Courtesy of Frank T.
For me it's Jessica by the ABB. It always says "springtime in the car with the windows rolled down."
Courtesy of Frank T.
For me it's Jessica by the ABB. It always says "springtime in the car with the windows rolled down."
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
These could also go into a category like "songs I'll never get tired of"
"All Right Now" - Free
"Ricki Don't Lose That Number" - Steely Dan
"Saturday In The Park" - Chicago (many of their old hits as well)
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
I'm listening to one right now. "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." Norman Whitfield conducting the Funk Brothers, and featuring the mighty mighty Temptations. Have mercy, Montague!
In a world where you were supposed to get to the hook before 60 seconds (don't bore us, get to the chorus!), you have to love the flip out of a record that doesn't even introduce the first VOCAL until 1:55!!!
And yep, it's making me smile and laugh right now, again, like always.
Originally Posted by Gravity Jim
The Temps were my favorite Motown band. David Lindley does a cool cover.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
Here's another: "I'm Looking Through You" by The Beatles. If that verse harmony doesn't make you smile, then you are dead. Or tone deaf, or something. That is pure ear candy, spun like glass.
Several cuts off of "Eat a Peach" give me that feeling...Ain't Wastin' Time No More, Blue Sky, and the often overlooked Stand Back.For me it's Jessica by the ABB. It always says "springtime in the car with the windows rolled down."
"Go Team Venture!"
Felling Stronger Everyday-Chicago
Day After Day-Badfinger
Star Baby- The Guess Who
Won't Get Fooled Again-The Who
If you leave the house, you're just asking for it.
"Some Kind of Wonderful" Grand Funk Railroad.
Can't get any simpler and powerful at the same time.
One of the most beautiful love song, for me. YMMV
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
Hold on a second while I slip into my flame-proof coveralls.
"Come on Eileen".
"Go Team Venture!"
"Faith in the Heart"
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
I get that feeling whenever I hear the line "The nights are getting warmer and it won't be long, won't be long 'til summer comes..." from "The Boys Are Back In Town". Also, like BradKM, "Blue Sky" does it for me.
The live version of "Call Me The Breeze" (with Steve Gaines' Strat fills) and the guitar interplay between Rossington/Collins on "T for Texas" also never fails to put a smile on my face.
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Warm Love - Van Morrison
Werewolfs of london,makes me happy..AAHHH OOOHHHH.....
Brother, Brother - Carole King
odd that I remember this but Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" and also "Raised on Robbery"... what a lady really
but then I also get happy when I hear "My Girl" by the Temptations as well as "May I" by Bill Deal and the Rhondells
quite diverse for a Dead Head :lol
"Chelsea Morning!" I love that song.
Here's an odd one that I shoulda put in the Pop Song thread: "Roll To Me," Del Amitri. Even better: "Mayor of Simpleton," XTC.
"What a Wonderful World"
There's just something about Sachmo's voice saying "oooohhhh yeahhhhh" at the end that just tells me everything will be ok one way or another and I have to smile.
They're REAL anyway.....
I gotta admit that most DLR-era Van Halen puts a goofy grin on my face and reminds me of summertime, cruising, underage drinking, and girls.
Hey man, that suit is YOU!!! Come on, Dave. Give us a break. One break - commmmming up!!!!
s'all goof.
Better not look down - B.B. King
Jessica - Allman Bros.
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat - Bob Dylan
Over-Lovn' you - The Electric Flag
Constipated Duck - Jeff Beck i love that song name :)
Long Distance Runaround - Yes
What a Little Moonlight can do - Billie Holiday
Most Django Reinhardt
Darn that Dream - Miles Davis
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie
"The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon."
Feelin' Stronger Every Day - Chicago...My dad and I had a tape with a bunch of old Chicago on it that we would jam on our way to the motocross races when I was a kid. Nothing would get me pumped up for racing like that song would and it still gets the adrenaline rolling when I hear it today.
Keep on Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young or Pearl Jam...Just a balls out jam. How can you not smile!
Fat Bottom Girls - Queen...I love that song. Kid Rock recently covered it on VH1's Outlaws as a country tune. Either way, it's a great song.
Lately I've been digging Gretchen Wilson. I really like a tune on her latest CD called California Girls.
I have an original I wrote with a good friend about a Dort Highway (any of you who have been to Flint know that you truly can get anything you want on Dort Highway) prostitute named Roxy. Very AC/DCish jam and probably my best song. It is fun to play and always gets a good response. That song makes me happy.
