Best Feel-Good Songs of All Time, Ranked

I feel good. I knew that I wouldn't. I feel good. I knew that I wouldn't. So good. So good. I got it here.

Hey y'all, welcome to Past Times at 80s High, the cast that takes you back. Got another great one for you today. We're gonna do songs that make us happy. And now I want to be very clear on this because it's really songs that make me happy as myself. And for the rest of the boys as well, who are all here, of course. Dongo, how are you? Hey, doing good. Good, I saw. Brother Mark.

I'm doing pretty well today. How are you doing, man?

Good, good. Hello! Hello, Bastage. And I'm AJ. And so, yeah, so just to be clear on that, it's songs that make us happy as an individual because I'm gonna have songs that are only gonna make me happy and so forth for the rest of us. Perhaps some of you out there will have, you know, they'll make you happy as well. But anyway, I just want to be clear on the subject matter because it's not always gonna be joy, joy.

Happy, happy, joy, joy, happy, happy, joy, joy.

But anyway, so not happy little songs. Right.

So anyway, Dongo, you're gonna have the honors today, but before we move forward with that, a couple things. Um, I did just want to give a quick shout out and a thank you rather to uh Sonny Hollywood Poony and uh Steven from the Growing Up Rock podcast. Because Sonny was on with us, you know, not long ago doing one of our mixtape series, the pop songs, and they give us a nice shout-out on their show Growing Up Rock today. So thought that was cool. So thank you guys very much. We appreciate it. And yes, uh thank you. Yes, indeed, and Kevin. Uh, we always like to also give a little shout out to any new listeners we may have.

Absolutely. We want to welcome some new listeners in Flint, Michigan, Savannah, Georgia, Hobart, Tasmania, and Niagara Falls, Ontario. The other side of the line. So these ones are a little bit closer except from Tasmania, but still, welcome aboard, folks. Thanks for uh joining in.

Yes, thank you all for listening. All all four easily pronounced as well.

Right, I easily hit myself this week.

Too funny. All right, well, anyway, so I guess we shall just get the ball rolling as always. And Dongo, this is your pick.

You're on hairs. All right, so let's get this kicked off. Um, funny thing, funny tidbit was I was driving home today before the cast, just a half an hour drive, and during that half an hour drive, two of my songs came out. Oh no. So that will imply that they are widely played because you know I like the cheese and the overplayed stuff.

So is is that broadcast radio as opposed to your uh curated trimming?

It was regular, you know, radio, and uh we were actually hitting the scan button like old school, like flipping through the channels and two and you have to do that manually, yeah. So I'm gonna start mine. First one off actually has happy in the in the title, and it is You Make Me So Very Happy.

I'm so glad you came in to my life.

Have to sing out to sing, and it and my favorite version of that is from Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Yeah. Um, written in 1960. They played it in 1969. It was written by Brenda Holloway in 1967, and I just love that tune. I love the changes, it's just jazz.

I lost that blood before.

Powerful, it's rock. I love the bridge.

I love you so much, you see. You're even in my dreams. I gotta hear you. Baby, I gotta hear you calling me.

I love that song, it just makes me very happy. Thank you, baby.

Thank you, baby.

Thank you, baby.

Wait a kick.

Oh, yeah. Great to, yeah. And that should make everyone happy, not just you.

So you're in a good mode by the end of this episode. Right.

Well, wait a while. Great pick, Dawn. All right, Kev, do you then?

All right, so I'm gonna start right off with one of my absolute favorite songs off one of my absolute favorite albums. I think it's one of the best live recordings ever. It's called Fat Man in the Bathtub off Waiting for Columbus.

I hit the move. I hit the moon.

Little Feet to me is just I don't know, they're one of those bands that just does it for me. This was recorded over three nights, and I just don't think I've heard live drums recorded this well. Plus, you're talking about some amazing musicians, uh, Tower Power Horns, one of my other favorites, was on that tour with them and just flesh the whole thing out. And it's funny, I was reading a review of it today, and it says it was during their decline, and I'm like, holy shit, if that was their decline, then I'm really sorry I missed their peak because I think it's just you you wouldn't know if you didn't hear the crowd, you wouldn't know it was a live album. They they play that well, and it just again, one of my favorite bands of all time, Lil George started the band because he wrote the song Willing when he was with Frank Zappa and the mothers, and Frank kicked him out for either writing a song about Dope, because we know that Frank Zappa was really against that, or that he just realized, or maybe both, that George needed to go into something else and have his own band. Just an amazing singer and slide player. Uh, one of the things I love about Lil George, uh, aside from being an amazing singer and songwriter, he's a slide guitarist. And his slide guitar for his slide, he tried using glass slides and they kept breaking. Um, so he ended up using an 1116s craftsman socket. Ooh, wow.

That was the chosen slide for the guitar.

That ain't breaking.

That ain't breaking. No, it isn't.

Uh, and then the other interesting part about that, that song Willing, which is not Fat Man in the Bathtub, but just because it gets me going on Lil George, is Linda Ronstadt. There's a concert of her in 77. She's talking about being in Atlanta and she loves Atlanta and she fell in love in Atlanta. She said she met this guy and he walked up to her and he said, Want a quaalude. And they end up spending a bet a week in bed together, and she didn't think anything of it. She kind of fell in love with him. And then, you know, at the end of the week, his wife knocked on the door, kind of pissed off. She was like, No, that'll do it. But I'm pretty sure I would tell you back then, I would have taken the chance with Linda for sure.

Oh, yeah. I would have taken the quaalude. Yeah.

Um, yeah, Fat Man in the Bathtub is just a great song. He wheels his ass off singing and playing in it, and the whole band is great. And I just love it, it makes me happy every time I hear it. And that's what matters.

Awesome. Absolutely. Awesome. Nice pick. And before you go, Mark, I just wanted to say something to um all of you, Kev, talking about guitar players, just talking about growing up rock earlier. Give a listen, especially you, Kev, I think you'd appreciate it because the today's episode was on Steve Lukather. I know you have the most knowledge on him, but the rest of you guys should give it a listen because it's like we all have albums with him on it and just don't friggin' know it. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? He's just everywhere.

It's like it's in the thousands.

Oh, it's multiple, well, five, six thousand, I think they said. It's crazy. Yeah.

Him, the Picaro brothers, and I mean, they were all amazing. I didn't even know this. Chef Picaro played on um Pink Floyd. He he's he, I can't remember what's my thing was Mother or something like that. I had no idea that they that they didn't use Nick Mason. I just assumed that he would, you know what I mean? But you never know. You never know what bands bring in other players because somebody either can't get something right or they're looking for that something extra or or whatever else. But totally amazed by that.

Unreal. Yep, incredible.

