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I need some happy music
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My playlist is pretty cool, but epic trailer style, gothy metal (Nightwish etc.), black humor and sarcasm do not make for a good mix when I just need cheering up. Any suggestions? Not rap, not country, and not too much in the way of percussion-focus like techno because it tends to give me a headache.
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noli esse culus 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY (@robkelk I think I found a fav band for Taeko)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnT7pT6zCcA (me!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cvZeVpFSv4 (avoid playing while driving) Oh man, sharing music is so hard, especially now when so many genres can coexist peacefully. The above is the scattershot approach. I still use my iPhone as a music player (that's iPhone with no letters or numbers after it), and about a year ago I thought to myself, wow, I used to like a lot of depressing music 10 years ago. My preferences haven't changed that much, but it's a question of balance.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto
Hm. I don't have the time to dig up YouTube links because I'm at work, but I can pull at least a few individual songs out of the MP3 collection I carry around on a thumbdrive, and you can look them up at your leisure. I'll skip some of the more obvious stuff, like the Beatles, though.
2nu -- This Is Ponderous 5.6.7.8's, The -- Woo Hoo Adam Ant -- Goody Two Shoes a-ha -- Take On Me Alan O'Day -- Undercover Angel Alice Cooper -- School's Out America -- Sister Golden Hair Andy Kim -- Rock Me Gently Anna Kendrick -- Cups (Pitch Perfect's 'When I'm Gone') Aqua -- Cartoon Heroes Aqua -- Doctor Jones Arlo Guthrie -- The Motorcycle Song (Live/long version) Ash Koley -- Don't Let Your Feet Touch Ground B-52's -- Love Shack Bad Company -- Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Baltimora -- Tarzan Boy Band, The -- Up On Cripple Creek Bangles -- Walk Like An Egyptian Barenaked Ladies -- Another Postcard Barenaked Ladies -- If I Had $1000000 Barnes & Barnes -- Fish Heads Beach Boys -- Good Vibrations Beach Boys -- Kokomo Beat Farmers -- Happy Boy Belinda Carlisle -- Leave A Light On Bellamy Brothers -- Let Your Love Flow Bertie Higgins -- Key Largo Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- Mr. Pinstripe Suit Almost anything by Big Daddy Billy Taylor -- I Don't Ask Questions, I Just Have Fun Blessid Union Of Souls -- Hey Leonardo (She Likes Me For Me) Blood, Sweat and Tears -- Spinning Wheel Blue Swede -- Hooked On A Feeling Blues Brothers -- Rubber Biscuit Blues Image -- Ride Captain Ride Bob and Doug MacKenzie and Geddy Lee -- Take Off Bob Seger -- Old Time Rock and Roll Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band -- Katmandu Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band -- I'm The Urban Spaceman Boots Randolph -- Yakkety Sax Boston -- More Than A Feeling Boz Scaggs -- Lido Shuffle Bree Sharp -- David Duchovny Brownsville Station -- Martian Boogie Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello -- Swinging On A Star (Hudson Hawk) Calexico -- Splitter Caramba -- Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot Caravan Palace -- Rock It For Me Cat Stevens -- Another Saturday Night Chad Mitchell Trio -- I Was Not A Nazi Polka Chad Mitchell Trio -- James James Morrison Morrison Chad Mitchell Trio -- Lizzie Borden Chance Waters -- Maybe Tomorrow feat. Lilian Blue Cheap Trick -- I Want You To Want Me (Live) Chicago -- 25 or Six to Four Chicago -- Saturday In The Park Christine Lavin -- Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind (and follow that up with Tom Smith -- I Wish I Couldn't Read Her Mind) Chumbawumba -- Tubthumping Clams -- Close To You Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen -- Hot Rod Lincoln Corrs -- Breathless Cruella de Ville -- Those Two Dreadful Children Cutting Crew -- One For The Mockingbird Cyndi Lauper -- She Bop David Allen Baker -- City of Heroes David Bowie -- Magic Dance David Lee Roth -- Just A Gigolo Dickies -- Gigantor Dollyrots, The -- Because I'm Awesome Donald Fagen -- IGY Donovan -- Mellow Yellow Doobie Brothers -- China Grove Dr. Hook -- Freakin' At The Freaker's Ball Dr. Hook -- The Cover of the Rolling Stone Earth, Wind & Fire -- September Eric Burdon and War -- Spill The Wine Everclear -- AM Radio Extras -- Circular Impressions Lambert Hendricks and Ross -- Twisted I've got almost 3300 MP3s in my usual playlist; those have been cherrypicked from the first third or so of it. (That last one is out of alphabetical order because the file is actually under "Annie Ross" instead of the trio's name.) They should prove pretty cheery.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
Surf rock has a good beat to it, and tends to be upbeat.
