https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWuNCQRcy7M

It's Gonna Be Me by N*Sync. I had an older sister when I was growing up, so I heard this album a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGgZC3YdXhY

Thrash, by Underworld. This is off one of their earlier albums, and sounds rather different than the other songs I've linked. I was listening to this one at work. It also makes me think of Street Fighter 6, but its whole album does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWXqLSr4ZM

Illegal, by PinkPantheress. My friend Brandon showed me this, and I think this sounds like a N64/PS1 racing game song. Or perhaps like an Underworld track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5_B3QqVy8I

Drowning in my Head, by my friend's band IVSI. This sounds like a 2000s nu metal song, and I love that kind of music.

A Thousand Summers by John Tesh:



While I was on vacation at March, I found a couple of John Tesh's Tour de France CDs at a library bookstore. It's been fun listening to them.

You've probably heard of this guy before. A lot of people know him as the composer of the classic NBA on NBC theme song. Others might think of him as the Entertainment Tonight host or other things! However, early in his career, he was a commentator for Tour de France coverage, and he actually composed the music for the broadcasts. I don't know of any other sports commentators who composed music, so that's pretty awesome. I don't think I'd ever fully appreciated this guy's versatility.

@fireball3k Yeah, a lot of those Underworld songs give me some serious N64 racing game vibes!

@Bibby it turns out the PinkPantheress song I linked samples a track off one of Underworld's albums, too. Must be why I like it.

The John Tesh song sounds like it would be well-suited for a video you could make with the Video Toaster on the Amiga. They used to use that software/hardware suite in TV and movie production back in the day, and it sounds like 80s/90s production music for a TV show.

As for what I'm listening to... I can't stop listening to Strawberry by the Butthole Surfers. I primarily know this band because they had a song on Guitar Hero II, and it's off the same album, Independent Worm Saloon. These guys are weird and experimental, but they also know how to rock hard.

Here's a link:
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"Jessica" from the Allman Brothers Band. Even many years after its original release, it seemed to get played a LOT where I live. (It's a good song from a Jax band.)

It helps that they used Jessica as the theme song for the show Top Gear, I'd say. Guitar Hero II is almost 20 years old now, but that game also featured the song. That's how I even know it lolol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvzTlAdcUE Sin, from Nine Inch Nails' first album Pretty Hate Machine. When I was younger, I thought it was strange that Nine Inch Nails' frontman was named Trent Reznor, just like the fortress bosses from Super Mario World... come to find out they were named after him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1e6wnYHKQE Shake that Thing, from a live album by the British bluesman Long John Baldry. I bought this album at the flea market because I recognized Baldry's name. He was the voice of Dr. Robotnik in one of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons. Though he passed away just about 20 years ago, Baldry's still my favorite Robotnik voice actor. Have a listen to him giving himself a prrrrrromotion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZH3SpBujwk