All right, brother Mike. You're up. All right, my number seven pick is a band called Jesus Jones. It's a 1991 song called Right Here, Right Now.

I'm driven away, wait it. I'm driving away.

Right here, run it. I don't want to be ride left. What you know, my God from history.

It's basically about the uh fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union. Uh, there's not very many lyrics to it, but it's it's happy in it. I mean, who doesn't like communism to end? You know what I mean? Yeah. Oh Portland, Oregon. Yeah. But no, no, it's just I mean, I first heard the song when it came out back, and then I just assumed he was singing about being with a girl, but then you know, I watched the video, and obviously it was about uh follow communism in uh Eastern Europe. Makes me happy. Perfect. So I mean I thought I like the guitars, you know. Woman on the radio talks about revolution when it's already passed her by, you know.

A woman on the radio talks about revolution when it's already passed her by happy, happy, happy.

It makes you happy. That's what that's awesome. Yeah, watching the world wake up from history. Yeah, exactly. Exact exactly. Yeah, that was what an exceptional song from that era for sure.

Yeah, I mean, that wasn't even really a happy time in my life when the song came out, but years later is when I fell in love with the song. I mean, I'm talking during a certain administration, you know. I used to watch that and get sad with seeing photos of Reagan and and just like, wow, look how far we've fallen. But yeah, do with that as you will. Okay.

So we're gonna go to me, and that's funny because I mean some of these songs are gonna hit us later, some are gonna be right then. Mine, and I'm gonna get it right out of the way, boys. I'll get the tie-in out of the way with my number seven here. And it's it's a song called It's Alright, and it's off of Paul Stanley's solo album, 1978. I was six years old when this came out. Now, I cannot say that I was six when I heard it for the first time, but I can say whatever age I was at when I heard this for the first time, and to this day, this song still kicks me in the ass and is such a well-written friggin' rock and roll tune that I feel like any band could have done this and it would have just been fucking incredible. And talk about uh one of you mentioned a bridge earlier. Um just makes me smile when I hear it. You know, he kicks in with the typical Paul Stanley, oh yeah, I'm not gonna even do it because I suck. But just the way his voice kicks in knew it, and the attitude of the song, it makes me smile and I crank it, and I I have it on like I don't make a lot of playlists out there, but this is probably on everyone I've ever made. It's friggin' incredible.

So speaking of KISS, AJ, uh yesterday was the Kennedy Center Award.

I know. I'm I'm gonna look it up tonight and they'll probably talk about it on PRC. We'll we shall see.

That's what I'm guessing.

Yeah. You know, but I'm curious. I don't I don't even want to know. Don't talk about it now because I haven't even looked it up, so I I don't know who spoke.

Or was it televised yesterday?

No, it happened. It's not gonna be televised for like three weeks, but I'm sure all we have to do is Google it and we'll know who actually was there. So I heard Garth Brooks was gonna be one, but blah blah blah. We shall we shall see. But incredible honors, and I really hope they did something massive for Ace Freely, you know. But all right, there's my kiss connection for the day, and then see you don't go.

Cool. So back in October, and I I believe this is a correct date, but I'd have to do some double checking. But on October 31st, 1993, I took a road trip with a bunch of dudes from Keene State College, and we went and saw Neil Diamond in the round at the Worcester Centrum on October 31st, 1993. And the song that I love most that makes me happy from Neil Diamond is Cracklin' Rosie. I love the version on hot August nights. Play it now!

Play it now, play it now, my baby, that's the rosy make me smile. We've got night. Don't let's dunk. Oh well, Rose and Jack.

You got the way to make I love that song, it just makes me happy. Neil die is. Neil's a cheese, you know. He he lays it on thick, and I love every every ounce of it.

Absolutely. The king of cheese, you think?

Yeah, oh yeah. Perky Peggy loved Neil Daggy. I ate every bit of it. So and uh just a shout out to Dave Haley and his podcast, New Hampshire sports page. You know, he covers high school sports, he gives a lot of the kids, high school kids uh opportunity to kind of get their name out there. And uh he he was a big Neil Diamond fan, and we had a good lot of good times jamming out to Neil.

I think he does some college stuff too.

Some yeah um gave my boy some props when he was playing for sure. Very nice.

I'm happy that my mom got to go see him. Uh I think he played the worst c acoustic arena in the history of mankind in Manchester, but she got to go see him there before she passed, and she was a huge Neil Diamond fan.

Any music in a in a theater that's designed for sports is not gonna sound good.

I don't know. Look at all the arenas we grew up in, though, that sounded amazing. Just whatever they did to that place in Manchester just sucks. It's I've seen I've seen probably ten concerts there, and I probably will never go again.

I saw a circus there and monster trucks. Those probably sounded okay. And that probably sounded as it should have, but uh right, Kev. All right. Next, next up for me is is a guy that you could probably pick anything that he ever did, and I'm talking, of course, about Bob Marley, uh Could You Be Loved, um, off the 1980 album Uprising. But I think most of us our age, we all had Bob Marley's legend, and that's where I learned it from the greatest hits album that came out in '84. You know, it's it's got that reggae beat. It starts with that bass line, and it's just all about positive vibrations, and that's what Marley was about. Um, some people called it reggae disco fusion. I don't know about that, but it's certainly got it's got that groove to it, and it's like everything else that he does, it has a a very positive message and a very positive feel to it, and it just makes me happy.

Nice, yeah, always got the groove to it. Like it's uh it would have been cool to meet him and and see if his like his you know persona just in person was like his music because his music was just laid back, enjoy, and you know.

Oh, yeah. Think about it. I think everything that I've read, I I think he was. I think he was pretty much that chill. Um, yeah, but like you say, a lot of people out there sell an image, and then it's not what they really are. But I don't think that's him though.

Right.

He was definitely like you say, I don't know, but from what I've read, he certainly seemed like that was his lifestyle.

Yeah, the reevaluation.

Right.

Right. Exactly.

All right, Mark, off to you. Okay, uh, this song is this about uh it's a band called Midnight Oil. I'm not sure if they were a one-hit wonder. Uh and this would be that one hit if it is, I wonder. But yes, of course, its beds are burning. It doesn't sound too happy.

How can we dance when our earth is burning? How can we sleep while the beds are burning?

Talk about a badass freaking lead singer. I mean, guy was about 39 feet tall. I mean, he must have been 6'8 or something, though, but uh, you know, it's a song about giving land back to stolen land. I mean, you know, it's it's Australia, as we know, and or well, as I am telling you. They've had they had a few hits midnight or something. Oh, they did. Yeah, I think you're right, now that you mention it, um, David's band Why Not was a why not band song, yeah. Exactly. Yeah, and and a lot of a lot of songs, it's not even just the lyrics that are happy or even the message. Sometimes it's the actual music.

