UPBEAT SONGS

[regfootball]

What songs never fail at making you tap the steering wheel or break out into spontaneous air drums or air guitar?

can be rock, dance, whatever....EVEN country

[regfootball]

GNR Welcome to the Jungle

[regfootball]

Journey- Be Good To Yourself and Higher Place

[regfootball]

George Strait - Heartland

[Croc]

J. Geils Band, "Centerfold"

[FAPTurbo]

Motley Crue's " Wild Side"

[Sixty8panther]

This list changes abotu as often as I change my underwear,

but here's today version:

My tradition is to post lists of 13 so here goes:

1. Ozzy Osourne: CRAZY TRAIN

2. Jon-Bon-Jovi: COWBOY

3. Golden Earing: RADAR LOVE

4. Andrea Boccelli & Sarah Brightman: CON TE PARTIRO (time to say goodbye)

5. Boston: SMOKIN'

6. A million Beatles songs: (listening to "Obladi, Oblada, Life Goes On" right now)

7. Pussycat Dolls: BEEEEP

8. Johnny Cash: THE MAN COMES AROUND

9. Johnny Cash: CADILLAC (one piece at a time)

10. Daddy Yankee: GASOLINA

11. Guns-&-Roses: SWEET CHILD OF MINE

12. Europe: FINAL COUNTDOWN

13. Pink Floyd: THE WALL (whole album)

[capriceman]

Hank williams Jr. - Family Traditions (funniest country song ever!)

also

Reel Big Fish - Lets Go smoke somw pot

TI - What you know about that (I hate it but its got a good beat)

Ludacris - Growing Pains

Led Zepplin - Black Dog and - Rock and roll

Lynard Skynard - Freebird and Simpleman

The Doors - Break on through

Wierd taste on music isnt it?

Edited June 24, 2006 by capriceman

[sciguy_0504]

4. Andrea Boccelli & Sarah Brightman: CON TE PARTIRO (time to say goodbye)

Sarah Brightman is pretty good. Her latest album has a strong Middle Eastern vibe and it's amazing. I bought her concert DVD and the songs are even better life.

[the_yellow_dart]

CDs I always turn up and get pumped to:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say I am, that's what I'm not.

Death From Above 1979 - You're a woman, I'm a machine. (middle sig photo)

K-os - Joyful Rebellion. (left sig photo)

Goldfinger - Stomping Ground.

NoFX - War on Errorism.

[Sixty8panther]

Sarah Brightman is pretty good.  Her latest album has a strong Middle Eastern vibe and it's amazing.  I bought her concert DVD and the songs are even better life.

Hmmm.... sounds interesting,

I told my G/F to play CON TE PARTIRO at my funeral if she's around

and I'm not, but it's gotta be that version, with Sarah Brightman.

[NOS2006]

7. Pussycat Dolls: BEEEEP

10. Daddy Yankee: GASOLINA

Good ones. I'll add with stuff of the same genre:

Beyonce and Jay Z - Deja Vu

Cassie - Me and You

Cherish, Sean Paul, YoungBloodz - Do it to It

E-40 - You and Dat

Field Mob and Ciara - So What

Fort Minor - Where'd You Go

Lil Jon - Snap Ya Fingas

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous

Ray Ray - Tell 'Em What They Wanna Hear

Shakira and Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

Tone Tone - Love the Way She Doin' It

Young Dro - Shoulder Lean

Then again, just about any song makes my foot go, even if I don't like it lol. But, I've got to admit that the stuff on Tokyo Drift soundtrack is REAL good.

[balthazar]

Here's just 6:

Breadfan - Metallica

Problem Child - AC/DC

The Hand That Feeds - NIN

Hot Rod Man - Tex Rubinowitz

Black & White Thunderbird - The Delicates

Dragster - Johnny Fortune

[Bimmer325]

I'll represent for the techno/trance/house/euro fans...

Music is My Life- DJ Dean

Today is Tomorrow (Club Mix)- DJ Tatana

In My Arms (Tocadisco Remix)- Mylo

Sara Perche Ti Amo (Club Mix)- Eu4ya

Solar Storm- Mainfield

Because I Love You (Power Hour Remix)- Mark Oh

Jealousy (Club Mix)- DJ Shog

Piece of Heaven- Cascada

[mustang84]

All of these put me in a pretty good mood

Surrender - "Never"

Slaughter - "Gave Me Your Heart"

Ratt - "Round and Round"

Quiet Riot - "Slick Black Cadillac"

Kix - "Layin' Rubber"

Judas Priest - "Johnny B. Goode"

Journey - "Only the Young"

John Parr - "Running Away with You" (song at the end of the movie Running Man)

Guns N' Roses - "Get in the Ring"

Great White - "Stick It"

Giuffria - "Dance"

Firehouse - "Hold Your Fire"

Extreme - "Teacher's Pet"

Europe - "The Final Countdown" (gotta go with Sixty8 on this one...everytime I hear those rockets fire up, it brings back memories of late nights at studio last year when they blared this song at midnight the night before a project was due)

Def Leppard - "Animal"

Danger Danger - "Rock America"

Corey Hart - "Waiting for You"

Cats in Boots - "Shotgun Sally"

Cheap Trick - "Mighty Wings"

Bon Jovi - "99 in the Shade"

Winger - "In the Heart of the Young"

Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher" and "Top of the World"

[regfootball]

All of these put me in a pretty good mood

Surrender - "Never"

Slaughter - "Gave Me Your Heart"

Ratt - "Round and Round"

Quiet Riot - "Slick Black Cadillac"

Kix - "Layin' Rubber"

Judas Priest - "Johnny B. Goode"

Journey - "Only the Young"

John Parr - "Running Away with You" (song at the end of the movie Running Man)

Guns N' Roses - "Get in the Ring"

Great White - "Stick It"

Giuffria - "Dance"

Firehouse - "Hold Your Fire"

Extreme - "Teacher's Pet"

Europe - "The Final Countdown" (gotta go with Sixty8 on this one...everytime I hear those rockets fire up, it brings back memories of late nights at studio last year when they blared this song at midnight the night before a project was due)

Def Leppard - "Animal"

Danger Danger - "Rock America"

Corey Hart - "Waiting for You"

Cats in Boots - "Shotgun Sally"

Cheap Trick - "Mighty Wings"

Bon Jovi - "99 in the Shade"

Winger - "In the Heart of the Young"

Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher" and "Top of the World"

oh yeah, you know mustang would jump in on this one.

John Parr-St.Elmo's fire - big time upbeat and TWO HEARTS from the movie American Anthem

Def Leppard Pyromania and Hysteria nearly the whole albums are finger tappin tunes

Meatloaf usually can produce some good upbeat tunes. both Bat Out of Hell albums, I would do anything for love, out of the frying pan and into the fire, wasted youth, everything louder than everything else...

Danger Danger - Rock America is definitely the exact sort of upbeat song I was thinking of. that whole Danger Danger album is awesome. Turn it On, Naught Naughty, Bang Bang

Cheap Trick Mighty Wings is a forgotten CT tune, but its about as upbeat as it gets. From the top gun soundtrack, after you hear this song, you want to fly high in planes and shoot stuff down. One of Cheap Tricks best songs. Kenny Loggins Danger Zone is very upbeat also.

Van Halen upbeat tunes- yes like mentioned above, also Dance the Night Away, Dreams, Why Can't This be Love, Can't Stop Loving You, Humans Being, This Dream is Over

Sammy and Dave each have a great deal of solo upbeat songs.......which I would need to research properly to list them here

Edited June 25, 2006 by regfootball

[regfootball]

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Diving For Pearls - Gimme Your Good Loving

Mitch Malloy - Anything At All (MAJOR UPBEAT!!!!!-give it a listen!!!)

[regfootball]

KYLIE MINOGUE

Better The Devil You Know

Shocked

Step Back In Time

Edited June 25, 2006 by regfootball

[regfootball]

Andy Taylor - I Might Lie

Kane Roberts- Outlaw, Fighter, If This Is Heaven, Twisted

Asia- Heat of the moment, Don't Cry, Go, Day Like These

Blondie- Dreaming, Maria, Hanging On the Telephone, ...far too many others

Brooks and Dunn - Only In America, My Maria, countless others

No Doubt - Just A Girl

Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns

Fire Inc. (from Streets Of Fire) Tonight is What it Means to Be Young and Nowhere Fast (both will get you pumpin!)

Edited June 25, 2006 by regfootball

[regfootball]

TECHNOTRONIC - this beat is technotronic

Edited June 25, 2006 by regfootball

[Satty]

Beyonce and Jay Z - Deja Vu

Cassie - Me and You

Cherish, Sean Paul, YoungBloodz - Do it to It

E-40 - You and Dat

Field Mob and Ciara - So What

Fort Minor - Where'd You Go

Lil Jon - Snap Ya Fingas

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous

Ray Ray - Tell 'Em What They Wanna Hear

Shakira and Wyclef Jean - Hips Don't Lie

Tone Tone - Love the Way She Doin' It

Young Dro - Shoulder Lean

Soooo.....do you and your white friends listen to this stuff while wearing your Hollister and Abercrombie, sitting in your parent's lake house sipping Michelobs? Major tool music, sorry NOS.

