Happy Songs

spankysue

What songs make you happy? I have a few that always put a smile on my face and even if I'm in really bad form, these will cheer me right up

Mine are:

Living in the Sunlight (Loving in the Moonlight) by Tiny Tim

Always Look on the Bright side of Life from Monty Python

Happydaystoytown by The Small Faces

Seaside Rendezvous by Queen

So what songs leave you guys beaming from ear to ear, feeling all happy and fuzzy inside?

celticcrash

The Isley brothers-Summer breeze

Lyrics "See the curtains hanging in the window on a friday afternoon".

He must have been smoking some heavy weed back then.

WoollyRedHat

Sugar, Honey, Honey- The Archies

Oh sugar, oh honey honey.

Irish Guitarist

C'Mon Everybody, Summertime Blues, Somethin' Else and Cut Across Shorty; all by Eddie Cochran.

Ready Teddy by Elvis Presley (originally by Little Richard).

Fire Brigade by The Move.

Hole In My Shoe by Traffic.

Effervescing Elephant by Syd Barrett.

bullpost

Excerpt from "A Teenage Opera" - Keith West.
Hello Goodbye - The Beatles.
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues.
Sloop John B - The Beach boys.
Milkshake - Kelis.

Prefab Sprouter

Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey
Prefab Sprout - Cornfield Ablaze
The Association -Windy
The Monkees - A little bit me, a little bit you.

Declan A Walsh

For me, "happy songs" are those that have melodies or just music which uplifts me and makes me feel good about life. Sometimes the lyrics tie in and sometimes the lyrics are not relevant.... as you will see from the mixture below.

Island in the Sun - Weezer

Crash - The Primitives

American Girl - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

This Charming Man - The Smiths

Alright Now - Free

One of These Nights - The Eagles

Life is a Rollercoaster - Ronan Keating

Move on Up - Curtis Mayfield

Radio Gaga - Queen

You Make Me Feel Mighty Real - Sylvester

Irish Guitarist

I forgot to mention Octopus's Garden by The Beatles.

Davyhal

"I Want To Hold Your Hand" - The Beatles
"Island In The Sun" - Weezer
"Tie Me Up In Jackets" - Fight Like Apes
"Build Me Up Buttercup" - The Foundations
"Never Forget" - Take That
"Keep Fishin'" - Julie Nunes covering Weezer (Originial YouTube Version)
"Love Machine" - Arctic Monkeys covering Girls Aloud (Live Lounge Version)
"Red Alert" - Basement Jaxx

Davyhal

Oh, and "Here Comes Your Man" - The Pixies

old hippy

Anything off The Very Best first album

cometogether

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3vvn2qOh58

Welsh Megaman

Would Sir or Madam care for some cheese to go with their evening meal (the song that makes you want to hi-five everyone in sight)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2uNl0648zQ

Want something meatier? Never fails to raise a smile...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A52p9jc-gOo

And finally...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEgoOTrM2vo

Niles

Can't bate a 90s choon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyi4nLbJ_QU

spankysue

I want to add this to my selection, so cheesy but I love it

SilverScreen

This song brightens up my day no matter what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64W0dQDQ1Pc

jojobeans

Has to be bob marley lively up yourself! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-R3GBF92YDE

Kettleson

And I'm a punk....here we go...I feel good just thinking bout them..:)


Jeff Perry "Love Dont Come No Stronger"
James and Bobby Purify "Morning Glory"
Renaissance "Northern Lights"
Lindisfarne "Run For Home"
PIL "Rise"
Voggue "Dancing The Night Away"
The (Detroit) Spinners, "Rubber Band Man
Phil Oakey and Gorgio Moroder "Together In Electric Dreams"
Limahl "Never Ending Story"
Paul McCartney and Wings "With a Little Luck"
Genesis "Follow You Follow Me"
Thin Lizzy "The Boys Are Back in Town"
Bob Marley "Could You Be Loved"
The Bees Gees "Jive Talking"
The Ramones "I Dont Want To Go Down To The Basement" (Demo Version)

And anything that challenges or awakens the mind.

Here's that Jeff Perry one, give it a spin


http://youtu.be/MpuSR28tFqQ

spankysue

Another few of my favourites have to be:

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3 - Ian Dury and The Blockheads

Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry

Ob La Di Ob La Da - The Beatles

Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Kettleson

Prefab Sprouter reminded me of this one..

http://youtu.be/cWjL5tnk76c

RikkFlair

Jangly guitar pop makes me happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8wgJftpGDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdeqYx-9-AQ

Or a bit of CSS will work too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7eq4RFf0Sc

Pighead

Polyphonic Spree are a great shout. They have a ton of happy tunes. Pull Shapes by The Pipettes is also ridiculously upbeat.

