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#2. We Love Katamari - DISCOPRINCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vxowpoPaM

I was not a music listener growing up. I only knew songs that played on TV/movies/commercials or in public spaces, and didn't really know anything about them. It's possible that I may have had preferences about things that I liked more than others, maybe subconsciously, but it wasn't something that I thought about, even for songs that I recognized. Disco Prince is one of the first songs that I can ever remember that made me think "I want to hear more songs that sound like this". Of course being oblivious to music culture back then I had no idea how to actually go about doing that. So it wasn't until even later when I started getting into music and getting in touch with my own tastes that it finally caught up to me. At this point in my life I'd say that I do listen to other music that sounds "like this", which theoretically should be evident from the previous 13 songs on this list. So yeah, this possibly might have been one of the first songs that I ever actually "liked" (for context, this game came out when I was in high school). It's all great but I want to give a special shoutout to the percussion which really lives up to its "disco" name by doing that thing that it does.

Side note: This is one of the few songs in WLK which has an instrumental version, which automatically plays after the song loops once, assuming that you're playing a stage that's more than 7 minutes long. While you may think that the intrumental would be good to listen to, with its interesting synth and percussion parts, it's actually very painful hearing the intro without that strong first line at 0:31. The vocals are essential too.