"I want chicken, I want liver, meow mix meow mix please deliver!"

Gunther and the Sunshine girls - Ding Dong Song

It's so outdated and sexist, yet I love it.

I thought of another one. It’s rare I recommend this to anyone but another musician, so I think you’ll appreciate it as a drummer.

Hell by Clown Core

Vitas has a phenomenal vocal range.

Catchy tunes and a variety of styles. But this video, as catchy as the tune is, is just… bonkers. The outfit is … something, the technique he uses while singing is … yeah. It’s that weird.

Vitas 7th Element 2002

And this one I’m not ashamed to share… and is the one that brought him to my attention (especially when it gets to the hook) years back when it was making the rounds.

The man with his crazy voice

Anything from Epic Rap Battles of History. While I love them, I do understand others do not.

Nothing recent, but way back, I was embarrassed that it was called girl anachronism and all about being a girl because I was still a wee lad trying to assert his manliness. "Just a girl" by no doubt, same reason.

Actually, coin-operated boy was a pretty close second

Girl anachronism - Dresden Dolls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO5APfKnR50

Coin-operated boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gPZPKJc0s

Pretty much anything by Kesha. I'm known, in my group of friends to be somewhat of a music snob and quasi audiophile... Kesha is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me.

Trailer Park Boys - The Kittyman Sea Shanty

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw

Any song from a cartoon musical... They're so damned catchy though!

Released literally this week: On-lyne "Party of your lifetime". It's from an upcoming update for a game called Warframe, and it's basically distilled 90s boyband earworm. It's like Backstreet Boys and N Sync had a bunch of boy babies, fed them crack and taught them to sing. And for some reason I unironically LOVE it - I've been listening to it on repeat for hours, I need help :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtF6jiLxc88

My heart is made of bubblegum eurodance so basically all of it is too infantile and silly for most anyone to get into it.

Gimme Chocolate!! - BABYMETAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5YEmFJF9Mw

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

Erasure - Always. Perhaps I'm mostly ashamed because of how I picked this song up, from an old Flash game. Or perhaps of the lyrics being kind of bad, but the musical part is so awesome that I can't help it.

girl on lsd

Anything by the Carpenters

This Suno-generated abomination, along with several more bass heavy songs I asked it to put together for fun.

https://suno.com/song/79c82404-c221-4a98-b9d6-93c817c61e71

I think this is the ideal use of AI, the dumb stuff that would be expensive to convince someone to sit down and create.

https://suno.com/song/87f05db5-8a64-4222-82af-e2469975c864

I'm surprised there's no kpop here

Girls Generation was always my guilty pleasure from back when kpop was first starting to blow up in the West.

https://youtu.be/U7mPqycQ0tQ

A bunch of anime music.

Harry Nilsson's "Coconut" always makes me feel better.

I love the song "Hard to concentrate" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, BUT try showing this to someone your romantically interested in or even not and it can come off like you're throwing serious hints. Maybe even in an overbearing way, when really, I just friggin like the song!

Edit: there's also this one that's catchy and good. NSFW though: https://youtu.be/_wlDCosZ8mg?si=ToWFLPZdXJ9UYX0q

I'm a big fan of the Tiger Lillies, partly because they are so transgressive and weird, and in 2024 it's quite hard to justify to anyone why you're listening to a man with a child's voice yell "I like sticking red hot pokers up the local choir boy's bums..." in a song called Kick A Baby (Down the Stairs)

Lilly Allen - The Fear

Hudson Mohawke - Cbat

Some not-so-memed eurobeat like Wonderland, Supermaio and Go Godzilla Go, and power metal like Go Go Power Ranger and my new favorites Judgement Day and Ashes of the Dawn by DragonForce, and Would You Be So Kind and Absolutely Smitten by Dodie, and the whole album of Everlasting Summer by Seycara

Yes i'm a very quiet person irl so some of the song is like completely opposite of me.

I love this whole band's output, but the hardest one to explain immediately would probably be My Ass is On Fire by Mr. Bungle

I wanna be a cowboy - Boys Don't Cry

Just pure sillyness, with a Lemmy cameo in the video.

"I Got a Feeling" by Neva Denova. It's not a famous band or song, but its so incredibly sad and angry and nihilistic and there's nothing else that comes close. When I'm feeling really shitty though, it kind of cheers me up. It has this long sing-along outro, "The world's a shitty place, and I can't wait to die." But after repeating this over and over the song ends and someone in the background says affectionately, "I'm just kidding world, you know I love you." I've struggled with intrusive negative thoughts for most of my life, and there is something cathartic about having my internal pain externalized in song-form, and that final line is like a voice I've had to develop that fights against all the negativity, to like survive the worst of the blackest depressions. Except instead of taking no small amount of energy to consciously or automatically summon that voice, it comes easy; it's right on the recording, and it plays every time.

I wouldn't say I'm embarrassed to tell people about the song, but I do think people would worry about me if they knew I listened to it when at my worst. But it really makes me feel like, "well at least I'm not that depressed and nihilistic," and it helps.