If you want empowering, you can't go wrong with The Prodigy.
My personal fight song is Stand Up
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Parabol/Parabola by Tool has the most uplifting lyrics I've ever heard.
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
(As featured in Edd's Zombeh Attack -- at 4:42 https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/269862)
You beat me to it! Tubthumping always gets me fired up
Not the lyrics, but no song has ever made me as dancy as Pitbull's Fireball
Michael Franti has a lot of feel-good songs.
I like myself most of the time by K Flay
Feeling good - Nina Simone
Don't stop me now - Queen
Good life - One Republic
Good as hell - Lizzo
Shake it out - Florence and the Machine
Raise your glass - Pink
Stay - Monika Linkyte
I hate people - Lords of the Lost
Power - Dilja
Heart of steel - Tvorchii
The code - Nemo
Fighter - Tali
We will rave - Kaleen
Serving - Mariana Conte
Survivor - Parg
You should see me in a crown - Billie Eillish
Seize the power - Monika
Gloria Estefan: Get On Your Feet
Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer and Big Time
Madonna: Express Yourself
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
A lot of uplifting stuff by IDLES. The singer struggled with depression and drug addiction himself for years. Many of their songs are either about empowerment, equality, mental health... or about rotten media, how parasitic our politicians are, punching nazis in the face... you get the gist.
A lot of stuff by The Alan Parsons Project, notably:
Coldplay
Bruce Springsteen (huge caveat is that it's really hard to tell what he's saying when he sings, lol)
Various Artists
- All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
- Any Major Dude Will Tell You by Steely Dan
David Bowie made a lot of songs about recovering from drug problems but they're more for ruminating on your issues than inspiring and uplifting from them.
- Sound and Vision and Ashes to Ashes are the most notably examples of this
- Heroes manages to be more uplifting and motivational
Death Cab for Cutie are also really really good for their songs about personal struggles
All of these links are spotify, I can add youtube if that's more convenient.
I don't even spotify 💀, I'm an amateur when it comes to music...
Ah well many people don't like Spotify anyway because A) they have too many adverts and the premium version is too steeply priced, and B) they don't pay artists that much
Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse
Favorites for me at least:
El Aguante by Calle 13 (Spanish language)
Getting Sodas by The World is a Beautiful Place
Brave Faces Everyone by Spanish Love Songs (this song is kind of depressing in a hopeful way though)
Stand Tall by Burton Cummings Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean
Most of the tracks on "...And Then There Were Three..." by Genesis. Kept me alive through my darkest days of highschool.
NF - Hope
NF - The Search
While I have a very jaded relationship now with their music, Disturbed's What Are You Waiting For.
Dee Snider's Stand
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xGuK7FsXuZwHCCuNnPzbD
L'amour toujours by Gigi D'agostino
This one always cheers me up when I'm down
"I am the mountain" by Wind Rose is one of my personal all-time favorites
Here is my Melancholy playlist. Not sure if I would call it uplifting per se but I really like it. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdhMu7XX4FMXsiu7uYHDoA1YNQnQtms8O