Songs From the Locust Years, Disc 2

Here's what I was hoping to post yesterday:

By popular demand (of one person), here comes disc two of Songs from the Locust Years:

Kicking off with a little Van Halen:

Rounded out by the smooth sounds of Barry:

This was thrust upon us as the theme song for the Contiki® European tour that a few of us went on after I finally finished college. I don't think any of us liked it during the trip. Or at least not until the very end of it. Or was that just me?

Quintessential to the period:

Hall. And. Oates.

A little ditty compliments of our neighbors to the north, Loverboy:

The Monkees even made it on our soundtrack:

And more Pat Benetar:

Pink Floyd:

The Ramones:

And the Stones:

I'm realizing that hip hop is underrepresented in this soundtrack, so let's remedy that now:

This was one of our favorite covers that our favorite cover band covered (probably still covers). Did they play this at my wedding? I can't remember.

And the same guys in that cover band had an original band, too. And that band covered this:

EWE...EFF...OHH!!!

If you made it this far, thank you for listening. It should be noted that this soundtrack was heavily influenced by a jukebox that was not very up to date, hanging out with some guys whose driver's license photos were unrecognizable because the "used to have long hair," and being devotees of a cover band (who had several different iterations). The Locust Years were actually lived circa Y2K.

It should also be noted that the above songs are © of their respective owners.