Favourite, most UPLIFTING songs

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Buick6

too punk to drunk
Strip away all the innerlectyul rubbish and leave behind songs that promote the simple function of music : to UPLIFT PEOPLE (and an undogmatic humanistic, even spiritualistic means)!!! SO I'm curious to know what songs basically 'do it' for you dissensus, here's a selection of my goose-pimple inducing tracks:

Pere Ubu - Final Solution (Laughner's solo as the ultimate electrified fanfare)
Hawkwind - Space is deep (where the fuzz just changes key and whoosh!)
Chic- Freak Out (yes I remember disco and it could be great!)
Donna Summer/Moroder - funky , sexy , trancey, heavy
Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - white lines (this sonded better than anything in 80s clubs)
Kiss - Rock n roll all night (coz it distills an purifies everything about glam rock nroll into an anthem)
Funkadelic - Super Stupid (it's the heaviest and funkiest)
Jimi Hendrix - Easy rider (had to throw a Hendrix coz I'm not a snob)
The Who - You better (since I was primordial when they were huge, I remember this one, and love the key changes)
AC/DC - Who lotta Rosie (Pure, unadulterated heavy riff crunch that No-one, absolutely no-one has been able to touch, despite many trying, many have failed: PURE)
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (that looping progression, white-boy 'flashlight')
Can - Mother Sky (just how it starts mid leadbreak and never stops)
Bowie - heroes (melancholia personfied)
Eno - The True wheel (perfect moderne pop and Manzanera's solo)
Talking Heads - Once in lifetime/found a job/thank you for sending me an angel/heaven - yep!
Neil Young - Down by the river (jam on)

Fuck I'm starting to feel like that DFA song 'I wuz there'! :p
 
G

greeneyes

Bit Mangler
Off the top of my head. No doubt this would change if I did it again tomorrow... You say "songs," so I'll skip the dance and classical music...


James Brown - It's a New Day (never fails to get me on the dance floor. too funky)
311 - Visit (I just love this chorus. Reminds me of californian sun)
The Sonics - The Hustler
SIgur Ros - Good Weather For Airstrikes (to piss off buick6)
Ennio Morricone - Buono Fortuna Jack (what i imagine ascending to heaven to sound like)
Emperor - Into the Infinity Of Thought (uplifting blackmetal? hell yeah!)
Seals and Crofts - Hummingbird (all that's good about cheesy 70s rock)
u.n.k.l.e - Lonely Soul (when that beat and those strings meet - wow)
Faith No More - Everything's Ruined (got me through some hard times)
Andrew WK - She Is Beautiful (so full of energy. so full.)
Guitar Vader - Ringo Melody (japanese cutesy pop meets the melvins)
Ben Folds Five - Julianne (nice pop song, driving bass, lurve the chorus)
The Saints - Stranded

that'll do.
 
I

ice bat

(cheshire cat)
"Prayer to God," Shellac. Not long ago, hearing this for the first time in a long time lifted me, literally, physically, out of a months-long clinical depression. The effect was immediate: I SAT UP IN BED when it came on, then listened to it a dozen more times, smiling and writing. The next day I got up early, called a friend, went to the gym and worked out, and generally got my shit together. The day after that was awful again, but still it was an extraordinary experience. Results may vary.
 
G

gabriel

The Heatwave
this week

sizzla - live and do right (well, this is every week really)
damian marley & bounty killer - khaki suit
 
G

gumdrops

Well-known member
stevie wonder - dont you worry about a thing
alicia myers - i want to thank you
sly stone - everybody is a star
 
M

mms

sometimes
delroy wilson- dancing mood
one of the lovliest songs ever
and the wailing souls- simmer down
same
neonlights - kraftwerk
 
H

henry s

Street Fighting Man
too many to name, but for now:

Neal Howard - Indulge
Alice Cooper - Escape
Saint Etienne - Spring
Todd Rundgren - Slut
Playgroup - Number One
Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child
Ariel Pink - The Ballad Of Bobby Pyn
 
D

dsp13

GAMEBWOY
squarepusher - journey to reedham at 3am
dmx krew - black music

and a million others I can't think of right now
 
E

esselle

UK Channel Boredom
Uplifting stuff :

Irene Cara - Flashdance
Fannypack - NuNu Yeah Yeah (Double J and Haze UK mix)
The Clash - London's Burning
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
 
MATT MAson

MATT MAson

BROADSIDE
George Benson - Breezin

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness

808 State - Lift

Ray Keith - Dubplate (those horns still send a chill down my spine)

Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards dub) - St Germain

Stevie Wonder - All I Do (cleptomanics bootleg)

Soul Avengerz - It's Alright

Days Like This (DJ Spinna rmx) - Sean Escoffery

Dizzee, Wiley, Stryder - U Were Always (ultimate summertime tune)
 
C

Constance Labounty

Down since 1999
Here's a random fiver of pretty standard recent pop:

-Men at Work - Land Down Under (Feels like home. As if it was played in my crib as a baby or something. Makes me feel like I'm from Australia every time.)
-Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug (Incredible song for many reasons but the highlight is the last 10 seconds- the most emotionally intense moment I've ever heard)
-Everything But the Girl - Missing ("Like the deserts miss the rain" captures it so perfectly. I FEEL it. Melancholy solitary bittersweet longing, etc..)
-Madonna - Nothing Really Matters (The rhthym is emotion. The lyrics are cliche yet still profound somehow. Maybe its just me.)
-Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes (Best pure pop song in recent memory. Chorus is an incredible hook and truly emotional. Its all about the 2-3 min changeup.)
 
M

michael

Bring out the vacuum
Constance Labounty said:
Its all about the 2-3 min changeup.
Click to expand...
http://www.gearchange.org/ <- Best concept for a web site ever. :D

Anyway, some stuff that gives me a rush...
  • Just Kissed My Baby - The Meters (If I had to pick a favourite song, this is it)
  • Get Lifted - George McCrae (wins most appropriate title award, if nothing else ;))
  • Naive Melody (This Must Be The Place) - Talking Heads
  • Birthday (Fennesz Remix) - Junior Boys
  • Upside Down - Diana Ross (Buick6 took Chic, so I'll go with another of their productions)
  • Bring The Pain - Method Man
  • I'll Be Around - The Spinners
  • Burnin - Anthill Mob (The most stupid lyrics in the world. I just started laughing out loud thinking about it. I think it's the original mix I'm thinking of.)
  • Murderous Style - Dub War (the Tempa lot, not the dub metal type band)
etc.
 
B

Buick6

too punk to drunk
Oy loyke Kelly Kwarkson...(NOT) guilty pwezha! 'Fade away' and 'since you've been gone' is superior white-bubblegum pop.
 
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