Absurdly ridiculously happy records, so happy they evoke a helium-soaked fantasy land of gobstoppers and hamsters

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e.g.

Hixxy and Sharkey - "Toytown"
Go! Team - "Feelgood by numbers"
"It's a small world after all"
Scott Brown - "Now is the time"
Bob Wilson Sounds - "Strings a go-go"
Ron Grainer Orchestra - "A touch of velvet a sting of brass"

Any more?

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

"Sugar Sugar" - The Archies
"Sugar Shack" - Seb
"I Wanna Be A Hippy" - Technohead
"We Like To Party! (Vengabus)" - Vengaboys

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

"I Wanna Be A Hippy" - Technohead

I heared about some nursery or school did a show with this one as one of the songs, with lots of comedy kids dressed up and waving massive joints, groucho marx style. Massive controv on the scale of Dylan at Newport. (But one I think Alice would have loved/joined in on)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Europop - the divine comedy

― Arnault (arc73hk), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

"Glockenpop" - Spiderbait

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to see Dylan go techno.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

Go! Team - "Feelgood by numbers"

The whole album makes me feel smiley and happy - which is quite an achievement, considering what a miserable get I can be.

Basement JAXX - Bingo Bango (and many others)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

can anyone YSI/Gmail me a copy of "Return To Toytown" by Hixxy and Sharky - unmixed? I only have the version on Bonkers and I'd love a proper version.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

"Come With Me" - Special D

"The Sign" - Sven-R-G Versus Bass-T

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

New Pornographers, "Miss Teen Wordpower"

― mike a, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

There are some great onces on this thread:

Has Any Music Ever *BURSTED WITH JOY* to the Same Extent as Early Beatles Songs Such as "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "Please Please Me?"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

"Onces." Shoot me.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Lesley Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows

Marge: You look...nice.
Ruth: Tonight has nothing to do with "nice". Tonight's all about --
[She puts in a tape: "Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows" --]
Oh, sorry Marge. Wrong tape.
["Welcome to the jungle! We got fun and games..."]

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

The Boy Least Likely To, "Be Gentle With Me"

"I'm happy because I'm stupid/ Scared of spiders, scared of flying/ If I wasn't so happy/ I wouldn't be so scared to die!"

i reckon the happiest moments are always laced with sadness that they can’t last, aren't they?

― marc h. (marc h.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Just about everything Of Montreal has ever done.

The Toms- "I Wanna Be A Teen Again"

― hugh, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

U.S.E. U.S.E. -- (although if you want songs, "Emerald City", "Climb The Walls", well.. fuck it, the entire album)

― donut hallivallerieburtonelli omg lol (donut), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

helium-soaked fantasy land of gobstoppers and hamsters

obviously it's crazy frog and all of its ilk

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

it's fantasy happy, though. not real happy.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Of Montreal - "Let's Do Everything For The First Time Forever"
Jay-Z - "Girls, Girls, Girls (Remix)"
Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
Brian Eno - "Needles In The Camel's Eye"

― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

The BARRACUDAS "Summer sun"

― antonio, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Ramones -- "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and "Rockaway Beach" come to mind.

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

"Hampster Dance" - Hampton and the Hampsters

― Pablo (Pablo), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

blossom toes "the remarkable saga of the frozen dog"

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Frente - 'Accidentally Kelly St'
The Reels - 'Prefab Heart'
and of course...
The Wiggles - 'Play Your Guitar With Murray'

― moley, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Scanty Sandwich - "Because of You"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Andy Williams - happy heart
and i'm not even old

― cake (cake), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

Frente - 'Accidentally Kelly St'

Oh my God, how right you are. That song is like three minutes of sugar coma. You wake up with a little removable unicorn tattoo.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

ha ha, the band hate it and refuse to play it (and sacked the bassist who wrote it halfway through their career [not that cause and effect should be inferred]). on their reunion tour in January, Simon Austin would respond to frenzied audience members screaming for "KELL-Y STREEET!" with things like "what? huh? sorry, we don't know any Kenny G..."

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 29 September 2005 02:55 (twenty years ago)

hahaha I knew you'd be amused by that particular suggestion... for those who haven't heard it... well, ignorance is bliss in this case. And the CLIP. It's like playschool, and Angie walks around like she's straddling a horse.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

The Pink Album- Tuscadero

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

banana splits, "i enjoy being a boy (in love with you)"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

Joy Division, "Dead Souls." Nonstop funfest!

― mike a, Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Turtles, "Happy Together"
Montanas, "You've Got to Be Loved" (it's even got a bicycle-bell jingle!)
Free Design, "You Be You and I'll Be Me"
Sammy Davis Jr., "The Candy Man"
Left Banke, "And Suddenly"

And suddenly I want a mix CD of this whole thread.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 30 September 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

The Smiths- Ask
Queen- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Clinic- The Second Line

― Joe Miller (robox2000), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh, fuck. I forgot mmmBop.

― Joe Miller (robox2000), Friday, 30 September 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

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