What song gets you UP when you are down?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

For me it's Jackie Wilson's Higher and Higher. I just can't stay bummed if I hear it...and sometimes I need to play it five times, but it's cheaper than a therapist and safer than pills with no side effects. :D

[DivinBreuvage]

1. "One Toke Over The Line" by Brewer & Shipley

I don't toke, but that song always makes me feel gooooood. Another one that has the same effect is "Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes" by Edison Lighthouse.

[RedEarth]

32. My gosh.....I haven't heard "One Toke ..." for years

I used to really like Brewer & Shipley and owned several of their albums. Might have to pull em and listen to them again...LOL

[DivinBreuvage]

51. They had SEVERAL albums?

This is interesting news to me. I always sort of assumed they would have just put out a 45 and that would be it. Are there any other songs of theirs that you particularly like?

Thanks!
Francoise

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

55. Actually one of the writers who penned that song now goes by the name

of Nick Gravenitis and plays up in the Sebastopol area every weekend.

73. he was always Nick Gravenites!

Brewer & Shipley are 2 guys from Kansas City who went out west. The album that One Toke Over the Line is on has Jerry Garcia, Nick Gravenites, John Kahn as members of the band.
Gravenites was in a whole slew of great bands including the Butterfield Blues Band and Big Brother & the Holding Company,... from this site...

http://www.bay-area-bands.com/bab00010.htm


'Nick Gravenites grew up on the southside of Chicago hanging out in the mid-50's with a coterie of misfit white kids - Elvin Bishop, Paul Butterfield, Michael Bloomfield - who went on to form that protean powerhouse of watershed white blues, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Learning their lessons first-hand from the southside greats - Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Otis Rush - Gravenites & Co. burst open the seams of the scene with a feverish intensity and undeniable authenticity, redefining the blues with as much impact as the introduction of electric instrumentation had 15 years earlier. From the late 50's through the mid 60's, Gravenites gravitated between Chicago and San Francisco, establishing himself in the Bay Area in 1965. In addition to authoring the classic "Born In Chicago" and the groundbreaking "East West" for Butterfield, Gravenites scribed hits for Janis Joplin and has his songs recorded by Big Brother and the Holding Company, Michael Bloomfield, the Electric Flag (of which Gravenites was a founding member), Pure Prairie League, Tracy Nelson, Roy Buchana, Jimmy Witherspoon as well as blues giants Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, and James Cotton. He has a couple of solo albums and has scored and played on the soundtracks for "The Trip", "Medium Cool", and "Steelyard Blues". He has appeared on some 40 albums as singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
For more info write to him at: P.O.Box 564, Occidental, CA 95465'

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

82. Yep I was gonna mention Electric Flag

I think he also had something to do with Quicksilver Messenger Sevice ..he plays Pride of Man at his gigs sometimes!

Glad to know another Gravenites fan! You up there in Occidental? Evre go see him at that Italian place?

86. I'd like to see him

but I'm in New York City.

I'm pretty sure he did stuff with Quicksilver. I know he did a couple of albums with John Cipollina, Quicksilver's lead guitarist. (who, by the way if you are into Cipollina -- the new Dead DVD of Closing of Winterland has about 20 minutes worth of Cipollina jamming with the Dead on Not Fade Away & an interview with Weir in which he raves about Cipollina's guitar playing)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

90. Well if you ever get to Northern California

He is there every Friday night at the main stop sign in the town of Occidental.

[RedEarth]

76. Here is their Web site....

I have two of their albums(Tarkio Road and Shake off the Demon) and according to their web site B & S put out 10 albums. Most of the songs on Tarkio Road are pretty good...One Toke, Seems Like a Long Time and Fifty States of Freedom are all good songs.

Here is a little info on "One Toke" taken from their web site....


"One Toke Over the Line" and "Tarkio Road". Various Brewer & Shipley songs are played on classic rock stations around the world, but "One Toke Over the Line" is by far their biggest hit.
It was a banned record in 1971, but the listening audience of the time chose to make it a hit anyway. Spiro T. Agnew, the vice-president of the United States, named Brewer & Shipley personally as subversives to American youth, and they wore making President Richard Nixon's hate list as a badge of honor. Ironically, at the same time, Lawrence Welk performed the song on his T.V. show, and introduced it as a gospel song.
Hunter S. Thompson mentioned the song several times in his 1971 novel, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," and it is now part of the soundtrack of the 1998 movie starring Johnny Depp.
Also in 1998, it was recorded by the band, "The Rainmakers" (with special guest vocal appearance by Brewer & Shipley) for High Times Magazine's "Hempilation II - Freetheweed" CD.



http://www.brewerandshipley.com/

[DivinBreuvage]

100. Thanks, RedEarth, and thanks to all you other posters

who had so much great information to share on these guys!

