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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Mikendher on 27 Jan 2006, 16:44
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I am way to depressed, and I realized that I have depressing music only (elliott smith style stuff). So I need some happy music, or at least energetic. I like Architecture in Helsinki, The Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and the Decemberists. Please help!
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New Porngraphers and the Polyphonic Spree are a yes to the max. If yu want reaxing happy, you should check out Jack Johnson.
EDIT: Also, one should check out the Flaming Lips
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listen to some Soophie Nun Squad. or Ghost Mice. or Chugga Chugga.
or Matty Pop Chart: http://www.myspace.com/mattypopchart - matty ALWAYS does it for me.
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If yu want reaxing happy, you should check out Jack Johnson.
Listening to Jack Johnson is anything but a joyous experience. It actually depresses me, since I realize how sad the state of the world must be when many consider him to be an amazing guitar player, lyricist, and singer...
New Pornographers (go with Electric Version) and Polyphonic Spree (The Begining Stages Of...) are amazing ideas though. Basically anything by either of these two bands will wok gloriously. Some other bands full of good fun are The Shins (Chutes Too Narrow), Belle and Sebastian (If You're Feeling Sinister), and The Flaming Lips (The Soft Bulletin). Oh, and you can't go wrong with some early Beatles.
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Talking Heads records make me happy.
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New Pornographers
The Gay
Space Kelly
Of Montreal
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Talking Heads records make me happy.
I agree with this. Have you seen the "Stop Making Sense" DVD, though? It's easily my favorite by them.
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Iron and Wine - Trapeze Swinger
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Talking Heads records make me happy.
I agree with this. Have you seen the "Stop Making Sense" DVD, though? It's easily my favorite by them.
Could anyone say they like them WITHOUT having seen it?
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Yes. In a word.
Check out London 0, Hull 4 by the Housemartins for a whole bunch of incredibly upbeat, bouncy songs. Which just happen to have incredibly cynical lyrics - but hey, if you're going to be bitter at least you should dance while you're doing it! Also some old-school soul: the Four Tops (before Motown became shit - their first two-and-a-half albums, basically), Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett (R.I.P.), and Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963. If you're in a mood for strutting 'round your pad, get some "New Testament" Count Basie: The Atomic Mr. Basie and Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings. Big band jazz has never been better. While we're on jazz, try some hard bop: especially Clifford Brown and Max Roach's self-titled album (so happy it has a bright orange cover). For something more recent, try Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: sure, they've been raved about ad nauseum, but their album really is just about the most up-beat, danceable rock album I've heard in the last year.
That's off the top of my head. I don't have my C.D. collection immediatly to hand.[/list][/list]
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Ben Lee. Seriously people, Ben Lee.
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Tullycraft. Oh yes.
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Talking Heads
Devo
Oingo Boingo
I do not see how anyone could be unhappy listening to any of these bands music.
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the parkas - giants in my field (http://www.theparkas.com/music.html)
i've always found it quite impossible to hold back a smile while listening to that song.
and if that fails, any soundtrack by joe hisaishi should do the trick.
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The Go! Team
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Talking Heads
Devo
Oingo Boingo
I do not see how anyone could be unhappy listening to any of these bands music.
Totally double these guys. Especially Boingo.
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Architecture in Helsinki
Art Brut
The Libertines
The Go! Team
Of Montreal
Daft Punk
Franz Ferdinand
The Zutons
Chemical Brothers
White Stripes
Wilco
These should have you dancing around in no time.
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I disagree with the White Stripes and Wilco. They are certainly amazing bands, but they aren't the sort that you would say play "happy music". Maybe they have some songs to that effect, but overall, their songs just don't come across in that way.
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The Futureheads are a must for happy music.
And a few songs of Ok Go are pretty good too in terms of cheeriness.
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Listen to "Shiny Happy People" by REM.
and this may be cuz I'm odd but I find Le Tigre's first album to be great fun and great music.
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I find that listening to 'The Flaming Lips' really helps bring your mood back up to 'normal.' So many good albums :)
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The Mad Capsule Markets. They're ridiculously heavy, but ridiculously happy as well! It's the happiest hardcore-punk you'll hear! It's why I love them. They cheer me up a lot. I get both of things I want when I'm down - heavy music, and cheering up!
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Ben Lee. Seriously people, Ben Lee.
Meh, most of his good albums are weird and melancholy. Or maybe I just like depressing music :P
I guess I'm going to suggest Dressy Bessy. I haven't heard a lot by them, but they are just up-beat, simple fun, from what I've heard. Also their name rhymes. There is no way a band with a rhyming name like that could possibly be depressing.
