Which song do you turn up?

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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.

Black flag isn't the same without rollins.

I have the black flag tattooed onto my leg 🤭.

I, in my late 40s, adore Prefab Sprout. When I was a kid they were just a pop band on TOTP. Now I can appreciate just how good the songs are. When Love Breaks Down, Bonny, Goodbye Lucille, Life of Surprises, Faron Young are all songs I love.
Paddy is a brilliant songwriter.

Good for you, but I can’t stand Boney M. I love lots of different music but I draw a line at them.
You’ll get the last word though, because they will now be stuck in my head all night, keeping me awake. 😫

My turn it up track would be The Safety Dance.

I’m your man by Wham.
brown eyed girl van Morrison
abba
Billy Joel.
my volume button goes up and down A LOT. 🤩

Mr Brightside

Oooh no! That’s gets done to death (and stuck in my head for days!)
Much prefer “Human” for a shouty singing sesh in the car!

As by Stevie Wonder
Aperture by Harry Styles
Born Slippy by Underworld
How Did it End? by Taylor Swift
My Queen is Harriet Tubman by Sons of Kemet
Moanin by Charles Mingus
All turned up this week 😊

My kitchen filters were ace. They completely came to a standstill 3 times a day when she’s like the wind was played on the radio

the radio was really quiet I couldn’t hear it upstairs when I was working but I could hear them singing along

Funk My Life Up- Paulo Nutini
Smooth-Santana
C’est la vie- Stereophonics
Henrietta-The Fratellis
American Girl- Tom Petty

It's funny how many songs on this thread are also on the 'songs you turn off' thread!
For me - Brown Eyed Girl (VM has some incredible songs but I think this is awful!) and Zombie by The Cranberries. Might be something to do with being Irish (northern)!
Zombie is a cringe-fest.

I went round America in a Greyhound bus and one of the stops was Albuquerque which was exciting

We could be heroes David Bowie

5.15 by the Who
Taken from Quadrophenia album.

So many, but Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen definitely gets a 10 on the volume button. Best major to minor key change ever.

Throwing Muses! That’s me away to the garage to look for my box of old CDs - I’ve got copies of “The Real Ramona” and “Hunkpapa” I haven’t played for years. Thanks for reminding me!

Another Quadrophenia favourite, “Love Reign Over Me”. Roger Daltrey’s vocal performance on this track is astonishing. Mine not so much.

It's an absolute banger; but the only problem for me is that, ever since the grandmother on an episode of The Kumars at No 42 described the problem of too-big pants disappearing up your bum as 'hungry arse syndrome', that's all I can hear now whenever that song is played

Summertime, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince.

Takes me right back, every single time.

@SerendipityCat Another Quadrophenia one..can you see the real me.
I loved the film watched it countless times and remember my first Vespa 50 special bought for £200 in 1981.

Ha love this!

Another one that has held up really well

Could It Be Magic by Barry Manilow - an absolute belter of a beautiful song, based on a Chopin piano prelude. The orchestration! The violins! Fucking gorgeous.

OMI - Cheerleader

Doesn't fit with my normal taste in music, but I always turn it up and sing along if it comes on the car radio.

Not the Take That version then? 😊

TOP volume - Atomic by Blondie.

Also like: Friday I’m in love by the Cure,
Hazard by Richard Marx
Road to Hell by Chris Rea
Its a sin Pet Shop Boys

and for listening to raptly Evergreen by Barbra Streisand. I just love the tune.

In the spirit of the Pet Shop Boys’ It’s a sin, I should also like at this time to bring the world’s attention to an old song, ‘In the year 2525’…. Google informs me it was by Zager and Evans!