# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 21: a song that you listen to when you're happy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 11, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677 "2016-07-11T18:52:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/1 "2016-07-11T18:52:15Z")
This topic might give you déjà vu because it’s awfully similar to [number 3: a song that always makes you happy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=789682). I just post these topics, I don’t write 'em. This is the last one in the challenge that I think could have done with being rewritten, the last nine remaining are all pretty good, I think. I’ll post [Vinyl Pinups - Gold Rays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izl8zFCWSjA), because it’s a very breezy pop song that’s perfect for summer. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/2 "2016-07-11T18:59:37Z")
_Cheatin’_- **Gin Blossoms** ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/3 "2016-07-12T00:58:33Z")
I could’ve been a nurl and said “Happy”, which I think is a fine Stones song, but there’s another one off “Exile on Main St.” that gets me even bouncing-off-the-walls happier: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_lNP-x94-SE/hqdefault.jpg "Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (1972)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE) “oh, yyyyeeeaahhhhh!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/4 "2016-07-12T01:28:50Z")
It changes daily but right now it’s: [Locked Out Of Heaven - Bruno Mars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtJPRhoqWcM) ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/5 "2016-07-13T01:47:15Z")
I guess the word ‘Happy’ made me think of this, a happy song, which I would never listen to by choice [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMCTjO\_dHI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiMCTjO_dHI) I don’t have one _listen to when I’m happy_ song. It could be [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG0oBPtyNb0) or [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFBXjRbVl0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iFBXjRbVl0) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/6 "2016-07-13T02:33:00Z")
Singasong by Earth Wind and Fire ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/7 "2016-07-13T04:22:23Z")
[Storytime by Nightwish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g8ykQLYnX0) ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/8 "2016-07-13T08:14:35Z")
**[“The Baron” by Chico Hamilton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFomjIt0WY)** And most preferably this version…blows the studio one out of the water, into orbit, and to a billion smithereens. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/9 "2016-07-13T08:48:14Z")
Meh. I’ll let you know when it happens. [Maybe “Summer”, by War](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6XhvwuJykY) ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/10 "2016-07-13T18:31:21Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Singasong by Earth Wind and Fire Oh yeah, EW&F - but _Sun Goddess_ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/11 "2016-07-13T18:43:00Z")
A high cheese factor on some of these, but so be it. [Walking On Sunshine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U) - Katrina and the Waves [Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zjpi5CycA4) - Electric Light Orchestra [Firecracker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6abKaQGDY) - Michael Bernard Fitzgerald [Dancing Queen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s) - ABBA ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/12 "2016-07-13T19:28:45Z")
Like I said in previous threads, all my music is on random play, and I don’t match it to my mood. But anyway, here’s . . . [_Silly Love Songs_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap87QgZKTNw), by Paul McCartney and Wings. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/13 "2016-07-13T20:24:05Z")
Gotta go with **Sing, Sing, Sing** by the **Benny Goodman** orchestra. If this doesn’t get your toe tapping and feeling like Bugs Bunny when he is groovin’ on hepcat jazz, then I can’t help you: ["SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/14 "2016-07-13T22:00:47Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Gotta go with **Sing, Sing, Sing** by the **Benny Goodman** orchestra. If this doesn’t get your toe tapping and feeling like Bugs Bunny when he is groovin’ on hepcat jazz, then I can’t help you: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I\_ien6A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A) My favorite Benny Goodman number is [Let’s Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lQlzof4_0), as well as the original by Weber. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/15 "2016-07-14T18:31:53Z")
The Kygo remix of [Sexual Healing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqPnZ4I9IdU) ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-21-a-song-that-you-listen-to-when-youre-happy/759677/16 "2016-07-14T20:47:08Z")
Apart from loving anything even remotely scary or Halloween-ish, this song never fails to crack me up and I’ve got it downloaded for anytime I need a pick me up. By Los Lobos. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/LWxN4dYnhWw/maxresdefault.jpg "Grim Grinning Ghosts") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxN4dYnhWw) ---
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> [@WordMan](#): > > Gotta go with **Sing, Sing, Sing** by the **Benny Goodman** orchestra. If this doesn’t get your toe tapping and feeling like Bugs Bunny when he is groovin’ on hepcat jazz, then I can’t help you: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I\_ien6A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ien6A) [The Carnegie Hall version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NigiwMtWE0) of that one fills me up with joy and a sense of the triumph of that moment, then the piano solo makes me cry. To me, it is too perfectly crafted and heartbreaking beautiful to react any other way. I can recognize the other solos early in that version now, so if I hear it while I’m driving, I can pull over and have a good weep. So, that’s the only version I seek out anymore. If it affected you the way it does me, why would you want to listen to anything else? But that’s my answer to a different, unasked question. When I’m happy, and just want to feed that, I usually listen to surf rock right and left. [King of the Monsters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHOpvt5sOs8) by Man…Or Astro-Man? works for that purpose.