# What is your perfect "Feel Good" Mix? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170 "2006-12-22T03:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [December 22, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/1 "2006-12-22T03:10:19Z")
( Mods- I know this is a poll of sorts, but it’s all music-related so I put it in here. If it needs to skip to IMHO, I get it.) What songs absolutely make you feel great? Got enough for a CD? ( That’s about 72 minutes ). I’m talking songs that are upbeat, not songs about dismembering someone’s pets and then having sacrifices with the charred bones at midnight over a granite altar. That may make some of us happy. Not I. So, I seek a sorta mainstream set of really first-rate Happy Songs. My list: Joy To The World 5th Dimension Good Vibrations Beach Boys I Go To Extremes Billy Joel You Might Think Cars Walking On Sunshine Katrina And The Waves Paradise City Guns 'N Roses Do You Wanna Be My Girl? Jet In The Summertime Mungo Jerrry Synchronicity I Police What’d I Say Ray Charles Gimme Shelter The Rolling Stones Wooly Bully Sam The Sham and the Pharohs Every Day Is A Winding Road Sheryl Crow American Girl Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Mysterious Ways U2 What’s your list? Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/2 "2006-12-22T06:40:54Z")
Downtown- Petula Clark that’s all I have, but that song works like a DRUG. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/3 "2006-12-22T07:00:07Z")
I’m not sure what I’d do for an entire album but I guarantee you that it’d have “Don’t Get Me Wrong” by Pretenders on it. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/4 "2006-12-22T07:16:50Z")
In no particular order: Ursula 1000, Kaboom! The Ditty Bops, Wake Up Jem, Just a Ride The Archies, Sugar Sugar The Romantics, What I Like About You The Foundations, Build Me Up Buttercup The 5.6.7.8.s, Woo Hoo Barenaked Ladies, One Week Counting Crows, Accidentally in Love Iggy Pop, Lust for Life The Caesars, Jerk It Out Katrina and the Waves, I’m Walking on Sunshine Pink, If God Is A DJ R.E.M., It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) The Kinks, You Really Got Me War, Low Rider ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/5 "2006-12-22T08:56:16Z")
Wow, I’m just compiling such an exact list, as a Christmas present for some friends. My mixes are always “programmed”; they tell a story, or follow a theme. In the best of them there’s a thematic arc that melds lyrics and music perfectly. This time, I was just gonna do a bunch of songs that make me smile whenever they happen in my iMix. The title of the mix is _I Wanna Show You Something Beautiful_ (I always pull a title from a lyric in the mix), and the cover art is a field of sunflowers under a starry sky (an image suggested by another song, photoshopped from several different pics). Here’s the list so far. I’m obviously gonna have to winnow it severely if I don’t want it to be a triple disc. Which, whiskey tango foxtrot, why not? LCD Soundsystem: Daft Punk Is Playing At My House Romeo Void: Never Say Never Sweet: Ballroom Blitz Victoria Williams: Frying Pan Tom Jone: Delilah Super Furry Animals: Psyclone! Scott Walker: Jackie PJ Harvey: Good Fortune Pigeonhed: Battle Flag Adam and the Ants: Goody Two Shoes The Coral: Don’t Think You’re the First Del tha Funkee Homosapien: Mistadobalina Fischerspooner: Emerge (Junkie XL Remix) Charlie Louvin and Melba Montgomery: Something to Brag About Spearhead: Every Single Soul Talib Kweli: Joy (feat. Mos Def) Royksopp: Eple RL Burnside: It’s Bad You Know Mose Allison: Your Molecular Structure Miss Kittin and the Hacker: Frank Sinatra Marvin Gaye: Funky Space Reincarnation Magnetic Fields: A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off Lee Morse: T’ain’t No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones) The Soulstirrers: Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb Low: Sunflower Johnny Dowd: Jingle Bells Ruth Wallis: Boobs Doris Day: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps Can: You Doo Right John Prine and Iris Dement: In Spite of Ourselves ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/6 "2006-12-22T11:37:04Z")
No particular order, completely off the top of my head: \*\* Could You Be Loved\*\* Bob Marley \*\* I Don’t Want What You Got Goin On \*\* and **Hip Hop Thighs** both by Ike Reilly Assassination **Let’s Build A Home** and \*\*We’re Going To Be Friends \*\* both by White Stripes **Turn It Again** Red Hot Chili Peppers \*\* Piece Of Crap\*\* Neil Young ---
**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:** [December 22, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/7 "2006-12-22T14:26:30Z")
The original cast recording of the Broadway musical “Hairspray” Bus Stop by The Hollies Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis Jump Shout Boogie by Barry manilow ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/8 "2006-12-22T14:36:26Z")
Good question! Don’t have my iPod with me at the moment, but just off the top of my head, I’d say: “Don’t Ask Me Why” - Billy Joel “She Bop” - Cyndi Lauper “New Orleans Stomp” - Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble “The Cool Dude” - Booker T. Jones “Get ‘Em Goin’” - Euge Groove “Solsbury Hill” - Peter Gabriel “Take Me Home” - Phil Collins “Nobody’s Perfect” - Mike + the Mechanics “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” - Alan Parsons Project “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Rockaria” and “Turn to Stone” - Electric Light Orchestra “Somebody’s Baby” - Jackson Browne “Semper Fidelis” and “The Washington Post March” - John Phillip Sousa “Bailamos” - Enrique Iglesias A bizarre list, I know, but there you have it… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/9 "2006-12-22T14:45:40Z")
A similar thread: [Pop Songs that always give you a lift? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247422) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/10 "2006-12-22T14:47:03Z")
And another: [Songs that Inspire You When You're Down - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352565) ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/11 "2006-12-22T17:11:05Z")
My feel good music is 50’s and 60’s instumentals. Al Hirt, Herb Alpert … ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/12 "2006-12-22T17:25:14Z")
Light My Fire - The Doors Don’t Worry Baby - The Beach Boys Livin’ Thing - ELO My Woman From Tokyo - Deep Purple Bubba O’Riley - The Who Too Late - Carol King Hello, It’s Me - Todd Rundgren Free Falling - Tom Petty Hey Jude - The Beatles 19th Nervous Breakdown - The Rolling Stones And about a gazzilon others… ---
**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:** [December 22, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/13 "2006-12-22T18:14:58Z")
Any “Feel Good” mix needs some Polyphonic Spree, say, _Light & Day/Reach For The Sun_. I’d also throw in _Forever Today_ by Tiësto and _Seven Cities_ by Solarstone. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/14 "2006-12-22T22:13:37Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] A similar thread: [Pop Songs that always give you a lift? - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=247422) [/QUOTE] Well, the thread linked above is **2 1/2 years** old and there are rules against reviving threads that old unless you have something EXTREMELY compellingly new to contribute. However, the Search I ran did not show this, or the thread from 11 months ago that you also linked. Gee, I guess apologies are in order since you showed me up not once but twice _and_ chose not to contribute a list. Lock the thread. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/15 "2006-12-22T22:29:45Z")
Room at the Top- Tom Petty is first and foremost Ballroom Blitz - Crucial Taunt ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/16 "2006-12-23T04:43:27Z")
Van Halen - Panama Counting Crows - American Girls They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul 311 - Don’t Stay Home Sublime - What I Got Barenaked Ladies - One Week The Killers - Mr Brightside Rusted Root - Send Me on my Way Limp Bizkit and Wu-Tang Clan - N 2 Gether Now Soundgarden - Spoonman O.A.R - That Was A Crazy Game of Poker Blink-182 - The Rock Show Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood Sugar Ray - Fly Beastie Boys - Root Down Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life Everclear - Santa Monica Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance that should do the trick 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/17 "2006-12-23T05:06:55Z")
I’m in a holiday funk. I may have to burn this for myself. Alive Again - Trey Anastasio Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrcle Chin Up, Cheer Up - Ryan Adams Inside - Jethro Tull Room to Move - John Mayall Reach Out - The Four Tops Twisted - Joni Mitchell Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles You Can All Join In - Traffic The Ocean - Dar Williams Going Up the Country - Canned Heat Uncle John’s Band - The Grateful Dead How Happy I Am - The Incredible String Band Sahra - Khaled Sunny - Bobby Hebb Try (Just a Little Bit Harder) - Janis Joplin Illegal Smile - John Prine … oh, and there never was a horse like Tenessee Stud - Doc Watson & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/18 "2006-12-23T05:07:11Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] Gee, I guess apologies are in order since you showed me up not once but twice _and_ chose not to contribute a list. [/QUOTE] Um, he _did_ contribute a list. Look at his post above the two posts about the previous threads. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/19 "2006-12-23T14:17:51Z")
::: Moderator comment ::: Just because there were existing threads way back there, I don’t see why we shouldn’t go around again. Yeah, there’s an argument for having everything in one thread; and there’s an argument for having a new thread since some of the folks posting to the year-old thread aren’t around any more. In this case, I’m indifferent, and since this thread has a life (and a link to the old threads), I’d say let it keep going. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170/20 "2006-12-24T00:01:24Z")
Er—do you want favorite songs of mine that make _me_ feel good, or favorite songs of mine that would make _anyone_ feel “warm and fuzzy”? 'Cause…well, the two tend to differ. Wildly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-perfect-feel-good-mix/385170.md?page=2)