What earworm songs are burrowing through your head today?

You know how it is. You hear a song on an advert or a tv show and then that's it, it's there. It might, if you're lucky be a song you love. Or, it might be Slade.

In my case, today it's the song Kiss from a Rose. I watched an episode of community a few nights ago in which Jeff (having been blackmailed into a day at the mall with Dean Pelton) and the Dean sing a karaoke version.

Haven't been able to shift the bastard since. It's just there, in the background.

I was trying to find the karaoke scene itself on youtube, but the best I managed is a fanvid that merges clips of other Jeff/Pelton scenes in with the original. It's still very funny. The ending in particular. But be warned the song is sticky.

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Maybe I should start watching Community.
I do love me some Joe McHale, although I only really know him from The Soup.

He's also one of those tall people who are not actually spidly, so they really surprise you when you see them next to normal sized people and realise.

My worst ear-worms are the ones where I don't really know the words.
So I can't even just sing it out and get it over with.

This morning I got up and started singing Montego Bay, for no reason I can think of. Managed to get it out of my head pretty quickly though. The other week it was Cotton-Eyed Joe. Far harder to shake off.
And it came with dance movements. Using the term dance in the loosest possible interpretation.

Oh! now that's in my head, Zen!

Sundae;867483 wrote:

Maybe I should start watching Community.
I do love me some Joe McHale, although I only really know him from The Soup.

He's also one of those tall people who are not actually spidly, so they really surprise you when you see them next to normal sized people and realise.
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At the risk of derailing my own thread from earworms to Community...

Here's some Joel McHale googness for ya :P

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More Joel McHale, with the glorious Jim Rash:

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This has been in and out of my head all week. goodly
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and

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Ends up, you got me, you bitch.
When Diz tramped on my head this morning (need to post photo of "natural" purple eyelid colouring) all I could think of was Kiss From A Rose.

See above; the worst are where I don't know the words.
I've looked them up since.
However at 04.00-ish, with sore, swollen eyelid, all that was going round in ma heid was:
I can give you a kiss from a rose on a bin
[And blah blah blah....]
Light hits the corner of bin

Never did know the words.

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The song from "That Thing You Do".

You bad man.
Bad, bad man.
I had to go watch it again, knowing how ear-wormed I was back before YouTube existed.

Have yet to see if it will take.
If it does, then I'll blame you once again.
I will curse you with an unexplained tickly feeling on your nose, like you just walked into a cobweb. Not an Australian cobweb of course, as that would leave you minus a nose, an eye and probably some children.

So I see you That Thing You Do and raise you You Stole The Sun From My Heart by the Manics.
Because the chorus seems to repeat itself endlessly.

I was working for CPW at the time, and friends and I (all on staff tariffs for our mobiles) used to phone eachother at random intervals and just sing "Oh yeah YOU! stole the sun from my har-aaart! You STOLE the sun from my haaart! You stole the SUN from..."
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Actually I could sing a reasonable "I love you all the same" - to the extent one of my Merry Men had me record it on his answerphone. Til his girlfriend complained...
It was a simple pleasure, but it bit both ways.

Tim Minchin's Thank You God
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I haven't hit play yet, but can't help noticing that in the sample image from the video, this guy looks exactly like Bobcat Goldthwait.

Have you not seen any Tim Minchin stuff before glatt?

He's marvellous. Very well known in the UK.

Because I am already in hell (not just going) the song running through my head, thanks to a current thread and my propensity for gallows humor, is Momma's Got a Squeeze Box by the Who.

There, I said it.

At least I didn't make a clone thread.

"Love without evidence is stalking."

Minchin is great!

I purposefully played this several times and earwormed myself, the first time you posted it HM. It got me out of pawn shop earworms.

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Sarah Silverman mocks the 20-something club scene songs/videos by making one, with the help of Will.I.Am. (He is responsible for about a third of those kinds of songs in recent years.) Those songs are designed to be earworms, so having Sarah do one is kind of unfair. She is hilarious.

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anything from taylor swift-soooooooooooooooo annoying

Agreed.

Here's my kinda country music.

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Try a little John Hiatt- Feels Like Rain. The gals will remember the song from P.S. I love you. Great make out tune

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The Official Video for this song is quite funny... and rather painful to watch..... so I linked the above because I didn't want to give the impression that I had the video stuck in my head. JUST the song.

Watched this documentary about a guy who was supposed to be the next superstar back in the 70s but who was a complete flop instead. Only to have his music make it big in South Africa without his knowledge or compensation.

A guy names Rodriguez.

Anyway, the documentary was interesting. And they kept playing his mediocre music over and over through the whole thing. Especially this one particular song. So now this song keeps going around in my head. But it's really not that great of a song. Or maybe it is. 'Cause it's stuck in there.
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the Lumineers 'Ho Hey'

Training session last week had the Pussycat's version of Jai Ho playing in the breaks.
It annoys me because they sing Jay Ho. I can't get past it.
But blimey it sticks in the old melon.

So I have felt compelled to listen to the real version. Over and over and over again.
And I can't even sing along as my Hindi/ Urdu/ Punjabi is limited to a few words pertaining to food or insults.

One of the many versions/ mixes.
Love me some Danny Boyle (just rewatched the Olympics opening ceremony)
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The theme song from The Price is Right. Wtf.

glatt;871403 wrote:

Watched this documentary about a guy who was supposed to be the next superstar back in the 70s but who was a complete flop instead. Only to have his music make it big in South Africa without his knowledge or compensation.

A guy names Rodriguez.

Anyway, the documentary was interesting. And they kept playing his mediocre music over and over through the whole thing. Especially this one particular song. So now this song keeps going around in my head. But it's really not that great of a song. Or maybe it is. 'Cause it's stuck in there.
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He was the "Elvis" of South America, and he didn't know it until he was like, 70. He'd lived out his life doing construction jobs, in like Detroit or something. I mentioned this somewhere before. The best part is: when the reporter asked him if he had regrets about how his life had turned out, it was like he didn't even understand the question. He was perfectly happy living a simple existence in his little apartment, he enjoyed his work, had everything he needed. They did a huge stadium concert in South Africa, everyone in the place knew every word to every one of his songs, and his backing band was the biggest name rock band in the region at that time. I think he gave all the money away.

It's like Bob Dylan, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens had a lovechild and taught him to sing "The Pusher", only using different words and music.

And what in the hell is going on in the background? Sounds like someone running a cat through a ringer while a jackhammer goes off.

Thanks, Glatt, that was awesome.

:jig:

Thanks to classicman, the entire Yes catalog.

Really? Wow. What I love about Yes are the 'intertwining' melodies. It makes my synesthesia go nuts. When I find myself humming a Yes song, it's usually the bass line. That always impresses me when the catchiest melody is being executed on the stodgy old bass guitar.

Pete Zicato;867834 wrote:

The song from "That Thing You Do".

I threatened to curse you for this if it stuck.
It did.
Remove your earworm or I will summon my thunder monkeys.

This is an awesome song. But it has one of those choruses that just burrows right into your brain and then settles in for the duration.

Well...I think so anyway.

Rizzle Kicks 'Lost Generation'

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For no reason at all the other morning, I woke up with 'Today I Started Loving You Again' by Merle Haggard in my head. And it's still there, in the back.

Don't get me wrong, I dig me some Hag, but, it had been like years since I heard this song. Maybe I heard it somewhere and didn't hear it when I heard it? I played it that day for, literally, an hour or more, didn't work, still there.

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Old but still sticks in there...

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I had Grav's Merle Haggard track buzzing round my head for a few days.

Then it was dislodged by this:

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Saw that the other day.
Can't 'remember where.
Luckily it didn't embed (famous last words.)
Anyway I've heard enough female foxes scream during mating session the whole premise just made me suck my teeth. They scream like a woman being butchered.

I have an oldie.
Good Charlotte, Lifestyles of the Rich and the Famous. The sire of Nicole Ritchie's children no-less.. Narked me than and does now. Wonder if he still advocates robbing mansions...?

Still, they have a point.
And with two back to back crack high profile crack buying stories in a week I can't shake the line, "And did you know if you were caught and you were smokin' crack
McDonalds wouldn't even want to take you back
You could always just run for mayor of D.C." from ma heid.

Or Toronto, or Methodist Minister and former Chairman of the Co-op bank, which who closed my account when I let it go overdrawn... (yeah yeah yeah, that's grudge talk).

Sing-along.
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Sundae;883839 wrote:

Anyway I've heard enough female foxes scream during mating session the whole premise just made me suck my teeth. They scream like a woman being butchered.

Exactly! I've heard that song so many times in the last three months. Every time I hear it, I just want "suck my teeth" or "punch them in the face." Foxes sound like damn foxes, you tools.

The worst is the "vixen's scream" when it's nice out and you have the window open, and there's one moving through the neighborhood at 2am.
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Hah! Geckering!
Squirrels do that too. I always thought it was trash talking because they have such little Tyrannosaurus front legs.

Minifob brought home some schoolwork about the folk character John Henry. Except in his writing he spelled it "Henery" every time. So I've had this stuck in my head since then...

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It could be worse... John Henry was a steel driven m... Oooops, I almost did it again.

My fav line:

John Henry's mammy had bout a dozen babies
John Henry's pappy broke jail bout a dozen times

DanaC;883837 wrote:

I had Grav's Merle Haggard track buzzing round my head for a few days.

I don't know why, but, that strikes me as so odd.

A proper British lass, grooving to the Hag...:)

Yeah...I know what the fox screeches.

But still the bastard is in my head. It's as persistent as Sam and the Womp.

Oh.

Bugger.

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Gravdigr;884068 wrote:

I don't know why, but, that strikes me as so odd.

A proper British lass, grooving to the Hag...:)

*grins*

I have very wide taste in music :p

there was a cute little girl on the train this morning, singing

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

here comes Peter Cottontail
hopping down the bunny trail
hippity hoppity
Easter's on its way.

Well, you get the idea. She actually kept going for longer than that.

So guess what song is in my head? "What does the fox say?" Damn you, Dana.

I'd had this damn tune in my head, along with a scrap of a memory of this video for MONTHS, but couldn't place it. It made me crazy, an itch I couldn't scratch. Then Twil and I were watching some program (The Blacklist??? I can't remember precisely) and I heard a horn hit like in this song, and it came back to me all at once!

Thank God.

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Was music in some car commercial...it does take up residence in the haid.

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V's post reminded me of another commercial with a catchy song. A couple years ago one of the more popular video games (can't remember which, fps-type I think) was advertised with clips of this tune, 'Electric Worry' by Clutch.

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Very nice eyes. Too far apart.

I'd call her Queen Bee.

Bloody Dana.
Bloody fox.
It's got Mum too, now.

After the computer was fixed I had to put the cables back in and manoeuvre it into its usual home.
I needed to check I'd put the sound thingies in the right holes (technical terms there).
"How shall we test it, Mum?"
"What does the fox say?"

hahahahahaha.

I did warn you.

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Hahhahaahahaaaaa! I haven't seen that in years. So funny. God I miss Phil Hartman.

Gravdigr;884992 wrote:

Very nice eyes. Too far apart.

I'd call her Queen Bee.

She turned 17 and a month yesterday. yes. seventeen.

two of the kids and I have this buzzing around. Third kid hates it ....which makes it all the more stuck there.....

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(but it did unstick Lorde ...although her latest has started popping up unbidden)

hmph........ Hebe just came downstairs singing it ....and then Thor started.... and now it's stuck....

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monster;885387 wrote:

She turned 17 and a month yesterday. yes. seventeen.

Whoops.

Gravdigr;885586 wrote:

Whoops.

Lorde, from Royals wrote:

[CENTER]But every song's like gold teeth, grey goose, trippin' in the bathroom
Blood stains, ball gowns, trashin' the hotel room,
We don't care, we're driving Cadillacs in our dreams.
But everybody's like Cristal*, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece.
Jet planes, islands, tigers on a gold leash.
We don't care, we aren't caught up in your love affair.[/CENTER]

This is totally stuck in my head. It was annoying me because I didn't know what It was. But I do now. So now it's annoying the family. :D

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I love that so much!

Somewhere Only We Know by Keane. Sung by Lily Allen.
Loved the song before. Was a fan of the Allen.
But it's The Partnership's (place where I work) advert song this Christmas.

It has earwormed me even though we do not play any music in my store.
Below are my problems with the advert.
My issues.
Feel free to ignore.
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Picky, picky, picky me. A hare (doesn't look like a hare) wakes up a bear (do they even live in the same environment) because said bear has never experienced Christmas.
Wait, what?
Doesn't the bear hibernate for a very good reason?
Wouldn't waking a bear in the depths of Winter cause it to like, I dunno, die or something? Or have spindly cubs? Or have to eat hares?
And given animals don't have souls and we glory in eating them for Christmas, and throwing most of their dead bodies away, would they really want to celebrate the birth of Jebus? Because if it's just all about trees and presents and sparkles then shouldn't the forest animals celebrate a time of plenty instead?

Okay. It has become an earworm. I do catch myself singing it.
The rest I just wanted to get off my chest.

And now it's in ma heid.

Just at the moment I'm trying to recall the words and music to "When A Felon's Not Engaged In HIs Employment," without looking in the Pirates of Penzance script... but I'm going to have to. Give the earworm some direction to go. No.24 in the songbook. "When constabulary duty's to be done, to be done, a policeman's lot is not a happy one, happy one."

This is going through my head right now. Specifically the final refrain. Chap-Hop:

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That was on the TV in the PDR today.
The sound was turned down so I had no idea what people were talking about.
DAYAMN. I coulda edumicated them about the Beastie Boys.
Hmmm. Prolly best to stay as a same-age-as-my-mother-alike.

Don't know if this (below) counts as an earworm, because aren't all Christmas songs written to make you want to be grabbed by the local swain and gallop down the village hall?
And I have a bad (BAD) history of falling in love and blaming it on songs, especially at Yuletide.

Anyways... Kelly Clarkson's songs might be over-produced but underneath it all (see what I... eh) the lady can sing. I know because I come back from the PDR with this in my throat and nowhere for it to go. And how can it be an earworm when I love it.
I do.
I love it.
Like sherry trifle.
With silver balls on.

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It makes me want to fall in love.
Just for Christmas.
Just once more.
Please.

This. Dunno why

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Stuck in old Lodi. Also this 'Wild Horses. The horse was on desk top and I couldn't pass it up :jig:

Read that Jessie Winchester died on Friday. Have "Brand New Tennessee Waltz" running on the internal jukebox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzptru9pK9E
I woke up this morning with "Waltzes With Bears" playing in my head.

Got Creepshow's The Devils Son in my head. This is good news because we're road tripping to see the Reverend Horton Heat and Creepshow in June. :)

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And here's the story: I heard one of these awesome creatures last night, I was in bed and my bedroom faces the river, so this guy must have been in the trees right behind me. Well, not THIS owl, I got this vid from youtube. Research this morning told me it's the sound of a Great Horned Owl, probably the most prevalent in this area.

What I did was spare you the actual earworm it created: Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy in 1975. Well, I won't really spare you: here's the vid if you want. I was always fascinated by one of the native American owl legend (owls have featured in mythology in many cultures in many ways) they incorporated. :) Couldn't get this song out of my head all day, despite being busy!

I'm hoping to spot the owl some evening, they're territorial so he shouldn't go too far, but they're hard to spot in so many trees.

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p.s. this could be cross posted in 'wildlife living next to nature' :)

Wildfire! That takes me back. Occupies a slot in my brain near Billy Don't Be a Hero

glatt wrote:

Wildfire! That takes me back. Occupies a slot in my brain near Billy Don't Be a Hero

Argh! New Earworm! I remember that one well. :lol:

OK, Mr K-tel...I'll see your earworm and raise you another era earworm:

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Not so much the words , but the music is STUCK !!!!
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infinite monkey;896755 wrote:

Argh! New Earworm! I remember that one well. :lol:

OK, Mr K-tel...I'll see your earworm and raise you another era earworm:

Terrible nitpick: that version only has the left channel of the song. Here's the full stereo version:

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I can remember riding my Huffy dirt bike with a tape recorder hanging off the handle bars playing "The Night Chicago Died".

They were not the good old days, and I would not go back.

Yeah, but think of the money you could make investing in Microsoft, Netscape, AOL, Genentech, Apple, etc.

Thanks toad.

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Lyrics over in the Poems - Not Your Own thread

Nice, I don't know the last time I heard that, been a long time.

SonofV and I went to Sakura-Con recently and I spent a lot of time in the AMV Theater. This was one of the best I watched, and the song's been stuck in my head ever since. I have not played Portal (so no spoilers, *please*), but I do know a little about the storyline. And I've heard the original song (which I find catchier, but this one had lyrics that I could understand for the first time, the captions helped). The marriage of the story of L and Light in Death Note along with the words from the song is a HUGE SUCCESS! I'm being so sincere right now.

:lol:

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Thanks Dana.

RIZZLE KICKS LYRICS
"Miss Cigarette"

Diiieee diss Illusion,
Mmm yeah I love it when my lips are on her,
There's a spark in our relationship I plant a kiss upon her,
I fuck around too much and there's a risk that I'm a goner,
So I've got her on hand like a badge of honour,
The downside is she's never there when I'm lacking dollar,
So I've got to try and go through a day without acting bothered,
In the hope she'd leave me alone because I'm better off her,
But I see that butt and I just accept the offer,

So many people say why are you with her,
And I'm like; she's a damn good kisser,
She feeds my addiction,
She leaks something different,
The smoke from our last meeting has risen,
Keep her away from all of the other boys,
Cause you know she's every single cutters choice,
Always there when the cold nights are lurking,
Gotta keep hold of my Golden virgin,

[Chorus:]
I think she's good for me,
That's why I wouldn't leave,
She helps me get down even when I shouldn't be,
She's there when I'm in need,
But she isn't cheap,
The last time I saw her,
Broski, I couldn't breathe,
But they say she's bad for me,
But they say she's bad for me,
I don't think she's bad for me,
But it's a bit of a diss illusion

She's got a mate called Benson,
But he's a bit of a waste guy,
Always chats about silver and gold,
But I don't recon he's sway (right?)
Plus his mate like's to come out at break time,
Try's to act bad but I've smoked him like 8 times!,
And if I take it the wrong places then I face the fine,
If I don't take in what she say's it's a waste of time,
In fact she doesn't lie,
She tells me that she's bad for me,
Even when I patch things up I don't feel that I have to leave,

I said I had to leave; I had to get away,
Cause funny when I'm not around I've seen better days,
Sometimes I demonstrate how to set it straight,
I filter out the bullshit and keep her locked in case,
But when I'm chilling she's always in my mind,
I do have doubts but the doubts are just glassed in side,
I should respond in time and then I found out,
The last boy she kissed coughed and died,

[Chorus:]
I think she's good for me,
That's why I wouldn't leave,
She helps me get down even when I shouldn't be,
She's there when I'm in need,
But she isn't cheap,
The last time I saw her,
Broski, I couldn't breathe,
But they say she's bad for me,
But they say she's bad for me,
I don't think she's bad for me,
But it's a bit of a diss illusion

M-I-S-S-C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E leave me be,
M-I-S-S-C-I-G-A-R-E-T-T-E leave me be,
Can you please leave my facility,
Can you please leave my facility,
Actually wait nah I'll have another kiss,
Oh shit I'm in love with this chick what this it's,
Straight robbery,
She's always there when I'm by myself and I can't remain solitary,
Babe honestly,
It appears that your bad for my health and a quick way to poverty,
You went from my pal to my lover,
Now I see you outside with thousands of others,
But you're on my mind right now,
So serious I'm down from another little fling,
Gotta confess this,

[Chorus:]
I think she's good for me,
That's why I wouldn't leave,
She helps me get down even when I shouldn't be,
She's there when I'm in need,
But she isn't cheap,
The last time I saw her,
Mostly I couldn't breathe,
But they say she's bad for me,
But they say she's bad for me,
I don't think she's bad for me,
But it's a bit of a miss illusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6joOVjEemh4
As he runs away laughing manically. Haggis!!!

glad to hear your pain medication is working so well fargon!

There's a tv commercial that's playing around here a lot lately that uses Bobby Darin's 'Somewhere, Beyond The Sea', and I canNOT get it out of my head.

This ain't the commercial, just the song.

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Sheryl Crow and Stones "Honky Tonk woman." Also CCR and Proud Mary. My brain is trying to tell my feet to move, but it's just not there anymore. :jig:

Ortho's post in the Poems thread has this going through my haid:

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Europe: The Final Countdown.
I always call the hour before I finish work "the final countdown", have done for years without ever hearing the song of the same name in my head.
Even though I saw the band perform at a festival - way down on the list - while I was still sober and not sunburnt...

But Alex at work accused me of putting the song in her head, and then it became my own personal earworm. Serves me right.

It gets worse.
When I was at school, I'm your Venus by Bananarama was in the charts.
A very Bad Boy called Stewart (who talked to me because he fancied my sister) used to sing "I'm your penis" instead, which I found really shocking.
So when Europe sing "We're heading for Venus" I'm singing in my head "I'm heading for penis"... and I'm not even.

When I worked at a Sonic Drive-In, one of my cow orkers would sing along to the radio whenever Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love", only he would sing "...might as well face what your dick did to love".

I heard him in the men's room once singing along to "King of Pain" by The Police, only he sang "there's a little black spot on the bathroom floor, it's the same old spot that was there before".

Due to whoever posted those Viking Kittehs (damn you), I've had Iron Maiden's song 'Powerslave' in my haid.

I hear the intro from Led Zep's 'Immigrant Song', and then it speeds up and morphs into the intro from 'Powerslave'.

And, no, blasting it through my home stereo using everyone of those thousand watts did not get it out. It felt good though.:D Just ask the neighbors.

[YOUTUBE]0NYiOHGapRk[/YOUTUBE]

This has been in an endless loop since a dream I had about someone last night. Anyway, it is "In Time" by Mark Collie. Rather prophetic isn't it?

[YOUTUBE]watch?list=RDLos0g9Et7Ow&v=Los0g9Et7Ow[/YOUTUBE]

I made the mistake of listening to Tenacious D 's first album this past Saturday.

Climb upon my faithful steed.... Dip my toe into the jacuzzi, bebbeh.... Every single song is an earworm.

Dream Theater's Pull Me Under started playing in my head a bit ago.

Sycamore!! Welcome back dude!

If it's any of my business, why the name change?

That's a very good tune, I never knew who did it, though.

:devil:

"sycamore" was a pretty commonplace name as I traveled the web, and I'm not a fan of adding numbers.

I've been using "elSicomoro" in other places for some time now, and just decided to start using it here too.


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this is totally stuck in ma heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed

[YOUTUBE]FdATpPUKeLw[/YOUTUBE]

Boom De Yada
[YOUTUBE]at_f98qOGY0[/YOUTUBE]

Gravedigger by Dave Matthews

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I think I may have liked my last iteration of music.

I'm almost certain I will never hear a new piece of 'good' music.

I haven't even heard anything worth stealing, much less buying, in forever.

The radio in GrandCherokeeOne has been dead for over a year, and I am not even interested in fixing/replacing it.

Sic's post above (Gravedigger)is a decent tune, but, LJ turned me on to a live, stripped down version a good while back that I like a little more. I stealed it.

:thumb:

I usually like live versions better than studio tracks. Can't think of a song that I'm the other way on just now, in fact.

Maybe Whole Lotta Love.... But just because they always turned the live version into a long medley.

It depends...I'm not the biggest fan of live music, and some live versions of songs just...blecch! But I like a new twist on an old favorite...for example, Clapton reworking Layla.

Volbeat cover Bay City Rollers. 7th grade?

[youtube]HXH1-HRdKSI[/youtube]

That was fun.

That guy could probably sing pretty good if he wanted to.

He really can sing most anything. He covered that and Johnny Cash when I saw him.

This pile of crap keeps getting stuck in my head. I just learned that the only thing worse than the song is the video.

[YOUTUBE]PIh2xe4jnpk[/YOUTUBE]

This, from my college days:

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And this from this year:

[youtube]-_3mNCaJgNM[/youtube]

I love the original Black Sabbath, but I might actually love Dio-era Sabbath more. I was fortunate to see them live in 2007 (when they reformed as Heaven & Hell). Dio is just...to borrow from Henry Rollins, so fucking righteous!

[youtube]MImX27J8wkg[/youtube]

RJDio's b-day was July 10th.

He would have been 72 this year. He was 65 when I saw him, and he was just wailing away. He could sing as high as he used to, but he was still fuckin' Dio! \m/


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We may have a bit of tension here today...let's soothe that, shall we?

[youtube]KeZt5IGJ1T8[/youtube]

awwww yeeeeahhhh

Tame Impala is one of the few newer bands I'm into...Kevin Parker is really talented.

[YOUTUBE]DohRa9lsx0Q[/YOUTUBE]

this is doing a number on me :/

[YOUTUBE]2vjPBrBU-TM[/YOUTUBE]

And apparently the older teens at Water polo and the younger teens at swimming.

on the plus side, it's knocked Rude outta there and maybe it'll depose it in the billboard charts too

but it's a weird song to have whirling round

haha --was trying to check lyrics for hidden obscenities before adding to warm-up playlist for swim meet tomorrow ...found one chick's homemade video with lyrics. Apparently she's going to Swim from the chandelier. maybe we should try that. We are Flying Fish after all..... :lol:

I can tell this is gonna be stuck for a while.

Yeah, that's the last thing I needed to hear after seeing LolaBunny With The Long Dark Hair.:jig:

Uncle Moz's newer albums have been...just awesome:

[youtube]rcGGojgYZQw[/youtube]

Love the way you lie (with Eminem) ...
Kid Fears, Indigo Girls;Secure Yourself, ditto.
Shoot the Moon, Norah Jones.
Come Away With Me,ditto.

Nothing else for tonight.

This is on an advert that's been playing a lot lately. It is now firmly stuck in my noggin.

[YOUTUBE]v1c2OfAzDTI[/YOUTUBE]

Can't get this song out of my head. I don't feel alone. It's not that. I'm sure I've posted it before, but it's an earworm extraordinaire! I guess I'm just missing my mom.

[YOUTUBE]D_P-v1BVQn8[/YOUTUBE]

The song that took down a Biz Markie album

hey Inf! Nice to see you m'dear.

I can see how that one got stuck in your head.

Hi Dana! :)

Day 3, and I still can't get it out of my head. And I can't get the lyrics straight when I'm singing it in my head (or in my car.) I've tried listening to other stuff.

I think it's some sort of schizophrenic tendency. They'll find me in a corner tracing the lines in coloring books and mumbling 'alone again, naturally.' ;)

That annoying Iggy Azaliea on someone else's One Less Problem Without You. grrrr. not even going near youtube to post a link in case it worsens the effect......

