I remembered the movie Grease as being bubblegum pop songs about teenage love. chococat watched and paid attention to an oft-neglected song, and noticed that Hopelessly Devoted to You is actually sorta dark and stalker-ish, and made a cover that emphasized that aspect.
You can compare it to the original version. The lightness doesn’t quite shake the tone of the cover for me, but your mileage may vary.
Oh man that funky bassline YES!
I Wish remixes Stevie Wonder’s song, and it thickens up the awesome starting riff.
Major Bounce is a cheerful instrumental song with a couple of layers of intricate guitar work.
Arabesque reminds me of going to the Castro Theatre, where David Hegarty plays the organ before and between shows. Using intermission music to mark the start of the weekend seems fitting.
Your Melodies is, as tdismukes notes in the thread, “plaintive and melancholy.” It’s also warm, with banjo and guitar.
a_hallo wee n_ +tre at is a bouncy retro electro treat, with staccato synths, and samples of Christopher Walken.
it can happen to you slices, loops, and remixes Mozart’s 25th into a mellow hip-hop song.
Foundations is a genderbending Kate Nash cover. It’s sort of a neurotic, Livejournal-ish song, with a distinctive voice (and accent).
Gravity is a mellow, layered guitar song.
The Bothered Son and the Phony Ghost is a song about personal religious doubt. It turns epic, raucous, and boisterous, like potch’s previous song here, The Next Voice You Hear.
wheels come off (lucid mix) is more solid trip-hop from frequent guests Hot Bitch Arsenal. This Music Challenge involved spooky and Tom Waits.
I’ll Never Forget You is a lovely piano ballad.
The Next Voice You Hear is a raucous and boisterous song, from the band A Million Kittens Inc. – awesome name!
musk is a pulsing, rather chill, jazzy song. Its creator calls it progressive grime, which might be plausible, but wow, I detest micro-genres.
Pemulis is garage rock. It’s about a character in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest,” by the band Derailleur, named after a part of a bicycle. This hits my buttons amusingly well.
Eggdrop is an bouncy Dixieland song.
right on said jeebus is smooth trip-hop, and another entry for the “superhero” Music Challenge.
Me Plug In is techno video game music.
It looks like this used to play at a different rate in Flash, but it works better now. It should be 2:22 long.
Thank You is a noodly and spacy electronica take on an Alanis Morissette song.
Templar is a trancy techno bumping song.
Supergirl is an uplifting, harmonizing, & poppy song, a father cheering on his daughter.
This song is from the fourth Mefi Music Challenge, “superhero.”
This is the demo of Let It Go or Give In, just a singer and her guitar. As it evolved, pazazygeek posted different versions of it – take 2 and the album version.
Reno Dakota is a sort of indie rock cover of a Magnetic Fields song.
Illegal But Legitimate is quick-moving, noodly drum and bass.
I Am John is a pretty acoustic cover from goodnewsfortheinsane, originally from Loney Dear. It’s the first song here tagged with melodica or glockenspiel.
Elemental is an upbeat trance / dance song.
As We Move Along (rough mix) is some shouty pop-punk, which I like – though I don’t think it needs the High Fidelity sample.
Satiomega is great music for a (tragically, thus far non-existent) video game.
Neuexperiment is quiet, like a couple of music boxes playing in the background.
Ipsum Tiled is an happily, aggressively upbeat trance song.
Da House is a noodly little dance song.
Mixado Ar Sinore is just a charming, loopy song with squealing synths. It’s based on Haddado TarraT odaddaH, a nice electronica song that looped back into reverse, becoming a mirror or palindrome of itself.
Flyball’s Lament (the better one) is a newer version of the simpler, stripped-down first attempt. It’s a silly & fun song.
Happy Birthday, Mom! is a fun song, incorporating kazoo, recorder, toy piano, and a ukulele.
Lambda Loops is some techno with a great momentum.
Stare Into the Blackness is a lovely shoegazer song – many shimmery layered guitars.
Server Sound is a muscular but laidback song with random samples layered over synths.
Oh, this was the first of many songs tehloki posted. I love his music! His music’s more notable than his favoriting habit.
Old Man is a sad, pretty cover of a Randy Newman song, from his 1972 album “Sail Away,” well before he composed songs for Pixar movies.