So hows about a music post then? No particular theme; just 'songs wot make I feel a bit happy.' As ever feel free to add suggestions in comments. These aren't necessarily uplifting songs, or songs about how nice the world is or owt like that—though if they float your boat, feel free to add them—these are just songs that generally paste a smile onto my mush and make my feet all tappy.
First off comes one that may surprise some readers. May The Circle Be Unbroken. I have no idea why a religious song about a death makes me happy but this one genuinely does. I did umm-and-ah about what version to post, but eventually settled for this one, by the Frantic Flintstones. Because, erm, why not?
And, seeing as AC/DC's Rock 'N' Roll Damnation turned up in my list, it seems fitting, for reasons of apt juxtapostition-ness to put it straight after the above.
Louis Jordan was always going to be on any playlist along these lines I made, but it took me ages to narrow down which song. I eventually settled on this up-tempo 1956 version of his 1946 Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens.
The first time I ever heard this one, Lookin' Out My Back Door, was a version by the Stray Cats, as a bonus track on some greatest hits album or other. This is the original version though, by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
And this, Bi-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go by Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps is quite simply a slice of rockabilly heaven. Pure nonesense, but blimey is it infectious nonesense. And, by way of a bonus, it includes, for me at least, some of Cliff Gallup's finest guitar work with the band.
And, to finish, here's the—to me superior—early version of Joan Jett's I Love Rock N' Roll, cut with Steve Jones and Paul Cook of Sex Pistols fame on guitar and drums, respectively.
—Daz
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I have a couple of friends that use this when doing discos or parties. It is great watching people’s faces as they realise that a song they know so well is suddenly wee a bit different.
Good one, Stephen.
Daz, this is so wide open, it’s hard to make a choice, so I decided to limit it to things that gave me a kick for some reason when I was really young.
At thirteen, my closest friend was Sau Lan, and this was her favorite song:
This is the sort of thing that got me seriously mocked as a kid.
I think I nearly posted this to your violence related one and decided it wasn’t violent enough. If I’m wrong, and I’m posting it twice, my apologies.
Look at the clothes!
If you don’t like this one, just don’t click on it. I was looking for a video on you tube and I saw that this was filmed at the Soap Factory! Palisades Park, New Jersey. Yeah!
I do have a thing for interesting cover versions, this one gives me a smile.
Just remembered this one…
I, too, have a thing for interesting covers. Here’s the Diesel Kings…
Normally, the Civil Wars leave me flat, but I like this cover of Billie Jean:
One of my favorite songs, originally by Les Colocs. First time I realized that I could understand French without translating in my head was when I heard this on the radio. Here, done by Gregory Charles.