# Post some of your favorite feel good songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407 "2009-05-23T18:18:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/21 "2009-05-24T06:32:23Z")
DJ Shah featuring Adrina Thorpe - [Who Will Find Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz77EoPRgw) U2 - [Beautiful Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6FwEJwwYcQ) Polyphonic Spree - [Light and Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNMs4PvzkTY) Matt Darey - [Temptation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75okkwmN4Y0) ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/22 "2009-05-24T07:44:36Z")
_Good Morning, Baltimore_ and _You Can’t Stop The Beat_ from the musical _Hairspray_. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/23 "2009-05-24T08:10:01Z")
_Sing a Song / I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing_, The Gaither Vocal Band. _No Such Thing_, John Mayer. _All I Want_, Toad the Wet Sprocket. _You Get What You Give_, The New Radicals. _Kiss Me_, Sixpence None the Richer. _That Thing You Do!_, The Wonders. _The More I See You_, Nina Simone. _Shiny Happy People_, REM. _Right Here, Right Now_, Jesus Jones. _The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)_, Cher. _Every Kinda People_, Robert Palmer. _It’s Gonna Be (500 Miles)_, The Proclaimers. _You and I, Pt. 2_, Fleetwood Mac. _Everybody Have Fun Tonight_, Wang Chung. _Don’t Get Me Wrong_, The Pretenders. _Walking on Sunshine_, Katrina and the Waves. _Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go_, Wham! _Right by Your Side_, Eurythmics. _Bang the Drum All Day_, Todd Rundgren. _Kiss on My List_, Hall & Oates. _We Are Family_, Sister Sledge. _Wondering Where the Lions Are_, Bruce Cockburn. _Roll With the Changes_, REO Speedwagon. _Boogie Oogie Oogie_, Taste of Honey. _Lust for Life_, Iggy Pop. _Mr. Blue Sky_, Electric Light Orchestra. _Daybreak_, Barry Manilow. _As_, Stevie Wonder. _Day by Day_, Godspell. _Beautiful City_, Godspell. _You Are the Sunshine of My Life_, Stevie Wonder. _Free Ride_, The Edgar Winter Group. _Good Morning Starshine_, Oliver. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/24 "2009-05-24T08:29:24Z")
“Brave” by Nichole Nordeman [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGOddmMm3E](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeGOddmMm3E) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/25 "2009-05-27T07:45:15Z")
_Here Comes the Sun_ - Beatles ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/26 "2009-05-27T08:31:53Z")
A lot of these are on my “Get Up! Wake up! Be Happy!” daily mix [Roam - B52s](http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=1087432579) [For Once In My Life - Stevie Wonder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxVyaYuGYE) [Fantasy - Mariah Carey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbsgDpT6Jnk) [500 Miles - The Proclaimers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0sTNtWDiI) [Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVEGfH4s5g) [Beautiful Day - U2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6FwEJwwYcQ) [Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckCwBAhz4oc) Oh man, I could go on and on. I’ll stop. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/27 "2009-05-27T14:23:13Z")
Mr. E’s Beautiful Blues (goddamn right, it’s a beautiful day) - The Eels Good Morning Aztlan - Los Lobos ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/28 "2009-05-27T15:31:02Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > _Sing a Song / I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing_, The Gaither Vocal Band. > _No Such Thing_, John Mayer. > _All I Want_, Toad the Wet Sprocket. > _You Get What You Give_, The New Radicals. > _Kiss Me_, Sixpence None the Richer. > _That Thing You Do!_, The Wonders. > _The More I See You_, Nina Simone. > _Shiny Happy People_, REM. > _Right Here, Right Now_, Jesus Jones. > _The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)_, Cher. > _Every Kinda People_, Robert Palmer. > _It’s Gonna Be (500 Miles)_, The Proclaimers. > _You and I, Pt. 2_, Fleetwood Mac. > _Everybody Have Fun Tonight_, Wang Chung. > _Don’t Get Me Wrong_, The Pretenders. > _Walking on Sunshine_, Katrina and the Waves. > _Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go_, Wham! > _Right by Your Side_, Eurythmics. > _Bang the Drum All Day_, Todd Rundgren. > _Kiss on My List_, Hall & Oates. > _We Are Family_, Sister Sledge. > _Wondering Where the Lions Are_, Bruce Cockburn. > _Roll With the Changes_, REO Speedwagon. > _Boogie Oogie Oogie_, Taste of Honey. > _Lust for Life_, Iggy Pop. > _Mr. Blue Sky_, Electric Light Orchestra. > _Daybreak_, Barry Manilow. > _As_, Stevie Wonder. > _Day by Day_, Godspell. > _Beautiful City_, Godspell. > _You Are the Sunshine of My Life_, Stevie Wonder. > _Free Ride_, The Edgar Winter Group. > _Good Morning Starshine_, Oliver. I have a lot of these songs, burned to CD! Got “Wild One” by Iggy Pop, too :D. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/29 "2009-05-27T16:09:22Z")
I can’t feel bad if **Jeff Beck** ’s \*Freeway Jam \*is playing. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/30 "2009-05-27T17:52:24Z")
This Christmas by Donny Hathaway No youtube link because all I could find was covers and not the original. If it’s a movie about black people and it’s Christmas time, this song is in the film. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/31 "2009-05-27T18:38:39Z")