[SiobhanClancy]

34. great song!

Very happy,bouncy tune:)

79. another "revolution" song from that album

someone should cover this!

Oh Mommy
(Brewer & Shipley)
Oh mommy
I ain't no commie
I'm just doing what I can to live the good all American
Way
It says right there in the constitution
It's really a ok to have a revolution
When the leaders that you choose
Really don't fit the shoes

Oh mister
I ain't no sister
I believe in the bill of rights come on don't you start a fight
Please
I like to wear my hair long
How can there be anything wrong
When you already 'cused me twice
Of looking like Jesus Christ Hallelujah


I'm only gettin' tired of playing Punch and Judy
I'm really half a mind a go and do my duty
Like Mr. Patrick Henry said
I got to be free or dead


Mr. Nixon
I ain't a fixin'
To speak Spanish on a plane or polish off the liberty
Bell
I just want to sit here on the shelf
And watch you finish off the place by yourself
Please let me do what I wanna
I'll just lay around the house and smoke Marijuana oohoo


It says right there in the constitution
It's really a ok to have a revolution
When the leader that you made
Just don't make the grade
Oh mommy
I ain't no commie
But I hate to bust your bubble cause there's gonna be some trouble
Soon

[Dees]

80. Wichi Tai To is another tune of theirs which is excellent.

I just moved from the town where Tom Shipley lives. Ran into him quite often. He has in the past owned and operated a mountain gear supply store and is an avid fly fisherman. Tom has been very active in Ozark heritage and history. He lives in the country near Newburg, Missouri. Brewer lives near Branson where I believe he produces music from his own recording studio. I caught their concerts a number of times from the Blue Heron in Newburg. They put on a wonderful show.

edit..Tom used to write a kind of outdoor article for the local newspaper on Sunday. The paper is EXTREMELY conservative and Tom's politics and environmental views got him the boot after about a year and a half.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

83. Hey Dees Happy Holidays

Good to see you around again!

[Dees]

88. Thanks and the very best to you in the new year.

.

[supernova]

2. Mysterious Ways

by U2. It's not that the words are so uplifting, but the music just thumps right through me! :thumbsup:

"Walking on Sunshine" Katrina and the Waves

"September" Earth, Wind, and Fire

More recently:

"Hey Ya" Outkast

"Clocks" Coldplay

"Get Busy" Jean Paul

edit: One more. "Won't Back Down" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

[Resistance]

3. Stevie Wonder

"A Place in the Sun"

Like a long lonely stream
I keep runnin' towards a dream
Movin' on, movin' on

[MuseRider]

4. Paul Simon

"The Coast" I believe is the name of it. It is not a particularly happy song but the African guitar just makes me smile. I actually call it my happy song, track 3 on "Rhythm of the Saints". Makes me smile no matter what, love the Doo Wops in it.

[Breezy du Nord]

47. Mrs Robinson always makes me feel good

nt

[Capn Sunshine]

5. Relax

Not really. I just wanted to get it stuck in your musical head for awhile :evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. when ya wanna sock it to it!

Hey what are you up to this week? I am thinking of heading north on New Year's eve...might hook up with Cleita in the Pismo area and could stop in and harass you for a bit!

[Insider]

75. works for meee

:hi:

[Bundbuster]

6. "State Of Independence"

by Donna Summer

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. "Couldn't I Just Tell You"-Todd Rundgren.

"Hollywood Nights"-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
"Do Ya'"- The Move or The Electric Light Orchestra
"Volunteers"-Jefferson Airplane
Anything by Georgia Satellites.

Any will do. All together will make my head explode. ;-)

[Bronco69]

9. Any Motown song

and anything from the Cher Farewell Tour.

[trof]

10. When you are down and out,

Lift up your head and shout,
I'M DOWN AND OUT!
;-)

[scarlet_owl]

11. "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" by Leslie Gore.

