I love this song by the Barenaked Ladies : listen here! (If I Had A Million Dollars) :thumb: Puts a smile on my face every time I hear it :D

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Thank You For The Music HAS to have a place on this thread :thumbs: I can't even leave it at a link, I have to sing it :D

I'm nothing special, in fact I'm a bit of a bore
If I tell a joke, you've probably heard it before
But I have a talent, a wonderful thing
'cause everyone listens when I start to sing
I'm so grateful and proud
All I want is to sing it out loud

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Mother says I was a dancer before I could walk
She says I began to sing long before I could talk
And I've often wondered, how did it all start?
Who found out that nothing can capture a heart
Like a melody can?
Well, whoever it was, I'm a fan

So I say
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

I've been so lucky, I am the girl with golden hair
I wanna sing it out to everybody
What a joy, what a life, what a chance!

Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
What would life be?
Without a song or a dance what are we?
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me
So I say thank you for the music
For giving it to me

Satisfy My Soul - Bob Marley
What I like about you - The Romantics
Shiny Happy People - REM

Great thread to start the New Year!

Baby, You make me wanna "Shout." That drummer said, "A little bit louder now!"

I would buy you a green dress, but not a real green dress, that's cruel... :roflmao:

OMG! how much happiness can my heart handle? I mean, To know, know, know, her . . . to love, love, love him. I remember ALL of this stuff! Not quite as well as my older brother, but I had some friends whose sisters and brothers had the record players and we went to their homes and had mini sock-hops of our own at home. This is real life and being alive and being kids. Nothing anywhere's near the iPod generation. Sometimes there were six, seven, or eight of us playing records, drinking lemonade and doing the Stroll or Pony or Wiggle. True love :love: blossomed all afternoon, until suppertime :fone: :boohoo: and everyone dispersed back to their respective homes!

^^^ that vid was removed due to copyright so here is another one of the same song :thumb:
I'm Still A Guy by Brad Paisley always gets me grinning, and I want to dance and sing every time I hear The World Now all I need is for someone to come along and sing it to me :D

It's so ridiculous it makes me laugh. Probably belongs in the "worst music video ever" thread, but anyway. Tunak Tunak Tun

That originally linked vid (in the quote box) was removed. Bummer! Here's a another turn at Dancing in the Street Woof, WOOF, WoOF, wOOf, woof, wwooF!(ditto)

Did you notice in the upper right corner of the video, at 2m:12s there is a five pulse flashing white rectangle?
Here's the factoid that makes that little trivia relevant.
In the early times of network television, many affiliates would break away from the feed program to air their local advertising. Since it was done manually the network would manually send a visual signal to the local broadcaster that meant in fifteen seconds the network will broadcast its own advertising to the national affiliates whom wished to air the feed. The local affiliate could then break from the network feed to air their own local programming for precisely one minute.
Sometimes the local station would fuck up and forget to switch on to their own commercials, or worse, switch late to their own programming. That is why we so frequently saw a few seconds of the network commercials that got cut mid sentence for the corny car commercials and:spam:that would always run beyond the return time and cause us to miss so many seconds of the program we wanted to see! :fix:
That was before the discovery that the technology could have an electronic signal embedded in the broadcast band that would automatically turn on the local affiliate's playback machines to air local adverts, and then automatically return the local affiliate's to the network upon a specifically engineered end signal. ON TIME!

Citrus, I knew some of that ^^^ :thumb: Or at least something like that. There used to be a flashing circle or something in the corner on movies, indicating it was soon time to change the reel. I also remember there were two stripes, smaller than the square in the vid you posted, and I always used to watch out for it. I think that was a similar thing whereby it showed the commercial break was on its way :nod:

Happy Hour by The Housemartins (with a line-up of Paul Heaton later from The Beautiful South and Norman Cook, later to become Fatboy Slim) is an excellent, excellent song that has to have a place on this thread. The video is worthy of nearly 3 minutes of anyone's time, and both song and video take me back to some very happy times in my life :D Love it!

Happy Talking by Captain Sensible is another that brings with it great memories!

Happy talking talking happy talk
Talk about things you'd like to do
You've got to have a dream
If you don't have a dream
How ya gonna have a dream come true?

VERY interesting Citrus. Good man. :thumb:

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours Listen quick before the copyright people remove the song, they seem to be removing vids faster than they're posted at the moment.

Here's another link, just in case

There's a nice (albeit long) live version of the same song here

I don't want to but I love that song^^^

I didn't want to either when I first heard it, but it was played over and over on the radio and I found myself singing along to it. Then it got me and I was hooked :eek: