Happy music

Hermione*

Ok, so I'm having a musical crisis. I have a lot of shit stuff going on at the moment, and nearly every cd I put on the stereo makes me sad. Or if it doesn't the first time, it does second time round. Since I was eight, I can't be in my room without putting on my stereo, I always have it on. So I need to find music I can put on the stereo without ending up in tears after lsitening to it. I went into hmv's sale to buy happy music and came out with nothing. Even my anthem, Show Must Go On, which has worked for every crisis of my life, isn't working for me.

What music do other boardsies listen to for happiness or to make themselves feel better?

Thanks!

Ruu_Old

Boo Radleys-Wake Up!

Bodhidharma

The Flaming LIps

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Kraftwerk.

phantom pooper

check out camera obscura. you'll be happy in no time.

JustCoz

The Kooks! We are scientists, the Beach Boys

Karl Hungus

Judas Priest. Seriously, so high energy, you'll feel great.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Thin Lizzy

Pighead

Gorkys Zygotic Mynci do it for Pighead. Happy songs with happy lyrics that just make me HAPPY. For example PATIO SONG, Altogether now:

Well isn't it a lovely day
Oh, I'm feeling all brand new
Well isn't it a lovely day
Oh, boating on sunday with you

And if you really want to kiss her
Just go right up and tell her
Oh, isn't it a lovely day for love

And then just when Pighead thinks he can't get any happier on comes Diamond Dew!

Awake, awake to love and work, luck is in the sky
Fields are wet, diamond dew, worlds awake to cry
Child comes home, home from school, singing merrily
Room is warm, organ plays, house by the sea

WARNING WARNING: HAPPINESS OVERLOAD.

TWEE MY BOLLOCKS!

JC 2K3

Any 80s glam rock band

18AD

Parliament.

Bixmoo

Kraftwerk seconded

Crumble Froo

ive a somewhat cheesy taste in music, but some songs that just make me so frikkin happy are,

chewing on tinfoil - gym (theyre a dublin band, i dont actually know where to get their stuff, my mate put it on a mix cd for me)
feeder - just a day (the music is happy,but the lyrics arent maybe the happiest)
radiohead - video killed the radiostar
thin lizzy - dancing in the moonlight
aerosmith - rag doll / dude looks like a lady / love in an elevator / walk this way
poison - your mama dont dance / what the cat dragged in (cheesiliscious)
red hot chilli peppars - dani california / suck my kiss
queens of the stone age - no one knows (especially if you watch the video)
ricky martin - livin la vida loca ( just do it! )
ozzy osbourne - stayin alive with dweezil zappa (hilarious)
guns n roses - mr brownstone
green day - church on sunday


hehe, i could come up with a lot more if you want

Crumble Froo

also, if this doesnt make you happy, or at least amuse you... well, youre probably a more sane person than me, but how and ever, check it out:cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F07YUCCLdYo

ball ox

lemonjelly, beach boys and Bob marley . Not all at the same time though.

legologic

Ooooooh yeah... the beach boys

Also recently The Go! Team... real feelgood music.

Mongo

Most Green Day is good for that.

arbeitsscheuer

Hermione* wrote:

Even my anthem, Show Must Go On, which has worked for every crisis of my life, isn't working for me.

/hugs Hermione* for her marvellous taste in music.:o
That's my favourite song and has been for as long as I can remember... Although my anthem of the moment would probably be So Far Away by Staind, which is a fantastic song too (and, again, probably not exactly a pick-me-up type song that you might be lookin' for).

Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
Green Day - Castaway
Oasis - Acquiesce
Sawdoctors - To Win Just Once
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Republica - Ready to Go
The Clash - Rock The Kasbah
The Cure - Cut Here
Nada Surf - Hyperspace
Nada Surf - Blankest Year
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
The Format - First Single
Billy Bragg - North Sea Bubble
Oysterband - The World Turned Upside Down
Garbage - When I Grow Up

And anything by Madness:D

That should do the trick...

DerekD Goldfish

If Teenage Fanclub dont make you feel happy your not human

gizmo

Ever time I listen to Dragonforce it puts me in a good mood.

Creamy Goodness

anything by journey

namely

"don't stop believin'"
"anyway you want it"

odhran

How about The Chalets for some trashy and wonderful fun? Tilly and the Wall, The Go! Team and The Flaming Lips are also good for some fun.

Giruilla

Toots and the Maytals - Reggae Greats

Sofaspud

Spinal Tap
They might be giants.

Léan

Mr Bungle! Most things on Califronia are particularly happy. Also some Gogol Bordello, Guillemots or stuff off The Cure - Wish.

Dudess

I'd recommend Joy Division's Atrocity Exhibition with a hefty dose of Nick Cave's The Carny thrown in.
Only messin'...

Altered Images - fab early 80s post-punk/pop/funk band from Scotland (kinda Blondie-ish). Got their best of in Tower Records yesterday for only 6.99 - good few copies there. Songs like Happy Birthday, I Could Be Happy, Don't Talk to Me About Love and See Those Eyes - all poptastic! Lyrical content may be dark but bugger it. Just concentrate on the choons. And the singer is so happy too!
Key it into YouTube. Guarantee you'll be cheered up. Hope everything gets sorted out for you.
Ooh, another one in a similar vein - Our Lips Are Sealed by The Go-Gos.
And also, Pull Up to the Bumper by Grace Jones is very funkay.

Hermione*

SebtheBum wrote:

/hugs Hermione* for her marvellous taste in music.:o
That's my favourite song and has been for as long as I can remember...

Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

That should do the trick...

Heh, I rock. That's a great suggestion Seb, I love that song, can't believe I didn't think of it ... must go home and dig out my tom petty

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, keep them coming please! I plan a shopping spree in hmv sometime soon, so help me spend my tax refund

dinneenp

A know I'm almost 2 years to late now but...

Dan Deacon- happy, happy music. He plays his sets on the dancefloor even!

Manu Chao- lively and happy

The Orb- any of their lively stuff

humberklog

Get a cheep bottle of plonk, big skins, bind the tulips from your local park into a wreath for your head,wrap yourself toga style in your cleanest white sheet and bounce up on down on your bed with the Polyphonic Spree blasting out.

Music4life

Anything my Nile Rodgers....Chic Freak out.good times.EVerybody dance,......You wont need any depression pills after u listen too Chic;)

kerash

This works for me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvsGzPZP_2g

Also nothing like a bit of cheese! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVcb1Hl46Ds

Johnny Cash - A boy named sue, bound to bring a smile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ

The Clash - Train in vain, always makes me happy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIx7k2gYT1I

Joe Cocker - A little help from my friends http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FMq0iDX1yE

Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHQItmEunOM&feature=related

Dire Straits - money for nothing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw

The Beastie Boy - fight for your right to party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NdAUnnU9Ac

Something there is bound to work!!!

Dodge

Curtis Mayfield - Movin On Up

Most of Jams Brown stuff

KnifeWRENCH

Definetly CSS.
I implore anyone to listen to "Music Is My Hot Hot Sex" and not smile!!:D

Also if you can find "Monty Python Sings!" buy it!!

padraig_f

Belle and Sebastian always make me happy.

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

Scubadevils

This will make you smile Although I can't see you going out and buying it, or where you would even get it :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

Xavi6

Muse - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Travis - Happy ("I'm so happy cause you're so happy")
Lit - Lovely Day ("Such a lovely day, and it's nothing more than ordinary living")
Oasis - Live Forever ("You and I we're gonna live forever")
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle ("Everything, everything will be alright, alright")


And my top 'feel good' song -

Incubus - Are You In?

Guarantees a smile on my face every time!

Hermy

My favourite happy song is Peaches En Regalia, the opening track on Frank Zappa's 1969 masterpiece Hot Rats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnZrbFL9ImM

Frank wrote lots of happy music so check out the aforementioned Hot Rats along with The Grand Wazoo, Waka Jawaka, Just Another Band From L.A. and Studio Tan. Cheers me up every time.

deemy

nobody has mentioned wham. for sure their greatest hits are totally happy songs. oh and stevie wonder too. Although 2 years later I hope you have cheered urself up.

Nolanger

Most cheap Northern Soul compilation CDs have a few cracking tunes that would lift the spirits and get you smiling again.

whiterob81

have a bit of a crappy time of it myself lately. but the following have cheered me up. Jonathan Richman and Operator Please.

Wasted Days and Peculiar by the slackers have also both really cheered me up over the last week. Their lyrics can be quite sad but their music is really happy.

Jay P

[sarcasm]Radiohead![/sarcasm]

But seriously. The feeling are nice and happiful, chessy and all as they are. Jump from Van Halen always gets me up...not in that way, although that solo is very class. I Wanna Rock from Twisted Sister. That kind of thing, hair metal in general is vber uplifting.

BurnsCarpenter

whiterob81 wrote: »

have a bit of a crappy time of it myself lately. but the following have cheered me up. Jonathan Richman and Operator Please.

Wasted Days and Peculiar by the slackers have also both really cheered me up over the last week. Their lyrics can be quite sad but their music is really happy.

+1 on Jonathan Richman - The New Teller never fails for me.
Also, Carrot Rope by Pavement - ideally with the silly video.

JackKelly

vampire weekend - A Punk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