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so, as anyone who's been monitoring my posts (and don't tell me if you were because if you're that bored then you are obviously a scary stalker-type prolly with back hair and clammy hands) lately knows, i've been in a pretty foul mood for any number of reasons. so i've decided to make ye olde "up-liftin songs mix tape"...so far i have...

the third track off "the indestructible beat of soweto" (whose name eludes me, but which never fails to make me smile.)

something madchester-y...havent sussed out what yet...

st. etienne - "london belongs to me"

...finish me up here folks.

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(i didn't post this on ilm because i would have more than likely got the "this has been done before.") ;)

(and yes, damnit, i posted two questions today. in a row no less. both highly narcissitc. bugger off in advance, you pedant pirates, you.) ;)

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

charlie mingus - live version of better git it in your soul without fail

― Ed, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stuff that cheers me up at the moment includes: Ray Of Light, Romeo, Sidewalk by Built To Spill, Temptation by New Order, Roygbiv, Chime, The Red Door by The Aislers Set. Though thinking about it, the latter can also make me cry like a gurl, so it might not be the best thing to include on an uplifting songs tape.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oooh. romeo. thank you sir. (and happy b-day finally, btw.)

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

midnight marauders is the most comfy album i own. a good call on roygbiv too.

― ethan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jess can I pluck out your pubic mass of fur with teeth of pig?

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no.

but "teeth of pig" is now the name of the tape. thank you, you silly little muffin you.

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I forget the band but its called The Scottish Song, some cover of Travis. Guvnor - Lucky Ladybug, New Pornographers - Mass Romantic.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know what it is but it's a record that sounds like a glitchy dance thing, bit dark, with Adam Ant samples. And whenever I hear it I have to stop everything and jump up and down.

― suzy, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*now* i'm intrigued...

..someone pleez identify this...right now.

― jess, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hochenkeit "Omu4h 4aholab/400 Boys"

Simply put, the best stellar/bliss-out record of 2001 so far.

If you like Mogwai, Bugskull, The Fall, Amon Duul II, Bardo Pond...

― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

off the books makes me jump up and down.

― ethan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think suzy is talking about dmx krew though.

― ethan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Leandro Orlando of Switzerland. :-P

― dinosaur, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oldies. Lots and lots of Oldies. Higher and Higher See also: Teenage Kicks, I Think I'm In Love, I'm A Thug, I'm Real, The whole of the Josie soundtrack, You Don't See Me included.
― JM, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hiphop junkies makes me happy. 'after marriage, the honey-MOON! / i'll be damned, gag me with a SPOON!'
― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck you, italics.

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm.. "Seems So" by Apples in Stereo, "Been Hiding" by Aislers Set, anything Baxendale, "Three Feet High & Rising", "Bizzare Ride II The Pharcyde" and Call & Response. Those always pep me up.

― phil, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm feeling like a Monday but someday I'll be Saturday night! - Always works for me!

― jel, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Build me up buttercup by the Temptations, Chime by Orbital (always makes me smile), 4 skinny indie kids by half man half biscuit.

― chris, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

d'archangelo - diagram vii (80s mix). twee motorik.

― gareth, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh, anything by the Ramones works for me. And Jonathan Richman, especially "Parties in the USA". "Nothing Can Stop Us Now", St.Etienne.

Uplifting song of the millenium = "I Am The Resurrection", Stone Roses.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Two more: 'Cakes' - Max Tundra, 'A Different Feeling' - Avalanches.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I listen to King Tubby's Shining Dub (Unleashed Dub From King Tubbys Studio Vol. 1) on Lagoon/Esoldun if stressed. I've owned it about 7 or 8 years, it's reliable!

