March 28, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I’ve stuffed my MP3 player with uplifting tracks for those stressful times. What are your personal feel-good favourites?Mine are : The Lightning Strike bv Snow Patrol, Living for the weekend by Hard-Fi,and Where the rose is sown by Big Country. What gets you energised ?
By: steve rowell - 11th April 2009 at 00:00
What do you listen to when you feel really miserable ?
The sound of my Mother-in-laws car reversing out of my drive always cheers me up…it’s music to my ears
By: Flygirl - 2nd April 2009 at 18:54
Enya – Wild Child . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvdhByrevZA
Ever close your eyes
Ever stop and listen
Ever feel alive
And you’ve nothing missing
You don’t need a reason
Let the day go on and on
Let the rain fall down
Everywhere around you
Give into it now
Let the day surround you
You don’t need a reason
Let the rain go on and on
What a day, what a day to take to
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
Only take the time
From the helter skelter
Every day you find
Everything’s in kilter
You don’t need a reason
Let the day go on and on
Every summer sun
Every winter evening
Every spring to come
Every autumn leaving
You don’t need a reason
Let it all go on and on
What a day, what a day to take to
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
What a day, what a day to take to
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
Da-da da da da da, da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
What a day, what a day to take to
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to
Da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
What a way, what a way to make it through
What a day, what a day to take to
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
What a day, what a day to take to
What a day, what a day to take to a wild child
By: Ren Frew - 2nd April 2009 at 18:50
Hey hey… it’s back ! 😀
By: duxfordhawk - 2nd April 2009 at 15:55
These songs cheer you two up ?! What do you listen to when you feel really miserable ?
Maybe this,:D
Monty Python Galaxy Song
Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ’round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s ****** all down here on Earth.
By: duxfordhawk - 2nd April 2009 at 15:44
Just love the lyrics to this and David Gilmours version on “Live in Gdansk” is beautiful.
Fat Old Sun (Gilmour) 5:23
When the fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin’ birds are calling
Summer’s thunder time of year
The sound of music in my ears
Distant bells, new mown grass
Smells so sweet
By the river holding hands
Roll me up and lay me down
And if you sit don’t make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin’ birds are calling
Children’s laughter in my ears
The last sunlight disappears
And if you sit don’t make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
By: Flygirl - 2nd April 2009 at 12:42
Probably this.;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw07CDid0JM
By: BumbleBee - 2nd April 2009 at 10:33
These songs cheer you two up ?! What do you listen to when you feel really miserable ?
By: duxfordhawk - 2nd April 2009 at 10:11
Why Aye Man
We had no way of staying afloat
We had to leave on the ferry boat
Economic refugees
On the run to Germany
We had the back of Maggie’s hand
Times were tough in Geordieland
We got wor tools and working gear
And humped it all from Newcastle to hereWhy aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye manWe’re the nomad tribes, travelling boys
In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise
Drills and hammers, diggers and picks
Mixing concrete, laying bricks
There’s English, Irish, Scots, the lot
United Nation’s what we’ve got
Brickies, chippies, every trade
German building, british-madeWhy aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye manNae more work on Maggie’s farm
Hadaway down the autobahn
Mine’s a portacabin bed
Or a bunk in a nissen hut insteadThere’s plenty deutschmarks here to earn
And German tarts are wunderschön
German beer is chemical-free
Germany’s alreet with me
Sometimes I miss my river Tyne
But you’re my pretty fraulein
Tonight we’ll drink the old town dry
Keep wor spirit levels highWhy aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
Mr Mark Knopfler and his underated talent for lyrics another favourite of mine would be, Its not just Newcastle he can write a good lyric about:D
Silvertown Blues
On Silvertown way the cranes stand high
Quiet and gray against the still of the sky
They won’t quit and lay down though the action has died
They watch the new game in town on the Blackwall side
From the poisonous drains a vision appears
A new circle of cranes, a new reason to be here
A big silver dome rising up into the dawn
Above the church and the homes where all the silver is gone
If I’d a bucket of gold, what would I do
I’d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
A silver dawn steals over the docks
A truck with no wheels up on the cinderblocks
Men with no dreams around a fire in a drum
Scrap metal schemes rusted over and done