I heard her for the first time ever the other day...I'm still saddened by it.

re: alone again, naturally...

Because here's the thing. My dad is the one with the heart so very broken...but he's so strong and brave. He amazes me. My older brother and I were over there weeding the gardens my mom used to tend. It was a lovely time. My dad keeps busy. He's so healthy at 75 years old. He has friends, he works on his land he owns, he golfs, he takes care of the house and himself. My mom would be so proud. He tends her grave every week, and I can barely bring myself to go there...because 'she' isn't there, to me. And cause it makes me cry so hard. She's here, for sure. I dream about her and I talk to her. I miss her so much. If life is just energy, at the very least, her energy is sustaining me.

So, thanks for listening. This is how I feel. This is what I know.

You're welcome.

And now for something completely different ...

[YOUTUBE]shf8Evt4SKU[/YOUTUBE]

Oh, sexobon! That is a movie my dad loves. And that could be an earworm that gets me over the sad one. lmao! Thanks!

infinite monkey;905799 wrote:

re: alone again, naturally...

Because here's the thing. My dad is the one with the heart so very broken...but he's so strong and brave. He amazes me. My older brother and I were over there weeding the gardens my mom used to tend. It was a lovely time. My dad keeps busy. He's so healthy at 75 years old. He has friends, he works on his land he owns, he golfs, he takes care of the house and himself. My mom would be so proud. He tends her grave every week, and I can barely bring myself to go there...because 'she' isn't there, to me. And cause it makes me cry so hard. She's here, for sure. I dream about her and I talk to her. I miss her so much. If life is just energy, at the very least, her energy is sustaining me.

So, thanks for listening. This is how I feel. This is what I know.

I wish I could offer more than a virtual hug.

Thank you, jim.

Yeah - virtual hug from me too, hon: *hug*

Thanks dear Dana.


Amazing how acknowledgment from people I like helps.

I was Ms Vodka that night but it was good to 'say' it out loud.

Luvz ya both!

SonofV and I were seated next to each other on all four flights this last trip and on the last one, we were both listening to my iPod shuffle, no display, and this song came on. We laughed out loud and began singing along, including the hand gestures for the choruses. I'm sure we got some stares, but we surely had some fun!

[YOUTUBE]d0Eqwjfnoos[/YOUTUBE]

Late at night, I listen to Katie Segal sing 'Bird on the Wire'. Her voice is so beautiful. I can listen to it sung by Leonard Cohen as well, but I love Katie's voice.

My father lives with us; he's 80 turning 81; he's frail physically, although he's pretty good mentally. There are so many complications with my spouse, it isn't worth parsing them out. Just: lots of complications.

Nevertheless, I have so many good memories with my dad, memories of figuring out how to master a recalcitrant outboard motor on a small dinghy; memories of landing a fish slightly bigger and feistier than anything in previous experience; memories of squelching the recoil and cleaning my catch with a steady hand.

I took care of my mother-in-law for so many years, and I took so much abuse from her ... it happens, I get it. My husband refers to it and feels that his tolerance of my father makes up for it. But my father, a Brit to whom courtesy and manners are sacrosanct, has never offered my spouse any sort of insult, certainly nothing close to what my mil felt entitled to loose upon me.

I'm still here, for a time. I waver between staying up late and savoring every moment, and going to bed early to try to be as healthy as possible. I lean toward the former. I want to savor every moment here, and embrace whatever comes next.

health first, though your company is lovely, health first. your physical and mental health is paramount. but if your mental health benefits from some time here, well, then, win-win.

please take care.

Thank you, V. I'm listening to Katie Segal again tonight, but heading outside in a moment to take in the August 'supermoon' before bed. I wish I had more to contribute here.

I enjoy every moment with my father. Everyone in my family is away, and I have four days of his uninterrupted company to look forward to. His life has been a typical 'span 20th-C life' - so full of history, memories, family stories. It promises to be a good week. I can't ask for more.

[YOUTUBE]VV1XWJN3nJo[/YOUTUBE]

Perfect, sexobon. Thank you.

[YOUTUBE]VBmCJEehYtU[/YOUTUBE]

the friggin mercenary posted this on bookface yesterday.

this morning, I woke with it in my ear

that clown has some pipes

Here, maybe this will help:

[YOUTUBE]w-0TEJMJOhk[/YOUTUBE]

That might just work

lumberjim;907264 wrote:

That might just work

If it doesn't, then you should take Weird Al's advice and have a nice cuppa herbal tea.

Really.

[YOUTUBEWIDE]OVwtpOqsLCs[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

BigV;907268 wrote:

If it doesn't, then you should take Weird Al's advice and have a nice cuppa herbal tea.

Really.

[YOUTUBE]OVwtpOqsLCs[/YOUTUBE]

The wide format you tube doesn't work on Tapatalk....

That's creepy as fuck. Pennywise can suck it.

lumberjim;907203 wrote:

that clown has some pipes

From the info for that clown singing the Lorde song:

For the uninitiated: Puddles is a seven foot tall sad clown with a voice like Tom Jones.

Close, but, no Tom Jones.

Arghhhh. I can't get this tune out of my head

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=sOD26Q0EvMk[/YOUTUBE]

I woke up humming to this tune. Did any of you ever see them in concert?

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0[/YOUTUBE]

No. :cry: but that bastard was stuck in my head a couple of weeks ago after they played it at the boys' water polo tournament. unthanks for the reminder! ;)

well, i'm stuck humming another song. does anyone else like this? allegedly, john wayne said when he died to have nancy sinatra dance on his grave. if that didn't make him rise, nothing would.

[YOUTUBE]watch?v=SbyAZQ45uww[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]hwsYF2I2HAk[/YOUTUBE]

Started listening to Aphex Twin the other day, and came across this song.
Stuck in my head for hours and has yet to cease.
[YOUTUBE]RhHkUg-QCwk[/YOUTUBE]

.

[youtube]EfGDvDGE7zk[/youtube]

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lumberjim;907203 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]VBmCJEehYtU[/YOUTUBE]

the friggin mercenary posted this on bookface yesterday.

this morning, I woke with it in my ear

that clown has some pipes

I read that this is Lorde's favorite cover of her song.

Should be. It's better than hers.

Puddles' version is ok...

...but, he ain't nearly as much fun to look at.

I've only ever seen Lorde on the nirvana Induction to the rock and roll hall of fame. Not a hottie.

Edit: just Google Image searched her. She cleans up nice. I think she's a witch, though

lumberjim;910597 wrote:

She cleans up nice. I think she's a witch, though

She is smokin' in the 'Royals' video. Other times she does look rather witchy. Sometimes she looks just plain GAH!!


ETA: Lorde was on some award show a couple years ago, and she looked positively heinous. She sang 'Royals', and her dancing looked like she was being electrocuted.

Not even going to post a link the the motherfukinannoyin piece of shit that was stuck in my head today. Taylor Swift. need I say more? :vomit:

cos the monster's gonna puke puke puke.......

At my work, I dont have to have them stuck in my mind, as they play the same 13 songs 6 times a day.
The average time spent buying a car is 3.5 hrs. 3 of those are spent inside the showroom. Many customers comment on the music I have playing in my office, mostly in relief that it is anything other than what is on out there.

All about that bass, about that bass.... 'bout that bass.... Repeat....

At least you can work out to that....

I feel your pain. When radio stations decide to play British music from the 80s I have horrible flashbacks to working in clothing stores. I keep expecting the "DJ" to say "great news, ladies, did you know it takes more calories to eat a stick of celery than there are in it?". Yup, eight times a day..... Thankfully only one day a week during the school year.

[YOUTUBE]tbNlMtqrYS0[/YOUTUBE]

Oh, God, I hope that doesn't take root...

Damn you.

:bitching:

:D

infinite monkey;912079 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]tbNlMtqrYS0[/YOUTUBE]

Now that is an earworm. Perhaps you've already seen this video with the same music, if so, my apologies for the repetition. If not, enjoy!

[YOUTUBEWIDE]Bsz2Noi925M[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

Song Sung Blue by Neil Diamond.

Don't know why... It just sort of popped in my head. Going to have to play some Bob Seger and let the music Roll Me Away. ;)

[YOUTUBE]kWrjYdD0Tg0[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]MCWaN_Tc5wo[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]9O-ra3RZeHk[/YOUTUBE]

I have no idea why this blast from '86 or '87 (ETA: ok, I was close, it was '89) is in mah haid:

[YOUTUBE]tJmZyu8Kots[/YOUTUBE]

Ah, a new president,
To run the residents,
That's who ya voted for,
Was it an accident?

Foreshadowing?

[YOUTUBE]v04H7_fFC90[/YOUTUBE]

The top 10 catchiest songs of all time[Size=1] (ETA: I swear to God that headline said '10' first time I saw it)[/Size]...according to science. There are 20 songs on this list of 10. That's right, these scientific surveyors don't know the difference between 10 and 20, so, be sure to factor that gem into their results.:neutral:

For those too lazy (or busy) to click and read the link, here's the list (it's based on how fast the song was recognized):

[ATTACH]49501[/ATTACH]

rounding to the nearest twenty?

eta:
that doesn't make sense either. a mistake?

Man, I was just Johnny-On-The-Spot with this, wasn't I?:neutral:

I was only two days late...

Meh, one two punch. got 'em good. :thumb:

[YOUTUBEWIDE]TxrwImCJCqk[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

yeah!!

God, I'm in high school again.:bolt:

Surrender- Cheap Trick

[youtube]th370QmFtk8[/youtube]

So the Less than Jake version of this popped up on Pandora this morning. This song and I go way back, but for the first time I was the Dad making it with Mom on the couch. Mind blowing.

What movie was that Bangles tune from?

Let's ask Gravdigr, he probably went and saw it when he was in high school.

It's a Simon& & Garfunkel cover that was in "Less Than Zero".

Yes, I saw it. Everyone saw it.

It came out in '87 so some of us are too old to be target audience. Spader and McCarthy are both in it which is tricky since they're the same guy according to Pete.

The '66 Simon & Garfunkel original only ever peaked at #13 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The Bangles cover peaked at #2. I guess those high school kids knew a good thing ...

The Band Perry. Gentle on my mind. Remake of an old Glen Campbell, John Somebody. I heard this yesterday and all though the night.

Two songs by the same band, very different in character, but both fabulous, and both utterly lodged in my head for a couple days now. I present for your cellar listening enjoyment:

Hurray for the Riff Raff:
"The Body Electric" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KvXteZkByE
and
"Look Out Mama" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9nDsFHERM

:( Cant make the youtube embed work.

I spent the day with the very irritating Meghan Trainor "your lips are moving" stuck in my head.

So tonight I'm happy that that part of my brain has decided to get stuck on Ed Sheeran's "Thinking out loud". the rest of the fam, not so much ;)

Indian Moon
Chadwick Stokes of State Radio
[youtube]_tEnh7_cvgQ[/youtube]

Soul Coughing...... Super Bon Bon...

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqP52c0OLU[/YOUTUBE]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRqP52c0OLU

Dude!

wow. lurker level over 9000!!

:)

BigV;919997 wrote:

wow. lurker level over 9000!!

nice tuneage

Not to rehash ..but some things were meant ...This one is the awesomeness as well.

Gravdigr;904827 wrote:

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Too bad for Mrs. Fishbourne...

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And another fave... let this dig in your mind ...or keep playing.....and go accomplish something...

[YOUTUBE]plvpV9p0ywg[/YOUTUBE]

This keeps coming up on youtube ads - so I finally went to check it out - and now it's stuck in my head.

[YOUTUBE]Bznxx12Ptl0[/YOUTUBE]

I managed to dislodge the Albatraoz.

Now this is stuck in my head:

[YOUTUBE]C6Le7luzv2Y[/YOUTUBE]

also: @ Scopulus: that is a classic, man.

Not really in my ear, but a bit of the Band, Fleetwood Mac. Now I'm in a Jerry Lee Lewis mood. Lets see 39 and holding, middle age crazy, you win again, I can't stop loving you. And the What Miulakue famous made a fool of me. Good night.

This. Because we doing it in the Brass Band. I'd just removed it after Wednesday's practice and it's been re-inserted by Mr Limey giving a lesson to a bandmember at Chateau Limey today ..
[YOUTUBE]EK_LN3XEcnw[/YOUTUBE]

I used to love that song!
Until I loved it to death.

Thanks Limes. Now I gotta walk round with the corpse in my ear until tonight...

NO, NO, No way in hell am I clicking that Lou Bega number. That shit should come with a vaccine! Waaaay too damn catchy. Popdigr was hung up on that when it came out.

This has been bouncing around my haid for the last few days:

[YOUTUBE]LxLitELHx08[/YOUTUBE]

That opening solo is a thing of beauty.

Lou Bega - Mambo #5...I just learned that Mr. Bega's version isn't the original.

Perez Prado had Mambo #5 first, in 1949. Bega added words and modern beats. It's still hard to get out of the head.

This has been rattling around for a while, too.

Merle Haggard "Kern River":

[YOUTUBE]6jlVdC4qxsQ[/YOUTUBE]

Damn you Limey.
Because I don't even have Mambo Number 5 in my head now. I have Bob, the Builder Man.

:D
If you like I can arrange for the Brass Band to play Mambo No. 5 on your birthday for you!