[trinacriabob]

3. Golden Earing: RADAR LOVE

4. Andrea Boccelli & Sarah Brightman: CON TE PARTIRO (time to say goodbye)

Pantho, some good ones there:

3. Radar Love - nice and white trashy, great driving stuff

(what about "Hot Rod Lincoln" then? I haven't a clue who did that)

4. Con Te Partiro - love it, fantastic, uplifting. I love all his $h!.

Let's add a few black female vocalists who kick ass and help nudge the speedometer upward:

Tina Turner - "Private Dancer" and "Break Every Rule" - title cuts are the better ones

Pointer Sisters - "Neutron Dance" - heard it 2x while in Florida last month

(Someone stole my brand new Chevrolet

and the rent is due

and I've got no place to stay...oooh ooooh)

Patti LaBelle - "Lady Marmalade"

(Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?)

Aretha Franklin - "Freeway of Love - Pink Cadillac"

(Could you be a vision in white...how'd you get your pants so tight?)

Crystal Waters - "Gypsy Woman - She's Homeless"

(Dadadee dadada

dadadee dadada

dadadee dadada

...and on and on and on...

and a whole boatload of synthesizer)

[Satty]

4. Andrea Boccelli & Sarah Brightman: CON TE PARTIRO (time to say goodbye)

Nothing including Sarah Brightman can ever be dissed. Simply an amazing voice.

Anywhoo...one of my favorite upbeat songs of all time is Angel Pumping Gas by The Lindsey Pool. Also most Postal Service songs (The District Sleeps Alone Tonight=musical perfection) and Donkey Punch songs (Oops, My bad is hilarious) would make it onto my list. Just about anything classical (Beethoven, Mozart, etc) does wonders for the psyche.

[Croc]

classical music sends me into fits of rage. ditto for that one REM song that just goes on and on and on and never seems to end so you start hallucinating and swerving to hit small animals and realizing you are screaming at the top of your lungs for god to kill you now and then you finally change the radio station.

[balthazar]

>>"what about "Hot Rod Lincoln" then? I haven't a clue who did that"<<

Many... Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen being one of the better known versions.

[C.H.U.D.]

A bunch of metal none of y'all have heard of.

[Satty]

ditto for that one REM song that just goes on and on and on and never seems to end so you start hallucinating and swerving to hit small animals and realizing you are screaming at the top of your lungs for god to kill you now and then you finally change the radio station.

That one REM song? Dont you mean every REM song? I swear if I hear Man on the Moon or Losing my Religion ever again, someone is going to be severely maimed.

[NOS2006]

Soooo.....do you and your white friends listen to this stuff while wearing your Hollister and Abercrombie, sitting in your parent's lake house sipping Michelobs?  Major tool music, sorry NOS.

ha My parents don't have a lake house and I don't drink beer. :AH-HA_wink:

[trinacriabob]

and I don't drink beer. :AH-HA_wink:

Nice to see another person who has no problem proclaiming that...even having tried several brands, almost all of them taste nasty.

[the_yellow_dart]

To those of you who don't like beer: Try Stella Artois. If you don't like that, you definately don't like beer. It is considered by most of the beer drinkers I know to be the best brand they've ever tried.

[NOS2006]

Major tool music, sorry NOS.

Agree to disagree, sorry Satty.

[NOS2006]

Nice to see another person who has no problem proclaiming that...even having tried several brands, almost all of them taste nasty.

I know; I feel the same way. Everybody says, "Well, it's an acquired taste." So.. are they saying I'll have to drink it over and over, without liking it anyway, and maybe I'll like it after having it continuously?

That's almost like saying I should eat brussel sprouts for three days straight, then maybe I'll like those, too.

[76ChevyTrucker]

Well lets see for me.

"Love About Sundays" Craig Morgan

"Sweet Home Alabama" Lynyrd Skynyrd

"My Home's in Alabama" Alabama

"Country Boy Can Survive" Hank Williams, Jr.

