100 uplifting songs to counter the incessant melodrama...

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...because no matter how bad this is I still see the same things when I look outside my window.

1. (Smog) - "Hit the Ground Running"

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago)

2. Dizzee Rascal 'Do It'

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago)

3. Roland Alphonso - "Pheonix City"

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago)

4. Wilco - Pot Kettle Black

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 4 November 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Weather Girls -- It's Raining Men

― Jimmy Mod always makes friends with women before bedding them down (ModJ), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)

6. elk city - freeze two over eight

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I guess #4 isn't so much "uplifiting" as it is catchy - it's burrowed deep inside my brain, running on repeat in my mind for days and still making me smile.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago)

7. Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago)

8. slowdive - shine

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder, "Summer Soft"

My all-purpose answer, always. But, in this case, the song's theme -- the unforgiving swiftness of time's passage -- is really comforting, whereas I usually read it as despairing and wistful.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 5 November 2004 07:01 (twenty years ago)

"love lift us up where we belong" - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 5 November 2004 07:15 (twenty years ago)

11. Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 5 November 2004 07:16 (twenty years ago)

12. hidden cameras - doot doot plot

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 5 November 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Rush - "Xanadu"

― Flavius, Friday, 5 November 2004 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Mr Bloe - Grooving w/ Mr Bloe
Turtles - You Baby
Tomorrow's World - Forgetting

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 5 November 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago)

Cornelius - 'New Music Machine'
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - 'A Day In The Radio'
Yukari Freah - 'Paul Scholes'
Britney - 'Brave New Girl'
Cut Copy - 'Nine Summertime'

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Friday, 5 November 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

22 andrew wk - dont stop living in the red
23 andrew wk - i get wet
24 andrew wk - ready to die
25 todd rundgren - just one victory
26 abba - super trouper
27 the crystals - he's a rebel
28 unrest - makeout club
29 unrest - so sick
30 pavement - gold soundz
31 the new pornographers - from blown speakers

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 5 November 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago)

talking heads - and she was

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 5 November 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

33. The Pharcyde - Soul Flower (remix)

― rwillmsen (rwillmsen), Saturday, 6 November 2004 12:21 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

34. Frank Sinatra, Oh! Look At Me Now ('A Swingin' Affair' version)
35. Prince, Erotic City
36. Jackie DeShannon, When You Walk in the Room
37. Ralph Robles, Soul Nitty Gritty
38. DJ Kool, Let Me Clear My Throat
39. Love, The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
40. LCD Soundsystem, Daft Punk is Playing At My House

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

41. Johnny Cash, What Do I Care

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

42. The Banana Splits, Soul

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

43. Sandie Shaw Coconut Grove

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Sunday, 29 May 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Is that a Lovin' Spoonful cover? I only have her greatest hits.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

For me, on a very serious note:
"Don't let no one get you down" by War.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 29 May 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

They're great. More, Bobby!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

That it, man. That's the one.

But if I had to follow it up in a chill out set... I'd say "Love is stronger than pride" by Sade, or "Smile Happy" by War (also on 'Why Can't We Be Friends', so maybe you just want to let that album play).

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

anything by motorhead

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Bobby, do you have the 'World is a Ghetto' album? "City, Country, City" fits right in with what you're talking about.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

lemmy knows that he's born to lose, and gambling's for fools, and that's way he likes it baby, he don't wanna live forever.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, Ricky (x-post) plus: Deliver The Word is ever soothing.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 29 May 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

God, are we such malcontents that we can't come up with 100 of these?

48. "I'm On Fire," 5000 Volts

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

49 Underworld - two months off

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

50. "We Are Going To Be Friends" - White Stripes

Love 'em or not, it's one cuddly pile o' happy...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

Doop - Doop

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

52. "Would You Believe It (I Have a Cold)," Huey "Piano" Smith and the Clowns
53. "I Am I Be," De La Soul
54. "I Get Lifted," George McCrae
55. "Chewing Gum," Annie
56. "Head Held High," The Velvet Underground

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

57. ashby "horizon"

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

58. 'Right Side of a Good Thing' by The Fleshtones

59. 'Lady' by The Commodores

60. 'Can You Feel It' by The Jacksons

― Nackles (Nackles), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

divine comedy 'sunrise'

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

62. Commodores, "Machine Gun"

63. Maxine Nightingale, "Right Back Where We Started From"

64. Kiki Dee Band, "I've Got the Music in Me"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

65. Daft Punk, "Daftindirekt"
66. Shuggie Otis, "Happy House"

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

67. Sly Stone, 'In Time'
68. Phoenix, 'If I Ever Feel Better'
69. the 5th Dimension, 'Up Up and Away'

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

70. Daniel Johnston, 'Now'
71. The Piltones, '4 of 5 Kids'

― sibsi (sibsi), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

72. it's a good thing - that petrol emotion.

damn that one always kicked out the bad mood vibes when i was a hormonally imbalanced waif.

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

73. "Hey Sailor," The Detroit Cobras
74. "Original Faubus Fables," Charles Mingus
75. "People Say," The Go-Betweens

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

'michael' frank and walters

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

76. Blaze - Lovelee Dae

― jeffery (jeffery), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

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