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No matter what mood you are in: this song makes you forget your troubles

For me - Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice

― Donny Gordon, Friday, 29 August 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Summer's Cauldron" by XTC
"Summerhead" by the Cocteau Twins
"Love You More" by the Buzzcocks
"East Easy Rider" by Julian Cope
"You're My Best Friend" by Queen
"She's Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult
"Let's All Go (To the Fire Dances)" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Blue Skies" - Ella Fitzgerald

― Jeremy, Friday, 29 August 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Friday I'm In Love" by The Cure

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

'patio song' by gorky's zygotic mynci

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet Jane - VU - version on Loaded.

― wayoutwest (Nick D), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

There's gotta be MORE TO LIFE
than chasing down EV-ERY TEMPORARY HI-IGH!

(spoken like a true Christian 16 year old)

― scaredy cat, Friday, 29 August 2003 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"In the Neighborhood" by Tom Waits

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

STARMAN BY DAVID BOWIE!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green - "Tired of Being Alone"
Hedwig & the Angry Inch - "Wig in a Box"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Outkast, "Hey Ya"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Can't Take My Eyes Off of You

― ModJ, Saturday, 30 August 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Segun Bucknor, "La La La"
Morrissey, "Now My Heart Is Full"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 30 August 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

There are some moods where it's pretty damn hard for any song to do this, quite frankly, but these are some that come as close as anything else could

Yes - "I've Seen All Good People", "Starship Trooper"
Michael Torke - Color Music
Steve Reich - Tehillim
Andrew WK - I Get Wet (the whole thing)
Stooges - "1970" used to be the last-resort option at one point but I really haven't listened in years.
possibly, Oren Ambarchi - "Suspension"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 August 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"You're My Best Friend" is a good choice. I actually hear "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as kind of sad.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 30 August 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Pet Shop Boys - "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing"

― fiofio (fiona), Saturday, 30 August 2003 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to buy the world a coke

― shale, Saturday, 30 August 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

what a wonderful world - louis armstrong

― Elliot (Elliot), Saturday, 30 August 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Heptones "Make Up Your Mind"

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 30 August 2003 06:06 (twenty-two years ago)

funky kingston -toots

― autovac (autovac), Saturday, 30 August 2003 08:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Teenage Fanclub, "Sparky's dream"

― quiksilver messenger (quiksilver messenger), Saturday, 30 August 2003 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Mama Cass - It's Getting Better
The Turtles - You Baby
Lulu - The Boat that I Row

― Jez (Jez), Saturday, 30 August 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

2112/RUSH

― lookout babe, Saturday, 30 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll Keep You Happy - Ika & Tina Turner (B side of UK River Deep Mountain High 7") never fails to have me bouncing off the walls like a maniac.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 30 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Band, "Look Out, Cleveland"

― Famous Athlete, Sunday, 31 August 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Jackie Wilson - "Higher & Higher"

― briania, Sunday, 31 August 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually hear "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as kind of sad.

Me too! It's melancholy as hell, because you know the intense emotions and desires it contains aren't going to last forever, and you know the singer will eventually get everything he wants, but by the time he gets it he won't want it quite as much.

Anyway, on topic...

Dusty Springfield, "Sunny"
Jacques Brel, "La valse a mille temps"
The Jackson Five, "I Want You Back"
CeCe Peniston, "Finally"

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Monday, 1 September 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Lamb - Gorecki (Global Communication mix)
Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Monday, 1 September 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Monkees - Daydream Believer

― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 1 September 2003 04:45 (twenty-two years ago)

New Order - Temptation & Dream Attack

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Monday, 1 September 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think my immediate association with the word "uplifting" in relation to music includes something just a little beyond simply being cheered up, but anyway, as this is one of my favourite properties of music, I have some I think are really stellar:

something good by the utah saints, which samples kate bush's cloudbusting ("ooo-oo I just know that something good is gonna happen") ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the techno sesame street theme, sesame's treet by the Smart E's

rez by Underworld

the co2 mix of the B 52s' revolution earth though this has an element of sadness but it's incredible sweeping ahhh looking at the stars music [by the way this version is very hard to track down - can anyone help me get it???? - I lost both my copies, which were firstly the b-side to the cassingle and secondly an mp3]

the B-52s generally - well "Love Shack" and maybe "dirty back roads"? heaps by them I'm sure.

going down to liverpool by the Bangles can be uplifting if you're on the dole!

What about "jump jump" by Kriss Kross...!

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Monday, 1 September 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Not really a "song", but the fifth part of Angel Passage, Alan Moore's spoken-word-with-music about William Blake, is absolutely fantastic.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 1 September 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie Wonder- Uptight
The Foundations- Build Me Up Buttercup
Sly & The Family Stone- Dance To The Music
Smokey Robinson- Tears Of A Clown [ironically]
The Beatles- Hello Goodbye
De La Soul- The Magic Number
Can- You Doo Right

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You doo right? Uplifting?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Wishbone Ash-Time Was
Cocteau Twins-Pearly dew drops Drop
VU-What goes on

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"You doo right? Uplifting?"

Hell yes. Listen to Malcolm's words; check out those
key changes; dig Irmin's swelling keyboards; marvel
at Holger's earth-moving bass line; bow down
to Jaki's mammoth pulse. It's a gradual uplifting,
granted, but, jesus, is it powerful.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

new order - temptation
sean paul - like glue
archigram - carnival

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Chills, "Heavenly Pop Hit"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure I'll get tar & feathered for this, but I think the first and...er...only album by The La's is pretty uplifting....despite the fact that Lee Mavers has since become a gurgling recluse and madman.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dylan, "I Want You"

(really strange I forgot this bit of Bob-ness earlier on)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Cyclops Rock - They Might Be Giants

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Cee-Lo "Closet Freak" instant mood shiftah from bad to good.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

fourteen years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0B33EX5R5Y

― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 02:53 (seven years ago)

crazy on you by heart

― Ross, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 04:04 (seven years ago)

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