Happiest songs you've ever heard.

[muddymooose]

Bat-mite's thread on "saddest songs" is great and I do love sad songs, but I realized I also enjoy happy, uplifting, inspiring, motivating, life-affirming songs as well. What are some of your favorites?

Just to get things started:

The Mowgli's - "San Francisco"


Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers - "Love is the Road"


Metric - "The Shade"

 

[NateB]

This one is for fans of heavy music. The song is about the strength to fight cancer.



Here is one about remember the important moments in life.



How about a lighthearted ode to my favorite drug?

 

[cerving]

And You And I by Yes.

 

[stealth6]

I don't know any happy songs.

ssixsixsix

 

[muddymooose]

Lacuna Coil - "Wide Awake"

 

[OverTheTop]

"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves comes to mind.

 

[DAllen]

The Notre Dame Fight Song

 

[prfesser]

For oldies lovers, "Good Morning Starshine" by Oliver.

Best -- Terry

 

[Oscar S.]

What about "Happy", by Pharrell Williams?

 

[Bat-mite]

There are a few songs that can always pull me out of a funk.

Sylvia, by Focus

What's on my Mind, by Kansas

Hey, You, by Heart

Roam, by the B-52s

I Wish, by Stevie Wonder

 

[Rockyt]

3 of my favorites (a little off kilter and very different ends of a specific spectrum or two ...#1 is potentially NSFW, but edited)

 

[Rockyt]

There are a few songs that can always pull me out of a funk.

I Wish, by Stevie Wonder

are you sure you don't mean this one:

 

[Bat-mite]

At 5'4" I can relate!

 

[Bat-mite]

This is Sylvia by Focus, 1972. Guaranteed most of you have never heard it before. The video is the studio recording over live imagery.

 

[Tim51]

And You And I by Yes.

That whole album - Close to the Edge - makes me happy. Has done ever since I first heard it when I was 14...

 

[MaxQ]

Never mind the title.....



Been getting into this shoegaze band from St. Petersburg Russia:

 

[krislhull]

(.... drops the mic, and walks away...)

 

[tOD]

Showing my age with this one.

 

[OverTheTop]

Jim Steinman with "Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"



Just listening to it now!

 

[DAllen]

Some of you have some really odd ideas of what is a happy song.

Whatever blows yer dress up.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

Of course there's



"I don't think you're happy enough"

 

[kyle]

These always bring me to a good place.

 

[Kallahan11]

Crab Rave

 

[RocketT.Coyote]

Weasel Stomping Day by "Weird Al" Yankovic...

 

[Tim51]

Future Islands 'Ran'. Love the sense of open country and a wind in the face it evokes. Saw them live at Brixton Academy in Nov 2017 whilst they were touring the UK. Fantastic energy. (photo by me)

 

[prfesser]

Another oldie: "It's a Beautiful Morning", by the Rascals.

 

[Mugs914]

Don't know if this is what you would call a traditionally happy song, but it always gives me a thrill and leaves me smiling...

 

[Nathan]

When I read Happy Song this was the first thing that came to mind . . .

 

[Mugs914]

This was IS a traditionally happy song!

 

[Bat-mite]

ELO's Mr. Blue Sky usually gets me smiling.