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Thea Wood's avatar

Pat Benatar’s “All Fired Up” gets me every time!

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Alicia Dara's avatar

LOVE! I’m adding this to my Workout Bangers playlist, where all my high-energy songs are :)

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Thea Wood's avatar

Perfecto!

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Alisa Kennedy Jones's avatar

Can't help thinking about Joni's "You turn me on, I'm a radio" https://open.spotify.com/track/0ClDL3UrFy6vXhuGPKlNMJ?si=9dba5756e1724a99

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Alicia Dara's avatar

This is one of the first Joni songs I ever learned to play! It's in an open tuning which makes the chords distinctive and very fun. I also know the entire record from which it came by heart :)

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Ali's avatar

My very “Youthful” joy songs?

High school. No car. Grandmas blast furnace summer house in a tiny eastern WA town???

‘Grooving, on a Sunday Afternoon” The Young Rascals

“Don’t Worry Baby” The Beach Boys

(Well, everything they did actually)

“Summer in the City” The Loving Spoonful :

Hot town, summer in the city

Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty

Been down, isn't it a pity?

Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people lookin' half dead

Walkin' on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head

But at night, it's a different world

Go out and find a girl

Come on, come on, and dance all night

Despite the heat, it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity

The days can't be like the nights

In the summer in the city

In the summer in the city

Cool town, evening in the city

Dressed so fine and lookin' so pretty

Cool cat lookin' for a kitty

Gonna look in every corner of the city

'Til I'm wheezing like a bus stop

Runnin' upstairs, gonna meet you on the rooftop

But at night, it's a different world

Go out and find a girl

Come on, come on, and dance all night

Despite the heat, it'll be alright

And babe, don't you know it's a pity

The days can't be like the nights

In the summer in the city

In the summer in the city

Hot town, summer in the city

Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty

Been down, isn't it a pity?

Thanks for the warm wave of nostalgia washing over me right now. I’m going to be looping through that era all day now!

😽

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Alicia Dara's avatar

Nice, Ali! I know this song and I've always thought it was killer, glad you brought it up :)

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Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

Good one! Check out the song Miracles on the Red Octopus album by Jefferson Starship. Mm hm, oh yeah baby.

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Alicia Dara's avatar

Nice, I'll check it out! I love the stuff they did in the 80s best :)

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