Music Upbeat music?

So I was listening to my Ipod today, which just has my songs that are rated as not being rubbish, and I was realising that almost all of them are either quite hardcore electronic music, heavy metal, or fairly sad and slow.

I need more upbeat tunes. Do we have any reccomendations? I know as geeks we all tend to be heavily into nasty electronica or heavy metal, but a few people here must be into just upbeat rock instrument based music.

I was listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeah's and they're a little more in the direction I'm wanting, although they're not quite as happy and a little too angry I reckon. I guess it doesn't even have to be happy, so long as the tunes themselves aren't really downbeat and are mood-improving in some way.

Given that massively vague and broad request, let loose upon me

 

Try looking through the top100 album charts for something that's not pop, generally these days it ends up being indie/rock in quite a cheery fashion.

I know what you mean by this thread though, I had a problem like this a while ago, so got a few albums of a more relaxed nature and now a random playlist is a much more pleasing prospect.

 

It's not so much relaxed I need, it's stuff that isn't going to make me want to curl up and sleep when it's 11am and I have 5 more hours in the library learning chemical nomenclature, stuff that'll raise my mood a bit.

I will check out the charts, although I think perhaps the stuff in there that's half-good might be a little too grr, serious indie be here. Cheers

 

I know what you mean, I think it's just a case of sticking a 'net radio on with a band of the type you already know what you like and end up with similar stuff...

 

I'm listening to the new The Weakerthans stuff at the moment which is pretty good. I particularly suggest Civil Twilight, Sun in an empty room, Relative Surplus Value and Reunion Tour. I love the first two.

The Weakerthans as a genre are kind of pop-rock-folk. There songs range from slow, peaceful and slow (These Are My Favourite Chords) to poetry (Hospital Vespers) and proper rock (Civil Twilight). I highly reccommend them.

Bluetones are quite good too. More poppy.

 

Just flipped through my iTunes library looking for upbeat music: CSS, Paramore, Enter Shikari, Turbonegro, NERD, Beirut, Tom Petty, Saul Williams, Dragonforce, SHITDISCO, Ween, The Shins, Jean Michel Jarre, Roxy Music, Michael Jackson, Cobra Starship - all stuff I'd call upbeat and fairly lively. Fairly wide spread of styles there too.

 

Not a bad list there mook. I've got CSS and I should have thought of them in this case, can't say I'd put NERD in this catagory, nor JMJ - but the rest all seems to be fairly upbeat stuff. Cheers.

edit: Just made a big pandora list with the bulk of the reccomendations in this thread, coudln't bring myself to add Michael Jackson, but I digress... The Weakerthans came on first, and they do seem to be pretty upbeat which I like. Perhaps a little on the slowside (Psalm for the Elks is, at least)

 

Sonic the Hedgehog music? It's like caffine in sound form.

 

Nah, I've got enough blippety beepity electronic music. I can't say it ever raises my mood at all. This stuff I'm getting from pandora with most of the above suggestions added in is pretty good, perhaps a little too mainstream for my liking, a bit homogenous. I tend to like music that has random elements infused in it. Definitely starting to improve the overall mood though

 

I suggest Girls Aloud.

 

Thanks, but I've already got 9 tracks by them in my music collection (honestly, I do, it's a big collection and I have lots of Now That's What I Call Music.... albums)

edit: I'm really digging the Weakerthans. Still want more suggestions though, the more I can add to pandora that's along the lines I've suggest the more I can explore the region, and find exactly what I'm after. Keep 'em coming folks

 

I must admit that I had to think twice before ripping Jacko for iTunes. But the Thriller album is just plain 100% awesomeness. I cherish the memory of Jacko when he was still black, a bit disco, and pre-Home Alone.

Respect for Girls Aloud. That new single is proper banging.

 

They range massively. Psalm is quite slow and some of their stuff is just spoken, but there's a good deal of faster stuff in there too. Keep an eye out for This Is A Fire Door Never Leave Open and Aside.

Man, the weakerthans are an awesome band. Every time I hear them it brings back a flood of wonderful memories from my life, all of which make me laugh.

 

One more.

Get on iTunes music store and download 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter. You'll recognise when you here it, and I defy you not to be dancing round the room when it starts.

 

Halo Friendlies, Gym Class Heroes, Wheezer....

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/mashup/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/annienightingale/

Check those radio shows out, there's some really good stuff. The mashup is fairly varied and Nightingale's show is composed of seriously awesome breaks.

Obviously you can't play those on your mp3 player (if you can... tell me how!) but they have the tracklistings so you can just look up similar artists really easy on last.fm or what have you.

 

Run Audacity whilst they're streaming.

 

The Aquabats, the Cat Empire, the Flaming Lips, stuff like that maybe?

 

Damn, beaten to nominating the Cat Empire. That band has brought me out of a depressed period on more than one occassion, just a real zest for life in the music, plus being funny and nicely quirky.

Pandora have them.