(I like The Reverb Syndicate - they're local to me, and they have four albums out now.)
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Rob Kelk Sticks and stones can break your bones, But words can break your heart. - unknown 
My Chemical Romance- Danger Days: The true lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, the entire album
Wolf wins every fight but the one where he dies, fangs locked around the throat of his opponent.
Currently writing BROBd
Definitely good stuff in here - thanks guys. No need to stop if you have some more suggestions, either
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noli esse culus
Well, I do have about 2/3s of my collection yet to pick from... <grin>
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
Some of Mine:
Ai Oboete Imasu ka - Mari Ijima Alive - Meat Loaf Called Some Friends to Help - Blake Neely, The Flash Soundtrack Cha-La Head Cha-la - AmaLee version Everything Louder than Everything Else - Meat Loaf Fire Wars - Jam Project The First Round of Battle - Akira Ifukube Flash - Queen The Force Theme - Galactic Empire Moon Pride - Mommoiro Clover Z Godzilla Appears - Akira Ifukube Godzilla - Akira Ifukube Guile's Theme - Street Fighter Soundtrack Ken's Theme - Street Fighter Soundtrack Holy Thunderforce - Rhapsody A Hush Like 200 Million Years - Kaneko Mika I Am the Doctor - Murray Gold Kings of the Nordic Twilight - Luca Turilli Konya Wa Hariken - Oomori Kinuko Majin Kenzan! - Jam Project Mind Storm - Joe Satriani Pacific Rim - Ramin Djawadi & Tom Morello Power of the Dragonflame - Rhapsody Princes of the Universe - Queen Say Yes - Hashimoto Maiko To Be Alive Again - Journey The Touch - Stan Bush Word Crimes - Weird Al Yankovic You've Got a Chance - Bad Religion
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
And I'll have to leave out some of those...
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
Here's one I found while rapelling on down the rabbit hole myself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0
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noli esse culus
I just laughed so loudly that Peggy, at the other end of the house, came to ask me why.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold.... 
Kinda surprised no one's suggested any Coldplay.
Up and Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPNTC7uZYrI The visuals are pretty trippy, and don't go too well with the lyrics. The lyrics, on the other hand, are something that have been very helpful for me, right from the very first words, "Fixing up a car to drive in it again, searching for the water, hoping for the rain..." Charlie Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFBJgnNgU4 Everytime I hear this, I like to think of a young adult version of everyone's favorite kid with a beagle, throwing caution to the wind and finally going after the cute red-headed girl. Flobots are a rap band, yes.... ...But they are as different from the rest of the crowd as can be. For one thing, they don't do 'canned music' just for the sake of having a beat to rap to. Instead, they do ACTUAL MUSIC, with actual drums and guitars. Hell, the girl in their group PLAYS A VIOLA. Thematically, they're also radically different from most other rappers. (Put it this way - Bernie Sanders campaigned on a lot of the things they believe in.) If I... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0njjxJjDJE This isn't a happy song per se. What it is about is surviving despite all the terrible things that have happened to you and getting stronger from it despite all the pain it causes. The following is probably more of what you're after, though... Jim's Big Ego - Stress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGQmmDEDYiI UTTER FREAKIN' HILARITY. Quote:I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine consumption And then the chorus kicks in and I'm practically giggling like a lunatic! Red Hot Chili Peppers - Go Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-8CVixZ5o This bouncy tune is great for when you don't mind thinking about the possibilities of cybernetic love and transhumanism. Video is a BIT NSFW because of RHCP lead singer Anthony Kiedis going around in nothing but white body paint, sneakers, a bowler hat, and a codpiece.  An odd one I'll recommend is the soundtrack for Log Horizon. While the anime does have it's action oriented bits, there is a LOT of slice-of-life fun thrown in as well, and so the soundtrack reflects these moments as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gddkFavQTcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMo3so98EyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfWNZLFkLX4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSI5_AicRqw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9VMnCmyT0w (Note: This is the default "Shenanigans Happen" track. )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOkJc4BK25g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJXUFq5eELI That's all I have time for now. I'll dig a bit more into my collection later when I'm back from work.
Happy music? Most of Weird Al's songs come to mind
Oh, let's not forget They Might Be Giants.
Got another one, though it's not so funny as such. Well, the video has some humour going on:
(non-embedded) There's also a series of pretty cool animated shorts for My Metal Family that have not-horrible uPotato English subtitles available. (The dialogue is in Russian.)