Sent by thought transference

[YOUTUBE]-DmuVLYfEoQ[/YOUTUBE]

"A Comet Appears"

One hand on this wily comet,
Take a drink just to give me some weight,
Some uber-man I'd make,
I'm barely a vapor

They shone a chlorine light on,
A host of individual sins,
Let's carve my aging face off,
Fetch us a knife,
Start with my eyes,
Down so the lines,
Form a grimacing smile,

Close your eyes to corral a virtue,
Is this fooling anyone else?
Never worked so long and hard,
To cement a failure,

We can blow on our thumbs and posture,
But the lonely is such delicate things,
The wind from a wasp could blow them,
Into the sea,
With stones on their feet,
Lost to the light and the loving we need,

Still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing,

With burnt sage and a forest of bygones,
I click my heels,
Get the devils in line,
A list of things I could lay the blame on,
Might give me a way out,

But with each turn,
It's this front and center,
Like a dart stuck square in your eye,
Every post you can hitch your faith on,
Is a pie in the sky,
Chock full of lies,
A tool we devise,
To make sinking stones fly,

And still to come,
The worst part and you know it,
There is a numbness,
In your heart and it's growing.

AND...


[YOUTUBE]hRdCQxyulxQ[/YOUTUBE]

can't find those lyrics

In some ways this thread seems to act as an earworm exchange programme.

I come in here to deposit my current earworm - and I leave with one of yours ... I now have Back in a Hole running throgh my brain.

Which is ok - because at least it dislodged the song that's been on a loop in my head for the last 2 days. The music for the film Jumping off Bridges:

[YOUTUBE]5Q0LAbhCwg0[/YOUTUBE]

Lovely, I accept your exchange.

Flanagan & Allen's "Run, Rabbit, Run" - ever since I posted that damn rabbit video over in the "Wildlife, Living Next To Nature" thread...

Gravdigr, you bastard.

*Run, rabbit,run rabbit, run, run, run...........

I hate you.

DanaC;932539 wrote:

In some ways this thread seems to act as an earworm exchange programme.

I come in here to deposit my current earworm - and I leave with one of yours ... I now have Back in a Hole running throgh my brain.

Which is ok - because at least it dislodged the song that's been on a loop in my head for the last 2 days. The music for the film Jumping off Bridges:

[youtube]5Q0LAbhCwg0[/youtube]

yup. right on the list.

now I want to see that movie.

[YOUTUBE]m-H0uIH5HHQ[/YOUTUBE]

What I love about this song is that is celebrates the mundane. It's rather zen in a way, it reminds me of my teacher quoting Dogen: "Those who regard the mundane as a hindrance to practice only understand that in the mundane nothing is sacred; they have not yet understood that in sacredness nothing is mundane."


A police car and a screaming siren
A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing and stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

A smash of glass and a rumble of boots
An electric train and a ripped up 'phone booth
Paint splattered walls and the cry of a tomcat
Lights going out and a kick in the balls

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

Days of speed and slow time Mondays
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday
Watching the news and not eating your tea
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

Waking up at six am on a cool warm morning
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard
Watching the tele and thinking about your holidays

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes
Cuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume
A hot summer's day and sticky black tarmac
Feeding ducks in the park and wishing you were far away

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude
Getting a cab and travelling on buses
Reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs

That's entertainment, that's entertainment

That was in Stranger than Fiction.

So was DanaC

[YOUTUBE]WDwTQ57YyzI[/YOUTUBE]

lumberjim;932939 wrote:

now I want to see that movie.

http://ffilms.org//?s=jumping+off+bridges

It's available to watch for free at FFilms.org.

Nice. Watching now. Thanks!

This one is for Limey.
Hahahahahaha....
[YOUTUBE]7PXV3dwaeNU[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]EkPy18xW1j8[/YOUTUBE]

I was against the baby boomer canonization of Brian Wilson, but it's been like 3-4 weeks since J so thoughtfully took us to the biopic "Love and Mercy", which is amazing, and goddamn, all I have to do is think of it. Is there no more timeless melody than this? There's just something about it. It's glorious and uplifting and yet slightly unresolved. The kid hit it out of the park. So canonize away. He deserves it.

Agreed! I played God Only Knows for a friend the other night.

And, just because on account of because it perfectly came up as the next track on the CD in my car at just the perfect moment for it to come up, without me having a clue it was coming...this has been on my mind:

[YOUTUBE]3RZB1ON0fxk[/YOUTUBE]

God only knows= what a great tune.

When the Beach Boys were all over the radio, I always welcomed their songs, usually humming along. I figured it was because they weren't whining about true loves hit by a train or teenage angst... plus they had so many car related songs. :blush:
Later, when I started hanging with musicians, I began to understand why they were so ear worm worthy, and how some were so ground breaking they were teaching the Beatles, et al, their trade.

lumberjim;932993 wrote:

Nice. Watching now. Thanks!

Oh cool. Let us know what ya think.

DanaC;932925 wrote:

Gravdigr, you bastard.

*Run, rabbit,run rabbit, run, run, run...........

I hate you.

For ever posting that song, I deserve it.

:3eye:

[YOUTUBE]4N1iwQxiHrs[/YOUTUBE]

xoxoxoBruce;933014 wrote:

When the Beach Boys were all over the radio, I always welcomed their songs, usually humming along. I figured it was because they weren't whining about true loves hit by a train or teenage angst... plus they had so many car related songs. :blush:
Later, when I started hanging with musicians, I began to understand why they were so ear worm worthy, and how some were so ground breaking they were teaching the Beatles, et al, their trade.

A great parody/tribute to the Beach Boys where drag racing strollers take the place of cars.

[YOUTUBE]CK3_kEu6gmo[/YOUTUBE]

Good grief. :nuts:

That's the worst Jonathon Coulton song I've ever heard.

It was great.

As someone who drove two different strollers for a total of about 5 years I can attest to the accuracy.

Forever in my head! So catchy.
[youtube]vTIIMJ9tUc8[/youtube]

This will displace it.

[YOUTUBE]YOYN9qNXmAw[/YOUTUBE]

I can cope with Chaiyya Chaiyya.
You gotta love a bit of Bollywood in the morning...

Thank you.

Much obliged.

Mercy, mercy, mercy me.
[YOUTUBEWIDE]4AVWZwZq_QU[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

The Fresh Prince has taken up residence in ma heid, and I have no way to evict him.

Wolf's thread Goodbye Facebook in The Internet forum made me think of this song and I found this funny old video:

[YOUTUBE]_50-gOeBilc[/YOUTUBE]

DAAAAYUM!! I fergot how hot she was back then...:heartpump


Slight drift: I just read, at Wikipedia, that Jon Bon Jovi briefly played guitar for Scandal in '83. Didn't know that. Also, Patty Smyth was asked, by Eddie Van Halen, to replace David Lee Roth as lead singer of Van Halen. Whoa. I wonder what that would've sounded like?

[YOUTUBE]gzoEK545j64[/YOUTUBE]

Well, thanks to this Sundae post:

Sundae;938261 wrote:

Had a long walk home on Friday. Got blisters on the soles of my feet.

I have this stuck in my head:

[YOUTUBE]EYXCebaNmZ4[/YOUTUBE]

I guess there are worse songs to have stuck in yer noggin...:D

I've been listening to a lot of Leftovers podcasts and they often start with a little of this song. So now this is pretty much lodged in my head.

[YOUTUBE]6p6PcFFUm5I[/YOUTUBE]

Was in the end of an episode of "Orange is the new black" I watched two days ago... Came back to me on the way to work and got stuck in my head since.

[YOUTUBEWIDE]u_ejQ6b8yBw[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

I just read the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It earwormed Africa by Toto at me through no fault of its own.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

Ever see the HBO version? It was pretty good.

wolf;938596 wrote:

I just read the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. It earwormed Africa by Toto at me through no fault of its own.

I don't believe I've ever been ear-wormed by a book.

[YOUTUBE]pXRviuL6vMY[/YOUTUBE]

Very interesting.

That was in my head a couple weeks back.

Now I'm obsessing on the high energy band Pup.
[youtube]D6UaplvdnWM[/youtube]

Thanks for that, monster. I had never heard of the band, very fun stuff. This is the song that convinced me to give them money:

[YOUTUBE]mDyxykpYeu8[/YOUTUBE]

I'm not even sure how much I like stressed out, but it's stuck in my fecking head. Clodfobble, that's probably my least favorite -I hate the whole ukelelelele thing :lol:

[YOUTUBE]EQjNHzaxfQc[/YOUTUBE]

Clodfobble;944585 wrote:

Thanks for that, monster. I had never heard of the band, very fun stuff. This is the song that convinced me to give them money:

[YOUTUBE]mDyxykpYeu8[/YOUTUBE]

They're awesome, aren't they? My bro introduced me to them a few months ago. Stressed Out is a wonderful song.

I do like it really. I just wish it wasn't stuck in my head. Because I am stressed out and it's taunting me

I've had the music from the Ash vs Evil Dead trailer, on a fucking loop inside my head for about a week now.* Like, sitting on the bus on the way to work, at a time my body clock still regards as pretty much the middle of the night and this is raging in my head:

[YOUTUBE]unnLg1TPCYM[/YOUTUBE]

That is not a relaxing start to the day.









*also, when I make a brew, I can hear the ash-making-his-chainsaw-hand type sound effects accompaying the movements. I know, right - how am I still single?

The only song I heard played during that clip was, Space Trukin by Deep Purple.

That's the one. And that song, or more specifically, the snippets of that song that play over every AvED clip and promo on youtube is on a loop in my head.

monster wrote:

I hate the whole ukelelelele thing

I will freely admit that their general demeanor and subject matter is way too angsty-teen for me. 'Am I the only one who feels this way,' 'I have social problems,' 'The Man is making me get a job,' etc. Call the waaahmbulance. And yet their stuff is so catchy that I don't even care. :)

Likely it's, we need lyrics for this jam, write what you know, write what your friends can identify with because everybody goes through it.
Yeah dude, this band understands my angst, they understand me.

Went to see a guy I know and his band play at the local patriotic veterans' organization hall, and this was played whilst waiting for showtime. Been in m'haid ever since...gets stuck every time I hear it, as a matter of fact.

It's the second verse that does it for me:

You should've seen the looks on the faces of my Dad and Mom,
When I showed up at the door with a date for the senior prom.
They said: "Well, pardon us, son, she ain't no kid.
That's a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig."
I said: "I know it, dad. Ain't she cool, That's the kind I dig."


[YOUTUBE]wf459-JiIcI[/YOUTUBE]

OMG Yes, oh please yes. So rare, so precious, so gooood. :blush:

[youtube]pS8MT-FNOgo[/youtube]

[YOUTUBE]vQolpBxAujY[/YOUTUBE]

Man I hate that song. To me it sounds like a rip off of the terrible U2 album they couldn't give away. But that's just me. :)

Griff;946237 wrote:

But that's just me. :)

No, it's not.

:D

I'm kind of on the fence about it. But it was stuck. But Hebe just came home and she's singing the 21 Pilots song, so that's back again. which is good, because SOB was there this morning and I HATE that. and I blame Griff for that.

I will bear that weight.

I actually kinda liked the 'S.O.B.' tune.

dude threw this at me today. i was 12 when this came out, so i was the target audience, and it worked.

Looking back, that's a good thing. It would be foundational power pop, if it weren't produced to be all pretty with the la-la high background vocals and the occasional strings. It's a good song.

[YOUTUBE]MzlK0OGpIRs[/YOUTUBE]

Yeah, it wasn't bad insofar as bubblegum pop goes.

I always liked that one.

Yeah me too.

No idea why.

[YOUTUBE]TojnKYT9I8M[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]laVWyQnIicU[/YOUTUBE]

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This could very well be a repeat. Seems like this isn't the first time my brain has latched on to this song like a Pit Bull with a Frisbee.

I love the whole soundtrack to that film.

DanaC;950644 wrote:

I love the whole soundtrack to that film.

I like the whole film.

Soundtrack to Guardians of the Galaxy.

[YOUTUBE]x_jRQBGKPaA[/YOUTUBE]

I heard this on the radio while driving the other day and it stuck with me; but, I had trouble finding a video that did it justice; until, this ... I like it. What do you think Dani?

[YOUTUBE]oiPjc5gutX4[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]V0lw3qylVfY[/YOUTUBE]

After hearing it for the first time about a month ago, this has been on steady rotation in my haid:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band's version of "Spirits In The Night":

[YOUTUBE]gvJ6o1PC4pA[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Gravdigr;952744 wrote:

After hearing it for the first time about a month ago, this has been on steady rotation in my haid:

Manfred Mann's Earth Band's version of "Spirits In The Night":

[YOUTUBE]gvJ6o1PC4pA[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Where have you been for the last 40 years?

I've played that for probably a dozen people...No one has heard it (or remembered hearing it).

I guess, maybe, it didn't make it this far south.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard it but earworm it is,

Beach Boys all grown up and on acid? No it's the wonderful Zombies, and the only single ever to brightly celebrate someone returning home from incarceration.

[YOUTUBE]afrdo2qneoI[/YOUTUBE]

Griff;952855 wrote:

I'm surprised you hadn't heard it but earworm it is,

I've heard Bruce Springsteen's version a million times

This isn't an earworm, this is just some reflective thoughts about earworms I've been having recently

Man I tellya hwat. I swear that antidepressants removed all the songs from my head. Before them I would hear music all day.

Our brains get a chance to linger or slow down and they will settle in on things like music and thoughts and whatnot. Paxil and the like just speed your brain up a tad, and those kinds of things tend to go away. It helps, if that's what you need. If your head lingers on depressing/worrying things, you will wind up depressed and anxious.

