You’ve pretty much described my favourite kind of music. Here are some Aussie suggestions you probably won’t have heard, all of them fun, head-bouncing indie-rock style:
Catch My Disease by Ben Lee
The Familiar by Faker
You Look So Good by Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set
Vision Bell by Dappled Cities
This Heart Attack by Faker
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver, Moby version (since it’s the only one I know)
anything by the Fratellis
Bunch more in this previous thread.
I Don’t Feel Like Dancing by the Scissor Sisters.
The song’s great, but the YouTube video is a little…odd.
Spoon - Don’t you evah
Neat little video too. I like the little robot.
Im old friends with the dummer of this band! yay friends!
No list of “head-boppers” is complete without It’s the End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M.
Sheena is a Punk Rocker – Ramones
The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
Wango Tango – Ted Nugent
19th Nervous Breakdown – Rolling Stones
Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand
Lump – Presidents of the United States of America
Crawlin’ From the Wreckage – Rockpile
Rough Boys – Pete Townshend
Mint Royale – Blue Song (song kicks in at 0:30)
I like hooky songs, but the uptempo-est one that’s still really catchy is “Float On” by Modest Mouse. It does have the best hook in music in the last 10 years, so that counts for something.
Just in case you didn’t hear it enough in the 90’s I’ll nominate Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind.
And One Week by The Barenaked Ladies for a little Canadian flavor.
“I Only Wanna Be With You” Hootie and the Blowfish
'Mary Mac" Carbonleaf
“867-5309/Jenny”–Tommy Tutone
“A Million Miles Away”–The Plimsouls
Here it Goes Again or Do What You Want by OK Go
27 Jennifers by Mike Doughty (preferably the early version)
500 Miles (Proclaimers) is pretty catchy and hooky.
Man, I am waaaay too old for this thread…
OK, how about “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” or “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”?
*The Glow-Worm * by the Mills Brothers.
“When you gotta glow, you gotta glow.”
Day Tripper, Paperback Writer, The Beatles
Anyway, I knew I could count on you guys – I’ve got a 30 GB iPod with 23.4 free GBs, so every little bit helps. Tons of good stuff so far. I sure hope I’m not the only one getting any benefit from this thread.
Yeah, thanks to TheMerchandise for suggesting MIKA. I wasn’t wild about Grace Kelly, but I love Lollipop!