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noli esse culus
Heh. That stuff's funny. Episode 5 doesn't have subs for some reason, though. I bet this show would be a huge hit here in the US if she could get a producer like the McFarlain Bros to pick her up. The humor is not so puerile, but it'd be something I'd enjoy watching.
More on topic... Lana del Rey has an utterly gorgeous voice, but her moody tone and dark lyrics aren't exactly everyone's cuppa. This song, though, while maintaining her dark, moody sound, is nonetheless a happy song about a woman being completely in love with a man who makes her a part of his life.
Okay, I have a chance to get through more of my MP3 collection... let's see what I can suggest from the next third or so, leaving out anything someone else has already suggested. (As before, this is strictly music; I'm skipping comedy sketches and the like.)
Falco -- Rock Me Amadeus Feeder -- Buck Rogers Felix Figueroa (Freddy Martin and his Orchestra) -- Pico and Sepulveda The Fibs -- Paranoid Fiona Apple -- Extraordinary Machine Fire Inc. (Streets of Fire Soundtrack) -- Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young The Firm -- Star Trekkin' First Class -- Beach Baby Flanders & Swann -- A Transport of Delight Flanders & Swann -- First and Second Law Flanders & Swann -- The Gnu Song Fleet Street Singers -- Schoolhouse Rock Medley Fletcher Peck Trio -- Salt FLOW -- Colors Focus -- Hocus Pocus The Folksmen -- Old Joe's Place The Fools -- Psycho Chicken Forbidden Broadway -- Andrew Lloyd Superstar Forbidden Broadway -- Don't Cry For Me (Barbara Striesand) Forbidden Broadway -- Into the Words Forbidden Broadway -- Parody Tonight Forbidden Hollywood -- Stupidcarelessfictionalnonsensicalverboseness Four Bitchin' Babes -- Cheerleaders On Drugs Frank Gallop -- The Ballad of Irving Frank Hayes -- Never Set the Cat On Fire Frank Sinatra -- High Hopes Frank Zappa -- Be In My Video Frank Zappa -- Dancing Fool Frank Zappa -- Dirty Love Frank Zappa -- I'm The Slime Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons -- Oh What a Night (December 1963) The Frantics -- Gas Station Washroom The Frantics -- I Shot Bambi's Mother Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe -- Barcelona Freddy Cannon -- Palisades Park Freddy Martin and His Orchestra (ft. Merv Griffin) -- I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts Friends Of Distinction -- Grazing In The Grass Futari wa Pretty Cure MAX HEART -- DANZEN Gary Lee & Showdown -- The Rodeo Song (warning: monumentally NSFW) Gary Muller -- My Name Is Not Merv Griffin Gary Portnoy -- Cheers (Where Everybody knows Your Name) Gene Kardos and his Orchestra -- Freddy the Freshman Genesis -- I Can't Dance Genesis -- Invisible Touch George Uetz -- Music, Sex And Cookies Girls Aloud -- St. Trinian's Theme Glencoves -- It's Sister Ginny's Turn To Throw The Bomb Glenn Super & The Jay Levvy Blues Band -- Good Sex Gnarls Barkley -- Crazy Go-Gos -- Vacation Gold Coast Singers -- Plastic Jesus Golden Earring -- Radar Love The Goodies -- The Funky Gibbon The Gourds -- Gin and Juice Grateful Dead -- Uncle John's Band Grease 2 -- Back To School Again The Great Luke Ski -- 88 Lines About 44 Simpsons The Great Luke Ski -- Stealing Like A Hobbit Green Jelly -- Three Little Pigs The Guild (ft. Felicia Day) -- (Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar Gunnar Madsen-Leslie Fish -- Surprise Gunther -- The Ding Dong Song Guttermouth -- I'm Destroying the World Guy Clark -- The Cape Harry Belafonte & Odetta -- Dear Liza Harvey Danger -- Flagpole Sitta Hayseed Dixie -- Centerfold Hayseed Dixie -- Walk This Way Heart -- I've Got The Music In Me Heather Alexander -- Heather on the Moor Heather Alexander -- High Barbary Henry Phillips -- Sweet Little Blossom of Mine Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass -- A Taste of Honey Hermes House Band -- Come On, Eileen (In fact, anything by Hermes House Band -- they're a party cover band, everything they do is fun) Heywood Banks -- Yeah Toast Hives -- Tick Tick Boom Hoagy Carmichael -- Huggin' and Chalkin' Hoku -- Perfect Day Homer & Jethro -- The Battle Of Kookamonga Hot Butter -- Popcorn Huey Lewis and The News -- Hip To Be Square Huey Lewis and The News -- The Heart Of Rock And Roll Huey Lewis and The News -- The Power of Love Hurricane Smith -- Oh Babe, What Would You Say Ian Dury & the Blockheads -- Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Ides Of March -- Vehicle Information Society -- What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) Inva Mula-Tchako (from The Fifth Element) -- Diva Opera Mix Irish Rovers -- Lily The Pink Irish Rovers -- Snoopy vs The Red Baron Italo Brothers -- Stamp On The Ground Ivan Dixon, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson and Larry Hovis -- Hogan's Heroes March Ivor Biggun -- Bras On 45 Ivy Three -- Yogi Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan -- Tennessee Birdwalk Jackson Browne -- Lawyers In Love Jackyl -- Lumberjack James and Gang -- Pepsiman The Jamies -- Summertime, Summertime Jan & Dean -- Schlock Rod Part 1 Jan & Dean -- Schlock Rod Part 2 Jan & Dean -- The Little Old Lady From Pasadena Janet Jackson -- Escapade Jeff Williams & Casey Lee Williams feat. Lamar Hall -- Caffeine Jeff Williams feat. Casey Williams & Lamar Hall -- I Burn Jeff Williams, Casey Lee Williams -- Boop Jemaine Clement -- Shiny Jenny Rom -- Senorita (Speed Mix) Jenny Rom vs. The Zippers -- Waka Laka (E=MC2 Mix) Jerry Lewis -- Sunday Driving Jim Stafford -- Spiders and Snakes Jim Stafford -- Wildwood Weed Jim Steinman -- Bad For Good Jim Steinman -- Dance In My Pants Jim Steinman -- Wonderful Toys Jimmy Buffett -- Cheeseburger In Paradise Jimmy Buffett -- Volcano Joe Bethancourt -- When I Was A Boy Joe Dolce -- Shaddup Your Face Joe Jackson -- Stepping Out Joe Walsh -- Life's Been Good to Me So Far John Denver -- Calypso John Fogerty -- Centerfield John Fred & His Playboy Band -- Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) John Parr -- Man In Motion (St. Elmo's Fire) John Wesley Harding -- Hamlet Jonathan Coulton -- Ikea Jonathan Coulton -- Mandelbrot Set Julie Brown -- 'Cause I'm a Blonde Julie Brown -- Earth Girls Are Easy Julie Fowlis, from the Brave OST -- Touch The Sky Jump 'N The Saddle Band -- The Curly Shuffle Kaleido Star -- Tattoo Kiss Katrina and The Waves -- Walking On Sunshine Kenny Loggins -- Danger Zone Kenny Loggins -- Return To Pooh Corner Kerry Ellis -- Defying Gravity King Harvest -- Dancing In the Moonlight The Kingston Trio -- Coplas (original 1958) The Kingston Trio -- Coplas Revisited The Kingston Trio -- The Merry Minuet The Kingston Trio -- Zombie Jamboree Kiske-Somerville -- City of Heroes Korn -- Word Up! Kylie Minogue -- Can't Get You Out Of My Head Larry Groce -- Junk Food Junkie Lauryn Hill -- Joyful, Joyful (Sister Act 2) Lemon Demon -- The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny Lemon Pipers -- Green Tambourine Lenny & The Squigtones -- Night After Night Leon Redbone -- I Want To Be Seduced Leonard Nimoy -- The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins Leroy Anderson -- The Typewriter Leroy Pullins -- I'm A Nut Lesley Gore -- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (No, really.) Leslie Fish -- Bashing the Balrog Leslie Fish -- Grandma Went out with a Bang Limeliters -- Have Some Madeira, M'Dear Lindsey Stirling (ft. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness) -- Something Wild Lisa Lougheed -- Run With Us Little River Band -- Cool Change Little Roger & The Goosebumps -- Gilligan's Island (Stairway) Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group -- Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight Lou Bagel -- Matzoh Number 5 Lou Bega -- Mambo Number 5 Lou Monte -- Lazy Mary Lumineers, The -- Ho Hey Lyle Lovett -- Here I Am And that takes me just past halfway through my collection. Let me know what you find and like.
-- Bob
I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....
YouTube has decided to break itself again so I probably won't be able to check intensively through those for a bit, but I do appreciate them, Bob.
BA: Only the 18+ version of Metal Family ep5 has subtitles from what I remember - try looking at the user's posted video list if it didn't come up in the sidebar. That account is only for that series.
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