Baraka_Guru

I've been thinking recently about moods and motivation, and a thought dawned on me: I spend a lot of time not thinking happy thoughts. I thought about this further and came to the conclusion that this is because I spend a lot of time feeding my brain with things that aren't so happy...actually, much of it is quite the opposite.

I read depressing news, I see neutral or depressing scenes everywhere I go, I play violent video games, I see violent shows played on TV, I hear music that is about heartbreak or anger...there are entire genres dedicated to unhappiness: action and horror films, crime dramas on TV, heavy metal music, etc. We read magazines about the follies of celebrities and about things we long for but will likely never have...material things...things that don't really matter because even in having them, would they make us happy?

Why do we feed our minds with such negativity?

I thought more about one aspect of this: music. I listen to a wide variety of music, and I enjoy most genres. When looking at what's on my iPod, it dawned on me that there is much on there that's depressing or oozing with negative emotions.

So I started thinking: Isn't music supposed to have healing qualities? I've read about psychology studies that show chemical responses to music, and there are even therapies that are based on music to help people's moods. I don't really know much about the validity of any of that, but I'm willing to believe that depressing music can bring you down, and happy music can be uplifting. I want to experiment. I want to have moments when I listen to music and all I listen to is upbeat and happy. I want to see if it influences my mood and motivation. How will listening to happy music affect my day? How will it affect my evening as I transition from work to personal time? How will it affect my mood going to bed?

So I'd like your help, and I'd love for you to participate. I've started to build a song list by scouring the Internet for any lists geared towards happy music. I've found a few good ones, but much of it is disco-heavy (go figure). I know there is a lot of happy music I like that I'm not able to remember, so I'd like your help. Tell me what happy music you like.

These aren't exclusively heartbreak-free love songs. These are uplifting positive songs that are about feeling good about life, or at least about being optimistic despite our troubles, no matter how bad they are.

I would like you to not only give me your ideas, I'd like you to also experiment by surrounding yourself with this music to see how it affects you. Please offer your ideas, and your feedback.

Some examples:

Classical:
Mozart "Symphony No. 29 in A"
Strauss "Blue Danube Waltz"

Rock/Pop:
B-52s "Love Shack"
U2 "Beautiful Day"
Katrina & the Waves "I'm Walking on Sunshine"
Beatles "Good Day Sunshine"
Beatles "Here Comes the Sun"
John Lennon "Imagine"

Reggae:
Bob Marley "Sun Is Shining"

Jazz:
Glen Miller "In the Mood"
Cole Porter "Begin the Beguine"

Dance/disco/techno:
Dee Lite "Groove Is in the Heart"
Kylie Minogue "Can't Get You out of My Head"

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Jetée

Commiseration is a healing alternative, so being able to relate to the music, even if it is heard as depressing, can uplift someone just as much as involuntarily singing "I just can't get you out of my head boy it's more than I dare to think about" throughout the day.

I'll compile you a personalized playlist of "feel good tunes" in a few days.

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—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Baraka_Guru

Interesting point, but I'm leaning toward thinking that commiseration is lower on the scale of what's effective to getting yourself motivated or out of a rut...more of a cold comfort. I can't see how commiseration can heal on its own...though it might be a good starting point--you know, realizing you aren't all alone.

I look forward to your list.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

inBOIL

Len "Steal My Sunshine" popped into my head as soon as I saw the thread title.

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Daniel_

I like the idea, and will look at my playlist to come up with something - funy though, I find Imagie sad, because it paints apicture of what we should have, not what we do have.

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little_tippler

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

Baraka_Guru

@inBOIL: To me, the interesting thing about that Len song is that the music consists of a looping interlude of a disco song. Surely disco doesn't have a monopoly on happy music....

@Daniel: I find "Imagine" a bit bittersweet, but I view it as song of hope. It is an example of a song that looks to positive things or possibilities despite the negativity that surrounds us. I view Marley's "Sun Is Shining" as another example of this. It is a bit sad in tone--think of the poverty and racism that surrounded Marley--but it aims to give the listener hope.

Much of the reactions to songs will vary for listeners. What I view as a happy song won't necessarily be happy for everyone. It's subjective and, often, circumstantial.

