Recommend some uplifting music
 

My spirits are in desperate need of lifting, but my collection seems to be full of dark and depressing music. Tell me what I should seek out to make me feel brighter.

You need to hear Curtis Mayfield music
get his greatest hits or the superlfy soundtrack
or any parliament funkadelic albums, but especially mothership connection
Cornelius - Fantasma always makes me feel GREAT, especially when intoxicat3ed

jeffrey lewis's 12 crass songs. a great little album!

Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack
Monochrome Set

kiiiiiii- album

kiiiiii- album

blumfeld- etat et moi


blumfeld- etat et moi

crass has a nice uplifting beat

Download the two cd's in my sig.

Animal Collective
Akron/Family
Beach Boys
Broken Social Scene
Captain Beefheart
Panda Bear
El Guincho
Joanna Newsom
Psalters
Talking Heads
Vashti Bunyan

I really don't enjoy Panda Bear, not my cup of tea.

"The Cribs" are pretty uplifting.

Soukous as practised by this man or this band or the majesty of this song should cheer you up.

Failing that, I can upload some Happy Hardcore tomorrow.

The Brunettes
Yo La Tengo usually brings me up.

Two songs guaranteed to cheer you up:

"What A Wonderful Man" by My Morning Jacket

and

"Chick Habit" by April March

:)

Get Awkward- Be Your Own Pet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_jKBkcMM0 [bob malrey, wake up and live]
http://www.groundation.com/mp3sample...efreeagain.mp3 [groundation feat. Don Carlos from the Congos and Apple Gabriel from Israel Vibrations]
http://www.groundation.com/mp3samples/mp3/undivided.mp3 [more groundation]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z_s7g-cboI [dillinger, thee toaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTNuaJ0sxY [abyssinians, satta masagana]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq0kigUBIfs [the Itals, Fret Not Thyself, live, 1984, I am going to see these guys this weekend, they are my favorite]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k3UvFnirlk [culture, just before Joseph Hills passing two years ago]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDEUeT88ajQ [jacob miller, natty dread, live at one love peace concert 1978]

thats all for no, more upliftment to come...

yes maggot brain, mothership, and superfly soundtrack.

also check out van morisson's astral weeks, technically sad but his voice is so warm and full of empathy it might cheer you up. it sure does the trick for me.

billy brag and wilco-mermaid avenue volume 1 and 2

some hip hop should lighten the mood too, some vile, humorous, fun but good hip hop.

cam'ron-purple haze
lil wayne-da drought 3. carter 2. the dedication mixtape.
three 6 mafia-anything
the new rick ross is good too.

some dub, anything by lee perry, augustus pablo, king tubby, whatever.

elvis costello's stuff from the beginning of his career (blame it on cain makes me happy)

mclusky-do dallas is a fun, rockin ass record.
the stooges-raw power.
damned-damned damned damned

panda bear is surely a good idea.

why not the mother of all experimental pop, beach boys-pet sounds.

leanord cohen-im your man, so long marianne, death of a ladies man (has the same effect as van on me)

david bowie-low, ziggy stardust, anything besides the man who sold the world.

guns n roses if youre in a im sad so im gonna drink a fifth of booze and ruin some lives kinda mood.

andrew wk (duh)

I find shoegazer music does the trick. Particularly early Slowdive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwVGPtNTYVQ (Shine)

WAGNER!!!

The Verlaines - C.D., Jimmy Jazz & Me. Has a brilliantly uplifting orchestral part.
The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft. In fact, the whole George Best album would be great.
Happy Mondays - Pills'n'Thrills and Bellyaches
The Clash - London Calling
The Ramones - Ramones, Rocket To Russia etc.

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.