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Help with some 'happy music' please.

stilladdicted
stilladdicted Posts: 4,307
edited March 2012 in General Charlton
I'm compiling a music CD for someone who is mega severely depressed. What I'm looking for are tracks that you just cannot help smiling and jigging about to but it's not as easy as I thought. Any ideas would be very gratefully received. He hates rap, Leona Lewis type celebrity and anything manufactured by empty headed muppets. I know there are a lot of music buffs out there, can you help please?
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,454
    Real, Real Gone & Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison come straight to mind. Let me check the iPod and come back to you.
  • Michaelmon
    Michaelmon Posts: 287
    Bit of The Smiths should do the job
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    as good as they were i'd steer clear of the smiths
  • Happy Valley
    Happy Valley Posts: 212
    Probably best to avoid Leonard Cohen as well.
  • Red_Robin11
    Red_Robin11 Posts: 17
    Rhythm of the night - Debarge always makes me smile
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 3,006
    What a lucky person he is tO have a friend like you my suggestions:

    One day like this - elbow
    You are my best friend - queen
    Come up and see me - cockney rebel

  • redlanered
    redlanered Posts: 2,221
    Getting Better - Beatles
    State of Independence - Donna Summer
    Only Living Boy in New York - Simon & Garfunkel or Everything but the Girl (it is a song written by one friend for another)
  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 3,006
    What's new pussycat or almost anything by Tom Jones
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 27,145
    Do you have Spotify? The comedian Chris Addison got his twitter followers to suggest cheery "springy" tracks, and he's collated them in a playlist here:
    http://open.spotify.com/user/thriftyways/playlist/4G39XZJl8s2YxIasd2L7ix

    There's all sorts of different artists from Althea & Donna to The Wonder Stuff on there, so you're bound to find some stuff that he'd like.
  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    As kimbo said, elbow have a quality happy track. Not sure of its name but the guy swinging a board around the whole video, love it.


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  • MattD
    MattD Posts: 1,530
    Cant edit posts anymore?

    Kimbo had the track I was talking about as well.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIdXKz4sE8
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,326
    Here Comes The Summer by the Undertones and Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles (or is it George Harrison solo?) always make me smile.
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,864
    Build me up Buttercup by The Foundations - corny as hell but you can't help tapping your foot to it.
    Baby come back by The Equals
    There she goes by The La's
    Brown Eyed Girl by the aforementioned Van the Man

  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,085
    The Chaka Demus and pliers cover of twist and shout. Even thought its shit, it always makes me smile
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,864
    Cant edit posts anymore?

    Kimbo had the track I was talking about as well.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQIdXKz4sE8
    Click on the little grey cogwheel thingy on the far right of your post, you should get a menu

  • scabbyhorse
    scabbyhorse Posts: 2,563
    Rise up - yves larock
    Elbow - one day like this
    Can you Dig it? Steve Proctor remix 1991
    Joi - everybody say yeah 12"
    Voice of Africa - Hoomba Hoomba 12"
    Primal Scream - Come Together CDS [1990]
    Latino Party - Tequila
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    Hey hey we're the Monkees - The Monkees
    Squeezebox - The Who
    Easy - Faith No More
    Somewhere in my heart - Aztec Camera
    One Step Beyond/Baggy trousers/House of Fun - Madness
    Love in an elevator - Aerosmith

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    Superstition - Stevie Wonder
    Dancing Queen - ABBA (in fact most ABBA)
    Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle
    The boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
  • JT
    JT Posts: 12,348
    edited March 2012
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E_4nXlxHkU
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    Let me entertain you - Robbie Williams
    Digsy's Diner - Oasis
    We are the Champions - Queen
    Rockin all over the world - The Quo
    Gertcha/Rabbit - Chas n Dave

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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    mull of kintyre then sing valley floyd road over the top when recording it, should make them smile
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    and by the way, the poxy Elbow song is a bloody dirge.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,326
    Oh yeah, my personal guilty pleasure, which I don't usually admit

    Wham - Club Tropicana
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,999
    Oh yeah, my personal guilty pleasure, which I don't usually admit

    Wham - Club Tropicana
    Ha ha - now THAT's a happy tune!

  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,753
    Something by the Staple Singers
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,673
    The Red Red Robin - Billy Cotton
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,232
    Shiny Happy people - REM
  • Bryan_Kynsie
    Bryan_Kynsie Posts: 2,179
    Bobby McFerrin : Dont worry be happy. That does what it says.

    Although maybe find out a bit more about depression first? I have never suffered but I just wonder if this is a good idea.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    A good selection of Motown classics should hit the spot - they are usually upbeat and happy, or perhaps music from when he was a teenager/early 20s, that might make him nostalgic.
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,435
    good shoes- way my heart beats

    the kooks- sofa song makes me smile !

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