Songs that just make you feel good

8 - 1/2 Souvenirs - Happy Feet
Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Bananarama - I heard a rumor
America - You Can Do Magic
BJ Thomas - hooked on a feeling
Devo - Whip It
Glenn Miller - St. Louis Blues March
Harry Nilsson - Put The Lime In The Coconut
Probably most of Dick Dale's instrumentals - There's a pretty neat version of "Pipeline" where he and SRV get after it.
 
Rush - "Tom Sawyer" & "Freewill"
Ac/Dc "Thunderstruck" -- really just the guitar intro - I quickly loose interest after they start singing

Smashing Pumpkins "Today"
 
New Morning - Bob Dylan
Just Got Back - Cheap Trick
Rock & Roll - Velvet Underground the other one Zep
Turn It On- Flaming Lips
Shine A Little Love - ELO
 
I cannot possibly think of them all, but here are a few that make me feel good, remind me of good times or great people or all three:

Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells / agree (great choice loopy)
Turn to Stone - ELO
Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - Jay & the Techniques
Ride My See-Saw - Moody Blues
Sun Goddess - Ramsey Lewis
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While) - Doobie Bros.
Livin' in America - James Brown
Fortunate Son - CCR
Listen to What the Man Says - Paul McCartney & Wings
The Hustle - Van McCoy
The Love I Lost - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
Sky High - Jigsaw (always reminds me of driving to Dallas for the Texas - ou game Oct. 1975)
 
Liberation- outkast
brown sugar- d'angelo
devil's pie- d'angelo
proud souls- jason boland
birds flyin high- weezy and juelz
don't wanna hurt nobody- z-ro
crazy eddie's last hurrah- Cross Candian Ragweed (it's a reckless kelly song but i prefer the Cross Canadian version)
it's all real- krayzie bone
have you ever seen the rain- CCR
second childhood- Nas
buddah lovas- bone thugs


ahhh, and so many more
 
I always sing along with this one in the car like a goofy teenager.

Come Monday - Buffett

These two always struck me as perfect from the first day I heard them.

Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

These all work the same magic in no particular order and are all Seger.

Roll Me Away, Turn the Page, American Storm (where is this song on the TWO greatest hits albums?), and Night Moves.


But the two that have threatened to break my eardrums for at least a couple decades...

Kashmir - LZ
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica
 
Get Down Tonight - K.C. and the Sunshine Band
Jamming - Bob Marley
Do the Reggay - Toots and the Maytals
Jump in the Line - Harry Belafonte
Take Five - Dave Brubeck
The In Crowd - Ramsey Lewis
Groove Jet - Tito Puente
Agua de Beber - Astrud Gilberto & Antonio Carlos Jobim
Zing Zong - Kanda Bongo Man
The theme from Route 66 - Nelson Riddle
All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down - The Mavericks
Mama Said Knock You Out - LL Cool J
Going Back to Cali - LL Cool J
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
A Little Less Conversation - Elvis vs. JXL version
Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
Any Way You Want It - Journey
Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye
Got to Give it Up - Marvin Gaye
James Bond Theme - Monte Norman/John Barry
Goldfinger - Shirley Bassey
Do You Know What I Mean? - Lee Michaels
Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin
Stupid Girl - Garbage
 
The Eyes of Texas by The Showband of the Southwest - of course!

Takin' Care of Business by Bachman Turner Overdrive - Makes me drive fast!
I Feel Good by The Hardest Working Man In Show Bidniss, The Godfather of Soul, James Brown
Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones
Graceland by Paul Simon
Texas When I Die by Tanya Tucker
 

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