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oh I could go on about this all day!
I've always had depressive tendencies, but with age, I have learned to be calmer and less anxious about problems. In consequence, what I choose to listen to musically has changed also.
I realized this about music some time ago too, and so, though I love my moody music, I tend to mostly surround myself with positive music these days because I need the energy to keep me going long hours every day.
Here is my list of upbeat, happy-fying music:
The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett
Shake It - Metro Station
Outkast - Hey Ya
She Wants To Move - NERD
Ain't No Party - Orson
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill
Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies
Jungle Boogie - Kool and the Gang
Kinky Reggae - Bob Marley
Let's Talk About Sex - Salt 'n' Pepa
Move Your Feet - Junior Senior
Naci Orishas - Orishas
Relax - Mika
Rise Up - Yves La Rock
Walk This Way - Run DMC
Send a Prayer - Gentleman
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
Mistify - INXS
Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
The Weekend - Michael Gray
Put Your Hands on Me Baby - Joss Stone
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Easy - The Commodores
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Get Up - James Brown
I Feel Good - James Brown
Surfin' USA - The Beach Boys
Alright Now - Free
Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
D'yer Maker - Led Zeppelin
Sexual Healing - Ben Harper (original by Marvin Gaye)
Different People - No Doubt
Love is a Good Thing - Sheryl Crow
You Gotta Be - Des'ree
Perfect - Fairground Attraction
Garota de Ipanema - Tom Jobim
Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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