Does Sup Forums ever listen to music that isn't dreary? The Sup Forums essentials are chock full of the drab and dull, and the chart threads are equally morose. Even your EDM recommendations are moody, and that's a genre known for being upbeat.
So I'm issuing Sup Forums a challenge.
Easy: List your top 10 favorite upbeat songs, if you can.
Medium mode: 10 favorite upbeat albums
Hard mode: 10 favorite upbeat artists
Impossible for a Sup Forumstant mode: 5 favorite upbeat genres.
animal collective and death grips have plenty of upbeat & fun songs, and they're the holy trinity of Sup Forums memes
Landon Stewart
Upbeat music generally isn't very good (unless it's classical)
Evan Barnes
My favorite upbeat artists are Radiohead Elliott Smith Chelsea Wolfe Burzum Melvin's Big Black Slint The XX Yo La Tengo Purity Ring
OP confirmed faggot
Grayson Harris
>Easy: List your top 10 favorite upbeat songs, if you can. 1. The The - Today is the Day 2. The Avalanches - Since I Left You 3. Mercury Rev - Meth of a Rockette's Kick 4. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice 5. The Cars - Best Friends Girl 6. Cocteau Twins - Cherry-coloured Funk 7. NMH - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea 8. Kanye West - We Don't Care 9. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 10. Animal Collective - Brother Sport
>Medium mode: 10 favorite upbeat albums 1. Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam 2. Van Morrison - Astral Weeks 3. Dogbowl - Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain 4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 5. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms 6. Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill 7. Phish - Lawn Boy 8. Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop 9. Weezer - White Album 10. The Avalanches - Since I Left You >Hard mode: 10 favorite upbeat artists no >Impossible for a Sup Forumstant mode: 5 favorite upbeat genres. Nope
John Parker
>Loveless >song
Wat
Luis Cook
we're all depressed
Kayden Gutierrez
Only person in the thread who knows what upbeat means
>AnCo >DG
>Trinity
Bruh
Jason Harris
I'll go medium: >James Brown - Live at the Apollo Vol. 3 >Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits >Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club >Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues >Parliament - Mothership Connection >Sam Mangwana - Maria Tebbo to start
Evan King
10.Come on! Feel The Illinoise! 9. Ice Cream 8. Get It On (Bang A Gong) 7. My Own Way 6. Summertime Clothes 5. It's Getting Better 4. Americas Most Blunted 3. Let's Go Crazy 2. Kingdom (Devin Townsend) 1. Fly On The Wall (XTC) (more happy in tone/instrumentation/performance than lyrics but MAN is it amazing and it puts me in a good mood)
10. MPP (would be #2 if it weren't for bluish and no more runnin) 9. Madvillainy 8. Epicloud (except for divine I guess, but this song is so beautiful) 7. Rio 6. 13 Million Miles 5. Discovery 4. English Settlement (Would be #1 if it weren't for All of a Sudden and Snowman) 3. A Love Supreme 2. Purple Rain 1. Revolver
10. The I. L. Y's 9. Animal Collective 8. Kanye West 7. Devin Townsend 6. Prince 5. The Beatles 4. MF DOOM 3. XTC 2. Weezer 1. Daft Punk
5. New Wave 4. Bebop 3. Psychedelic Rock 2. House 1. Synth Pop
Didn't use a band more than once on any list, most of this is ranked as to which is happy+my favorite, the only #1 that's my actual favorite on the entire list is Fly on the Wall. Does uplifting count as upbeat? Something that soothes you and makes you feel good? If so, then erase almost half of the parenthesis on the albums list.
Eli Rivera
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Julian Sullivan
easy: disclosure - white noise best coast - crazy for you animal collective - chores vampire weekend - a-punk battles - ice cream aphex twin - 4 bill withers - lovely day james brown - get up offa thing james brown - people get up and drive that funky soul franz ferdinand - cant stop feeling
medium: vampire weekend - s/t battles - gloss drop bombay bicycle club - a different kind of fix lcd soundsystem - sound of silver the strokes - is this it animal collective - strawberry jam hinds - leave me alone two door cinema club - tourist history disclosure - settle aphex twin - the richard d james album
hard: vampire weekend (and any sort of indie pop band desu) bombay bicycle club two door cinema club phoenix dismemberment plan lcd soundsystem the rapture anco hinds weezer (may come off as depressing lyrically, but their songs are pretty upbeat musically)
impossible: i dont think genres have any sort of exclusive emotion. i think you can find plenty of upbeat math rock and downtrodden, depressing math rock for example. indie pop i guess?
Parker Diaz
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Josiah Hernandez
>Prince - Parade >Meters - Look-a Py-Py >Sonny Rollins - Work Time >Louis Armstron - Hot Fives and Sevens
it seems to me that anyone who attempts the 10 artists list should include James Brown in it - very few artists are more upbeat than him.
Aiden Martin
> easy mode MBV - Drive it All Over Me The Smiths - Frankly, Mr Shankly The Smiths - This Charming Man Talking Heads - Born Under Punches Barenaked Ladies - Enid Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment REM - Shiny Happy People MBV - Soon They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul Daft Punk - Face To Face >medium mode Barenaked Ladies - Gordon Barenaked Ladies - Born On A Pirate Ship MBV - Loveless They Might Be Giants - Flood The Smiths - The Smiths Madeon - Adventure Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power Daft Punk - Discovery Carly Rae Jepsen - Emotion > hard mode My Bloody Valentine Barenaked Ladies XTC They Might Be Giants Ween Streetlight Manifesto Talking Heads Neon Indian Tokyo Police Club The Format >Impossible Jangle Pop New Wave Nu Disco Post Punk Revival Pop Punk
Dylan Rivera
My favourites are black metal, shoe/blackgaze, noise, industrial/electro and punk. Which I guess is pretty Sup Forums standard.
Tonight I drank a lot, took 120mg of codeine and went for a walk while listening to music until 1am.
I wouldn't say I'm a dreary person I'm quite positive when I'm at work or with other people but when I am alone (which is a lot) I tend to be melancholic and drown myself in dreary art. I don't try to be this way I am conscious of it but I've always been like this so whatever.
inb4 nice blogpost
David Fisher
This may lighten the mood and uplift the spirits. If not it'll probably make you laugh at least.
I like upbeat music cool thread >Fantano image Saged, reported and hidden
Cameron Garcia
lol too easy
Thomas Taylor
How are This is the Day, Since I Left You, Wouldn't it Be Nice or In the Aeroplane Over the Sea upbeat?
Thomas Martinez
>upbeat artist >If an a artist us perpetually one emotion then they're pretty shit
Jeremiah Carter
>implying music is either upbeat or dreary
The range of emotions is way wider than that. Strictly upbeat ike you defined this to be is just bland IMO. If that's what you want I definitely can't do it. For example, I perceive Roygbiv by Boards Of Canada as a really joyful song, but it's probably not upbeat.