"China Grove" Doobie Brothers

"Magic Carpet Ride" Steppenwolf

"Born To Be Wild" Steppenwolf

"Enter Sandman" Metallica

"Simple Man" Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (Angry American)" Toby Kieth

"Have You Forgotten?" Daryl Worley

"Devil Went Down To Georgia" Charlie Daniels Band

"Boozin' My Troubles Away" Charlie Daniels Band

"I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song) Brad Paisley

"Welcome To Hell" Trace Adkins

"Swing" Trace Adkins

"Every Light In The House Is On" Trace Adkins

"Chrome" Trace Adkins

"In My Neighborhood" Craig Morgan

"Rocky Mountain Way" Joe Walsh

"Why Can't This Be Love?" Van Halen

"I'm Gonna Be Somebody" Travis Tritt

"Like A Rock" Bob Seger

"Old Time Rock & Roll" Bob Seger

"Turn The Page" Bob Seger

"Turn The Page" Metallica

"Black Water" The Doobie Brothers

"Proud Mary" Creedence Clearwater Revival

"Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne

"Iron Man" Black Sabbath

"Suzie Q" Creedence Clearwater Revival

"Freebird" Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Red White And Blue" Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)" Big and Rich

"My Town" Montgomery Gentry

"Speed" Montgomery Gentry

"Letters From Home" John Michael Montgomery

"American Soldier" Toby Kieth

"Midnight Rider" The Allman Brothers Band

"Long Black Train" Josh Turner

"Beautiful Girls" Van Halen

I'll name more when I can think of more....

[DetroitNut90]

A couple for me:

"You Give Love a Bad Name"-Bon Jovi

"It's My Life"-Bon Jovi

"Move Along"-All American Rejects

"Hanging By A Moment"-Lifehouse

"Spin"-Lifehouse

"Hips Don't Lie"-Shakira & Wyclef Jean

"3 A.M."-Matchbox 20

"Disease"-Matchbox 20

"Panama"-Van Halen

"Sweet Child of Mine"-Poison

"Photograph"-Def Leppard

"Love Bites"-Def Leppard

"For You I Will/Confidence"-Teddy Geiger

...among others.

[Sixty8panther]

Hot Rod Lincoln is a great tune...

BTW Balthy:

I downloaded "Dragster - Johnny Fortune" and it's a great

tune... I've heard of this song before but never knew it

was acoustic. Very good tune. The other 2, "Hot Rod Man"

and "Black & White Thunderbird" did not produce any

dowloadable hits on Limewire.

Some others:

1. Rob Zombie: Dragula

2. Marlyn Manson: Beautiful People

3. Southern Culture on the Skids: The Corn Rocket (Super Troopers Soundtrack)

4. Boston: Amanda

5. Cold Play: Clocks

6. Sarah Mclaughlin: Sweet Surender

7. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary

8. Dead Milkmen: Bitchin' Camaro

9. Tom Cochran: Life Is A Highway

10. Filter: Take My Picture

11. Cars: Drive

12. G&R: Nov. Rain

13. Ramones: Go Lil' Camaro Go!

Edited June 26, 2006 by Sixty8panther

[trinacriabob]

Hot Rod Lincoln is a great tune...

7. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary

Here's one I like way more from them: Down on the Corner

That's a driving song.

[Satty]

11. Cars: Drive

Thats just one of the best songs ever.

And how can any discussion on upbeat songs not include the Decembrists? Songs about whales are awesome.

[Croc]

For all the beer haters: Corona with a lime wedge. Can't beat that.

[knightfan26917]

Hmm...well....among ones already noted ... and others....

"Something's wrong in the world today" ... Aerosmith ... 'Living On The Edge'

"I wanna drive" ... Trace Adkins ... '(Her Favorite Color Is) Chrome'

"Enough is enough, I can't take anymore" ... Alabama ... 'Can't Keep A Good Man Down'

"We're outta here" ... Steve Azar ... 'I Don't Have To Be Me 'Til Monday'

"It's hard to tell if I exist" ... Barenaked Ladies ... 'Pinch Me'

"Hood slidin' like Bo Duke"...Dierks Bently...'What Was I Thinking?'

"I'm going to make it to heaven" ... Irene Cara ... 'Fame'

"The stars might lie, but the numbers never do" ... Mary Chapin-Carpenter ... 'I Feel Lucky'

"Get the word out" ... Collective Soul ... 'Feeling Better Now'

"How can anybody be so lucky?" ... John Conlee ... 'Domestic Life'

"It's time to take a leap of faith" ... Steven Curtis Chapman ... 'Dive'

"There's things goin' on make me mad down to the core" ... Charlie Daniels ... 'Simple Man'

"Fire me up" ... Def Leopard ... 'Pour Some Sugar On Me'

"My arms are wide open & will always be" ... Emerson Drive ... 'Fall Into Me'

"Everybody's looking for something" ... Eurythmics ... 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)'

"Wake me up inside" ... Evanescence ... 'Bring Me To Life'

"It's coming down to nothing more than apathy" ... The Fray ... 'Over My Head'

"Welcome me to stay overnight" ... Ingrim Hill ... 'Will I Ever Make It Home?'