But I've been off it all for a few years now. And these days, music plays in my head allllll day. The job is more "bursty" now, and requires less attention span, so this is fine. But I wonder if this will eventually lead to the anxiety that a busy brain clobbered me with in the first place.

There's also the chance that I've been listening to some music with amazing melodies - or is it that I like melodic music now because melodies catch my brain differently?

just some reflective thoughts

Maybe try to actively turn your brain off? When you find it casting about, shift your focus to what your body is doing. Pay attention to your fingers and toes. Stay present in the moment.

Interesting thoughts. We're maybe just coming out of the Dark Ages as far as neuroscience goes. It's fascinating stuff, I wonder if ethics can keep up? Jim is probably right that maybe you consciously control it if you can. I generally get comfort from my earworms, but maybe yours could be thought of as a signal to recenter?

Starman this morning.

[youtube]4B5zmDz4vR4[/youtube]

I don't really believe it's possible to "think one's self out" of most of these kinds of things, a la "A Beautiful Mind". Once in a while it seems someone can manage, particularly for mental injury that happens after childhood, like PTSD. But most of the time it's just coping strategies, and we are just flummoxed and require outside therapy or meds to actually change.

can't shake this

[YOUTUBE]V0lw3qylVfY[/YOUTUBE]

not even with Agadoo. which is probably a good thing?

[youtube]MXlAxKjD22M[/youtube]

monster;954041 wrote:

can't shake this

[YOUTUBE]V0lw3qylVfY[/YOUTUBE]

not even with Agadoo. which is probably a good thing?

What a brilliant video.

And now it's in my head, too.

sorry. it's more of my anthem right now, I guess. I'm not in a really great place. :(

Music helps, doesn't it. It puts shit into words so you can listen, agree, cry it out of your system and move forward. To a happy earworm.

and now this jumped in :lol:

[YOUTUBE]SXjXKT98esw[/YOUTUBE]

monster;954458 wrote:

I'm not in a really great place. :(

hopefully, in a better place than the subject of my current earworm:

[YOUTUBE]c3dTc4kyIOU[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]

monster;954458 wrote:

sorry. it's more of my anthem right now, I guess. I'm not in a really great place. :(

Music helps, doesn't it. It puts shit into words so you can listen, agree, cry it out of your system and move forward. To a happy earworm.

Music does help, though it still sucks to be in the position to need it like that. I hope you feel as better as you can.

Heard this first thing this morning, and it stuck:

[YOUTUBE]LKdHy18rZcI[/YOUTUBE]

Then, in the Word Ass thread, I put this in mine own head:

[YOUTUBE]a00_tPLcE_g[/YOUTUBE]

There was a third one that's been rattling around my noggin, but, damned if I can think of it now.

"God Only Knows", again, because for George Martin's death, someone presented this tidbit: Brian Wilson watching Mr. Martin study the original master tape of the song. (At about 2:50 on) One genius studying the other genius at work.

[YOUTUBE]CnVyCuc9_P8[/YOUTUBE]

You prick. I thought George R. R. Martin had died.

[YOUTUBE]nIjVuRTm-dc[/YOUTUBE]

I watched this and then I watched it again...and now it's in my head and won't go away.

[YOUTUBE]2zdcNWdCGEs[/YOUTUBE]

You've got dongs all over the world stuck in your head?

She's donged like a pin cushion.

♪ ♫People all over the world (everybody)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Join dongs (join)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Start a dong train, dong train♪ ♫
♪ ♫People all over the world (all the world, now)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Join dongs (dong ride)♪ ♫
♪ ♫Start a dong train (dong ride), dong train♪ ♫

Now I've got dongs on the brain...:facepalm:

sounds like something you'd hear in a bath house

This one [SIZE="1"](<--Cellar link)[/SIZE] has burrowed deep. Again.

[youtube]QZ1yZFHhf7w[/youtube]

I have one of those really evil ear-worms right now. I don't even know the name of the thing. Its an overplay on alt radio right now. I think it's launch has something to do with my tinnitus.

My current earworm:

[YOUTUBE]-bD0gtvfqoM[/YOUTUBE]

In other news, here's a trivia question:

What do these three songs have in common? (aside from being on youtube)

Junk Food Junkie, Larry Groce[YOUTUBE] Na2ot4X7Zpg[/YOUTUBE]

Afternoon Delight, Starland Vocal Band [YOUTUBE]2NUkhMq_iRo[/YOUTUBE]

sombre reptiles, Brian Eno [YOUTUBE]c67M1TI_vg4[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]BCzFYU17Soo[/YOUTUBE]

:D

Ride to California

:lol2: :thumb2:

:)

Have a worm... :D

Vince Gill has been worming his way through my head for a month or so with this song for/about George Jones:

[YOUTUBE]-Mz14DcIJTs[/YOUTUBE]

Popdigr made me a rig for holding a tape recorder on the crash bar of my Huffy dirt bike (I was 10 maybe 12 years old), and I can remember riding all over town with that tape player playing all sorts of music. On a compilation tape Grandmadigr ordered for me off a tv commercial was this tune, it's the only song I remember:

[YOUTUBE]rxLCIsbmnUU[/YOUTUBE]

[youtube]vQ5yb6IPcZc[/youtube]

This has been in my head alllll day on a loop - mainly the chorus

[YOUTUBE]3XzAjfwQtvM[/YOUTUBE]

My mom taught her "heart horse" (the One True Companion Pet of her life) how to dance the box step. She would drape his fanciest lead rope over his shoulders and sing "Sharp Dressed Man" while holding the ends, and he just followed everything she did with her feet. It was hilarious and beautiful at the same time.

Track #2, "Live In The Dark".

Really hard to believe Jeff Beck is 72.

Rats, image didn't make it in. The album is called Loud Hailer.

Songs from Bowie's Lodger album...criminally underrated album.

Read about how Bowie and Eno used Adrian Belew on Lodger here:

http://www.newsweek.com/david-bowie-death-adrian-belew-lodger-414084

Belew wrote a lot about Bowie after his death, all good...

I don't think I've actually read that before. Doesn't surprise me, based on how Bowie and Eno did Low and Outside.

Adrian Belew is also criminally underrated.

That was interesting, even though I'm not familiar w/Belew, nor the album.

I'll have to check it/them out.

There was also this song that was a fave of mine as a teenager: https://youtu.be/wDWPyVCT0X4

I've never owned so much as a Bowie single. Would never buy an album's worth. There's just too much of his music I just can't care for. I like most of his (American) radio hits, though.

My music tastes are a little, idk, fucked up, to say the least.

Have you seen some of the shit we listen to?

For whatever reason, I don't seem to like anything anyone else likes. And I'm looking, man, I'm looking...

I've been sleeping with my stereo on with the volume set so that if you try real hard, you can make out what song is playing, and I must have heard this in my sleep, cause I woke up this morning and it was already looping in my head.

Christopher Cross "Ride Like The Wind"

[YOUTUBE]ur8ftRFb2Ac[/YOUTUBE]

It is exactly the same bigger.

I just read (over at Wiki) that Cross wrote the lyrics to "Ride Like The Wind" while he was tripping on acid.

Excellent.

And that Michael Murphy is, indeed, doing the background singing.

Also, excellent.

Michael McDonald, not Murphy. He's a damn pimp.

Yeah, McDonald. Thanx for the correction.

[YOUTUBE]1eWLqX9zrIg[/YOUTUBE]

win

yebbut it taunts me when my feet are hurting and I'm still at work...

good point, but maybe you need better work shoes. life's too long to wear uncomfortable shoes. come to think of it, most commercials are too long to wear uncomfortable shoes.

Don't click the video. As addicting as the title subject. Extremely clever lyrics, always a plus, and a dragging, irrepressible groove. Good luck to you.

[YOUTUBEWIDE]YA_tBIOt8MY[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

Comments/observations about the girl?

Clever.

Don't know if the brand names translate to US?

Golden Virgin(ia) is a rolling tobacco. 'Benson' is Benson and Hedges cigarettes

Ohhhhhh
He lives in a house, a very big house, in the country
Watching afternoon repeats and the food he eats in the country
He takes all manner of pills and piles up analyst bills in the country
It's like an animal farm lots of rural charm in the country &#9834; &#9835;

BLOW
BLOW ME OUT
I AM SO SAD
I DON'T KNOW WHY

I had the country Hootie doing Wagon Wheel in my head this morning. Totally Amandas fault.

BigV;984439 wrote:

good point, but maybe you need better work shoes. life's too long to wear uncomfortable shoes. come to think of it, most commercials are too long to wear uncomfortable shoes.

Oh my shoes are jus' fine -the only investment I make in what I wear for work. But after 14 hours -like today-, your feet are gonna fucking hurt.

This is stuck with me just as much now, though

[YOUTUBE]r61Xj0pHawE[/YOUTUBE]

this was stuck in my head all day

[YOUTUBE]NytGzDhMnA0[/YOUTUBE]

Got this on repeat:

[YOUTUBE]kKbADFJOCkU[/YOUTUBE]

Hell yeah!

Thanks to Popdigr and a buddy that wanted the tablature for it, this has been in m'haid today:

[YOUTUBE]SoIKv3xxuMA[/YOUTUBE]

Not my kind of song, but, I guess there are worse tunes out there...

S'about the catchiest thing I've heard in a long while, hooks a-plenty.

[YOUTUBE]hV3XLzP4pIw[/YOUTUBE]

I may already have posted these in the Good Music thread - but I'mma posting here as well because these two tracks are battling for supremacy in my head and have been for at least a week.

[YOUTUBE]7wtfhZwyrcc[/YOUTUBE]


[YOUTUBE]T1-OehhtpWM[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]KutXyPEEbQs[/YOUTUBE]

Clutch goal last night leads to earworm...
[youtube]6wH_FjPnQVU&t=83s[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wH_FjPnQVU&t=83s

[YOUTUBE]1tWHaId1s8U[/YOUTUBE]

I don't do earworms :) I get one stuck, I reach for the headphones (since I'm almost always at home) and blow it outta there with Queensryche, Rammstein, Zeppelin, Jeff Beck...whatever has BIG BASS and catches my attention. Sometimes I even pull up a couple of select really old rap faves--"Body Beautiful" by Salt-N-Pepa, "Mama Said Knock You Out" by LL Cool J, and "Brass Monkey" or "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys.

I'm old. :D

Snakeadelic;987682 wrote:

..."Brass Monkey" or "No Sleep Til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boy.

:devil:

[youtube]fq-lXY7_mSQ[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-gja10qkw

youtube's not working for me here right now, so, I just posted a regular link.

My Name is Human by Highly Suspect.

For weeks.

And I really don't mind.

monster;989481 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]l5-gja10qkw[/YOUTUBE]

... My Name is Human by Highly Suspect.

For weeks.

And I really don't mind.

Awwww, don't they look sweet.

whatever you posted is still a black square for me, but so sweet of you to try, thanks. Reminds me of when my grandma tried to make up for my parents' refusal to let me get a boombox by giving me her old radiogram.

I see videos in Firefox, black boxes in IE.

Excellent new video for Tiny Dancer.

[YOUTUBE]yYcyacLRPNs[/YOUTUBE]

Yeah. That was good

Quite

I though it was extremely poignant.

[youtube]0HuYEOO2r1g[/youtube]
This one is in my head now. The young lady didn't beat cancer, but appears undefeated. Mind the eye water.

[YOUTUBE]-Qu8RPvhP-U[/YOUTUBE]

Suppose to be a help, your mileage may vary.

Have recently had "Science Fiction Double Feature". Currently "Cleveland Rocks".

Happy Monkey;992196 wrote:

Currently "Cleveland Rocks".

:devil:

The POTUSOA? Right?

Via the Drew Carey Show, which was on in the background for several hours this weekend.

Heh, that's where I learnt about it.:jig:

I read when Carey signed to do the Price is Right he was worth $45million. Didn't need the gig for money, but did to shake depression.

[YOUTUBE]ZXorliBQMxg[/YOUTUBE]

where's my riot? :(

That wasn't too bad.





I've been hearing "Blinded By The Light" in my head quite a bit, lately. Caused me to find out it's actually a Bruce Springsteen song. Didn't know that.

Gravdigr;992397 wrote:

That wasn't too bad.





I've been hearing "Blinded By The Light" in my head quite a bit, lately. Caused me to find out it's actually a Bruce Springsteen song. Didn't know that.

I just did that a few months ago. Same thing with For You . Two of my old favorites.

For some reason or other....

[YOUTUBEWIDE]PiBX-ESFDF0[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

xoxoxoBruce;992263 wrote:

I read when Carey signed to do the Price is Right he was worth $45million. Didn't need the gig for money, but did to shake depression.

I noticed he lost a lot of weight before he got married, but the weight is coming back. I wish I knew of a weight loss gimmick besides a capful of mylanta a day.lol.

That Gwen Stefani is hot enough to burn two wet mules.

[COLOR="DarkRed"]***NSFW Language***[/COLOR]

[YOUTUBE]f9y6phGKDso[/YOUTUBE]

The ([COLOR="DarkRed"]NSFW Language[/COLOR]) bit leading up to this, about going home with a fat girl, is very good, also.

[YOUTUBE]Bznxx12Ptl0[/YOUTUBE]

It's that melody, man. Sticks like glue.

^^^[ATTACH]61454[/ATTACH]
:3_eyes:

That ain't no Hank Williams song.

