songs that really cheer you up

[johnnymarrsbars]

i'd like to start the ball rolling with these two:

It's 5! - Architechture in Helsinki
Rec & Play - I'm From Barcelona


i'm a real sucker for a bit of harmless Indie Pop when it comes to summery feelgoodness

 

[Julie]

Heaps, but anyway:

Madonna - Holiday
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Chicago - Saturday in the Park
David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
Dr. Hook - Walk Right In

And there's more of course

 

[billy_bob]

ska, pretty much.

 

[ohmyliver]

erm, Playing with knives, by bizzare inc
oh and the bannana splits theme tune allways gets me groovin' like a pancake, and popping like a cork

 

[Sunspots]

Some of these are just all-out happy from the first note onwards. A lot of them though, are songs where the happiness isn't initially there but, somewhere between the start and the end, it kind of sneaks up on me in a fucking wonderful way...

The Edwin Hawkins Singers ~ Oh Happy Day!
Black Flag ~ My War
Super Furry Animals ~ Hello Sunshine
Super Furry Animals ~ Dacw Hi
Plush ~ Three Quarters Blind
Stevie Wonder ~ Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Bjork ~ All Is Full Of Love
Panda Bear ~ Bros
The Zombies ~ Care Of Cell 44
The Kinks ~ Big Sky
Sly & The Family Stone ~ Sing A Simple Song / Remember Who You Are
Beechwood Sparks ~ Confusion Is Nothing New
Teenage Fanclub ~ My Uptight Life
Flaming Lips ~ Do You Realize??
Frank Wilson ~ Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
The Supremes ~ Stoned Love
Lambchop ~ Up With People
The Avalanches ~ Since I Left You
ELO ~ Livin' Thing
Smog ~ Truth Serum
Smog ~ I Feel Like The Mother Of The World
Charles Wright ~ I Got Love
Basil Kirchin ~ E & Me
Buffalo Springfield ~ On The Way Home
Funkadelic ~ Biological Speculation
Olivia Tremor Control ~ It's A New Day
The Millennium ~ It's You
Camper Van Beethoven ~ Take The Skinheads Bowling
Whigfield ~ Saturday Night
Velvet Underground ~ What Goes On
The Modern Lovers ~ Roadrunner
Regina Spektor ~ Hotel Song
Caetano Veloso ~ Alfômega
Prince ~ Let's Go Crazy

Well, they all work for me anyway...

 

[maximilian ping]

chill out mr longlist

mine is Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme by Terry, Blair and Anoushka

 

[Bonfirelight]

Most of the songs from Blink182s 'enema of the state'.

Which is odd, as i imagine it would probably piss most people off to no end.

 

[Sunspots]

chill out mr longlist

I can't help it. I like lots of happy songs.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

panda bear!

have you heard his new record? its a BIT special. too short though for my liking

 

[Sunspots]

panda bear!

have you heard his new record? its a BIT special. too short though for my liking

Yeah, been crazy about it all year. Psychedelic sample reverb-drenched joy: I love it.

 

[milesy]

at the moment, hot rocket trio's "que pasa" gets me going

 

[og ogilby]

Happy Go Lucky Me.---George Formby.

Jambalaya---Hank Williams.

 

[Chairman Meow]

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Whigfield ~ Saturday Night

Well, they all work for me anyway...

WRONG'UN!

 

[innana]

Lilizela Mlilizeli by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens.

This would be the record I'd chose on Desert Island Disks if I could only have one of my choices - always makes me feel happy and start dancing!

 

[Sunspots]

WRONG'UN!

I knew someone would take the bait!

No, I don't care. I really love that song.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

The first to come to mind ...

Lemon Jelly - The staunton Lick

 

[moonsi til]

The Breeders.....Cannonball....gets me jumping up and dancing every time...

 

[Cloo]

Chime - Orbital
The Prince - Madness
I am a Poseur - X-Ray Spex

Happy happy happy!

 

[kained&able]

snuff arse hole, (spunge) my ego and almost anything ska punk will put a smile on face very very quickly. Also terrorvisions joesophenie is a smiley track for me.

Theres many many mnay more but ska punk is the way foward for smiles.




dave

 

[May Kasahara]

Rev Horton Heat - Bad Reputation
Les Thugs - Moon Over Marin

 

[dada]

blister in the sun - violent femmes
i wanna be sedated - the ramones
funky town - lipps inc

 

[Negativland]

Caetano Veloso ~ Alfômega

Good choice, among many others.

Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Kelley Polar - The Rhythm Touch
Rhythm & Sound - Truly (Vladislav Delay rmx)
Luomo - The Present Lover
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Chic - Good Times
Todd Edwards - Restless Soul
Metro Area - Caught Up
Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino

 

[Treacle Toes]

Lilizela Mlilizeli by Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens.

This would be the record I'd chose on Desert Island Disks if I could only have one of my choices - always makes me feel happy and start dancing!

Absolutely spendid choice...

Mine...Brenda Fassie Vuli Ndlela Impossible for me to stay seated when it's playing.
Available for your musical pleasure

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The numa numa song.

 

[og ogilby]

Mine...Brenda Fassie Vuli Ndlela Impossible for me to stay seated when it's playing.

I'll remember that if we ever play musical chairs together.

 

[Treacle Toes]

I'll remember that if we ever play musical chairs together.

 

[London_Calling]

Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling


Beat that

 

[Treacle Toes]

Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling

You have a point there...

 

[ohmyliver]

Jackie Wilson - I Get The Sweetest Feeling


Beat that

What about 'your love has lifted me higher and higher' by otis reading...'up' in a sort of breakbeat gospel way

 

[Treacle Toes]

Oh, oh, oh, how could i forget...'Now that we found love' Third World....Absolute Tune!