I originally had a traditional Request Line planned for today. It’s going to be a delight, I promise you. But you’ll have to wait until next week, because I woke up this morning feeling inexplicably happy. So I thought I dedicate this week’s Request Line to the concept of “joy”. We’re looking for songs about happiness, but it’s a broad topic so feel free to post songs that might not fit the theme exactly, but make you happy. There’s a lot of joy to be had today, so let’s limit things to a max of ten songs per person.
I’ll get us started with Apollo 100’s reimagining of the classical composition “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”, “Joy”, as introduced to me by the film Boogie Nights. It makes my spine tingle.
Defiant joy. The Hives – Patrolling Days
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JanefBLU5MM
Since “Chelsea Dagger” was already taken, “Bohemian Like You”
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk
Such great lyrics…”so what do you do? Oh yeah I wait tables too, no I haven’t heard your band cause you guys are pretty new…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts922ocXdkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiDIObd8YaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UshFIoWtF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M2xng3jymM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRiM26hyms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVucoVH8Ts
Only version I know is Sideshow Bob and Bart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKXtv2_IaCY
5. So goddamned uplifting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TON3PORRDQ
“I’d like to hear more about the water boy’s hole in his moon.”
– J. Sandusky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAiOjxkCS0g
IX. Goofy dancing, Lady Miss Kier, and Bootsy Collins = joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
Because Spam called me a nerd, TOTALLY DIFFERENT BRAHMS DOUBLE SHOT. That’ll learn ’em.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ny6HjTHv80
Not me playing the movement that I compared to what cocaine probably feels like. I’m not planning on testing this with cocaine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n7tcw6VCaA
Heifetz sucks. Somebody had to say it. Gimme Charlie Daniels. MAGA.
(Also, the Third B shoulda been Berlioz.)
Well dammit, now you went and pissed off the violinists, who will all… still not come here other than me let’s be reasonable.
VIII. This song is named for his wife (her burlesque name) and the drummer looks homeless. Fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXHeTcxQy4
This is my go-to song!
4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPtFp1qRFcE
It’s simply in the top 10 of the funniest things I’ve ever seen in my life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkdccLCmJk
This one goes out to all the fishes in the deep blue sea. And also to you*.
*and me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp7KfG9AjaY
It also goes out to
/scrolls down
Right Reverend Electric Mayhem
/nods satisfyingly, knowing the world loves pedantic assholes
Fuckballs! I almost never fuck that shit up!
VII. Always loved this song, and it’s about a nightlight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ
I hate this song but she’s appropriate..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M
Late round steal that makes all of you reconsider your choices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU
Yeah, but it’s just so gd annoying.
“Annoying? This tune is the only reason why I’m not working at a bodega at this very moment!”
B.M.
VI. “Hey, what did summer sound like 20 years ago?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajA
Thinking everything is super wonderful-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LanCLS_hIo4
Being in love and thinking everything is super wonderful….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAp3aRJ2vA
CHRIST, I can’t even think of joy this moment. FUCK YOU, LIFE!
lol Everton.
Ain’t gonna get points from the claret at Villa Park everyone knows that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHwVBirqD2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw
It’s a bit on-the-nose, but…
V. Sing it loud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o
This certainly isn’t at all a segue for the Spanoi preview posting at the top of the hour…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0mg8Z09SY
This one never fails to lift my spirits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9MxNn8P7w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8jf01UY8
IV. (don’t post a Macklemore video don’t post a Macklemore video) Aw, hell. It fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGhoLcsr8GA
Dude.
Dude…
Wait…was your “dude” in response to the other “dude” or in response to the song?
Dudes, all the way down….
I have a few more and will be back later. But I gotta go write now so you fools will have somewhere to act the fool tonight.
Ah screw it, one more. I’ve been procrastinating all day anyway. What’s a few more minutes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7k0a5hYnSI
We can even double that even though I hate this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gte3BoXKwP0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upoNK5_GDsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5TqIdff_DQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM
No. You are bad, and you should feel bad.
Oh come on!!!!! It’s right there in the title!!!!!!
(lol I almost typed tittie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINGZV9OUzI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmD08Na5VKI
III. Close between this song and Love Shack, but the sheer absurdity still makes me happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VCCiY17hKw
II. Not even close to best song on this album, but undeniably joyful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA
I think I’d have gone with Graceland, but this is a very fine choice too.
Dance party!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dNIQVYGXbM
As soon as I get home Imma party like a motherfucker!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zPIod2wjYE
Gotta dance just like Ian though.
I’ll do my best to invoke a seizure.
3. FUCKING CELEBRATION ROCK, BABY. ROT IN HELL, KOCH, YOU SLIMY PIECE OF SHIT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3KtKAySDBs
Fuck me that’s good.
Right toffer stuff it is.
I have no idea what that means but the song is fierce.
2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyj1C8ogtE
One of the best movie cameos
I. Piggybacking (sexy!) off Rikki’s movie soundtrack song, here’s the weird-ass Penguin Cafe Orchestra with a song from Napoleon Dynamite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E
Might as well —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwYN7mTi6HM
up and down on David Koch’s still-warm throat.
Wore out my cassette freshman year of high school.
Jam was on the radio when we were driving the labor room with blaxito. How we managed to miss a Maroon5 track is a gift from heaven.
If a Maroon 5 song plays while your son’s being born, he’ll be gay. It’s science.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPIdRJlzERo
I came here just to post this
Well this seems like an easy and topical choice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CYkZcPYXQI
Dedicated to David Koch, rest in eternal torment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kcOpyM9cBg
BEETHOVEN 9 AND 10 DOUBLE SHOT
/The joke is Brahms 1 is Beethoven 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k08quxa6M5g