Oh, yeah.

The instrument the instruments. Yeah, of course. Um and uh you know, it's just you know you watch the video, and a lot of these songs are tied into the videos in my with my pics because it actually portrayed the happiness of said songs that I already felt. And uh he's up he now, he's in the desert, he's up there, they have him like blacked out, and he he looks like a shadow and he's doing these tall bald guy little dances, whatever that may be. And uh

Unique to a short guy with hair.

Yeah, well, I I guess. I mean, but I don't ever know.

I don't know whatever happened to uh uh we need like a where are they now kind of thing.

Like soon after they had their popularity, he Garrett, Peter Garrett, he went into politics and and I don't know exactly how deeply, but but that was I think that was what they their motivation was was the what was being done to the aborigines and of course a lot of ecology and whatever else. But yeah, that's so I think he kind of shifted his focus.

Okay. I mean, yeah, Australia was used as a penal colony, wasn't it?

That's how it started, yeah. Well, I mean, it starts white people being there, but the aborigines kind of like were there.

Oh, yeah. So I I the song made me happy. I loved it when uh David Band played it. Andre Godvoot and I used to go. Every time they came to cockatoes, he would look and he would face me and go, cockatoe.

It was just a but it was good memories, right? All right, so we're off to me here. I won't go into political things because every time I seem to mention this guy, it comes up. But this song to me from 1984, all right. I was 12 years old, and it's glory days from Bruce, off born in the USA. There, this song at 12 years old had a very different meaning than it did now. Now is when it makes me happy. And almost every song on it, you know, took off. It's a happy thing to me in a weird way, because it brings tears to my eyes, because it takes me back to that time when I was 12 years old, and it has a sad aspect to it as well, in my eyes, for my life, which I won't get into right now, but no, maybe I will. I was that guy, and I'm not bragging about it because really it's a pretty big diss on myself, but I was that fucking idiot that high school was my heyday. I'm the guy that now pumps your gas, and it really so it hits me in a really weird way. It's just it makes me happy to be back there, and that's where it fucking takes me. So be it to you, Dongo. Very cool, very cool.

And not cool as far as like Dunic is a restaurant. I think, yeah, don't sell yourself short, AJ. You're you're a good man. Yeah, don't sell yourself short, Judge.

You're you're a tremendous slouch.

Too fun.

Well, there was there's a poem uh that when I was at Keen State, uh the professor had had us read this poem. It's called Sunday, Sunday morning by Wallace Stevens, I think it was. And uh when I was 20, 20, 20, 21 years old, I didn't understand that thing in the least bit. And he was like breaking it down and doing all this stuff. But then like years later, it's like, yeah, I get a little life under me, and you start to look at things and hear things differently, and you understand, you know, where some of those lyrics and poems and all that stuff comes from. Absolutely. Uh, when you when you see the analogies and you've lived the analogies, you know, you so you're like, oh, I I get where this guy was saying now. Um, but when you're young and crazy, you know, stupid, you don't you don't understand that stuff. Absolutely.

Yeah, youth is wasted on the young. Right, right.

Yeah, exactly. All right, so back to happiness. There it is. Um we I've used this one a lot, maybe not this particular song, but definitely this artist, and it always circles back to um him being censored, and it's John Denver. I love John Denver. Like every one of his songs makes me happy. I I could name a list of them, but the one that I like is Rocky Mountain High. Yes, um, that chorus, the chorus just gets me, you know.

Colorado Rocky Mountain High. I've seen it raven fire in the sky.

I just love that song. I you know, it's just got the melody, the flow of it, the lyrics. Um, but we always talked about how you know he was brought up in front of Congress. Um, they wanted to censor him because he, you know, one of the lyrics is like we were around the campfire getting high. You know, and who cares if it they it that was the you know, if they were getting high on a substance. But he he said they were getting high off the the beauty and the awe-inspiring view of the of the meteor shower in the mountains, you know, it's just amazing.

But he names the meteor shower as a map, I forget what it's called.

But but may I be very clear that I'm strongly opposed to censorship of any kind in our society or anywhere else in the world. I've had in my experience two encounters with a sort of censorship. Uh my song Rocky Mountain High was banned from many of the radio stations uh as a drug-related song. This was obviously done by people who'd never seen or been to the Rocky Mountains and also had never experienced the elation, the celebration of life, or the joy in living that one feels when he observes something as wondrous as the Perseid meteor shower. On a moonless and cloudless night when there are so many stars that you have a shadow from the starlight. And you're out camping with your friends, your best friends, and introducing them to one of nature's most spectacular light shows for the very first time. Obviously, a clear case of misinterpretation.

You know, he was brought up in that era of the 60s, 70s, so if he partook in a little substance, good for him to shit, right? Exactly. Yeah, I love that, you know. Rocky Mountain, hi.

How can you not be happy when you hear that song? Yeah, it just makes sense.

If you're not a Broncos fan, I I hate the Broncos. It reminds me of the Denver Broncos. I don't like the stadium out there, I don't like their fans. Yeah, other than that, it's a great song.

I don't think Denver was a football fan, but you know.

Well, his last name was Denver, and he's singing about the rock.

Well, his last name wasn't Denver, and I don't know it off the top of my head. Maybe if somebody could Google it, but I didn't know because uh in when I was at Oktoberfest in Germany, everybody was singing uh Country Road, and it's because he has he was from Germany, he's he had a German last name. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. Right Deutschendorf. So he was very German, and that's why they sing uh Country Road. Hope that wasn't at the soccer games, Country Roads at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.

Um and they do it in the soccer games too, Donnie.

Yeah, yeah.

It's a staple for that venue, yeah. Crazy. Yeah, yeah.

I feel like Denver kind of rolls off the tongue easier than Duschendorf.

Yeah, I think so.

Frank J. Russo.

Here's the latest release from Henry John Duschendorf Jr. Yeah.

All right, Kev, that's to you. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna play around a little bit here, and if you don't like it, fuck you. I'm making me happy, and these are songs that make me happy. Um, I'm going I'm going with a montage here. This is sneaking sailing shoes, hey hey Julia, and sneaking Sally through the alley.

And you've got to put on you sailing to Puton, you stay and shoot everyone with stay Hey hey Juliet, we have a crazy sense of human You come back into the room you come here Yon section you tremble Y'all figure you make the tremble And I should like to handle Robert Palmer off his first solo album, he amassed the uh an incredible band.

