The Clean

Sugarbabes

Flaming Lips circa 1992-1995

All good music to dancedancedancedancedancedancedancedancedance to.
and I would also suggest Devendra Banhart, his husky voice always gets me through those tough times.

Oh hell YES, I was exactly about to say this.

This album has been making my days recently.

I would also throw in LCD Soundsystem's first album and "Myth Takes" by !!! into the batch. Or Cocteau Twins. Yes, Cocteau Twins!

Curtis Mayfield is a good one, as is Broken Social Scene

Curtis Mayfield's MOVE ON UP

Just sit and listen to the percussion, the conga, the timbales, fuck! they never stop!

wow, i make one post about mayfield now everyone is on his dick

subsequently everyone hangs on your dick now, mate. how nice is that? :)

django reinhardt makes me happy
in fact you cant not be happy listening to him

hmmm, very nice

old reggae, those 3CD trojan boxsets that you see around are in my experience excellent and very uplifting

the o'jays - love train

yellow magic orchestra

os mutantes

fela kuti

actually, i think this weekend i might do a mix of uplifting music

Django and Grapelli for me, yes. Django solo is great, but with Grapelli is easily one of my favourite duo things of ever.

The Kinks and Ween always put me in a good mood.

JERRY LEWIS RHYTHM PLEASURE!!!!!!
i love that song so fucking much and i cannot thank you enough for that.

yeah, that song is absolutely amazing, i'm glad you enjoyed it so much.

yeah i never would've heard it i don't think if it weren't for that tape
i want the rest of the box set. i'll look for it on my next excursion to the record store.

The first Cramps album always cheers me up, in a sleazy, trashy, cretinous kind of way. Ditto the first Action Swingers album.

If all else fails though, a Blondie best of simply can't fail. Heart of Glass and Union City Blues are like sonic prozac; to my ears, at least.

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs. Winter's Love is such a happy song.

It's hard to do this. What I often think cheers me up, other people find depressing. It's so subjective.

That said, I know how you feel. My worst days are when I've been out and about and realize how ignorant and backward this hick town is where I'm forced to live, and I search and search in my collection for something that feels "cleansing" and "uplifting" and even escapist--something that reassures me I'm not really like all of "them" out there.