What music lifts you spirits?

Wow to hear those harmonies live - a great band - remember all the songs - sounds like a wonderful day out and about enjoying live music with loads of other people! Reckon was a great thing to do. Glad you had such fun !

We just got home from seeing America at the Country Music Festival in Broadbeach.  They were fantastic and what a blast to hear them play Sister Golden Hair, Ventura Highway and Horse with no Name!  :)

Hi onemargie once a Port Elliot kid always a Pt E kid - we've only found this piece of paradise 20 years ago but some of our friends have been going 50 years.Have heard Qld has a similar spot though called Agnes Water . Pt E has not changed much over the years thank goodness - it's our Christmas holiday place for a month each year and a regular day trip during the year - just bliss.Hi Wendy h67 - Our road trips to Qld have always been accompanied by the backdrop of Presley ballads (MDH) , Buble (me) and Peter , Paul and Mary (the kids) - love Buble 's song Home esp and nearly worn the cd out.

Frank Chacksfield's version integrates the sounds of the waves and the gulls with the music - is just wonderful

I think Ebb Tide was one of the first records I ever heard! My mum bought it too and played it on a particularly ugly austerity (we lived in Scotland) radio cum gramophone, best you could get post war. That takes me back! 

Wow I used to holiday at port Elliot when I was a kid!!i grew up in south Australia. Lived in qld for more than 20 years now.  Katy perrys Roar is a good one for me also love to crank up some Bon jovi and any ABBA song always gets me in a good mood. Also love a good Pink song too or any 80s glam rock..... oh the memories or my bottle blonde spiral permed long hair with my leg warmers and size 8 waist lol

TBH the piece that has been drawing me lately is an old one my Mum used to play and I found it again on YouTube - " Ebb Tide" played by the Frank Chacksfield orchestra - I love the ocean in any season and fills me with memories of my beloved Port Elliot  Will check out the home grown names you mention - thanks for the tip . I also like Grieg esp " Morning song" from Peer Gynt and Saint Saens esp "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals

Yay for Leonard Cohen. My spirits get lifted by almost anything in a minor key! So Cohen, Nick Cave, Patti Smith, soft spot for Lily Allen. But I really like the old boys - Mahler, Elgar, Brahms, Beethoven, Monteverdi among others - as well as the newer kids on the block, Philip
Glass, Arvo Pert, John Adams - and Ross Edwards, Nigel Westlake and Elena Katz-Chernin among the home grown.

Wished I'd had my record player repaired - didn't think it could be done so gave away over 300 LPs including a Cohen to a young girl across the road who was delighted. Btw the first LP I bought was Joe Cocker " Mad Dogs and Englishmen" and still love it's tracks today - Joe had quite a voice and was a lovely gentle bloke 

Love Leonard too - remember first hearing him in a place called Safed , Israel in the wee hours and being stunned by "Hey that's no way to say Goodbye "  and many other of his songs. Raced out next morning to buy a songbook with chords to learn some of his music and 40 years later still have it - there are some great old clips on YouTube of him with Judy Collins , Julie Felix etc