top 100 happiest songs of alltime

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100 Walking On Sunshine - Katrina And The Waves

This should actually be #1, but counting down is more fun, and I couldn't think of any other songs.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago)

99. Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:34 (twenty years ago)

98. Divine Comedy - My Lovely Horse

This should actually be #1, but counting down is more fun, and I couldn't think of any other songs.

Of course, you're forgetting that it once made the entire population of a small principality stick thumb-tacks into their eyes.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago)

97. Charlie Lownoise - Wonderful Days

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:50 (twenty years ago)

96. al green - let's stay together

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago)

95. Frankie Knuckles - "The Whistle Song"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

94. Stevie Wonder - "Uptight"

― |_U|2K3|2, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 01:59 (twenty years ago)

93. Lovin Spoonful - "Daydream"

― jsk baby (jsk baby), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:25 (twenty years ago)

92. Frente - Absolutely Kelly Street

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

91. Blur -- Parklife
90. B-52's -- Love Shack

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago)

Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows - Leslie Gore

― louiza (louizah), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

(That would be #89)

― Krim (louizah), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

88. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" -- Jackie Wilson

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:17 (twenty years ago)

87. "Martian Hop"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:48 (twenty years ago)

Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon?

― Asshole Suave, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)

85. I'm in Love - the dB's
84. Milk Film - Haircut 100
(I'm going to listen to these now to prove it to myself.)

― youn, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:14 (twenty years ago)

85. ~~I'm in Love~~ Ask for Jill - the dB's

― youn, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:19 (twenty years ago)

82. Christie, "Yellow River"

81. The Montanas, "You've Got to Be Loved"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

83. Cemetry Gates - the Smiths (continue from 80 now)

― youn, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 04:32 (twenty years ago)

82. PJ Harvey 'This Is Love'
81. Throwing Muses 'Shimmer'

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:30 (twenty years ago)

78. Happy Together - The Turtles

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 05:46 (twenty years ago)

76. Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Belive in Magic
75. The Turtles - You Baby
74. Lulu - The Boat That I Row
73. The Cowsills - The Rain The Park & Other Things (the chorus at least)

― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago)

72 FLuorescences by Stereolab

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago)

71. no doubt, "hella good"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago)

70. rodgers and hammerstein, "oh what a beautiful morning"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:16 (twenty years ago)

69 Brazil '66 "Look Around"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:19 (twenty years ago)

68. modern lovers, "roadrunner"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

67. lindsay buckingham - Holiday Road

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago)

66. I'll Keep You Happy - Ike & Tina Turner

(Good call on that Lulu track Jez)

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago)

65. Daybreak - Barry Manilow

― Acme (acme), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)

64. Marlena Shaw 'Yu-Ma'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:37 (twenty years ago)

63. Bone Thugs N Harmony '1st Of Da Month'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

62. Basement Jaxx 'Do Your Thing'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:38 (twenty years ago)

61. Manix 'Oblivion (Head In The Clouds)' or 'Feal Real Good'
60. Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era 'Far Out'
59. Shades Of Rhythm 'The Sound Of Eden'
58. Deee-Lite 'Picnic In The Summertime'
57. Gerling 'Dust Me Selecta'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light

― sibsi (sibsi), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 11:47 (twenty years ago)

55. 'Welcome Aliens' The Happiest Guys in the world

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago)

54. Moby 'Bring Back My Happiness'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago)

53. Madonna 'Holiday'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago)

52. Spiderbait - "Glokenpop"

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:06 (twenty years ago)

Love - everybody's got to live.

― woolfboy, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:20 (twenty years ago)

(I swear the thread title was top 100 harpiest songs of all time.)

50. Wish I Was Danny Kaye - Miracle Legion

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago)

49. Rick Rizzo & Tara Key 'Sinfo'
48. St Etienne 'Action'
47. Northside 'Shall We Take A Trip?'
46. Boards Of Canada 'Roygbiv'
45. Harry J All stars 'The Liquidator'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:24 (twenty years ago)

44. Donna Fargo - "The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA"

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago)

43. lemonheads - alison's starting to happen
42. the orb - little fluffy clouds
41. lil wayne - this is the carter
40. petey pablo - did you miss me?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

stevem i thought u found BoC depressing?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago)

39. Bruce Low - "Alte Haus von Rocky Docky"

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:41 (twenty years ago)

53. Madonna 'Holiday'

i can see how "holiday" could make you happy as a listener. it makes me happy. but the first word of the song -- "if" -- gives away the fact that the singer may not be coming from a place of happiness herself. i think this song is more about wanting to be happy, or trying to be happy, rather than actually being happy. for whatever that's worth.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)

38. The Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

37. The Rolling Stones - Happy
(It's a Keith song, so it probably is genuinely about being happy)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

stevem i thought u found BoC depressing?

much of their work yes, but not that one

factcheckingcuz - it's not just about the lyrics tho is it, it's such a groovy feelgood production. anyway 'if' suggests hope and the whole thing at least alludes to happiness, so that'll do for me. i was actually going to pick 'Borderline' for the same reason.

