44. Feels So Good

44. "Shine a Little Love" by Electric Light Orchestra

And how does it feel when you think that certain special someone has finally decided to come and get your love?

Like this.


What's to like about this song? Plenty!

To begin with, there's an exquisite disco gallop. If you can find a better disco gallop on any record, tape, CD, 8-track, or iTunes download, buy it.

There's a poppin' Kelly Groucutt baseline.

There's strings soaring up and down and round and round.

There's a repeated echoliscious downward scale run on the keyboard.

There's some excellently balanced rhythm guitar bits and drumming that make a pretty peppy wall of sound to hold up the singing.

There's lots of sing-along chorus-line words and phrases like "Remember!" and "You shine a little love on my life!" and "Yes, I understand" and "I know it is" and "I'll do it all again" and "Shine on me" and "Shi-i-ine"  and "E.L.O." peppered throughout.

There's fun no-brain sing-along sounds like "Ooooooo!" and "Oo--oo--oo-ah-oo-ah-oo-ah-oo-ah-Ooooooo!" and "OowahOowahOowahOowahOowahOowah-Ooooooo!"

There's lyrics that put you in a helluva good mood and make you so happy about your love life that you can't believe there aren't more songs like this.

And don't forget the well-timed double handclaps.

Put all that together and you have a monster of a feel-good song that epitomizes that emotion you have when you are so sure the one you love loves you back that you think your skull might explode from the happy brain juices constantly flowing through it.

Oooooooo!