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Happy Little Trees: A Playlist

by Toledo Lucas County Public Library January 16, 2019
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I was going to write up a playlist of songs that make me happy and songs that make me sad, but as Dwight said in the Office โ€œIโ€™m just tired. The days are short. I donโ€™t know. Maybe Iโ€™m depressed,โ€ so I jettisoned the sad to cheer myself up. Not all of these songs are traditionally happy, but they uplift me just the same.

Below, you’ll find a collection of songs that make me happy, none of which are “Happy” by Pharrell Williams (no offense to him. I really like N.E.R.D. and the Neptunes!)

Songs That Will Put You in a Better Mood

The Monkees - Goin' Down / Daydream Believer
The Best of Bill Withers - Lean on Me
Way to blue : an introduction to Nick Drake
The Sunset Tree by The Mountain Goats
Album cover for Kiss Each Other Clean by Iron and Wine

1. Daydream Believer by The Monkees

I grew up watching The Monkeesโ€™ TV show and went to Seligman Brothers records on Sylvania to score some vinyl. I found the single for “Goinโ€™ Down” which had “Daydream Believer” as a B-side. I absolutely loved it. And I still do. Hearing it makes me think of when I was a kid. Still. Every single time.

2. Lovely Day by Bill Withers

Someone who gets way less credit than they deserve. Bill Withers was a factory worker (the photo of the cover of his first album Just As I Am was taken on his lunch break) who just happened to be an incredible song writer. He wrote amazing folk/soul for a while but by 1977โ€™s Menagerie he had moved into a more adult contemporary style. I prefer the earlier stuff, but thatโ€™s just me. What Menagerie did have was “Lovely Day,” and wow. Itโ€™s so sweet and upbeat! The choruses are incredibly uplifting but I have no idea how he can hold the note on the word โ€œDayโ€ for so long. Just like he kept going with the โ€œI knowโ€ part on the earlier “Ainโ€™t No Sunshine.” Thatโ€™s some real vocal control.

3. Northern Sky by Nick Drake

Ok, so Nick Drake is probably the poster boy for sad fella music. His songs run the gambit from โ€œmelancholyโ€ to โ€œhey, where do you keep your razor blades?”. Theyโ€™re all wonderful songs, they just arenโ€™t terribly uplifting. Except “Northern Sky.” Released on his second album, Bryter Layter, itโ€™s absolutely glorious. Beginning with the line โ€œI never felt magic crazy as thisโ€ the song builds and builds until the Hammond organ swells over at around the 2:15 mark. A blaze of sunlight from
someone surrounded by darkness.

4. This Year by The Mountain Goats

Not a happy song, not by a long shot. But for some reason, I find it incredibly uplifting. The tale of a teenager taking a bottle from his stepfather and going to the arcade to play video games with a girl he likes, the song takes a nasty turn when he returns home. Acknowledging how awful his life usually is, the chorus is simply โ€œI am gonna make it through this year if it kills me.โ€ See? Not exactly Chicken Soup For The Soul. But, for some reason, it fills me with joy.

5. Walking Far From Home by Iron And Wine

A song filled with allegorical things that Sam Beam saw when out walking, none of which I understand! The lyrics (which, again, I have no idea what they mean) are wonderful! Lines like โ€œI saw sinners making music, and Iโ€™ve dreamt of that soundโ€ or โ€œI saw kindness and an angel, crying โ€œTake me back home.โ€ Seriously, no clue. But I love it just the same. It just seems so hopeful.

Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie
The Very Best of The Lovin' Spoonful
B.O.B. by Outkast
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Odessey And Oracle by The Zombies

6. Transatlanticism by Death Cab For Cutie

Sure, the lyrics are some sort of claptrap about oceans being born and moats and boats and whatever, but when Ben Gibbard sings โ€œSo come on!โ€ over and over, it lifts my soul so high that the rest of the words doesnโ€™t matter.

7. Do You Believe In Magic by The Lovinโ€™ Spoonful

A great song but, wow, do those chants of โ€œDo you believe like I believe?โ€ make me happy? You know? I just might believe!

8. B.O.B. by Outkast

Iโ€™ll admit Outkast slipped by me. As amazing as their first three albums are, I missed it, I donโ€™t know why. So when I first heard “B.O.B.” off of their fourth album Stankonia on a CMJ compilation, my jaw just dropped. The song was so fast. It was basically speed metal with incredibly nimble rhyming over it, then a breakdown with chanting over it, THEN a midtempo part with almost gospel-like vocals. W.O.W.! And it still thrills me, although itโ€™s best if I donโ€™t listen to it when I drive.

9. One For The Cutters by The Hold Steady

Although “Massive Nights” off of Boys And Girls In America is a way more fun and joyful song with its chanted โ€œWhoaaahโ€ vocals, “Cutters,” from the follow up album Stay Positive, is the song that gets me. Neither fun nor joyful, it tells the tale of a college student who gets mixed up with โ€œtowniesโ€ (The Cutters in the title is a reference to the wonderful film “Breaking Away“). Thereโ€™s a fight and a stabbing and a trial where โ€œher fatherโ€™s lawyers do most of the talkingโ€ (Craig Finn is probably my favorite lyricist right now), and I sing along at top volume no matter where Iโ€™m listening to it. Donโ€™t know why, just do.

10. This Will Be Our Year by The Zombies

British Invasion band The Zombies had already broken up by the time (of the season) their masterpiece Odessey And Oracle had come out. Itโ€™s absolutely incredible. Baroque melodies mixed together with majestic vocals in three minute songs. And my favorite is “This Will Be Our Year.” Iโ€™ve never been the most optimistic person, but this song makes my soul half full. I play it every New Yearโ€™s Eve, which would probably annoy all of the others at whichever party I was at, but itโ€™s so glorious, I have a feeling they donโ€™t mind.

11. Georgy Girl by The Seekers and Windy by The Association

The Seekers and The Association
“Georgy Girl” was the theme song for a movie of the same name. Co-written by Jim Dale (who narrated the Harry Potter books on CD and the TV show Pushing Daisies, and also appeared in the British Carry On movies) and Tom Springfield (Dustyโ€™s brother!), it was performed by Australian band The Seekers, who would soon become The New Seekers and would like to teach the world to sing.

“Windy” was written by Ruth Friedman (who also wrote songs featured in the cult biker movie The Peace Killers). It was performed by American band The Association, a sunshiny pop band with psychedelic aspirations who would have close to a thousand different members throughout their lifetime (exaggerating, kind of). Both of these songs sound somewhat similar and they both make me happy.

Originally posted by Tim P. at ToledoLibrary.org/blog/happy-little-trees-a-playlist.

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