36. The Boo Radleys 'Wake Up Boo' (despite 'death of Summer' bits)

35. Prince 'Raspberry Beret'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago)

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15. "Up Up And Away" - The Fifth Diminsion
14. "Play In The Sunshine" - Prince
13. "I Found Love" - Lone Justice

― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Thursday, 23 December 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago)

12. Hot Chocolate - Sexy Thing

― rob lotek, Thursday, 23 December 2004 03:28 (twenty years ago)

11. Bobby Sherman, "Easy Come, Easy Go"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago)

10. Happy People by R. Kelly

― Dante, Der Führer (Sean3), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:57 (twenty years ago)

9. Earth Wind & Fire with the Emotions, "Boogie Wonderland"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 23 December 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago)

good call on the beck, nickalish, hadn't noticed the similarities b4

8. bjork "violently happy"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 23 December 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago)

marbles 'sun to shine'
i love this song!! always make me smile :)

7. The Archies - "Sugar Sugar"
6. Magnetic Fields - "You and Me and the Moon"
5. Justus Kohncke/Freiland - "Hot Love"

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:49 (twenty years ago)

4. The Wedding Present "Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 23 December 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago)

3. Feminine Complex - Forgetting
2. Seekers - Georgy Girl
1. Monkees - Daydream Believer

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 23 December 2004 08:22 (twenty years ago)

0. Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 23 December 2004 08:52 (twenty years ago)

'Uptight' was in twice so replace with 'Teenage Kicks'

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 23 December 2004 10:17 (twenty years ago)

So, no place for Dodgy's "Staying Out For The Summer" nor Kim Appleby's "G.L.A.D" then?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 December 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago)

-1 The Beatles, "Getting Better"

― mike a, Thursday, 23 December 2004 14:04 (twenty years ago)

-2. The Turtles, "She's My Girl"

-3. Cuff Links, "Tracy"

-4. Carpenters, "Sing"

-5. Carole King, "Alligators All Around"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 23 December 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

[The Turtles have so many happy songs. I've got to look into them.]

― youn, Thursday, 23 December 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Starting off with

6. The Turtles: Elenore

then

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

-7. "I Wanna Be With You" - The Raspberries

― billstevejim, Thursday, 23 December 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago)

6. 'thirsty and miserable' Black Flag

― hull hole (hull hole), Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago)

FLIPPER ha ha ha (they're laughing, right?)

― hull hole (hull hole), Thursday, 23 December 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

no madness songs at all???

-8. madness - night boat to cairo
-9. madness - house of fun
-10. madness - baggy trousers

― zeus, Thursday, 23 December 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago)

11. The Cure: Mint Car

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 December 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago)

-12. Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns: Lil Liza Jane (when the saxophone player starts quoting "Humoresque," I defy anybody to be anything other than happy

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 23 December 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

-13. Stevie Wonder - "Sir Duke"

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

why are all the multiple threads getting locked?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

-- Violent Femmes.

Every day, in every way
It's getting better and better and better and better and better and...
because there is no fear, here
i'm running through the fields if i could just jump a little bit higher
cuz i'm free and i'm happy
i'm free from your hatred, i departed from the part
that i participated in, cuz i'm free.

The Mills Bros. -- "The Window Washer Man"

Jonathon Richman -- "Roller Coaster by the Sea"

Kinky Friedman -- "Schwinn 24"

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

-18. Petula Clark-"Color My World"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Play some more" - Beres Hammond
"Down by the River" - Morgan Heritage

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

-21. "I'm Alive" - ELO

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

king sunny ade - "365 is my number/the message"

― naturemorte, Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

uh, "steal my sunshine" by len is the clear late 90s one hit wonder contender here

― methanie tanner (methanie tanner), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

88. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher" -- Jackie Wilson

-- briania (lyriclas...), December 22nd, 2004.

Seconded: Remember "Ghostbusters II"? The only thing that stopped Vigo the Carpathian was the sheer joyousness of "Higher and Higher". I remember this well, because this was the highwatermark of us Carpathians' bid for world domination. Damn you, Venkman.

― Okeigh, Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amazed Caetano Veloso's "How Beautiful Could a Being Be?" didn't get mentioned yet.

― erklie (erklie), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Soy loco por ti america also always struck me as sprightly tune.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ignore the stuff about the dead guy of course.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:25 (nineteen years ago)

King Harvest, "Dancing in the Moonlight" - electric piano happy madness

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 March 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

-22. Smile Happy - WAR

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e126/crawuncle/vigo.jpg

― Vigo the Carpathian, Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

#X. Russian Futurists - "Let's Get Ready to Crumble"

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

-24. banana splits, "i enjoy being a boy"
-25. kiss, "rock and roll all nite"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

don't worry , be happy.

― retrokid, Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

how bizarre how bizarre!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 2 March 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

-28. "Hooked on a Feeling" (either popular version)

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

27. manix - 'feel real good'

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

ah, that was already listed! ok, then

27. sonz of a da loop da loop era - peace and loveism

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

-29. "Mr. Blue Sky" - ELO

― John Jacob, Friday, 3 March 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

egyptian shumbe. makes me happy tell u that much.

― piscesboy, Friday, 3 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of Vigo:

Bobby Brown, "On Our Own" (and, more to the point, "Every Little Step")

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 March 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't Worry Be Happy" rarely makes me happy.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 4 March 2006 08:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kid Creole & The Coconuts- "I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby" never fails.

― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Saturday, 4 March 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

34. Love Train by the Ojays

35. Move on Up by Curtis Mayfield

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

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