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What are some upbeat songs?

What are some upbeat songs by happy, playful musicians?

  • I love songs of any musical genre that feature multiple musicians sitting in a room together, playing upbeat music, and clearly having a very good, very playful time doing so. The musicians’ pleasure is infectious, and I can listen to these songs on "repeat" endlessly. Can you recommend some songs like this? (Examples within.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEsPhTbJhuo, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EstY-8NWSgE are all fine examples of the sorts of songs that I have in mind. There may some unifying quality of these songs that I am not capturing properly in my description of them what—I'd certainly be happy to hear suggestions of what else it is about them that makes them so much fun.

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    A lot of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJiCUdLBxuI Van Sessions have that quality for me. They aren't necessarily overtly playful, but they're definitely having a good time with the goofiness of the situation and instruments.

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The Band and friends - "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-L3f-DcH0" (or anything from The Last Waltz)

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HMSSM

I love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmWIxnVBU7w and I think there's something about their first couple of studio albums that kinda fits what you're looking for, due to the lack of percussion, front porch instrumentation (banjo, guitar, bass), and backwoods shout-singing that's been a hall mark for them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkP5iu738ss I love, with G.Love in rehearsal from their tour bus.

GamblingBlues

The two albums by The Travelling Wilburys are almost exactly that. A bunch of (great) musicians getting together and playing for fun.

It's Never Lurgi

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' http://m.npr.org/story/113758518?url=/2009/10/26/113758518/edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros-tiny-desk-concert at NPR. In fact, that whole series is a rich seam to be mined.

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thrasher

Great question! I, too, am a big fan of that intangible quality of certain recordings that you speak of. http://youtu.be/mqwCko-kzR0 http://youtu.be/z-BuMECOKpE http://youtu.be/OJHdT1j6hH8

wats

I like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M, five people on one guitar. It's a ... subtler kind of good time, but it always puts a smile on my face.

kostia

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pizza_Tapes yet - David Grisman got Tony Rice and Jerry Garcia together to jam, and they recorded the sessions. Garcia's copy was stolen by a pizza delivery guy and was released in the wild as a bootleg for a while, and then Grisman cleaned it up and released it himself. There's lots of great chatter between tracks, you can tell what a good time they're having. If you can find it, John Hartford's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo-plain is a wonderful album. Hartford's instructions to the engineer were "let the tapes roll, we don't want to hear playbacks until you've put the master together." - it has a very natural, comfortable feel to it.

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