
Aqua and Real McCoy are my pick-me-up groups.
Gipsy Kings - Volare
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Ace of Base - Beautiful Life
The Archies - Sugar Sugar
The Bangles - Manic Monday
Barenaked Ladies - Too Little Too Late
Benny Goodman - Swing Swing Swing
Blondie - Call Me; Maria
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
The Cure - Friday I'm in Love
Cyndi Lauper - That's What I Think
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Eiffel 65 - Blue
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Fastball - You're an Ocean
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
Franka Potente - Believe
Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Great Big Sea - Ordinary Day
Harry Belafonte - Jump in the Line
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea; Tijuana Taxi
Huey Lewis and the News - Hip to Be Square
INXS - New Sensation
Journey - Any Way You Want It
La Bouche - Be My Lover; Sweet Dreams
Madonna - Express Yoursef; Cherish; La Isla Bonita; Open Your Heart
Men at Work - Land Down Under
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
New Radicals - Mother We Just Can't Get Enough
Paul Simon - The Obvious Child
Poi Dog Pondering - Living With the Dreaming Body
Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
Savage Garden - A Thousand Words; To the Moon and Back
Self - I am a Little Explosion
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
They Might Be Giants - Till My Head Falls Off; Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head; Don't Let's Start; Dr. Worm
Three Dog Night - Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog (Joy to the World)
Tia Carrere - Ballroom Blitz
Toni Basil - Hey Mickey
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Vaselines - You Think You're a Man
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Wang Chung - Fire in the Twilight
Wham - Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go
So basically anything made between 1980 and 1990...