Make a little birdhouse in your soul

[OakLeaf]

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.

[snapdragen]

Nellie the Elephant by Toy Dolls

Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump
Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And trundled back to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump

[smurfalicious]

I loooooove Nellie the Elephant! I actually started a Pandora station with The Toy Dolls as one of the "seeds." My friends introduced me to it and yeah it's a great spazz out and sing along song.

I actually used to have a really great remix of "Sex Bomb" sometime back. It might even be in my record collection from my DJing days.

[wildhawk]

Wow - where do I start? Probably everything on my Ipod! But to name few:
Blues Brothers Soundtrack (the movie)
Louis Armstrong “What A Wonderful World”
John Denver - most everything he did I like, mostly cuz I can play them on my guitar!
Emmylou Harris’ “Ballad of Sally Rose”
Soundtrack to “Benny and Joon”
Crunch Granola Suite - Neil Diamond vintage song
Ooops! Showing my age now- LOL!

[Tri Girl]

I have lots of weird songs that make me happy, but I LOVE They Might be Giants. I had that cassette and wore... it... out. I'm going online right now to download some TMBG songs.

"Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night... "

[Aggie_Ama]

I love "Make a Little Birdhouse in your soul!" and "Mexican Radio". Plus that song about Snack Crackers, I don't even have a clue what they are talking about. There is a song that is locally popular a duet that has some really perverse lines. Sorry, makes me laugh to no end. It isn't cheerful though like the ones you speak of which make your butt wiggle in delight.

[wackyjacky1]

Hey, Amanda, that song is "In Spite of Ourselves" sung by John Prine and Iris DeMent.

John Prine is one of my faves for snappy, bouncy little tunes that stick in my head ("Leave the Lights On" always cracks me up). 'Course, a lot of his songs will also break your heart.

Leave the Lights On (first verse):

Feeling kind of bony
On the telephoney
Talking to Marconi
Eating Rice-a-Roni
Nominated for a Tony
For acting like a phoney
Watching Twilight Zoney
On my forty-two inch Sony
This is just a long song
It ain't no poem
Leave the lights on till your baby gets home


PS I love-love-love They Might Be Giants!!! That whole album (Flood) is one gem after another.

[sfa]

Plus that song about Snack Crackers, I don't even have a clue what they are talking about.

"Camel Walk" by Southern Culture on the Skids? Great song, even though it makes no sense at all!

Sarah