Harder Dub
Nuclear Dub
Satta Dub
Puppy dub
Dubbing My Way (I think there's a kazoo in this one)
Conqueror Dub (and chirping birds here)
Confinement Dub
Herbal Dub
Leggo Dub
Easy Dub
Shining Dub
No Idiot Dub

― Lesley Higgins, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Northern Lites by Super Furry Animals, Rocks by Primal Scream, Temptation by New Order also, Born Slippy by Underworld. And they're all in the jukebox which me and my mates tend to monopolise at the student bar,

― Ronan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

puccini's aria from madame butterfly, the colected red house painters, shellac's 1000 hurts, and lou reed's metal machine music alway picks me up.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kind of Blue by Miles Davis (duh)

― Samantha, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'seems so' is glorious.

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*snickers.* fucking hippie.

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Geoff - Which aria?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The APPLES IN STEREO. The man quotes the Beatnuts & Jadakiss all the live long day, and the thing that soothes his soul is the APPLES IN STEREO. (And it's not even that good a song, yo.) (Ah, but I'll stop bitchin', because I love you, warts & all.)

What soothes me: most anything, but I'll put my votes towards Spoon's _A Series of Sneaks_ (Britt Daniel & Co. working out their post-punk jones to great effect) and the Jim Yoshii Pile-Up's _It's Winter Here_ (sounds like down-to-earth rock-era Mogwai; sings about the sort of stuff Superchunk's "Slack Motherfucker" would sing about now). And I think the Embarrassment's _Heyday_ would be very soothing & uplifting, even after listening to "Patio Set" and "Drive Me to the Park" 95 bazillion times.

Hey, there goes Art Carney again. What a ... party.

Art Carney...

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Listen the Snow is Falling

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also...Archers of Loaf vs. the Greatest off all Time is good for lifting my mood.

― jel, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nice and smooth are fuuuunky, also hiphop juuuunkies

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only times I ever, ever want to hear Megadeth or the Olivia Tremor Control are when I am feeling terrible.

― Maria, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*that* could be the oddest and greatest mix tape of all time.

― jess, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Currently, Hal Wilner's Whoops, I'm An Indian is doing wonders.

― Tom, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cause i mix words and match em, i chase words and catch em / the a in alkaholiks stands for all about the action / and that's the whole attraction to skip to my shit / rock the mic in my palm beyond ah-de- quate / split shit with the cheese and the h- o-e's / the ones i only call at night, you know my low keys / while downin' olde e's with the likwit mcs / the crew that takes the party higher than the flyin trapeze

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, I totally got shot down today by this cute boy I've been crushing for awhile... Disappointment. Good timing with the topic, jess. I've been listening to some of the suggestions [my own, and of others]. Besides the APPLES [Seems So and Tin Pan Alley], obviously, I also took ethan's advice and dug out that Beatnuts album from my closet. "Watch Out Now" has to be the poppiest hiphop song ever. I especially like the part about heat rashes and fake passes in clubs, fake rollies, and kneepads for jail... Argh.

― phil, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

flip a beat fast, you leave the club with a heat rash / got a weak stash, came in the club with a free pass / i ain't even know they made a roley for your cheap ass / makin me laugh, you was in jail wearin kneepads

good call, phil. but has no-one dug out hiphop junkies yet?

― ethan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I'm feeling bad I usually don't want to hear happy music.

― Sean, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I'm feeling really bad nothing is going to help. Even the happy or aggressive/upbeat stuff ends up sounding poignant and wistful.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BANANARAMA!!!!

― di, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dan - the aria from act two, un bel di vedremo - bought a great cd today with montserrat caballe doing it, worthy of swoon.

― Geoff, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Real McCoy's "Come and Get Your Love" (remake of the Redbone song from '74) is one of the most gloriously silly things ever. Funky 4 + 1's "That's the Joint" is the second-greatest single ever made (Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache" being first).

― M. Matos, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Third Finger, Left Hand' by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.

― Nick, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Janet Jackson-"Together Again", Limahl-"Neverending Story", anything Jim Steinman-produced, any Shangri-Las, Shirley Ellis-"The Clapping Song".

― Arthur, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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