Wow, Mari. Happy songs?

I can't believe I had so much trouble finding happy songs in my "blues" brain. I just went through all my CDs and my music on the computer and it was difficult to find a song that I thought may make someone else happy. (apart from some songs on that Beach Boys Pet Sounds album I posted)

Something that made me happy as a child long before TV or YouTube was a record with Waltz of The Flowers on it. My imagination ran wild every time I heard it and it made me so happy. All I had was sound. No images. No words. Just an old record on an old record player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLTy...eature=related
Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers

waves
i just discovered R.E.M. this year. I love Love is all around and losing my religion. Because of Lara's post, I saw they have some full albums on youtube. boy was I shocked.
Love
bobby

Lara,
I used to love the Beach Boys:

Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers is lifting and upbeat. Thank you.

We had good sound that gave us endless possibilities.

M

Waves,
This is a good song of REM's -- with monsters and all.
. . . furry happy . . .

M

Bobby,

Here is one from REM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWTum_Hm6w
R.E.M 1991 LOVE IS ALL AROUND (LIVE AT MTV)

M

thank you Mari
for a while i was listening to it a few times a day. i saw on amazon that they had used cds for a penny plus shipping. i don't know what to do. if i buy some more , i wonder if i will listen to them. I really like the videos. rem does its own thing.
bobby

Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves is an happy, upbeat song.

Took me ages to think of one! LOL As I said, the Blues makes me happy.

There was a song by an Australian group years ago called Frente. They had a song called Accidentally Kelly Street. It was such a bright and happy new sound at the time but when I read some comments by people on the computer about the meaning of the lyrics, it apparently isn't so happy at all. Weird.

Lara,
"Walking on Sunshine" is nice and energetic.

Yes, some songs have the bouncy, fun rhythm but profoundly sad words. I wonder how the creative process for that works for them. Which Frente song was it?

Here is Styx: Come Sail Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1OFuyCsJBk
Actually, I am not sure if this is sad or happy. . . . maybe it depends on what is going on when one is listening.
M

That's what I think too, Mari. I am an oldie so my love for music was born in the late 60's and early 70's. The time I call The Revolution. lol

I also find some songs take me back to a very specific time in my life.

Music generally is so evocative, reminding us of friends or relationships or where we lived when we first heard it, etc..

One song that does that for me very much is a song by Billy Thorpe called "It's almost Summer". Just have to listen to the beginning of it and I'm off on the sand in the sun watching the ocean maybe eating an icecream or drinking pineapple juice and smelling like coconut oil. The damage we did to our skin! ugh.

In my life, I actually think the 80's had a lot more "happy" [Pop] songs than the 60's and the early 70's but then a lot of the music I listened to was termed "alternative" or "underground" back then. We used to buy a lot of our records from rare music stores who imported music that wasn't played on radio here at the time. It is now of course.

Sorry for the ramble...

p.s. Frente's song is Accidentally Kelly Street

Paul Simon's Graceland is happy song to me.
Jo Jackson's Steppin' Out
The Bangles had some upbeat happy pop tunes. "Just another manic monday".
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club still makes me happy
Belinda Carlyle's Heaven is a Place on Earth
Kylie Minogue's Dancing Queen

I think it's a real shame that people viewing YouTube videos make such rude and crude comments. I've got to the stage I just can't post some songs I like because people have made such lewd comments underneath the videos.

indeed, and one's interpretation of the song. i love that entire song though.

for me, it becomes most energizing at this point:
And that high-note variant on the melody on "the skies" is not only a "surprise" (at least on first hearing of the song), but embodies the idea of lifting off, flying away... just ... it really takes me away. i start hearing the subsequent "come sail away" parts as invitations to sail away on the starship... (it is just how it feels).

In this case, it is inconsequential for the purposes of my experience that they are aliens and not angels. It's the simple thought of flying away...

~ waves ~