Wonderful lyrics and vocal performance (you say the word 'government' just like Roger Waters - but your style is all your own - I love it). The bitter take on the happiness theme is great. The mix and instrumentation is just perfect. Great, great song!
2. Highland Stomp - Doc Jon
The instruments and overall sound is fantastic. Does a nice job recreating a live jam - the tempo changes are especially impressive. Makes me want to grab a tall beer stein and dance with some buxom lasses! If that's not happiness I don't know what is!
3. Everything's Just Ducky - Peterhud
Love the frolicking Mardi Gras style, the snaps, the ducks, and the great waddling feel. The break midway through is just fantastic.
4. Happy Honey Bee - beanpole
Great guitars! I like the way you associate a different sound with the happy creatures from each verse. Really good happy sing-along chorus that makes me smile.
5. Thing That Makes You Happy - offthewall
Love the subject matter. Really nice performance with those awesome acoustic instruments as well. This song makes me so happy my eyes well up!
6. Simply - Emerald Tablet
Very cool musical recreation of slowly waking up to springtime love. Nice how it becomes more complex as it progresses. Excellent vocals, melodies, and instrumentation - all work so well together to get across a gentle feeling of joy.
7. Beltane Dance - kryptonaut
Nice dance melodies, but what really puts it over the top for me is the heavy guitar and groovy bass lines. It all gels in such a happy way.
8. snappy joe - nikp2000
Great riff and drums. Not sure why, but every time I hear a tuba I can't help but smile. Love the way you integrated it in between the electric bass parts. This snappy joe is one happy go lucky fella!
9. Friday's hashish - Mister Natural
Thick like a room full of smoke, really cool mesmerizing track. Hookahs make me happy, and so does this song!
10. Tempo de Carnaval - GMoneh
Really like the background vocs and electric piano. Favorite part is the percussion/vocal breakdown at two minutes - would have liked much more of that.
Runners up:
Happy Melodies - jackoo (Very joyful. Beautiful playing - really like the call and response of happy melodies between the instruments.), BossaHappy - Beardedone (Stellar guitar playing. Nice tone too!), Happiness is - shrikant (Great melodic percussion. Instrumentation blended very nicely. Sharp guitar attacks are very cool. Really enjoy this.), Happiness - Patrick9 (That main riff is so wild - I love it! The instruments work really well together - very creative mix.)
(DQ) Happiness - Gorgorgathgorgorgor
Would have been my number 4. Such an infectious, catchy tune. Sweet bass playing and singing as well. Had me grinning ear to ear. Not much makes me happier than dark humor and contrasts like this. Singing about slitting throats while playing a funky clavinet… so brilliant!
