Music To Put You In A Good Mood

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You know those songs that you listen to in almost any mood and they put a smile on your face? Your had a great day, or you just had an OK or even mediocre day, or you're even not feeling all that terrific but you want a pick-me-up. Well, if you have songs like that, share them here.

Some of my personal selections (there are more but these are very, very effective):

Barenaked Ladies (My main choice in this case, and I only have two albums of theirs- which I do need to rectify):

Too Little Too Late
Go Home ((My current perseveration/favorite))
Falling for the First Time
The Humor of the Situation
Enid
Get In Line
If I Had $1000000
It's All Been Done
It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland) (Especially since I wrote a really self-loathing parody which I always think of, and therefore cheep up when thinking of))
Jane ((This one has special meaning, too))
One Week
The Old Apartment ((Despite how depressing it really is))
Too Little Too Late

Also, most of the stuff on my Doctor Demento CD, and the Monty Python Spamalot soundtrack as well.

My "Woo Yeah" playlist:
Dr. Dog - Oh No
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme (if you don't start dancing to this you're not human)
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand In Mine
Jimmy Eat World - For Me This Is Heaven
M83 - Run Into Flowers
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla (I want to move to Iceland just because it's where this song came from)
Luke Temple - Make Right With You
Architecture in Helsinki - The Owls Go
Bishop Allen - Things Are What You Make of Them
The Polyphonic Spree - Light and Day
Of Montreal - The Party's Crashing Us
Do Make Say Think - Ontario Plates
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945

The best of my "glory vocal" playlist:

Simply Be - Donna Williams (my current favorite)
Joanne Harris - Saved by Science
Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
Enigma - Gravity of Love
Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
tATu - All the Things She Said
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight
REO Speedwagon - St. Elmo's Fire
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Jekyll and Hyde musical - I Need to Know
Aurora - Ordinary World
Bubblegum Crisis - Konya wa Harikeen
Tenchi Muyo - I'm a Pioneer
Great Big Sea - When I'm Up
Joanna Pacitti - Watch Me Shine
Bon Jovi - It's My Life

And the best one... Jekyll and Hyde musical - This is the Moment

hecate's lucky thirteen:

1. beautiful girl - INXS
2. sunset strip - courtney love
3. born again - marilyn manson
4. intellectualise my blackness - skunk anansie
5. she said - the cramps
6. view to a kill - duran duran
7. take me out - franz ferdinand
8. breaking up the girl - garbage
9. strict machine - goldfrapp
10. kringle - jack off jill
11. frances farmer will have her revenge on seattle - nirvana
12. dig for fire - pixies
13. me & you vs the world - space

YAY!! ! for GBS!!

Songs to put me in a good mood:

Honeycombs - Have I The Right
Four Seasons - Let's Hang On
Hombres - Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
Dave Clark Five - Over & Over
Dave Clark Five - Bits & Pieces
Contours - Do You Love Me
Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
Gary Lewis & The Playboys - She's Just My Style
Beatles - You're Gonna Lose That Girl
Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday
Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law
Box Tops - Soul Deep
Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
C.W. McCall - Convoy
Byrds - Eight Miles High
Cowsills - The Rain, The Park, & Other Things
Crispan St. Peters - Pied Piper
Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron
Dave Seville - Witch Doctor
Del Shannon - Runaway
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Four Seasons - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Count Me In
Gary Lewis & The Playboys - She's Just My Style
Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mercy
Hermans Hermits - What A Wonderful World
Hermans Hermits - Silhouettes
Hermans Hermits - Into Something Good
Hermans Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter
Hollies - Bus Stop
Hollies - Carrie Anne
Hondells - Little Honda
Jimmy Clanton - Venus In Blue Jeans
Knickerbockers - Lies
Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Lovin Spoonful - Daydream
Murmaids - Popsicles & Icicles
Newbeats - Bread And Butter
Reflections - (Just Like) Romeo & Juliet
Sam Cooke - Cupid
Searchers - Love Potion #9
O'Jays - Love Train
Tommy Roe - Sheila
Tommy Roe - Dizzy
Tornadoes - Telstar
Toys - A Lovers Concerto
Zombies - Tell Her No

these are just some of the songs in my oldies folder that really put me in a great mood. Nothing is better then Feel Good Oldies.

You forgot to list Tommy James. "Crytsal Blue Persuasion" and "Crimson and Clover"

I was thinking about Crimson & Clover. I guess I was in too much of a hurry.

The Monster Mash...

The monsters dance...

Um... a good time is generally had by all

yay, mjs82! anything by the bonzos.

One more from me- "Mr. Brightside" by the Killers. Entirely because of the rhyming innuendo. ((Look it up on www.azlyrics.com and look for "And she's touching his chest, now." There's an innuendo there implied by the rhymes that I can't put here directly as it's "mature" but it's very funny; funnier because so many people miss it.))

Nightwish I wish I hade an angle
Machine Gun Fellatio All of them ladies
Garbage Sex is not the Enemy
Weird Al Yankovic All of it
Batterz All of it
TISM All of it
Live All of it
Hilltop Hoods Most of it
Beatles- Yellow Submearn / Sgt Pepper's Lonley Heart Club

Really? This is a happy song for you? It's one I play when I'm absolutely sick of anything that has anything to do with romance... Interesting. It's cool to see other people's interpretations.

Queer as folk soundtrack, both of them.

You think you're a man but your only a boy,
You think your a man, No your only a toy,
You think your a man but why cant you see,
You aint man enough to satisfy me.

Divine! aha - we're back to john waters, i see...

anything by the smiths cheers me up like a cheery uppy thing.

I wish I had an angle, so that if people asked me "What's your angle?" I could respond in a decisive manner.

((My typing is horrible; I just noticed because I have that song. Good choice; though it doesn't cheer ME up; it has no effect on my mood.))