It was the meters, it was Lil George, it was Alan Toussaint, Bernard Purdy. They these were songs written by him, Lil George, and Alan Toussaint, all separate songs, but they laced them together on the album. Um, the three songs that start off the album, and it's just incredible the way that they did it and how everything works off, you know, one piece works off the next, and it just becomes an incredible piece of music. And and looking into it again because it was such a great band, and he really wasn't proven at that point. He says, I kind of walked in and I was like, you know, it's he says this was all these big black men that were like legends in New Orleans and jazz and whatever else, and and I'm just this white English kid. And he says, We started off, and they're all looking at me like yeah, he's paying the freight, but who is this guy? And he says, eight bars into it. Uh Bernard Purdy, one of the greatest drummers ever, looked over and went, Hey, uh, what'd you say your name was, kid? They were they were impressed by him. And he really he does some vocal gymnastics in the in those songs, and it's just a a joyful collection of music with some some humor involved in in the songs. Um sneaking Sally through the alley, and and that is a little bit about kind of getting caught um by the old lady by the dumpster. Yeah, by the dumpster, exactly. Um so just just fun, and I just love the way that they made one piece out of three songs, and it always impressed me, and it always makes and it's hard to listen to one of them and not all of them.

Right.

Always makes me smile.

All right, brother Mark, that's you. All right, well, I just had a question. Kevin, the drummer, Bernard, was he good looking? He was pretty.

I knew that was coming.

Thanks, for paying it off. Thank you very much.

I got you, he was a pretty fella.

So, anyway, my number five is a very happy song by Robert Plant in 1983 called In the Mood. Yeah.

I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood for a melody, I'm in the mood.

I mean, he was he wasn't out of Zeppelin for that long at that point. You're talking what, four years when after Bonham had passed away. It was just a lot of fun. Um again, it's tied to the video. Part of the reason it makes me so happy. Although, you know, I'm in the mood for a melody. I mean, it's just happy. You watch the video and he has breakdancers on there, and he and he breaks away to this uh brunette girl in this large building running down to see him, and it it was a radio staple in the 1980s, and you guys all know this song, I take it. Of course. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, the guitar sounds very clean and and sharp, if you will.

It's it's it was uh unique for the time, too.

It was kind of avant-garde, I uh is the word that comes to my head, but and I'm I'm not talking about uh, you know, I know this is an uh cast about videos, but it ties into the happiness. So so that's what I have for my number uh five. Is that where I am? Yes.

Do you just curious, Mark? Do you know who the guitarist was?

Although um I can tell you who the drummer was. It was Phil Collins on that song, not in the video, but but that would be a no on the guitar player.

Okay, no, I'm just curious. Hi. I'm Jazz Obrecht, and welcome to my Talking Guitar podcast of a very rare interview with British guitarist and songwriter Robbie Blunt. This conversation was taped on June 22nd, 1985, just after Robbie had finished recording his third Honey Drippers album with Robert Plant, Shaken and Stirred. Their previous album together, The Principle of the Moments, had yielded the hits In the Mood and Big Log, which Robbie co-wrote.

How do you step into that like okay, this guy sang in front of Jimmy Page?

Are you enjoying your uh game with uh Robert Clant? I am not sure. What's the appeal of playing with Land?

And now I mean that that's gonna be kind of daunting.

It's funny because you you watch the video and it just looks like Robert Plant's one of the guys, you know? He doesn't look uh like putting himself out in front or anything.

I mean, look at him now, he he doesn't want to do anything. Like it's I he always kind of seemed that way to me where he just did it, he did his thing with Zeppelin and his little solo bit, and and it was like I'm I don't know, like he always seemed like a class act to me.

Well that's what I'm saying.

That's exactly what I'm saying. He's been putting out albums with Alex and Krause for a couple of years now.

Yes, exactly. He kind of ended genre. Yeah, yeah. Me and Valerie watched that quite some time ago.

Yeah, and she and she's got a just an amazing, amazing voice. Yeah. Um, curious enough, Richie Hayward from Littlefeet actually played drums on that as well as Phil Collins on that album. Oh okay, on the album. Interesting tie-in.

Yes, Mendo. Exactly.

And it was Robbie Blunt and Bob Mayo on guitar. Neither of whom I've ever heard of.

Neither have I.

Not Joe Mustard. All right, there's my mark for you today.

I thought it would be Phil catch-up for you.

All right, Ice Souls. We're to me for five. All right, you for five. This I couldn't leave it off because it still kicks on every once in a while, and I'm just dn done and it's Eye of the Tiger, Survivor. Obviously, we all know it from Rocky III. I wrote down my years, you know, my age during every one of these songs because I was 10 years old when this came out. So that's where it friggin' brings me. An incredible song that you have to sing along to, and it just makes me smile every time I hear it. And that's why I'm picking these songs for my happiness. Yeah, nobody else is up this too.

That's uh Hulk Hogan's original uh it was his music he came out to in the in the you know very beginning when you became.

But I was hoping I was hoping you guys would let me do a kind of double here. Um, and throw along.

You're getting an extra pick?

Well, yes, I am. I'm giving it to myself.

All right, yeah, you're the host, I guess.

Yeah, I get just as happy when I hear Weird Al doing Ryor the Kaiser.

Try the Ryor the Kaiser there on special tonight. If you want, you can have an appetizer. You might like our salami and the livers alright. And then really go well with the Kaiser.

It's just fire the Kaiser.

It's a spectacular parody and it just talk about making you smile, just it's a lot of fucking fun.

I could have done a whole weird album and make you smile.

Oh, absolutely. He's playing at Meadowbrook this summer, actually. Oh, that's thinking it going if I can get tickets.

Yeah, yeah, be a lot of fun. I uh I can't help but when I think of Eye of the Tiger, again, I don't know why Eddie Murphy's at the front of my brain today, but the bit that he did about the little Italian guys coming out of Rocky with Eye of the Tiger. Yeah, yeah, I get it, man. I get it, man. You you think you saw the movie, you're all excited, but or I'll kick your ass.

Oh, you just saw Rocky. Look, little Italian white man. I enjoy Sylvester Sallone's movies too, but I'm getting waiting here to get some can. I'm gonna go see a movie with my friend. Why don't you just go hop in your IRAC Z28 and take your ass home? I'll kick your fucking ass. Then they hear that rocking music.

Hour later, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. He's not gonna make it. A big nigga named Abdullah's hand wrapped around his throat. And a box of juju fruits rammed up his ass. He's not gonna make it.

Just relax. You're not that tough. All right. Uh that's to you, Dongo.

Cool.

Number four.

Yeah. And this one is um, you know, it's metal. And yes, it just I hear this song, and I'm happy that I hear it. You know, you don't hear it on a radio much anymore. So um, but when I you did, I was like, yeah, crank it up, and it's Hallowed Be Thy Name from Iron Maiden. Awesome. Um, probably one of my favorite songs of all time. And and uh I just there's so many changes in this song, but I love each and every change and and you know, verse of this song.

Absolutely incredible song.

Yeah, you mean tempo changes?

Yeah, all kinds of changes. Yeah.