Green Giant

went to a show near where I live at the weekend and this was in it...the whole place was instantly in a great mood

Kettleson

Green Giant wrote: »

went to a show near where I live at the weekend and this was in it...the whole place was instantly in a great mood

Top call Green Giant!! :D:D:D

notnumber

Bit deceptive ..Grandaddy aint all sunshine but they have their moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6GNmZOJd2A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSer4wdHvm8

Niles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jw9k39Fdc

armchair fusilier

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

madness98

Shinny Happy People - REM

digitalfunk

Niles wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jw9k39Fdc

Love this song. So Summer-y!!!

Kettleson

madness98 wrote: »

Shinny Happy People - REM

Er...not to keen on that TBH, just checking if u know what the reference to "Shiny Happy People" is ?

(embalmed corposes in coffins).

unknowngirl!!

Both these song by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.. Cant help but smile!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKdspWe-KdQ
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvw2cf0DJYA

and from Vampire Weekend..

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

notnumber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=291ET6Py6H8

Kettleson

May this never ever cease to raise my spirits...:)

http://youtu.be/eKUq8YUMYI8

notnumber

Kettleson wrote: »

May this never ever cease to raise my spirits...:)

http://youtu.be/eKUq8YUMYI8

hope you know the orignal i guess most do but its depressing enough..thats is a cool tune though!
uplifting as a desc doesn't even come close for this one .. if only ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYfa0__P_pI

Kettleson

notnumber wrote: »

hope you know the orignal i guess most do but its depressing enough..thats is a cool tune though!
uplifting as a desc doesn't even come close for this one .. if only ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYfa0__P_pI

Thanks for that, I do indeed remember the original....amazing how the mood is changed in Dario G's remix.

This song always gave me hope in the dark days of apartheid. Back then I was a young teacher in England giving an assembly to a group of EBD boys at a small special school...we were allowed to play a piece of music at the end of the assembly.

I played this, and the deputy head made a point of storming out of the room in protest, and referred to me as a dangerous subversive, but it only served to reveal himself as a truly bigoted fool. :D:D

http://youtu.be/lzlfd5KQAUA

http://www.univie.ac.at/ecco/stichproben/Nr14_Schumann.pdf

Green Giant

while we're on the subject of the 2010 World Cup...

Davyhal

unknowngirl!! wrote: »

Both these song by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.. Cant help but smile!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKdspWe-KdQ
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvw2cf0DJYA

and from Vampire Weekend..

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

These were my Happy Songs, until my ex ruined them on me!

Welsh Megaman

Anything by Fountains Of Wayne and Teenage Fanclub!

armchair fusilier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfQ9SIRPP0

Kettleson

armchair fusilier wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLfQ9SIRPP0

Good call...and this

http://youtu.be/GUGsZgkjrco

Blue850

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgTKT4r8TVc

Makes the 118 ads on TV bearable

notnumber

playing grand social soon..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0

losthorizon

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

For me, "happy songs" are those that have melodies or just music which uplifts me and makes me feel good about life. Sometimes the lyrics tie in and sometimes the lyrics are not relevant.... as you will see from the mixture below.



Radio Gaga - Queen

I know you said lyrics dont matter that much but I always thought that Radio Ga Ga was always quite sad as it was a wistful look back at the days when Radio was the be all and end all of music which is gone. I like the song though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leohcvmf8kM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6LVI1gDswg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLtvakawa-k

Achtung Maybe

3 Answers

old school one is The Foundations "Build Me Up Buttercup"
current one is U2 "Beautiful Day"
guilty pleasure Aha "The Sun Always Shines on TV"

Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jre6_FBBc0

K.Flyer

Rubber Biscuit by The Blues Brothers
At The Hop by Sha Na Na
Laughing Gnome by David Bowie
Fun Fun Fun by The Beach Boys
Summer in Dublin by Bagatelle
Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Baker St by Gerry Rafferty
To name a few...

bigwormbundoran

Im pretty sure neither of these have been mentioned yet. But both are instant cheerification tunes for me, in their own happy ways!

This for a sort of headphones in, walking down the street with glee happiness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYi7uEvEEmk

This for a more celebratory type of happiness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hiUuL5uTKc

Aglomerado

Happy Hour by the Housemartins.

spankysue

Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins, this song makes me happy on so many levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

Kettleson

That one ^^^^^, reminded me of this one

http://youtu.be/MhXZh_jP_8w

armchair fusilier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4hVt-oktMY