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Really did my best to stay within the theme, although the choices here may prove I'm more of a sci-fi gal. I also added songs that touched on religious themes since Christianity's influence on Medieval culture itself was massive, at least in Europe.

What's up, funky fresh people!!! As we all know, @Zaid challenged me this weekend to make a list of my favorite ten songs from the PaRappa the Rapper franchise for his King for A Day spiel, given my Um Jammer Lammy avatar on this forum's Discord server. The major irony here is that I've never even played the OG PaRappa game, with my only exposure to the franchise beforehand being a tie-in song featured in this very list, the fun fact that the games' character designer, Rodney Alan Greenblatt, also did the cover art for They Might Be Giants' debut album from 1986, and this absurd-ass meme: Now, for this list, I'm going to post both the songs from the official OSTs as well as gameplay from the stages they're featured in for each entry. Also, many thanks to Khinsider for the OST downloads and to the PaRappa the Rapper Fan Wiki for providing me the lore on these very strange and colorful games! Anyways, before I go and ramble about Brooklyn's Ambassadors of Love yet again, the time has come for...the list! Okay, so turns out the top 5 songs are gonna need to be a post of their own because my writing for each entry is getting a bit unwieldy lol. Hopefully I can have the second post done by tonight--stay frosty, y'all!

Lammy from “Um Jammer Lammy” lmao

This one's a bit longer than my usual limit of 30-ish minutes (I know that limitation doesn't exist anymore, but I like a challenge), 'cause I was seeing this mixtape as a possible workout playlist lmao

“2000 Miles” by The Pretenders seems to be hitting hard for me this season, along with this hidden gem from They Might Be Giants’ days as a duo with a tape machine, called “We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime”:

Welcome back, Zaid! I’m not sure if I remember you—I took a break from SBM and SBC for a while as well—but I’m always glad to have old SBC peeps come back into the fold lel

Karaoke is pretty great, tbh, and has honestly been one of the few social activities I legitimately enjoy lel. It’s probably because it’s a chance to share my taste in music with others in a way that’s more interactive and fun than making a playlist (no shade to Hawk and Steel, your collaborative mixtape series are excellent and fun to take part in as well), as well as having other people in the crowd join in if they know the song. Tbh, I don’t think being good at singing is even required to enjoy karaoke since it’s more about the social aspect, though it does give me a chance to show off for once

ONE CRYIN’ PLAYLIST OF LATE AUGHTS TO MID TENS CLUB BANGERS COOOOOOOOMING UP! Edit: This is the final playlist - embed fixed itself a day later:

Y’all are chill and have supported me when I most needed it, even when people in my AFK circles have struggled to do the same. As a SpongeBob forum user since 2007, I’m happy to have spent the past decade-plus with you all and am hoping for many more!

EDIT: Replaced Vampy Weeks in the OG with my favorite cuts from the only Jai Paul album because I haven’t had a chance yet to share it with y’all. Quality stuff, even if it’s mostly unfinished. Enjoy

Yeah…I kinda struggled with this one as well since I didn’t really keep tabs on what I was listening to that year, and it just so happened to be the one year I had a smartphone that wasn’t from Apple, so nothing was saved to my iCloud, obvi. Because of all that, the timeline for this one is going to be roughly 2019-2021. It’s still stuff that I listened to back then but with a fuzzier chronology behind it lel. Also, this was around the time I first started to reckon with me being a trans woman, so there may be more queer artists on my mixtape contribution than usual lel. Finally, the Bang Dream song, which I did listen to at the time, just kicks ass, tbh. Enjoy, and get vaccinated, peeps!

I almost put Arthur Russell here instead of Green Day, but I figured it would be a bit confusing if I did since some of his biggest bops were released under different artist names. Also, no, I do not condone the complete shitshow that was the Astroworld festival, but Travis Scott was the only recent artist I could think of that I’d actually play at a party lol

Imma be real: the emo pop-punk scene was one that I totally missed the boat on as a kid, given that most of my middle school peers were more into classic rock or even Lady Gaga at the time (this was the latter half of the aughts), so I'm pretty out of my element when it comes to this genre. That would also explain why some of these songs are gonna be more emo-adjacent than pure, stereotypical scene kid stuff (see the tracks from The Postal Service and Plain White T's). It's also really telling that I only really know two of these songs through iCarly lmao