Head's Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cold Hard Bitch - Jet
You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos
Love In A Trashcan - Raveonettes
Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
Outtatheway - The Vines
Manhattan - Cat Power
'Shindig'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Head's Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Cold Hard Bitch - Jet
You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos
Love In A Trashcan - Raveonettes
Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
Outtatheway - The Vines
Manhattan - Cat Power
Left Hand Free -Alt-J
Someday Baby - RJ Burnside
Do What You Wanna - Ramsey Lewis
Mambo Italiano - Club des Belugas
Spanish Grease aswell as Fried Neck Bones... - Willie Bobo
Ghostwriter -RJD2
Dancin' - The Tubes and Olivia Newton John
Man Like That - Gin Wigmore
Hey Ya! - Outkast
For starters. I've also got music that isn't bouncy but what I call "soaring" and I find uplifting and joyful. I'll try to list some of that later.
Ain't Nothing Wrong With That, Robert Randolph and the Family Band: [link]
She's My Man, Scissor Sisters: [link]
Blame It on the Girls, Mika: [link]
Tattooed Love Boys, The Pretenders: [link]
Kissed It, Macy Gray: [link]
Planetary Go, My Chemical Romance: [link] (although this whole album works pretty well for this purpose)
Why Can't I Be You - The Cure Flashlight - Parliament Funkadelic My Prerogative - Bobby Brown Victorious - Panic! At the Disco
Thanks, everyone! Keep it coming if you like!
I will go through my music collection and contribute some of my own.
For sheer bouncy silly gloom-be-gone good cheer, my go-tos are both by Jonathan Richman:
I Have Come Out To Play and Rooming House On Venice Beach.
Astro Zombies! Either the original by The Misfits, or the cover by MCR.
What songs make you chair dance, or bop around while you're cleaning or doing laundry? I want to put together a playlist to listen to when I'm stressed or depressed or being self-critical.
Very old school: Three dog night's Joy to the world; Elton John's Crocodile rock. Bruce Springsteen's Viva Las Vegas
Slightly less old school: Cobra Starship's Guilty pleasure
The Dirtbombs — Motor City Baby
MCR - Thank You For The Venom (Live, Warped Tour)
Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (which I was actually bed dancing to while I was in labor)
Bob Seger - Rock N Roll Never Forgets