“ **Strawberry Letter 23** ” - The Brothers Johnson. This song makes me want to don a pair of short shorts and join a roller boogie. So awesome. “ **Young American** ” - David Bowie. Seems like this song always comes on the pub jukebox right when you’re starting to feel happy and buzzed. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/32 "2009-05-27T19:04:45Z")
“_Behind the Clouds_” by Brad Paisley. It’s a happy, sunny, toe-tapping lil’ feel-good country tune. I’m not a fan—he’s managed to fly beneath my ‘country’ radar for a while—but the song is on my son’s CD of the soundtrack from the Pixar movie “_Cars_”. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/33 "2009-05-27T19:14:47Z")
[Happy Hour](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehden6aPl0) by the Housemartins. This song is ALWAYS in my primary playlist on my iPod. That’s Fatboy Slim, by the way, before he was famous. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/34 "2009-05-27T19:30:15Z")
311 is the ultimate feel good band. [Don’t Stay Home](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_epHJghzVs) [Stealing Happy Hours](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuKZj7dIWzw) [Hey You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuk2U3vc0c) [Don’t Dwell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGxHrf_Ck8U) [Other Side of Things](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1q4XH6oJ9g) [Jupiter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dfGJmtV8U) I don’t know any other band or musician with a more consistently positive message. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/35 "2009-05-27T20:15:52Z")
> [@Proudest\_Monkey](#): > > **Wouldn’t it Be Nice** by the Beach Boys _50 First Dates_ ruined this song for me. Now I can’t hear it without picturing Adam Sandler singing it at the top of his lungs while crying his eyes out. > [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > [Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyoncé](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVEGfH4s5g) My wife and I have two cars, and each car has two sets of pre-set radio stations. Each of us gets one of those sets – hers are mostly programmed to pop/R&B, while mine are programmed to various flavors of rock. Whenever I get in whichever car I’m taking, I start the car, buckle up, check my mirrors, pull away from the curb, and then make sure I’ve got the radio set to my group of stations. But not yesterday. I took the car after my wife used it, and as I was getting myself situated, _Single Ladies_ came on the radio and I simply could not turn it off. It’s simply way to upbeat and happy – if I hadn’t been driving at the time, God help me, I might’ve started _dancing_. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/36 "2009-05-27T20:40:14Z")
Kelley Stoltz _Birdies Singing_ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfSPVttAbIQ) ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/37 "2009-05-28T05:39:18Z")
Interesting that the OP mentions the movie Boyz in the Hood because I bet that’s one of the reasons why I can’t see Ooh Child as a happy song. They play it when Dough Boy is being taken to juvie, and since I saw that scene as a child, that song has always been very haunting to me. Even when it is supposed to get to the upbeat part, it is just a really heartbreaking song to me. I mean, when you think about it, the song is really about selling a pipe dream to someone in a hopeless seeming situation. At least that’s my morbid ass take on it. I love [Bjork’s “Scary”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwpeS-FujLc) for an upbeat fun song. The lyrics are a bit melancholy, but the music is so uplifting, and her voice so cheerful that you just gotta screech along with her. ETA: I love Age of Aquarius so much. Have always loved that song, but again, enomaj has a knack for choosin songs as upbeat that I find strangely haunting. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/38 "2009-05-28T18:39:57Z")
“Do Ya” by ELO “Borrowed Time” by Styx “Going for the One” by Yes “Even in the Quietest Moments” by Supertramp ---
**Author:** ![meanoldman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@meanoldman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meanoldman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/39 "2009-05-28T19:35:32Z")
First off, let me say that I rarely actually listen to the words of a song. I just typically like the overall sound. So if one reads the lyrics, perhaps these might not be so upbeat. “Wavelength” by Van Morrison. “Lido Shuffle” - Boz Scaggs “Cheeseburger in Paradise” - Jimmy Buffet “(Sitting on) the dock of the Bay” - Otis Redding “Ubangi Stomp” - Alice Cooper version “Stray Cat Strut” - Stray Cats “Hot Rod Lincoln” - Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen And even though I think it is counter to the song’s intent, if I crank up the volume to 11, then “Mama, I’m Coming Home” by Ozzy puts a smile on my face. Course, it takes awhile for my hearing to come back. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407/40 "2009-05-28T19:41:20Z")
_Sweet Home Alabama_–bonus points if it’s the “Roll Tide” version and Auburn fans are present. _One Toke Over the Line_ _Feeling Groovy (The 59th Street Bridge Song)_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-some-of-your-favorite-feel-good-songs/497407.md?page=3)