# Songs of Hope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075 "2012-01-10T19:33:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/21 "2012-01-11T20:53:10Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQ0vDAbF7s) R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/22 "2012-01-12T00:26:16Z")
You’re right, I’m a little sheepish about admitting some of them, buuuuut: [Closer I Am to Fine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228) - Indigo Girls [Praise You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE) - Fatboy Slim [Hold On](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdYDF9p7K8&ob=av2e) - Triumph [Magic Power](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW3WYcnQj8I) - Triumph [Roll with the Changes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsdsbdgTxgs) - REO Speedwagon [Make it Real](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrEy2UMkdw) - Scorpions ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/23 "2012-01-12T04:41:37Z")
_Thank God and Greyhound You’re Gone,_ by Larry Kingston and Earl Nix. Sung by Roy Clark. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/24 "2012-01-12T04:43:40Z")
[Send Me On My Way](http://youtu.be/IGMabBGydC0) - Rusted Root ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/25 "2012-01-12T04:53:36Z")
[Solsbury Hill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGaqmvIEyaI) - Peter Gabriel [Quicksilver Lightning](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5gDgoyNaa8) - Roger Daltrey [Never Surrender](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnrPLKbkD0) - Corey Hart ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/26 "2012-01-12T05:23:01Z")
> [@MyFootsZZZ](#): > > The [opposite](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1N8GtDkYfQ) of what you’re looking for? I come from the land of _“the opposite of what you’re looking for”_. However I’m adding yours to my _Songs of Hope_ playlist. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/27 "2012-01-12T15:55:28Z")
A few more: “[Keep On Smilin’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY)” by Wet Willie “[Nobody Can Turn Me Around](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd80qgorr7k)” by the Magnificent Men “[Little Bit O’ Soul](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgGjvZcNpKs)” by the Music Explosion “[Smile a Little Smile For Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSqRHjLRmA)” by the Flying Machine “[Look Into the Sun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jG6wEXSCUY)” by Jethro Tull – kind of wistful but ultimately uplifting ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/28 "2012-01-12T16:06:52Z")
I have special place for The Stone Roses (by, err, The Stone Roses) for reasons beyond it being an awesome album. It is directly connecting with the feeling of hope as it was the soundtrack for me being pulled out of a rather dark place. The two that do it for me the most though are: [This is the One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aqY-8cMVdg) [I am the Resurrection](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyrrTK_xzj4) ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/29 "2012-01-13T02:22:26Z")
Happy Rhodes “Given In” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/5P9TuwwBfBg/hqdefault.jpg "Happy Rhodes - Rhodes I - 03 - "Given In" (1986)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P9TuwwBfBg) “Ode” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1geOL5hx3Cg/hqdefault.jpg "Happy Rhodes - Ecto - 10 - "Ode" (1987)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1geOL5hx3Cg) ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/30 "2012-01-13T03:26:23Z")
How about Eric Clapton’s _If I Could Change the World_? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/31 "2012-01-13T05:42:47Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Anonymous offering via PM: _laugh_ I wonder who that could be? (I’m posting just because I don’t want anyone to think that I actually tried to pass myself off as anonymous. I don’t even think there’s any way to _be_ anonymous via PM, and even if there were, I would never do it.) ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/32 "2012-01-13T15:38:44Z")
How about songs with good wishes for you? “[Long May You Run](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5wnvnQ3bc)” by the Stills-Young Band (here performed by Emmylou Harris) “[Windfall](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYoidn4QRMI)” by Son Volt “[Forever Young](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=favgoOn-U1I)” by Bob Dylan (here performed by Joan Baez) ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/33 "2012-01-13T16:18:03Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > _laugh_ I wonder who that could be? > > (I’m posting just because I don’t want anyone to think that I actually tried to pass myself off as anonymous. I don’t even think there’s any way to _be_ anonymous via PM, and even if there were, I would never do it.) Ooops! :rolleyes: Sorry, **Equipoise**. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/34 "2012-01-14T05:45:09Z")
> [@brittekland](#): > > Ooops! :rolleyes: > > Sorry, **Equipoise**. :smack: _smile_ Don’t worry about it. It’s not you. I just had these visions of someone saying to themselves “Wait, Equipoise tried to be anonymous in a PM? You can’t do that! What an idiot!” or thinking I asked you to pass them along anonymously, which would make me an idiot since most would know they come from me. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075/35 "2012-01-14T13:52:41Z")
[Wondering](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkeRVsvh6-A) by **Van der Graaf Generator** , live 2005 with the 4-piece reunion lineup [A Place to Survive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9UbGMCaKYk&feature=related) **Van der Graaf Generator** live 2007 as a 3-piece after Jackson left the reunion lineup. [Sunshine](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uISNWnm-rYA) **Peter Hammill** , from the studio album, _Fool’s Mate_. Lyrics for all three tracks [here](http://www.sofasound.com/lyrix.htm#V) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-of-hope/609075.md?page=1)