What are your favorite "elevating" songs?

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'm thinking of songs that just fill you up with energy and joy; songs where you can't help but break into a smile and sing along (or at the very least tap your foot). Songs that can single-handedly lift you out of depression.

[D_Davis]

Let's see, a few from my iPod right now:

Take the Skinheads Bowling, by Camper Van Beethoven
Wake Up, by The Boo Radleys
Ocean Man, by Ween
Crush Story, by Too Much Joy
Heroes and Villains, by Brian Wilson/The Beach Boys
Disney Girls, by The Beach Boys
Good Vibrations, by The Beach Boys
Shake Your Rump, The Beastie Boys
Don't Believe the Hype, by Public Enemy
The Maker, by Daniel Lanois
Race for the Prize, by The Flaming Lips
Can You See Me, by Glass Harp
Sex on Fire, by Kings of Leon
Timeless Melody, by The La's
Ceremony, by New Order
Temptation, by New Order
My October Symphony, by The Pet Shop Boys
Sporting Life, by The Sea and Cake
Slide, by Luna
Teenage Riot, by SOnic Youth
Pride (In the Name of Love), by U2
George Romero, by The Sprites
The Hardest Thing in the World, by The Stone Roses
Jeepster, by T. Rex
Thank You For Sending Me an Angel, by Talking Heads
Found a Job, by Talking Heads
Out of Control, by U2
Bible Dreams, by The Wild Swans
Whirlpool Heart, by The Wild Swans
Up the Down Escalator, by The Chameleons
Bring on the Dancing Horses, by Echo and the Bunnymen

[bac0n]

I'm thinking of songs that just fill you up with energy and joy; songs where you can't help but break into a smile and sing along (or at the very least tap your foot). Songs that can single-handedly lift you out of depression.


Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of thing"
Lindsey Buckingham Out of the Cradle (Entire Album)
Daft Punk "One More Time"
BT "Never Gonna Come Back Down"
Earth Wind & Fire "September" & "Lets Groove"
Junior Senior "Move Your Feet"
The Kinks "You Really Got Me"

[D_Davis]

Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of thing"

I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one mentioning the PSB - I knew I could count on you B.

:)

[Spaceman Spiff]

Dare - Transformers: The Movie

[Lucky]

Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

[Acapelli]

The 15th - Wire
Ladies And Gentlemen We're Floating In Space - Spiritualized
The Start Of Something - Voxtrot
Hard To Explain - The Strokes
I'll Believe In Anything - Wolf Parade
Winters Love - Animal Collective
Go Square Go - Glasvegas
Twee - Tullycraft
The Boy With the Arab Strap - Belle & Sebastian
Raised By Wolves - Voxtrot
Heartbeats - The Knife
Lazy Line Painter Jane - Belle & Sebastian
Mushaboom - Feist
Harnessed In Slums - Archers Of Loaf
Age Of Consent - New Order
Me And Mia - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists
You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates
She Is Beautiful - Andrew W.K.

and recently all of Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Flying Pickets - Only You
Destroyer - Notorious Lightning
David Bowie - Heroes/Helden
Lou Reed - Charley's Girl
Animal Collective - The Purple Bottle
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror

[keyinblack]

The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection

[Hugh_Grant]

Big thumbs up to these:

"Twee" -- Tullycraft
"Up the Down Escalator" -- The Chameleons
"Slide" -- Luna

Some of mine:
"There Goes God" -- Crowded House
"She Will Have Her Way" -- Neil Finn
"The 3rd Time We Opened The Capsule" or "Drive That Fast"-- Kitchens of Distinction
"Rip It Up" -- Orange Juice
"Happy Hour" -- The Housemartins
"Sole Salvation" -- The (English) Beat
"Airplane Rider" -- Air Miami
"Perfect Skin" -- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
"Big Decision" -- That Petrol Emotion
"Carolyn" -- Steve Wynn
"Natalie's Party" -- Shack
"Spring Rain" -- The Go-Betweens
"The Latest Toughs" -- Okkervil River
"I Could Be Dreaming" -- Belle and Sebastian
"Arizona Sky" -- China Crisis
"Treason" -- Teardrop Explodes
"Freakin and Peakin" -- Luna

[D_Davis]

"Up the Down Escalator" -- The Chameleons


This song just makes we want to dance around the house in a bad '80s way.

It's so freaking great.

[D_Davis]

"Happy Hour" -- The Housemartins


Great choice!

[[ETM]]

"Good luck" - Basement Jaxx

[Boner M]

This song just makes we want to dance around the house in a bad '80s way.

It's so freaking great.
Indeed. I don't even usually like the Chameleons' upbeat songs, but that one's a corker. Props to HG's choice of KoD's "Drive That Fast" too.

Others...

The Soft Boys - "Underwater Moonlight"
The Embarrassment - "Drive Me to the Park"
The Only Ones - "Another Girl Another Planet"
The Velvet Underground - "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
The DB's - "Black and White"
Brian Eno - "Mother Whale Eyeless"

[monolith94]

Big Country - In A Big Country
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Kate Bush - Lilly
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka

[Milky Joe]

everything by Dr. Dog

[Izzy Black]

The Cranberries - Dreams
Clinic - Distortions
Interpol - Not Even Jail
The Killers - All These Things I've Done
Radiohead - Reckoner
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place
Bloc Party - So Here We Are
Animal Collective - Cuckoo Cuckoo
The Chameleons - Tears (Full Arrangement)
The Strokes - Under Control
Pearl Jam - Alive
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Blondie - Fade Away and Radiate
Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

[Spaceman Spiff]

Honestly, though:

The Clash - All the Young Punks.

[trotchky]

The New Pornographers - "Breakin' the Law"
The Beach Boys - All of Pet Sounds
Animal Collective - All of Merriweather Post Pavilion
Sunset Rubdown - "The Mending of the Gown"
Aesop Rock - "Coffee" and "Catacomb Kids"
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun" and most of the rest of Abbey Road
Aphex Twin - All of Selected Ambient Works, ESPECIALLY "Xtal"
Silver Jews - "Night Society"
The Flaming Lips - "Race for the Prize"
Pink Floyd - "Time"

And loads more; these are just off the top of my head.

Also, I wouldn't say all of these songs make me break out in a smile, but they all fill me with energy, many of the fist-pumping, "fuck the world" kind.

[megladon8]

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves