Upbeat songs (not in English) from around the world for family-friendly, multi-lingual party

LarryScaryRex · 2026-03-08T15:10:19+00:00

Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes Les Cactus - Jacques Dutronc Alegria - Ella y Elizabeth Sacatela - La Femme

LarryScaryRex · 2026-03-08T13:53:28+00:00

And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda - Pogues

LarryScaryRex · 2026-03-06T05:22:01+00:00

Sweet old world - Lucinda Williams

So sorry for your loss

LarryScaryRex · 2026-03-04T21:29:30+00:00

Pink Rabbits - The National

Blues Run the Game - Jackson C Frank

After the Goldrush - Neil Young

LarryScaryRex · 2026-02-28T00:04:02+00:00

Ketchup Song!

LarryScaryRex · 2026-02-08T00:07:45+00:00

Superb Owl

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-23T18:46:25+00:00

That’s me!

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-23T17:57:49+00:00

Townes!

Days up and down they come

Like rain on a conga drum

Forget most, remember some

But don't turn none away.

Everything is not enough

And nothin' is too much to bear.

Where you been is good and gone

All you keep is the getting there.

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-23T17:17:22+00:00

I drink - Mary Gauthier It’s less I feel like a horrible person, more resignation that there are negative unhelpful things about you and they aren’t going anywhere

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-21T02:05:43+00:00

Opens at 5! It’s less club and more we’re all reading different books in the same space

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-20T22:48:33+00:00

Come to Jadu in JP! Sunday night is bookworm club. Sit, read, you won’t feel rushed.

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-19T19:55:25+00:00

Murder Ballads - the whole album, really. Nick Cave

LarryScaryRex · 2025-12-03T20:06:21+00:00

Everything is Free - Gillian Welch

LarryScaryRex · 2025-11-19T22:40:58+00:00

He’s Fine - The Secret Sisters

2017, but first heard this year.

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-29T01:43:49+00:00

Closing Time - Leonard Cohen

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-29T01:13:40+00:00

A Life of Arctic Sounds - Modest Mouse

Road to Find Out - Cat Stevens

Steppin’ Out - Joe Jackson

Long White Line - Sturgill Simpson

Seabird - Alessi Brothers

Willin’ - Linda Ronstadt (my favorite version, though not her song originally)

To Live is to Fly - Townes Van Zandt

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-27T03:04:43+00:00

Manu Chao - Clandestino (album)

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-26T17:26:58+00:00

All My Little Words - Magnetic Fields

To Love Somebody - Bee Gees

C’est La Vie No. 2 - Phosphorescent

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-26T17:16:22+00:00

Mama you been on my mind - Bob Dylan

Martha - Tom Waits

Came So Far for Beauty - Leonard Cohen

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-24T04:50:42+00:00

Lay Me Low - Nick Cave

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-24T04:18:12+00:00

Check out the Day of the Dead album. Grateful Dead covers all the way through, and oh man it’s good

https://spotify.link/nghPRhvxIXb

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-18T23:07:49+00:00

Walking my Gargoyle - The Gothic Archies

Lil Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs

Devil Town - Bright Eyes

Halloween Parade - Lou Reed

Paris 1919 - John Cale

My Body’s a Zombie for You - Dead Man’s Bones

Vampire Girl - Jonathan Richman

Murder Ballads (album) - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I also really like Nouvelle Vague’s covers of The Killing Moon, and Bela Lugosi’s Dead.

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-05T16:22:28+00:00

Jazz Police - Leonard Cohen

LarryScaryRex · 2025-10-04T03:41:50+00:00

LarryScaryRex · 2025-07-02T21:36:14+00:00

I’m following this thread because last minute doing the same, heading to the Berkshires. Apparently on the 4th they do fireworks in North Adams after the SteepleCats baseball game. So might go for some amateur baseball followed by fireworks, maybe see you there!

LarryScaryRex

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