It’s getting near the end of the year, I’m bored at my parents’ house, and I can’t sleep, so you know what that means: a pointless list!
Tonight’s topic: ten songs that are so happy it’s impossible to be down while hearing them.
Katamari on the Rocks (Main Theme) from the Katamari Damacy soundtrack
Get It Together by The Go! Team (the defacto theme of Little Big Planet)
Baroque Hoedown by Jean-Jacques Perrey (used in the Disney Main Street Electrical Parade)
Blue Skies by Bobby Darin
Psyche Rock by Pierre Henry (inspired the “Futurama” theme music)
Reading Rainbow Theme
Sweet Soul Brother by Hideki Naganuma from the “Jet Set Radio” soundtrack
I Hear the Bells by Mike Doughty from Haughty Melodic
All About the Music by Z-Trip featuring Whipper Whip (but only when played along with that video)
Dream Island Obsessional park by Susumu Hirasawa, from the soundtrack to “Paranoia Agent.” (It’s happy assuming you don’t actually watch the video, connect it with the series, or understand the lyrics, of course)
Terrific list! Here are a few of my favourite irrationally exuberant songs:
Machine Gun – Commodores
Tank! – The Seatbelts
La turlutte du rotoculteur – De Temps Antan
Super Orgy Porno Party – The Planet Smashers
Peaches En Regalia – Frank Zappa
A Kiss To Build A Dream On – Louis Armstrong
(Gosh, this is probably going to get caught in the spam filter, isn’t it?)
Yes, but I CONTROL THE SPAM FILTER. Tank! and Machine Gun are great choices in particular. (Before a year or so ago, I’d only heard “Machine Gun” via the sample they use in “Hey Ladies”)
And speaking of “Tank!”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollym/2967937004/in/photostream/