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Grace Scarlett set an excellent forum thread on the subject of music that gave you a tear int he eye… well, how about flipping that coin over and seeing what songs always give you a boost? I’d look at two from Bruce Springsteen – Growing Up and Darkness On the Edge of Town, plus two from the fantastic Joni Mitchell: Morning Morgantown and Chelsea Morning. What sets you up for the day? After all, we should Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life…… Upbeat Inga.
Great band, great taste Dawn
Well if I am driving then meatloaf’s “Bat out of hell” or anything from Deep purple, pink Floyd, Eagles, Rolling Stones, Santana, Motorhead, David Bowie, Who, U2, manic Street Preachers, Travis, The Pretenders, Texas, Bryan Adam’s, Moby, Madonna, Electric light Orchestra, Eurythmics (Annie Lennox one of the best female vocalist around) Queen, Cream, Three Degrees, Diana Ross, Elton John, Police, Wings, gosh many, many more. Nothing like the window down and metal to the floor and burning Tarmac with a beat. Bombing alone singing out of tune Amanda
Hi Inga good post the songs I like are.
Barbara Allen by Blackmores Night
Wonderful Life by Black
Spanish Stroll by Mink Deville
Stayin Alive by Bee Gees
Yes Sir I can boogie by Baccara
Love Sarah xx
Ok….
What a ridiculous question….I could name 10,000 and crash the website!!!
a few….
Queen…don’t stop me now. + 50 others
ELO…Mr blue sky.
Abba…Waterloo.
Ultravox…astradyne…
Oh my god, it’s an endless quest….I give up…
Grace xx
10,000,sweetie, you must have a CD warehouse, wait I have only gone and cracked it, our beloved Grace lives in a police phone box, oh my God your a time lord too. Dr Who Grace (That’s not a question) CD to the universe and CD connoisseur of music.
Absolutely Trisha
Those Daleks will be begging for mercy……
Jodie Who????
👾👾👾
I have no idea
You’re right, Grace; if your memory goes back far enough, you can come up with quite a long list. Mine went back so far, it got lost. But I was reminded of one I really loved a little over a half-century ago: Deep Purple, by Nino Temple and April Stevens.
Hugs,
BettylouBettylou…is that the official definition of memory loss???…
very funny 😂😂 xx
It might be, Grace…but I forget. They say memory is the second thing to go as you get older, and I forgot what was first.
Hugs,
Bettylou
A few of my feel good songs:
Stayin’ Alive by Bee Gees
Money for Nothing & Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits
Disco Inferno by Trammps
My Maria by BW Stevenson
Walling in Memphis by Marc Cohn
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison
Who Says You Can’t Go Home by Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles
I get a lift when I hear almost anything by Spike Jones; but for a REAL boost, there are three songs: “East Bound and Down” by Jerry Reed, “At the Jazz Band Ball” by Bix Beiderbecke, and “Whole Lot of Shaking Going On” by Jerry Lee Lewis.
Bettylou
She’s a Rainbow, Brown Sugar, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, You Can’t always get What You Want/Gimme Shelter both get upbeat by the end of the song.
Jamie…
You said… you can’t always get what you want but if you try sometimes, you get what you need!
Love
Polly ❤️❤️❤️❤️💋💋💋💋
I love most all music but when I listen to Enya I can totally get into those girly feelings. I would probably look silly doing it but I love 💕 dancing to that genre.💕💋 Katie
Hush Deep Purple
Roll With the Changes Reo Speedwagon
Killer Queen, Best Friend, Bicycle, Don’t Stop Me Now, etc. Queen
See reponse to Polly on Rolling Stones’ songs
Too many Motown Songs to mention (even songs about lost love are upbeat when done by The Four Tops)😉
Windy The Association
Roll Down The Highway BTO
I Saw Her Standing There, If I Needed Someone Beatles (Not to be confused with “The Ruttles”
Walking On Sunshine Katrina and The Waves
I didn’t even get to Beach Boys or Four Season songsEeeehh…… the best of all of these is clearly the Ruttles – how can anyone come up with anything better than “All You Need Is Lunch”? Jamie Peridot also mentions Katrina & The Waves and the Four Seasons, while Leslie mentioned Hotel California and The Beach Boys… Eeeehhh… It not only reminds me that you ladies have great taste, but also that I am probably a few years older than I’d like to be… Flower Power Inga….
