I've just realised that whenever I'm depressed for no reason I always happen to be listening to the same songs.

Today I accidentally clicked on the wrong song, and I was surprised at how different my mood seemed, I accidentally clicked on Silver Bells (American Christmas song...) and now I'm all happy. Except that my friends are going to be cross that I'm singing Christmas songs in September. At least last year I waited til October.

So does anyone else feel like that? I imagine lots of you do and I'm just really late to notice it.

What are the most cheering songs in your opinion?

Fast Avril Lavigne songs cheere me up.



Like sk8er boi, Girlfriend, the best damn thing etc......


Classical music wise, I think a lot of stuff that I realy like would make me kind of cheereful

I've had a bit of a sad week. But on Tuesday I swapped round the CDs in my car. On the way in to work on Wednesday, I was listening to Saint-Saens - Danse Macabre followed by the Carnival of the Animals.

I went around with a smile on my face all day; and having found they fit perfectly in the drive-to-work time, I've listened to them again yesterday and today. Yesterday I downloaded a two pianos version of Danse Macabre, my husband heard it, and now he wants the orchestral version on a CD for his car!

I do find it funny that I find Danse Macabre a really really cheering piece of music

Danse Macabre?!!!!!!

Great for driving to work somehow even if it is a bit spooky!

I like Danse Macabre and Night On Bare Mountain. Spooky, yes, but great pieces

I love The Elephant from The Carnival of the Animals, but the piece that always cheers me up is "The Hodown(sp? Doesn't look right!) from Coplands Rodeo.

Most of the New Orleans jazz I listen to is really happy, upbeat music

I discovered Brazilian big band "Banda Mantiqueira" recently. That's really great, makes you smile, music.

Danse Macabre
Now I think about it, it's very, oooh, I don't know, stirring music. It's something I'm going to be hearing in my head all day, dancing to it as I walk down the corridor (though everybody else will just see me walking normally). It's very alive - which is not the right word but the only one that I can think of right now - and it has loud crashing bits too which are always good

Hmm, Night on Bare Mountain...I'll have to get a copy of that now, it's fab too

Night On Bare Mountain reminds me of Disneys' Fantasia version which runs very nicely into Schuberts Ave Maria...

Songs from musicals always make me smile.

And Nimrod / Barber's Adagio always make me depressed.

When Horsepower Meant what it Said by Sandi Thom
Most of the stuff by The View
The Beatles
Kirsty MacColl
All make me happy

Singing in general makes me happy, if only to myself. Show tunes as well and sing-a-long-y tunes are always good. too.

Any Other World by Mika I find very moving and always puts me in a sort of contemplative-and-not-sad-but-still-not-really-happy-mood

The Lord Bless you and Keep you by Rutter always makes me cry... I heard probably no more than a few notes of it on TV a few days of ago and that nearly had me in tears

I LOVE Night on a Bare Mountain
Last movement of the Firebird always cheers me up at the moment I think im slightly obsessed about it


Oh and of course the Time Warp... or anything from Rocky Horror... again slightly (ok more than slightly) obsessed about it

The William Tell Overture (complete) is Brilliant for raising the mood!

The finale from Schumanns Etudes Symphonique is good.

Handels "The arrival of the Queen of Sheba"

Sousa's "Liberty Bell" will put a smile on almost anyone's face (anyone who's ever seen or heard of Monty P anyway) Edit: Souza, not Suza - I knew it looked wrong!

The Beatles "Here comes the sun"

Gordon Giltrap "Heartsong"

Theme and first few variations from "Variations" by Andrew Lloyd Weber (played by brother Julian and others)

. . . Actually the more I think about it the more I can think of music that makes me happy! There is just sooooooo much to choose from!!


How about movie scenes that make you smile? Or cry? I feel another thread coming on!

I forgot about that! Thats my favourate march!

Coldplay generally make me sad; inparticular Fix You, but i love it!
Jools Holland and other jazz is generally happy stuff.
So is 'older' things such as Rod Stewart etc.etc. Don't really know why!
Rock (e.g...Fratellis/Razorlight/Killers etc.) is happy, bouncy, 'anytime' stuff.
Quite a large amount of Beethoven is sad. and i find Clair de Lune emotional.

A piece called Hunting Wabbits by Gordan Goodwin. Its what LYJO 'won' MFY with And it have funny mute changes (visual gag).

Yes I completely agree with you - I absolutely LOVE how music can do that! I always find that listening to Delta Goodrem cheers me up, not only because I'm a huge fan, but also because her songs are really inspirational and supportive (especially those on her second album Mistaken Identity which was written when she went into remission from Hodgkins Lymphoma).

I also find that singing in choir makes me unbelievably happy!! And just in case listening to a song isn't enough to make some people happier, try singing along to the song...you might not feel like it at first, but if you sing you release chemicals called Pheromones which make you happy (and apparently more attractive hahaha! Hence why birds sing to attract their mates... )

Laura