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For a happier version of music that makes you cry.  

Muse version of feelin good 

Echo Beach by Martha and the muffins 

Love shack B52s

What is your happy song? 

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Move any mountain - the shamen

Good times -chic

Straight, no chaser - Theolonius Monk

The Treasure - Stephen Stills 

New Gold Dream - Simple Minds

Music for Airports - Brian Eno

Sea of joy - Blind Faith 

 Concerto grossi -Handel

It is possible that some of these aren't necessarily happy but they just remind me of happy things. 

Judging by the lack of replies.  

I'd say nobody is happy or actually wants to be.

You Can Tell the World - Simon & Garfunkel

59th St Bridge Song - Simon & Garfunkel

Red Hot - Robert Johnson

Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company

There are lots more I may be able to think of later, but it's Monday morning and I'm just going back to work after a week off.  

I'd say that at post-22:00 on a Saturday, people are either out, or engaging in deeper threads. This one got pushed down the list

I have lots of happy songs. 

Desert by Alessi's Ark
Golden Summer by Helen Love
Riding Hi by Helen Love
Party in the Woods by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
Eight Steps by Electrelane
Suitcase by Electrelane
 

You mean pissed and arguing about stuff they can't change 

Photosynthesis - (by the most awesome Frank Turner)

Isn’t that what is meant by “involved in deeper threads”?

I was busy with a futile attempt to get someone to put his money where his mouth is, regarding advance train bookings. That one went well. 

Beverly Hills and El Scorcho by Weezer. Big dumb rock songs - yeah.

You can't beat a bit of Captain Sensible!

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'Happiness' by Tania Maria

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So many, but how's this for starters:

She Loves You - The Beatles

La Vie en Rose - Louis Armstrong

I Don't Want to Dance - Eddie Grant

Spirit in the Sky, Shiny Happy People

At the moment lots of new things I haven't heard before the present from Tide Lines sung with great feeling by Robert Robertson

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

Wake me up before you Go Go - Wham

Dancing Queen - Abba

B52 - Rock Lobster

Another B-52s, Song for a Future Generation

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What a band!

Paul Simon Obvious Child

Malcolm Maclaren Double Dutch

The Communards You are My World

Brass in pocket - the Pretenders

Sick bed of cu cuchulainn - Pogues

Fly me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra

for starters

Anchorage, Michelle Shocked

Road Runner, Jonathan Richman

And You and I, Yes

Solsbury Hill, Peter Gabriel

Crazy Train, Ozzy

Ezra Furman - Anything Can Happen

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Always has me smacking the roof of my car in time.

Right now it’s Ever Fallen In Love by Buzzcocks.

r.i.p. Pete Shelley

I don't know if you saw my post on the other thread, I'm a big Buzzcocks fan. But they're not known for happy songs and EFILWSYSHFILW isn't a happy song.

Sierra - Boz Scaggs

Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us:

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Bonkers and over the top.
Made especially better by Ron Mael trying not to smile and the weird German audience...  

The promised Lamd by Chck Berry. I was driving with a btoken ankle to see  my wife in hospital with cervical cancer (she is ok now) when it came  on the radio and I ended up sobbing it made me so happy.

The Cure,  Just like heaven.

Blancmange, The day before you came.

A-ha, Objects in the mirror. 

It sounds happy and it makes me happy when I hear it. I think that was the intent of the thread.

In general I think the correlation between happy lyrics and happy feelings engendered by listening to them is pretty poor. Any sort of analysis of pop lyrics reveals a remarkable paucity of analloyed joy. Slade perhaps.

It makes me happy because I escaped from and survived such a situation (a long time ago) and I'm happy.  

I can't believe I missed walking on sunshine. 

I'm going to try to listen to all the ones I haven't heard this weekend.  

Great thread! Here’s my tuppence ha’pennyworth:

Anything by the Kinks but especially A Nice Cup of Tea

also Better Things with Bruce Springsteen and Ray Davies

Northern Lights by Renaissance

Van Morrison Bright Side of the Road

Traveling Wilburys Handle With Care

and I second Frank Turner’s Photosynthesis,

Peter Gabriel Solsbury Hill

and Simon & Garfunkel’s 57th Street Bridge Song

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Pure teenage happiness