Feel-good albums: records to lift your mood

A double album of pure generosity, love, gratitude, childhood and music itself, all set to grooves that radiate warmth. Maybe the most joyful record ever made.

House music falls in love with pop. From "One More Time" onward, Discovery is forty minutes of undiluted euphoria, engineered to make you move.

Disco revival done with discipline. Released into a locked-down world, it became the year's joy supply, sleek, bright and relentlessly fun.

Disco perfected on its way out the door. Off the Wall is the sound of a young Michael Jackson at his most carefree, every track an invitation to dance.

Southern rap at its most technicolor and alive. From "Ms. Jackson" to "B.O.B.," Stankonia is restless, funny and bursting with energy.

Bright, breezy and impossibly catchy, preppy guitars and Afro-pop rhythms that sound like the first warm day of spring.

Pop craftsmanship as pure pleasure. "Dancing Queen," "Money, Money, Money", ABBA made joy sound effortless, and Arrival is where it peaks.

Rock, funk and pop fused by one impossible performer. Purple Rain is a party and a triumph, and the title track is one of the great cathartic highs in all of music.