# Mood Music - Happy Songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 9, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113 "2003-03-09T19:14:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/41 "2003-03-14T00:19:55Z")

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Glad All Over - Rezillos version

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**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/42 "2003-03-14T03:15:42Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Skerri \*  
> \*\*“ **Don’t Stop Believin’** ” - Journey  
> This song will always crack me up. Whenever I listen to it, I have to be able to crank it up really loud, so that it can be accompanied by the “rock-ballad-singer” face that I always make while singing it. Oh, and there have to be lots of hand gestures and cheesy choreography to go along with it.
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> Well, it always makes people in other cars laugh. 😃 \*\*

I do that with most of the _Footloose_ soundtrack, **Skerri** (songs: Holdin’ Out for a Hero, Footloose, St. Elmo’s Fire, Bang Your Head… 😃

Hmm, I need to go dig that out…

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**Author:** ![Dagny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@Dagny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dagny)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/43 "2003-03-14T03:35:02Z")

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Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Bruce’s Philosopher’s Song

Bears- Death By Chocolate

Happiness Pie-Death Lurks (in the movie Brain Candy)

We Are the Mediorce Presidents- The Simpsons

Brimful of Asha- Cornershop

Baby I Know What You’re Thinking- The Mendoza Line

the little song Kyle sang for the homeschooled girl Rebecca in South Park

Tom Servo’s song about the seventies

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**Author:** ![available\_light](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@available\_light](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/available_light)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/44 "2003-03-14T22:55:26Z")

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Joy to the World-Three Dog Night (made even better by the memory of Scully singing that song while trying not to succumb to hypothermia in some episode of the X-files)

and many songs by Creedence (especially Born on the Bayou) and Steve Miller Band. How can you not laugh at awful lyrics like this:

“Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas  
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is.  
He ain’t gonna let those two escape justice  
He makes his living off other people’s taxes”  
from Take the Money and Run

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/45 "2003-03-15T20:05:20Z")

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Hey, some of us consider this to be high art.  
😛

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