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My favourite-feel-good songs are most definately "Paris" by Patrick Wolf and "Sunday" by Slow Club.
Paris because it'sjust a "hey world! This is me and I rock and theres nout you can do about it!" and Slow Club becuase of it's sugary sweet meh-itll-all-be-better-tomorrow feel.
Super ace when you feel blue.

Well, the songs that make me happy are usually the ones that I'm ashamed to like...

eg Britney Spears - Cold As Fire

Or one of the more upbeat Busted songs like Crashed the Wedding

McFly are always good to make you feel upbeat

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly. - Waiting for the Monster To Drown, or even Find The Time.

Gwen Stefani - What You Waiting For?

Jack Johnson - Better Together

Lil Chris - Getting Enough

Natasha Bedingfield is great for a sing-along kinda song

Robyn - Konichiwa Bs

Vampire Weekend - A Punk

or Westlife (See what I mean about shameful??) - When You're Looking Like That



I like these playlist things :D

Firstly Fraser I have to agree with you about The Ting Tings song, since you introduced me to it on here it's been a permanent fixture in my daily playlists.

Apart from that I have to say that a bit of good old country music never fails to put a smile on my face (the up-beat positive kind as opposed to the "my girlfriend left me and took my dog" kind). Carrie Underwood is a fine example, with such songs as "Crazy Dreams" and "The More Boys I Meet".

Also "Perfect Day" by Hoku...plainly obvious why if you listen to it.

Lately, 'Yours Truly' by As In Rebekkamaria has been doing it for me; it's a very playful bit of slightly offbeat scandinavian electropop:

(video more than slightly rubbish but song very good)

Further back in time, 'Juicy' by Notorious BIG has always been a pretty feel-good song for me:

(WARNING: contains rude words, I couldn't find a censored version)

I have a thing for 'Crawled Out of The Sea' by Laura Marling at the moment.

Listening to it, I always imagine it being the finalé of a play, wherein an octopus falls in love with a human or something.
The entire cast are present onstage, all singing along, rocking side to side. The octopus gets the girl. Pure cheese.

*sigh*

Or y'know, I could go all regular and say Alphabeat is keeping me jovial - to the max.

Okay.. I do not understand why my comment isn't posting here. What?

So that one posts but the other still doesn't. Uncool! Someone tell me why!!

Even without links it won't post! IT JUST HATES ME! WHYYYY!! :'(

The Ting Tings are good aren't they?

Agree about Patrick Wolf, I would choose The Stars though or Land's End.

The album version of No Cars Go by Arcade Fire always makes me happy. And makes me cry - which isn't exclusive I guess.

Or Tonight We Fly by the Divine Comedy, to go back a bit. Or Michael Nyman's Water Dances. (I know, this is a pop music blog, but, you know, you asked.)

Or the Guillemots Trains to Brazil.

John.

Okay trying it one piece at a time..

The prettiest, dreamiest, dewdrops at sunrise song I've heard in a long time.
Kelly Sweet - Raincoat

Oldies..
The Foundations - Build me up Buttercup
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Bobby Mc Ferrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
And though I'm perfectly aware this is a cover
Simple Plan - Happy Together

Heh.. I don't think it likes and signs =/

A totally random song which reminds me of a totally mad range of other bands. But it's very awesome all the same.
Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears - Imitation of the Sky


And then some other stuff..
A Fine Frenzy - Rangers.. the chorus = :) lol

Dragonforce - Through the Fire and Flames

Atreyu - When Two are One

That is hilarious. Gah.

Y'know.. after all that.. the 'happy' song that best fits my mood is..

The Shins - Australia
Panic at the disco - mad as rabbits
flipcycle - latne
Spiral beach - what kind of beast am I
Finch, perfection through silence

if you have the time id check spiral beaches myspace out
they are going to be huge
canadian band, they've got the whole slightly odd thing going on,bit like los campenos

It has to be... Ghosts by Laura Marling

Every time I listen to that song I just think WOW!, can life get any better than this?!

Also, Five Years Time by Noah and the Whale.

Any song with handclaps and a ukelele does it for me.

Another few:

Emmy the Great's cover of Where is my Mind?
The Bears are Coming by Late of the Pier.
1234 by Feist (Complete with Handclaps AND a banjo!)

Oh heaps of songs make me happy, mostly songs that remind me of eras of my life. let's see....

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve (Always makes my day!)

