R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
You’re right, I’m a little sheepish about admitting some of them, buuuuut:
Closer I Am to Fine - Indigo Girls
Praise You - Fatboy Slim
Hold On - Triumph
Magic Power - Triumph
Roll with the Changes - REO Speedwagon
Make it Real - Scorpions
Thank God and Greyhound You’re Gone, by Larry Kingston and Earl Nix. Sung by Roy Clark.
~VOW
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.
A few more:
“Keep On Smilin’” by Wet Willie
“Nobody Can Turn Me Around” by the Magnificent Men
“Little Bit O’ Soul” by the Music Explosion
“Smile a Little Smile For Me” by the Flying Machine
“Look Into the Sun” by Jethro Tull – kind of wistful but ultimately uplifting
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:
Happy Rhodes
“Given In”
“Ode”
How about Eric Clapton’s If I Could Change the World?
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.)
How about songs with good wishes for you?
“Long May You Run” by the Stills-Young Band (here performed by Emmylou Harris)
“Windfall” by Son Volt
“Forever Young” by Bob Dylan (here performed by Joan Baez)
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.
Wondering by Van der Graaf Generator, live 2005 with the 4-piece reunion lineup
A Place to Survive Van der Graaf Generator live 2007 as a 3-piece after Jackson left the reunion lineup.
Sunshine Peter Hammill, from the studio album, Fool’s Mate.
Lyrics for all three tracks here