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Which song do you turn up?

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Thisthreadhasbeendeleted · 05/07/2026 12:05

Inspired by a recent debate on 2 threads about the 'worst place to live in the UK' which was countered by an alternative 'best place to live in England', there was a thread titled 'what song do you turn off?'

So, I'd like to ask, which song do you turn UP (if you can)? A song that you could play anytime you feel like it, but if it comes on the radio in the car or you hear it out somewhere, gives you chills or puts a smile on your face?

My first one is 29 Palms by Robert Plant. It's such a 'radio song' and I LOVE radio. Some of aul Percy's earlier solo stuff was pure guff but, for me, this song has aged so so well. It's gorgeous, and it transports me back to young teenhood in the early 90s.

What song do you turn off? | Mumsnet

Anything pre 1960

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5544514-what-song-do-you-turn-off?page=1

OP posts:
Electricsausages · 06/07/2026 19:38

Black velvet
bat out of hell
Anything from green day or my chemical romance

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 06/07/2026 19:39

Skunk anansie hedonism, luka suzanne vega

LindorDoubleChoc · 06/07/2026 19:42

Sometimes by Erasure.
Respect by Erasure.

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sauvignonplonk1 · 06/07/2026 19:43

Some great songs mentioned here! Anything 80’s disco or Michael McDonald ‘Sweet Freedom’ 🕺🏼💃

Laughorbloodycry · 06/07/2026 19:54

I love so much music. Many songs here are in my list!

I've tried add some other faves for turn up the volume....

Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Turn it on - Genesis
Turn to Stone - ELO
Stop Me - The Smiths
The Safety Dance - Men without hats ( love this 😆)
All Fleetwood Mac!
Love Michael' McDonald - I think he sings on Ride Like the Wind ( another brilliant turn up song).

Sweet Harmony and The Sun Rising by The Beloved , are turn up, up, up tunes when driving in the summer evenings 😎

Luckily I wear headphones most the time when around people/ in the house 🎧 😀

AImportantMermaid · 06/07/2026 19:59

Amsterdam by Nothing But Thieves
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve
Turn by The Wombats
With or Without You by U2
This is What it Sounds Like by Huntr/x

And a million others!

5128gap · 06/07/2026 20:00

Glory Days Springsteen
Only Love will set you free N-Trance

Middlemarch123 · 06/07/2026 20:10

Freedom by George Michael, know all the words, poor neighbours, I can’t hold a note in a bucket.
Born to Run, by the Boss, ditto.
Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, I fantasise I look like Stevie Nicks, twirling around in a lacy shawl.
The Man who can’t be moved by the Script.

I’ve seen all of these perform live, never got thanked for my backing vocals…

JBJ · 06/07/2026 20:11

Just got in and have had music on loud in the car - Anastasia by Slash ft Miles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Dry County by Bon Jovi (I do like a big indulgent guitar solo!), Mr Brownstone by Guns n Roses, Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day and One by Metallica. Perfect playlist length from my cousins house back home!

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 06/07/2026 20:25

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Ace of Spades - Motorhead

Fear Satan - Mogwai

Not Too Soon - Throwing Muses

inkgirl · 06/07/2026 20:43

Has to be sound of silence by disturbed and zombie by the cranberries

Meadowflower2023 · 06/07/2026 20:46

Just me in the car : Bad Medicine (Bon Jovi)
With toddler in the car : Fever Dream (Alex Warren) or Sapphire (Ed Sheeran)

ThePeppyOpalScroller · 06/07/2026 20:49

The One I Love, by David Gray.

Stunning..

Flannelfeet · 06/07/2026 20:50

Absolutely loads. Anything by yungblud 🥰.

Black flag 6 pack.

And my recent crank up is anything, anything by dramarama.

Icecreamhelps · 06/07/2026 20:55

Wake up - Arcade Fire
No one Knows - QOTSA
Best of you - Foo Fighters

Nousernameideaaga · 06/07/2026 20:59

Dogs days are over - Florence and the machine

Thisthreadhasbeendeleted · 06/07/2026 21:47

Harpsichord23 · 06/07/2026 19:23

Boys of Summer - Don Henley

Yes. Great radio song.

OP posts:
Catlover1705 · 06/07/2026 21:59

Disco Inferno by The Trampps
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears.

Clawdy · 06/07/2026 22:16

It’s Now Or Never- Elvis. I always turn the sound up full for the very last line of “My love won’t wait!” Have done that ever since buying the record as a very young teenager!

Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain · 07/07/2026 09:39

sauvignonplonk1 · 06/07/2026 19:43

Some great songs mentioned here! Anything 80’s disco or Michael McDonald ‘Sweet Freedom’ 🕺🏼💃

Love sweet freedom

goingdownhopefully · 07/07/2026 09:48

I don’t like Mondays, Boom town rats. Full volume on radio and full volume from me.

GustavaKlimt · 07/07/2026 09:48

Insomnia- Faithless

HoraceCope · 07/07/2026 10:17

Dakota, stereophonics.
Sam fender and Olivia dean rein me in
There are more which have escaped me for now

HarryKanesonfire · 07/07/2026 10:23

Thebinisrightthere · 05/07/2026 12:44

Live It Up by Mental As Anything
You Get What You Give
Alone by Heart (in fact anything by Heart except their famous 1990 rock ballad)
500 Miles by The Proclaimers
Rasputin (prefer the newer version) by Boney M
Loads of others

Rasputin! Straight back to the 70s. Bloody love it and Live It Up. Makes me want to party all day x

HarryKaneHarryKane · 07/07/2026 10:24

I’ve got a couple…

Disco 2000 by Pulp

North London Forever
(DPis a N5 Islington boy,)
so it’s usually blaring in the car!
I’ve learnt the words by default!