Anyhow. So on Friday I came home and yesterday I drove to Exeter with my mum to see my brother in Exeter. Somewhere between the drive there and the drive back, I bought a new computer. I can't really justify it.
Anyway, that's not the point. In the car on the way back, we were listening to Mika.
Mika's Grace Kelly is one of those songs that makes me unaccountably happy. There's something about the pace of it and the way he squeaks when he says 'purple', it's just... oooh.
At uni, whenever Sideburns-Earrings comes over, we always play our wonderful YouTube music game. Basically, one of us puts on a rather fantastic songs on YouTube and then the next person does and then we go on like that for a few hours. But it's quite cool cuz Sideburns-Earring and I tend to play songs that make us happy, or songs associated with really good memories, which we can then discuss in great detail. Anyway, so, I decided to make a list of the happiest songs to have featured in this highly technical and complicated game (ie. mostly songs Sideburns-Earrings and I were in love with when we were fourteen :D). SO:
20. In Too Deep - Sum 41
Okay, so, yes, we are all quite ashamed of Sum 41 now... but it was a close call between this, Teenage Dirtbag and She Hates Me... this won because nobody I know can honestly deny liking it at the time ;)
19. Do You Know? - Enrique Iglesias
To be absolutely honest though, Sideburns-Earrings does genuinely hate this and won't ever let me play it all the way through. But come on! Enrique Iglesias! In monochrome! With table tennis! There is NOTHING about this not to like.
18. MMMBop - Hanson
You really can't help grinning, can you?
17. Carrie Anne - The Hollies
Mmmm... This reminds me of a certain barbecue in France. There was a pool, gluten free food, two gorgeous ginger kittens and strawberry sorbet. Very happy thought indeed.
16. Everybody - Sister Hazel
'Like a junkie to a rush / I'd trade my mama for your touch / oh wait, that might just be too much / well, I'd do anything but that' - a lovely, honest song ;)
15. This Kiss - Faith Hill
Because fairytale references in pop songs are the future.
14. What I Go To School For - Busted
Oh, Busted... why did you have to break up? I sobbed, eyes streaming with tears. Sideburns-Earrings disagrees strongly, but, come on, their videos were a laugh and the lyrics were clever. Not even Shakespeare could pen a couplet like 'she drops a pencil on the floor / she bends down and shows me more'.
13. Heaven Is A Halfpipe - OPM
This is the song that made Sideburns-Earrings forgive me for playing Enrique Iglesias. Also, I remember a boy in my form coming into a French lesson singing this in year seven, and all the boys in the class joined in.
12. Follow Me - Uncle Kracker
GOD knows how Uncle Kracker managed to come up with this song, but, well, there it is. Simple, bouncy and lovely, and something that we've all sung on the way to seminars in the rain.
11. I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness
This song was amazing because everyone at school was united about it when it came out. I remember walking down a corridor at school and hearing one of my mates singing it behind me; then I turned the corner and one of the peroxide girls was singing it. I went into my English classroom and my teacher was humming it.
10. Sherry Darling - Bruce Springsteen
Because Springsteen is God, and this song is fantastic. I haven't been able to stop singing it all morning. Phwoar.
9. Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Okay, so technically it's probably a sad song... but it works :)
8. I'll Be There For You - The Rembrants
I'm not sure if it's because it's the Friends theme or if it's just pure class by itself... but you play this song and everyone does the handclaps and then joins in on the chorus. You can't not.
7. The Remedy (I Won't Worry) - Jason Mraz
Jason Mraz is a) a lyric genius, b) gorgeous and c) a brilliant singer. Totally worth going from Swansea to Edinburgh to see him live ;)
6. Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
Yes, well... it is a song about doing drugs... but it's so happy!
5. You're Gorgeous - Babybird
Obscene lyrics and a truly bizarre video, but what sentiment ;)
4. Grace Kelly - Mika
Last year I was at home ill and listening to the radio. This and Ruby were the only things I heard all day. This is amazing; Ruby is rubbish.
3. Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
The video doesn't make much sense, admittedly, but the guitars are genuinely a cure for depression. Genuinely.
2. I Wanna Be With You - Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is the only person in the world who can pull off a lyric like 'I just don't understand it / you're not pretty at all', and this song is such a mood-enhancer. Mmmmmboy.
1. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
This only beats Bruce by a tiny, tiny amount... I don't even know why it wins. But this song = happiest thought ever.
3 comments:
I like this list greatly, though I'm not sure I can say the same about the music.
While I'm here, I have to ask you about 'Backstreets'. What's going on? Is Terry a man or a woman? What does s/he do? Is the narrator a man? If you don't know, nobody will, even Bruce.
I'm now listening to Hanson in a slightly ashamed way, as I never heard this when it was big (well, I probably did, but I only found out what it was recently).
LOL Dan, right... Well, I always figured Terry was a man. And I always thought the narrator was a man too. Because when blokes sing I tend to assume they're singing the voice of a bloke. Perhaps I need to rethink my perspectives.
But, anyway, no, I always heard Backstreets as... I don't know, it does sound a bit oo-err in places but I get it more as a song about friendship? 'Hiding on the backstreets /Where we swore forever friends', just... you know? But... does it matter? It's Bruce!
Charly, Hanson are amazing. Trufax. I actually have one of their albums ;)
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