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Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
MF Doom rapping over Dangermouse beats with the cast of Cartoon Network's adult swim? YES PLEASE!
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Absolute Steel - Beer Run (http://andersbuaas.bravehost.com/beerrun.mp3)
It doesn't matter what kind of music you like, if you are a sane person, you will laugh your ass off to this song.
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Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask
MF Doom rapping over Dangermouse beats with the cast of Cartoon Network's adult swim? YES PLEASE!
mc chris?!
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The Mad Capsule Markets. They're ridiculously heavy, but ridiculously happy as well! It's the happiest hardcore-punk you'll hear! It's why I love them. They cheer me up a lot. I get both of things I want when I'm down - heavy music, and cheering up!
i love those guys to pieces. yeah, they're heavy but so quirky and fun as well. i second the recomendation, man.
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Talking Heads records make me happy.
Definitely, and also:
Andrew Bird (He's not energetically happy like The New Pornographers, but he's relaxing and he makes you think, which is a good thing if you're depressed.)
For condensed sunshine, listen to The Shins, and the aforementioned Flaming Lips (esp. Clouds Taste Metallic).
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Architecture in Helsinki, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Shins, Of Montreal, Arctic Monkeys, Broken Social Scene, and some songs by The Postal Service.
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Hello Goodbye.
so obnoxiously catchy and up beat
it would make me happy if i just got shot in the foot
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try some Ska Music! Nothing is better than Good old SkA from "Bad Manners!"
or try "Liberator"...
and when you're so damn depressed that you want to break something to maybe get better... do it and listen to "raised fist"... thats what i do normaly... most time i feel better... until i realise what i broke....
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Atom & His Package
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
The Zatopeks
The Aquabats!
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Dragonforce make me feel happy because the lead signer always sounds so upbeat.
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THE GO! TEAM
Seriously guys nice picks ther The Zutons, The Postal Service and one completely left field The Mad Capsule Markets. Can i include The Polysics with them
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Listening to this (http://www.youtube.com/w/Sparta?v=1uojmkicF7Q&search=sparta) on repeat for the past half an hour has cheered me up no end.
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thanks everyone
I've really enjoyed the flaming lips
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For random happiness:
Artic Monkeys
Jay-Z
Catch 22
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The Flaming Lips
The Beatles
Super Furry Animals
Jack Rose (the more upbeat songs)
Cream
Donovan
Arlo freakin' Guthrie! Goddamn is that guy awesome!
That's what I want to when I want my music to actively happify me. I might have my own personal associations regarding some of these artists, but they might work for you too.
But seriously, Donovan and Arlo Guthrie.
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Tenacious D (especialyl Fuck Her Gently) puts a big grin on my face. Seriously, that song is just too awesome.
"Whats your favorite posish?
That's cool with me
Its not my favorite
But I'll do it for you
Whats your favorite dish?
Im not gonna cook it
But ill order it from Zanzibar! "
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Sublime's 40 oz. To Freedom makes me happy and makes me wanna dance.
EDIT: Is it cool to have a pirate avatar? I see multiple ones!
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The Boy Least Likely To
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! (maybe)
Scissor Sisters
Junior Senior
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The Flaming Lips. How could I forget The Flaming Lips. One of my favourite albums ever is The Soft Bulletin.
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The All Girl Summer Fun Band are the happiest band in the history of ever.
The Undertones are a good choice too.
Power-pop = Happiest genre.
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The All Girl Summer Fun Band are the happiest band in the history of ever.
i'm glad someone finally agrees.
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The Unicorns.
Thread over.
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Dragonforce make me feel happy because the lead signer always sounds so upbeat.
They're Metallica on stimulants!
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They're Metallica(when they didnt suck) on ecstasy and speed! with a dash of uhm... good solos
fixed
*_*
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I agree with the above post wholeheartedly.
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They're Metallica(when they didnt suck) on ecstasy and speed! with a dash of uhm... good solos
fixed
*_*
Hehe, doesn't that go without saying though? I just wrote in my "Your favourite band sucks" livejournal last night on how much I hate post-Burton Metallica.
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I don't think it was Burton dying as much as it was Lars and James running out of Mustaine's writing to rip off.
But I've already talked about this.
I'm interested in seeing said LJ, though.
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I just started it yesterday and it's only got two entries. But it's trolling-stones.livejournal.com if you're really that interested. ^__^
Edit: According to some of my mates IRL, the info on the Metallica-sucks bit is inaccurate. So don't bother with that one.
