Good Vibes: Albums That Make Us Feel Good with Mazzy 

Wonderful to have two people talk about good vibes and memories. Music that bridges gaps when it does and calms people and excites people in the times we endure. Thanks Melinda and Mazzy.

Thank you, Melinda for a great video. I enjoyed listening to you and Mazzy talking about your feel good records. My Top 4, feel good songs are, The Beatles’ Here Comes the Sun’, The Carpenters ‘ Top of the World’, ❤️Heart ‘ Dog & Butterfly’ and ‘These Dreams’. I will tune in next time. 🎤🎸🎵🎹🥁 Life is better with music.

Mazzy , Songs In The Key Of Life never left my turntsble for weeks! It ‘s so amazing . Great pick! Pastime paradise is sort of ahead of it ‘s time !

Wow! A collaboration video from two heavyweights. Pretty cool. Nice topic for a video and starting off with Go Go’s was a perfect choice. Thanks for this video 👍 Good vibes indeed

Melinda, I'm 68 years old and just rediscovered Tommy James a few months ago. you are so spot on regarding his stuff. It's just plain fun and uplifting. When he was popular I spent some time in the Vallejo/Napa valley area and a lot of his songs just make me think of seeing the hot cars and reading my model car science magazine, building and racing slot cars and plastic model kits, playing sandlot baseball, and stuff like that. it's just fun stuff

This was really cool to see you both on here! I subscribe to both channels and it's a kick to see you pair up. Keep vinyl alive. You guys have a great weekend.

When I was a young man, it was Poco's "A Good Feelin' to Know" that worked for me

Great video. I love how music is so emotional and how it brings out the personal side of our memories and experiences. Thanks for sharing your stories and awesome choices in music.

I just came across this video testing the TV in my new music listening room. What a hoot. I move from Seattle to Taylor county Kentucky 11 years ago. And here I'm getting the Good vibrations from both my homes. You guys keep it up. I don't know how I missed this video until today. And for what it's worth, it was really sad when Bop Street closed. I used to go to his old store where he had a Jillian 78's in his basement. The new one was a heck of a lot nicer though.

Thank you for this extremely exciting informative video 🍀👍 Greetings and have a nice weekend

Well Melinda I could have listened to you both for hours. I got some records I will look into from this video. But it was your expression of how these particular albums evoked certain feeling was awesome. Both of you are right… it’s the music and what it does for all of us. Preferably one would like an audiophile pressing, but it is not available and a reissue or clean copy is for purchase, get it so you can enjoy the MUSIC. Hopefully you will more of these types of videos.

Some people play "Dark Side of the Moon" over "The Wizard of Oz". Melinda plays "Purple Rain" over the Jane Fonda workout video. Even the cooling down period lines up with the final song "Purple Rain". You're one of a kind, Melinda. You're OK too, Mazzy. This was fun!

I enjoy your channels , been viewing for about 2 years now,you are great lovely people . P.s I live near The Beechwood Park and I learned to swim there 😊

Watching this a little late. Great topic. I am from Seattle and currently live in a town north of Seattle. I will check out his channel.

Thanks For Cool Video. My Mood Depends On What I Listen To. Mostly Classic/Hard Rock And Classic Metal. Currently Listening To The New releases By Ghost, Scorpions, And Sabaton. Ghost Incorporates A Lot Of Classic Rock type Feel In Their Music. Meliora & Prequelle Are Great Listens. Enjoy And have A Great Weekend.

I loved to see DJ’s. I’m from Detroit so I was into a lot of R&B, Disco and Pop.

Great video. Nick Cave is an amazing artist and I would suggest listening to The Skeleton Tree album. His son died around this time so the album is really emotionally charged. Also he is incredible in concert such a charismatic performer .

Have to say, and McCartney probably knows this, Ringo has become the coolest Beatle. I don't know about the coast, but McCartney's Spokane concert sold out fast. What makes me feel good? The Beatles She Loves You. Great video! Thanks.

