Autonomy

Just to resurrect this thread, here is NME's list of Top 50 most uplifting tunes ever:-

http://www.nme.com/photos/50-most-up...r/279564/1/1#1

Bahtatboy

Stones: You Can't Always Get What You Want
Cher: Walking in Memphis
U2: One
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
Van Morrison: Brown Eyed Girl
Meat Loaf: Paradise By the Dashboard Light
Supertramp: The Logical Song (but so many others to chose from)
The Who: 5:15

Oyibopeppeh

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Minnie Ripperton - Loving You
Van Halen - Jump
Peter Tosh - Mama Africa
Led Zeppelin - Rain Song

Miss Anne Thrope

I love 5:15 - that's a real barnstormer, screaming "Out of my brain on the train" along with old Rog was very therapeutic in my youth. Doesn't get much play though so nice to be reminded of it. And they were the (admittedly not very strongly contested) highlight of the 'Lympics closing ceremony along with, to my surprise, old Ray Davies.

You mention Van the Man also; quite a few of his to choose from but I would go with Real Gone - fantastic rising horn riff gets you going every time. BEG used to get played to death in the '80s when I was living in the US: seems to be his most popular song there.

Miss Anne Thrope

Wow, this just underlines the colossal fall in standards that the NME has suffered since the '70s and '80s glory days. Sure there are a few good suggestions in there but there are so many ordinary songs - Yellow, Go Your Own Way, Raspberry Beret etc etc FFS! - you wonder why (or whether) they even bothered...

The Dean

Bit harsh............. some good ones there (although I'd be interested to read their definition of the word 'uplifting'), along with a good few I've never heard of......

........ mind you, nothing by Coldplay can ever be regarded as up-anything (apart from up-its-own-rectum) so we can safely move on.

Little Boy

If you think you love someone, if your pretty sure of it- I mean if you think you could love some woman if you got the chance to get to know her a little better...Then this is a great song. I just learned all the piano parts.

The Dean

Like this.......... which is just as well, as it's been all over the airwaves for the last few weeks. Nice video too.............

Miss Anne Thrope

Oh come on people... Carter USM, nobody?????



There, among Youtube's finest moments: if that can't immediately lift your mood then you're dead!

The Dean

Nobody apart from you liked them............