Uplifting Songs
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un-canny... i haven't opened the shutters in my bedroom since i moved in, and now i can't open them because there is a black painting leaning against them.Idaho said:I'm picturing you now.... single room... curtains drawn in the day time. Perpetual smell of damp. Ashtrays full, fridge is empty
here's another real uplfting record theo: Ween "Roses Are Free"
Flavour
hang the bankers
for me, its all about feel good summertime hip hop...
dead prez - happiness
dre - nuthin but a g thang
jadakiss - we gonna make it
pretty much the entire jurassic 5 lp, esp. action satisfaction & improvise, & jayou
asian dub foundation - collective mode
credit to the nation - teenage sensation
nas - the world is yours
tribe called quest - buggin out
2pac - to live and die in LA
dead prez - happiness
dre - nuthin but a g thang
jadakiss - we gonna make it
pretty much the entire jurassic 5 lp, esp. action satisfaction & improvise, & jayou
asian dub foundation - collective mode
credit to the nation - teenage sensation
nas - the world is yours
tribe called quest - buggin out
2pac - to live and die in LA
Wolfie said:what's the one about putting a message in a box putting the box in a car and driving the car around the world? - that always gets me going
That's uplifting if you're on a broken relationship downer.
'I'm a Believer' is a great uplifting tune.
I also like to put on Joe Jackson 'Can't Get What You Want 'til You Know What You Want' for a big motivational lift.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Vixen said:oh my god! me too!
(most of the album actually but especially somebody else's sigh)
i'm in love with it!
interestingly prior to really hearing them i hated them.. ba said he knew i'd like them due to my frequent sporting of a cardigan.
i used to hate them as well, i lumped them in with britpop, which was silly of me, and it was only through people championing them on here that i gave them a chance and discovered they were more like pulp.
boing! said:
that is rocking
starfish said:
Fuckin ace. Only problem I have is that everytime I listen to a McKenzie track these days I think about him topping himself in his mum's garden shed
Total, unrecognised, unrewarded genious. How friggin sad.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Max Romeo - Wet Dream
Johnny Osborne - Water Pumpin
Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping and Melody Life (Hi Lite stylee)
Parragons(John Holt) - Same Song
Man with No Name - Floor Essence
Doof - Full Moon Over Parvati
Nosmo King - Good Bye, Nothing to Say
Four Seasons - The Night
Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells danger
Prince Buster - Wine and Grine
Johnny Osborne - Water Pumpin
Marcia Griffiths - Feel Like Jumping and Melody Life (Hi Lite stylee)
Parragons(John Holt) - Same Song
Man with No Name - Floor Essence
Doof - Full Moon Over Parvati
Nosmo King - Good Bye, Nothing to Say
Four Seasons - The Night
Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells danger
Prince Buster - Wine and Grine
starfish said:Sorry he did what?Didnt know.
Fucking crap innit.
An innovative musical genious like that ends up skint living at his mums house. As if that isn't bad enough. What a very sad end to a great life.
Billy McKenzie was possibly my most admired musician as a teenager.
Long live 'Helicopter, helicopter'.
'Perhaps' has to be the most brilliant album to come out of the whole 80's electro from your bedroom genre. If only he'd been taught about the money.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
Earlier this evening I marched around the kitchen to Dylan's 'Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)'.
Can you tell me where we're heading,
Lincoln county road or armageddon,
Seems like I been this way before. . .
Is there any truth in that, Senor?
Then there's Warren Zevon's 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner'
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
Roland the Thompson gunner...
His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son But time stands still for Roland
'Til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it
Dubversion's right to namecheck Van's Sweet Thing - but I have to say I think the Waterboy's version is better.
And Van's most uplifting stuff ever was on the album Into the Music. And I mean the entire album when I say that.
One last thing - the Specials 'Message to you Rudie'. The world seems a better brighter place while that one is playing.
Can you tell me where we're heading,
Lincoln county road or armageddon,
Seems like I been this way before. . .
Is there any truth in that, Senor?
Then there's Warren Zevon's 'Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner'
Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray
Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese
Roland the Thompson gunner...
His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head
Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son But time stands still for Roland
'Til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg
Roland the headless Thompson gunner...
The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it
Dubversion's right to namecheck Van's Sweet Thing - but I have to say I think the Waterboy's version is better.
And Van's most uplifting stuff ever was on the album Into the Music. And I mean the entire album when I say that.
One last thing - the Specials 'Message to you Rudie'. The world seems a better brighter place while that one is playing.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
My favourite pick you up uplifting tune has to be 'Better Must Come' by Delroy Wilson.
