Can I tell you how much I love the backlash against Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"? Since 2007's Sopranos finale, Steve Perry's ode to small town girls living in lonely worlds has been worked into Kanye's Glow in the Dark tour, given the jazz hands treatment in both Glee and Rock of Ages, and become go-to karaoke dynamite for a generation swaddled in faux-worn sex-pun Aéropostale tees.

The rolled eyes are understandable then, when the track comes piping through a diner's tinny PA at 2am; as if we have all tacitly agreed that "Don't Stop"s inherent optimism is somehow unearned in the moment. It's just hugely funny to reserve our groans for such an innocuous, positive song- particularly one that was first released in 1981- while we shrug off more recent (and far worse written) ubiquitous fare like Rob Thomas and Santana's "Smooth". Released the same year as "In The Air Tonight" and "Jessie's Girl", "Don't Stop" deserves no more claim of being played out than either of those tracks, particularly from anybody under 30.

This week, two DJs do their best to reclaim Journey's good name from out of line haters and lead singers found on YouTube. From the fascinating Tron: Rise of the Virals project soundtrack, Chicago's Rhythm Scholar pits the group's slightly less prevalent "Any Way You Want It" against electronics and bongos in a dynamic, polyrhythmic take, and Germany's Marc Johnce cools the track our contemporaries love to hate by way of an understated, housey Frankmusik mashup.

Journey "Any Way You Want It (Rhythm Scholar Syntax Error Remix)"

Frankmusik/Russ Chimes vs. Journey "Don't Stop Confusion" (Marc Johnce Mashup)