I'm gonna take in my cold cell when the bell begins to chime When the Praise comes to break me the last take a look to the bottom of the left and the wall that I've skilled for the skills of the street.

Some out of the really there and not so I would consider that uh progressive metal almost, right? Yeah. Incredible changes. Oh yeah. Long tune. That's probably my favorite maiden song. Pretty damn close to it. Yeah. It just makes me smile. As it should. Make everyone smile. Damn it.

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Alright, that's number four to you, Kev. Alright, my number four happy song is Give It to Me by Jay Giles.

You got to give it to me. You got to give it to me. You got to give it to me. You got to give it to me. You so slick but such an underrated band.

And that song is, I think, Donnie, one of the early episodes, you said something about maybe I think it was about Duran Duran, but it was like, if your toes aren't tapping, right? You're not alive. And give it to me, just what the rhythm section's doing. If your head's not bopping when you're listening to that, you're a corpse. You're just dead. I mean, and it's just, and Peter Wolf is on his game, and I just I just love it. And it's definitely a happy song as as far as I'm concerned. Um, just got that stanky kind of groove going on. This one, and it's kind of got an outro jam where the congas start playing and the bass play is just doing just doing runs, just like brrrr. And it's just it's awesome. Just awesome. Check it out.

Awesome too.

Check it out. Look it out on your streaming or whatever when we're done, because it's just a you know, head bopping.

No soul if you're not bopping. That was hungry, like the wolf Donnie did that too. It's so true. It's like, come on, how can you not be grooving to this? Right? Awesome pick.

All right, Mark. All right. Well, I have uh a song by Sticks. Um, some people call it the angry man song, it's foolin' yourself, and um the lyrics speak for themselves. Why must you be such an angry young man? Wait, can I sing it? Why must you be such an angry young man?

When you truth quite right to me.

And how can there be such a sinister plan?

Don't worry, we'll we'll put we'll put sticks in over you there.

Okay, yeah, thank you. Please do so. Well, one of my favorite singers.

Tommy Shaw. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's favorite. And he was one of my favorite singers, yeah.

Yeah, it's funny. I've been doing a little research on the whole breakup with Dennis D. Young from uh, you know, it's the early 80s. A lot of ugly wanted to kids there. So yeah, I I think I brought up the the version of with a with an orchestra of you know, probably high school kids. It was fantastic. Yeah. Check it out.

Yeah, it was really good. Yeah, yeah.

That breakup is interesting too. I was gonna go ahead. Oh no, it just it it it just makes you smile, that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, the soloist. But yeah, the breakup you were gonna say.

Oh, I was just gonna say that I'm just so torn on that because some of their greatest songs were were Dennis DeYoung. Yeah. Um, but he just the the show tune stuff. It's like that's one of those things like you know, we talked about Steinman and Bad Out of Hell and the Bonnie Tyler song and whatever else. You just gotta kind of keep like not go full on like Broadway. And that's where I mean, and that's obviously Mr. Roboto is where that's uh where that win out of control as far as like and I get it, you know, because Shaw and the other boys didn't they didn't want to be a Broadway band. Yeah, you know what I mean? We want to rock, we don't want to do, you know Sticks music from the Elder is what that was.

Although that um Mr. Robotto certainly did better than anything.

Or you can do kiss doing Mr. Roboto. Yeah, feed that into AI and see what comes out of it.

Uh the sad thing is, is you can do it. Nice though. Thank you. All right, four to me, and uh this takes me back. I'm 11 years old, and it's Brian Adams Summer of 69. Okay? Classic. Now this takes me back to 1983, but the lyrics of the song, everything about it, makes me smile because here we are on Pastimes at 80s High, our nostalgic podcast. That's exactly what this song does to me, is it takes me back to that year. You know what I mean? 1983, not 1969, but that's when I heard it, and that's when it hit me, and it was just a staple on the radio, and a staple for years. It still is, it's still a fucking kick ass on all the time, you know, and every time I hear it, I'm just I'm shaking my head back and forth with a smile and singing every single word because I know it like the back of my hand. That's that summer of 69 dongo to you.

Yeah, cool. So this one um is gonna be a Bob Seeger tune. It's Hollywood Nights, yeah, 1978. And I just for whatever reason this song comes on and it's just got that like you know, pedal note or something, you know, it's just like she looked at me, you know, the fuck the tune is just amazing.

I'm sorry, that's but I was incredible. You want to talk about a happy song anytime Donnie does the drums or the trumpet or anything, exactly.

Yeah, so I think I like the rhythm section more than anything, but the lyrics are kind of cool too. You know, the lyrics tell the story of a guy meeting a girl and all that kind of stuff, having a good time. But I just love that rhythm section of that song for whatever reason. The just the drummers just chugging away. Yeah, it's got a nice driving driving beat, you know. Yep. And uh, I just picture when I'm listening to that song, I just picture cruising like on a summer night with the windows open, the breeze blowing through the car. I think most people in America can appreciate that that like your car, we're very Americana, is being in your car with the windows down, the radio cranking, and do you get that like you're at peace, you know, when you hear a good song. Incredible. And that's kind of what where that brings me.

Yeah, and you want to know the funny thing isn't going nostalgic and now, Donnie, is why do I hate it now? Meaning, when I say that, this kid was coming through Hannaford the other day with his windows down and his radio cranked to this shit hip hop boom, boom, boom, boom. And I wanted to punch the kid in the chin, okay. However, if he was playing fucking like I wouldn't have to do it, I would have been pumping my hand. I know, but it was the song. It was like if he was playing any of the songs we have talked about, I would have been like giving him the horns and being like, woo-hoo.

But most of the time, when I think back to cruising in a in a vehicle, listening the tunes, it's when your wheels are rolling. Yeah. You're on a long stretch of road where you have the time to just kind of you're not impeding on anybody else, you're kind of in your own world. Yes, you know what I mean. But it's like the Hampton beaches or the Manchester cruise strips where you're everybody's jamming, you're trying to make your music other people's music. That's a little different. Exactly.

That's when you should be punched in the chin.

Um dissecting the music booming out of your car, yeah.

Yes, etiquette, if you will.

Right.

I'm I'm sure back in 1988 or 89, whatever, when you were driving along with Brian Adams cranking in your car through Hannaford, there was probably some 50-year-old dude walking out going, I'm gonna punch that kid in the face.

Yeah, exactly. Back to Hollywood Nights, Don.

Um she was born with a face that would let her get away. He saw that face and he lost all control. Yeah. I mean, wow, didn't we all experience that at one point? Like that girl that just suited you to a T. You saw her face and you were just you knew you were done. Yeah. Whatever she, you know, whatever she said to you, you're like, okay. Exactly. What do you need, honey?

