Author Topic: Your top three Feel-Good Songs (Read 3895 times)

Ruthie · « **on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:25:44 pm »

When you feel rubbish, which three songs cheer you up? Which are your three go-to uplifters?

Mine:

Suffragette City by David Bowie

Let The River Run by Carly Simon

Beautiful World by Colin Hay

Paul · « **Reply #1 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:32:08 pm »

You can't hurry love - Martha and the Vandellas (I think)

Walking on Sunshine - I forget.

Mr Blue Sky - ELO

Ruthie · « **Reply #2 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:34:40 pm »

Katrina and the Waves?

Deano · « **Reply #3 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:36:51 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nt7PWtgOPI

Never fails.

woollypigs · « **Reply #4 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:40:39 pm »

Love music so anything that my randomiser/player throws at me when in press play.

But first one that popped when read this post - Groove is in the heart by Deee-lite. Gets me every time, can't sit or stand still, volume to 11. Dig!

Happy Mondays - Step on, Stone roses - Fools Gold, Future sound of London - Papa New Guinea, Shu-bi-dua, Beautiful South, Queen, MC Einar, Manu Chau, and so I could go on. Oh and that uncha uncha band that Andrij knows I know

Arrghhh this just gets me hunting on YouTube and my harddrive.

bumper · « **Reply #5 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:40:50 pm »

Queen - don't stop me now
Billy ocean - love really hurts without you(plus red light)
Ringo Starr - photograph

These make me feel good because I enjoy a good sing-a-long. I don't do singing either

Jurek · « **Reply #6 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:42:43 pm »

Heros - David Bowie.
Every time - especially the German version- Helden
Beyond that it becomes more complex.....

Chris S · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:49:36 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTd7FiaaDf8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fCpVJGZjvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7bk_McVHU

(Apologies for excessive Peter Gabriel content

)

Paul · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 November, 2014, 08:53:57 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 25 November, 2014, 08:34:40 pm

Katrina and the Waves?

That's her/them, thanks.

mcshroom · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:01:51 pm »

Hanson - MMMBop (no I haven't worked the lyrics)
REEF - Place your Hands

also though the subject matter is rather dark for a 'feel good song'
Stereophonics - Local Boy in the Photograph

peliroja · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:14:28 pm »

Anything from performing genius Mylène Farmer, my favourite artist EVAH. Especially C'est une Belle Journée https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2bRBF1_D4 and Fuck Them All https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_F0h_CLtXc

And Little Talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I from Of Monsters and Men followed us around our long tour so it brings back lovely memories!

Steph · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:20:13 pm »

Weaver and the Factory Maid (live)--Steeleye Span

Hal an Tow---Oyster Band

Born to be Wild--Steppenwolf

Of course, to be really 'feel good' I turn to classical.
Finales of:
Sibelius third and fifth
Beethoven seventh and ninth
Brahms first.

Jurek · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:30:41 pm »

Agreed on Ludwig van's 9th - but also Mussorgsky's Night onna Bare Mountain (Doubtless Maxell tape ad to some....)

ETA
Oh and how can you possibly leave out Rachmaninov's score to Brief Encounter - Piano Concerto No. 2

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #13 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:34:26 pm »

Just three?

Don't Stop Me Now
Club Tropicana
Dancing Queen
Walking on Sunshine
RESPECT
All the songs bobb wrote for me

Jurek · « **Reply #14 on:** 25 November, 2014, 09:37:53 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 25 November, 2014, 09:34:26 pm

........
All the songs bobb wrote for me

That's so nice

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #15 on:** 25 November, 2014, 11:07:47 pm »

Fascination; Alphabeat.
Dance Yourself Dizzy; Liquid Gold.
Fantastic Voyage; Lakeside.

All three bands look like they've spent a lot of their careers coiling mic leads, sustained by camaraderie and a sunny disposition.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #16 on:** 25 November, 2014, 11:21:32 pm »

Sit In The Middle Of Three Galloping Dogs ~ A Silver Mt. Zion
English Road ~ Kimberley Rew (the unsung genius who wrote "Walking On Sunshine" and at least a dozen other gems)
Vatican Broadside ~ Half Man Half Biscuit (though about 98% of their output fits the bill)

And, perversely, the whole of Black Sabbath's first album.

tiermat · « **Reply #17 on:** 26 November, 2014, 06:56:47 am »

My House - Terrorvision (due to the many happy memories of jumping around at gigs to it)

Jump Around - House of Pain (I challenge you not to

)

T.O.R.N.A.D.O. - The Go! Team.

I know you said 3, but I have to add one last one...

Chop Suey - SOAD

woollypigs · « **Reply #18 on:** 26 November, 2014, 07:12:43 am »

Quote from: tiermat on 26 November, 2014, 06:56:47 am

Jump Around - House of Pain (I challenge you not to )

I raise you with Jump by Kriss Kross

pcolbeck · « **Reply #19 on:** 26 November, 2014, 08:34:58 am »

The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away

Because pcolbeck junior used to call it "my happiness" and always danced like a loon to it whenever it was played when he was three or four.

ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses

Don't know why . It's just the groove I think.

AC/DC - Almost anything from the Bon Scott era.

They just rocked in those days. And they were funny.

citoyen · « **Reply #20 on:** 26 November, 2014, 01:09:05 pm »

Quote from: Ruthie on 25 November, 2014, 08:25:44 pm

Suffragette City by David Bowie

Quote from: Jurek on 25 November, 2014, 08:42:43 pm

Heros - David Bowie.

I could easily pick three Bowie songs for this - Suffragette City would be a candidate but Heroes is a definite. So...

1. Heroes - Bowie: It's become a bit of a cliché but there is a simple reason why it regularly features in lists of the greatest songs of all time: it is that good. And it makes me glad to be alive every single bloody time I hear it.

2. Psalm - Roxy Music: especially this performance - which, as one of the YouTube commenters so eloquently puts it, is "Perfectly pitched on a knife-edge between irony and genuine sentiment". The tambourine moment makes me grin every time. As with Bowie, I could have chosen any one of several Roxy Music songs, but there's just something about this one that makes me happy.

3. Your Daddy's Car - The Divine Comedy: A joyous celebration of the reckless exuberance of young love, and living for that sublime moment because you know it isn't going to last forever. Again, I could have chosen several other Divine Comedy songs but this is the one I always go back to.

Ask me again on another day and I might pick three entirely different songs by entirely different artists.

citoyen · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 November, 2014, 01:10:32 pm »

Alternatively...

Roxette
She Does It Right
Baby Jane

IGMC

citoyen · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 November, 2014, 01:16:06 pm »

Quote from: Jurek on 25 November, 2014, 09:30:41 pm

ETA
Oh and how can you possibly leave out Rachmaninov's score to Brief Encounter - Piano Concerto No. 2

Not really "feelgood" is it, hmmm? However, I would definitely put that on a list of bits of music I listen to when feeling dark and solipsistic, along with Tchaikovsky's 6th and the Elgar Cello Concerto (as performed by Du Pré, of course).

hatler · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 November, 2014, 01:22:03 pm »

The Ramones Cretin hop
The Easybeats Friday on my mind

The third one isn't leaping out at me at the moment.

Steph · « **Reply #24 on:** 26 November, 2014, 02:58:08 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 26 November, 2014, 01:10:32 pm

Alternatively...

Roxette
She Does It Right
Baby Jane

IGMC

No 'Down by the Jetty' or 'Sneaking Suspicion'?

Author Topic: Your top three Feel-Good Songs (Read 3895 times)

Chris S