How can you not smile when that song is on?

[terrya]

84. I love that song, also. You can't help but smile. :-) eom

[NightTrain]

12. "Higher and Higher" is my choice, too!

Easily one of the most upbeat songs ever written.

Recently, when I compiled a rank-ordered list of my 100 favorite '60s soul records, "Higher and Higher" came in at #15.

[NightTrain]

15. Another great one

The Impressions, "It's All Right."

When you wake early in morning,
feelig sad like so many of us do,
hum a little soul, make life your goal,
and surely something's got to come to you.

As one who has taken that advice on hundreds of occasions over the years, I can only say: Thank you, Curtis!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Oh yeah and the Steve Winwood cover on the tribute to Curtis album

does it justice too!

I am a BIG BIG Curtis fan :D

[THUNDER HANDS]

13. Land of 1,000 Dances

I don't know who sings it, but I love that song. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

17. Wilson Pickett

[THUNDER HANDS]

19. christ, do you know EVERTHING?

You always answer my musical questions.

I wish I was smart like you. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

25. No..I don't know everything

I just know everything you want to know :D smooch! Welcome back from your vacation ;-)

[NightTrain]

33. Two artists did "Land of 1000 Dances" before Pickett recorded it.

Namely, Chris Kenner (1963) and Cannibal & The Headhunters (1965). Pickett's recording, however, was the biggest hit (and arguably the best version).

[arwalden]

14. Car Wash

[moof]

18. Bob Roberts Society Band by Jimmy Buffett

n/t

[arwalden]

20. Downtown by Petula Clark

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. Oh YEAH that one TOO!

Campy is good..add Top of the World by the Carpenters too!

[CanuckAmok]

21. "I'm Not Down" by The Clash:

(Strummer/Jones)

If it's true that a rich man leads a sad life
that's what they from day to day
Then what do all the poor do with their lives?
Have nothing to say on judgment day?

I've been beat up, I've been thrown
Out but I'm not down, I'm not down
I've been shown up, but I've grown up
And I'm not down, I'm not down

On my own I faced a gang of jeering in strange streets
When my nerves were pumping and I
Fought my fear in, I did not run
I was not done

I've been beat up, I've been thrown
Out but I'm not down, I'm not down
I've been shown up, but I've grown up
And I'm not down, I'm not down

And I have lived that kind of day
When one of your sorrows will go away
It goes down and down and hit the floor
Down and down and down some more
Depression
But I now there'll be some way
When I can swing everything back my way
Like skyscrapers rising up
Floor by floor, I'm not giving up

So you rock around and think that
You're the toughest
In the world, the whole wide world
But you're streets away from where
It gets the roughest
You ain't been there

I've been beat up, I've been thrown
Out but I'm not down, I'm not down
I've been shown up, but I've grown up
And I'm not down, I'm not down

[salin]

22. I'm not angry... ! (Elvis Costello)

some how the angst just lets me get it out - and allows for mood transition... for a angst then snide smug transition follow the song with King of America.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

58. That's one of my anger and resentment songs

[AntiCoup2K4]

24. I get up..... and nothin gets me down..

...You got it tough. I've seen the toughest all around.
And I know, baby, just how you feel.
You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real....



Actually just about anything from the 6 Van Halen albums will do, but that lyric just fit the thread :evilgrin:

[slackmaster]

26. Anything by The Ramones

e.g. Beat On The Brat.

[Zomby Woof]

27. It's Alright

Curtis Mayfield. :-)

[RandomKoolzip]

28. "The Red and the Black" by Blue Oyster Cult

Somehow, I can't be in a bad mood when this song is playing...it's like an aural paxil speedball to me. Everytime I hear it, it makes me wanna jump up and down and pumps me up for the whole day.

Plus, the lyrics are so goofy, they make me chuckle:

"Canadian mounties, police force at work
Red and Black: it's their color scheme
Get their man...in the end!
It's all right
It's all right, etc. etc."

[CrownPrinceBandar]

35. YEAH!!!! BOC is great

"7 Screaming Diz-Busters" always seems to work for me.

[RandomKoolzip]

39. There's something about side 1 of "Tyranny & Mutation"...

That gets me bellowing like a fratboy. I don't know what it is...it's an incredibly exhilarating record, especially the transition btween "OD'd on Life Itself" and "Hot Rails to Hell;" nothing makes me scream "YEAHHH!!!" like that music....