Great video - music is about so much more than just physical product!

Good Video for sharing your records and I do agree on The Beatles Rubber Soul album I like the I've Just Seen A Face better than Drive My Car for the opening song and on side 2 It's Only Love instead of What Goes On which those songs were on the UK Help! album and Drive My Car and What Goes On on the Capitol Records Yesterday And Today album but I do like both 🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧 albums.

I really enjoyed both of you love your taste in music

Kisses on the bottom far from my favorite McCartney album but I love to relax to it I have anxiety and it helps calm me down, to perk me up early beatles and cheap trick

Speaking of Chet Baker Sings, there is a film from 2016 about the late, great jazz vocalist/trumpet player called Born to be Blue. It stars Ethan Hawke as Chet Baker at the height of his musical powers in the late 1950s.

I'm a huge Boz scaggs fan. I sold Hi-Fi and also some records in the mid to late seventies. And I loved all of his albums. And yeah the follow-up cover was a heck of a lot better.

Melinda, where are you seeing the Zombies? I saw them in Ames IA about 7 years ago. I loved it. Odessey always great choice. An uplifting companion to that album is Colin Blunstone first solo One Year, Sundazed reissued it in vinyl form this year.

This was fun. You should do more of these.

I once had purple rain on vinyl when was in my freshman year of high school-- I later ditched it because I fell out of love with prince in my later years.

In 1979 me and my family moved from California to Pennsylvania for one year to be near my sister. At Christmas time I was in the 8th grade and my school teacher she asked everyone in our class to wright down three things we wanted for Christmas so I said I would love a cassette player and some tapes. Low and behold about a week before Christmas a man knocked on our door with his arms full of presents for my whole family and wouldn't you know it I got a portable cassette player with three different genres of music on cassette. Bob Fedler classical music, Waylon Jennings Greatest Hits and the one that changed my life forever was The Cars first album! I love the feelings that album gives me. I remember playing it in my cassette player walking down the street at night to the corner vending machine to get a soda and walking with the snow falling on my face and listening to Moving In Stereo and the highly underrated All Mixed Up! Every time I hear those songs I'm right back there in Pennsylvania. Very simple but fond memories. It's amazing what music can do for your soul. 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵♥️🥲

Fantastic video, great albums discussed, and congrats on your feature in the newspaper! :-)

I even love Belinda Carlisle. Heaven is a Place on Earth. Still love it. Also pretty much any Alternative music of the 1980’s.

2 of my favorite VC’ers in the same video? I’d have been willing to pay PPV prices for this. Phenomenal video, so many of my favorite albums mentioned and you guys have great chemistry. Hope you’ll do it again some time!

I love anything from Philly International Records.

we love you Melinda!!

The Go-Go’s is a great choice. I saw them several times in the 70’s at the Whiskey and they always had a good vibe.

Brian Eno's ambient albums are epitome of soothing.

This is a unique way to discuss our likes of vinyl. Also Melinda, you mentioned in one of you videos about a vinyl store in Bowling Green. I'm headed soon to there and would like to know the name of the store.

I played Van Halen II for my wife just yesterday, and as the song "Dance the Night Away" came on I told her I think this might be my favorite Van Halen song. Thanks for the fun video, Peace!

"Kentucky Fried Chicken!" 🐔...Nice video ,take care.🌹

Thanks for this cool video to cheer us up in this very trouble times ! I really enjoyed Norman"Moody" Maslov Vs Melinda "Girlie"Murphy,you are very complementary and fun ! I said Melinda is a perfect lookalike mix of Debbie & Tanya,i can see ,i forgot Louise Ciccone lol ! Melinda,you are more nostalgic of the eighties sound you grew up with, just like me ,the eighties tickling synthesizers resonance as Mazzy said about Duran Duran or Aha music lol and Mazzy ,you are Mr Moody music oriented ,more turned to 70s San Francisco Acid Rock you grew up with ! I'm very eclectic about my music tastes so i really appreciate almost everybody music love at first sight. About Vibraphone in the jazz world,i love Cal Tjader with Anita O'day or Stan Getz or Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings,check it out if you don't know these records !