@little_tippler: Wow, there are so many songs and artists on your list that I don't even recognize. Thanks for putting this together. May your days be filled with happiness!

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

vanblah

The studies say almost the exact opposite. If you are melancholy then listening to "depressing" music will actually lift your spirits and "happy" music will make you more depressed (or at least irritate you). However, if all you listen to is depressing music then it is unlikely that you will "move on" from your melancholic state. Clinical depression is completely different than melancholy; I don't think any kind of music will do much for someone who is clinically depressed aside from a little distraction. But a distraction can certainly be a good thing.

Music can and will affect your mood if you let it. The key is: "if you let it." Some people are not affected by music at all.

In my own experience I am deeply affected by music. I don't look to music to make me happy or sad, I look for inspiration. I usually find inspiration in moody, haunting, expansive pieces (Basso Profundo from Old Russia, Sigur Ros, later Dead Can Dance, Peter Gabriel Soundtracks). These are far from "happy." I can be moved to tears by music and still call it happy though.

I really don't know that I can define happy with regard to music. Some gospel is uplifting (spiritual connotation aside). Old R&B. Rockabilly. Swing. Some Jazz. Certain classical pieces (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, not so much the contemporary stuff). Some soundtracks are "uplifting" but probably not "happy."

It's a big question.

Sorry I don't have a list for you.

Derwood

the entire The Polyphonic Spree catalog

Jetée

While I wanted to comment further on my initial take, vanblah beat me to it. I find I have much more inspirational songs that showcase a "real" hope to change in life and become better. It outlines the existence in which we live, yet still invents a longing dream to overcome in spite of the challenges in order to establish a balance. So, in that regard, my happy songs are not actaully blissfully sappy, but more in tune to the uplifting scope of futures' ideally consitutional.

I found it more difficult than previously anticipated to find purely "happy" songs. If I were to search for it online, I'm sure I'd come up with mostly mindless tracks that may seek to delude you into a delight, à la "Happy Happy Joy Joy". I thought to not even try it, but I said I'd compile you a list, and so I have (maybe a third of it is mindless ).

As such, I could only find seven songs within my own limited library that can be classified as truly cheerfully smile-inducing; it was that tall a task. To add, I could have filled in abit more to round out my original intention of an eleven-track playlist, but those songs would have been more instrumental in nature. I also wanted to exemplify my definition of happiness, but perhaps that is best left to a different playlist, to be added later perhaps.

Well, enjoy.

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—Mohandas K. Gandhi

roachboy

ragga twins: ragga times step out
it's just out on souljazz.
go out and get it.
play it as loud as possible.
it helps the head.

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snowy

A couple off the top of my head:

Sting--"The Dream of the Blue Turtles"

the Angry Beavers theme song

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little_tippler

ok I had to come back and post some of the actual songs

I'm wondering which ones you don't know Baraka? I thought most of them were pretty standard.

Here's a few:

Keith Jarrett - A part of the Köln Concert (had to put this in here!)


Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent


Outkast - Hey Ya


Gentleman - Send a Prayer


Joss Stone - Put Your Hands on Me


Orishas - Naci Orishas


Orson - Ain't No Party


Metro Station - Shake It

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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

lotsofmagnets

any caribou album

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she shed her mountain turning training wheels, for the convenience of the moving sidewalk, that delivers the magnetic monkey children through the mouth of impossible calendar clock, into the devil's manhole cauldron.
physics of a bicycle, isn't it remarkable?

roachboy

to wit

turn it up.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

Charlatan

Great choice, I didn't think caribou made it outside of Canada (caribou just won this year's Polaris Prize as well).


I am all over the place with music. I do find that when I am in a good mood, good mood music will lift me higher. And I agree with others that that same music, when I am feeling a little low, will just annoy the heck out of me.

