Life-affirming songs for when you are feeling battered by the cruel vicissitudes of day-to-day blah

the zombies, "care of cell 44"
feels so good you're coming home soon!

and on an entirely different note: toots and the maytals, "pressure drop"

I hear you on the Queen song.

Of Montreal's "She's a Rejector" helps me when I'm blue, as does the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out."

Cannibal Ox - "Scream Phoenix" is great for transcending bullshit

Thievery Corporation - Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes

Do you mind if I always love you?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Escapade by Janet
and
other stuff

Sweet Like Chocolate - Shanks and Bigfoot.

Breakfast in Bed - Lorna Bennett (even though it's about quite a fucked-up situation, it's just such a pretty piece of music)

don't stop believin'

kanye - good morning

don't give up

Detroit has a skyline - Superchunk

the zombies, "care of cell 44"

but - this song is a total bummer!

Thanks, you guys!!! Keep 'em coming! I am going to take a scientific approach and make a comp (or at least a folder on iTunes w/all of these) and then submerge myself in them...

At the moment I am immersing myself in the results of an orgy of some massive multi-volume bubblegum comp that I've d/l'ed a ton of tracks from. The results of that exercise deserve a post in and of itself, and I will report on that in some detail a bit later.

Joey Levine/Richie Cordell axis of wow

That gumstuff is not necessarily what I'm soliciting here, but, regardless it's blowing my mind in good ways, etc.

Yeah Kanye all over this one. I use "We Don't Care" as a kind of drug.

the zombies, "care of cell 44"

but - this song is a total bummer!

sometimes the bummer songs at just the right time can be just the right prescription, though. that's why I wanna encourage responses to be as subjective as fuckall

Let's Spend the Night Together
Cha Cha 2000

BACK TO THE OLD SKOOL...

Sweet harmony - Liquid
Far Out - Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era
Sweet Sensation - Shade of Rhthym
Hurt U So - Jonny L

This kind of shit always cheers me up no end, but I know other people who it just gives a headache.

"Ballad of El Goodo" and every song on the Ramones first three albums

Beach Boys "Time to Get Alone" (actually pretty much the entirety of "Friends" album)

Cha Cha 2000

^^^^ YES

er wait Time to Get Alone is on 20/20 maybe...? whatever

sometimes the bummer songs at just the right time can be just the right prescription, though. that's why I wanna encourage responses to be as subjective as fuckall

or the what-have-you. like, i just listened to "No More" from Black Flag Damaged record, and the spirit of classic SST Greg Ginn shred and Rollins slfjksjelj4!!!! and the whole package cleared my head something good.

"Feast of Blaze" by Killing Joke
"Black To Comm" by the MC5
"Harmony in My Head" by the Buzzcocks

Cee-Lo "Getting Grown"
or maybe any Cee-Lo?

I love you Cee-Lo.

"the good life" kanye
"encore" jay-z
"janie jones" the clash
"slow ride" FOG HAT SON
"somethin else" cannonball adderly

"SpottieOttieDopaliscious" outkast

"southern girls" - cheap trick

"orbits" miles davis

run-dmc in general

Let's Spend the Night Together

OTM.

2 Of Us - Jonny L

that ridiculous rilo kiley song about how some days are just bad but you're still a good person. fuck if i'm gonna spend the time looking up the title tho

what album is it on?

what, no "Had a Bad Day" yet?

^^^kidding

it's called Better Son Or Daughter -- just asked a friend.

also:
mary j blige -- "Just Fine," and "Come To Me"

"SpottieOttieDopaliscious" outkast

Also Humble Mumble

"the ballad of red buckets" yo la tengo
"backwater" brian eno
"octopus" syd barrett
all of charm of the highway strip magnetic fields

thanks Surmounter!

The Sound "Monument"

freeway- still got love
lcd- tribulations
lil wayne- fly in
nas- made you look
parts & labor- gold we're digging

avail - scuffletown
r kelly - step in the name of love remix
inner life - aint no mountain high enough (garage version*)
north end - tee's happy
roy ayers - running away
jam - a town called malice

*this is crucial

Everything off The Great Escape (Blur)

"You Can't Bring Me Down" by Suicidal Tendencies

What is Life - George Harrison
Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk

Those are the first two that come to mind.

The Slits - Shoplifting
Fairport Convention - Meet On the Ledge
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi
The Soft Boys - Queen of Eyes

just in case there was a demand for an acoustic cover of "I Kill Everything I Fuck"

the zombies, "care of cell 44"

but - this song is a total bummer!

no way! she's getting out of jail or the mental hospital or whatever! hooray! plus: happy harmonies!

depending on what kind of bad mood i'm in, "Good to Sea" by Pinback is a fun song when I'm feeling dreary.

the last few weeks have been rainy and work has been tough. I've found myself listening to moodier stuff like "raver" by Burial, and "Life's What You Make It" over and over for some reason.

chez damier & stacey pullen - forever monna (mix 1)

ignition (remix)

Zumpano - "Some Sun"

I'm very much in this mood now. I have A Silver Mt. Zion's "Born into trouble as sparks fly upward" cued up. Untill then I'm listening to the cutter by Echo and the Bunnymen several times over (thank you very much Rick Howard!)

that's been my last week or two.

"Morning on Earth" by Pain of Salvation used to work...then last year it was Cribcaged.

two things are always true in January--I'm bummed out, and I'm listening to a lot of rap, and by March things are cool

Husker Du - These Important Years