Most defiantly joyful song?

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 16 Sep 19 - 11:51 AM

Monkey wash donkey rinse

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Stewie
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 08:31 PM

This earworm's a good's:

Uncle Nobby's steamboat

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,silver
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 05:21 PM

We shall not be moved!

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 01:10 PM

Probably not the Monty Python song but who knows.

Another defiantly joyful song- If I Should Fall From Grace With God by the Pogues.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 12:53 PM

What did Con Tralto cover ? just curious!

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 12:50 PM

I think Constance Tralto covered it as well.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,Some bloke
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 12:49 PM

Monty Python's "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me."

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 12:48 PM

I put "Happy shiny people" on the jukebox in the Little Angel in Whitby during a Goth weekend. Definitely defiant and joyful. Until I got beat up...

:D tG

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,Hilo
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 12:32 PM

Yes, Steve,perhaps it was. I don,t know AnneTenor at all. ( will have to check her out )
“Ariel” is the title track from KB’s double album of the same name. came out in the mid nineties I think.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 10:46 AM

Aerial? Wasn't that sung by Anne Tenor?

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 10:33 AM

Vivaldi's Spring as sung by Cecelia Bartolli, Aerial, Kate Bush

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 06:55 AM

I don't waste time with songs I don't care for. Life's too short.

Back to the O.P, my wife and I were preparing dinner last night and Pata Pata started playing on my Happy Stuff Spotify playlist and we danced in the kitchen.

Another joyful song Enjoy Yourself by Jim Kweskin

Also the Byrds version of Dylan's You Ain't Going Nowhere.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 10:16 PM

You're not the only one who doesn't like "wretch". I don't either, and I've seen versions that go

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
that saved and set me free...

Nonetheless, I have told the DH that if he permits Amazing Grace to be sung at my funeral, I will come back and haunt him.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 08:08 PM

Damned fine tune though, and, in my experience, no-one knows the words beyond the first line anyway...

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 06:13 PM

Lemme creep over to songs others find uplifting but I can't stand: amazing grace (I am not a wretch, and neither are you), also usually heard at funerals.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: mg
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 03:48 PM

maybe 4,000 welsh miners singing diadem. and ladies can be miners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC12Arb71U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC12Arb71U

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 02:57 PM

Joy of lLiving always brings tears to my eyes (probably because I only hear it at funerals nowadays) but it's pretty definitely joyful (like the feller wot rote it)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 02:44 PM

Most defiantly Joyful line line:
"For we are young and the world is wide" (Rambling boys of pleasure)

Most defiant verse
"Early in the morning I paced thhe guardhouse round,
I jumped out of a window and knocked three of them to the ground
The Corporal and his buddies they was quickly after me,
But I made me way to Birkenhead and so gained me liberty

I am a Rambling Roayal, Jame Cronin is me name
I can fight as many officers as you'll see in the Marines
I can fight as many Orangeman as ever banged a drum
And I'll make 'em run before me like a bullet from a gun"
(Rambling Royal aka as Belfast Shoemaker)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 01:39 PM

This fits the bill for me.

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Pa'lante

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 12:56 PM

(Reposting - first post seems to have been erased)

Read the BBC article ( I think) on Google, then went to the song.

I did not find the story of the song depressing - thought it was upbeat and lyrical and I was amazed at how timeless it sounded. I can see why it survived so long. And it outlasted apartheid - perhaps because it was a celebration of living ( defiantly happy in the face of crushing oppression) .

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: leeneia
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 12:01 PM

1. I won't link to the BBC article, because BBC music messes with my own music software.

2. I listened to part of the recording. It does not sound joyful. There is no trace of a smile in Miriam's voice, and it seems like a song of protest or ridicule.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 11:56 AM

We know. We couldn't resist. ;-)

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 11:07 AM

Ok, my question was meant to be, what do y'all think of the article I posted about a song they termed most defiantly joyful?

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 08:45 PM

Jesus' blood never failed me yet...

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 07:29 PM

Jimmy Buffet - "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don't Love Jesus"

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 07:12 PM

You are my sunshine.
Singing in the Rain.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 05:26 PM

The song mentioned in the OP, Pata Pata. Me likey.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 05:16 PM

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Keep on the Sunny Side by the Carter Family

Tramps and Hawkers, I like the Old Blind Dogs version.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: meself
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 04:53 PM

Not 'Hallelujah'? 'Closing Time'?

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: John C. Bunnell
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 04:11 PM

"Just No Time At All", from the musical Pippin.

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 02:45 PM

Funiculi, Funicula

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 01:35 PM

Robin, the Tom Lehrer one?

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: peteglasgow
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 01:19 PM

free nelson mandela...

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 01:08 PM

Flower of Scotland

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:48 PM

"We'll all go together when we go"?

Robin

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:41 PM

"Singing in the Rain".

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:38 PM

"keep a Twinkle In Your Eye" Buck and Bubbles

Subject: RE: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:11 PM

Always look on the bright side of life. Sung as you dangle nailed to a big vertical plank.

Subject: Most defiantly joyful song?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 12:06 PM

What do you all think?

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190911-pata-pata-the-worlds-most-defiantly-joyful-song

I don't even know it. I'm depressed. Makes sense...?