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What's the Happiest Song You've Listened to?

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Well we can't have a thread about the most depressing song without having something to counterbalance it, can we...?

You are free to interpret 'Happy' in any (reasonable) sense, including, songs with happy, optimistic, lyrics, or songs that musically make you feel good/make you feel like you HAVE to dance.

However, since most pop songs are designed to make you feel good, and I don't intend this thread to turn into a list of almost every pop/rock song that's ever been recorded ;), your answers have to be songs that really are exceptional in their happiness-qualities / ability to make you feel great.

EDIT: In response to the later discussion. Your song doesn't need to be well known. In fact if it's a song that most people won't know, then that probably makes it more interesting to post - you get a chance to widen people's horizons ;) That also means that - if anyone is wondering - foreign songs are fine. But if it's a song that most people in the UK are likely not to have heard of, and you're able to easily dig out a YouTube or similar link, providing the link in your post would probably make it easier for people.
 
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Outing myself as a stereotypical 'indie kid' here but Not Nineteen Forever by Courteeners takes the crown as far as I'm concerned. Will never tire of hearing it live.
 

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I can see clearly now (the rain is gone). :)
 

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A curious one is "Shiny Happy People" by REM which is a really nice and upbeat song, but is actually about the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Chinese Goverment's "everything is great" message.
 

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For me there can only be one: Teenage Kicks by the Undertones. Every time I hear it it puts a smile on my face and makes me want to leap up, punch the air and shout. I am going to have it played at my funeral: if I don’t react to that, I’m dead.

It doesn’t get much better than this.
 

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Although not a song, I also like Mike Oldfield’s version of Portsmouth. Although that is helped by the video, which has four happy-looking young women in white dresses dancing a sort of folk dance.

Two others: Brian Eno’s Seven Deadly Finns and Dave Edmunds’ I Knew the Bride...oh, and Chantilly Lace by the Big Bopper.
 

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ONE STEP BEYOND by Madness.
Guaranteed to get me on the dance floor at any wedding!
 

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'Happy' by Pharrell Williams is pretty good.

'Get Lucky' by Pharrell/Daft Punk is another upbeat one.
Pharrell becomes the first person to get the same song in both happy and depressing threads!
It's all about opinions, but both of those songs do my head in a bit due to overplay. Happy especially, because it was everywhere during summer 2014 which wasn't a particularly happy time for me. If I'm in a good mood, a depressing song won't affect me... but if I'm already feeling miserable, a song that seems to enforce positivity will have the opposite effect.
 

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A curious one is "Shiny Happy People" by REM which is a really nice and upbeat song, but is actually about the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Chinese Goverment's "everything is great" message.
Songs that are happy if you don’t speak English should be it’s own category. “Moonlight Shadow” by Mike Oldfield and Maggie Reilly uses a very upbeat instrumental to go into graphic detail about a brutal murder. The worst place I’ve heard it was at a funeral. Ironically an instrumental only version which is bearable to listen to was released by The Shadows and Hank Marvin.
 

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Live is Life by Opus is quite an upbeat song as well.
 

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Live is Life by Opus is quite an upbeat song as well.
That's a good choice. Upbeat both in lyrics and the music.

I think my two choices for most happy/danceable/upbeat would be The Ultimate High (by Time Frequency), and a French Song, Laisse Tomber Tes Problèmes (translation: Forget about your problems) by a band, Collectif Métissé. The video is quite amusing and very upbeat too (although does in places reflect cultural attitudes in terms of showing women-in-bikinis that seems less acceptable today).

 

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Anything by The Smiths or Radiohead usually gets me going :D
Outing myself as a stereotypical 'indie kid' here but Not Nineteen Forever by Courteeners takes the crown as far as I'm concerned. Will never tire of hearing it live.
I’m the same, that tune really gets me going, plus I quite like reminding the missus, she’s the older woman to my ever so slightly younger man :p
 

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If we are going to have foreign songs, then I’ll add La Mer by Charles Trenet.

Sure. I've just edited the starting post to clarify that any song is welcome, so foreign songs are fine. But a link to the song being performed would be good if it's a song that most people in the UK won't have heard of.
 

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Sure. I've just edited the starting post to clarify that any song is welcome, so foreign songs are fine. But a link to the song being performed would be good if it's a song that most people in the UK won't have heard of.

As numerous posts have indicated, I am totally incapable of doing a link. The mods have are probably going off their rockers after sending me instructions of how to do a link and seeing no result. I don’t know if it is my incompetence or because my iPad is the most basic model.
 
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