If I’d a bucket of gold, silver would do
I’d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
And I’m going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
When you’re standing on thin and dangerous ice
You can knock and walk in for citizens’ advice
They’ll tell you where you can turn, where you can go
There’s nothing they can tell me I don’t already know
If I’d a bucket of gold, silver would do
I’d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
And I’m going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
From the Canning Town train I see a billboard high
There’s a big silver plane rising up into the sky
And I can make out the words ‘seven flights every day’
Says six of those birds are bound for JFK
If I’d a bucket of gold, silver would do
I’d leave the story untold Silvertown blues
And I’m going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
Going down in Silvertown
Down in Silvertown
By: steve rowell - 2nd April 2009 at 00:25
Why Aye Man
We had no way of staying afloat
We had to leave on the ferry boat
Economic refugees
On the run to Germany
We had the back of Maggie’s hand
Times were tough in Geordieland
We got wor tools and working gear
And humped it all from Newcastle to here
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
We’re the nomad tribes, travelling boys
In the dust and dirt and the racket and the noise
Drills and hammers, diggers and picks
Mixing concrete, laying bricks
There’s English, Irish, Scots, the lot
United Nation’s what we’ve got
Brickies, chippies, every trade
German building, british-made
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
Nae more work on Maggie’s farm
Hadaway down the autobahn
Mine’s a portacabin bed
Or a bunk in a nissen hut instead
There’s plenty deutschmarks here to earn
And German tarts are wunderschön
German beer is chemical-free
Germany’s alreet with me
Sometimes I miss my river Tyne
But you’re my pretty fraulein
Tonight we’ll drink the old town dry
Keep wor spirit levels high
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
Why aye man, why aye, why aye man
By: Flygirl - 31st March 2009 at 19:40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GH-yvPHSY Love the lyrics.:)
MGMT – Time to Pretend – Oracular Spectacular
I’m Feelin rough I’m Feelin raw I’m in the prime of my life.
Let’s make some music make some money find some models for wives.
I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fcuk with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.
This is our decision to live fast and die young.
We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun.
Yeah it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
Forget about our mothers and our friends.
We were fated to pretend.
I’ll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms.
I’ll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world.
I’ll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home.
Yeah I’ll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.
But there is really nothing, nothing we can do.
Love must be forgotten. Life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we’ll get a divorce,
we’ll find some more models, Everything must run its course.
We’ll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
We were fated to pretend.
yeah yeah yeah
By: bring_it_on - 31st March 2009 at 19:11
For me —>
Ants Marching – DMB , Dont know why but this song always cools me down..
By: Flygirl - 31st March 2009 at 18:48
One I really love. 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvdhByrevZA
By: Ren Frew - 31st March 2009 at 14:57
This one is very uplifting, Kim Deal’s voice never fails to impress…
By: PMN - 31st March 2009 at 14:30
wow it was out ten years ago, where does the time go ?
That’s precisely what I thought. Scarey!
Paul
By: Ren Frew - 31st March 2009 at 14:17
That was by Len. What a memory! 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMl2QtZmLEQ
Paul
Excellent, still a great little cheerer upper and wow it was out ten years ago, where does the time go ?
By: PMN - 31st March 2009 at 13:33
There was a little pop ditty in the charts a few years ago called “Steal My Sunshine”. Can’t recall who sang it, but it used to cheer me up no end.
That was by Len. What a memory! 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMl2QtZmLEQ
Paul
By: Ren Frew - 31st March 2009 at 13:31
There was a little pop ditty in the charts a few years ago called “Steal My Sunshine”. Can’t recall who sang it, but it used to cheer me up no end.
By: Flygirl - 31st March 2009 at 10:15
When fed up on the M25 I listen to these.
MGMT- Time To Pretend
Annie Lennox- Little Bird
Enya- Bodicea
Enya- A Day Without Rain
Lilly Allen- The Fear
By: KabirT - 31st March 2009 at 06:47
i listen to these artists for inspiration when i am a bit down, which is rare but whatever.
Grant Lee Buffalo
Pearl Jam
Led Zeppelin
Massive Attack
Portishead
Tool
Gomez
By: duxfordhawk - 31st March 2009 at 04:35
Some Tony Bennett or a nice Gregorian Chant with a drop of red…very relaxing!!!
Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin great for that too, Or a bit of Louis Armstrong.