BOC fuckin' rules.

[NashVegas]

29. Anarchy in the UK

Better than speed.

[Cannikin]

30. 'I touch myself'

Ok...not really...but there is this bootleg copy of Madonna doing 'Express Yourself' during the Blond Ambition tour....Oh my god, I am SO gay.

[aQuArius]

31. ANY Beatles song!

I love the Beatles.... OMG, all their songs just take me back!

[Hogarth]

36. The Universe Song by Monte Python

"Just remember that you're standing
on a planet that's evolving
Revolving at nine hundred miles an hour

It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second
so it's reckoned
a sun that is the source of all our power...."


Either that or "Barefootin'" by Pete Townshend.

[RedEarth]

37. An oldie that's a good upper is ..."It's a Beautiful Morning"

by the Rascals.....

It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh,
I think I'll go outside a while,
An jus' smile.
Just take in some clean fresh air, boy!
Ain't no sense in stayin' inside
If the weather's fine an' you got the time.
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day.
Either way,
It's a beautiful mornin', Ahhh,
Each bird keeps singin' his own song.
So long!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

57. Loved all the Rascals...Good Loving is another "pick me up tune"

but "how can I be sure?" is one of my all time favorite tunes.

[foreigncorrespondent]

38. Sunchyme -- Dario G.

All music, no words.

The tune is very upbeat, and really lifts my spirits when I am down.

[VelmaD]

40. "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"...

by The Police.

[Whitacre D_WI]

41. "Head On" by the Jesus and Mary Chain.

The Pixies' version, though. I mean, the JAMC original makes me tap my feet a bit, but it doesn't lift the weight of life quite as much.

[zbdent]

42. "Soak up the Sun" - "No Rain"

"Hair of the Dog"

I'm weird, and I embrace it.

[LastKnight]

43. "Lithium" by nirvana NT

[Bertha Venation]

44. a few songs by Steely Dan & Chicago

too many to number

[LanternWaste]

45. Anything by Proclaimers and Ferguson's Fal Fiesta and Malaguena

Just about anything by the Proclaimers and two of Maynerd Ferguson's jazz chart-toppers- Malaguena and La Fiesta. Can't help but tap my toes to any of those... :)

[peekaloo]

46. Dixie Chicken by Little Feat

[Breezy du Nord]

48. Almost any song I can sing to

A lot of beatles, the who, Simon and Garfunkel, etc.

[NoPasaran]

49. The Internationale

The Earth shall rise on new foundations
We have been naught but shall be all

[Martin Eden]

50. Let's Stick Together by Roxy Music

This exuberant rocker always charges my batteries.

[Hillsey]

52. Any Bruce Springsteen song

[Algorem]

53. white wedding

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

54. Drift Away

Originally sung 30 years ago by Dobie Gray. Recently redone by Uncle Cracker.

Never get tired of hearing it.

[KoKo]

56. Oh a good one! I'm a big Jackie Wilson fan, and agree that's one

that's hard to stay down when you hear it.

[KoKo]

60. "It's a Beautiful Morning" by the Rascals......nice link to pix and lyric

It's a beautiful morning
I think I'll go outside a while
and just smile.

Just take in some clean fresh air, boy
No sense in staying inside
If the weather's fine and you got the time
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day.
Either way

[sistersofmercy]

59. Well...

I'm a cornball when it comes to needing cheering up, so I like musicals, South Pacific, Cock-Eyed Optimist, in my sig line, My Fair Lady, Little Bit O' Luck, always makes me laugh. Many others that I can't think of at the moment. Yes, I own the cd's and I'm not afraid to sing along. But it's never just one song that does the trick.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

61. Hey! The Soundtrack to the Wiz is that way for me!

[sistersofmercy]

62. Ha! And here I thought I was the last sap standing!

I just love musicals, they're so clever, some of them.
So how are you this evening, is all well?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

64. Other than this nasty croupy cough, yes I am well

oh and ALL the Ella songbooks pick me up too!

[Fridays Child]

63. Lately, two songs make me feel better: Michael Franti's...

"...Never Too Late" and Pat Humphries' "Swimming To The Other Side."

