Recommend some upbeat music.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-03-26 10:11pm

I don't know what I'm looking for in terms of genre but I definitely know I want to listen to stuff that are upbeat. I suppose an example of such a thing would be something along the lines of Prince - Baby, I'm a Star.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-03-26 10:28pm

Well, there's always lots of stuff from the classics, such as Schubert's "Trout Quintet, Op. 115" or Beethoven's "Ode To Joy". You'll find plenty of uplift from Mozart's various piano concertos and his scores for The Marriage Of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Cosi Fan Tutti. For consistently upbeat, happy music, there's plenty to be mined from 70s disco: particularly from the works of Sir Elton, naturally.

GuppyShark · Post by **GuppyShark** » 2007-03-26 10:36pm

Happy Hardcore is pretty uniformly upbeat.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-26 10:39pm

Bob Sinclair's Rock This Party

Scatman John - Scatman

Paul Revere by The Beastie Boys

Spin Echo · Post by **Spin Echo** » 2007-03-27 12:49am

Lately I've been rocking out to the pop-punk of the Dollyrots. A couple of their songs, New College and Kick me to the Curb, are on Youtube. They have a couple more on their myspace page as well.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-27 05:01pm

I find I'm always totally happy when I'm grooving to Bob Marley, then again that could be due to the activity which tends to accompany Bob Marley tunes. Then there's The Beach Boys which is mostly surfer party music, well, at least until Brian Wilson lost his marbles.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-03-27 05:14pm

Mika. Seriously.

TithonusSyndrome · Post by **TithonusSyndrome** » 2007-03-27 05:38pm

I know what you want, even more than you do.

Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-27 08:16pm

Just came across another one while spinning through my vinyl collection. Paul Simon - Graceland.
For the full experience, find a copy on vinyl and spin it on a turntable.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2007-03-27 08:27pm

Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be

Star Guitar

Daft Punk - Around the World

Voyager

Crescendolls

Da Funk

My theme tune.

DevNull · Post by **DevNull** » 2007-03-27 09:07pm

Bounty wrote:Mika. Seriously.

I went to school with Mika, nice guy.

Plekhanov · Post by **Plekhanov** » 2007-03-27 11:07pm

'I Wish That I Could See You Soon' by Herman Dune is an absurdly upbeat song.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-03-28 08:19am

DevNull wrote:
Bounty wrote:Mika. Seriously.
I went to school with Mika, nice guy.

And a very good musician, even if Grace Kelly is getting overplayed.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-03-28 09:21am

Bounty wrote:Mika. Seriously.

Listening to him on YouTube, he's EXACTLY what I'm looking for. Thanks, Bounty. I'm going to have to pick up his CD. Well, whaduya know, he's twentieth on Amazon's sales.

Aerius wrote:For the full experience, find a copy on vinyl and spin it on a turntable.

Aerius, I think I have to stop reading your posts because you're making my "impulse buy organ" go on the willies!

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-28 01:52pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:Aerius, I think I have to stop reading your posts because you're making my "impulse buy organ" go on the willies!

You're in NYC, which like any other large city will have a bunch of pawn shops. Pawn shops are your friend when it comes to scoring obsolete audio gear like turntables and receivers with phono-stages for turntable inputs.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-28 02:13pm

GuppyShark wrote:Happy Hardcore is pretty uniformly upbeat.

Sure if you like chipmunks and car alarms.

For my part I'd recommend some Scissor Sisters. In particular Take Your Momma Out, Laura, Tits On The Radio, She's My Man and Kiss You off.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2007-03-28 04:42pm

aerius wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:Aerius, I think I have to stop reading your posts because you're making my "impulse buy organ" go on the willies!
You're in NYC, which like any other large city will have a bunch of pawn shops. Pawn shops are your friend when it comes to scoring obsolete audio gear like turntables and receivers with phono-stages for turntable inputs.

See what I mean!

There is no way I am spending my spring break calling up pawn shops asking if they have working turntables and coming over to check if they really mean it.

*checks google for local pawnshops then realizes* CUUUURSE YOUUUUU!

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-28 09:42pm

There's something oddly satisfying about compelling other people to spend their money...

Remembered yet more funny music during my daily listening session. A couple albums from Frank Zappa, Strictly Commercial and Cheap Thrills. Crude, raunchy, and pretty damn hilarious, how can you not laugh while grooving to a song about slutty Catholic school girls?

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2007-03-29 02:15pm

You can never, ever, ever go wrong with the Ramones. If you're listening to Rock n' Roll High School & not grinning like a loon you're probably clincally dead.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2007-03-30 01:35am

Try this.

Don't worry about the first few seconds of warped sound; it goes away immediately. The first 2 and a half minutes or so had me practically jumping out of my chair along with the pianist. I love Sgouros' spirited performance, in both acoustic and visual respects. Watching him makes me wonder if this is an approximation of how Liszt played back in the 1800s. It's a damn shame he's not performing anymore. And to think that was him when he was only FOURTEEN....

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2007-03-30 05:53am

Keep on Movin' - Five
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Dragostea din tei - O Zone
Sunshine - Twista
Dancing in the Moonlight - Top Loader
Is This the way to Amarillo - Tony Christie
The Touch - Stan Bush
Take Your Mama - Scissor Sisters
Are You Looking at me? - Ricky Tomlinson
Miracle - Mike and the Mechanics
Chocolate Salty Balls - Isaac Hayes
Good Morning Starsine - Donovan
I Feel Fine - Beatles