There’s nothing like a little upbeat music to make things better. Of course people have different ideas of upbeat. My upbeat tends to be a bit on the angry side..

Love You Till The Day I Die – Crowded House
Positive Bleeding – Urge Overkill
Movie Star – Cracker
My Big Mouth – Posies
Possum Kingdom – Toadies
Poison Girl – Chris Whitley
Shadows in the Rain – Sting
Blues from a Gun – Jesus & Mary Chain
Cry – The Men
Movin’ Out – Billy Joel
Something So Strong – Crowded House
What You Get Is What You See – Tina Turner
Alive – Pearl Jam
Dream All Day – Posies
Doraldina’s Prophecies – Masters of Reality
Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen
Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel
Better Be Good to Me – Tina Turner
A Good Idea – Sugar
Dizz Knee Land – dada
Definite Door – Posies
Do Re Mi – Nancy Griffith
Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now) – Cracker
Outshined – Soundgarden
We Are the Normal – Goo Goo Dolls
I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Get Off This – Cracker
Lonesome Johnny Blues – Cracker
On the Lie – Goo Goo Dolls
Don’t Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Shellshock – New Order
Had a Dad – Jane’s Addiction
Senses Working Overtime – XTC
Over & Over – Madonna
Never Let Me Down Again – Depeche Mode

And there’s a very good reason this list is skewed towards male singers–that’s my singing range. Which is the only advantage of being short staffed–I have the office to myself.

And just because it makes me happy, the lyrics to Lonesome Johnny Blues:

Well, lucky number seven passed me by
Lucky number seven called my name and passed on by
Well he came back don’t you know
with his brother six in tow
And that is how number thirteen wound up by my side.

And that is how I got these Lonesome Johnny Blues
How I got these Lonesome Johnny Blues
Got the Lonesome Johnny Blues
and there’s nothing I can do
‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues

Here we go

Grim Reaper he pulled up into my drive
Grim Reaper pulled his little old Chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive
“Johnny, I haven’t come for you
but I want someone who’s dear to you
and the price you pay is to remain alive”

And I’ll stay here with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
Stay here with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
With the Lonesome Johnny Blues
and there’s nothing I can do
‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues

Woah, no more trouble send him down the road, won’t you please.
No more trouble won’t you beat him up, won’t you send him down the road
Trouble dumped out the trash
Ransacked the place for cash
and he wound up taking much more than I own

And he left me with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
Left me with these Lonesome Johnny Blues
With the Lonesome Johnny Blues
and there’s nothing I can do
‘Cept sing these sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues

Johnny Blues
the sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues
Johnny Blues
the sad old weary Lonesome Johnny Blues

“Grim Reaper pulled his little old Chevrolet right up onto the goddamn drive”

Heh.