Hey Mazzy , my dad played accordian in Ella ‘s back up band. Very cool video with Melinda!

Such a great collaboration! Two of my favorite VC RU-vidrs. I was amazed how many albums we have in common.

Willie Nelson sings Nashville material as well as Gershwin, cole porter, anything that frank sinatra, nat king cole, etc etc he’s well rounded in his repertoire for a good old Texas boy.

VC duets rule..🔥good to see both of you. A genuine thanks for all the free music therapy

You two got a little jazzy, moody and esoteric for me, but to each their own endorphins. For "Feel Good", I would add Santana's first album, Beach Boys "Surfer Girl", Steely Dan "Aja", James Brown "20 All Time Greatest Hits", Steven Stills "Manassas", CSN first album, Joni Mitchell "Court and Spark", Dylan "Bringing It All Back Home", Grateful Dead "American Beauty", Eagles first album, just about ANY Beatles album. What a fun video. Thanks for doing it!

Awesome Video wonder if anyone has the album by Grace Slick think it is called Great Society Live and after she would join Jefferson Airplane

a woman who collects milt jackson records: i never knew such a thing existed. god bless you....

Thank you for sayin' what you done said about Madonna.

Great show! Thank you very much!

Very enjoyable video. My upbeat number 1 would be the first album by the Cars. It always brings a smile to my face. Again to you and Mazzy thanks for this video.😁😁😁😁

Great video Melinda! You’re hair looks so pretty today. You have the best hair anyway but it looks extra pretty today. I really like your earrings and hoodie too. I admit I watch to see what your wearing in addition to the vinyl info too. ☺️ Have a great week! ♥️ Deb

What are your favorite Disco albums? I think it’s the forgotten genre of music. I’m not taking about what you heard on the radio. I love some of the 1970’s and 1980’s DJ’s like Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles.

I have two copies of Immaculate Collection. Great greatest hits album.

Great video you two! Always learning about different things. 🙂 Van Halen my pick also👍

The later song time after time is by cyndi Lauper on the album she’s so unusual

Great choice with Our Lips are Sealed. Love that song. Definitely a good pick me up song. Another song that can put me in a great mood is Earth, Wind & Fire's Sing a Song. You guys have picked some great lps.

I like the song dancing queen by abba- It’s their magnum opus.

Great video. Purple rain is one of my favourites. Another couple of my favourite feel good records are Bill Evans Undercurrent and Getz/Gilberto both so beautiful.

I will be traveling thru the Kentucky area next week and would like to check out some good record spots. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I have the Beatles albums mostly on CDs 💿 I have several titles of them on lp

So many to choose from but for me I would choose Bangles 'Different Light' album. Part of the soundtrack to my college years and just a great feel good summery album.

" Songbird ", by Eva Cassidy. Listen to her version of Autumn Leaves, I won't try to be descriptive on that number. Gone from from us far too soon, as Neil Peart is my drummer you won't be disappointed if you give Eva a spin.

Thanks Melinda just ordered Dylan triplicate based on your review. Looking forward to hearing it always loved Dylan never got this on. Got on vinyl.

Thankyou both for this collaboration. Another V C channel to check out now . Some faves in no particular order --- Al Stewart Year of the Cat , Karla Bonoff self titled and Billy Paul Only the strong survive .

ABBA!!!😋♥️♥️🥰🖤!!!

Very informative and entertaining to see you both on here! Great video and great record selection! -Jose'

There is something special about the acoustic feel of the US version of Rubber Soul even though it clocks in at about only 25 min both sides. I read a book called Growing Up With the Beatles by Ron Schaumburg where he refered it as 'the wood and smokes' album.

My two favorites. Awesome!

Some really good Mofi finds. The warped record can be very disappointing. I purchased a Led Zeppelin II Hot Mix Robert Ludwig VG+ warped. I knew it was warped at purchase. Thought about sending it out to Toad Hall Records to put it through there machine? There very reasonable. Thank You!

