Do you have "go to" music to cheer yourself up if having a bad day/mood

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Crap day and I'm listening to Nick Cave and it really feels oddly reassuring.

Sometimes in a bad mood the Smiths very loud is great.

I've been trying to think of some more cheerful stuff!

The video makes me smile every time.... Debatable! Bucharest, Geoff etc

Love George Ezra as a pp said.. makes me happy.

Go-to cheer up music for me is Gangnam Style because I can't be sad while trying to do the dance. Some of his other songs also cheer me up, like Napal Baji.

#SELFIE also cheers me up because it's a song I sing with my brother to annoy my mum (in good humour) but I know a lot of people don't like it.

Anything by Abba!!

Crappy day
August and everything after - counting crows
Together Alone - crowded house
Every other non crappy day
Anthing by The Levellers
Frank Turner
3 Daft Monkeys
Ferocious Dog

I’m usually into vintage Bowie and Velvet Underground, but on a down day nothing perks me up like Kelly Marie’s Feels Like I’m In Love. I always snigger at the crappy syn drums and the memory of the terrible dance routine.

In a non-ironic way, swing always cheers me up in the winter but it has to be the Beach Boys in the summer.

Christmas music actually makes me feel so much better! Had a shit day yesterday so whacked the Christmas music channel on and it cheered me up no end!

The thread itself is cheerful. I love how you can feel poster's love of music when they talk about it.

I've got crowded house on at the moment. I'm going to put together a (very eclectic!) play list this morning.

Hey Ya by Outkast.
Move Your Feet by Junior Senior.

Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
You Get What You Give - New Radicals

Never fail!!

Raggae lift me up. Love this thread!

@TyrannosaurusBex

I love that Kellie Marie song! The video is so funny now - the makeup, the repetitive lyrics, the shininess, the strange dancers... 😂

Velvet Underground’s Sunday Morning & Who Loves The Sun always cheer me up.

Three songs, the playing order is important-

Chandelier by Sia to reflect on the bad mood
Fuel my Fire by The Prodigy to have a good shout
19/2000 by Gorillaz to cheer up

Echo and the Bunnymen - A Promise never fails on any occasion. (ex Goth here too!)

Most 90s reggae works on a guilty pleasure level - Boom Shak A Lak by Apache Indian, Twist and Shout by Chaka Demus and Pliers, O Carolina by Shaggy - all will usually end up with me dancing around the kitchen with DD while DH heads for the hills with earplugs.

If I feel justafiably cross, anything from Fear of a Black Planet goes down a treat.

Barenaked Ladies

Total cheese but,

Josh Groban's version of "You Raise Me Up"

Ozzy yours is fab, thanks

any rave / late 90s euro-cheese. strictly with headphones on as dh rips the piss something awful, with good reason.

Artemisia /Azzido da Bass / ATB / Basement Jaxx etc
Ha ha YYY to Kelly Marie; any other pish on Clubscene / Bonkers; Special D / Hixxy etc

The thing is that I normally listen to the Velvet Underground, Bowie, Can, Hookworms, Aphex Twin etc. I suppose it does me good to get my head out from up my bum although I wouldn't like to make a habit of it

TyrannosaurusBex fancy a night out?

For soothing/meloncholy music: pale blue eyes by velvet underground/silent face by new order/anything by Belle and Sebastian. Then followed by happy music : birdhouse in your soul by they might be giants m.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ or shake it of by Taylor Swift.

Or Mika

BornInTheSeventies glad it’s not just me that sees the appeal!

pearlydewdropsdrops I so do - can we wear feather earrings and spangly jumpsuits?

P.s. Cocteau Twins fan, perchance?

Bumping as I need some more recommendations please

Scissor Sisters- I don't feel like dancing
Cee Lo - Satisfied
Cee Lo - F**k You
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi
Flaming Lips - Do You Realise
Kinks - Don't Forget To Dance
Macy Gray - Do Something

Any stonking piece by Beethoven will do for me (and many other composers)

Green Day angry songs , I usually end up laughing. At the lyrics expressing how I feel, love Green Day. F.O.D. , Platypus I Hate You, Favourite Son.