What music never fails to cheer you up?
 

Things have felt a bit dull this evening, and put me in a resultant funk.

What music always succeeds in pulling you out of your funks?

Two examples for now are The Buzzcocks and Big Black. More to come, but my tea is steeping.

butthole surfers. haha

Adam Green and pretty much any anti-folk.

You answered your own question. Funk.



Dig?

Ah, folk has its moments, but it doesn't typically cheer me up. I usually save that for melancholy or retrospective moments.

The Boredoms are usually good for energy, and lately I've been diggin' me some Goatwhore and Make-Up.

And for some reason, though they get some flak, Grandaddy always equals silly good cheer to me.

Good one!

A bit more recent one:

Any song from "A Goofy Movie." For example, this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EcMQohNAE

Music that cheers me up and also because of its visulal connotations(i.e. videos):
Duran Duran - Wild Boys
Arcadia - Election Day

There are tons more.

I love you, luxinterior.

And good point about the visuals, porky. Devo gets a nod for that.

the smiths for sure

anti-folk is a bit different. It's very honest but also pretty funny

This might cheer you up.Trans-dressing people(as i call them) think this video is something to laugh at.The song is an ode to a plastic God itself,as if the real thing isn't good enough:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0SENx9inX...elated&search=

Travesty,i meant.

Can it fail you to make you smile at least?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OFZSCsZSN...elated&search=

I need people to cheer me up. Failing that i find At the drive or les savy fav do well in kicking me up the arse. I need to learn guitar or join a band.

Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Juana Molina
and also The Breeders' Last Splash

obvious, but fuck it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u25__HY4XwE

makes me want to gleefully hurl marshmallows up at the sun.

Fucking hell you are absolutely right that is just the cheeriest thing ive ever seen!

I remember once I was at work and in a bad moon. Then, I played Flaming Lip's transmissions from sattellite heart. Made me so happy!
Breeders- Pod
Fall- Live At The Witch Trails
Nuetral Milk Hotel- IN AN Aeroplane Over The Sea
Beatles- Magical Myestery Tour
Beck- odelay
dino jr.- you're livin all over me

All of those can put a smile on my face

Ted Leo/RX, Violent Femmes, Deerhoof, Pixies

DUCK ON BIKE!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msjqLuBBvqY

B-52s. You can't not get excited by Rock Lobster.

neutral milk hotel kind of makes me sad for some reason

cheer up songs:

Iggy - "Lust For Life" and "The Passenger"
Jane's Addiction - "Summertime Rolls"
Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
The Cure - "Love Cats"
Violent Femmes - "Blister In The Sun"
The La's - "There She Goes"
James - "Sit Down"
Beatles - "Yellow Submarine"
Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy"
Blondie - "Call Me"
Cyndi Lauper - "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
The Go! Team - "Huddle Formation"
Madness - "Baggy Trousers"
Francoise Hardy - "J'suis D'accord"
Undertones - "Teenage Kicks"
Petula Clark - "Downtown"
Bjork - "Big Time Sensuality"
Mama's & Papa's - "California Dreaming"
X-Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yours"

The B52's... Charlie Parker... Tchaikovsky.. Cat Stevens... Chuck Berry.. Buddy Holly.. Del Shannon.. various bouncy REM songs... any of those little silly songs from The Mighty Boosh...

YMO


but i suppose it would depend in which kind of way i needed cheering

Velvet Underground - Sunday

Dinosaur Jr. songs are really uplifting. especially the earlier albums.

i bleed - pixies

anything by pavement
Sunday Morning by Velvet Underground
Meat Puppet's version of What to do

All the music I like makes me happy in the same way, no matter what it is.

The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Arcade Fire- lots of the EP and a few tracks from Funeral (good memories, nostalgic)
The Blood Brothers
Animal Collective (most)
Broken Social Scene (most)
Daughters
Dinosaur Jr
Sonic Youth (most)
Minor Threat
Fugazi
Islands
XBXRX

(and anything that I have good memories attached to).

I've actually always found In Utero to be great for getting out of a bad mood, which is odd, since it's essentially a suicide note to music. I think that's what made Kurt's suicide so especially depressing, the way so many people used his music to get out of the very mood that he wasn't able to escape himself.

anything by Ruins.

Haha

"We're all water" and "Sisters O Sisters" by Yoko Ono.
You can find them in the last CD ("A Story") of the Onobox.

Here goes the lyrics for the first one:

There may not be much diff'rence
Between chairman mao and richard nixon
If we strip them naked.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between marylin monroe and lenny bruce
If we check their coffins.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between white house and hall of people
If we count their windows.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between raquel welch and jerry rubin
If we hear their heartbeat.

We're all water from diff'rent rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet.
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Some day we'll evaporate together.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between eldridge cleaver and the queen of england
If we bottle their tears.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between manson and the pope
If we press their smile.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between rockefeller and you
If we hear you sing.

There may not be much diff'rence
Between you and me
If we show our dreams.

We're all water from diff'rent rivers,
That's why it's so easy to meet.
We're all water in this vast, vast ocean,
Some day we'll evaporate together.

Hey!

James Blonde loves musicals!
http://www.rockymusic.org/mp3scat/letmypeoplecome/