The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle and Sebastian

Time to Pretend - MGMT

That's Not My Name - Ting Tings

Grace Kelly - Mika

Fidelity - Regina Spektor

Goodnight Goodnight - Hot Hot Heat

How I Feel - Kelly Clarkson

Caravan Girl - Goldfrapp

The Underdog - Spoon

and probably more

Oldies first off:-

Millionaire's Waltz - Queen (from Day at the Races, their best album in IMHO)

Freddie Mercury's version of The Great Pretender

Gonna Build A Mountain - Matt Monro

Going Back - Dusty Springfield

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters

More modern fare:-

I love anything that The Killers do, but I especially love Read My Mind and Leave The Bourbon On The Shelf

Sam Hall from Johnny Cash's last album, quite possibly the strangest, funniest country song ever

The World Is Outside - Ghosts

Rose - The Feeling

Anything at all by Muse, but especially Hysteria

End of the Century - Blur

Questions in a World of Blue - Julee Cruise (from Twin Peaks)

Half Man, Half Machine - Goldie Lookin Chain

Forgot to add Hallellujah by Jeff Buckley, it has to be the loveliest, most haunting song ever, total perfection.

Won't add anymore or I won't get any work done!

The Beatles: I Want To Hold Your Hand

Another Guillemots one: Annie Let's Not Wait

The Beach Boys: God Only Knows

Take That: Shine

Sometimes happy songs make me sad, though - it depends don'it?

'Clenching the fists of Dissent' - Machine Head

I can listen to that song at any time and it gives me an uplifting sense of 'nothing matters, so why get upset?' Which makes me smile

'Killing In The Name' - Rage Against the Machine

Same reason as above

'Snake Eater' - Cynthia Harrell

Epic vocals and it makes me want to sing it as loud as possible

'Right Now' - KoRn

Makes me happy to know that I'm not the only one with problems

'Hurt' - Nine Inch Nails

Same reason as above

'Turn Soonest To The Sea' - Protest The Hero

The loud sing-a-long at the end fits pefectly with the guitars and it's a very happy message.


Not the most obvious list, but it's all down to personal taste. Loud, aggressive music makes me happy. Is that weird?

Yes, that's true - and the songs that are supposed to be 'happy' songs on the surface often don't have that effect on the listener.

The songs in my list do tend to make me happy, or at least 'music-happy' - that is, I enjoy them in that way. I suppose it's not a cut and dried thing because music and people aren't machines! (I will now go and bury my head in a dictionary!)

Well, that challenge for me is quite an easy one, my answer would be anything by Kate Nash(!)

It is all about perspective though. Both my older brother and I are fans of Sigur Ros, he thinks that the track 'Glosoli' is depressing, whereas for me it's completely the opposite, it's the only song that gee's me up when off for a run at 6 in the morning.

Surfer Babe by McFly is a random song that whenever I hear it makes me happy. If I'm in a bad mood and I don't want to be cheered up, I don't listen to it. It should've been a single. Transylvania does it to me too.

Also most bouncy Westlife songs, like When You're Looking Like That and Hit You With The Real Thing and Change Your Mind.

And one last one is Smile by Lily Allen just because it's always the opposite of what I think it should be.

Fraser, how do u think Dancing Queen is one of the most heartbreaking songs ever?
xx

ahh rite ok. i only find it sad coz im gona be 18 next month, so i wont be "young and sweet, only 17" anymore, the dancin queen title can no longer be mine! x

I love for making me happy, or making me emotional:

Cobrastyle - robyn

hallejuhah - jeff buckley or played live by Brandi carlile

how these days grow long - brandi carlile

facisnation - alphabeat

this is how we do it - montell jordan

i wish - skee loo

better man - james morrison

backstreet boys - larger than life

a few tracks by Sigur ros - remind me of my trips to iceland and how i wish i could go back

blondie - atomic

superman - black lace - LOL

take that - do what you like, reach out

the list goes on......and on and on an ariston.

aww, but u were a good dancer, rite?

The Begining Stages of the Polyphonic Spree- the whole album is great, but if pushed for one track I think Soldier Girl does it for me.

Also, Don Henley's Boys Of Summer and The Pogues/Kirsty Macoll Fairytale Of New York.

I Have To Say ANYTHINGT by the backstreet boys makes me happy. But that's because i nearly kill myself laughing at the thought that someone somewhere decided it was gonna be a hit AND THEN IT WAS!!!

A Lifetime By Better Than Ezra is just adorably but kinda shocking cos the first chorus is just like "and here's what happened"

Biffy Clyro Make Me Happy---remembering sets. And Machines has that beautiful bittersweet feeling just cos it makes me realise that someone can write something so truly lovely.

And can i just pint out Blink 182 and Bowling For Soup ALWAYS make me happy. You can't get much better than "singers who are mad at their cats"

I'm Done!

KT tunstall - other side of the world

James Morrison - you give me something

My favourite feel-good songs.

Summer of Love - the b-52's
The present - Bloc Party.
Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
Smile like you mean it - the killers
Say it right - nelly furtado
Hallelujah - Paramore
Dance Dance - fall out boy