If you create playlists, then you can choose one before you start out and be reasonably confident you won't have to skip through a lot of songs.

Or you can just do like DH, and put EVERYTHING in the mix, comedy bits, random movements of classical pieces, new wave punk, bluegrass, Zappa, 60's rock, etc., and just let it come up as it will. Drives me nuts.

But to the thread topic - you know the song that pops into my head immediately is The Cars' "Just What I Needed," partly because I like the song, but mostly because it always brings back a memory of eating lunch on the Statehouse lawn one summer afternoon in the mid '80s.

There was a guy with his Walkman on, by the looks of it homeless and very high, dancing and singing along loudly to the music in his headphones, oblivious to what all the suits eating lunch were thinking. When I think of happy music, I always think of that guy.