What do you need? It just makes me happy. Right. Awesome. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, Kev, go for it. All right. Let's see. Coming up next, we are we three? Is that where we're at? Correct a mundo. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct a mundo. Correct a mundo. Three. I I just another song that I love. It was originally done by Toots and the May Talls, um, but the specials did it. It's songs called Monkey Man. And just that that that ska skiffle new wave kind of, you know, the that UK late 70s, early 80s that kind of like brought in reggae and punk and all of those things. It was just such a I don't know, it always that genre always spoke to me, but I think the specials just did a great version of Monkey Man. It was uh uh originally written by Toots, and he was just playing in a club, and uh, and he was hot for this girl, and and she liked this big bouncer instead of him. So he wrote the song about hugging on the big monkey man. And it's just it's the song's a riot, and it's got a funk and and reggae soul to it, and it's just a great, great tune. Awesome.

All right, Mark, that's to you. Alright, my number three pick is a band, it's from a band called The Alarm. It's called Hear the Rain in the Summertime. One of my all-time happy songs. I I don't, it's hard to describe. I mean, there's a lot of guitar fills on this song, and is there anything more peaceful than trying to go to sleep? You know, you're having trouble sleeping, and then uh the rain comes in at like 11 o'clock, and it it just it's like a pacifier, if you will, and it's just such a beautiful sound. And yeah, if you look you know, if you've ever seen the video, you they're down on a beach near some docks. And I mean to me the the happiest part of this song is the guitar the the guitar films. The alarm was a great band. Yeah, and uh you know I've had I have several from what three from 1987 um and on my list, and there was a lot of I I guess maybe life was happy at around here back in those days, the 80s. A lot of people were happy. Oh, geez, hence the name of our podcast. But um, but just my number three pick. That song just always made me smile, so nice, yes, and that's why that's important.

I used to love the rain. I had a summer home where we had a cottage and there was no ceiling, it was just roof. And and every time the rain would hit, I loved that sound. The rain hit the roof. It was amazing.

Or hearing it in the car inside of a car, you know what I mean? When you park, you turn the radio off and everything, and you just hear it. It's just a pretty sound soothing.

Well, it is very soothing. It it that that's one of those sounds that connects you to nature because rain and water is life and all that kind of stuff. It it is, it's true. Those kinds of sounds connect you with with the natural world.

Brother David used to play a record that had rain sounds on it.

I was gonna say there are apps out there, and if you have an Alexa, you can have it play thunderstorms or rainstorms to go to sleep. Yeah, um, I really enjoy that. However, Alexa, I don't really give a rat's ass how Pete Davidson and Lil Wayne use Alexa. So stop telling me. Just stop and no, I'm not gonna do Alexa Plus because I'm not giving you any more flipping money. Uh anyway, I've got to the cast. I digress each other.

Going to the dumpster. Alexa is evil.

Okay. Bitch. Bitch by two children. All right. So where are we? Number three to me? Yes. That's right. All right. I'm going back to 1977. If any one of you out there says you can't just kinda swing your head back and forth to this, then so be it. But it's the BGs and it's staying alive. Yeah. And not hear this song.

Just be like, I use my book, I'm a bullish man. Don't turn a top.

You take my just uh grooving right out of the way.

Like I literally look like the guy idiot on the commercials that would get all of a sudden throw that huge Jim Carrey smile on my face. I love it. You know, disco sucks, they used to say, but you know what?

I disagree with that. It didn't suck for the people that were dancing with Hutchins.

Absolutely, and I loved it. Like I still love it, and I think it's a very fun, happy song. And I mean, not that I play many stations that this is gonna kick on nowadays, but when it does it work or whatever, I'm like going through the restaurant, I'm doing the Travolta point, and I love it, and it makes me happy. That's right, damn it. Brent. That's right. And we liked it, damn it. We loved it. Oh man, too funny.

All right, public service announcement. It is also what you should be using for CPR chest compression rate. Ah, yes. Staying live. Dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee, dee. It's a rate of 100 beats per minute.

So we're back to that one now because we did have that in a previous cast, and we write through like eight songs.

And I think we unanimously agreed that uh another one bites the dust also has the same beat, but I would prefer the person that was resuscitating me was not doing another one bites of dust, and would actually choose staying alive. Right. Just personal references. That's a good call, Kev. Regain consciousness to a guy going, and another one's going, and another one, hey, hey, hey, come here, relax.

That's spectacular. All right, dungo.

So my last two are the two that were on the radio as I was driving home today. So nice. These are very common.

Only give number two away right now.

Right. So my number two is off of Deaf Leopard's Pyromania. You knew it was coming, and it's photographed. That's if I hear that intro, the intro is just and then the drums kick in. It's just it's just rock and roll at its purest. And uh it makes me smile.

I knew that when you said you were I had to.

Which was funny. I mean, that's not played all the time on the radio, but it was it was jamming on, I think it was uh when it came out, that was on all the time. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it might have been the the wolf uh or one of the radio stations. I know we were just flipping through the channels and it popped on. I was like, it's a sign, and Alicia was like, No, it's not a sign. Yes, it is right, but but not at that very moment, right? I it was a sign to me that it was coming, I was coming home to do the podcast, and that song was jamming on the radio, and I'm like, that's it.

I'm running with so let me ask you this because I haven't listened to broadcast radio other than when I was in the restaurant business walking through the kitchen. Um, do they they don't even really give tribute to I mean all that mid to late 80s? The hairbands, do they even get, or is it just like classic rock? I don't think that stuff even gets played now. I mean, obviously Def Leopard does because they were huge, but do they play Dachken? Do they play Sabbath?

Do they play some Sabbath, like, but it's rare. And I mean, you have to be on Aussie's Boneyard or Hair Nation to hear more.

So I'm talking about broadcast radio. And it was Richard.

No, that's what I'm saying, Kev. I'm saying you have to be on those stations to hear if you want to hear, you know, Unchain the Night, or you know what I mean? Like, yeah.

Well, that's that's why I stream because I can't listen. There's something about the morning radio shows that make me want to knock teeth out. Yeah.

Oh no, I mean I'm telling you, Kevin, like Rock One O One, they have their their commercial breaks, or at least w till I found 99-1 the bone, which is out of you know, Conquered Henneker or whatever, but they play a lot of very hard rock.

Alright, yeah, that's number two to you, I believe.

