2013-09-14 4:10:41 ¶ ●

I’m not too proud to admit (especially with the cover of precious Internet anonymity) when I’m embarrassed to really like something. Like ABBA. Or, depending upon the company I’m in, Ted Nugent. I’ll fill up the #Cage Picks with these sorts of guilty pleasure tracks.

2013-09-16 3:10:00 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

Source: Homestuck

Simple and undeniably catchy. What could make a mournful, whistled melody even better? Hoof clops right out of Monty Python’s playbook. I’ve replayed this song far more times than I’m willing to admit (even here!).

Together with the Flash animations in the webcomic, the effect is hilarious. You’d think Rose wasn’t even moving, except for the slow-scrolling SNES background and the scarf whipping spastically behind her.

2013-09-16 3:57:00 ¶ ●

By Mark Hadley, Andrew Huo and Toby “Radiation” Fox

“Sunny”, to describe it in one word. The song is featured in the comic, but the middle third of the album version is reworked to replace some of the chiptune instrumentation with an orchestral version.

2013-09-19 2:35:00 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman. Guitar solo by Nick Smalley. Original (How Do I Live) by Trisha Yearwood. Written by Dianne Warren

Take a generic, trite country song that features at the end of a mediocre action film…

… make it somehow even more bombastic and faux-inspirational…

… while being totally up front about the parody nature of it….

… and somehow you end up with a hilarious track that has actual replay value. This is the ultimate Cage pick. Take us there, Casey.

(all images, source: Homestuck)

2013-09-27 2:53:00 ¶ ●

By Michael Guy Bowman

I only realized recently that it’s not just generic, Gregorian chanting in the song: it’s ‘Warhammer of Zillyhoo’ repeated twice. That just adds to its cleverness. Bonus points for performing it completely straight, without a hint of silliness or irony.