# What songs pick you up when you're feeling down? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849 "2003-05-08T05:19:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![flybynight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@flybynight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flybynight)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/41 "2003-05-10T04:17:10Z")
_Touch of Grey_ by the Grateful Dead - the song I was thinking of earlier. ---
**Author:** ![RawkStah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@RawkStah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RawkStah)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/42 "2003-05-10T05:42:05Z")
_Low Self-Opinion_ by Rollins Band _I Don’t Like Mondays_ by The Boomtown Rats _The Rainbow Connection_, the Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies version _Sloop John B_ by The Beach Boys _The HIV Song_ by Ween _Simple Gifts_ by Tha Friendly Gangstaz Committee. How can you listen to a Quaker rap group and not smile? ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/43 "2003-05-10T05:53:51Z")
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Red Rubber Ball - Cyrkle Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard Breakdown - Guns N’ Roses Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel ---
**Author:** ![oldman\_withers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@oldman\_withers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldman_withers)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/44 "2003-05-10T17:57:42Z")
Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying. — Belle & Sebastian YATTA! — Happatai (watch the music video, great stuff) Joining a Fan Club — Jellyfish King of Spain — Moxy Früvous (or anything by them pretty much.) Sleeping In — The Postal Service The Seed 2.0 — The Roots When I Get You Alone — Thicke Roundabout — Yes California — Phantom Planet Wolly Muffler — Harvey Danger There’s something in there for everyone, from Rap/R&B, Rock, Acappella, to Soft Glitch Techno. ---
**Author:** ![Giselle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Giselle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giselle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/45 "2003-05-10T18:45:46Z")
Hrm, Jason Mraz is kinda doing it for me right now. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/46 "2003-05-10T22:07:35Z")
I can’t listen to _Quiche Lorraine_ by the B-52’s without laughing. That whole CD makes me happy. The Allman Brothers don’t really make me happy; they make me homesick. To cure homesickness, however, sometimes I pull out my Conway and listen to _Tight-Fittin’ Jeans_. Good stuff, that. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/47 "2003-05-11T03:17:37Z")
Perfect Day by drew, of [toothpastefordinner.com](http://toothpastefordinner.com). It just makes me laugh and laugh. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849/48 "2003-05-11T03:39:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by oldman\_withers \* > **YATTA! — Happatai (watch the music video, great stuff)** Is this by the comedy group from the Japanese show “Silly Go Lucky”; the video has them naked except for fig-leaf underpants? And for the OP: “Mr. Me” by They Might Be Giants. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-pick-you-up-when-youre-feeling-down/173849.md?page=2)