"I'd try to run, but I don't think I can" ... Waylon Jennings ... 'Ain't Living Long Like This'

"It's not the car I want" ... George Jones ... 'The Corvette Song'

"I ain't ready for the junkyard yet" ... George Jones ... 'I Don't Need Your Rocking Chair'

"I don't know where we'll go, but it beats where we're at" ... Lonestar ... 'What About Now'

"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot where I was" ... Patty Loveless ... 'I Try To Think About Elvis'

"All the places I have yet to go; I'm looking forward to tomorrow" ... Luce ... 'Good Day'

"Let freedom ring" ... Martina McBride ... 'Independence Day'

"A little vacation, ain't asking very much" ... Tim McGraw ... 'All I Want Is A Life'

"Got a lead foot down on my accelerator" ... Jodee Messina ... 'Bye Bye Bye'

"What I really need is an open road" ... Montgomery Gentry ... 'Speed'

"I've always seen myself as a hopeless romantic" ... Gary Morris & Crystal Gayle ... 'Another World'

"It's kinda like Nashville, with a tan" ... Shawn Mullins ... 'Rockabye'

"But those days are gone" ... Anne Murray ... 'Time Don't Run Out On Me'

"The life I love is making music with my friends" ... Willie Nelson ... 'On The Road Again'

"That's the price that we all pay" ... New Order ... 'True Faith'

"I wonder if it's too late" ... Nickelback ... 'Photograph'

"You better not try to stand in my way" ... J Paycheck ... 'Take This Job & Shove It'

"I can't stay on your morfeine, cause it's making me itch" ... Pink ... 'Just Like A Pill'

"This is not where you belong" ... Restless Heart ... 'Why Does It Have To Be (Wrong or Right)?"

"Every hands a winner & every hands a loser" ... Kenny Rogers ... 'The Gambler'

"I may lose the battle, but I love the fight" ... John Schneider ... 'Love, You Ain't Seen The Last Of Me'

"It hurts to feel like such a fool" ... Dan Seals ... 'Addicted'

"What happened next is hard to tell" ... Ray Stevens ... 'Mississippi Squirrel Revival'

"I got 1 shot left" ... Sylvia ... 'Nobody'

"I want a 2-tone Chevrolet" ... BJ Thomas ... '2-Car Garage'

"Things have changed since you've been gone" ... Pam Tillis ... 'Land Of The Living'

"I’m not afraid things won’t get better, but it feels like this has gone on forever" ... Toad The Wet Sprocket ... 'Good Intentions'

"Don’t you knock on my door, I won’t be home anymore" ... Jennifer Warnes ... 'I Know A Heartache When I See 1'

"The only thing changing is my way of thinking" ... Dottie West ... 'A Lesson in Leaving'

"I kept my heart hidden" ... Bryan White ... 'So Much For Pretending'

"I'm walking down the lonely street of dreams, going down the only road I've ever known" ... Whitesnake ... 'Here I Go Again On My Own'

"I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'" ... Mark Wills ... '19 something'

"I'm a little nervous, not sure if I shoulda put it in writing" ... Chely Wright ... 'Single White Female'

Cort, "Mr MC" / "Mr Road Trip", 32swm/pig valve/pacemaker

MC:family.IL.guide.future = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/

Models.HO = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/trainroom.html

"We all have a song that somehow touched our lives" ... Kenney Chesney ... 'I Go Back'

[Buick61]

Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

That song just gets me going every time.

[mjdecker]

A bunch of metal none of y'all have heard of.

Necrophagist - Fermented Offal Discharge (I've been listening to this song a lot lately)

Necrophagist - Seven

Beneath The Massacre - Nevermore

Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval

Death - Empty Words

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Scorpions - Yellow Butterfly

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

[chris]

octave one - blackwater

booka shade - in white rooms

hardfloor - soulful spirit (josh wink remix)

one of these three tracks can generally put me in a good mood!

[Camino LS6]

This immediately comes to mind:

The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky

[chris]

This immediately comes to mind:

The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky

a classic! good taste.

little eva's "the loco-motion", and almost any cover version thereof, should do the trick as well! that one's been running around in my head forever, i need to buy it.

Edited June 28, 2006 by chris

[trinacriabob]

This immediately comes to mind:

The Allman Brothers - Blue Sky

What about "Jessica" - I think that was Allman Brothers?! That one pumps out some adrenaline.

[Camino LS6]

What about "Jessica" -  I think that was Allman Brothers?!  That one pumps out some adrenaline.

Agreed.

Also In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

[Camino LS6]

I'll add one more before I crash:

The Moody Blues - Story in Your Eyes

[regfootball]

moody blues gemini dream

[ocnblu]

gnarls barkley RULES!

- crazy