30 Day Song Challenge Day 03 – A song that makes you happy
Surprisingly, many! And I love that so many are thanks to people I like very much (Hi Bryce! And R of course).
Damien Jurado - Trampoline
Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums
Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All (George McCrae IIRC) (always makes me think of A)
The Slits - Typical Girls
Spoon - Me and the Bean (cover, I forget who...), The Way We Get By (Live WERS)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
The Push Kings - Macy, Macy (and lotsa others...like the Sealed Fate pop bands they always remind me of summers as a teenager and A and that’s a rather welcome thing)
Pylon - Cool (that youthful art student matter-of-fact optimism!)
Brian Eno - St. Elmo’s Fire, I’ll Come Running
P.J. Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta
Sam Cooke - Win Your Love For Me, Cupid
The Pixies - Tony’s Theme (NSFW album cover art), Here Comes Your Man, La La Love You, Gigantic (Yes it’s Belle and Sebastian covering it, and yes they randomly asked some chick in the audience to sing it, and yes she doesn’t even know the frakin’ words, but.)
Scout Niblett - Fuck Treasure Island
Wire - Mannequin
Sleater-Kinney - You Ain’t It
The Olivia Tremor Control - Love Athena
The Go! Team - Ladyflash, Huddle Formation
His Name Is Alive - Lip
Pavement - Trigger Cut (Live) (just this one particular version for some reason...)
Tugboat Annie - Jack-Knife
Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s Too Stupid To Know About
Built to Spill - Linus and Lucy (live), In the Morning (used to listen to it while getting dressed for school every day as a teenager)
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
Electrelane - On Parade
The Fall - Touch Sensitive, I’m a Mummy (Bob McFadden and DOR), English Scheme
Galaxie 500 - Cheese and Onions (The Rutles), Tugboat
Helium - Pat’s Trick
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Le Tigre - Tres Bien, T.G.I.F.
Lois - Indie
Muler - Toothfairy’s Favorite Smile
Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers - Someone I Care About, Pablo Picasso, I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
both the Yo La Tengo and live Mary Lou Lord covers of Sandy Denny’s "By The Time It Gets Dark"
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Silkworm - Eff (Will always be tied up with the memory of the awesome weekend o’ rock in Pittsburgh where Michael Dahlquist played bar chess next to Rob and me at the then-cool (now horribly lame sadly) 31st St. Pub and then asked what we wanted to hear. I mentioned “Eff” and they go on stage like half a second later and open the show with it. So great!)
Marshall Crenshaw - Something’s Gonna Happen
Buddy Holly - You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)
Stereolab - Peng! 33 (Live Peel)
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated, Space is the Place
Y Pants - Favorite Sweater
Damien Jurado - Trampoline
Archers of Loaf - Harnessed in Slums
Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All (George McCrae IIRC) (always makes me think of A)
The Slits - Typical Girls
Spoon - Me and the Bean (cover, I forget who...), The Way We Get By (Live WERS)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
The Push Kings - Macy, Macy (and lotsa others...like the Sealed Fate pop bands they always remind me of summers as a teenager and A and that’s a rather welcome thing)
Pylon - Cool (that youthful art student matter-of-fact optimism!)
Brian Eno - St. Elmo’s Fire, I’ll Come Running
P.J. Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta
Sam Cooke - Win Your Love For Me, Cupid
The Pixies - Tony’s Theme (NSFW album cover art), Here Comes Your Man, La La Love You, Gigantic (Yes it’s Belle and Sebastian covering it, and yes they randomly asked some chick in the audience to sing it, and yes she doesn’t even know the frakin’ words, but.)
Scout Niblett - Fuck Treasure Island
Wire - Mannequin
Sleater-Kinney - You Ain’t It
The Olivia Tremor Control - Love Athena
The Go! Team - Ladyflash, Huddle Formation
His Name Is Alive - Lip
Pavement - Trigger Cut (Live) (just this one particular version for some reason...)
Tugboat Annie - Jack-Knife
Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend’s Too Stupid To Know About
Built to Spill - Linus and Lucy (live), In the Morning (used to listen to it while getting dressed for school every day as a teenager)
David Bowie - Boys Keep Swinging
Electrelane - On Parade
The Fall - Touch Sensitive, I’m a Mummy (Bob McFadden and DOR), English Scheme
Galaxie 500 - Cheese and Onions (The Rutles), Tugboat
Helium - Pat’s Trick
Iggy Pop - The Passenger
My Bloody Valentine - Soon
Le Tigre - Tres Bien, T.G.I.F.
Lois - Indie
Muler - Toothfairy’s Favorite Smile
Jonathan Richman/The Modern Lovers - Someone I Care About, Pablo Picasso, I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
both the Yo La Tengo and live Mary Lou Lord covers of Sandy Denny’s "By The Time It Gets Dark"
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Silkworm - Eff (Will always be tied up with the memory of the awesome weekend o’ rock in Pittsburgh where Michael Dahlquist played bar chess next to Rob and me at the then-cool (now horribly lame sadly) 31st St. Pub and then asked what we wanted to hear. I mentioned “Eff” and they go on stage like half a second later and open the show with it. So great!)
Marshall Crenshaw - Something’s Gonna Happen
Buddy Holly - You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)
Stereolab - Peng! 33 (Live Peel)
Sun Ra - Outer Spaceways Incorporated, Space is the Place
Y Pants - Favorite Sweater