I guess I'm kind of an odd person on this because the music that actively makes me happy tends to be what most people consider depressing. Tool and Modest Mouse are always ones that make me happy, but generically happy music just annoys me.

I love the music of Simon and Garfuncle. Whenever I am less than joyful, I find that their music lifts my spirits and has me in a good frame of mind.

I like listening to oldies, even very old oldies. I enjoy foreign language recordings. I enjoy clear lyrics, expressions of love, ballads, music about longing and desire, and those which stir deep emotional feelings.

I've been listening to the band Toto a lot lately.

Might be cliche, but I enjoy most rock (except for screaming tyes of songs that no longer sound like music).

Celtic music, Scottish and Irish folk songs.

I prefer listening to alternative/indie rock, pop-punk, and the like. The best song I just recently discovered has to be Dead-Bird by McCafferty. It's quite funky
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Born on the Bayou - CCR
Like a Rock - Bob Seger
The thong song - Sisqo (Classic shit)
Hey Good lookin' - Hank Williams

I am a BLUES fan, it just makes me feel so good

I got some White Zombie: Super Sexy Swinging Sounds playing right now.

I'm really kind of loving George Ezra right now. He's got such and interesting voice

Live Dead / Grateful Dead.

I really enjoy tight vocal harmonies so I listen to a lot by Lady Antebellum. A (very) different choice that always makes me feel good is Aftermath by Adam Lambert.

Music tends to remind me of past experiences/people, so I don't like to listen to it much anymore. It just makes me sad.

MDC, Millions of Dead Cops or Millions of Damn Christians:
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Punk rock love!

Not much really. Been feeling very somber about everything pretty much for a few months. Just got a call yesterday that my 2nd ex-husband's daughter died over the weekend. He died a few years ago himself, but I 've got to tell my son that his half-sister is gone. He knew she was sick, but still I know he'll take it hard. Usually I play music off and on all day and even before going to sleep at night, will slip on my headphones and listen to some favorite artists. Right now, they're Imagine Dragons, Thirty Second to Mars and Highly Suspect. Most of the songs, not exactly uplifting or light, happy lyrics.

Have really enjoyed listening to the band Quiet Company.

Violin Concerto No. 1 in thing minor by Max Bruch -- 27 minutes of movement from quiet , but deep feeling to joyful exuberance.

Loving the Lindsey Buckingham / Christine McVie album.
Love the Haim. And new band/album Gizmodrome (belew)
O(+> n whatever Jerry's noodling on right now. King Crim's 3 man drum stack is sounding ripe...

Anything metal. It gets my going in the morning, and is better for you than caffeine.

Go-go music...love to dance to chuck brown and the new go-go bands

Tortoise - Their entire TNT album. Listen to it outside next to a campfire on a crisp autumn night. Perfection.

Almost anything by the Tragically Hip because Gord Downie died last night.

311 is my favorite band of all time and the song I'd recommend on this site is "Seem's Uncertain"

"I'd like to be / One of the faithful millions / But what I see / Is an excuse for the killing"

But my favorite of theirs is "You wouldn't believe"... it just makes me happy