# Mood Music - Happy Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113 "2003-03-09T19:14:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/21 "2003-03-12T19:13:01Z")
Eleanor Rigby How Soon is Now Messages by OMD Mozart Requiem …what? ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/22 "2003-03-12T19:21:34Z")
Singin’ in the Rain by Gene Kelly In the country by Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/23 "2003-03-12T19:45:41Z")
Ole! (Bouncing Souls) No Worries (Hepcat) Temptation (New Order) Here Comes Your Man (The Pixies) Summertime (The Sundays) These are my mother’s fault: Here Comes the Sun (Beatles) Seven Sea of Rhye (Queen) Hooray Hooray it’s a Holi-Holiday (Boney M) ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/24 "2003-03-12T19:58:38Z")
Sorry about the previous post.I’m still new at this.Mainly I want to correct the title of that Led Zeppelin song. It’s Down By The Seaside.I should’ve checked it rather than relying the snippet of lyric running through my mind. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/25 "2003-03-12T21:09:16Z")
Bad Days by The Flaming Lips Christmas at the Zoo by The Flaming Lips I Don’t Wanna Grow Up by Tom Waits That Feel by Tom Waits Goin Out West by Tom Waits The entire Blow Your Face Out live album by J Geils Band. The whole thing is so energetic. Yippeeeee Also early Phish albums are fun ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/26 "2003-03-13T01:28:54Z")
Another vote for the Turtles “Happy Together.” [Here’s](http://www.thewebgal.com/roxymusic/lyrics/lst.html) the info on the Bryan Ferry **serenitynow** ; the album is available on CD (mine copy’s on vinyl, ahem), according to AMG (sorry, couldn’t make the link work). ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/27 "2003-03-13T01:39:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jomo Mojo \* > \*\*Mike Oldfield’s _ **"In Dulci Jubilo"** _ is the happiest doggone tune ever recorded. Nobody who hears it can resist tapping their feet and grinning ear to ear. \*\* Even better is his take on Vivaldi’s Concerto in C. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/28 "2003-03-13T01:46:08Z")
“Misty Mountain Hop” and “Rock and Roll” by Led Zeppelin “Little Miss Lover” by Jimi Hendrix Experience “Uncle Walter” by Ben Folds Five ---
**Author:** ![penny\_dreadful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/29 "2003-03-13T02:16:33Z")
Off the top of my head: Calibretto 13’s “High Five” Lots of stuff by Aqua, especially “Around the World” and “Lollipop” The Cure’s “Mint Car” ---
**Author:** ![ChalkPit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@ChalkPit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChalkPit)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/30 "2003-03-13T03:18:34Z")
“Right back where we started from”, the theme from that Paul Newman Ice Hockey film “Walking on Sunshine” - Katrina and the Waves “Communication Breakdown” - Led Zeppelin “Since you been gone” - Rainbow “Plastic Man” - The Kinks “Paperback Writer”- The Beatles “Sha la la la lee” - The Small Faces “Louie Louie” - Motorhead “Fireball” - Deep Purple “Without Love” - Little Richard “Born to be Wild” - Steppenwolf “Pretty Vacant” - Sex Pistols “Fools Gold 9.53” - Stone Roses “You can all join in” - Traffic “Sunshine of your Love” - Cream “Run to the hills” - Iron Maiden And many many more… ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/31 "2003-03-13T03:23:03Z")
“I like it like that” - Tito Puente You just gotta dance… ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/32 "2003-03-13T05:24:33Z")
“Get Rythm” - Johnny Cash Not a song, but the entire album O’ Inverted World by The Shins “Camel Walk” - Southern Culture on the Skids “Mass Romantic” -New Pornographers “California Stars” -Wilco ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/33 "2003-03-13T05:39:51Z")
“Island in the Sun” and “Keep Fishin’” by Weezer “My Hero” by Foo Fighters “Jump” by Van Halen ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/34 "2003-03-13T06:44:47Z")
“Oh What a Beautiful Morning” by Gordon MacRae “L-O-V-E” by Nat King Cole “Chanson d’un jour d’ete” (Song of a Summer’s Day) from _The Young Girls of Rochefort_ “Good Morning Starshine” by Oliver “Your Move” by Yes “Beautiful City” from _Godspell_ “Day by Day” from _Godspell_ “Daybreak” by Barry Manilow “Only Love Is Real” by Carole King “You’re My Best Friend” by Queen “As” by Stevie Wonder “Roll With the Changes” by REO Speedwagon “Love Is the Answer” by England Dan and John Ford Coley “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by the Police “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” by Culture Club “Right by Your Side” by Eurythmics “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves “Don’t Get Me Wrong” by the Pretenders “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones “Hole Hearted” by Extreme “It’s Oh So Quiet” by Björk “That Thing You Do!” by the Wonders “Kiss Me” by Sixpence None the Richer “No Such Thing” by John Mayer ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/35 "2003-03-13T13:32:08Z")
Yes, **Walloon**! Belting out “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” on my way to work always puts me in a better mood. okay, I’m a big fat dork. “Papa Was a Rodeo” and “The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side,” both by the Magnetic Fields, always make me smile. So does “When I’m Sixty-Four” by the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/36 "2003-03-13T14:30:39Z")
“ **Don’t Stop Believin’** ” - Journey This song will always crack me up. Whenever I listen to it, I have to be able to crank it up really loud, so that it can be accompanied by the “rock-ballad-singer” face that I always make while singing it. Oh, and there have to be lots of hand gestures and cheesy choreography to go along with it. Well, it always makes people in other cars laugh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blue\_poop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@blue\_poop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_poop)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/37 "2003-03-13T22:48:22Z")
Get your freak on - Missy Elliot (not the song as such, but I have a dance that I do so, everytime I hear the song it reminds me of the dance I do and it always cheers me up :D) Papa don’t preach - Kelly Osbournes version Ive probably got a million of these songs but these are the first that come to mind. Notice how you can think of more songs that make you cry than ones that make u happy?! ---
**Author:** ![jools](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@jools](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jools)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/38 "2003-03-13T23:04:15Z")
Most of my happy songs have been named already but two are missing Yellow submarine - the Beatles (so many fun/happy memories of high school and a school bus!!!) In the summertime - Mungo Jerry (so tacky but I can’t help myself and smile every time I hear it) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/39 "2003-03-13T23:22:15Z")
" California Dreamin’ " by The Mamas and the Papas " Heart Of The Sunrise " by Yes " Starship Trooper" by Yes “Going For The One” by Yes “Mysterious Ways” by U2 “American Girl” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers " Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In" 5th Dimension " Wild Thing " by The Troggs " Blue Moon " by The Marcels " Dreams" by The Cranberries " What I Got " by Sublime " Wooly Bully " by Sam the Sham & The Pharoes " Gimme Shelter " by The Rolling Stones " Synchronicity 1" by The Police " Cinnamon Girl " by Neil Young " Devil With The Blue Dress On" by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels " Fly Away " by Lenny Kravitz " Take Me To The Pilot " by Elton John " Shining Star " by Earth, Wind & Fire " Born To Run " by Bruce Springsteen " Prelude/Angry Young Man " by Billy Joel " Call Me " by Blondie " All The Small Things " by Blink 182 " I’m Down " by The Beatles " Pepper " by Butthole Surfers " One Week " by Barenaked Ladies I think that’s about it. I love a lot of good songs… Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113/40 "2003-03-13T23:49:02Z")
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash Get Happy - Judy Garland Blue Skies - Ella Fitzgerald Come On (Celebration) - Zulu Spear Anything by the Dixie Hummingbirds [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mood-music-happy-songs/160113.md?page=3)