Queen. Anything by Queen. It just sticks for days and days. I have to sometimes play the whole song in my head to get it out !

Griff;993568 wrote:

That ain't no Hank Williams song.

Wutzzatnow?

[youtube]ydApbviHGfk[/youtube]

:lol2:

Sometimes this one comes back to mind for a bit. From an artist who didn't quite make the crossover as a singer into mainstream American pop culture.

[YOUTUBE]ek4Z_bwbAmc[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]2kGEhX_s2_g[/YOUTUBE]

Man. Ol' Toby done put on a few pounds. And a few years.

Hadn't seen this before, not it won't go away... Joplin and Jones.
[YOUTUBE]jXlP7PyaHdA[/YOUTUBE]

Absolutely

That led me to

[YOUTUBE]JzvJRwHj2uo[/YOUTUBE]

Now 76... Tom Jones on UK TV last March.

Nailed it

He can still cook. :thumb:

Damn that bastard looks good for 76.

And still got that VOICE!!!

Since the CMA awards last night:

[YOUTUBE]RMDq-MnpbTo[/YOUTUBE]

Number one in the U.K. today in 1970:

[YOUTUBE]YTD5_FwdiBU[/YOUTUBE]

And now it's in m'haid.

:jig:

It's been here: https://cellar.org/group.php?groupid=10

Willie Nelson's son, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real:

[YOUTUBE]iL2-BDBB4hk[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Better bigger, and louder.

I was stuck on this song for about a week.
I never got tired of it.

I think it's one of the best melodies ever written.
The arrangement and instrumentation is impeccable.

[YOUTUBE]zZhaJP97qPc[/YOUTUBE]

The Beatles aren't the only ones to have written 'perfect' songs.

quite agreed quite agreed.


[YOUTUBE]7PmtS_qMdXg[/YOUTUBE]

Here's next week, then. It's only made a hair uneven with Elvis Costello's production. But the thing is, Chris Difford can write a goddamn lyric.

The whole thing is draped in soul instead of blues, and we don't realize it or really think about how draped in soul it is, because it's these five guys from London. But it's not exactly the blue-eyed soul of Hall and Oates, because it's turned down a notch. It's made subtle.

:jig:

Undertoad;1000264 wrote:

quite agreed quite agreed.


[YOUTUBE]7PmtS_qMdXg[/YOUTUBE]

Yes, yes. This is a good one. The total, pleasing, effect of the lyrics, vocals, instrumentation, and production of this track is only outweighed by the question, "who is Squeeze?"

...

Edited to add:
"oh.. I still have no idea"

Members:

Glenn Tilbrook
Chris Difford
Simon Hanson
Stephen Large
Steve Smith
Yolanda Charles

Past members:

Jools Holland
Paul Gunn
Harry Kakoulli
Gilson Lavis
John Bentley
Paul Carrack
Don Snow
Keith Wilkinson
Chris Holland
Andy Metcalfe
Matt Irving
Pete Thomas
Kevin Wilkinson
Hilaire Penda
Ashley Soan
Chris Braide
Steve Nieve
Nick Harper
Lucy Shaw

Who?

Being a fan of the band, Squeeze is pretty much Difford/Tilbrook and whatever musicians are on hand that day.

Chris Difford (the low froggy-voiced one) writes the lyrics and Glenn Tilbrook (the high poppy-voiced one) writes the music, both really very good at what they do.

The trouble is, they recruited Paul Carrack to play keys for a while, and since Mr Carrack is a great singer (Ace "How Long", singer for Mike + the Mechanics), they had him take the mic for one song: "Tempted". Then that one song becomes their greatest international hit.

At some point in the 80s, some music journalists thought Difford/Tilbrook was the next Lennon/McCartney, 'cept nobody is really the next Lennon/McCartney.

They are organized much more like a Becker/Fagen than a Lennon/McCartney.

My bro came round and played Rubber Bandits at me - now I have these in my head:


nsfw

[YOUTUBE]eh7W0U65gh8[/YOUTUBE]


Cultural note: 'a stag' is a stag do = bachelor party
[YOUTUBE]iYgPznBrjiA[/YOUTUBE]

Fellas was amusing enough. I gave up on Dads Best Friend after 2 minutes. Does it get any better?

I went back and finished the song if Dads Best Friend gets stuck in my head, I'll Sick My Cat On You!

fargon;1000781 wrote:

I went back and finished the song if Dads Best Friend gets stuck in my head, I'll Sick My Cat On You!

:driving:

My annual earworm for this time of year, albeit a bit dated.

[YOUTUBE]EayjDQKAG5I[/YOUTUBE]

OMG fingerless lace gloves. I totally wore the shit out of those in the 80s

@ fargon

I felt bad about potentially implanting Dad's Best Friend in your head - so just in case, here's one to knock it right back out.

[YOUTUBE]ljPFZrRD3J8[/YOUTUBE]

Man, that Craig Ferguson-Gabriel Byrne-mashup-of-a-ventriloquist's-dummy in the 1st Rubberbandits vid is perhaps the creepiest thing I've seen this year.:3_eyes:

The Rubberbandits have some seriously repressed (or, unrepressed) shit going on.

@Dana Thank You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Vfp48laS8

I suppose it could be worse. ;)

[YOUTUBE]IbuqkjX_oGM[/YOUTUBE]

So Lil Griff is working on this in the basement:
[YOUTUBE]ABXtWqmArUU[/YOUTUBE]

Steve Gadd is sick.

[YOUTUBE]CMpJRowfQ_8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]3EOTl-DLkuA[/YOUTUBE]

aw HELL yeah!!!! HELL YEAH!@!




I was stunned to learn -- after all these years -- that Gadd was the drummer on Van McCoy's "The Hustle". It's not like it's his greatest work or anything. But it's crisp work. It's right on.

The Paul Simon sessions must have happened around the same time, because keys player Richard Tee was also on both "The Hustle" and "Fifty Ways".

[YOUTUBE]qeUfDTn5huM[/YOUTUBE]

so delicious!

sweet groove

DanaC;1000827 wrote:

@ fargon

I felt bad about potentially implanting Dad's Best Friend in your head - so just in case, here's one to knock it right back out.

[YOUTUBE]ljPFZrRD3J8[/YOUTUBE]

On a date with Mother Earth!

You're shifting your *MOTHER*?! PERVERT!

L.O.L.

DanaC;1000827 wrote:

@ fargon

I felt bad about potentially implanting Dad's Best Friend in your head - so just in case, here's one to knock it right back out.

[YOUTUBE]ljPFZrRD3J8[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBEWIDE]FkEimy0xGTk[/YOUTUBEWIDE]
On a date with Mother Earth!

You're shifting your *MOTHER*?! PERVERT!

L.O.L.

I've decided The Rubberbandits are a bit out there for me.

[size=1]Took me a minute.[/size]

Dude... and by "dude", I mean "Grav", not that *other* dude, the archaeologist.

Dude, you crack me up.

"I've got a horse outside".... Ok, maaaybe you don't like pretty horsies. Ok. And, I'll admit, I find the masks off-putting. Jarring. Unnecessary, unless they're in some kind of musician-protection-program.

Also, Griff:

Gadd-daaaaaaaaayum~!

Thank you!!!

earworm, *shrug*
eyeworm? oh yeah.

[YOUTUBE]QtEjGgdZhc4[/YOUTUBE]

Possibly NSFW

[YOUTUBE]2CG5XMuz_nY[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Dear Big V,

re: Boom Shack-a-lak

Thank you. Thank you so very much.:jig:

Sincerely,

Gravdigr

P.S. Damn you. That one ain't going anywhere for a while.:mad:

P.P.S. If ya ain't heard that loud, try it. I recommend ~1000 watts.:band::devil:

This has been in my head all day:

[YOUTUBE]aIk06SOeViY[/YOUTUBE]

Gravdigr;1001755 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]2CG5XMuz_nY[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Masters of musical absurdism. That guitar work really nails the "sounds like two songs playing at the same time that don't really go together" effect, that Talking Heads and other post- bands have brought into mainstream awareness. For, like, non-prog fans.

[YOUTUBE]ipqqEFoJPL4[/YOUTUBE]
Don't know if this is an "earworm" but I'll be god-danged if this isn't a masterpiece in composition, from start to finish.

those vocal harmony chords are like hidden detail in painting of olden days

:devil:

Dis been in m'haid lately:

[YOUTUBE]6sxcTcQ8760[/YOUTUBE]

Did another band cover this tune? Seems like I remember a lower, raspier David Coverdale-ish-sounding voice on the 'my sweet Nicole' part.

I didn't find a whole lot of info on it.

Undertoad;1002113 wrote:

those vocal harmony chords are like hidden detail in painting of olden days

where layer after layer of mostly translucent paint, with a tiny amount of pigment, are laid down on top of each other, so the sum effect has a depth you couldn't have produced in one layer

[YOUTUBEWIDE]31crA53Dgu0[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

Been my haid since watching Sqawk's Albert Collins Iceman clip:

[YOUTUBE]ckQuW2WvtOk[/YOUTUBE]

I've had Stormzy in my head all week - the chorus for this especially ('where do you know me from?')


[YOUTUBE]PxbzujA69DA[/YOUTUBE]

And 'big for your boots' as well. The two lines are competing ;p

[youtube]dFOErVWlsxg[/youtube]

I'ma let you finish but here is the earwomiest of alllllll earwormy songs of the 2000s.

This is the song under the dictionary definition of earworm

You know it -- and you know not one single lyric of the song, other than "Ahahahahaaaa"!!! Admit it!!!

[YOUTUBE]HyHNuVaZJ-k[/YOUTUBE]

Omg, I am not clicking on that it'll totally get st-

Fuck. It just popped into my head anyway.

:D yeah :D I was just thinking about Blur for some reason*, and that led to that. 268 Million streams on Spotify so far, people seem to like the song.






*"Blow, blow me out, I am so sad, I don't know why."

Nope, after seeing that video it drooled right out my ear. :headshake

Happy Birthday Robin Trower!!!:devil:

[YOUTUBE]Wzcteihsckw[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]fPEZf-ypX34[/YOUTUBE]

Robin Trower is 73 today, and is performing in Bonn, Germany, on his 60th b-day in the above clips. The entire show (:devil: btw) is on the YouTube.

Gravdigr;1005353 wrote:

The entire show (:devil: btw) is on the YouTube.

Been listening all morning.

:devil: indeed.

[YOUTUBE]W7xohJ_lgVw[/YOUTUBE]

and I like it better than the original. bite me.

Couldn't listen properly, other things going on in the room, but, what I heard sounded awfully cool.

:devil:

Probably my favorite Pink Floyd track.

Well done. Well played.

I can't say I like it better than the original, but, that's pretty damn good.

same song. :/

They decided not to screw with perfection, I guess.

I heard this for the first time last week. Since then, every single day it plays in my head. Such a lovely perfect little song. They say it was used on "Scrubs" but I don't know from that.

Everybody's got a hold on hope, it's the last thing that's holding me.

[YOUTUBE]KfGUlYO9tds[/YOUTUBE]

That was lovely!

Gravdigr;1006183 wrote:

I can't say I like it better than the original, but, that's pretty damn good.

monster;1006308 wrote:

same song. :/

monster;1005951 wrote:

and I like it better than the original. bite me.

What happened to

monster;1006308 wrote:

same song. :/

:lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2::lol2:

The other afternoon, I was on mini-Phono Safari(:fumette:), and the radio in GC1 decided to actually work for a change. The semi-local classic rock station was coming in pretty well, and they were just playing the soundtrack to my life.

It went like this:

Grand Funk - Walk Like A Man
Badfinger - Baby Blue
Rush - Working Man
Rush - Temples of Syrinx

And then they played Steppenwolf. No, not that song.

Nope. Not that one, either.

This one:

[YOUTUBE]oYVlNRB4Q2E[/YOUTUBE]

:devil::devil::devil::devil::devil:

That is the shiznit, right thar!!!

John Kay's voice is a fantastic rock instrument.

Phil Mogg leaps to mind, also.:devil:

Gravdigr;1007088 wrote:

John Kay's voice is a fantastic rock instrument.

Phil Mogg leaps to mind, also.:devil:

You're not kidding, I saw Steppenwolf long ago, freaking great.

the same one as yesterday. And I have no fucking idea what it is :( I think I have it on CD somewhere, but I'm too knackered to look.

Oh they're the worst. The almost but not quite identifiable refrain.

At the bar a few nights ago, guy walks up to me, and says "What's that song where the guy goes 'nighty night'?"

Never met the man before. I know one of the guys he was sitting with, though, and he'd sent him over to mess with me.

A little while later, a bathroom visit later;), I walked by their table and said "The Eagles, Already Gone". Four people said, in unison, "That's it."

:cool:

got it. decided to apply some elevenacity. Mychem. I thought it might be them before but then couldn't find the track for some reason

[YOUTUBE]loj9Nlreurc[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]RRvnsj8G7QM[/YOUTUBE]

I can't shake it out of my head.

I could think of worse songs to be stuck in your head, like this.
[YOUTUBE]NL6CDFn2i3I[/YOUTUBE]

You've got a little mean streak brother. :lol:

fargon;1007853 wrote:

I could think of worse songs to be stuck in your head, like this.
[YOUTUBE]NL6CDFn2i3I[/YOUTUBE]

My millennial niece recently posted this, recalling that I introduced her to the first meme she ever saw.

