https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGzbKpHmngg

No More (I Can't Stand It) by Maxx. This is the Clubb Mixx of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxhKS7I0-0

Fire, by Magic Affair. Not like the Hendrix song of the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogbBbXt7MdQ

Hooch by the Melvins. Melvins are from Aberdeen, Washington, which is the same place Nirvana came from. They play guitar riffs that sound like they would be goopy and sludgy if they were a physical object rather than just sound waves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMS9lpFzIZU

Joan of Arc, also by Melvins from the same album. I tried playing this on bass, and I noticed the notes in the chorus (the part after the high notes he sings) are an F and an E. Now, I think of Fire Emblem when I listen to this song.

"You Belong with Me" by Taylor Swift. Sometimes the café at work prefers to be in the 80's, but today it was trying to choose between short skirts and T-shirts.

Drupa is an international printing and paper trade show held every four years in Düsseldorf, Germany (barring global pandemic). Each event has an official theme song, and these theme songs are pretty entertaining. "Drupa Country" from 1986 was their first theme song:



The 2004 edition has some really corny lyrics, as well as a tune that will never leave your head!

https://soundcloud.com/lemur/drupa-2004

the 1986 version of the theme song is my favorite of these two... sounds less synthetic than the 2004 version, if that makes any sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DmyvWBOzGI

Cups by Underworld. It's a track from the album Beaucoup Fish, one which pretty much never leaves my top played tracks on Spotify.

"Save the Best for Last" from Vanessa Williams. It doesn't snow in June - or any other month - here, but this is still a good song for when you've enjoyed a few cooler-than-usual June days.

The Treasure Trove Cove theme from Banjo-Kazooie. Last week I was thinking about how it had been 25 years since I played B-K for the first time.



Also, "The Dark Side of the Moon" from Pink Floyd. A friend of mine just celebrated her birthday, and last time I hung out with her, she was wearing a Dark Side of the Moon T-shirt. I don't see her that often because she's in medical school, but that's beside the point. I realized I should probably listen to this album.

"Together Forever" by Rick Astley. This Rickroll alternative showed up while I was on vacation.



"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. Technically, today's solar eclipse was a partial eclipse here, but that won't stop me from playing this song.



The Bridal Waltz from Dragon Quest V. Two different friends from college have siblings who are getting married soon, and wedding-related things always make me think of this song.

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" from Foreigner. The café at work plays this song all the time. It's a good song with a really catchy synth.



"A Fifth of Beethoven" from Walter Murphy. Beethoven injected with extremely high doses of 70's funkiness.



This YouTuber makes a lot of cool arrangements of video game music, including a Kokiri Forest arrangement for Zelda 64's 25th anniversary, as well as some Super Mario RPG battle music. The original version of the latter song appeared in so many old Mario fangames, for what it's worth.

"Swansea Town" - an old English folk song. I heard it at a concert on Thursday. Also, Sam Spence made a LOT of remixes for it in old NFL Films music.

Turnover's "Peripheral Vision" album, on repeat, and have been for the last week or so. It's really good.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxwHtUHlFZ5HGH24MCAVHtHbKRi9ERZeP

It's a sort of upbeat shoegazy indie pop-rock with questionable emo influences. Me and my band are planning to cover one or two of the songs on there eventually.