The song that lifts you

[Dillinger4]

haha - you know what? i saw an advert for Tea Dances in st helens, and I thought 'that would be a right laugh for me and dill' Seriously - old time dancing, tea, biscuits, get a bit dressed up

That sounds like my kind of scene.

 

[il_bastardo]

Keziah Jones ~ Black Butterfly. astonishing, beautiful singing, sounding a lot like David McAlmont on the first mcalmont and butler album.

 

[sojourner]

That sounds like my kind of scene.

Let's do it. I've got some holiday booked start of May, and I think they're on Tuesday afternoons.

have you got a suit? I'm gonna borrow a tie off my lass

 

[Sadken]

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

Heatwave by Martha And The Vandellas always cheers me up, too.

These 2, plus We Gotta Have Peace by Curtis which is, I think, his best tune.

 

[stavros]

Move On Up - Curtis Mayfield

I wa struggling to think of anything, but this is pretty on the money. The other that springs to mind is Helen Love's "Long Hot Summer".

 

[DotCommunist]

Sadly enough it's that levellers one, beautiful day.

When they hit the 'light a bonfire for all time' lyric I am feeling jaunty

 

[Gingerman]

Blinded by the Light-Manfred Mann
The Raggle Taggle Gypsy,-Planxty, to name but two.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Heatwave by Martha And The Vandellas always cheers me up, too.

Ooh this, and She Don't use Jelly by the Flaming Lips.

 

[tbaldwin]

It only happens when i look at you.. Jackie Wilson or The Crown Gary Byrd.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Let's make this precious

 

[chemn]

Venetian Snares - 'Winnipeg is fucking over' always gets a smile out of me...

Or that funky house 'Believe' with Jocelyn Brown...

 

[Gingerman]

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Let's make this precious

Geno by DMR as well

 

[chemn]

Jah Jah Dub - King Tubby

 

[Augie March]

S Club 7 - Reach

 

[8ball]

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man

 

[soulman]

The Supremes - Stoned Love

The Damned - New Rose

 

[RubyBlue]

Good Times by Chic's another.

^ also anything by Sister Sledge

 

[chico enrico]

paul haig ; born innocence

patrick hernandez ; born to be alive

anything by baby's gang

 

[moomoo]

Nights on Broadway - Candi Staton
Anything by the Supremes
I want you back - Jackson 5
Most Take That stuff


There's loads of stuff that makes me smile actually. I guess it's anything I can sing along very badly to.

 

[Garcia Lorca]

gee theres loads.

heres a few.

tempole tudor - swords of a thousand men (or wunderbar)
Dreadzone - little britain
sly and the family stone - dance to the music
the specials - little bitch
the clash - whiteman in hammersmith palais
Jackie wilson - higher and higher
bjork - big time sensuality

 

[dilute micro]

milk it - nirvana

 

[JTG]

I'm tempted to say Fucked With a Knife by Cannibal Corpse. But I won't cos it'd be silly

Elevate, Little Britain and Fight the Power by Dreadzone
This Garden by the Levellers (so shoot me)
Wonderful World, Beautiful People by Jimmy Cliff

 

[david dissadent]

"Let Down" Radiohead.

 

[soulman]

Two from The Who.

I Can See For Miles

Won't Get Fooled Again

The thing that lifts me with both of these songs, and a load more Who songs, is Keith Moon's drumming. Brilliant.

 

[lyra_k]

Erasure - A Little Respect.. yeh, sorry

 

[lyra_k]

and Life In A Northern Town by the Mighty Wah

 

[MightyAphrodite]

Back in Black ACDC...i listen to it every morning.

 

[cozmikbrew]

Loads of tunes put a bounse in my step first thing in the morning Toots n Maytals "Funky Kingston" is always good,James Brown....well most of his stuff really! Tenor saw "Ring the Alarm",Anti Pasti "No Government"PublicEnemy "Louder Than A Bomb" an anything by The Skatalites" all good sonic pick me ups!

 

[kyser_soze]

S Club 7 - Reach

Another vote for this.

I also vote for Higher and Higher

When I want a happy reminder about my girl I'll start humming 'I've got a woman way over town'

Too many TBH...

 

[Tort]

"Ma' Africa" from the One Giant Leap album. Leads the playcount charts on my iTunes by miles.