It is nice to have a happy playlist - one that can cheer you up when you are sad, or enhance a good mood when you feel great. I have a very large happy playlist, which has over 80 songs in it, so I have broken down the highlights into two parts; tracks, which have happy music, and tracks that have happy memories. This week, the second week, I am covering the more memory-based side – tracks that both have a happy feel and have a happy memory linked to it from my life and that. So here is a nice little insight into what makes me happy, and I invite you to think of, and perhaps make a playlist of all the songs that remind you of happy times.
1. “Crashed the Wedding” – Busted
Ah Busted. Hated by many a music connoisseur. Not me though, I bloody loved them! This song takes me back to being in 6th form, when I was very young, and very free, and my biggest problem was that my boyfriend hated Busted and I loved them. Bliss!
2. ‘Dreaming of You” – The Coral
I adored this song when it came out, and it did become a general favourite with my contemporaries too. As everyone liked it, it became a happy, zeitgeist-capturing track.
3. “Growing on Me” - The Darkness
This track came out when I first started to fall in love with my boyfriend Ricky, and it captured our feeling towards each other precisely. I later found out it was actually about genital warts, but the humour has only added to its genius in my eyes.
4. “Dammit” – Blink 182
This track just makes me happy. It was around a lot during a very happy time of my life, and automatically takes me back there.
5. “Make a Choice” – Thirst
This was Ricky’s favourite track when we first started going out, and our band also tried to learn it at one point. It will forever remind me of Ricky, and of being very young.
6. “The Road” – Tenacious D
This track reminds me of my first year at uni, singing in the kitchen, desperately badly, to this track, in my dorm room, top floor kitchen, looking out over rainy London town.
7. “The Middle” – Jimmy Eat World
This track has a great message, stating that although everything can feel like a big mess sometimes, everything should work out in time. It has given me solis during the stagnant 18 month I have been having, but in a positive way.
8. “Novocain” – Strung Out
This track came to me on a Fat Wreck compilation just as I was leaving school. Throughout 6th form I was besotted with pop punk, especially stuff from Fat Wreck, and this song just encapsulated all my favourite music from a really happy time in my life, and also rounded it off succinctly.
9. “Hey Ya!” – Andre 3000
Yes, this song was done to death when it was release, but it is a great, positive track, which seemed to have been played a lot in great situations – house parties, birthday parties, road trip, etc.
10. “Ready for the Weekend” – Calvin Harris
This track came out last year around the time I first left Uni and started to work again. Whilst this was quite depressing, it was very elating to finish work at the end of the week and have this blasting out of my car stereo on my way home for the weekend.
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