Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.

Same here! However a friend had an Amiga and the music there was sample-based like a demoscene 'tracker' (but in a proprietary format), so it also had that lovely sample-based aspect ;) I still listen to extracted/covered versions of some of those to this day!

I just learned that one can get the mods here (lemmings 2 actually even used a real tracker called OctaMED!):

https://www.camanis.net/lemmings/music.php

Such a classic sound! Reminds me of the similarly brilliant Star Control II soundtrack (which was also tracker music)!

The musical number I recall best was a medley mash-up of the Bridal Chorus and the Funeral March.

Apparently it’s called “Twang” or “Tenlem” depending on the port. I had the DOS version: https://youtu.be/Z2zN6ljRNnU?t=3523 (timestamped)

"Ten Green Bottles" is the base of that song.

oooo, that's a missed opportunity

^^ i think this is pretty fucking insightful, yeah

Oh my god, TIL -- thank you, brother, I've apparently been doing this incorrectly for years.

>> woke region of cascadia

i lol'd, but is there an unwoke region of cascadia?

Oh there are many, many parts. By land area, probably most. But not by population.

Oh man, you say that and the synthesized harpsichord just started playing in my head <3

Seconded, my good sir!