I and my wasted australia day friends have had some serious fun with a playlist I put together a while back and have finally tested with some serious fun over the last few hours - please let me know if any of you other music tragics have come up with some cracking well received crowd pleasing mixes....

my list (in order of playing) to share the joy:

coffee & tv - blur
nowhere fast - the smiths
gouge away - pixies
you don't care about us - placebo
take,take,take - white stripes
something to look forward to - spoon
like eating glass - bloc party
say hello to the angels - interpol
today - smashing pumpkins
shakin' - dandy warhols
territorial pissings - nirvana
bullet in the head - rage against the machine
bodhisattva vow - beastie boys
ghetto musick - outkast
chemical calisthenics - blackalicious
new wave - common
real slim shady - eminem
jesus walks - kanye west
same old thing - the streets
cruel youth - pepe deluxe
stem/long stem - DJ Shadow
song of life - leftfield
like spinning plates - radiohead
black heart - calexico
the funny bird - mercury rev
suddenly everything has changed - flaming lips
everything is beautiful is far away - Grandaddy
trouble with dreams - eels
the red telephone - love
you are a runner... - wolf parade
optimistic - radiohead
wake up - arcade fire
there goes my beautiful world - nick cave
saint simon - the shins
the cutter - echo & the bunnymen
ghost town - the specials
possibly maybe - bjork
run - air
six feet under main theme
some velvet morning - lee hazelwood/nancy sinatra

goodness, must go to bed now...

I have a playlist called "Feelgood" that I use when I'm feeling low, or hung over, or both. It doesn't always help, but sometimes it does.

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
The Go! Team - Everybody's a VIP to Someone
DNTel - The Dream of Evan and Chan
Angie Aparo - Memphis City Rain
Mama Cass - Make Your Own Kind of Music
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Blur - Universal
Built to Spill - Car
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Chad and Jeremy - A Summer Song
Rilo Kiley - Pictures of Success
Decemberists - Sons and Daughters
Israel Kamikawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke

Though I doubt the feelgoodability of some of those tracks, I can't argue with this one. "Sir Duke" is the happiest song ever.

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Originally posted by ericg75:

quote:

Originally posted by Chamberk:
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke

Though I doubt the feelgoodability of some of those tracks, I can't argue with this one. "Sir Duke" is the happiest song ever.

I second that. Closely followed by Signed, Sealed, Delivered. If you don't tap your foot and nod your head to those two songs, you must be a corpse!

Page France- Chariot (I love this song!)
Animal Collective- Leaf House
Beck- Lost Cause (It is beautiful)
Brian Eno- St. Elmo's Fire
Buzzcocks- Everybody's Happy Nowadays
Jorge Ben- Take it Easy My Brother Charlie
Guided By Voices- Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory
The Rolling Stones- Sympathy For the Devil
Spiritualized- Ladies and Gentlemen We're Floating in Space
TV on the Radio- Young Liars
The Unicorns- Les Os
Pulp- Mis-shapes
R.E.M- Radio Free Europe
The Rolling Stones- Gimme Shelter
Massive Attack- Teardrop
Midlake- Roscoe
Guided By Voices- Gold Star For Robot Boy
Boris- Farewell
The Band- The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (My Favorite Song of All Time)
Broken Social Scene- Stars and Sons
Minutemen- Cohesion

Music is one of the few things that will lift my mood when I'm having a bad day. I've had a rough week so far, especially at work, and my mood has just gone from bad to worse lately.

So I went for a walk and listened to this shamelessly upbeat playlist:

"Beautiful Day" - U2
"Smiley Faces" - Gnarls Barkley
"59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" - Simon and Garfunkel
"Add Your Light to Mine, Baby" - Lucky Soul
"1234" - Feist
"Summersong" - The Decemberists
"Yellow" - Coldplay
"Jenny Ondioline (Part 1)" - Stereolab
"Wouldn't It Be Nice" - Beach Boys
"The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani
"It's Oh So Quiet" - Bjork
"Waltz (Better Than Fine)" - Fiona Apple
"Funny Little Frog" - Belle and Sebastian
"The Long Way Around" - Dixie Chicks
"Suddenly I See" - KT Tunstall
"Can't Hide From Luv" - Mary J. Blige
"Bamboo Banga" - M.I.A.
"Touch The Sky" - Kanye West
"Feeling Good" - Nina Simone
"Live Forever" - Oasis
"Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles

Now all is well.