What Song Will Change Your Mood From Bad To Good? From Sullen To Happy?

[arwalden]

When you need a lift... is there one particular song that always brightens your spirits, and emotionally energizes you? -- What is it? Tell!

[billyskank]

1. Sweet Home Chicago

from the Blues Brothers. :)

[arwalden]

2. Car Wash... and...

Dancing Queen.

[blondeatlast]

11. Love Car Wash and I love the movie.

Either one will cheer me up--my son likes both of them too, so we make a time of it together.

[LanternWaste]

3. Malaguena by Stan Kenton

'Malaguena' by Stan Kenton never fails to pull me out of a blue funk, and I usually find myself bee-bopping around the living room halfway through it. It's that trumpet, man. It talks like it's an extension of a happy soul that's never seen despair!

Sometimes 'Hour in the Shower' by Chicago, too.

[BensMom]

4. Good for loud singing with the windows down

Cruel Summer
Waiting on a Friend
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Wild Wild West
Love Shack
Sweet Dreams


High Hopes
Next time your found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around

Just what makes that little old ant
Think he’ll move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, can’t
Move a rubber tree plant

But he’s got high hopes, he’s got high hopes
He’s got high apple pie, in the sky hopes

[mac56]

5. "She Loves You" by the Beatles

Never fails to pick me up.

[AtomicKitten]

43. ANYTHING by the Beatles

Earth, Wind, and Fire
Elvis Costello
Beck
Just about anything Motown
Crowded House
Van Morrison
Nina Simone

[Rising Phoenix]

6. Punk Rock Girl by the Dead Milkmen

[Tikki]

23. Yeah...that song works great....

....and maybe, "Urban Struggle"....by The Vandals. ;-)





Tikki

[Pool Hall Ace]

7. Boogie Shoes

or really anything by K.C. and the Sunshine Band.

[samplegirl]

8. Into the Mystic

Van Morrison

[KitchenWitch]

13. I LOVE that song!

:bounce:

[AtomicKitten]

44. Brown Eyed Girl

[Dervill Crow]

58. Me too!

I love Van Morrison and I have brown eyes. What could be better?

[Burma Jones]

9. Several, in fact

Don Alfonso - Mike Oldfield
Bertha - Grateful Dead
Soak up the Sun - Sheryl Crow
Wonderwheel and/or Hello - Dan Zanes
Fourth Movement of Beethoven's 9th - Gardiner
8 Days a Week - Beatles
Revolution - Beatles
China Cat/Rider - Grateful Dead
Waterloo - Abba

Just about ANYTHING by The Polyphonic Spree - They make me so happy, my teeth hurt

I can also get one of my kids to sing for me, they're still young enough to want to do it.....

[lizziegrace]

10. I'm happy with

Sweet Home Alabama
Hello, It's Me
St Elmo's Fire (hokey, but hey)
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
More Today than Yesterday
Wild Women Never Get the Blues (Francine Reed with Lyle Lovett's Band)
La Grange (ZZ Top)
Brown-Eyed Girl

[blondeatlast]

12. Hello, It's Me? That one depresses me... interesting! nt

[lizziegrace]

15. Hello It's Me

I think it reminds me of a time in my life when the song was popular. The song might be melancholy, but the time was great.

[blondeatlast]

18. I hear you there. I was early teens and already madly crazy about

Todd--and still am!

[blondeatlast]

14. "I Want You Back" by J5. nt

[ZombieNixon]

16. "Swan Dive" by Strung Out

Which is weird, because the song itself is quite melancholy (the guy singing about his friend who died of an overdose), but it makes me feel good. Am I a bad person?

[terrya]

17. "Mama Mia" and "Never Gonna Give You Up" do it for me.

[arwalden]

20. Oooo... Rick Astley... He's On My List Too!

:thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

21. You don't mean--Rick Astley?!

[terrya]

26. *sigh*

I sure do. And, oh, did I have a crush on him when his album came out. :-)

[blondeatlast]

31. I don't mind admitting the same. I was into cute guys long past my

teenage years!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

19. Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson

[Neshanic]

22. "Get Down Tonight" KC

[OneGrassRoot]

35. lol....... me, too

pretty much anything by KC gives me a lift....and I'm PROUD OF IT.....;-)

[skygazer]

24. Get Together - The Youngbloods

There's something so optimistic about it - always makes me smile. And hope.

[CBGLuthier]

25. The Golden Path

Chemical Brothers/Flaming Lips.

Also, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips.

OK, maybe just about anything by The Flaming Lips. :-)


The Golden Path

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was confronted
By mysterious spectre
He pointed to the graveyard
Over on yonder hill
I paused in cosmic reflection
Confused and wondering
Of how I came to die
Hm...hm..
I was confused
Coz if I was dead
How and why did I die
But I composed myself
And decided I should face it

But I stood paralyzed
On the supposed golden path
And I was confronted
By a powerful demon force
And he said he was the devil
And when he spoke
His words flowed like glowing lava from the mouth of a volcano
And I said:
Help me, lord!!
I found myself in some kinda hell
But I did not believe in heaven and hell

World in opposites kind of reality
But I gained control of myself
And decided to press on

As I walked along
The supposed golden path
I was trembling with fear
All the lions and the wizards yet to come
I seen in the distance
Silver mountains rising high in the clouds
And a voice from above did whisper
Some shining answer from the moon

Please forgive me
I never meant to hurt you

[Whoa_Nelly]

27. Anything Doobies or Beatles and...

Take a Walk On the Wild Side and Under the Boardwalk.

Doobs and Beatles lift me up because can sing to them and that energizes me

[progmom]

28. Sarah Vaughan - Great Day

[Seabiscuit]

29. "At Last"

[AtomicKitten]

45. I love that song.

[Seabiscuit]

30. "I'm a mean green mother from outer space and I'm baa..ad"

[henslee]

32. SANGRIA WINE by Jerry Jeff Walker....

Yeah I love that Sangria wine
When I'm drinking with old friends of mine

[Left_Winger]

33. Blitzkrieg Bob by the Ramones

[magnolia]

34. U2

"Beautiful Day"

[kwassa]

36. "All Down the Line" by the Rolling Stones

and some other Stones tunes, and high energy rockers.

[Shine]

37. Great question!

For me, it's Stevie Wonder's "AS", from his "Songs in the Key of Life, Vol II".

I'll turn it up loud and sing my heart out.

It always helps to lift my spirits.

Tuck and Patti's "Love Warriors" is also a beautiful song that's very uplifting.

I am endlessly amazed by the healing nature of Music. It truly is a gift and always makes me grateful I have the ability to Hear.

~Shine

[Justpat]

38. Shout by the Isley Brothers

[gollygee]

39. Ask by The Smiths

it shouldn't be a Smiths song probably but that song is great - "Ask me, I won't say no, how could I . . ."

[rug]

40. When the Ship Comes In.

[BlueIris]

41. Ani Difanco's "Firedoor"

That is the only break-up song I can recall feeling good about like, ever.

[Bullwinkle925]

42. "MY GIRL" - THE TEMPS.

Need I say more? The best feel-good song for me I've ever heard.

[qnr]

46. Strangely enough: Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show

[taterguy]

47. Itchycoo Park

That old Small Faces nugget from a happier age. Also toss in the Moby Grape debut album when I need a lift

[Mountainman]

48. "Return to Innocence" by Enigma

Ami chant

That’s not the beginning of the end
That’s the return to yourself
The return to innocence.
Love - devotion
Feeling - emotion
.
Love - devotion
Feeling - emotion
.
Don’t be afraid to be weak
Don’t be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
.
If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don’t hide
Just believe in destiny
.
Don’t care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don’t give up and use the chance
To return to innocence
.
That’s not the beginning of the end
That’s the return to yourself
The return to innocence
.
Don’t care what people say
Follow just your own way
Follow just your own way
Don’t give up, don’t give up
To return, to return to innocence.
If you want then laugh
If you must then cry
Be yourself don’t hide
Just believe in destiny.

[skoppa]

49. Currently there are two songs that get the job done for me...

..."The General" by Dispatch and "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley. Oh yeah, and anything by Tenacious D.

[New Earth]

50. anything by 311

especially Jupiter, I'll Be Here Awhile, Sick Tight, Running, Large in the Margin, Don't Dwell....man, almost all their songs are the kind that are meant to bring you up when you are down. Such a positive band :)

[jus_the_facts]

51. Soulshine ~ Gov't Mule.....

:headbang:

When you can’t find the light,
That got you through the cloudy days,
When the stars ain’t shinin’ bright,
You feel like you’ve lost you’re way,
When those candle lights of home,
Burn so very far away,
Well you got to let your soul shine,
Just like my daddy used to say.

He used to say soulshine,
It’s better than sunshine,
It’s better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
Hey now people don’t mind,
We all get this way sometime,
Got to let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

I grew up thinkin’ that I had it made,
Gonna make it on my own.
Life can take the strongest man,
Make him feel so alone.
Now and then I feel a cold wind,
Blowin’ through my achin’ bones,
I think back to what my daddy said,
He said boy, in the darkness before the dawn:

Let your soul shine,
It’s better than sunshine,
It’s better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
Yeah now people don’t mind,
We all get this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,
Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul.
A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.
And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control.

Let your soul shine,
It’s better than sunshine,
It’s better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
Lord now people don’t mind,
We all get this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

Oh, it’s better than sunshine,
It’s better than moonshine,
Damn sure better than rain.
Yeah now people don’t mind,
We all get this way sometimes,
Gotta let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

[Democrats_win]

52. "Mmm Bop" by Hanson. Its upbeat.

[sakabatou]

53. "READY STEADY GO" by L'Arc~En~Ciel

[grannylib]

54. Crowded House "Love This Life"

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

55. "Sunday Shining" by Finlay Quaye works every time.

The Bob Marley original is great, but Quaye funks it up to 11.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

56. OVER THE RAINBOW by IZ

[intheflow]

57. "One Love" by Bob Marley n/t