* * * * * Chilling to some 80s tunes While it usually takes me loud angry music [1] to get out of a bad mood, I should also remember the following music can also lift my bad mood: * The Art of Noise with Max Headroom, Paranoimia [2] * M.A.R.R.S, Pump up the Volume [3] * New Order, Blue Monday [4] For that last one, it doesn't have to be the actual New Order version—these two work as well: * Orkestra Obsolete, Blue Monday [5] (using 1930s technology) * Modern Music of the Dark Ages, Blue Monday [6] (using medieval instruments) Oh, this is indeed a deep rabit hole I can happily fall into … [1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2021/11/21.1 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscY4nu7psg [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxI1YSVN6o Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org .