Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
(As featured in Edd's Zombeh Attack -- at 4:42 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/269862)
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You beat me to it! Tubthumping always gets me fired up
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
A lot of stuff by The Alan Parsons Project, notably:
Coldplay
Bruce Springsteen (huge caveat is that it's really hard to tell what he's saying when he sings, lol)
Various Artists
- All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You by Steely Dan
David Bowie made a lot of songs about recovering from drug problems but they're more for ruminating on your issues than inspiring and uplifting from them.
- Sound and Vision and Ashes to Ashes are the most notably examples of this
- Heroes manages to be more uplifting and motivational
Death Cab for Cutie are also really really good for their songs about personal struggles
All of these links are spotify, I can add youtube if that's more convenient.
I don't even spotify 💀, I'm an amateur when it comes to music...
Ah well many people don't like Spotify anyway because A) they have too many adverts and the premium version is too steeply priced, and B) they don't pay artists that much
Not the lyrics, but no song has ever made me as dancy as Pitbull's Fireball
Michael Franti has a lot of feel-good songs.
I like myself most of the time by K Flay
Feeling good - Nina Simone
Don't stop me now - Queen
Good life - One Republic
Good as hell - Lizzo
Shake it out - Florence and the Machine
Raise your glass - Pink
Stay - Monika Linkyte
I hate people - Lords of the Lost
Power - Dilja
Heart of steel - Tvorchii
The code - Nemo
Fighter - Tali
We will rave - Kaleen
Serving - Mariana Conte
Survivor - Parg
You should see me in a crown - Billie Eillish
Seize the power - Monika
A lot of uplifting stuff by IDLES. The singer struggled with depression and drug addiction himself for years. Many of their songs are either about empowerment, equality, mental health... or about rotten media, how parasitic our politicians are, punching nazis in the face... you get the gist.
NF - Hope
NF - The Search
Most of the tracks on "...And Then There Were Three..." by Genesis. Kept me alive through my darkest days of highschool.
nevermind
Gloria Estefan: Get On Your Feet
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer and Big Time
Madonna: Express Yourself
Sara Bareilles — "King of Anything"
Malena Cadiz — "Rattle the Windows"
Queen — "Princes of the Universe"
"I am the mountain" by Wind Rose is one of my personal all-time favorites
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xGuK7FsXuZwHCCuNnPzbD
L'amour toujours by Gigi D'agostino
This one always cheers me up when I'm down
Here is my Melancholy playlist. Not sure if I would call it uplifting per se but I really like it. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdhMu7XX4FMXsiu7uYHDoA1YNQnQtms8O
Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse
Billy Bragg & Wilco: All You Facists
I'm gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go
You're bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
All you fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You're bound to lose, you fascists
Are bound to lose
Seth sentry - simple game
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oJtO1LdddkewWmJZH6x5R
Bliss n ESO - addicted
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dFpc8oA3SroWIKyMQNINT
Disturbed - in another time
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oBbn0yFlspuZrNP8Mi0yX
Calyx & teebee - long gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/6V9c2rDSlFKG1PFW56c7bA
Bellagio - we have a dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FVolXH3SsD0aFRiRgVH1j
And I have more...
Maybe some of these more touch on "thought provoking" instead, idk. But these songs get me thinking and motivated one way or another.
Shirley Manson and Brody Dalle, girls talk
Stand Tall by Burton Cummings Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Parabol/Parabola by Tool has the most uplifting lyrics I've ever heard.
Seconding Michael Franti & Idles.
Michael Franti said he used to make political music to try to improve the world but decided music that made people happy made the world happier more directly.
Idles are like your asshole friend who refuse to let you beat up on yourself. They are so good.
Song for Alicia by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover
Pride Anthem (Molotov Cocktails & Bricks) by Garlic Bread & Roses
Heavy Foot by Mon Rovia
Push by Terrace Martin
Violet by Jeremy Messersmith
The Day by The Roots
Very Much Money by Open Mike Eagle
Broken Ladder by Lil Ugly Mane
Drive by El-P
Freebird II by Parquet Courts
History Lesson Pt. II by Minutemen
Megapunk by Ela Minus
Pack My Box by Patricia Taxxon
Wedding in a Wasteland by Parts and Labor
My Body Fell by Kasko Lunsford
Hold Each Other Up by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer with Chao Tian