Some music that makes me happy (just what's on my current playlist):
Violent Femmes - Add it up
Public Image Limited - Rise
Beastie Boys - Sabotoge
The Weakerthans - Civil Twilight or A Plea from a Cat Named Virtute
XTC - Dear God
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Blake Babies - Sanctify
Elvis Costello - Pump it Up or Radio Radio
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Feist - 1234
Snowed In - Joel Plaskett Emergency
Pixies - Debaser or Wave of Mutilation or ...
Weeping Tile - South of Me

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noodle

Feist - Mushaboom
Smith - Baby, It's You
Salt N Pepa - Push It
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
Tone Loc - Wild Thing
A-Ha - Take on Me
U2 - Mysterious Ways
The Beatles - Two of Us, Good Day, Sunshine
George Harrison - Here Comes the Sun
Nina - 99 Red Balloons
Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson, If I Had A Million Dollars
Bjork - Oh So Quiet
Cornershop - Brimfull Of Asha
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Divo - Whip It
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover (live)
G. Love and Special Sauce - Baby's Got Sauce
Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes, Bubble Toes
House of Pain - Jump Around
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealin'
Kayne West - Gold Digger
Keller Williams - Love Handles, Freeker By the Speaker, Kidney in a Cooler, Goofballs.
Madonna - Material Girl, Ray of Light
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Billie Jean, Beat It
Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
The Proclaimers - 500 Miles
Rage Against the Machine - Renegaes of Funk, Bulls on Parade
Santana - Oye Como Va
Self - Trunk Fulla Amps, Pattycake
Sir Mix-a-Lot - Baby Got Back
Steve Miller - Jungle Love
The Beta Band - She's the One
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
The Police - Every Little Thing She Do is Magic
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
Tori Amos - Bouncing Off the Clouds, Cornflake Girl
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic, I Love You (The Smile You Smile)
Wham! - Anything by Wham! Except the one about taking a holiday.
Phish - The Mango Song, Free
Jerry Garcia - Dear Prudence
Rancid - Time Bomb
Paul van Dyk and Ashley something - New York City Night

and of course.... http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=100380

my list keeps going. but it makes me smile.

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mixedmedia

There are many things in the world that I don't feel like talking about anymore...but this is not one of them.

I am at the midpoint of the beginning of an exploration into African pop music. And I think, more than anything, it is the effervescent happiness that pours out of my speakers when I listen to it that keeps me wanting to learn (and hear) more. Even when it is expressing ideas about politics and other serious subjects these artists manage to do so with a danceable ebullience that is quite infectious. (It's also quite relevant at this time to note, that some of the most joyous music in the world has been (and is) coming out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo). It has made me realize more than ever what a bunch of spoiled rotten babies we are with our whining and our angst. Don't get me wrong, I still love me some Radiohead, but admittedly, Madilu System is getting a lot more airtime in my house these days.

So I thought I'd share. Mind you, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is so much great music out there.



(oh well, can't remember the seeqpod code...I'll have to settle for this crappy link...good reminder of why I don't have time to do this anymore, lol)

The lineup:
Baaba Maal - Senegal
Papa Wemba - DRC
Mahotella Queens - South Africa
Kanda Bongo Man - DRC
Oumou Sangare - Mali
Prince Nico Mbarga and Rocafil Jazz - Nigeria
Babatunde Olatunji - Nigeria
Madilu System - DRC
Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate - Mali
Remmy Ongala & Orchestra Super Matimila - DRC
Femi Kuti - Nigeria
Franco & TPOK Jazz - DRC
Boukman Eksperyans - This group is actually out of Haiti and they are one of my favorite new discoveries. I wish I could have found a better clip.

Every morning I listen to my small but growing collection of music from Africa mixed in with my reggae and some Latin forms (tropicalia, mambo, samba). It's a great way to start the day.
Oh, and the little bit of zydeco I have is in that playlist, too. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

If anyone out there knows more about the music coming out of Africa and would like to share some artists that would be spectacular. I'm especially interested in discovering more women artists.

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Poppinjay

This is a sure sign Charlatan is descending into madness. Although the Feist kind of redeems him. I kicked a kid off my college radio station for playing Add It Up.

Everybody I work with is crazy about the Ben Folds/Regina Spektor duo "You Don't Know Me". Even though the subject is kind of depressing, the meshing of their voices is perfect. I would say it's the best pop duet ever.

http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?plid=0de7324ea5

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Jetée

... But a quarter to half of those songs are actually what the OP and an attuned listener would classify as "dreary" songs; that'd be like me recommending The Clash's "Spanish Bombs" on the basis that the rhythm & tempo are upbeat, yet I totally disregard the depressing lyrical content and essential meaning of the song being about the devastating effect's of the Guerra Civil in Spain.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

roachboy

if you're interested, in response to the fabulous ms media's request for more african pop referrals, i just put up a few clips from the orchestre tout puissant poly-rythmo de cotonou (dahomey) in the found on the net forum. they're great.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

mixedmedia

Thank you, Baron. I will check them out
Later: Oh yes, now that's what I am talking about. They are fabulous! It's West Africa's James Brown. Yow!