Melinda, The 🤴 is in the market for a new turntable. What do you recommend?

Melinda! MAJOR Go-Go’s fan right here! Been to over 20 concerts and still on the line for more. But I’m an anomaly in their fan base; I’m a 50’s & 60’s nut first and foremost. As a matter of fact, I’m hoping you’ll be able to sometime offer your take on the forefathers of Rock; Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Bo Diddley….all the rest. That would be awesome.

Triple J has released a series of compilation CDs over the years called Like A Version, where Australian artists perform cover songs. 🙂

I have been burned by Mazzy before 🔥 😆

Hey Melinda and Mazzy, thoroughly loved this conversation you had. You've 2 of my favourite RU-vid channels. Some wonderful albums you both showed. Bit hard for me to pick a top 10 'pick me up' albums though 2 of my choices would definitely be "Abbey Road" by The Beatles & Deep Purple "Machine Head". They're my go to albums if I've had a particularly crappy day. I could throw in David Bowie's "Station To Station", Tommy Bolin "Teaser", Rainbow "Rising" & Paul Simon's "Hearts & Bones" as well being 4 other albums that never fail to lift my spirits. The rest of my list is open to my moods I guess. So many to choose from so I have a lot to ponder. Thanks for sharing this guys. Love your work as always. Stay safe. Cheers & love to you both. ❤❤ (PS: Being a relatively new RU-vidr, I think It would be a lot of fun for me to do a similar thing with either or both of you).

Prince was an amazing talented guitarist. He could keep up with the best of them. Sadly, I felt he didn't get much spotlight for his playing. I was shocked to see he wasn't in Rolling Stones "Top 10 Guitarist of all Time." What's funny about that is Eric Clapton was ranked number 2 on that list and in a interview Clapton was asked, "What's it like being the greatest guitarist of all time?" and he simply replied "I don't know, ask Prince."

The 1995 purge..sounds so sinister, like the name of a horrible storm.im so glad you made it brother👍😁funny you picked VH-2 Melinda, such a dark,brooding record at times.but I totally get it, because it rocks so soundly and completely.same with Purple Rain

i,ll piggy back on Melinda's " bad day " records. while i,m totally on board with the bourbon. rather than chill i,ll put something aggressive on. no particular lps but something like voivod,s ROARRRR!!! or clutch " blast tyrant " that puts me straight. good vid guys.

Good Morning...

Hello Melinda! Really nice video! 2 people who are telling stories, it gives extra joy! I adore that track "2000 light years from home", one of the best Stones songs together with Paint It Black! I think I ve got the 45 She"s A Rainbow and 2000 light years is on the other side. Great you played the saxophone! I am living in the land where the saxophone was invented! In Belgium! Adolphe Sax lived in Dinant and there is a statue in the middle of the town with a golden saxophone. My eldest brother Eric plays also the tenor saxophone. If you want to get to Nick Cave check his "The Ship Song", a favourite track of me. The film "Purple Rain" is funny. Prince who says to Sheila E that she must bathe naked in a river to be a member of his gang.She goes in the water naked but then he said that it was not that river he meant haha. I just checked out The Zombies. Great band from England, like The Kinks and The Who. The end of the 60's has brought us so many fantastic albums: The Doors debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico debut album, The Jimi Hendrix Experience debut album, Pink' Floyd's debut album "The Piper at the Gates Of Dawn" and Cream "Disraeli Gears". The 9th Symphony of Ludwig VAN Beethoven ( His grandfather Lodewijk van Beethoven lived in Belgium first where he sang and played the organ and he moved later to Bonn. The name "Beethoven" comes probably from a little town in Belgium "Bettenhoven". ) is the hymn of Europe! Europe has chosen this track to their European hymn! I must certainly check out Van Halen one time. They made decent rock music. The Beatles their Rubber Soul is magic! Here comes the sun is also on this album. Love it! Check my Facebook-page "De VinyL-Pil" Greetings Jason

The Go-Go’s said, “We can do better than this.”

