# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 3: A Song That Always Makes You Happy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508 "2016-04-08T00:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [April 9, 2016, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/41 "2016-04-09T08:15:35Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Found him. [Sasha Koledin.](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXNvDU7vKh-RQiuwIWtVjg) THANKS! I’m sharing some of the links with my buddy. A few years before Glen passed, we lost James King as well. Not the best singer, not the best harp player, but he sure was a lot of fun. I miss 'Chismo Charles too. Man could work a room. Glad to hear Jill West pulled through. Someone’s gotta put a word in to Sasha about recording more Shari. Maybe I’ll send him a PM and see what’s what. If I make it back into town and my health holds, we’ll see about meeting up for some bar food and music. Some of my very favorite memories involve those things. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/42 "2016-04-09T19:33:27Z")
[The The Uncertain Smile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz50N2_tCCg&nohtml5=False) [I’m Free Soup Dragons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz50N2_tCCg&nohtml5=False) I actually prefer this version one the Stones. Just has an extra oomph of happiness to it ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/43 "2016-04-09T19:40:35Z")
[Shut Up and Dance!](http://youtu.be/kVJu9AMJJr4) The first time I ever heard the song, it was in the movie compilation I linked above…and I LOVED IT!! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/44 "2016-04-09T20:51:15Z")
[A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I was Robert MacNamara’d into Submission)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOvs3rCFI2A&nohtml5=False). Partially for the ludicrous name, but it’s just fun. (Listening as a kid, I had no idea what “that’s the hand I use … well, nevermind” was all about. Then at some point in adulthood, I listened to this song and went “… Ohhhhhh …”) ---
**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:** [April 10, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/45 "2016-04-10T15:03:36Z")
30 day song challenge has been extended to six and a half months. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/46 "2016-04-11T17:28:23Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yzC4hFK5P3g/hqdefault.jpg "きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ - PONPONPON , Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - PONPONPON") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g) It’s just so happy. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/47 "2016-04-11T17:39:57Z")
Nobody loves the BeeGees? My cheer-me-up music is [Stayin’ Alive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY). However, there’s a lot of good stuff in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/48 "2016-04-11T17:54:08Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Nobody loves the BeeGees? Nope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/49 "2016-04-11T20:00:07Z")
I could have sworn I posted this in this thread already. I must have subconsciously deleted it out of abject shame. But what the hell, I’ll go ahead and post it again. [“Perfect Day” by Hoku.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84odSvKFrkY) Fuck you. I can like it. Sure it’s teenie-pop, but it’s got a great hook and I dig the groove of the bridge/solo. Turns out that’s Don Ho’s daughter. I have no idea how old she is so I shan’t render an opinion on how friggin’ gorgeous she is while we’re talking about it. Look, it’s a happy little tune that plays over the credits of a goofy little comedy. Yes, _Legally Blonde_, but still, guys watch movies like that, you know. I am too secure with my sexuality! Anyway, that song always makes me happy. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/50 "2016-04-11T20:43:59Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > 30 day song challenge has been extended to six and a half months. At this rate, it could go on for years. ---
**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:** [April 11, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/51 "2016-04-11T21:30:18Z")
since I’m bored here is my silly happy song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSP0e5rXUl8&nohtml5=False](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSP0e5rXUl8&nohtml5=False) ---
**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:** [April 12, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/52 "2016-04-12T01:04:13Z")
I think \*\*Idle Thoughts \*\*has realized he doesn’t have 100 bucks. ---
**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:** [April 12, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/53 "2016-04-12T01:08:09Z")
I don’t want the money I just want to do challenges. He can keep his dollar if that helps. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/54 "2016-04-12T01:32:10Z")
Sigh. I have a shit-ton of work to do right now – ahem, taxes – and this will be, without a doubt, my favorite “challenge,” but one I’m going to have to ignore. (I’ll write about all of this some time.) Anyhow, picking 1 of the 900 songs in my feel-good playlist (that places them in order of their feely-goodness)… I’m actually going with one that is honorably disqualified from my list because of lack of exposure. it’s by a woman who plays in the bar where I work (and therefore not mainstream). I bring you [Dynamo](https://soundcloud.com/kaiellemusic/dynamo?in=kaiellemusic/sets/it-girl-ep). ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/55 "2016-04-12T01:37:21Z")
Piling on now. This [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozAmXo2bDE) always makes me happy – brings me to tears, even. It’s that special. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/56 "2016-04-12T01:59:44Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I have a confession. > > I like Coldplay. I know, they are so vanilla and a lot of people don’t like them, but I do. > > [Up & Up is the song that makes me happy lately.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJPt4eih5ao) Hope you’ve stumbled across a live version on YouTube (or at this year’s Super Bowl halftime show). Really soars. ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/57 "2016-04-12T02:05:25Z")
I’d like to be Under the sea In an octopus’s garden In the shade ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/58 "2016-04-12T02:08:29Z")
Last post, I promise. (Full disclosure: I tend to break promises.) If there is a such thing as an underrated happy song, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57RIlznOpDM) is it. The one that works best in Bar Mitzvah video montages: [Light & Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hxTwwhdMFw) by Polyphonic Spree (alternate version). ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/59 "2016-04-12T03:22:58Z")
One song that always, without fail, makes me smile happily is [Kaze ni Naru](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwoDrRCibhA). It’s the closing song to the Ghibli film “The Cat Returns.” I haven’t a clue what the words mean, but it’s a peaceful, happy sound. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508/60 "2016-04-12T18:51:51Z")
When it shifts gears and Eleftheria comes in. Eleftheria Arvanitaki [Stis Pikrodaphnis Ton Antho](https://youtu.be/6j3xlXErfhU). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-3-a-song-that-always-makes-you-happy/751508.md?page=4)