Top 40 Songs of Appraise

These are my top 40-ish songs that demonstrate affective values i.e. that our drive, motivation, and goals, all come from our feelings i.e. from emotional appraisals of the world around us. Nature gives us feelings to tell us what things in our environment are emotionally satisfying and worthy of pursuit. So, these are songs that acknowledge the emotional drive, explicitly or implicitly. (Note, this is not suggesting that emotion should be our source of knowledge or beliefs. Knowledge is the domain of reason and science. Reason and emotion work together, they perform different but complementary functions. Reason informs us, and emotion moves us).

Serotonin - Mystery Jets

How Loud Your Heart Gets - Lucius

Happy - The Carpenters

Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)
- Michael McDonald & Toni Braxton

Steer - Missy Higgins

Emotions and Math - Margaret Glaspy

Liftin' Me Higher - Rita Coolidge

Love Will Find A Way - Pablo Cruise

Life Is Just A Bowl of Cherries - Doris Day

I Get The Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson

Laughter In The Rain - Neil Sedaka

Frozen Orange Juice - Peter Sarstedt

Feels So Good - Van Halen

Make My Heart Fly - The Proclaimers

Some Kind of Wonderful - The Drifters

Hold On - Wilson Phillips

High Sierra - Trio (Harris/Ronstadt/Parton)

All About Your Heart - Mindy Gledhill

Constant Craving - KD Lang

The Book of Love - Peter Gabriel

Dance If You Want To - Rose Cousins

The Object of My Affection - Pinky Tomlin

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers

Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters

Hurting Each Other - The Carpenters

The Carnival Is Over - The Seekers

My Coloring Book - Barbra Streisand

Now And Forever - Carole King

So Far Away - Carole King

Lift - Shannon Noll

Big Time Sensuality - Bjork

Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty

Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue

So Alive - Cosima De Vito

The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

What A Feeling - Irene Cara

Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

I Can Hear Music - The Beach Boys

In the Mood - The Andrews Sisters

Color My World - Petula Clark

It Feels So Right - Elvis Presley

The First Cut is the Deepest - Linda Ronstadt

I Finally Found Someone - Bryan Adams & Barbra Streisand

Love Is A Wonderful Thing - Michael Bolton

All Out of Love - Air Supply

Falling and Flying - Mindy Gledhill

Just One Look - Linda Ronstadt

Good Times - Sam Cooke

Feel It - Sam Cooke

Up - Shania Twain

Fever - Rita Moreno & Animal (The Muppets)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? - Ben Lee

In The Shape Of The Heart - Jackson Browne

So Simple, So True - The Spring Standards

To Live Is To Fly - Wade Bowen & Guy Clark