Give me more upbeat, dancey music!

October 6, 2016 8:56 AM

I find that lately, maybe because 2016 is so depressing, I really love listening to happy danceable music. Foster the People is pretty much 100% awesome, especially Helena Beat. Other things like what I'm looking for: Beck -- Dreams and Coldplay -- Adventure of a Lifetime. What else should I be listening to?
posted by rabbitrabbit to Media & Arts (17 answers total)

Best answer: (apologies - I cannot link to videos at work)

'Dreams' is heavily indebted to MGMT's Electric Feel , so check that out.

Phoenix - 1901

Justin Timberlake in general ; in particular, his new song 'Can't Stop the Feeling' , if it hasn't been overplayed in wherever you listen to music

Missy Elliott fills this niche for me
posted by Fig at 9:37 AM on October 6, 2016 [2 favorites]

Kava Kava — "Funked Up And Freaked Out"
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:39 AM on October 6, 2016

Kodachrome by Paul Simon
Good Thing by Reel Big Fish
Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson
Can't Stop The Rock by Apollo 440 (LOOOOOOOVE!)
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 9:42 AM on October 6, 2016

Best answer: Washed Out — "It All Feels Right"
Two Door Cinema Club — "Something Good Can Work"
LP — "Into the Wild"
JR JR — "Gone"
OK Go — "Here It Goes Again"
Spoon — "The Underdog"
The Mowgli's — "San Francisco"
The Wombats — "Let's Dance to Joy Division"
Phoenix — "1901" (on preview: times two, apparently! good call, Fig)
Muse — "Starlight"
Kishi Bashi — "Bright Whites"
Passion Pit — "Eyes as Candles"
Apples in Stereo — "Sunndal Song"
Florence + the Machine — "Dog Days Are Over"
Darwin Deez — "Radar Detector"
Daft Punk — "Digital Love"
of Montreal — "The Secret Ocean"
posted by a good beginning at 9:44 AM on October 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-love
Max Frost - White Lies
Glass Animals - Life Itself
posted by evilbeck at 10:31 AM on October 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

for sure: Don't Be So Hard On Yourself - Jess Glynne

This Girl - Kungs vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - Coldplay

Carried Away - Passion Pit

Rollercoaster - Bleachers
posted by gursky at 10:34 AM on October 6, 2016

Peanut Butter Jelly - Galantis (from last year, but fine)
Similarly - all of Girl Talk’s most excellent mash-up albums are available for free. To my mind, the best is Feed The Animals, and it’s a fine place to start. (Note that the songs will be a little dated because they are built from the top 40 of that moment & earlier.)
posted by Going To Maine at 12:11 PM on October 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

Lindsey Stirling does fun electro-violin songs, some with vocals, many without, and several covers
posted by Jacen at 2:01 PM on October 6, 2016

I'm just gonna drop me and my friend's Spotify collab playlists, we've been partying through this bleak 2016! Plenty of stuff you'll like here.

Dancing Through Life '16
No Shirt, No Shoes All Service Blazing Sun Summer 2016
Sharing My Love F2016 (This is our newest one, we will be adding to this throughout fall)

funky instrumentals - This is the newest one I'm curating with another friend, the criteria is funky, upbeat instrumental music, which is a playlist that I find very hard to find.
posted by yueliang at 2:23 PM on October 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

Django Django's debut album does this for me.
posted by Sonny Jim at 2:33 PM on October 6, 2016

Response by poster: I've been playing around with a Spotify Premium trial today, here are some that I forgot about that fit this genre really well, for anyone following along at home:

Broken Bells -- The Ghost Inside
TV On The Radio -- Happy Idiot
Daft Punk -- Get Lucky
OK Go -- I Won't Let You Down
Spoon -- I Turn My Camera On
Pharrell Williams -- Happy
posted by rabbitrabbit at 2:42 PM on October 6, 2016

Get Lucky by Daft Punk and Pharrell. One More Time by Daft Punk. Starlight by Superman Lovers, Grace Kelly by Mika
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:44 PM on October 6, 2016

Oh sorry, I see Get Lucky was already suggested.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 9:45 PM on October 6, 2016

Response by poster: Cake By The Ocean -- DNCE
posted by rabbitrabbit at 9:30 AM on October 7, 2016

I mean, the best dance song of all time is “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre, so you can certainly add that.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:34 PM on October 7, 2016

Electric Feel MGMT

Style Taylor Swift

Cheap Thrills Sia

Paper Planes MIA
posted by Rocket26 at 4:01 PM on October 7, 2016

Django Django, Hail Bop.
Yeasayer, Blue Paper.
Jagwa Ma, Slipping.
posted by Sonny Jim at 4:49 AM on October 8, 2016