Oh, right. So one of the things that figured into my list was when something musically happens that's just like it hits you. Um again, not being a musician, I don't necessarily always understand how these songs are put together, but when something magical happens, it kind of hits you. Um and and that leads me to a 1956 song done by Richard Barry, made very popular by the Kingsmen in 1963. Louie Louie was actually a great song. Hell yeah. And it got out of control because they couldn't understand what they were saying, so the FBI investigated them, they canceled the song. But I tell you that because Toots and the May Talls did a cover of that song that I don't even know what happens. I can't even figure out what happens in that song, but it's it's musically magical. It's like I don't you just you have to listen to it, and it's just like you can't even keep track of the instruments and and what's I can't even identify some of the instruments. But it is absolutely joyous and moving, and obviously you know the tune because you know Louie Luke. Of course, and and it's just great, it's just one of the happiest feelings I ever get listening to music because it blows your mind.

And the fact that it's that deep that I would never even consider that being that deep. It's just me grooving to the music. But you said they canceled it for a bit.

Oh, yeah, when the Kingsman did it in '63. Yeah, yeah. The FBI investigator, you don't know that story? Oh, that's great. Oh, that's a great story. That's what I'm saying.

That's I just I'm like, Louis, Louis.

Yeah, well, because the and the lyrics are very simple, and it's actually Louis was the bartender for the guy that wrote it, and and so that's where and he was just talking about the lyrics are him as a sailor going across the sea to see his girl or whatever else. But because when the Kings men did it, I think they were hungover, and and he was like, and there were some other issues, sound recording, so you really couldn't hear the lyrics, and so somebody misheard the lyrics, thought that it was lewd back in 1963. So there was a huge investigation. They stopped, they banned the song. The FBI investigated the band to see if they were um what do they call it? Um explicit? I don't know. No, no, no, no. That they were like trying to bring down the country.

Oh like like social deviant or something. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly. But I mean, all of this, all of the versions of the song are great, but there's something in the Toots version that just like I said, I can't even I lose track of what instruments are being played. It's in the Manitals. I get a lot of it.

Mayles Maytals.

I know that's why I'm coming up with Matthew.

So is Mightol, and so is everything.

This is gonna be a big edit. But Kevin, you've mentioned these guys before, and we got the name right, so we'll run with that.

They are they are fantastic, one of my one of my favorite bands.

Awesome. Absolutely, yeah. Oh man. Okay.

Where do you, Mark?

Yes, I'm at number two, brother. And uh this song it makes me so friggin' happy. It's called Love Will Find a Way, 1987, by the rock group, yes. Yes, yes. Anyway, there the video is they're they're out in front of a uh a uh jet airplane and whatnot, but love will find a way if you want it to. It's just their harmonies, their harmonies just go deep down into my soul. Oh, they're incredible.

Nice.

I've ever heard in my life, and and uh yeah. Just it's it just makes me really very pleased and I'm wanting to sing it. I'm trying to do it. Of course I want to sing it, of course I want to sing it, AJ, but I will not. I've already been banned from singing, but I'm gonna come out with some songs that I'm gonna record, I'm gonna send to all you pencil neck geeks, and you will like my voice when I actually put my mind to it. But uh yes, just an extremely happy song. It was big on the radio back in these times, and uh you know, yes, it was huge in the 70s and 80s. Yeah.

Yeah.

So incredible song.

Anderson had Anderson had such a unique voice, such a unique voice, and he was up in that register that I I couldn't get to unless you hit me in the back.

Oh no, he's like I wouldn't say soprano or anything, but he's up there.

Yeah, he's up there, and that guitar bit again, Trevor Rabin, who was um Buggles, he just that that guitar part is so bizarre and wonderful going into that. I don't, I mean, obviously, I can barely figure out an open chord, but I bet if you tried it, you'd probably be a little bit confused as well. That's just there's something happening that's just different.

Number two to me, and I will be brief as we have been ranting left and right here, but this song comes from 1981 when I was nine years old, and this song makes me smile left and right, and it's lover boy. Everybody's working for the weekend. Yeah, and it's just working for the weekend to get the name out there properly. But fucking hey, man, was this song just so much fun? And and the irony is, is I was nine, I was not working for the weekend, but it just always hit me later on. Uh, Mark and Dave, you guys did this, or you know what I mean there when I say it like that. White Lightning did this song, and they did it good. Yeah, and you mean why not, AJ? No, I mean White Lightning, brother. I played it, yes, you imbezzolic image. I don't remember playing it, but okay. I'll show you the Guilford concert when you guys do it. It's so much fun, and it's just, you know, they're basically when they say working for the weekend, they don't mean you're scheduled Saturday and Sunday. They're saying you're fucking, you know. This is a damn fun song, and if you don't groove to it, that's that. Donnie, go like I'm just I'm getting my shit done with quick.

Oh, I love that song.

Yeah, incredible.

Yeah. The keyboards, I mean, that was everything.

Mike Reno's red pants.

I still kill that.

You gained 43 ones.

You're still trying to wear it.

You still gotta perseverate on that. That was a that's a good tune to see if it was you.

Yes.

What a great song, though. Dongo, that's number one to you.

Nice. So, this one I did hear on the way home. You will hear it probably once a day on radio stations all across the country. You'll hear it on streaming. I don't care, it's a cheesy song, it's overplayed, but I love it, it makes me happy, and it's don't stop bleeding. Ah, it was on my list, Donnie. I have to have it. You have to have it. If that song turns on, I'm reaching for the volume, I'm turning it up, and I'm gonna sing along. Just a small town girl.

She took the Minat Tango.

It's don't stop believing, baby. Yes, it's a song, it's a staple, it's Americana, it's my happy place.

It was a fatigue song for me that I now crank every time since I podcasting it. I love it. And you know what? My kids, well, they're now 22, but just three years ago, whenever it was, they were in New York on their senior class trip. And here's a fucking thing of beauty, Bill, and that is that they were in a huge restaurant, you know, whatever venue having their meal, and Don't Stop Believing came on. And some I'm gonna come to tears here, actually. But just to watch the whole class singing this song out loud, every word, okay. This is a song from what? What is this? Friggin' 83. Uh, I mean eighty three, I believe. Um 81. 81, okay. And 40 years later, my kids and the entire class are singing every word to this in a venue in New York City on their class trip. What does that tell you about a happy song and a song that has fucking meaning? Yeah. So go ahead uh post Malone and let's see what they're singing in 2050. Right, right, right. You know? Yeah. Anyway, great pick, Dongo. Yeah, awesome. Happy to do it. Mind.

