Good Time songs to help erase the blues

Help! My buddy has charged me with making up some CDs to help him forget his troubles. Got any ideas to help me make a few discs? He loves music, so anything goes.

 

Nilsson--"Coconut"
Lovin' Spoonful--"Do You Believe in Magic"
Garth Brooks-"Friends in Low Places"

 

Kiss Them For Me - Siouxie and the Banshees
Good Day Sunshine - Beatles
When The Rainbow Comes - World Party
Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Future Love Paradise - Seal
Rush - B.A.D. II
Got Some - pearl jam
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
Bye Bye Symphony - Foxy Shazam
All You Need Is Me - Morrissey
So Much To Say - Dave Matthews Band

 

Some blues would fit nicely.

 

This little thing always lifts me up: SING by Vivienne McKone from 1992:

 

"Rock'n'Roll" - The Velvet Underground

 

Jackie Wilson - (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher

This never fails to put me in a good mood.

 

How about a B52's "I ain't no limburger"playlist:

Planet Claire
Rock Lobster
Dance This Mess Around
Whammy Kiss
Give Me Back My Man
Private Idaho
Roam
Love Shack

Can't be blue if your spazzin'

 

I'm surprised n0one's cited Katrina & the Waves "Walking On Sunshine". Personally I'm not a big fan of the song. As far as an upbeat song, I much prefer this:

 

Edwin Hawkins Singers - Oh Happy Day!

 

A Louis Jordan comp.

 

Anything by Joy Division

 

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

 

Jk..

I second side one of B52s LP

Also some Dead Milkmen always manages to lift my spirits.

Maybe: Bitchin Camaro
Life Is $h!t

Some early Zappa

 

Duke Of Prunes from Absolutely Free

 

This whole albums a mood lifter for me

 

Arlo's version of Guabi Guabi does it for me.

 

"I've not felt this good since I don't know when, and I might not feel this good again" - could be your buddy's motto...

 

Domino - Van Morrison

Steal My Sunshine - Len

8 Days A Week - Beatles

Overplayed, but What I Like About You - Romantics

 

Bob Marley -- Lively Up Yourself always lifts my spirit after a tough day.

 

Hanson - Thinking 'Bout Somethin'


Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzGwKwLmgM

The Supremes - The Happening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEGdvabuTQ0

 

Peter Sarstedt - Frozen Orange Juice
Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
Tokens - I Hear Trumpets Blow
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - The Tide is Turning

 

Quote from OP: "anything goes."