...and on the 8th day, God created the Super Reverb and there was ROCK, and it was GOOD!
"Here Comes the Sun," some British band.
"He's Gone," Grateful Dead.
Pearl Necklace--zz top
THe World--brad paisley
Gotta Keep em Seperated--the offspring
Imanidiot.
Wlakin' On Sunshine
That Thing You Do
Johnny B Goode
Little Latin Lupe Lu
Blue Suede Shoes
Sugar Sugar
Everybody Must Get Stoned
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
There are many, but here's a few…
School of Fish - Three Strange Days
Jethro Tull - Teacher
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me
Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
Chicago - Saturday in the Park
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane
Santana - All I Ever Wanted
311- My Stoney Baby
"We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening."
- Nigel Tufnel
Some great happy choces in here! I almost said "Hot Fun In the Summertime." "O-Bla-Di" is SO happy... my band used to play that one, with Gary the Bass Player doing the goofy little "heh heh heh, thenk you" John Lennon bit at the end. frank t, that Offspring tune is the shizzle! Man, that blew my mind back when it first came on the Em Tee Vee... had it stuck in my head for a month. "That Thing You Do," of course, and almost anything from that album.
I'll nominate "Basket Case" by Green Day. That thing just makes me laugh.
Here are a couple obscure ones from my weird-o pile:
"Walkin' One And Only," Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
"Can't Stand Still," Café Jacques
"No Looking Back," Michael McDonald
Stone in Love - Journey...crank it up!
Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert...come out beneath the stars and run!
Beautiful Girls - VH...can't live without 'em!
Anything by Jimmy Buffett
Billy, Don't Be a Hero - my favorite guilty pleasure!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
"I dig it when you're fancy, dressed up in lace
-I gig it when you got that smile on your face..."
One of my all-time favorite songs to cover.
"And Your Bird Can Sing" - Pete Best's old band
"Summertime Thing" - Chuck Prophet
"Step Right Up" - Tom Waits
"Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" - Rickie Lee Jones
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Palisades Park - Freddy Cannon or The Ramones versions
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
Spinal Tap - Big Bottom
"We've got Armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening."
- Nigel Tufnel
bad n ruin - the faces
king harvest - the band
eyes of the world - grateful dead
another vote for jassica/blue sky
where the streets knew your name - van morrison
Nothin left to do but smile smile smile.....
Great call.
This was the first song that came to my mind when I read the thread title. The Dead also have a number of tunes that either evoke pleasant memories or are just plain peppy:Courtesy of Frank T.
For me it's Jessica by the ABB. It always says "springtime in the car with the windows rolled down."
Scarlet Begonias
Might As Well
Passenger
China Cat Sunflower
In recent years Dickey Betts has been starting Blue Sky w/a Franklin's Tower teaser. The first time I heard that it brought tears to my eyes. I'm either getting a head start on my mid-life crisis or I'm not going to live as long as I had hoped! lol
Great question - with Summer in full swing - but so tough to select less than a ton of songs because (IMO) each is so date and place specific - when I was a kid it was Going Out of My Head by The Letterman and Dizzy by Tommy Roe, and more recently it's just about anything from The Complete Verve/Remixed box set (especially the Miguel Migs Petalpusher Remix of Ella Fitzgerald's Slap That Bass!) - and I'd agree with every choice above.
GJ - which version? Or all of them? - Joni Mitchell's song was covered by both Judy Collins and Neil Diamond (!).
Joni's version is the one I know.
"Here Comes The Sun" is one that I always smile at.
"The Rain, The Park and Other Things" Cowsills
I love that song..
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"Clown In Broad Daylight" - Ron Sexsmith
"Standing on the side of the road near the overpass
With a sign around his neck that says
'Carwash, free balloons,' he's a clown in broad daylight. . ."
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Hash Pipe" Weezar
"One AM Approach" Hooteroll - Garcia & Wales instrumental but a grin to me
You've Got A Friend In Me - Randy Newman
Not just for kids. I play it every solo gig, people always smile.
Love those Weezer and Offspring songs mentionned above too.
"Smile" songs for sure.
I gotta add Radar Love from Golden Earing.
Great road trip song, makes me feel real happy when I hear it.
I heard of an urban legend story about a guy that got into a car crash when he sync'ed his shifting to that line: "It's half past four and I'm shifting gears."
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
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