Last week the band Cake's "Showroom of Compassion" (Upbeat) set a record for the fewest sales for a No. 1 album, with 44,000.
The plan, says Long, had been to create an upbeat set to counter the grim trajectory of our post-2010 politics.
The band wants to make an even wider impact, and performances like the irresistibly upbeat set Bongo Maffin played at S.O.B.'s can only help fulfill this ambition.
But during the rest of his upbeat set, backed by DJ Omega, he kept the focus on lyrical craft, often stopping cheerily to single out a verse for scrutiny.
After an untypically upbeat set, which included Positively 4th Street and Love Minus Zero, No Limit, and two encores, he returned to perform I Shall Be Released with Elvis Costello.
She closes an upbeat set with her US breakthrough hit, Here, a moody rumination on feeling alienated at a house party, even though her self-depiction as an "antisocial pessimist" is hard to square with the eager-to-please beacon of positivity before us – an especially confusing label, considering she ends the set by jumping into the crowd, to work the room just that little bit more.
Lord Huron, the wonderful alt-country band from LA, played an incredibly upbeat set to kick off the Festival on Friday.
He bought his usual tribal techno into the mix, and is always reliable for an upbeat set to keep people dancing.
It may also be reflected in an upbeat set of black views on a range of other matters, including race relations, local community satisfaction and expectations for future black progress".
An upbeat voiceover sets the mood: "Meet Jack Torrance - he's a writer".