And, I also wanted to come back and point out that I just happened to read today that Papa Wemba is actually from Zaire, not the Congo. But, in my defense, his music is of the souskous variety which popularly is associated with the Congo. Thusly mistaken was I.

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PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

Charlatan

Yes. Add it Up is an angry song... but it's the good kind of angry. The kind that makes you sit up and shout, Fuck Yeah!!

I used to play it on my radio show... but that was in Canada. We tend to be a little more relaxed about "bad" words.


Mixedmedia... great to see you poking your head in for a visit. I don't have a lot of experience with African pop but do recognize Baaba Maal and Papa Wemba.

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Poppinjay

Good on Canada. I didn't know you could play the F word there.

Now tell me, how the fuck do I make seeqpod links here?

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

Jetée

You can just quote the previous posts, and learn from there intuitively, refer to this thread, or understand that a playlist you create in seeqpod, look for the share option, copy the code within url of the playlist, e.g. "76c60962e6", and wrap it within [seeqpod] [/] brackets. Simple.

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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Poppinjay

Thanks, Jetee, and BG for the PM.
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I know you've all been waiting with baited breath. Listen to it! It's like the best thing ever.

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I think the Apocalypse is happening all around us. We go on eating desserts and watching TV. I know I do. I wish we were more capable of sustained passion and sustained resistance. We should be screaming and what we do is gossip. -Lydia Millet

ironpham

Beatles - Getting Better
Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacarach - I'll Never Fall in Love Again (from Austin Powers)
Muse - Feeling Good
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard to Concentrate

That's all I can really think of off the top of my head.

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SabrinaFair

Great suggestions....I may just have to increase my iTunes budget this month....

My "happy list" includes....
1) Moondance by Van Morrison (this song ALWAYS makes me feel sexy and alive, even when I don't have a love to go dancing with)
2) Be OK by Ingrid Michaelson (not THE most upbeat message, but it's a bouncy, hopeful song)
3) Uptight (Everything's All Right) by Stevie Wonder (GREAT message: I'm poor, but I have love, so everything is OK)
4) Good Morning Baltimore from Hairspray (just such a sunny song.)
5) Pussy Control by Prince (I can't *not* strut when I hear this song. I can't help cop that "Prince" attitude)
6) Zak and Sara by Ben Folds (the chorus is just so damn catchy....plus I have great memories attached to it)
7) Save a Horse, Ride a Cowbody by Big and Rich (I know not everyone digs country...I like the old stuff, and select few pieces of the new...this is one)
8) Loveshack by The B-52's (drunken karaoke, anyone?)
9) I've Got Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks (well....I do!)
10) Fell In Love With A Girl by The White Stripes (I loved this song when I first heard it, and true love lasts a lifetime)

I don't know if all my choices are "happy songs" per se, but they make me happy. Plus, many of them have great memories attached to them. So they're my "happy songs"

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it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."
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ring

Gipsy Kings - Baila Me

(I would post the link if I could,
but this library computer prevents me from doing so.)

This song plays, and I am up and dancing,
no matter what.

vanblah

There was a time when it didn't really matter what was played on college radio stations. I really, really miss the days of GOOD college radio -- which oddly enough is about the time "Add It Up" came out.

roachboy

here's a mix.
there's only one apocalyptic song on it, but it's one of my favorites so there.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

CheapBastid

English Beat - Ackee 1 2 3
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
Prince - Housequake
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Wawusho Kubani?
Leon Redbone - My Walking Stick
Leon Redbone - Lulu's Back In Town
(heck, most of Leon Redbone' stuff makes me happy)
Oingo Boing - Return of the Dead Man II
Darron Flagg - Bach Prelude and Fugue in C (WTK, Book I, No.1)
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Henehene Kou 'Aka

Daniel_

+1

Most of ELO

Anything by The Moog Cookbook

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╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