Recommend me…some uplifting music

Much as I like my recently purchased Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Neil Young, I need something jolly to listen to.

Give me an artist name, album name and a genre.

You have 45 mins until I head to the shops, so it needs to be good!

Cheers

OMITN

Get some Saint Etienne. I think they’ve just go a ‘best of’ out. Perfect perky retro pop. If that can’t perk you up, you really are doomed

Gogol Bordello : Super Taranta

From Amazon :

Description
Fourth album, following 2005’s ‘Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike’, from hi-octane, genre-busting New York "gypsy punk"band led by heroically-moustachioed Ukrainian emigre EugeneHutz. Mashing together folk music styles from Eastern Europe with punk, metal, dub, flamenco and just about everything else they could think of chucked in for good measure, this is riotous, volatile, unclassifiable and irrepressible music that celebrates outsiders the world over.

Good calls. I like both bands, but own nothing by them.

Second Saint Etienne, their first album even has a pop-tastic cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"…

"A New Perspective" by Donald Byrd always cheers me up. It’s preposterous gospel-influenced jazz with enjoyably daft wordless singing, and a great cover.

System of a Down – Toxicity

Cheers, Mr Agreeable. Think I’ve seen the album cover somewhere before.

Darrell – most kind. But SoaD isn’t really my thing.

Thunder – The Magnificent Seventh.

Pub rock of the highest calibre from a great band.

Trust me on this one!

Bonnie Prince Billy / Will Oldham (same person) – Anything really, the new one’s called "Is it the Sea". Gentle singer / songwriter stuff, but great. Very slow paced though, so maybe not jolly enough.

The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (or anything!). Canadian power pop (for want of a better description) with beautifully written songs about cats, maps and explorers. Proper good pop with guitars and stuff.

Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place (or anything!). Amazing instrumental post rock, like a more uplifting Mogwai.

Cool. Cheers all.

I’ll pass on ol’ Blue Eyes – prefer Dean Martin (and went through that *phase* a while ago).

I shall report back with what I have managed to buy.

anything by Jack Johnson then

always the missus in the mood 😉

So, having decided against going to Piccadilly Records and returning with an expensive wedge of vinyl, I went to the execrable HMV and marginaaly better Fopp. I bought the following:

The Hold Steady – Stay positive (no, not because of the title)

Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

AC/DC – Highway to Hell

Leonard Cohen – best of (yeah, yeah, I know, slit your wrists, blah blah)

Sadly, almost all of the recommendations above weren’t available in either store (viz the recent thread on how sh*te HMV is these days). However, my purchase will tide me over until I’ve ordered the recommendations online (System of a Down and Jack Johnson excepted).

Dambusters Theme tune

London Elektricity – Syncopated City. Very up beat jazz funk wth a bit of DnB thrown is as well. Great album.

Oi Va Voi.

look them up.

Just whistle The Great Escape music….

Good call on all of them, that new Hold Steady is an ace album, they’re good live too. The last album (Boys and Girls in America) just pips it for me though

I guess I missed your deadline, but if you like neil young, you might like Blitzen Trapper’s Wild Mountain Nation. psychadelic alt country-indie-folk. You can get a taster here for nowt…
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Blitzen_Trapper/download/Wild_Mountain_Nation

lunge – I’m sure I’ve got a tape (yes, a tape) of a DJ set by LE somewhere.

nickc – I shall. Some sort of Jewish punk band?

mastiles – good plan. Might do that as I ride home. In fact, it’s already going round my head. Arrgh.

flyingmonkey – if i get on with this, I’ll get the other.

davey – it’s never too late. I’ll add that to the list, too. I’ll check the taster at home.

Thanks again, all.

Yeah, sort of. You can’t help but tap your feet

Cool. I’ll track it down on itunes tonight and get a sample.

Second the Wild Mountain Nation choice – great album, and available at your local Piccadilly Records.

Dare I mention Jason & The Scorchers – Fervor or Lost & Found… Very different

Oh, and my greatest find of 2008,Jens Lekman! Swedish tweecore!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W_JayWrkqDI

You may dare, snowslave. I’lll check that, too.

Sol Invictus – "Lex Talionis"

PendulumHold your Colour
Joe Satriani Surfing with the Alien
N.W.A Gotta Get Outta Compton
Cobra Starship While the City Sleeps

I know it’s too late now, but in case the CDs you bought don’t work…

The Go! Team – either LP, but Thunder Lightning Strike is better
The Pipettes – think it’s just called The Pippettes
Bonde Do Role – With Lasers

Can’t think of any more cheerful, upbeat music than those from recent years.

You should like that Cut Copy though, it’s lovely.

These you can buy more as individual songs rather than albums and make a feelgood megamix.

Jason Mraz (Im Yours – albums good but thats the best and most uplifting)
Toploader – time of my life
Turin Brakes – Painkiller
All American Rejects – Move Along
Anberlin – Breaking (from New Surrender album)
Barenaked Ladies – One Week
Colin Hay – Overkill
Counting Crows – Yellow Taxi (feat. Vanessa Carlton)
Dirty Vegas – Ghosts
Eels – Mr E’s Beautiful Blues
Elbow – One Day Like This
Anything by the Go Team
Idlewild – I Understand It
The Kooks – Mr Maker
Noah Ant The Whale – 2 Atoms And A Molecule
– 5 Years Time
Paolo Nutini – Alloway Grove
The Wombats – Lets Dance To Joy Division

Probably more to be added to that, but thats quite a nice mix.

Hey guys cheers for all that, too. Lot of that isn’t my taste, dooge. Although you just convinced me to buy Mr Jones by Counting Crows.

Right, they’ll all go on the list of purchases/downloads, but right now it’s time for dinner.

Cheers.

PS For those brave enough, I’ve discovered Oi Va Voi (nickc’s recc) have a song entitled "Hora". Can you believe it, *him* immortalised in music? Whatever next..?

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