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds Rolling Stones - Some Girls The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse KISS - Destroyer Beastie Boys - License To Ill The Meters - Fire On The Bayou The Beatles - Rubber Soul Huey Lewis and The News - Sports Grease - Soundtrack Billy Joel - The Stranger

Melinda, I've been a fan through a common friend of yours. But once you brought up BATB, I was just like, I need to talk to you about this :). Can I direct message you? Thanks!

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If you like September of my years, get this Sinatra album and listen to his version of “Once Upon a Time”. Tony Bennett did a beautiful job with this song but nothing close to Sinatra. His voice had mellowed out and was at its best when he recorded this album and the song is just so beautiful.

hi melinda great post i just wanted to ask have you ever heard art garfunkel solo album breakaway i only have eyes for you one of my favorite versions have great weekend ttyl

Hi, Melinda. Please forgive me if you find this offensive, but do you remember the joke about The Go-Go’s? Q. Why are The Go-Go’s virgins? A. Because their lips are sealed. Ha ha. Yeah, I was in high school at the time when I first heard that joke in 1981. I think we’re about the same age. 🤔 Take care!

cool video a new channel to subscribe to melinda keep an eye out for some yes albums

Two pillars of the VC.

Oh I bought The Go Go’s Greatest Hits at Target and it sounds terrible.

Cheers Melinda, You and Mazzy went to town on feel good records. I'm not familiar with Mazzy, but he certainly does have a complex palette of choices of uplifting albums. I'm familiar with your style and interests and really wasn't surprised by your choices. You both picked a lot of really great albums, some of which I have first presses of them. You also both picked some dogs in my opinion. Rather than go into what's good and what's bad from my point of view, I'll tell you that I'm shocked by a glaring and almost unforgiveable omission on both of your parts. 😁 Neither one of you picked a blues album. The blues are about getting through tough times, tragedy, and loss. When you're down or feeling bad, there's nothing like spinning a BB King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Willie Dixon, and so many others record. Mazzy got closer to this kind of darkness or commiserating during his picks. The blues can be like participation in a support group. When you hear a great blues artist put all of that emotion to great music, and he or she connects with you about loss and sadness, you become one with the great art. Not only that, but there can be happy blues as well. As Buddy Guy once said, "If you have the blues, and you play the blues, you won't have them for very long." Now that isn't just uplifting, it is transcendent. Gospel music is on this very same level. Isn't faith linked to suffering and how there is redemption through suffering? There was so much of the past and nostalgia in your picks, but what about the great music being made today? It's okay to have faves from the past, but if you asked me what my top ten picks are, I would add some music that has come out very recently. Whether it's Rival Sons, Larkin Poe, Beth Hart, Joe Bonamassa, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, and so many others making great music today, you guys are really missing the boat. 🎶🎸🎶🪕🎶🎻🎶🎺🎶🎷🎶🎹🎶🥁🎶

Great video you two. However, I just recently got back into vinyl and it was a very fresh walk down memory lane, but it did bring back some things I remembered I hated about vinyl. Pops in songs and they are just dust magnets. It is not a hit on vinyl fans like you both (everyone is entitled to their opinions), but the format, at least to my ears, is just not as clear and consistent to CDs or even now certain High Resolution streaming music services/providers. Mind you I was in the US Army for over 20 years and I have a bit of hearing loss, but I'm just not getting what you good folks get out of vinyl (my personal issue I know). Wish you both the best in your RU-vid endeavors.

The Go Go’s are in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Grand Funk isn’t. Ridiculous

I listen to a lot of Lana Del Rey. She’s definitely not a shiny happy person.

Melinda, 😍🥰😘. Keep Mazzy out of the frame. 😂

Ugh Melinda, you know Mazzy? 😆

Well Mazzy is gay. Not that there anything wrong with that. 😂