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It's so outdated and sexist, yet I love it.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

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.

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

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

Trailer Park Boys - The Kittyman Sea Shanty

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

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

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

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

A bunch of anime music.

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

Hudson Mohawke - Cbat

Anything by the Carpenters

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

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 wanna be a cowboy - Boys Don't Cry

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

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 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)

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

Lilly Allen - The Fear

Among many, The Kingdom by Clamavi De Profundis (to be found on Tidal, Spotify, Youtube).

Park Amsterdam - Maaya Sakamoto