2005-03-16 - 7:54 p.m.
Yesterday I was thinking... (OK, not just yesterday for the smarties in the back; I'm always thinking; sheesh... )
I do a Melancholy Mix every year or so, but I've never once done a mix of songs that never fail to make me happy. I mean, I suppose ALL the other mixes were songs that made me happy to one extent or another at the time, but it's not the same. The indefatigably happy songs. The songs that can rip me out of the melancholy.
So I'm going to do a mix. I don't have a title yet, although a sneaking part of me wants to crib from Jim Butcher and call it Snoopy Dance in a Phone Booth. 8)
Anyway.
Here are some of the songs I'm thinking of:
Bushfire, Topaz & Follow Your Bliss - The B-52's
Deep Red Bells - Neko Case
On My Way to Vegas & Scorchie Chorine - The Red Elvises
Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
Keep Me in the Dark & El Diablo - Arcadia
Hold Back the Rain & Nice - Duran Duran
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
I Refuse - Sensefield
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Jurass Finish First - Jurassic 5
Rings - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Your House - Steel Pulse
Rhythm Section Want Ad & Why Does the Sun Shine? - They Might Be Giants
Breathe - Telepopmusik
Computer Love - Kraftwerk
Early Morning, The Swing of Things, Scoundrel Days & Minor Earth Major Sky - a-ha
This could take a while. 8)
