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Upbeat music suggestions?

I am need of a good music infusion. Most of music is mainstream and, quite frankly, I'm in need of something new.

Typically I like upbeat "catchy" stuff. I listen to Rock (U2, VH etc), Blues (SRV, Cray, Beniot etc), Alternative/Techno (Depeche, Cranberries, Lush), Jazz (Miles etc), Pop, R+B and even Folk (Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne etc).

I need some good suggestions for a breath of fresh air so that I may enjoy my music (and system) more often. I need it to be fairly upbeat though as I typically dislike downtrodden and melancholy types of music.

Guide me wise ones!

joew
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rar1
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Here are 6 suggestions that run the gamut ...

Jazz Instrumental
Mark O'Connor (In Full Swing)

Jazz Vocal
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (Ella and Louis Again)
Frank Sinatra (Songs for Swinging Lovers)

Bluegrass/Folk
Old and In the Gray
Nanci Griffith (Winter Marquee)

Rock
Peter Wolf (Sleepless)

Regards, Rich
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dweller
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Sugar Cubes: Life's Too Good
Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Sundays: Blind
This weekend, don't forget to "Shake 'em on down"...
cajunhorn
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Bluegrass/poprock - New Grass Revival - "Best Of", exxcellent stuff, features Bela Fleck on banjo, Sam Bush on fiddle/mandolin and great soulful vocals. This is not typical "hillbilly" bluegrass, it it rock bluegrass! How about Del Amitri - "Change Everything" is excellet poprock. Luther Allison - "Live in Chigago", great blues, very upbeat fun stuff. Good luck!
imin2u
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I wholly agree with Bundee1. The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" is great.
Crazy4blues is also right. You shouldn't miss Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party".
One addition, No Doubt's "Rock Steady" is not to be missed.
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timo
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Alice Peacock
Tim Mahoney
Exit
Dana Glover

Look 'em up on Amazon.
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