Songs to Make You Smile

[judecorp]

What songs are always guaranteed to make you smile? Here are some of mine:

Elvis Costello - Veronica
Beautiful South - Don't Marry Her, Fuck Me
Puffy Amiyumi - Boogie Woogie No 5
Southern Culture on the Skids - House of Bamboo
Astrud - Lemongirl
Blue Clocks Green - Hemingway
They Might Be Giants - New York City
The W's - The Devil Is Bad
REM - The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'
Louis Prima - Sing Sing Sing (With a Swing)
Black 47 - Different Drummer
The Hooters - And We Danced
Frogpond - I Did
Outkast - Hey Ya
The Smiths - Ask
Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant
Jackopierce - Vineyard
Common Rider - Classics of Love
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off the Air
The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom

Comments

[juliann.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking of you all week with this song:
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego -- Rockapella

[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

The entire Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack. OOOOOH, yes.

[ducks-with-lips.livejournal.com]

Um, are you just trying to get another mix CD out of me? If so, you might have succeeded in inspiring one (though, I was planning on making a disc of songs that make me giggle).

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.. That "Devil is Bad" song still cracks me up.

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

I Can See Clearly Now - Jimmy Cliff
Merry Christmas From The Family - Jill Sobule
Here Comes The Snake - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Instant Pleasure - Rufus Wainwright
Who Needs Sleep? - Barenaked Ladies
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
Basketball - Lincoln
One More Minute - "Weird Al" Yankovic

I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that spring to mind.

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

Did you already know about House Of Bamboo, or did I introduce you to that one?

It's one of my favorite songs.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I *love* that song. :)

[juliann.livejournal.com]

I know! :)

Well they never Arkansas her steal the Meekong from the jungle...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I don't have a mix CD of these songs, but I have a WinAmp playlist of these and other songs that make me smile, entitled (duh) Songs That Make Me Smile.

Speaking of "songs that make me giggle," you know what song both makes me think of you AND cracks me up? That "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" song by the Veggie Tales. Jeeze, but that's funny.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You are the devil and YOU ARE BAD!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Instant Pleasure - Rufus Wainwright

Good choice. I love this song.

One More Minute - "Weird Al" Yankovic

I'd rather rip my heart out of my ribcage with my bare hands and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'til I die... then spend one more minute with you.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

That would be YOU, my dear.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

From the Red Sea to Greenlamd she'll be singing the Blues.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with it.

[ducks-with-lips.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yeah, it's pretty amusing.

The Veggie Tales videos are all churchy and such, but the "Silly Songs With Larry" usually make me pee my pants.

I might have to include at least one song on the "Songs That Make Me Giggle" CD.

"...and I've never bathed in yogurt, and I don't look good in leggins..."

Just off the top of my head ...

[michael622.livejournal.com]

Love Shack - B-52's
Stacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne
Postcards From Chimpanzees - Bare Naked Ladies
Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
Octupus' Garden - The Beatles
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
You Know My Name, Look Up The Number - The Beatles
Anything by Weird Al

[kaasirpent]

Time and Tide - Basia Trzetrzelewska
Olive Tree - Basia Trzetrzelewska
Jump - The Pointer Sisters
The Neutron Dance - The Pointer Sisters
Manic Monday - The Bangles
Walk Like and Egyptian - The Bangles
Big - Peter Gabriel
Twist & Shout - the elventy billion covers of it by various artists
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
Something About You - Level 42
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog - Three Dog Night
Material Girl - Madonna
The Land of a Million Drums - Outkast
Paranoimia - The Art of Noise
--> Oh, Yeah! - Yello (ESPECIALLY this one)

Anything by DaVinci's Notebook or Stephen Lynch, especially:
My Enormous Penis - DaVinci's Notebook
Ally McBeal - DaVinci's Notebook
The Title of the Song - DaVinci's Notebook

HermAphrodite - Stephen Lynch
Lullaby - Stephen Lynch
Special Ed - Stephen Lynch

I find it VIRTUALLY impossible to be in a foul or ill mood when these play. There are others, but I don't have my WinAmp playlist with me :)

[dykecharming.livejournal.com]

yay for "I Did" and "Vineyard" i absolutely LOVE Jackopierce :)

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

Stephen Lynch: Hilarious
Da Vinci's Notebook: Ditto ("Repetition of ... the title of the song.")

The Land of a Million Drums: The single best thing about the Scooby Doo movie.

Oh Yeah: Definitely should have been on my list.

The Peter Gabriel song that always makes me smile: Sledgehammer

Basia Trzetrzelewska: The who, now? Huh?

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

I'd rather have all my blood sucked out by leeches,
shove an icepick under a toenail or two.
I'd rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass,
Than spend one more minute with you.

Oh, here's a bit from another Lincoln song that makes me smile:

Even though I dis' you.
I still want to kiss you.
I love you and I miss you.
And I ...
wish that you were dead.

[kaasirpent]

Hie thee over to here and take a gander. She's a cross-over from the jazz world, but with a style that makes her very suited to "pop" as well.

Trzetrzelewska is Polish and pronounced "CHEH-chuh-Lev-skuh." She goes by just "Basia." I only included the last name just because I can spell it. :)

Time and Tide was a hit for her, as was Run For Cover and maybe one or two more.

[kaasirpent]

Sigh. I forgot to copy the URL into the <a href=""> tag. Silly serpent.

Hie thee over to here. Now.

I could list these all day

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

But I won't :)

Benefit - "If I Owned A Midget"
Audio Two - "I Don't Care"
Body Count - "There Goes The Neighborhood"
Suicidal Tendencies - "Institutionalized"
Ice-T - "Freedom Of Speech"
Mindless Self Indulgence - "Bitches"
Anthrax - "I'm The Man"
Deltron 3030 - "Virus"
Failure - "The Nurse Who Loved Me"
The Church - "Under The Milky Way"
System Of A Down - "Chic 'N' Stu"
The Donnas - "Get Rid Of That Girl"
The White Stripes - "We're Going To Be Friends"
Neko Case - "Deep Red Bells"
Mazzy Star - "She's My Baby"
The Sundays - "I Kicked A Boy"
The Hissyfits - "Wish"

[kjtoo.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Basia Trzetrzelewska! The first name looked familiar, while the last name looked like the product of an epileptic fit or perhaps a small animal running across the keyboard.

I do recall Time and Tide now. Good song. I'd say it makes me think of the late Eighties, but that's not entirely accurate, as I've been quite successful in purging that decade - in its entirety -from my memories. Either that, or I simply wasn't paying attention. The former seems like an accomplishment while the latter is definitely a shortcoming, so it's most likely the latter.

Thank you for the illumination.

In the afterlife....

[thelastbard.livejournal.com]

You could be headed for the serious strife...

Don't drink, don't smoke -- what do you do?

Wow, that was a trip down memory lane....