Songs to Make You Happy

Pick Your Mood Up with Classic Tunes

What songs make you happy?

It cannot be any secret that music affects our mood. A sad song can be cathartic, but some tunes are just heaven sent to pick us up when we are blue. I have found that a lot of people have trouble with moods in the period before New Year’s. The holiday season is winding down, and a lot of us are thinking about all of those bills that will come in Janurary, or maybe just some goals we did not meet in 2009! Hey, I certainly have my share of those!

Besides the classic Bob Maley song, Don’t Worry be Happy, what else picks you up when you are blue? I have my own personal favorites, and I’d like to share them here.

• Joan Armatrading – Me Myself I
• Jackson Browne – The Fuse
• Warren Zevon – Looking for the Next Best Thing
• >Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah

OK, that’s my short list. Of course, I could probably come up with dozens, if not hundreds more. I guess these songs help me because they are about overcoming an imperfect, or awful, situation, and not just about “walking on sunshine”.

What Songs Pick You Up?

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