fix a lousy day with one song

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you had a crap day at work, on the way home you get a six-pack and stop by the park and get some treats, hurry home and crank up the stereo what song (along with the mental lubricants) is gonna save the day?

― sourflower (dustjacket), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Shonen Knife!
Yes, it's true!
I had to go to three different funerals for three different relatives in the last two weeks, and my whole family is fighting like scalded cats.
But I put on "Cannabil Papaya" and "Watching Girl" and I was right as rain after that.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

thats good-happy-jump-around stuff

― sourflower (dustjacket), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard X 'Rock Jacket'
Electric Six 'Dance Commander'
Junior Senior 'Rhythm Bandits', 'Shake Your Coconuts'
Syndicated Peoples 'Be Right'
anything by Space Cowboy

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

bob dylan - you aint going nowhere

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 11 August 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What kind of treats are you getting at the park?

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

corn dogs.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if its clapham common after dark you might get more than your arse ever bargained for.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

today, for example...

"Up With People" by Lambchop

c'mon progeny!

― jed-e-3, Monday, 11 August 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Heptones "Make Up Your Mind"--did the trick yesterday

― oops (Oops), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now it would be Dead Milkmen's Big Lizard in My Backyard, other seasons I'd have to check on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything which makes me dance, because dancing fixes everything. Temporarily.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie Wonder, "As."

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

French house!

daft punk "Digital Love" Grandlife "We in Music"

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and "Awful" by Hole.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Right back where we started from" by Maxine Nightingale.
Or something like Oneness Of Juju or Pharoah Sanders.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

mu-ziq - the fear

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Up: "Back In Black" -- AC/DC
Sideways: "God Only Knows" -- Beach Boys
Down: "Sunrain" (from "New Age of Earth") -- Ashra

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 11 August 2003 21:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Donna Fargo's "Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A"

― Moss Feaster, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew W.K.'s "Party Hard."

― Chris O'Connor (Chris O'Connor), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

you could do much worse
than 'luckenbach texas' by
waylon damn jennings

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 12 August 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)

or the Red Kross version of "Pretty Please Me" or pretty much anything of "Very Emergency" by the Promise Ring esp. "Happiness is all the Rage" or "Emergency, Emergency."

― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 12 August 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Fishbone's "Everyday Sunshine" gospeldelicizes my day with funky nitro-charged good-vibes. I coulda had my leg bit off by a tiger and this song will still make me smile.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Shanice, 'I Love Your Smile'

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Grandaddy's 'Now It's On' always cheers me up.

― person#0 (person#0), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

killian--OTM. That tune got me through grad school.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"care of cell 44"-the zombies. my truck broke down coming home from school after midnight one night, but since this song was playing at the time, i wasn't all that upset.

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"(I Live For) Cars and Girls" by the Dictators. Ya get yr Beach Boys and Ramones fix all at once. It also has one of the best opening lines in rock: "I'm the type of guy who's into gettin' high on a Friday afternoon". I used to kick off every weekend with it.

― BrianB, Wednesday, 13 August 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Exploding Hearts -- "Rumours in Town"
New Order -- "Temptation"
AC/DC -- "Let There Be Rock"
Radio Birdman -- "Aloha Steve & Danno", "Murder City Nights", "455 SD"
Husker Du -- "First of the Last Calls"
Andrew WK -- "Girl's Own Juice", "We Want Fun" (original versions only)

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pizzicato 5's "Happy Sad", without a doubt. (and then ...and you will know us by the trail of dead's "totally natural", the lucksmiths' "self-preservation", ali feat. murphy lee's "boughetto", and gackt's "vanilla (acoustic)", and All Is Well With The World.)

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 13 August 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Believe it or not "Our House" by CSNY. Turns me from rabid vampire into happy sloth in a shade over three minutes.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger ... starts off in a mood as bad as mine/yours & resolves it.
Polaris - Hey Sandy ... It's always Autumn in Wellsville.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Scritti Politti, anything off "Cupid and Psyche '85" pretty much, esp "Absolute"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

No I mean "Perfect Way", man it's hard not to dance to this

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Something by Prince, maybe?

― person#0 (person#0), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

If yr day is lousy cos yr not in any position to fuck he might make it worse

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Grandlife by We In Music!

Everything I listen to fits this thread, possibly cos almost everything I listen to is French house.

Linus Loves-The Terrace

Les Rhythmes Digitales-From Disco To Disco.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

the bassline in grandlife is actually ridiculous, like club tropicana by wham, impossible to listen to without giggling like a fool.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My Morning Jacket - Lowdown

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"If yr day is lousy cos yr not in any position to fuck he might make it worse"

I hereby retract my suggestion of Prince based on this sound advice.

― person#0 (person#0), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Your Disco Needs You", Kylie Minogue

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

B-52's "Roam" simply cannot NOT put smile on my face.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That is SO damn right! Also "Oh!" by Sleater-Kinney.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf!!! It makes me laugh, it makes me cry, it makes me say 'mmmm sex DWARF'.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the Kinks -- "Have a Cuppa Tea"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

kajagoogoo "too shy" usually works for me, but not today. :-(

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw. *good thoughts for le Di*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll be okay. i just have to remember how to be a robot again.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 14 August 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

REM "I Believe" pulled me out of a particularly nasty funk lately.

― doug (doug), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i just have to remember how to be a robot again.

Nah, just cheer yourself up by DOING the robot, preferably in front of a mirror.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d057/d0579310by4.jpg

Do the Robot!

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Elkie Brookes "Sunshine After The Rain"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 15 August 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Plimsouls "Million Miles Away"

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Flash Light," Parliament
"Music for My Mother," Funkadelic
"I got slick, got my hair laid. I was cool . . . I was cool. But I had *no groove*. No groove, no groove . . . "

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 15 August 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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