Overwhelmingly joyful tunes

[Tentative Andy]

... That was a fairly negative way to start the day.

Certainly does it for me.

Ohmygosh that is fantastic.

And now just to piss all over hamarplazt's chips, here's a non-tasteful but fully joyful nuum track:

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[cobretti]

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And oddly, depending on the mood I'm in I'll find this track either fills me with warmth & happiness, or makes me feel proper sad inside (melancholy techno FTW):

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[Client Eastwood]

Jackson Sisters - I believe in miracles

Instant Smile

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[Client Eastwood]

Carl Craig - Butterfly

Awww Shucks

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[Client Eastwood]

Hey Leroy, ya mama, she calling you maayn . .

Jimmy Castor Bunch

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[3 Body No Problem]

any Suburban Base tune Rachel Wallace sang on

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[baboon2004]

This is perfect for walking down the street on a summer's day.

Nice. I like the DnB version of this (which I can't find on youtube):


Who'd'a thought I would tolerate "Swedish nu-jazz"? :slanted:

 

[crackerjack]

What's the song that establishes the greatest distance between instrumental joy and lyrical despair (without it being done solely for superficially ironic effect)?

got them industrial accident, back-breaking soul-sappiing near-death blues

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Am I the only one who is tired...

I know, I'm soooooo sick of lazy youtube dumps & pandering nuumological correctness...if only we could all remember that Joy Was Invented by Beardy German Blokes with Synthesizers Back in 1976...

I hope you N'Joi this rare selection of obscure German Joycore experimental workouts...

2-X-Treme - That Piano Track
Desired State - Dance the Dream
EQ - Drop the Bass
Menace Makes 3 - Do You Feel What I'm Feeling
Orca - The Power
Orca - Utah Mantra
Orca - 4 AM
Acro - Sky Lab
(yeah man like Orca had the piano anthem game on lockdown for a minute there)
Spectral - Touch Somebody (DJ Seduction Remix)
Tango - Can't Stop the Rush
Tango & Dom - Got to Release
Yolk - Music 4 Da People
Zero B - Lock Up
DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer - In Effect
Mole the Dipper - Ecstatic House
Foul Play - Dubbing You
Globe & The Hardcore Massive - Anthem

and my favorite of them all I don't even care how naff it is - complete with bonkers (NSFW!) video full of early 90s touchstones

 

[massrock]

Joy Was Invented by Beardy German Blokes with Synthesizers Back in 1976...

This is not correct, it was 1971.

 

[massrock]

Or possibly 1824.

This was actually the first thing that came to mind, although I'm not sure if the emotion is anything as simple as Joy.

 

[massrock]

Is there a difference between songs that seem to be bursting with joy and songs that actually make you feel joyful? I suppose you have to actually like something or else it could be irritating. And I suppose we all might have different ideas about what joy sounds like or even is.

 

[massrock]

Oh whatever, youtube dumping.

Pharoah Sanders - You've Got To Have Freedom

Ponytail - Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From an Angel)

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik

Analogue Bubblebath would be the Aphex track here I reckon.

Although I think Every Day makes me happier.

Martin Rev - Mari

Mouse On Mars - Yippie

Teardrop Explodes - Passionate Friend

Did anyone mention Spirit Of The Sun?

 

[mistersloane]

What's the song that establishes the greatest distance between instrumental joy and lyrical despair (without it being done solely for superficially ironic effect)?

This Ole Heart of Mine I've always thought was one of those songs that makes people just slash their wrists for pretty much that reason. Alot of those Sixties soul tracks actually.


Les Fleurs is the most joyous song ever made though. I can't even imagine making something that good.

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[bb_rebozo]

The Maisonettes - Heartache Avenue

 

[mms]

dance 2 trance - i believe in the power of american natives

n trance set you free
atlantic ocean waterfall

they put the unbearable before the joyous though

 

[baboon2004]

This Ole Heart of Mine I've always thought was one of those songs that makes people just slash their wrists for pretty much that reason. Alot of those Sixties soul tracks actually.

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Smokey - Tracks of My Tears...

 

[IdleRich]

"Am I the only one who is tired of every single thread on dissensus degenerating to a lazy youtube dump?"

When you're talking about music I can't think of any better way of conveying the music you're discussing to someone else than by playing it to them. Youtube allows you to do that easily so I don't see a problem - certainly not as a jumping off point.

"Smokey - Tracks of My Tears..."

My mum's favourite song.

"This Ole Heart of Mine"

One of my all time favourites - also Les Fleur (though what is the significance of the grammatical error in the title - if any?).

 

[massrock]

I'm sure those motown records are great but I can't disassociate them from sad beery old mods.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

This is not correct, it was 1971.

I'm sorry comrade, but unfortunately you fail to comprehend the correct nuumological significance & context of Beardy German Blokes w/Synthesizers (henceforth referred to as BGBs). early BGB work is either too avant-abstract, not hairy enough (i.e. early Kraftwerk) or in the case of kosmiche, too beardy - somber-solemn & mystical - (Tangerine Dream, Popol Vuh) to be properly Joyful. not enough Feminine Pressure is there, what with all these BGBs hiding themselves away in rented castles & holding 24 hour jam sessions. you can only do that when there's no girls around innit.

Neue Deutsche Welle has a kind of grimly joyless Joy about it. a loopy sense of itself you might say.

This was actually the first thing that came to mind, although I'm not sure if the emotion is anything as simple as Joy.

I dunno, is Joy simple? I usually find it to be quite messy & complicated.

Joy

talking about that music/words disconnect - the ineluctable calypso-from-outer space vibe doesn't jive at all with the militancy of lyrics - well militant joy I guess...

Steel & Skin - Fire in Soweto

speaking of militant joy:
UR - Jupiter Jazz
Perception & Mad Mike - Windchime
Suburban Knight - Midnight Sunshine - probably my favorite techno track
The Martian - Search Your Feelings

and just for the hell of it:
Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)

and the guy they shamelessly ripped if off of - not very joyous, that