I've been humming this for a few days:

[YOUTUBE]r4sZoiWb2xE[/YOUTUBE]

Gravdigr;1007868 wrote:

I've been humming this for a few days:

[YOUTUBE]r4sZoiWb2xE[/YOUTUBE]

Gorgeous. definitely my favorite Tom Petty album. :thumb:

It is a really good album.

Recorded on all vintage equipment / recording techniques. Warm, comforting sound.

Yeah, you'll be alright, it's just gonna take time, but now
Who could have seen you'd be so hard to please, somehow

You're just a poor boy a long way from home

And it's wake up time
Time to open your eyes
And rise
And shine

I regret that I never went to a Tom Petty show.

Just as well glatt, they're a bunch of heart breakers. :rolleyes:

How soon is too soon to form a Tribute band?

Tom Petty has an endless supply of good material, and none of it is too technically challenging to be accessible by average, 'just here to have a good time' players.

Tom Petty tribute band names:

Last Dance

Refugee

Mary Jane

American Girl (girl band)

Your turn.

Wilbury

Petty Criminals

The Free Fallers

Come Around Here Some More

Mary Jane and the Last Dance / Last Dancers

Good to be Kings

Won't Back Down

Undertoad;1007934 wrote:

Wilbury

No no, don't sully that glorious name with these wannabees.

The Heartbroken
or
The Broken-Hearted

The Stop Dragons




[SIZE="1"]
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"[/SIZE]

Doing you like that.

well uh

[YOUTUBE]T1aU1wbFSTs[/YOUTUBE]

You people are amusing me on my unplanned day off.

Ground Standers

The Bowling Green classic rock station played this the other afternoon:

[YOUTUBE]jFBa9dXkcew[/YOUTUBE]

Hadn't heard that in forever.:devil:

cure...

this again :/

monster;1005951 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]W7xohJ_lgVw[/YOUTUBE]

and I like it better than the original. bite me.

This rolling riff is rolling around in my head.

[YOUTUBE]ErXbMB9R5-0[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

So glad I got to see AC/DC live (Fly On The Wall). Wish I could have seen Bon.

Nice!

monster;1007824 wrote:

got it. decided to apply some elevenacity. Mychem. I thought it might be them before but then couldn't find the track for some reason

[YOUTUBE]loj9Nlreurc[/YOUTUBE]

this again

Nothin' like the Wilburys. :blush:

[YOUTUBE]1o4s1KVJaVA[/YOUTUBE]

ETA: Shit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4s1KVJaVA

Fix'd. In the youtube tags, you can't put the whole youtube link in, just the bit after the "v=".

Undertoad;1008552 wrote:

Fix'd. In the youtube tags, you can't put the whole youtube link in, just the bit after the "v=".

Thank you, my dear. I learned to type on a manual typewriter (because electric typewriters didn't freakin' exist at the time!); I have a troubled relationship with modern technology.

Well, I was gonna post Nina Simone's cover of The Pusher, but, ya have to sign in to play any version of The Pusher.

If ya haven't heard her version, tryyyy it, you'll liiiike it...

Finally figured out what it is that's been rattlin' 'round m'head:

[YOUTUBE]eefAdADos4w[/YOUTUBE]

:devil:

Do not.

I had some Cracker tune in my head this morning but I have no idea which one.

Saturday in the Park

by Chicago

Where did that one come from? I had to look up the lyrics to figure out who did it.

Came across this this morning:

[YOUTUBE]B9FzVhw8_bY[/YOUTUBE]

Never heard of them, or the song, but it seems to wedged in there good 'n' tight just the same...Damn that whistling.

The vid has been viewed 64,000,000 times.

Gravdigr;1009220 wrote:

The vid has been viewed 64,000,000 times...

by my son.

[YOUTUBE]GbI7efznvj8[/YOUTUBE]

...not feeling particularly maudlin, it's just buried there. Started this morning out of the blue
-took me a few minutes to find out which song it was

I must've heard this in my sleep, I don't remember hearing it, but, it's been rattling around m'head for a couple of days.

[COLOR="DarkRed"]***[/COLOR]This particular video version...ya might want to keep this window in the background if you're at work. Nothing bad in the song, some maybe not for work still shots, though.[COLOR="DarkRed"]***[/COLOR]

[YOUTUBE]xDy7q1cdAew[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]8avjkSoRSbk[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]jvnHFl2WuEE[/YOUTUBE]

I've had ZZTop's Cheap Sunglasses in m'head for a few days now...

still the Sevendust, but with this creeping in....

[YOUTUBE]5rOiW_xY-kc[/YOUTUBE]

go figure :/

Perfect.:(

Hi monster. Been thinking of you, a lot.

[YOUTUBE]VMVA2TY4fFE[/YOUTUBE]

Not really the same context, but the refrain is on point.

thanks. gotta be honest though, hated that, never made it to the refrain/never found it
:lol: As someone who actively seeks out women healthcare providers, lawyers etc, I do feel somewhat of a fraud in my music appreciation. I really don't like female singers in the main :/ To the point where I turn off the car radio.

TL;DR

YW
NP
Moving on

[YOUTUBEWIDE]bcnIhzaDTd0[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

monster wrote:

I really don't like female singers in the main :/

I've always justified my preference for male singers with the notion that the female singers are always out of my range, and I can only sing along with the male-voiced songs.

That's why I like autotuned dogs barking a song.

[YOUTUBE]3WauMPwyW5s[/YOUTUBE]

I'm sorry bigV, I didn't mean to be so impolite.

Hi monster

Apology accepted.

My feelings were not hurt, I spoke my mind. I like you, I do think about you. You spoke your mind, you were clear. You just talked about your own self, your own thoughts and feelings. About which you are the expert. No ad hominen, really, nothing impolite. You were direct, factual. I appreciate that.

We're good. :)

The Fireman

[SIZE="1"]by George Strait[/SIZE]

[YOUTUBE]W2NFkCNIDxI[/YOUTUBE]

Well,
They call me the fireman, that's my name.
Making my rounds all over town, putting out old flames.
Well everybody'd like to have a what I got.
I can cool 'em down when they're smoldering hot.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.

Last night they had a bad one a mile or two down the road.
Well somebody walked out and left his woman burnin' out of control.
Well I was down there about an hour or so.
With a little mouth to mouth she was ready to go.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.

They call me the fireman, that's my name.
Making my rounds all over town, putting out old flames.
Well everybody'd like to have a what I got.
I can cool 'em down when they're smoldering hot.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.

Burn 'em up

Got a fire engine red T-bird automobile.
In a minute or less I can be dressed fit to kill.
I work 24 on, 24 off.
When they get too hot, they just give me a call.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.

They call me the fireman, that's my name.
Making my rounds all over town, putting out old flames.
Well everybody'd like to have a what I got.
I can cool 'em down when they're smoldering hot.
I'm the fireman, that's my name.

They call me the fireman, that's my name.

Shit, I meant to put that in the The song I woke up with Today thread.

Screw it, I'm too lazy to move it.

Stadium-filling English trio Muse has injected themselves with a heavy dose of Vangelis and John Carpenter soundtracks for their new album, Simulation Theory, which explores the realm of simulated reality, complete with Tron-inspired visuals:

[YOUTUBEWIDE]e0UWT0dFSQE[/YOUTUBEWIDE]

I have lived in darkness
For all my life, I've been pursued
You'd be afraid if you could feel my pain
And if you could see the things I am able to see

Break me out, break me out
Set me free

The best terminally-depressive lyrics since the Smith's "How Soon is Now?"

Now in my haid is

Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton

:(

I know, I did it to mahself. I blame mahself.

and now you've done it to us...

I've had an Elvis tune in m'head the last few days.

Mystery Train.

[YOUTUBE]Q_eE0NPArEY[/YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]t4382UVl0oc[/YOUTUBE]

I just walked out of my house, where an ELO song was playing, and bits of the melody were running in my head, when out pops-- "We all face a scarlet conclusion," . . . and it took me like another 24 hours to figure out what song that's from. Obviously not ELO, but my brain must've heard something similar in the melody??

&#9834; We all face a scarlet conclusion
Living a life of illusion &#9835;

[YOUTUBE]_tiOMu_Bf8Q[/YOUTUBE]

No. It's Steve Miller.

Jungle love

http://youtu.be/U8B7BE-f5yc
2:10

i have hereby yanked your chains

monster;1028333 wrote:

[YOUTUBE]t4382UVl0oc[/YOUTUBE]

This will not fucking go away... :/ I don't dislike it, but right now I could do with something a tad more cheerful....

monster;1028804 wrote:

something a tad more cheerful....

Blue Cheer!!!:devil:

[YOUTUBE]nU5uDozoSSM[/YOUTUBE]

Here you go buddy

[youtube]NJiC6cA3dUA[/youtube]

It's still stuck there, but I've decided to see it as the positive song it is, about fighting through. Probably how it got in there in the first place

[YOUTUBE]LoF_a0-7xVQ[/YOUTUBE]

No clue how it got there, haven't heard it in a long, long time.

[YOUTUBE]VeBfu5syH0s[/YOUTUBE]

First comment under Griff's vid:

[ATTACH]66869[/ATTACH]

:D

[YOUTUBE]CtDO3qBo72M[/YOUTUBE]

:devil::devil::devil::devil::devil:

Yesterday I posted [post=1032856]Crimson and Clover[/post] in Word Association game and it stuck with me.

[YOUTUBE]iMGxniEvL-I[/YOUTUBE]

This is a classic. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQmmM_qwG4k

That it is, Peterdowe, that it is.

Welcome to the cellar!

Thanks, BigV! And here's another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OtzJtp-EM

Viking Kittens!!

xoxoxoBruce;1035493 wrote:

Viking Kittens!!

Oh, now you've done it.

Argh-ahhhhhhh-ah!

Bastard!

xoxoxoBruce;1035493 wrote:

Viking Kittens!!

I think of that every time I hear the song.:devil:

Lol! I forgot about that one as well.

Here's another one for today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk

Here's my current jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA

Peter, if you click on [ATTACH]68307[/ATTACH] it will give you [YOUTUBE][COLOR="Red"]pAgnJDJN4VA[/COLOR][/youtube} (without the red stuff)

Then take everything after the [COLOR="Blue"][SIZE="3"]=[/SIZE][/COLOR] in your link and stick it in the middle, the video will appear in the post.

https://www[COLOR="White"]o[/COLOR]youtube[COLOR="white"]o[/COLOR]com/watch?v=.... [COLOR="Red"]pAgnJDJN4VA[/COLOR]

Good job, deputy.

Except for that "}".

If I didn't use the } it wouldn't show up in the text. :p:

[youtube][COLOR="Red"]pAgnJDJN4VA[/COLOR][\youtube]

To each his own.

Now try it without the red part in the middle like this [YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE].

If you quote this post you will see.

[YOUTUBE][\youtube] :p:

[ATTACH]68311[/ATTACH]
Oh c'mon, that's something tw would pull.

and I did it [post=1035876]twice[/post].

Thanks, Bruce! Here's another earworm for today, since they released that new Top Gun trailer:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E[/youtube]

[YouTube]RRU3I_o1vLc[/YouTube]

Peterdowe;1035956 wrote:

Thanks, Bruce! Here's another earworm for today, since they released that new Top Gun trailer:

It didn't work because you put the whole link in, just use what's after the equal sign.
If you hit the quote button on this post you'll see what I did.
[YOUTUBE]siwpn14IE7E[/YOUTUBE]

Flint;1000255 wrote:

...

[YOUTUBE]zZhaJP97qPc[/YOUTUBE]

The Beatles aren't the only ones to have written 'perfect' songs.

Undertoad;1000264 wrote:

quite agreed quite agreed.


[YOUTUBE]7PmtS_qMdXg[/YOUTUBE]

Here's next week, then.
...

Weird entry for the "perfect song" hall of fame, but I've always thought the chorus of this song has an exceptionally catchy melody. Nothing fancy, but gosh dang. Thought about it recently, been listening on repeat, and it checks out: it's really perfectly composed from beginning to end.

And, boy, these guys are HEAVY. That snare drum is a champ to cut through this mix.

[YOUTUBE]o0qyP1bA-ME[/YOUTUBE]

*apparently it's a vintage Ludwig Black Beauty (black nickel over brass). He played a Tama "bell brass" snare on a couple of tracks, but not this one.

Solid. The main riff is just one of those signature riffs. It announces itself.

I would like to hear the song produced with less slickness, what that would be like.

Speaking of snares doing their job, I was walking through the supermarket the other day, yes Wegman's, and this snare was hitting me in the face (forward to 0:30):

[YOUTUBE]x0I6mhZ5wMw[/YOUTUBE]

They don't let that snare ring at all, in a mix where everything is reverbed out.

I had to admit that A) oh no, my age group has finally become the target demographic in the supermarket, and B) oh no, this song may be way better than I've ever given it the credit for being. Earworm inbound

[YOUTUBE]7m8izf-oXY4[/YOUTUBE]

I usually hit Wegmans between 3 and 5 AM, I wonder if the soundtrack is different for the night shift?

Re: Jefferson Starship & Miracles

I just can't believe I never picked up that that was them.:eek:

Also, the Barry White...

That cowbell stands out just like the snare. That is a cowbell I'm hearing, ain't it not?

Either a cowbell or a woodblock - I think woodblock - and there's another pair of percussive sticks in there clicking away, too.

Undertoad;1036984 wrote:

...
Speaking of snares doing their job, I was walking through the supermarket the other day, yes Wegman's, and this snare was hitting me in the face (forward to 0:30):

[YOUTUBE]x0I6mhZ5wMw[/YOUTUBE]

They don't let that snare ring at all, in a mix where everything is reverbed out.