[oxymoron]

65. Sunny Side of the Street - Billie Holiday (nt)

[Book Lover]

66. Bron-Yr-Aur by Led Zep

It's an instrumental piece from the third side of Physical Graffiti, and I love it so much it was the first piece of music I played for my son, when he was a day old. It helps me with the cathartic cry I personally need; I guess I'm one of those who need to hit bottom before coming back up...

[Mikimouse]

67. Sweet Baby James...

I only became a James Taylor fan later in life, but that song does things to me. It brings out a combination of nostalgia (I'm originally from the Northeast, and know the Berkshires) and a wierd sort of empathy, but also a sense of strength and hope.

[Clark Can WIN]

68. My Mother's Laugh

[sujan]

69. Why worry........

by Dire Straits

[LynneSin]

70. In the Mood by Robert Plant (And I woke up to it this morning)

That's probably my all time favorite song. I even held Robert Plant's hand while he sang the second chorus of it during a concert back in 1989 (I had front row).

And this morning I woke up to that song. Amazing thing - I had my clock radio on the wrong station, so fate must be telling me something good will happen today.

And my other happy song: You can't always get what you want by the Rolling Stones!!!

[Lost4words]

71. Arthur Conley's Sweet Soul Music and Capitols Cool Jerk 4 me

Otis Redding had a hand in writting with Sweet Soul Music AC.

[jimbo fett]

72. No offense but is anyone here under 40? I don't see a lot of...

more contemporary songs.

To date myself, my song would be "Look of Love" by ABC which is an 80s song but it still is more recent than a lot of others posted by several decades.

[RandomKoolzip]

78. I'm 28, but my vote went to a song from 1972.

There's alot of GREAT music made in the last 10 years (you should see my CD collection....no Zep, no Stones, no old-fogey stufff; I like it, but hear it so much on the radio I feeel no need to actually own the music.) But a lot of the best music of the last decade or so has NOT been very uplifting. Is Nirvana's music optimistic? How about Raiohead?

Music reflects the times we live in, which is why so many uplifting, hopeful songs were written in the sixties, and why so many depressing, but awesome songs have been made recently. Those were optimistic times, these are shitty times. Simple as that.

[ewagner]

74. Feelin' Stronger Every Day

by Chicago.......

[Insider]

77. funky green dogs: rise up

incredible track, vocals by tamara (any remix will do)

or...

anything by sounds of blackness

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

85. Love Sounds of Blackness

and weren't they great at Wellstone's memorial? Did you watch it?

as long as you keep your head to the sky...you can win...:D

[arwalden]

81. Wake Me UP Before You Go-Go

Don't leave me hangin' on like a yo-yo!
Wake me up before you go go
And take me dancin' tonight!

[jimbo fett]

87. Add Wham's "Wham Rap" and you got yourself a party!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

91. Bad Boys is my fave

[Character Assassin]

89. It's completely fucking ridiculous, but "Girl with the Hungry Eyes"

I like to move at the speed of light
Albert says I can’t -- but I can
Circle of stone, circle of steel
I want to ride in an iron wheel

I am a child of atomic war
You are the daughter of the overlord
Let’s get together on the killin floor
Give me -- more, more, more, more, more

Violet lightning
Violet lightning

She’s the girl with the hungry eyes
The girl with the hungry eyes
She holds up half the sky
The girl with the hungry eyes

I just met the girl with the perfect lips
I just met the girl with the perfect fit
Every atom in my body could inhale her
Speed of light girl, she is a sailor

[LibertyorDeath]

92. Screaming For Vengeance by Judas Priest

[jus_the_facts]

93. Let's Go Crazy~Prince

....not much o'nuthin' is helpin' these days...I could use and OUNCE...AND...PURPLE RAIN...that might pick me up a bit! x(

[jimbo fett]

94. D*mn straight. Anything Prince! Especially DMSR.

[jus_the_facts]

95. Yeah.....could use some D.ANCE...M.USIC....S.EX....R.OMANCE....

....AND a f'n BAG! *Dreams on....* :(

[Mrs. Venation]

96. Goodbye, Earl

by the Dixie Chicks. Makes me laugh every time.

[jus_the_facts]

97. another: Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire~JIMI....

...and Live Today too.

[Red_Storm]

98. Usually Miles Davis........the cure for all blues............

[Red_Storm]

99. It Never Entered My Mind - Miles