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A Music Thread: It's Saturday Night!

And time for a leisurely stroll through the chaotic music taste of your host.

One of the advantages of being almost 29 is that I am completely detached from popular music, and whatever I finally get around to hearing has been filtered by time and my curmudgeonly attitude toward the music industry. I am reflexive in my hatred of new, popular music, which is sort of childish because I don't listen to any of it.

Anyway...less chatter and more music.

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Who? I have no idea. Mungo Jerry: In The Summertime is probably a one-hit-wonder, but it's fun music!
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Vampire Weekend's "Unbelievers" is sort of tough to categorize. Poppy, but it has something extra. Anyone care to take a stab at it? I have been assured by the internet that the band is far too "white" to play this sort of music (African influenced...whatever the fvck that means). Something about cultural appropriation, which is a perfectly reasonable point if Africa would just stop using automobiles, modern medicine, cellular phones, etc.
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Prince seems to be quite polarizing, and I am not particularly enamored of junkies who kill themselves, but Little Red Corvette is a fun song, and one that I enjoy occasionally. Plus, he had lovely taste in women (remember apollonnia?).
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I like covers when they respect the original song but add something. Supertramp's original of this song is good, but I like Give a Little Bit by The Goo Goo Dolls even better.
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This is just fun. The Georgia Satellites have a great sound, and Keep Your Hands To Yourself is a great example of it!
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Oops! I swear...I'm not cultured! Haydn's Trumpet Concerto conducted by John Williamson and the Boston Pops is too frenetic and poppy, but damn! Wynton Marsalis can play the trumpet!
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I never got the hype that swirled around Nirvana. They have a few good songs, but I wonder whether they would have faded into relative obscurity had Kurt Kobain not been a narcissistic ass who cared not a bit about his family.

This is one of the good songs, and sort of a neat video.