When you're down, what music lifts you back up?

I often go back to children's songs or novelty songs when I need a lift.

Given the snow that's falling here, and Hans Christian Andersen's birthday today, I started singing

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
Friendly old girl of a town
'Neath her tavern light
On this merry night
Let us clink and drink one down
To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
Salty old queen of the sea
Once I sailed away
But I'm home today
Singing Copenhagen, wonderful, wonderful
Copenhagen for me.

I sailed up the Skagerrak
And sailed down the Kattegat
Through the harbor and up to the quay
And there she stands waiting for me
With a welcome so warm and so gay
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
Friendly old girl of a town
'Neath her tavern light
On this merry night
Let us clink and drink one down
To wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
Salty old queen of the sea
Once I sailed away
But I'm home today
Singing Copenhagen, wonderful, wonderful
Copenhagen for me.


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this usually works, too

The Children's Marching Song (Nick Nack Paddy Whack)
Mitch Miller and His Orchestra
(Adapted and arranged by Malcolm Arnold)

<WHISTLING AND DRUMS LEADING>

This old man he played one
He played nick nack on my drum
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played two
He played nick nack on my shoe
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played three
He played nick nack on my tree
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played four
He played nick nack on my door
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played five
He played nick nack on my hive
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

<WHISTLING AND DRUMS INTERLUDE>

This old man he played six
He played nick nack on my stick
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played seven
He played nick nack up in heaven
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played eight
He played nick nack on my gate
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played nine
He played nick nack on my vine
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home

This old man he played ten
He played nick nack on my hen
With a nick nack paddy whack
Give a dog a bone
This old man came rolling home


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Tenacious D always cheers me up when i'm going through tough times, erm, Queen sometimes, Daft Punk, but mostly Tenacious D

Emimen's cheering me at the moment, "Just lose it" and "My band". So funny!

Did we already mention The Godfather? Well, good enough to mention him twice.
James Brown
James Brown

I cued up the audio for Eddie Murphy's spoof of the Godfather on SNL...funnnnnny

In the hot tub? In the gold lame swimtrunks? Well, well, well...

(actually, I've mentioned James Brown about twelve times throughout this thread. )

Its a great day to be alive - Travis Tritt
My fire - Backstreet boys

Don't laugh at your own fear of liking that song and being girlly

Music that lifts me up
It has to be Tony Christies' Amarillo every time I hear it I can see Ken & Deidre bouncing up and down with those silly smiles

I'm not laughing..."I Want It That Way" is a GREAT pop song

Tell me why
Ain't nothin' but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain't nothin but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
(Don't wanna hear you say it)
I want it that way
I want it that way

I have to say "Come fly with me" by Frank Sinatra:
Come fly with me, let's fly let's fly away
If you can use, some exotic booze
There's a bar in far bombay
Come fly with me, we'll fly we'll fly away

Come fly with me, let's float down to peru
In lama land, there's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, we'll float down in the blue

Once I get you up there, where the air is rarefied
We'll just glide, starry eyed
Once I get you up there, I'll be holding you so near
You may here, angels cheer - because were together

Weather wise it's such a lovely day
You just say the words, and we'll beat the birds
Down to acapulco bay
It's perfect, for a flying honeymoon - they say
Come fly with me, we'll fly we'll fly away

Love that song.

Madonna-Nothing Really Matters
Genesis-Land of Confusion
Emma Bunton-Maybe
Lemar-Dance

Joy Division - Day of the Lords


This is the room, the start of it all,
No portrait so fine, only sheets on the wall,
I've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain,
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained.

Where will it end? Where will it end?

These are your friends from childhood, through youth,
Who goaded you on, demanded more proof,
Withdrawal pain is hard, it can do you right in,
So distorted and thin, distorted and thin.

This is the car at the edge of the road,
There's nothing disturbed, all the windows are closed,
I guess you were right, when we talked in the heat,
There's no room for the weak, no room for the weak,

Where will it end? Where will it end?

This is the room, the start of it all,
Through childhood, thorugh youth, I remember it all,
Oh, I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain.
And the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained.

Where will it end? Where will it end?

titties and beer - frank zappa, thats the happiest bass line ever and terry bozzio makes the most entertaining devil ever

hook 'n sling - eddie bo

jive turkey - ohio players

the payback - james brown

whenever i'm down i always put on music by Darren Hayes or Savage Garden...so far ive found no other artist who can match the power Darrens voice has to bring me back into the Light.
Savage Gardens Crash and Burn is great

and atm i listen to Darren Hayes' Zero quite alot too, which is beautiful


also Darrens song Random Blinking Light never fails to give me a glimmer of hope.

Scottish music always helps when Im down. Or the Movie music from Braveheart or Rob Roy.

I like to sit with my baby cuddled on my lap and listen to Oldies, like Burt Bacharach and those types of songs.

"With Every Light" by the Smashing Pumpkins. You just cant resist feeling uplifted and inspired by it!

Even though my husband makes fun of me for it, I listen to Hootie and the Blowfish when I'm feeling down. I always feel immediately better afterwards. So much that we have coined a phrase to explain my better moods. "Behold the power of Hootie!"

Bollywood Soundtracks!!!
It really pushes me up again....you know, from indian movies like "Khabi kushi khabi gham"....and I´m not an indian, i just like it very much..it sound so different, it is so uplifting (the dancetracks)...check it out for yourself....