefer
Spiel Mit Mir
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:13, Reply)
I like Links
although it makes me drive fast and angrily. And makes me want to push people out of the way if I'm walking.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Do you?
That's nice.
I like Moskau, with Tatu.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
Moskau is good
Keine Lust is the best track off that album though.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)
Actually I'm quite partial to a bit of Northern Soul.
That gets me quite perky and then I start trying to do the Northern Soul dancing.

Hilarity ensues.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:07, Reply)
Me and my dad were dancing to Northern Soul stuff in the car on Sunday

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:08, Reply)
I'm always cheered up by
Tom Lehrer
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:11, Reply)
I like Masochism Tango and Lobochevsky best

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:14, Reply)
Masochism Tango
and the Vatican Rag
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:25, Reply)

Come On Feet - Pete & The Pirates
Like Glue - Sean Paul
Under Mi Sensi - Barrington Levy
Feiticeira - Deftones
Guiding Star - Cast
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:13, Reply)
Cast?
Fucking CAST?

You're dead to me.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:14, Reply)
they did a song called Sandstorm
which was the first song I performed using a wah-wah pedal

interesting eh?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:15, Reply)
I'm going with 'eh'

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:16, Reply)
you are right

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I got a sandstorm
blowing in my head, something something something, som....

You get the picture, used to like that song when I was a boy.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Oh dear.
Did you move on to "That one off TFI Friday" by Ocean Colour Scene?

I hate you.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Hundred Mile High City?
Ah the 90s eh. Good times, great music.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:18, Reply)
in my defence
the cast song was the only modern tune we played other than Girls and Boys by Blur, and we were a crappy school covers band. I'd rather have been playing Metallica.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
My (awful) band at school did three covers in our mercifully brief career.
Stand By Me - Ben E King
Their Law - PWEI & The Prodigy
Down By The Water - Pj Harvey.

We made such a hash of the last one that the creepy middle-aged guy who hung out in the back room of a pub otherwise entirely filled with school-age kids complimented the lead guitarist on our "avant-garde" interpretation. We had meant to do a straight cover.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:24, Reply)
we used to do stuff like Johnny B Goode
and I'm a believer.

We did a good version of Money by the Beatles, and Jumping Jack Flash
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:31, Reply)
I bought their third album
Magic Hour in Fopp because it cost £1. Now, Billy Corgan's solo album was also sold for £1 and that's £2 more expensive than it should have been so my hopes for Cast weren't high.

But I love that album! I've got more of their stuff now, I love Cast and I'm not ashamed.

sorry wookie :(
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I guess I really ought to let you off,
seeing as I remain fond of Sleeper.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:20, Reply)
I love Reef
let's be outcasts together.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:23, Reply)
What do alcopops have to do with anything?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:24, Reply)
You love them, you fucking bantam-weight

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I do, but my pride means I can only drink them at home, alone,
to save me from the righteous beatings I would otherwise suffer.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)
You do have a thing for long haired men don't you
Donkey Gums was saying you gushed over him yesterday
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Gushed? Surf's up?

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Under Mi Sensi is a FUCKING TUNE
What. A . Bassline.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:17, Reply)
Deedely-deedely-deedely-wooooooaah
:D
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Do you know
Jah Screechie's 'Walk & Skank' popularised by rave artists SL2?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1osmmBncHU

Perhaps my all-time favourite reggae tune, from a cast of millions.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:28, Reply)
bah
you keep adding to my to-listen-to list. I have disparate bits of paper everywhere!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Booyaka!

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Cast
With his snotty blocked nose singing.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
I thought that was something to do with the air in Liverpool

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:29, Reply)
It is actually
It's why we're all very good country singers.
And in my nana's day there were yodellers in pubs.
I like being from the Nashville of the north. Misery and catarrh, what more do you need?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)
I don't want to go there
you can't make me!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:34, Reply)
Watch me

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:39, Reply)
I like The Coral - In The Morning
That's a cheery song! :D
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Where you been at, beetch!

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:27, Reply)
Designs
muthafuckarrrr, they won't file themselves... although I wish they would! :(
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:29, Reply)
Aw man
But look! *running man*
Feel better?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Deffo dood, deffo!
:D
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:36, Reply)
You too now
Come on, let's dance like Woodstock. Throw your head back!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:40, Reply)
Woooooo!
*craves root beer*
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:46, Reply)
*produces root beer*
We're gonna be bouncing off the kennel walls dude!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:50, Reply)
YAY!
Aww I really miss that Snoopy film where they went to France on an exchange trip and Snoopy stays at The Chateau of The Bad Neighbour. It sets on fire at the end and him and Charlie Brown put the fire out… I haven’t seen that film for years, it used to be on the telly all the time! :(
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:52, Reply)
Oh my, it did
My dad rented it for me on video too!
Was it bon Voyage, Charlie Brown?
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:01, Reply)
That was it!
I miss that film!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:26, Reply)
the Coral are great

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:32, Reply)
I just think they're fun
and the music they play is simple and happy!
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:37, Reply)
it's far from simple!
they do some superbly complicated stuff.

listen to Skeleton Key for example
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:44, Reply)
I meant its simple to listen to
Not technically simple... I don't understand you kids and your guitar mumbo-jumbo-jambo-fundo... I just appreciate the sound that comes out, not how you make it.
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:47, Reply)
I was so amazed by that I bought the single.

(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:56, Reply)
Oh and I also like
Traffic in the Sky by Jack Johnson! :)
(, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 11:38, Reply)

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