Unfortunately flower power is young people talk to me. Lion sleeps tonight and other 50’s music is more my style. But I just remembered another great song Curly Haired Woman by Brian Bower, or Their Brains Were Small and They Died. Love off beat things,
.Leslie
Five o’clock somewhere Alan Jackson
kokomo beach boys
friends in low places Garth brooks
man I feel like a women shania Twain if I remember correctly
Kimberly
Anything by The Boss if I want to defy the speed cameras or Eltons Tiny Dancer to maintain a good mood and stay under the limit!
Boppin along on the highway
Diana
Waitin’ On A Sunny Day, Jersey Girl, Born To Run, Better Days… Bruce Springsteen
157 Riverside Avenue (live)… REO Speedwagon
Forest Lawn… John Denver
My Ding-A-Ling, Reelin’ & Rockin’ and Johhny B. Good… ( all 3 on side B of Chuck Berry Live In London album)
Into The Mystic… Van Morrison
Runaway.. Bon Jovi
’39… Queen
There are just too many to list that turn a hard day into something enjoyable, but you have to just let EVERYTHING go when you play them, dance however you feel, and sing loud with them even if you think you sound lousy. Doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks if you feel good.
PaulaF
Jersey Girl, Born To Run, Better Days… A girl of great taste…… Now got to go and fire up the CD player…. Loads of hugs: Asbury Park Inga…
oh my, my list for “boost” songs would be quite extensive.
However, I find myself listening to the same songs when I need a boost :
– theme song from Victorious cast, Make it shine by Victoria Justice
– theme song from Girl meets world, Take on the World by Sabrina Carpenter
– Fight Song, by Rachel Platten
– More than a memory, Carly Rae Jepsen
– I wish you would, Taylor Swift
– You belong with me, Taylor Swift
– Getaway Car, Taylor Swift
– Welcome to New York, Taylor Swift
– How you get the girl, Taylor Swift
– and of course, Shake it off, Taylor Swift
Wendy, does including your sister’s music count here? ( lol)
( ha ha )
Where are the classical votes?Nessum Forma
Carmina Briana ( including the soft solo soprano “ In Trutina” ( I think)
Crossovers- Phantom- Les Mis
Choral Music- Cantique du Jean Racine.
And always remember( for all music lovers)..
”When words fail, music speaks”
Thank you- a good reply, my friend.
Enjoy and be grateful for song writers too.
Anya.
Just about anything gets me up and going, but it so happens that I’m on an Earth Wind and Fire tip currently.
You can pull absolutely anything out of their back catalogue and get a grin on within seconds.
My top 5 non EW&F songs are
Sash! Equador
Deee-Lite – Groove is in the Heart
Robin S – Show Me Love
Capella – U Got 2 Let the Music
System of a Down – Chop Suey
Earworms every one – that last one will give your ears a spring clean!
Love Laura
Ooooh, lots of feel good songs out that makes me smile and happy I’m alive…
Sweet Talkin’ Woman – E.L.O.
Black Magic Woman – Santana
Cotton Jenny – Gordo
Hot Dog – Zeppelin
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves ( this gets me shakin’ my little booty )
Edge of Seventeen – Miss Nicks ( ya think I was going to forget her?!?, lol )
Just of a few
Van Morrison’s Dark End of the Street to the Bright Side of the Road, sung by Jerry Garcia
Jose Gonzalez – Stay Alive (the Walter Mitty Song)
Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel
Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind (from The Accountant)
A lot of Jeff Lynne songs from both ELO and Traveling Wilburys
Petula Clark – Fill the World With Love (this goes absolutely both ways)
(had to add one more)
Aliotta, Haynes and Jeremiah – Lake Shore Drive (I grew up driving this and several years ago back visiting, drove the whole length north to south with this playing.
Oooohhh.. Pet Clark – it’s not something many folk would admit to, but “Downtown ” is a classic; how can you evoke the feeling of the 60’s otherwise…. unless you come up with “Where D0 You Go To My Lovely”…… And just one thing – much as I may have loved the late, great Jerry Garcia, you can’t beat Van the Man! Bright Side Of The Road sits along with Brown Eyed Girl in the pantheon of greatest ever…….
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