Pretty Girl - The EasyBeats
Nice one. "Friday on my Mind"
NEVER not makes me happy no time neither!
Quickly, off the proverbial top of the head, and with a cursory glance at the iTunes, I would also add:
Macca - "Ram on"
Van Morrison - "Sweet Thing"
Hard Skin - "First Day Angry Song"
Big Audio Dynamite - "Sambadrome"
Birds of Avalon - "Bicentennial Baby"
Kristeen Young - "The Dawn of my D-Day"
Mekons - "Last Dance"
Blitz - "Someone's Gonna Die"
Håken Helström - "Kom igen Lena!"
Quit Your Day Job - "Wasted"
Madness - "Bed and Breakfast Man"
Phoenix - "Consolation Prizes"
Anything by the La's
Project Pat - "Chickenhead"
Ramones - "Go Li'l Camaro Go" (Mid-80s Ramones - don't judge!)
Rich Kids - "Ghosts of Princes in Towers"/"Rich Kids"
Slade - "Summer Song (Wishing You Were Here)"
Thin Lizzy - "Dancing in the Moonlight"
Tom Scharpling - "Breakaway," by Kelley Clarkson
But I'm realizing as I'm writing this list that most of the songs I really love make me happy AND sad - not in a "I have mixed emotions about this" kind of way, but in a heart-tugging, tears of joy for the beauty but sadness for the state of things kind of way. Does that make any sense? Too emo?
Anyway, might have to start a new thread later (unless anybody wants to get it going before I get to it) for songs that elicit that kind of joy and melancholy at the same time.
For example:
Waterboys - "The Whole of the Moon"
The Pogues - "The Broad Majestic Shannon"
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - "Johnny Appleseed"
etc...
