What are some great songs from "unassuming places"?

jazzbox@lemmy.world to Music@lemmy.world – 7 points –

Me and my buddy are trying to put a set-list together with the theme mentioned in the title.

"Unassuming places" is intentionally a little vague, but the idea is that feeling of "damn, I did not expect a song from this [insert piece of media] to be that good," or when you sit down and really listen to something you are surprised at well-composed it is, or songs that sound simple and reach a wide audience, but are actually a lot more complicated under the hood.

Some examples of the sounds we're going for are:

You might also be able to call this list "songs geared towards children but are actually good" but I feel like that has more of a nursery rhyme-ish connotation and I'm hoping to branch out of that.

We're a guitar duo with a jazz background, so songs that could potentially fit that mold are preferred, but I don't want that to hinder anyone from giving suggestions! I'd love to see what anyone can come up with.

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Most of the Nier:Automata soundtrack. Most of the Persona 5 Royal Soundtrack.

The theme from DuckTales. Also the song "The Moon" from the DuckTales video game on NES is especially good

This here. Also, this was always a banger but now I hear the lyrics and it's also poetry.

Hey man check out Dan Zanes and Friends - their All Around the Kitchen is great but all of their stuff is excellent and some great leadbelly covers in there too