What song cheers you up....RIGHT NOW!!!!111ONEONE!!11!

[the tokai]

Whoops sorry about that. omg i love that smilie.

Uhm anyway, lets start the topic now.

I was wondering, what songs do you listen when you feel down and need to be cheered up? What song makes you happy again? For me it is and will probably always be YMCA. That song just has the word happy written all over it. So what do you listen to?

<------- needs to be cheered up a bit.

[Husar]

There are several, but the one that cheeres me up the most right now is Hung Up by Madonna and since a few days I feel the urge to buy the single, though first time I saw it in a shop I refused to buy it for 5.49€, because it was just the song and 2 remixes.

[Reverend Joe]

Before Beirut closes this thread for redundancy:

The song "Up In Smoke" always cheers me up, no matter what mood I am in when I listen to it.

"Up in smoke... that's where my... money goes..."

[The_Doctor]

The song from the main menu of Civ4.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123680
This describes it.

[Slyspy]

China Girl by David Bowie has, for some reason, always cheered me up.

[Craterus]

RIGHT NOW?! Well, if we're talking RIGHT NOW, I'll have to say: "You Can Have It All" by the Kaiser Chiefs.

[IrishMike]

Celebration Day -- Led Zeppelin

[Quietus]

Whoops sorry about that. omg i love that smilie.

Uhm anyway, lets start the topic now.

I was wondering, what songs do you listen when you feel down and need to be cheered up? What song makes you happy again? For me it is and will probably always be YMCA. That song just has the word happy written all over it. So what do you listen to?

<------- needs to be cheered up a bit.

Crystal Ball by Peter Tosh (sample: http://music.walmart.com/m/007/24/35....01.01.008.mp3 )

Reggae Fi Radni by LKJ (sample: http://music.walmart.com/m/007/31/45....01.02.013.mp3 )

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Celebration Day -- Led Zeppelin

You'd think it'd be a RATM song...

[IrishMike]

Is it possible for a RATM song to cheer anyone?

[Strike For The South]

Travis Tritt Its a Great Day To Be Alive best song on Earth and he is a fellow TEXAN

[Quietus]

Sideshow by Blue Magic (sample: http://music.walmart.com/m/000/81/22....01.01.005.mp3 )

[The Blind King of Bohemia]

Either Superfly by Curtis Mayfield or Tear the roof off by George Clinton and Parliament

[Ianofsmeg16]

Either Love Walked in by Thunder, or Feelin' way too damn good by Nickleback

[GiantMonkeyMan]

'just the way i'm feeling' by Feeder.... it always cheers me up

[The_Mark]

Someone posted this in another thread earlier, and it certainly deserves to be here:
Dschinghis Khan - Moskau

[Axeknight]

All of the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap album - AC/DC with Bon Scott, the other greatest frontman ever

[Reverend Joe]

Dschinghis Khan - Moskau

I saw that once before... that is hilarious. It's also frightening. 80's Cossack music... wow.

Edit: now it's stuck in my frickin' head. Grrr... gotta get it out with some Blue Cheer.

[lancelot]

Usually the entire Transformers the movie soundtrack but if I had to choose only one itd be 'Dare' by Stan Bush.

Harkens me back to my childhood, and hence a happier time.

[Duke Malcolm]

The United States Marine Corps Anthem, The Halls of Montezuma. Or the British Grenadier. Or Scotland the Brave.

[Togakure]

Because I'm a musician, I tend to focus on the music rather than lyrics.

My "Let's cheer up" CDs are:

- Bob Marley: "Legend" (Three Little Birds; Could You Be Loved; One Love/People Get Ready; No Woman, No Cry; Buffalo Soldier; Redemption Song; Satisfy my Soul; Jamming)

- Yello Magic Orchestra (YMO)

This one's instrumental, Japanese technopop for the old days, very happy, silly, creative, ingenius for its time. Cool stuff.

Thomas Dolby - "Aliens Ate my Buick"

Quirky humor, well-written songs, excellent use of keyboard technology for its time. "Budapest by Blimp" is my favorite on this album, and makes my top 50 tunes of all time list (though it's not really a "cheer me up" song; rather, it's a dreamy, romantic one).

"The Four Seasons" - Vivaldi, as performed by James Galway (Spring and Summer)

The "man with the golden flute" takes the lead on this recording, rather than a violin. It's beautiful, and uplifting.

Chopin Etudes, performed by Maurizio Pollini

This one's a personal thing. Technique, passion merge in these "studies/exercises" for the advancing pianist. Pollini's interpretations and execution send my spirit soaring. If I can play these half as well as he does someday, I will die a content man.

[the tokai]

Someone posted this in another thread earlier, and it certainly deserves to be here:
Dschinghis Khan - Moskau

OMG that song is so freakin' great! Allthough it gets a bit annoying after a while. Seems like the only way to get it out of your head is the llama song.

And after doing some research on that band I found out they made a song about Hadschi Halef Omar. W00tness! They're my new favorite band!

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Boston's 'More than a Feeling'.

It's one cheerful song.

[Craterus]

I completely forgot.

THE EGG SONG!!!

[doc_bean]

The song from the main menu of Civ4.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=123680
This describes it.

I was going to say the same thing, although for me it's because when I hear it, i know I'm about to play CivIV

[master of the puppets]

master of puppets by mettalica of course
also theres this one song called "a working class hero is something to be" if your depressed and then listen to that song i swear to god you'll try and kill yourself, yeah its not that sasd but disturbingly true.

[Ianofsmeg16]

master of puppets by mettalica of course

Probably one the most awesome songs ever, their best is Unforgiven II though, if you've heard it

Yeah, I'm a Metallica Freak

[GoreBag]

Roxanne by The Police. I don't like the song; it's just an excuse to scream like a jerk and butcher the high notes. Great in groups.

Angel Witch by Angel Witch (from the Angel Witch album, of course). The chorus is really catchy, and it's extended at the end. Also great in groups.

Bloodstone by Judas Priest. No other song puts me in a good mood like this one does after a pint or two.

[Adrian II]

Chopin Etudes, performed by Maurizio Pollini

This one's a personal thing. Technique, passion merge in these "studies/exercises" for the advancing pianist. Pollini's interpretations and execution send my spirit soaring. If I can play these half as well as he does someday, I will die a content man.

This (part of your) post quasi hit me between the eyes. Jezus! I have the exact same predilection for these pieces, they are equally uplifting to me when I feel down or overburdened, and I have (or rather once had) the exact same sense that if only I could master one of them, just one... I'd would give a limb (not a hand, though) in order to be able to accomplish that. But I have already comforted myself with the thought that someone on earth has mastered them. It is not Maurizio but dear old, elusive, insuferably arrogant Martha Argerich.

To think that those pieces are just 'exercises'. Yeah right...

By the way I did not know you were a musician, TogakureOjonin. Kudos to you!

[Ser Clegane]

OMG that song is so freakin' great! Allthough it gets a bit annoying after a while. Seems like the only way to get it out of your head is the llama song.

And after doing some research on that band I found out they made a song about Hadschi Halef Omar. W00tness! They're my new favorite band!

They also made a song about Rome and (surprise, surprise) about Ghenghis Khan ... I think they are the perfect band for the org