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Hehe, doesn't that go without saying though?
it does to most people,
but i just had to make sure,
because there are strange people who like newer metallica
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There's a guy in my chemistry class who I had an argument with this about. He actually attempted to tell me that Load was a great album. I could understand arguments that it was marginal (maybe), but great just baffled me.
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i saw dragonforce last monday. they were cool.
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Good cheer-up music, or just general happy music, would be any and all Beatles singles.
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What about "Elanor Rigby" or "She's Leaving Home" or "And I Love Her" or "Yesterday" or "Nowhere Man"? All sad in my opinion.
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Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday, certainly. I wouldn't say Nowhere Man is necessarily sad musically. Lyrically, maybe.
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Okay, fair enough for Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, and Yesterday. But Nowhere Man is most certainly a cheer-up song. It's like "Come on man, try it, it's fun, you don't know what you're missing!"
They totally wrote it about some kind of stimulant.
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yeah, beatles are pretty happy when they aren't writing songs about people dying or a psycopath killing his girlfriend with a hammer.
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At least "Maxwell Silver Hammer" resolves on a major chord. It's happy serial murder!
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yeah, beatles are pretty happy when they aren't writing songs about people dying or a psycopath killing his girlfriend with a hammer.
Maxwell's Silver Hammer is one of the Beatle's happiest songs. Almost crazily happy.
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Pre-Rubber Soul Beatles is about 2/3 happy.
Ohh, if you want happy, get The Rutles! They're spoofing Beatles songs, but because it's a spoof even the spoof sad ones are happy.
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Maxwell's Silver Hammer is one of the Beatle's happiest songs. Almost crazily happy.
see, i thought it was catchy but not happy. i mean, maybe i kinda read too depply into it since it's about a serial killer but, i don't know. the song just never made me happy.
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People are going to hate me, but... I liked Metallica's Black Album.
I kinda grew up with it though. I'm a youngin'.
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Maxwell's Silver Hammer is one of the Beatle's happiest songs. Almost crazily happy.
see, i thought it was catchy but not happy. i mean, maybe i kinda read too depply into it since it's about a serial killer but, i don't know. the song just never made me happy.
Maybe whimsical is a better adjective.
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Songs with fast, bouncy horn sections always make me happy.
"Walking on Sunshine" -- happy!
"Late in the Evening" by Paul Simon -- very happy!
The Black Crowes' "Hard to Handle" was already awesome, but I've heard a version that included a horn track == teh more awesome and happy.
jim
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i saw dragonforce last monday. they were cool.
I saw them on the Wednesday after you in Newcastle. They were totally awesome, and great fun too. Herman Li makes great faces when he plays solos :)
As for songs that make me happy,
Eagles of Death Metal - I only want you
Stratovarius - Eagleheart
No Doubt - Hella good (yes, its lame as hell, but by the gods it makes me want to dance)
Deerhoof - Panda (the QC strip about this song is great, and every time I hear it I get a huge grin on my face)
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ONE WORD = DEVO
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Except for Jocko Homo. That's kinda sad.
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Try Cat Empire, they're pretty chirpy
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so called 'happy' music at best irritates, and at worst disgusts me. Almost everything listed in this thread seems to work on some sort of pathetic fallacy placebo idea, mindless pap and sugar.
The music that makes me happiest, well, gotta be Skyclad.
"Come one, come all to our travelling circus
Cast off your cares for THE painted parade,
Whirl down the wynd like Dervish berserkers,
If life hands us lemons, we'll make lemonade!"
Can't beat that. Other bands that would find their way onto lists designed to cheer me up:
Children of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene, Korpiklaani, Contrastic, Laibach, Rammstein, VNV Nation, Finntroll, Twisted Sister, Manowar, Wuthering Heights, Waylander, Oomph!, Meat Loaf, HammerFall, Nazgul, Blue Oyster Cult, Cryptic Wintermoon, El Running Wild, Eläkeläiset, certain Current 93, Inkubus Sukkubus, Judas Priest, Hanzel und Gretyl, The Sisters of Mercy, Alice Cooper, Immortal, Viking Skull etc.
Anything upbeat, defiant, hedonistic etc. 'brotherhood of metal' stuff always gets me going, as does any metal with humppa or tin whistles.
In fact, to be honest, good music just cheers me up. Unless it's crushingly depressing, like My Dying Bride's 'Turn Loose the Swans' or something.
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To each his own, mate. ^__^ Personally, "Semicharmed Life" by Third Eye Blind is probably my favourite ZOMG LETS BE ST00PID AND HAEV A GOOD TYME song. And Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Mak'er" is just plain fun, the drum beat is just plain awesome.