BETTER MUST COME (Delroy Wilson)
I've been trying a long, long time
Still I can't make it
Everything I try to do seems to go wrong
It seems I have done something wrong
But they're trying to keep me down
Who God bless, no one curse,
thank God I'm past the worst
Better must come one day
Better must come, they can't conquer me
Better must come [*fine]
I've been trying a long, long time
But I can't make it
Noone to give me a helping hand
The only sign keeps me down
Who God...
Oh my people get a seed (seat ?)
They're trying to take advantage of me
Better must come, better must come
Better must come one day
Better must come [da capo al *fine]
(Even though the lyrics are about being down.)
BETTER MUST COME (Delroy Wilson)
I've been trying a long, long time
Still I can't make it
Everything I try to do seems to go wrong
It seems I have done something wrong
But they're trying to keep me down
Who God bless, no one curse,
thank God I'm past the worst
Better must come one day
Better must come, they can't conquer me
Better must come [*fine]
I've been trying a long, long time
But I can't make it
Noone to give me a helping hand
The only sign keeps me down
Who God...
Oh my people get a seed (seat ?)
They're trying to take advantage of me
Better must come, better must come
Better must come one day
Better must come [da capo al *fine]
(Even though the lyrics are about being down.)
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
And I've got 'Rapture' by Sparfunk and Joe Solo on at the moment and that workds pretty well.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
Good Fortune - PJ Harvey
La Primavera - Manu Chao
Sex Machine - James Brown
True Faith - New Order
Moustahil - Natacha Atlas
E=MCsquared - now, what did they call the band (inc. Mick Jones from the Clash) who did that??
On the tip of my tongue. If I google E=MC2 I get a load of stuff about Einstein.
La Primavera - Manu Chao
Sex Machine - James Brown
True Faith - New Order
Moustahil - Natacha Atlas
E=MCsquared - now, what did they call the band (inc. Mick Jones from the Clash) who did that??
On the tip of my tongue. If I google E=MC2 I get a load of stuff about Einstein. Tricky Mickey
regular as clockwork
Five that make me glad to be alive:
Pleasure: Joyous
Higga Boom: Gene Harris
Les Fleurs: Minnie Riperton
California: Joni Mitchell
I'm On My Way: Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Pleasure: Joyous
Higga Boom: Gene Harris
Les Fleurs: Minnie Riperton
California: Joni Mitchell
I'm On My Way: Cannonball Adderley Quintet
Treacle Toes
Time
Now that we found love by Third World and
Yeke Yeke by...(can't remember for the moment).....can not say seated or unhappy for either of them.
Yeke Yeke by...(can't remember for the moment).....can not say seated or unhappy for either of them.
montevideo
New Member
oryx said:Good Fortune - PJ Harvey
La Primavera - Manu Chao
Sex Machine - James Brown
True Faith - New Order
Moustahil - Natacha Atlas
E=MCsquared - now, what did they call the band (inc. Mick Jones from the Clash) who did that??
big audio dynamite
Treacle Toes
Time
oryx said:
Kiddar by Natacha Atlas
*Miss Daisy*
Suck a Big Hairy....
cant remember the title but it goes like this,,,
"Coz I'm free to do what I want any old time,,,"
Sweet thing by Van is great innit Dubs, gone right off Brown eyed girl tho
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Free Falling - Tom Petty
You sexy thing - Hot Chocolate
Purple Rain -
} Prince
Little red Corvette -
Love in a trash can -The Raveonettes
Sympathy for the devil - Rolling Stones
Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Talking Heads
"Coz I'm free to do what I want any old time,,,"
Sweet thing by Van is great innit Dubs, gone right off Brown eyed girl tho
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Free Falling - Tom Petty
You sexy thing - Hot Chocolate
Purple Rain -
} Prince
Little red Corvette -
Love in a trash can -The Raveonettes
Sympathy for the devil - Rolling Stones
Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Talking Heads
montevideo
New Member
*Miss Daisy* said:cant remember the title but it goes like this,,,
"Coz I'm free to do what I want any old time,,,"
Sweet thing by Van is great innit Dubs, gone right off Brown eyed girl tho
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Free Falling - Tom Petty
You sexy thing - Hot Chocolate
Purple Rain -
} Prince
Little red Corvette -
Love in a trash can -The Raveonettes
Sympathy for the devil - Rolling Stones
Filthy/Gorgeous - Scissor Sisters
Talking Heads
soup dragons doing i'm free
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