All right. Well, you know what? You can boot me if you want, but I think this warrants the whole second half of Abbey Road because just like Sneaking Sally through the alley, it's all intertwined. It's really just one piece of music, and it gives me such joy that I couldn't pick one piece out of it. From You Never Give Me Your Money, Sun King, Mean Mr. Mustard, Polythene Pam, Golden Slumbers, carry that weight, and then it goes into the end, and it's just like it's it's it's uh epic, it's a it's a journey, and it's up and down, and it just it just makes you happy. And I just feel like that is always been to me one piece of music. Um it was the last thing they did, even though Let It Be was released after Abbey Road. They actually recorded Abbey Road, um, was the final thing they did because they were they were they knew they they knew it was over, at least for a while. I don't think it was gonna be planned that it was the end all of everything, but they just decided, well, if we're gonna do one more, let's make it great. And they did, they made an absolute great album. Yeah, and I know they weren't necessarily our era, but they influenced everything in our era. I mean, you talk to Ozzie, Kish, any of these bands, they'll tell you right up that it came from the Beatles, or as a lot of people refer to them, the Featles, because they were the fetus of music. They literally did everything from backmasking to multi-tracking to all of those things. I mean, and then you think back. I mean, everybody like them or hate them, when you look back, it was seven years. It was 1963 to 1970. That's all they existed in the world. I mean, they played together since they were, I think, 14 or 15, Paul and John. But it was seven years, 13 albums, and what the f I mean they changed right, right?

Everything. Do you think that's like the epit epitome of uh me meteoric? Like it's so much.

So that's how it was all back then. Like so many bands having it pumping out three, four albums a year.

Yeah, live from 60. I'm sorry, Kevin. They didn't know. No, that's exactly what it was. Go ahead. That's exactly yeah. I mean, because they couldn't hear them playing their own instruments. I mean, I mean, do you hear nothing but I don't know what these psycho psychotic girls were doing. I mean, I don't know when I see a hot girl, I don't scream and just freak out and faint. I don't know about you guys, but must be some kind of bringing massive formation psychosis or something.

I mean, that was probably the first like example of viral, you know, like viral that just like every man the advent of TV, and you know, so it was widespread, and it was just like from zero to a thousand in rapid time. Perfect example couldn't handle it, you know. It's like too much too fast, kind of thing.

Like, wow, viral is perfect because think about it. Every fucking teenage boy or 20s in 20s, you know, male went, that's what I want to do for Olivia. Absolutely, exactly. I want every one of these women screaming for me, yeah, yeah. And God, how did I miss that?

The fan reaction was interesting because that was like that was a thing, you know, the the screaming and the fainting.

You would think they would scream for them when they hit the stage and maybe the first song or two, but like 40 minutes into the show, I mean, again, and they were, you see the video of them, they were passing out and getting passed over the wall and and whatever else. Um, but yeah, musically it sucked for them because one of the big things is they enjoyed from all their years in Germany and whatever else, they enjoyed being the best band around. And you can't be that when you can't hear your own flipping monitors because the girls are screaming, and then they say, like those Shea Stadium shows that you see, they were playing through the bullhorns. Yeah, that must have sounded absolutely horrendous. Yeah. I mean, the stuff we hear off the board.

Also, if you go back to Ed Sullivan, that could also be the first viral incident of sluts. Uh it's the first time all the ladies of that page were like right. That's when the whores come out shaking their beings for all the men.

So it's like, yeah. Uh dear love. Everything hit at the right time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, Mark, I think we're at you, right?

Yes, number one to me. And this it's um Fractured Mirror by Ace Freely. This is my tie-in to kiss. This song has always made me so friggin' happy. And it's just, it starts off, it it's a progression of guitars that um the sound that Ace Freely got with Eddie Kramer on the beginning of this with the uh he's doing like an arpeggio, and uh, it's so clean and just I I but then when he's playing guitar, it sounds like a continuation of a different type of bell. That's how clean it is, but sharp and everything. And it it reminds me, it always reminded me of walking through Littleton as a very little boy in such an idyllic town. Um, where you know, you you would see on TV back in the day, just going walking up Union Street, going by my neighbor Ray Hopkins, waving at me.

Um just the guy by La Fam is telling you to keep off the grass. But yeah, it just it's my favorite Ace Raleigh song of all time. Perfect, brother, and it makes you happy, yeah, and that's why it's important.

Yeah, and again, it like I said earlier in the show, that it doesn't have to have lyrics to make me happy.

Oh, so I played the shit out of that. Remember, we talked about you know how everybody had the one their favorite kiss of the solo albums, and mine was mine was Aces, and I just love that. Yeah, great, great piece of music.

Anywho, awesome pick, brother. Thank you. All right, I guess I'm wrapping it up here at number one, and you the three of you will know the song, and I've utilized it many a times before. And is it a happy song out of the gate? No, but for me it is, and that's Tesla's getting better, it's from 1986, I was 15 years old, living in the town I have spoken of multiple times, and not in a happy place in my life, and this song carried me through that because I kept telling myself it was gonna get better, and now when I hear this song, every single time tears dump out of my eyes, and call me a pussy all you want, but it just it my hair stands up, it hits me so heavy duty, and that is the definition of a happy song to me, man. And I love it.

But all in all I know it's getting better every day. It's getting better every day.

And that's it. And when they play it live, I go to the bar so that I'm not sitting next to you bawling your eyes out. Oh yeah, yeah, you were there, right? I forgot. Yeah. Oh, that actually happened. I didn't bail on him. There wasn't enough people around to think we were a couple.

We yeah, because we we literally had our own Budweiser suite for the two of us. But yeah, man, I it does, it does it to me every time. It was like I lived in that shithole, which I actually do have some great memories there, but just living there and hearing this song, you know, 1987. Is that what I said? No, I can't remember, but you said 86. Yeah, okay, whatever. It was 86, 87. That's pretty close. So late 80s, mum brought yeah, mum brought me to the store in Brattleboro, Vermont. I got the album, I can't mechanical resonance. Hopefully, I said that correctly. Great album, got it, and yeah, just great album, man. The whole fucking album, there's like maybe one skip on it.

Yeah, that's a good album.

And but that song, man, when it kicked in, it's like here I am living in this place. Dongo, you remember marching down into those woods to the Connecticut River. Yeah, like that's why I say there's great memories there because it was just wow, like it was beautiful nature and country. Yeah, but the people I wanted to wring their necks left and right. And but it was just, and I did here and there, but I met a lot of good people too, but just fucking A man, it got better. Well, for a while, and that will be that awesome, boys. All right, boys. I think that wraps it up. Yes, yeah, if anyone has any other comments. So awesome, everyone out there. Thank you so much for listening. You you have no idea how much we appreciate it. So incredible to see all the downloads. Thank you so much. The way that helps move us up that chain is so awesome. So please give us the foot those five-star reviews. The comments you keep giving really help us out, and we could not appreciate it more. So thank you so much. Dongo, thank you. Thank you, AJ. Thanks, everybody.

Kevin, thank you. Thank you, and stay happy out there.

Yes, Mark, brother, thank you. Oh, you're welcome, and uh yes, stay happy, and and yeah, it's starting out to be a cold winter up our way, but we can get through it.

So it's always ended before.

Yeah, right. And I am AJ, and we are out of the way.