All-time best "feel good" songs

[Not Afraid]

GOD DAMN YOU!

[€uroMeinke]

heh

2 Pints of Lager and a packet of crisps please - the Damned

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

heh

2 Pints of Lager and a packet of crisps please - the Damned

NOT The Damned but Splodgenessabounds.

[€uroMeinke]

oh

well then

Beethoven's 9th - 4th Movement, Ode to Joy

[flippyshark]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Talking Heads - "All I want is to breath" - I'm sure it has a real name like "cross-eyed and painless" or something

That song is "Born Under Punches," and is a favorite of mine too.
("Cross Eyed and Painless" is on the same album, and starts out "Lost my shape, trying to look casual...")

let's see...

"Peaches En Regalia" - Frank Zappa
"Smash It Up" - The Damned
"Hey Saint Peter" - Flash and the Pan
"If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out" - Cat Stevens
Those always give me a lift

[SzczerbiakManiac]

In no particular order:

• Il Sogno di Volare - Saltimbanco (Cirque du Soleil)
  quite possibly the most beautiful song I've ever heard
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkle
  though I like Linda Eder's or David Campbell's version better
• Hand Me the Wind and the Dice - Aspects of Love
  a song that wonderfully illustrates joie de vivre
• Barcelona - Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé
  a stirring anthem
• There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) - Eurythmics
  a supreme exultation of happiness
• It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) - Eurythmics
  reassures that whatever has happened before, it'll get better
• Here's Where I Stand - Camp
  this spunky girl takes life by the balls and demands her rightful place in the sun
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  I love driving while listening to this song!
• The Curly Shuffle - Jump in the Saddle Band
  How can you not be happy when doing the Curly Shuffle?
• Defying Gravity - Wicked
  I don't care what you say world, I'm doing things my way!
• Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Fleet Street Singers
  their take on this song kicks much ass
• Summer Nights - Grease
  best sing-along song ever?
• The Time Warp - Rocky Horror
  I can't hear this song and not do the dance
• Good Morning Baltimore - Hairspray
  a great way to start the day
• The Sunken Cathedral - Claude Debussy
  runner up for must beautiful (and evocative) piece of music
• Dancing Queen - ABBA
  who doesn't love a nice dancing queen?
• The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha
  a classic stirring anthem
• Every Sperm Is Sacred - The Meaning of Life
  a funny song on its own, but knowing I taught it to my little brother who then sang it at school, mortifying his elementary school teachers has cemented this song as a personal favorite
• Kalimando - Mystère
  a simple, beautiful song that evokes a verdant paradise
• There Once Was a Man - Pajama Game
  this could be in the list of most romantic songs, but its energy makes it so much fun to sing, I put it here too
• I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General - The Pirates of Penzance
  any patter song that can rhyme "strategy" with "sat a gee" is Teh Awesome
• Don't Whiz On the Electric Fence - You Eediot!
  come on, what's not to love about a song warning against electrocution via urination!?!
• Pumping Iron - Starlight Express
  high-energy crowd-pleaser
• I Like 'Em Big And Stupid - Julie Brown
  mmmmm, big and stupid......

[Moonliner]

California Dreaming

Takes the bitter right out of this east coaster.

[Morrigoon]

Bolero - especially cool if you can lay back with your eyes closed and let the music paint images on your brain

Sing - The Carpenters

I'd like to teach the world to sing - Coca-Cola ad

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Flippy beat me to "If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out."

Otherwise:

"Sweet Caroline," by Neil Diamond (Buh-DAH DAH DAH!)
"Harmour Love," by Stevie Wonder and performed by Syreeta
a dual cover of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakwaole (and dammit, commercials have GOT to stop overusing it.)
"Mahna Mahna" (do dooo, do-do-do!) by the Muppets

[Morrigoon]

LSPE: hey, let me know if you'd ever like to hear more stuff by Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole, I'll burn you some Also great in the realm of Hawaiian music is Keali'i Reichel.