So I've been jamming Weezer's blue album a lot lately, and I've noticed that it never ceases to bring a smile to my face, more so than any other album I listen to. What albums have that effect on you?
Happy albums? I had to think about that for a little bit. The most recent would easily be Out Of Frequency by The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Song is Ghost In My Head. [video=youtube;vXUWvXv5F6w]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXUWvXv5F6w&feature=related[/video] Before that was Diablo Swing Orchestra, either of their two albums, both are fantastic. Pink Noise Waltz; off of their first album, The Butcher's Ballroom. [video=youtube;iwC4IFz512o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwC4IFz512o[/video]
311- Evolver Dirty Heads- Any Port In A Storm The Distillers- Coral Fang Nirvana- Nevermind blink-182- Enema of the State Green Day- Dookie M.I.A- Arular Mastodon- The Hunter The Misfits- Famous Monsters Paramore- All We Know Is Falling
What NightofNeptune said. But specifically happy, favourite albums/bands: -John Butler Trio- Grand National (Good Excuse, Fire In The Sky) Sunrise Over Sea (Zebra, Company Sin) April Uprising (Ragged Mile, Don't Wanna See Your Face) and of course this performance of Ocean, incredible. -Joe Satriani- Professor Satchafunkilus & the Musterion of Rock (Out of the Sunrise, Prof. Satchafunkilus) Super Colossal (Just Like Lightnin, A Cool New Way) Joe Satriani (Cool #9, Slow Down Blues) I could list so much more from Satch, but it's getting crowded. -Rodrigo y Gabriela- 11:11 (Buster Voodoo, Hora Zero) RyG (Tamacun, Diablo Rojo) And their Area 52 re-interpretation album with the Cuban orchestra, that's fuckin happy. And awesome. Go buy it. Then there's other stuff like Rory Gallagher, Katzenjammer, Lisa Hannigan, Zeppelin,.. but I've said too much already...
Passion Pit - Manners Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History The Boys of Summer - What It's All About And basically any Owl City album lol. There's more but I can't recall them right now. Edit: Gotta add Contra by Vampire Weekend and Some Nights by Fun. They always make me smile.
Ramshackle Glory - Live The Dream Kanye West - Late Registration My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Daft Punk - Discovery Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World Red House Painters - Songs For A Blue Guitar Maybe some weird choices given subject matter, but eh.
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium Not a happy album, but whenever I listen to it I tend to be in a really good mood.
Simple, peppy, and upbeat tunes. [video=youtube;988Cst8qXGo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988Cst8qXGo[/video] It's all nice and happy until you start having technical difficulties.
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Deerhunter - Haclyon Digest Fleet Foxes - any Freelance Whales - Weathervane Vampire Weekend - any The Killers - Hot Fuss MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Sufjan Stevens - any
Besides Linkin Park: Rise Against "Appeal To Reason" and "Endgame" Shinedown "The Sound Of Madness" Taproot "Welcome," "Blue-Sky Research," "Our Long Road Home," "Plead The Fifth." Foo Fighters "The Colour And The Shape" There are probably more, but these are just a few...
Except for "Runaway", Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is generally an album that brings back memories from a few years ago and makes me warm inside. Oh, and Waka Flocka Flame.
Creed - Human Clay P.O.D. - Satellite Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 7 Metallica- Black Album , Load, Reload and Garage INC Pantera - Reinventing the Steel Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head