I started getting into that super dry snare sound recently, like Nate Smith here. A folded up piece of fabric is *completely different* from taping up your head. Fabric weighs down the head, de-tuning it. And fabric can also bounce off the head, acting as a kind of gated muffling (it is NOT "choked"). The main thing about Nate Smith though, is the single-handed 16th note technique, which I really woodshedded after watching videos of his playing.
[YOUTUBE]VR5kguJgPyE[/YOUTUBE]

Now, here's another "grunge era" jewel. Check out the bass parts on this blazing-hot track-- really forward in the mix on the turnaround, and takes the perceptual "lead" around 2 minutes. As I've gotten older, I've noticed these type of songs where the bass guitar part is absolutely essential, and absolutely what you "hear" as the "how the song goes."
[YOUTUBE]pBZs_Py-1_0[/YOUTUBE]

I have to feel this is Geddy's legacy, and also Entwhistle's, the idea that the bass actually provides the meat of the song. Geddy's Jazz bass, and Ox's Alembic, are known for their "growl" rather than their "thump". It does mean there is less groove available.

I don't know what Chris Squire played, but I'd count him in that. Probably "most likely that if you're whistling the song, you're whistling the bass part"

Yes... a Rickenbacker 4001, very much its own sound, but again on the growl rather than thump side of things. Geddy also played one on the early albums.

I don't know that I'd call this a worn, but there is analytical discussion of music happening right now, and I want to know what uberchoad and flintbergers think about this new tool song.

[youtube]q7DfQMPmJRI[/youtube]

First pass, I was meh... But then after doing some pottery the the next night, I found myself enthralled with the drums. Hypnotic kind of... But then there's these segments that I really don't like where the vocals distract me... The first part where they chant - sing... 3:15....And then another part later around 7:38 there is a kind of chorus that is a little rah rah and I get shook out of my groove.

Only a little while until the rest of the album gets released....

To do that we'd have to fully absorb it, this could take a few weeks

We waited 13 years for this album. A few weeks sounds fine.

I'll be here

That song is very, very Tool.

I like. Like a lot of Tool's stuff.

I could've ID'd it as Tool right when the drums came in.

I'm waiting for a good time to zone out and focus on listening to this with nobody else in the room.

How about now?

This needs to go the fuck away. There's a woman called Sylvia at pottery this semester. Every time I think about pottery....

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One of my buddy's favorite songs...:neutral:

Undertoad;1036984 wrote:

Speaking of snares doing their job, ...

Wanna get your dick knocked off by a snare drum, listen to the album version of the Eagles-- I Can't Tell You Why. ( can't find a copy on YouTube )

That snare drum sounds like it will move your woofer cone.

A little digging and people seem to think Don Henley was using a Ludwig 402 Supraphonic. That's a 14" x 6.5" in chrome-plated aluminum.

Listening now on Spotify, it's a remaster but the sound is still pretty huge.

It makes the song feel like it's dragging a little. We have to wait for the decay to move along

I watched a video about professional sounding back beats needing to have high velocity at the tip of the stick. Which means on a slow track like this, you have to massively delay executing the strike, because you'll be whipping the stick into the snare to get the high velocity needed for a back that has conviction. It's almost like ballet, the movements you do with your body to get your stick in the right place at the right time. I'm a big fan of "dancing" behind the kit.

And yes, Lumber Jim, the Tool track was a real trip to listen to. It's all about a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence that paints a mental picture. Hearing the track for the first time I didn't know where they were going when an instrument began the first phase of a new part coming in, but then once the momentum built up it made perfect sense. And I wondered, is this what listening to this band was always like? I just don't remember hearing a Tool song that I didn't already know where the parts were going.

They always have seemed to creep up on me too. I'm liking it more and more. The hooks are more subtle on this new album... But they're there.

Flint;1037865 wrote:

...a progression of textures getting layered on each other in a sequence...

Layers. On top of layers.

That describes Tool, overall, pretty well.

This last album uses a lot of track time to build some of those layers. Tool has (or seems to have) always had long tracks, but I was still a little surprised at how long these tracks are. And the number of long tracks.

lumberjim;1037871 wrote:

They always have seemed to creep up on me too. .

You know how some songs have a cool intro that is, like conceptually disconnected from the real beginning of the song, and when the song comes in it's unexpected, because the 1 isn't where you thought it was going to be, or something?

I think Tool tries to do that over and over and over, the whole song. You never know what's coming up, it's unexpected every time.

Here's a song where all the chords and important stuff in the intro and chorus section happens directly on the 1 (count ONE two-three, ONE two-three). It's a "symphony in 1" where the harmonies between the guitar chords and bass notes is strong enough to carry everything. The second half of the song d i s i n t e g r a t e s for two minutes.

Like all my favorite albums, this was their last one before breaking up.

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Are you weary of the lengthening days?
Do you secretly wish for November's rain,
and the harvest moon to wane in the sky?
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring...

And I wrote you this letter
'cause the clothes were hung on the line,
and the crows flew out of the field and up into the sky...
I'm lying here in the station,
stretching out on the tracks
are all the possible places that I might arrive.

There is nothing in this world more bitter than love,
in all those long days of June.
Bring me the long brown grass, now that it's dry...
There is nothing in this world more bitter than spring.

Flint;1038423 wrote:

Like all my favorite albums, this was their last one before breaking up.

What are ya, some kind o' Yoko, or something?:eyebrow:

I'm completely stuck on this one.

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How's that for a bass technique, by Steve Harris-- founder, primary sonqwriter, and only member of Iron Maiden to have been in every lineup since forming in 1975.

:devil:

And yep Harris rocks!

Gravdigr;1039371 wrote:

:devil:

And yep Harris rocks!

I just got the "Bass Eddie" character in the Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast game.

Needs more hair.

Influences

Harris was influenced by the progressive rock bands of the 1970s, as well as early hard rock and heavy metal bands. His influences include Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Uriah Heep, Wishbone Ash, and Yes. Speaking about the early Iron Maiden sound, Steve Harris described the band as using twin-guitar harmonies inspired by Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy, complex time and mood changes from Genesis and Jethro Tull, and the dark melodic elements of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Led Zeppelin.

Cut in down to 3:05. ;)

In about 2000, I auditioned for a three-piece band that had five songs written, which they sent to me in demo form, to learn.

They didn't like me because I didn't play with a pick. I didn't become their bass player.

One of the songs from their demo sometimes plays in my head. But here's the thing. The version in my head is not a demo. It's recorded and mixed properly. Over the years my memory has improved their shitty demo.

Those poor bastards could have been bigly.

That is a really cool thing the brain can do. A guy I went to school and extended family re-unioins with used to rebuild awkward conversations and then tell us how it went in his alternate reality. That was more conscious but it was a need to do not really a want to do. We like things nice and tidy with a bow and rarely get that.

You're right, life is a series of couldas, shouldas, and wouldas.

Something triggered the memory of an old song that I haven't heard since I was a kid. Only bits and pieces emerged; but, enough to make a genre association. I did a search with what I had to go on and, after one thing led to another, I pinned down the origin.

Then I searched for a video of it. I found only three of which two were what was to be expected. The third video was &#8230; unusual &#8230; but interesting. Now I have an earworm and an eyeworm!

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I have no idea why this got stuck in my head sometime today:

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I've had Thou Shalt Not by KISS floating in the back of my mind for the last few days...

Not sure why it's there.

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It was playing on the CD when I drove the minivan last week. Makes me think of beest. Makes me cry, but also remember how much I loved him, how awesome he was. I just took the christmas tree to the recycling drop off in the van and so I listened again and now it's firmly stuck in my noggin

No idea how this one got in there today

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I don't think I've heard this in forever yet here we are.

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That's a good old song.

There's worse songs to have stuck in there.

Good stuff.

The ladies...

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Been in there firm for a while.

Love Medlocke's voice.

Sabotage


thanks zip

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Reminds me of Driving PoloGirl to swim at Sectionals in Miami Ohio many years ago. And a few other meets too. :D It popped back into my consciousness a couple weeks ago and got firmly stuck

I like that one Mon

Hillbilly Moon

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That one's just as good with the sound turned off; but, then it wouldn't be an earworm.

Shinedown - Atlas Falls. No idea why. Don't mind it but don't find it special...

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stuck, I tell you

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Someone needs to show that poor girl where the bathroom is

Re: Leviathan - Volbeat

See, this is where I find myself on almost every Volbeat song I've heard. I allmost dig it, but, something in there I can't identify keeps me from making the whole trip.

Pretty good song, though. 6/10, would smoke to.:blunt:

I really want to hate Volbeat, and I kind of do ...but some of those tunes get stuck right in there. Lola f'rexample. I really don't like Last Day Under the Sun for miserable widow combined with shitty unoriginal tune reasons, and Die to Live mentions dying...

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footfootfoot;1056772 wrote:

https://youtu.be/m-H0uIH5HHQ

Maybe this works?



[YOUTUBE]m-H0uIH5HHQ[/YOUTUBE]

here ya go:

[YOUTUBE]m-H0uIH5HHQ[/YOUTUBE]

you just needed to hit the youtobe button toget the tags then paste this bit in: m-H0uIH5HHQ

Oh great - now its in my head too :P

Do not resist

monster;1056769 wrote:

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this will not go away. It's not that I hate it, but enough already!

ooh it got relegated... to be replaced by this :/

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I hesitate to share this bc it is so awful to have stuck in your head, but this is the earworm thread so you know what you are signing up for. Someone sang it at Karaoke night. (actually at my Gf's house. Her son's Gf brought a karaoke machine.


[YOUTUBE]R5spjEMX91Y[/YOUTUBE]

This came up on Spotify right after I witnessed an apparently heroin addicted maskless Karen go off on the gas station register girl. I tried to soften the blow for her but what can you really do?

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This is a &#402;ucked-up earworm, but if you suffer from the malady of identifying with David Gilmour's lyrics...

Where were you?
when I was burned and broken?

While the days slipped by ...
from my window watching ...

Where were you?
when I was hurt and I was helpless?

footfootfoot;1057405 wrote:

I hesitate to share this bc it is so awful to have stuck in your head, but this is the earworm thread so you know what you are signing up for. Someone sang it at Karaoke night. (actually at my Gf's house. Her son's Gf brought a karaoke machine.

I think I saw once that the lyrics were written by a woman

which made me feel better about the song, actually

Why is that, UT?
He met a woman who took control, turned him every which way but loose, showed him the best night ever, and went home.
What possible difference who narrates.

Griff;1057428 wrote:

This came up on Spotify right after I witnessed an apparently heroin addicted maskless Karen go off on the gas station register girl. I tried to soften the blow for her but what can you really do?

[YOUTUBE]B_qgZfMwK9E[/YOUTUBE]

Good video.

Better video

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Great song, total earworm.

xoxoxoBruce;1057450 wrote:

Why is that, UT?
He met a woman who took control, turned him every which way but loose, showed him the best night ever, and went home.
What possible difference who narrates.

he didn't even know her name, it's a little sad to me

i lost mine to a girl i was treasuring for 7 months, she moved her stuff into my locker as a sign of commitment

plus i strongly feel that your virginity should not be sung about in four-part harmony with three other dudes

I think he didn't know her name when she walked in the room. :2cents:

also . . .

four dudes, chillin' in the studio . . .

Undertoad;1057464 wrote:

he didn't even know her name, it's a little sad to me

i lost mine to a girl i was treasuring for 7 months, she moved her stuff into my locker as a sign of commitment

plus i strongly feel that your virginity should not be sung about in four-part harmony with three other dudes

The guy wrote it with his wife, who it was about. Originally it was about the repeal of prohibition, 1933. His wife took the song and changed up to reflect the night they met.

I've had girls tell about bringing a guy home from a club for the night and not knowing his name. Sometimes a screw is just a screw.
Losing your cherry is only important to you and Mom... and maybe your competitive buddy who has not.

One cherry short of a pie?

As I was standing in the kitchen this morning, cooking up some eggs for an English muffin egg sandwich, I realized that this melody was going around in my head. It was not unpleasant.

Scrolling back, I point my finger directly at foots.

Who's your daddy...

glatt;1057510 wrote:

Scrolling back, I point my finger directly at foots.

mea culpa

Undertoad;868709 wrote:

Sarah Silverman mocks the 20-something club scene songs/videos by making one, with the help of Will.I.Am. (He is responsible for about a third of those kinds of songs in recent years.) Those songs are designed to be earworms, so having Sarah do one is kind of unfair. She is hilarious.

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I got sent back in thread-time to an earlier page and saw this. Pre-saging Covid times.

Untouchable.

Thread should end now.

Sarah Crushes It.

[YOUTUBE]fLtSDHiUn2I[/YOUTUBE]

This was on the Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey movie. Now it's an earworm.

The original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY3rIlrTTh8

I turned it off before it could become an Earworm.

I'll come back later.

So this is my head.

[YOUTUBE]hbXHyFhF_A4[/YOUTUBE]

That got a lot of airplay back then. I associate it with "Red Rubber Ball" bc those were the two songs that my patrol leader played incessantly on his record player one year at scout camp.


Right now, a song which won't be named but was referenced by Dana (that bitch), has been stuck in my head for days since I thought it would be harmless to click on the link to the song as performed in the show Community.


Was. I. Ever. Wrong.


Thanks Dana. I so owe you.